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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSarah Palin, I'll see your "snow in Alaska in May"
And raise you a mile wide tornado in Oklahoma.
Your call.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)To stop the tornado. In our cartoonish military, we should have been able to launch a thousand fighter jets to swarm the tornado to turn it around and kill it in motion. BENGHAZI!
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)and raise her 70 degree temperatures in the Bay Area in Winter.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)most people aren't going to get that such temperatures aren't normal. To me, 70F is rather cool, especially for someone that doesn't start to sweat until it gets into the upper 80s/low-90s, depending on the humidity. Plus, abnormal (and relatively mild-sounding) temps aren't going to get people noticing.
Now, if y'all's temps went into the triple digits coupled with single-digit humidity percentages, people might notice. Yet even then, if it's not killing people, they're not going to notice anything wrong with it.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Surely, you've lived thru at least one "Pineapple Express", right? I can understand if it was for like 3 or 4 weeks straight or something, but for just a few days, maybe one week? Not abnormal at all, and I don't even live CLOSE to S.F.
If you want truly abnormal, try 80-degree weather at the end of autumn or 100-degree temps in April; that happened here in D/FW last year and the year before, respectively.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)I had no idea what it meant. And it's a west coast thing anyway; I don't see how it applies to Houston.
What I was getting at in my post was that the rest of the country isn't going to see 70F in SF in the winter as all that abnormal. It's more that they aren't educated about such things. Hell, I don't know what their weather is supposed to be like in the winter, and considering they're on the west coast, it sounds kind of normal to me. Just as triple-digit temps on the Gulf coast in the summer sounds normal to most people, even if typically we don't have those high temps for extended periods of time (until recent years.)
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)And that kind of weather is definitely not all that common in S.F., that is certainly true, but again, it's not quite "abnormal" either, unless it lasts a really long time.
Here in D/FW, the average high is about 55 or so in January, but 70-degree temps are not at all rare; in fact, whereas it might happen on 3 or 4 days in S.F., here in D/FW, it's more like 10 days or so, while highs in the 30s, on the other end of the normal spectrum, tend to be a little less common but still do happen a fair bit(compare this with S.F., which very rarely sees days with highs below 45 or so). It's just that sometimes, we forget about natural variations in climate when talking about weather issues.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)But I don't think too many are going to be all that concerned about 70F winter temps in SF, or that they will suddenly begin killing dozens of people, either