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Today is yet another anniversary of one of the greatest storms to have ever impacted the U.S.: The Superstorm of 1993; officially 19 years ago from now. To this day, I still wish I was born earlier than I did to able to remember it at the very least. Being nearly 2 years old when it happened doesn't cut it lol.

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Today it's 75 degrees and climbing :lol:

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Ahhhh he memories :wub:

Today it's 75 degrees and climbing :lol:

I was just putting a new stringer in on the back steps, and I was wringing wet in just a little while, and it wasn't the hit and miss drizzle that did it. It's that danged 86.6 humidity that makes the 66.9 feel like a bizillion, lol. Man, I am dreading spring and summer... much more so this year because I've already had to endure 3 1/2 months of spring/fallish/spring/summerish weather. Blahhhh and fooey!! Tony

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Today is yet another anniversary of one of the greatest storms to have ever impacted the U.S.: The Superstorm of 1993; officially 19 years ago from now. To this day, I still wish I was born earlier than I did to able to remember it at the very least. Being nearly 2 years old when it happened doesn't cut it lol.

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I've never seen the like of it...and I've seen some stuff :) Only blizzard I've ever seen, and it was in Ga. Amazingly amazing.

And I was hunkered down nights, in front of the wood stove with a 5 inch black and white hooked to my car battery watching Tech win the ACC. Bless you James Forrest where ever you are!!

And the hanging, bent over humongous pine tree of death was leaning over the house with 70 mph gusts every two seconds, and white out conditions. Now that's being alive!!!

Please, may I have another?? T

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Proud to be a Nole! Sorry to all my UNC and Duke brethren im not rubbing anything in, just happy that FSU finally has a basketball team!

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Congrats on that! Great win and first championship. They look really strong and are for real this year. They will do some damage in the tourney.

I'd also like to give a shout out to my boyz at State for doing what they needed to down the stretch to get in. Hopefully, the ACC will represent this year!

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I was just putting a new stringer in on the back steps, and I was wringing wet in just a little while, and it wasn't the hit and miss drizzle that did it. It's that danged 86.6 humidity that makes the 66.9 feel like a bizillion, lol. Man, I am dreading spring and summer... much more so this year because I've already had to endure 3 1/2 months of spring/fallish/spring/summerish weather. Blahhhh and fooey!! Tony

I understand your pain Tony :hug: At least I haven't hit 90 yet this year like I have the past two years so that is a plus so far. Every day those 90/100 degree days stay away gives me hope that this year will be different than the past couple of years. ;)

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anyone think we in GA will see another freeze ?

You would think that we would have another freeze but I have a feeling we won't. Atlanta's last freeze this year was February 13th, last year it was also around February 13th. Average last freeze in Atlanta is around the end of March. I'm really not liking this global warming. Back to back record hot summers, hottest winter I ever remember, hottest March I ever remember. In 20 years, our weather will probably resemble Miami.

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Careful out there, kiddies! I was just out working back of the house, and was standing within striking distance of a 5 foot black snake lying amongst the down and dead, before I spotted it. I was thrilled it was a black snake as they help keep the baddies at bay, but I wan't happy to see him so early, or to get so close before I spotted him.

And as I am writing this I just pulled off a tick crawling on my knee. Curse you hot winter, you have made me unsafe.... curse you to heck!!! Where is my danged cold air??? I want to sled April, not look for snakes where ever I step! Hurry up Nov, you can't get here soon enough!!!! T

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No cold weather at all on the horizon. No rain chances of any consequence, either. Monster ridge over GA. D R O U G H T has returned. Rats.

I didn't think the D R O U G H T has ever left :lol:

Careful out there, kiddies! I was just out working back of the house, and was standing within striking distance of a 5 foot black snake lying amongst the down and dead, before I spotted it. I was thrilled it was a black snake as they help keep the baddies at bay, but I wan't happy to see him so early, or to get so close before I spotted him.

And as I am writing this I just pulled off a tick crawling on my knee. Curse you hot winter, you have made me unsafe.... curse you to heck!!! Where is my danged cold air??? I want to sled April, not look for snakes where ever I step! Hurry up Nov, you can't get here soon enough!!!! T

Glad that snake was a black one and not one of another color that had rattles attached :hug:

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Agree, dsaur. No snake sightings yet, but I'm up to 5 ticks in 2 days now, and today, I never left the lawn area. Not looking forward to the work in the pine woods I need to do!

Yeah, I've still got patches of leaves to get up from fall, and those ticks are everywhere. And I'm getting deer ticks now, and those things are so small, I'm afraid I miss them until they start to itch.

I didn't think the D R O U G H T has ever left :lol:

Glad that snake was a black one and not one of another color that had rattles attached :hug:

Thankfully, I've only seen the one Copperhead since I've been here as far as biters go. I've seen a few scorpions, but my worst dangers in the yard are the yellow jackets, lol. Dang those things hurt.

I just don't like to get surprised by the snakes. It always tickles me how I yell, "Ship", out loud and get the heeb be be, jeeb be be's, and that monster chill that twists your spine, when I look down and one is right there...eyeing me, lol. I don't mind them, and leave them alone, but that fright/flee impulse is strong. And I did flee... I looked at him a bit, then came right in and watched B Ball...no more yard work for this boy :) T

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Minneapolis is 43.6 degrees above average through 18 days this month. That is just insane.

Marietta - can you share where you get this type of data? Sometimes I see posts saying so and so city was 5 deg above normal for the month of Feb...just wondering where that comes from. I'm sure I'm overlooking it on a NWS site or something like that. I'd like to see that type of data going way back in history.

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Marietta - can you share where you get this type of data? Sometimes I see posts saying so and so city was 5 deg above normal for the month of Feb...just wondering where that comes from. I'm sure I'm overlooking it on a NWS site or something like that. I'd like to see that type of data going way back in history.

btw it was +13.7 not 40 something lol...

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/

Step 1 - click city

Step 2 - select sub city

Step 3 - select Preliminary Monthly Climate Data (CF6)

Step 4 - hit "go"

Step 5 - look at data

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CXUS53 KMPX 191110
CF6MSP
PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6)

									  STATION:   TWIN CITIES MN
									  MONTH:	 MARCH
									  YEAR:	  2012
									  LATITUDE:   44 52 N
									  LONGITUDE:  93 13 W

 TEMPERATURE IN F:	   :PCPN:	SNOW:  WIND	  :SUNSHINE: SKY	 :PK WND
================================================================================
1   2   3   4   5  6A  6B	7	8   9   10  11  12  13   14  15   16   17  18
								 12Z  AVG MX 2MIN
DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD  WTR  SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX	SPD DR
================================================================================

1  36  29  33   7  32   0 0.09  0.8	2  4.6 14 340   M	M  10 1	  17 340
2  35  28  32   5  33   0	T	T	2  8.9 24 290   M	M   9 1	  32 290
3  28  16  22  -5  43   0 0.02  0.3	2 13.1 24 280   M	M   8 18	 30 280
4  29   8  19  -9  46   0 0.00  0.0	2  5.8 13 290   M	M   5		16  10
5  35  16  26  -2  39   0 0.00  0.0	2  9.4 22 160   M	M   6 18	 28 170
6  60  29  45  17  20   0 0.00  0.0	2  8.1 15 200   M	M   5		21 210
7  54  26  40  11  25   0 0.04  0.0	0  9.8 21 310   M	M   9 18	 28 310
8  37  21  29   0  36   0 0.01  0.2	0 14.6 35 320   M	M   6 1	  47 330
9  34  15  25  -5  40   0 0.00  0.0	0  8.7 18 150   M	M   5		24 290
10  66  34  50  20  15   0 0.00  0.0	0 13.8 25 220   M	M   6		35 220
11  66  46  56  26   9   0 0.02  0.0	0 10.6 18 160   M	M   6		26 210
12  52  43  48  17  17   0 0.28  0.0	0  9.2 20 270   M	M   8 18	 26 270
13  67  34  51  20  14   0 0.00  0.0	0  7.0 20 150   M	M   2 18	 24 130
14  73  48  61  29   4   0 0.00  0.0	0  6.4 14 150   M	M   1		17 360
15  63  42  53  21  12   0 0.00  0.0	0  5.2 13 320   M	M   3		21  20
16  79  42  61  28   4   0 0.00  0.0	0  7.2 18 170   M	M   2		23 170
17  80  59  70  37   0   5 0.00  0.0	0 12.0 24 170   M	M   3 18	 33 180
18  79  61  70  36   0   5 0.00  0.0	0 15.7 28 170   M	M   5		37 170
================================================================================
SM  973  597	   389  10  0.46	 1.3 170.1		  M	   99
================================================================================
AV 54.1 33.2							   9.4 FASTST   M	M   6	MAX(MPH)
							 MISC ---->  # 35 320			   # 47  330
================================================================================
NOTES:
# LAST OF SEVERAL OCCURRENCES

COLUMN 17 PEAK WIND IN M.P.H.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) , PAGE 2

									  STATION:  TWIN CITIES MN
									  MONTH:	MARCH
									  YEAR:	 2012
									  LATITUDE:   44 52 N
									  LONGITUDE:  93 13 W

[TEMPERATURE DATA]	  [PRECIPITATION DATA]	   SYMBOLS USED IN COLUMN 16

AVERAGE MONTHLY: 43.6   TOTAL FOR MONTH:   0.46	1 = FOG OR MIST
DPTR FM NORMAL:  13.7   DPTR FM NORMAL:   -0.54	2 = FOG REDUCING VISIBILITY
HIGHEST:	80 ON 17	GRTST 24HR  0.55 ON 29- 1	  TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS
LOWEST:	  8 ON  4							   3 = THUNDER
					SNOW, ICE PELLETS, HAIL	4 = ICE PELLETS
					TOTAL MONTH:   1.3 INCHES  5 = HAIL
					GRTST 24HR   0.8 ON   M	6 = FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE
					GRTST DEPTH:   2 ON  6, 5  7 = DUSTSTORM OR SANDSTORM:
												   VSBY 1/2 MILE OR LESS
											   8 = SMOKE OR HAZE
[NO. OF DAYS WITH]	  [WEATHER - DAYS WITH]	  9 = BLOWING SNOW
											   X = TORNADO
MAX 32 OR BELOW:   2	0.01 INCH OR MORE:   6
MAX 90 OR ABOVE:   0	0.10 INCH OR MORE:   1
MIN 32 OR BELOW:   9	0.50 INCH OR MORE:   0
MIN  0 OR BELOW:   0	1.00 INCH OR MORE:   0

[HDD (BASE 65) ]
TOTAL THIS MO.   389	CLEAR  (SCALE 0-3)   3
DPTR FM NORMAL  -244	PTCLDY (SCALE 4-7)  12
TOTAL FM JUL 1  5152	CLOUDY (SCALE 8-10)  3
DPTR FM NORMAL -1271

[CDD (BASE 65) ]
TOTAL THIS MO.	10
DPTR FM NORMAL	10	[PRESSURE DATA]
TOTAL FM JAN 1	10	HIGHEST SLP M ON M
DPTR FM NORMAL	10	LOWEST  SLP 29.53 ON  7

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The all-time record for highest pollen count in Atlanta was SHATTERED today. Previous record was 6,013 set in April 12th 1999. Today's reading was 8,164. If there was ever a place for the words "shattered a record" this would be it.

http://www.wsbtv.com...t-record/nLXRC/

i have been taking two allergy medicines and my allergies are still horrible. when i saw that today i realized why lol. that is certainly a huge new number. on a side note while there was a storm the other night and lately its been really nice, it is boring, boring, boring. we need some active weather.

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http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/

Step 1 - click city

Step 2 - select sub city

Step 3 - select Preliminary Monthly Climate Data (CF6)

Step 4 - hit "go"

Step 5 - look at data

Thanks Marietta...I did some digging on the Southeast Regional Climate Center site, and it has a good search tool where you can plug in a date / time period for a specified city and see how it ranks with respect to temps and precip - http://www.sercc.com...tives?user=true

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i have been taking two allergy medicines and my allergies are still horrible. when i saw that today i realized why lol. that is certainly a huge new number. on a side note while there was a storm the other night and lately its been really nice, it is boring, boring, boring. we need some active weather.

I have allergies pretty bad, but benadryl takes care of it. Other medicines I've tried won't knock it out when it gets bad. I normally take a 1/2 of a pill which is strong enough to combat the symptoms, but not as overwelming with respect to making me drowsy.

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I have allergies pretty bad, but benadryl takes care of it. Other medicines I've tried won't knock it out when it gets bad. I normally take a 1/2 of a pill which is strong enough to combat the symptoms, but not as overwelming with respect to making me drowsy.

Allegra is OTC now... it works great for my grass/fescue allergies.

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The all-time record for highest pollen count in Atlanta was SHATTERED today. Previous record was 6,013 set in April 12th 1999. Today's reading was 8,164. If there was ever a place for the words "shattered a record" this would be it.

http://www.wsbtv.com...t-record/nLXRC/

Up to 9,369 today. Pretty amazing numbers there considering the previous all-time record was only 6,013.

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