jack9211
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First Name: Jack
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Post by jack9211 on Jan 11, 2022 7:38:00 GMT -5
 Guess I'll just smoke inside today. The wind is bad. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Jan 11, 2022 8:11:43 GMT -5
That's a day to be inside!
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Post by Silver on Jan 11, 2022 10:24:08 GMT -5
Definitely too cold for me!
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Spartacus
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First Name: Cliff
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Post by Spartacus on Jan 11, 2022 10:25:44 GMT -5
Not a fan of under 0 or over 110.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 11, 2022 12:03:02 GMT -5
You win!
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 11, 2022 12:05:06 GMT -5
They are forecasting snow this weekend. I must buy a bunch of bottled water, get out all my coats, gas the generator, and prepare for 2 weeks in the house. How much is .25 inches anyway?
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Post by cigrmaster on Jan 11, 2022 13:54:19 GMT -5
Why would you move to a place so cold like that and not be able to smoke indoors? Is there at least any good skiing where you are?
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 11, 2022 14:00:49 GMT -5
My definition of too cold is when the moisture in your eyes wants to freeze. Looks like you're there!
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Zach
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Post by Zach on Jan 11, 2022 15:27:42 GMT -5
They are forecasting snow this weekend. I must buy a bunch of bottled water, get out all my coats, gas the generator, and prepare for 2 weeks in the house. How much is .25 inches anyway? It doesn't even get cold in Texas, you're fine.  |
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jack9211
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Post by jack9211 on Jan 11, 2022 16:17:14 GMT -5
Why would you move to a place so cold like that and not be able to smoke indoors? Is there at least any good skiing where you are? i do smoke indoors for the most part....maine has sugarloaf mountain. about 85 miles from me. i live here through the winters so i can enjoy the perfect summers. low humidity and mid 70's |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 11, 2022 16:51:00 GMT -5
They are forecasting snow this weekend. I must buy a bunch of bottled water, get out all my coats, gas the generator, and prepare for 2 weeks in the house. How much is .25 inches anyway? It doesn't even get cold in Texas, you're fine. It doesn't? OK then. 👍 |
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Zach
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Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
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Post by Zach on Jan 11, 2022 17:14:45 GMT -5
Just giving you a hard time, Ron. I know Northern parts of TX can get pretty cold. We were at 10 degrees this morning, and 19 degrees this afternoon on my lunchtime hour walk.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 11, 2022 18:15:22 GMT -5
Just giving you a hard time, Ron. I know Northern parts of TX can get pretty cold. We were at 10 degrees this morning, and 19 degrees this afternoon on my lunchtime hour walk. Our first winter up here was last year when we hit 4 below and 17 inches of snow. I'm assuming that's not the new normal. |
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Post by urbino on Jan 12, 2022 2:33:51 GMT -5
Better keep the brass monkeys in, tonight!
Emily's comment reminds me of riding my bike in the winter. About 10 years ago, for 2.5 years I went carless. Rode my bike (bicycle, that is) everywhere, in every weather. The coldest I remember being out riding in was 19 degrees. If you dress right, cold's not much of a problem. You generate enough body heat from riding. The one problem it does cause, though, and here we circle back to Emily's comment, is the icy-cold wind makes your eyes water like crazy. Gets hard to see.
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Post by Legend Lover on Jan 12, 2022 5:11:17 GMT -5
Why would you move to a place so cold like that and not be able to smoke indoors? Is there at least any good skiing where you are? i do smoke indoors for the most part....maine has sugarloaf mountain. about 85 miles from me. i live here through the winters so i can enjoy the perfect summers. low humidity and mid 70'sI think I would do the same. Sounds like the place I would move to if I were to move west. |
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Zach
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Post by Zach on Jan 12, 2022 7:41:38 GMT -5
Better keep the brass monkeys in, tonight! Emily's comment reminds me of riding my bike in the winter. About 10 years ago, for 2.5 years I went carless. Rode my bike (bicycle, that is) everywhere, in every weather. The coldest I remember being out riding in was 19 degrees. If you dress right, cold's not much of a problem. You generate enough body heat from riding. The one problem it does cause, though, and here we circle back to Emily's comment, is the icy-cold wind makes your eyes water like crazy. Gets hard to see. I did just this in 2017-early 2019 in Denver, Colorado. I rode my bike or walked everywhere, including when it was -10-20 outside. The public transportation there is easy and cheap as well so it's really quick to hop on a train route and take that for 10 miles with your bike onboard next to you, hop off and ride a few miles to destination. By the time the pandemic started a year after moving back to my hometown I'm far less active because the city is just less sprawled and active-based. I do get out for walks daily and try not to skip more than a day a week regardless of the weather. I walked to my nearby park yesterday on my lunch break and saw only one other person out walking while it was 19 degrees, had this been in Denver there would be people out walking everywhere. |
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Rattlesnake Daddy
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Post by Rattlesnake Daddy on Jan 12, 2022 18:03:41 GMT -5
A bit south of you near the Lakes region of NH, we made it to -2 with a wind chill of -16. No outdoor smoking for me either.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 13, 2022 20:49:27 GMT -5
72 degrees for the highs, next 10 days in the valley of the sun....I really appreciate it when I go to Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, but I won't be going there for five days and it will only be 2 nights. Having said that, I average 20 minutes for 12 stops out in it, the rest of the time is in the cab of the truck or the hotel....but both are smoke free zones...I cheat in the truck though.  |
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JimK
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Post by JimK on Jan 17, 2022 12:56:52 GMT -5
At 11:51 AM it is 39°F in Lawrence, KS. If the wind isn't too bad, and if I hadn't run clear out of tobacco, I'd say today would be a fair winter day to sit on the porch with a bowl.
Although I complain about the Sunflower State quite a bit, the best times of year are Fall through Spring. Summers really suck, unless you've lived somewhere that have worse, say the jungles of Honduras.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 17, 2022 14:53:31 GMT -5
We have a lot of Snowbirds that flock to Maricopa county and to the southern parts of Arizona in the wintertime. A lot of Canadians, N. Dakota, Illinois, Ohio.
But you can drive a couple hours and be in a cool forested area during the summertime. You can be a short distanced snowbird if you have the resources.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 17, 2022 16:49:23 GMT -5
At 11:51 AM it is 39°F in Lawrence, KS. If the wind isn't too bad, and if I hadn't run clear out of tobacco, I'd say today would be a fair winter day to sit on the porch with a bowl. Although I complain about the Sunflower State quite a bit, the best times of year are Fall through Spring. Summers really suck, unless you've lived somewhere that have worse, say the jungles of Honduras. Didn't Lawrence get nuked a few years back? I seem to remember seeing that on TV. 😉😎 |
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Post by adui on Jan 17, 2022 20:44:30 GMT -5
We have a lot of Snowbirds that flock to Maricopa county and to the southern parts of Arizona in the wintertime. A lot of Canadians, N. Dakota, Illinois, Ohio. But you can drive a couple hours and be in a cool forested area during the summertime. You can be a short distanced snowbird if you have the resources. This is exactly my goal |
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Post by jeffd on Jan 18, 2022 16:54:12 GMT -5
During the extreme cold snap in Alaska, several years ago the temperature got down to 60 below. A weather reporter from NY called a little old lady in Alaska to see how she was doing.
"Fine, oh fine. We just kind of prepare and go forward."
"Well what is the temperature right now?"
"Let me see, oh it's about 14 below, something like that."
"We had heard it was something like 60 below?"
"Oh, you mean outside."
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Winton
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Post by Winton on Feb 7, 2022 7:27:42 GMT -5
Today will be nice in Northern IL. 20 now and going to 29 later today.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 7, 2022 7:46:32 GMT -5
Bbbrrrrr!
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Post by trailboss on Feb 7, 2022 11:15:38 GMT -5
We have a lot of Snowbirds that flock to Maricopa county and to the southern parts of Arizona in the wintertime. A lot of Canadians, N. Dakota, Illinois, Ohio. But you can drive a couple hours and be in a cool forested area during the summertime. You can be a short distanced snowbird if you have the resources. This is exactly my goal I have a plan that is mutually beneficial… we will do seasonal house swaps. You get Show Low in the wintertime, Gilbert in the summertime. |
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Post by adui on Feb 7, 2022 11:48:52 GMT -5
I have a plan that is mutually beneficial… we will do seasonal house swaps. You get Show Low in the wintertime, Gilbert in the summertime. Sweet plan!! Wait... I want showlow in the summer and Gilbert in the winter... |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2022 13:47:21 GMT -5
We looked at properties around Flagstaff in 2016, but then we wouldn't be in Texas. It was tempting though.
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Post by jeffd on Feb 7, 2022 14:09:50 GMT -5
I am truly blessed, lucky, fortunate, however you want to say it, because I can smoke pipe indoors, at my house and/or my girlfriend's house. And she is smoking pipe now also, so basic necessities of life: loving girlfriend, work, (I work from home as long as I have internet), internet, tobacco, coffee, instacart - are independent of the weather.
But I do love the weather. Four solid seasons. I love sitting on my back stoop, all bundled up, looking up the hill into my douglass fir, sugar maple, apple, and pine forest, about a foot and a half of snow, 20 degrees F. The pipe tastes better, (Billy Budd Blonde in a Savinelli 320), the coffee tastes better, (A Sumatra type blend, with half and half to show I am civilized), and if I sit still long enough sometimes I'll see some criter up there, a deer, or a turkey, walk by as if a neighbor trying to look indifferent.
I will grant you I may enjoy the weather more because I don't need to pay close attention to it.
I have never done the experiments, but I assume that the pipe tastes better out in the cold for purely for psychological reasons. There are no physics involved the difference in heat flow that would change the flavor or enjoyment of a pipe. Right? I mean, right?
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 7, 2022 14:22:27 GMT -5
A misconception with global warming is that it becomes warmer everywhere. That is not true. With the jet stream moving northward, the expectation is that there will be more extreme weather and temperatures. East and south will see more precipitation and colder temperatures, west will see less precipitation and warmer temperatures, and the northwest will see higher levels of precipitation. The new normal? Maybe.
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