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Old Jan 26, 2014 | 08:39 PM
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Signs of spring!

So ever the optimist. I would like to say that

1) The days are getting l o n g e r (!), and

2) The temp may break the freezing point tomorrow.

I know I am a baby cuz you Cannucks have it way colder, but man when it hit 26 today it felt like spring.

Yeah, it will go back to the single digits but its still a sign.
Old Jan 27, 2014 | 04:48 AM
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-20 wind chill near buffalo today.
Spring shming, lol
Old Jan 27, 2014 | 07:43 AM
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Winter hasn't even started over here still above zero but end of the week temp is getting lower
Old Jan 27, 2014 | 12:07 PM
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Yeah, spring....its a balmy -32C here today, -45C with the windchill. Spent the first hour of my workday digging a school bus out of a 3ft snow bank in it , it wakes you up real fast that for sure. You don't even know how ready I am for spring, which is still 2 months away!
Old Jan 27, 2014 | 12:14 PM
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The schools are going to be closed tomorrow because they're expecting -10ºF. But on the plus side, I'm ordering my garden seeds today. Got to get a jump on Spring if you want to grow tomatoes from seed.
Old Jan 27, 2014 | 12:30 PM
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Damn....-10F and they close the schools? Kids here would be home 75% of the winter here if that was the case I work for a school division up here and our cutoff is below -45C, and that's just for bus service, schools still stay open!....we were just on the border of it today, and we ran the entire fleet of 54 buses in this crap. You want to talk about equipment failure, this cold does some crazy stuff to a school bus.
Old Jan 28, 2014 | 12:27 AM
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My wife is a 2nd grade school teacher and she has off Monday (today) and Tuesday. At 7am central time Tuesday, it's supposed to be -22F here in S.E. Wisconsin with winds picking up later to 30mph. I just hope we don't get any snow, because I use my Bobcat to clear driveways around my neighborhood and it will be a bitch to start. Hmm...what temp does deisel start to gel at again? Crap, now where's that damn heater...
Old Jan 28, 2014 | 05:40 AM
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Joe, what spring? Where is it exactly? Northern Florida is about to freeze.....
Old Jan 28, 2014 | 07:15 AM
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I've been happily noticing the longer days too..no more dusk at 5pm. Yesterday morning it hit 40 here and I was out in a long sleeve T shirt enjoying some sun.
Old Jan 28, 2014 | 07:50 AM
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This morning, I was able to take a cup of hot water and toss it into the air and make instant snow. Kinda brings the kid out in ya.
Old Jan 28, 2014 | 07:57 AM
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Its always darkest before the dawn, or something.

I quickly posted that when it was 41F here, then went to work and rode home in the teens(!). But it was a nice ride.

I am using target fixation to my own benefit. Took the warm day to shovel every bit of snow off the front of the house..

I am trying to stave off winter depression. Who's with me?
Old Jan 28, 2014 | 08:00 AM
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Like many of you guys, I observe almost daily where the sun is in the sky while I'm driving to work, and how soon it sets after I get home... counting the minutes of daylight that we have, and wanting to stretch that envelope.

Unlike many of you guys, I was bummed because we had low clouds last week and it dropped our hi temps back into the mid 60's.

That starting to blow over by the weekend, and we were working our way back up and getting closer to the 70's. Sunday was a beautiful day for riding!

Old Jan 28, 2014 | 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by CruxGNZ
This morning, I was able to take a cup of hot water and toss it into the air and make instant snow. Kinda brings the kid out in ya.
What's even more funny is taking a big water gun(like a supersoaker) and filling it with hot water...instant snowmaker. My kids had a blast with it, they hosed down anything they could see with snow...the trees, the cars, the dog...my wife was boiling the kettle for nonstop for a good half hour. We have to have something up here to make all this cold more enjoyable!
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