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Larry, I was down here, and mile or two from Shack, but oddly the event doesn't stick in my mind. Maybe I was out of town? Thanks for the warm fuzzies I do love to write. As for the airport, I am aware that a central spot that can keep detailed records is necessary, and back in the old days the airport was not the swirling unreality of jet wash, and aberrant heat. Prop planes probably didn't effect the climate like jets do. And, to be fair, it's pilots that needed the up to date findings minute by minute. My sole access to decent weather reporting at one time was PBS at 7am giving pilots the latest updates on what was happening coming into and leaving the airport. Particularly interesting were reports from planes as to what altitude they were encountering snow, or sleet. So, yeah, while I wish there were scattered reporting stations that would give a local specific, and not general, look at weather around the largest sprawling settlement in human history, I'm not sure the money would be there to man stations, record readings, correlate findings, and store the records. Oddly most citizens are not concerned about the weather on a micro level anyway, lol, unless it's something that will be more than hot or cold, wet or frozen, placid or dangerous. And even then it's way too general. A good example was tonight about a quarter to nine when the weather radio and my phone buzzed with an alert for a tornado. Run, hide, seek shelter, flee, flee, cover your head. I was calm, because I realize the hysteria that is what general reporting goes with...and it would be way way too general....and the siren hadn't gone off.... and I pulled up several radar sites and noted the storm in question was going north of me, and probably by a good bit. And that's the rub, with too general reporting. If a big wind blows a shingle off an outhouse roof 100 miles from here, these days it's reported to everyone hysterically. No specificity....is it radar indicated, or on the ground? Where is it, like what town? What roads? None of that. If was just warning, get in the basement, the sky is falling. I stream tv so don't get local weather with the street by street reporting. An aside about the airport, and it's questionable environment for weather reporting, when I was repainting a sign for Hertz in the 90's, I had to remove the metal sign from a building in the parking lot, and bring it home to work on, and was stunned to discover that is was deeply coated with jet fuel residue, basically diesel fuel, kerosene, naptha. That let me know that the whole airport area is awash in droplets of various unburned fuels from the planes coming and going. And does the reporting of the weather and climo coming from the airport take the nature of the air quality over that space into account? Droplets of diesel fuel, acre after acre of concrete, jet wash...it's all got to affect what happens in the climate over the airport. I just think we could do much better, if it mattered to enough people.

Griffin often gets stuff the airport doesn't, Shack Of course the airport often doesn't know what's happening all round it, lol. Hope all is well with you!!

A below normal summer...wow...must have seemed like a dream, lol. I'm always amazed at the stats you can find. Many thanks for the education! And I like the reference to the minimum. I always think sun spots when a strange cold episode occurs, or volcanoes

That's surprising as it was so much colder back then, and some of the biggest events were in that period, earlier, but withing 20 years, or so. How many cold snaps occurred that spring? Or was it a true outlier? It just seems so late in the spring to be a one off. But then we had a day or two in the 70's in July or Aug a few year back, and don't remember ever seeing that before. A true one off. I remember after TD Alberto dropped all that rain, the rest of the summer was comparatively mild, but not in the 70's mild. I guess climo works in mysterious ways, lol.

Was that a particularly cold winter? Any other frozen events? What were the sun spots doing? How do we get a repeat, lol.

Well, beat the 37 with a 34 , so climo wins again. Hardly ever fails that the weekend of the Master's is cold, or coldish at least one night.

My new station says I had a 37, so not bad for winters last gasp. The point forecast put the next shot at a 42 low, and I don't count it if it ain't in the 30's, lol. Bye winter..had two slight snows and a slighter sleet, so not too shabby compared to the last bunch of winters, but still pretty pitiful. I'd like to see Rory get his slam, though all three in tandem is what a real slam is, but it's hard enough to get all three in a lifetime

Had a tornado touch down a mile down the road Mon and just found out about it today. I sleep real good, lol. Sounds like it was an f0 or f1, but I haven't gone down to look. Certainly not like the one that went thru a few years ago. That was so loud no one around here could hear the siren a quarter mile away in daytime, and that would have woke me up for sure. It went by a mile south, and I lost trees. This one was a mile west, and apparently blocked roads with downed trees but not here. I didn't hear a thing. Still way to close. I'm ready for winter! Looks like a cool to coldish night for Masters weekend. Right on schedule, but not freezing here. Point forecast calling for 39. Still not bad for what's usually winters last gasp around here. Goofy says there is another chance at coldish, but it's usually over this weekend.

My point cast has always been in the upper 80's, 88 being the highest. Now it's 86, and the difference between 88, or 90, and 86, is vast when you are out in it, in full sun. Not near so apocalyptic this early in the year.

Yeah, this just ain't right!! Below normal cold is ok, but record heat...no, just no, lol. And if only one verifies, you know which one that will be....

I just enjoy the anomaly factor. Unusual is interesting, and unusual cold even more so. I can see flurries in the wind in Ga during the Masters. Wouldn't be the first time. I'm starting into a book on the Little Ice Age, the minimum...this won't be that, but it's a small taste, lol.

I should think plants might want to wear sweaters in case of incoming frost, lol.

Figures it'd be near 90 the weekend before a cold snap. That's a Ga. spring for you. I bought a kite recently, might be able to do a moon landing with the weather whiplash, lol. Near 90 and tstorms...that means wind.

I like the odds. Seen lots wearing sweaters on Master's weekend, so climo says maybe flurries, lol.

Yeah, it's a shame as it was so clear earlier. I've seen a blood moon on a super clear night and it doesn't get old. At least they aren't as rare as a total solar.