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Post by trailboss on Feb 7, 2022 16:40:49 GMT -5
55 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
The scales on this desert rat become brittle at them temperatures.
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Post by urbino on Feb 7, 2022 19:55:38 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? I would say that's very likely. I mean, the surrounding air is drier and colder, which means heat and steam will escape more readily out the top of the bowl, which means there's less of it coming through the stem, but how much less is anybody's guess. Mine would be it's not enough to substantially change the experience. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2022 20:01:16 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. It's gonna get worse. All the arctic methane is thawing out, the ocean methane isn't far behind and a new volcano blows every week. I don't know how much if any is man made, but by the time we realized it, it was already too late to do anything. Time to put a big umbrella in space. 😉 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2022 20:02:22 GMT -5
55 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. The scales on this desert rat become brittle at them temperatures. If I'm working, then 29, if I'm just sitting and smoking a pipe about 60. |
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Post by JimK on Feb 21, 2022 10:47:08 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. 😉😎 Nah. Never believe Hollywierd.  |
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 21, 2022 13:15:11 GMT -5
We expect the lows to drop down to near freezing here over the next few days, but that's about it. With highs of 60 and clear, good outdoor smoking weather.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 21, 2022 13:58:27 GMT -5
75 here today. Beats the -4 a year ago.
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Post by longtom on Feb 21, 2022 20:13:17 GMT -5
Jealous of the cooler climates on here. I love nice cool pipe smoking weather but get very little of it here just south of Kennedy Space Center.
My question is how hot is too hot? Answer: June-October
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 21, 2022 22:03:43 GMT -5
Jealous of the cooler climates on here. I love nice cool pipe smoking weather but get very little of it here just south of Kennedy Space Center. My question is how hot is too hot? Answer: June-October May-October |
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Post by Silver on Feb 21, 2022 23:08:49 GMT -5
Jealous of the cooler climates on here. I love nice cool pipe smoking weather but get very little of it here just south of Kennedy Space Center. My question is how hot is too hot? Answer: June-October May-October July 27-31. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 21, 2022 23:33:43 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Feb 22, 2022 1:07:42 GMT -5
Silver's place is just north of Santa Claus's.
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Post by Silver on Feb 22, 2022 1:26:31 GMT -5
I don't complain about our summers. Especially in February. We have our days, though.
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Post by Legend Lover on Feb 22, 2022 7:39:40 GMT -5
I would have suggested something similar for Ireland, but in all honesty, it's not too hot that time of year. I've rarely said, 'it's too hot out here' when in Northern Ireland. |
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Post by don on Feb 23, 2022 6:47:03 GMT -5
-1 here in the Denver area this morning. -13 with wind chill. Too cold. Yesterday’s low was the second lowest recorded here after a day in 1913, I think they reported.
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Post by longtom on Feb 23, 2022 14:53:25 GMT -5
Jealous of the cooler climates on here. I love nice cool pipe smoking weather but get very little of it here just south of Kennedy Space Center. My question is how hot is too hot? Answer: June-October May-October Well played... in May here the nights are still "cool" i.e. below 80 and the humidity is not yet off the charts...
By June that is all over and the skeeters are swarming... I've tried smoking in the garage with a fan and a thermacell but that is for the birds...
By July I try not to be outdoors at all unless submerged hippo-style...
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Post by longtom on Feb 23, 2022 14:55:52 GMT -5
I would have suggested something similar for Ireland, but in all honesty, it's not too hot that time of year. I've rarely said, 'it's too hot out here' when in Northern Ireland. lol in my vast experience of your wonderful island... the summer temps there are a bit cooler than the winter temps here in Florida... |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 23, 2022 23:35:42 GMT -5
Well played... in May here the nights are still "cool" i.e. below 80 and the humidity is not yet off the charts...
By June that is all over and the skeeters are swarming... I've tried smoking in the garage with a fan and a thermacell but that is for the birds...
By July I try not to be outdoors at all unless submerged hippo-style...
There are a couple of cows down the road that stand in the tank up to their bellys every day from June through October. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Feb 24, 2022 4:59:28 GMT -5
I would have suggested something similar for Ireland, but in all honesty, it's not too hot that time of year. I've rarely said, 'it's too hot out here' when in Northern Ireland. lol in my vast experience of your wonderful island... the summer temps there are a bit cooler than the winter temps here in Florida... Sounds about right. We do notice it as being warmer, but anyone from warmer climates are wearing jumpers and coats when we are in our shorts and t-shirts. |
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Post by urbino on Feb 24, 2022 18:26:43 GMT -5
Too cold for me out there, right now. Cold, wet, and raw.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 24, 2022 23:45:52 GMT -5
High today was 36 and it's rained all day.
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