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Sarah Palin, I'll see your "snow in Alaska in May" (Original Post) Canuckistanian May 2013 OP
How will they try to blame this on Obama? baldguy May 2013 #1
Obama didn't send troops Politicalboi May 2013 #3
I'll see her "snow in Alaska in May" Jamaal510 May 2013 #2
Well, unless you live or have lived there, kentauros May 2013 #4
Even though 70-degree temperatures aren't all that abnormal for Northern Calif. in the winter. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #5
I had to look that up, because while I've seen people use it here, kentauros May 2013 #6
Well, I've been pretty knowledgeable on this stuff for a long time. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #7
Plenty of people forget about natural variations. kentauros May 2013 #8
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. Obama didn't send troops
Mon May 20, 2013, 11:27 PM
May 2013

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!

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
4. Well, unless you live or have lived there,
Mon May 20, 2013, 11:30 PM
May 2013

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)
5. Even though 70-degree temperatures aren't all that abnormal for Northern Calif. in the winter.
Mon May 20, 2013, 11:38 PM
May 2013

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)
6. I had to look that up, because while I've seen people use it here,
Mon May 20, 2013, 11:49 PM
May 2013

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)
7. Well, I've been pretty knowledgeable on this stuff for a long time.
Tue May 21, 2013, 12:02 AM
May 2013

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)
8. Plenty of people forget about natural variations.
Tue May 21, 2013, 12:06 AM
May 2013

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

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