TugHillMatt

Really?? Ugh...so a pattern we've already been stuck in of warmer than average shifts to a new pattern of warmer than average again? Let it end.

It was really just somebody using one of the new fads we've been talking about...

Not that I could afford it...but these issues are the exact reason I am hesitant to look at any home near water. Might have beautiful views, but erosion, flooding, wind damage, etc. would be on my mind. Even with insurance, I would be anxious about losing my home and/or life in the middle of the night. Just too many unpredictable possibilities for me. More power to them though!

So nature actually helped you out in taking down some crappy trees? Win-win for you!

Fake news. Er...old news.

I think there has to be much caution with "exposing as many young people as possible." Not sure what age bracket you consider as "young" though? For people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, Covid has been showing to cause some life-long damages to their bodies. This is that balance where I don't think young people should be forced to expose themselves just to increase contact and immunity, especially with the damage that can be done. The college students at these "college Covid parties" haven't exactly been helping this cause much. Like Burghblizz said above, we are trying to find that "fine line" of how to respond to this.

Australians too. I simply love the Aussies. I have had the honor of working with several during my life. And to think their amazing country started off with some criminals and convicts banished there....

Thanks for the response. I really believe the masks and social distancing have helped in the schools. I mean, really, it's amazing how little Covid has spread in the schools. There are other factors involved in that as well...I really think Covid was spreading in schools last winter and we didn't realize it. Just some personal things I observed at my school...and have heard from others.

Hey, wolf. I didn't say anything was wrong? It might be your assuming my attitude in how I wrote it? He said "everybody knows" they're pointless...so I responded with be prepared for percentages, because clearly not everybody knows or thinks that. Remember...I try to take a middle-ground approach.

Be prepared to get tables and graphs of percentages from the opposite of "everyone" on here.

I am hopeful for you Buffalo crew. Speaking of your crib, how is the clean up going from the bad flooding/wind storm from a few weeks ago?

That lady on the bottom left-hand side clearly wearing no mask.......wonder how many more like that were in the mall and across stores/malls in America. I am a bit surprised that the food kiosks are "allowed" to stay open in the middle of a packed mall. People HAVE to remove their mask to eat/drink. Sort of contradicts the point of requiring masks. My wife and I went to a creamery for our anniversary in October. They allowed you to sample ice cream. I "asked him for permission" to move my mask over to sample..it was just awkward. I know it wasn't off long at all...but the lack of consistency in mask wearing and social distancing is just confusing. I think it just adds to the attitude of some people that "This doesn't make sense" so they ignore and rebel against the orders.

For sure, mine as well! Especially when I lived in West Michigan...SW flow ahead of the clipper was our BEST snowfall there. I don't have much experience with clipper patterns in Upstate New York, since there haven't been any since I arrived. I imagine Central NY does well on the backside of the clippers.

Lol..this is awful. Part of the "new" climate? Just minimal cold air to work with so many times.

I've been reading through the yearly lake effect events page from the BUF NWS to remind myself that our area CAN and does get some good lake effect events...lol

They're definitely bringing much less synoptic snowfall in general with the farther eastward track. Lake response is M.I.A.

Probably doesn't help much...but may help to spread the wealth for lake effect snows? Probably wouldn't give the Buffalo area a solid event.

Agreed! However, I know of several administrators who have said that they would still continue doing snow days as actual "days off" for the school community. Snow days are a part of the culture and many schools even plan their calendar with the mindset that there will be some snow days during the winter. Of course, this could all be just hopeful wishing if Dept. of Education thinks otherwise? Oh, and kids still wear their pajamas inside out while doing remote learning...saw it several times in the Spring. lol

We've visited them many times in Clarksville. That area has quite a bit going for it. The rate that it has grown just since they moved there several years ago is crazy. One of the fastest growing cities. They do still chuckle when all the schools close because there's a dusting left over in the shade. Ha! True. Muskoka, a couple hours north of you, has incredibly much colder winters than you guys in Toronto. The year and a half I lived there provided several days in the -20s and I could feel ice forming on my eye balls. (This has probably lead to me feeling that winters in most of the lower 48 are so LAME. lol...my wife HATED it...I loved the climate there!....but the summers were AWFUL with the black flies and every other blood sucking insect.)

I have thought the same. Very El Nino like. My wife's sister and her family live in Clarksville down there. They're originally from PA and I can't believe how much they've acclimated to hot weather. We met for the 4th of July in PA (social distanced of course...haha) in the shade. It was around 80 degrees with a breeze and they were wearing....HOODIES!

Yay, a new thread! Hopefully we will be able to have lots talk about snow actually falling soon. I don't like that those indices are already heading in the opposite directions from what we want after just a week in December.

You write novels on here with vocabulary I've never heard...but you use the wrong homophone. Just teasing...gave me a chuckle. I teach ELA to 3rd and 4th Graders, so my eyes are drawn to word usage. Happy Thanksgiving!

Oh, look at that...Syracuse overperforms as usual and cracks 60 degrees today while everybody else is in the 40s to mid 50s. Lol. Never fails.

Many of us live in these areas to get good snows. When the lake holds out on us, we become bitter spouses..................

The farther away you get from the metropolitan areas, the fewer people know what antipasto is. Where I grew up in PA, Lancaster, this was not something found anywhere. But, where my dad grew up in Hazleton, it is everywhere. Hazleton has lots of connections to NYC and has a very large Italian population. I find cultural influences and how they spread to different parts of the country very interesting. Looking at your picture brings back memories of my dad ordering it whenever he went home.