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[wx247]

Morning everyone

*whistles a chipper tune*

I will be making omlettes until the resident chef JCT comes in.

[StormCrazyIowan]

Oohh, me me!!!

Well, went to bed around 6 this morn, and here it is 8 and havent slept a wink!! Ugh, what is it with my days and inability to sleep?! I never have trouble the nights I work!! Oh well, maybe staying up a bit longer will help...hope so!! Can't go to work tonight on no sleep!

[JCT777]

The resident chef has arrived, and I am firing up the grill. Thanks for taking care of breakfast, Garrett.

So who would like some BBQ? I got ribs, chicken, pulled pork and chopped steak.

[wx247]

I'll take some BBQ Pulled Pork John. Sounds delicious.

[JCT777]

One BBQ pulled pork sandwich for Garrett, coming right up!

[wx247]

That was delicious... even better than I thought it would be. You must have a secret ingredient in your sauce. Speaking of sauce... glad I am off it today.

[weatherlover427]

Hmmm time to eat for me. A couple hot dogs and a nice charbroiled burger with cheese will do.

[FLguy]

The COLD is coming to the Mid Atlantic.

Yeah, Right!!!!

No, it isn't. Ferocious Pac Jet plus persistent SE Ridge will inhibit any persistent pattern like the one we enjoyed last winter.

January......
1: 52/43
2:59/38
3:68/44
4: 54/44
5:48/38
6: 50/35
7: 51/36
8: 49/37
9: 44/34
10: 49/40
11: 45/35
12:56/39
13: 50/35
14: 53/41
15: 55/42
16: 61/49
17: 63/51
18: 55/27 Yeah I'm real impressed with that lame low.
19: 49/30
20: 45/27 Oh gosh I'm gonna have a heart attack; AVERAGE high/low.
21: 52/35
22: 54/40
23: 49/38
24: 49/35
25: 48/36
26: 49/32 Wow....we actually hit the freezing mark in Jan.
27: 46/36
28: 42/28 Oh my gosh!! Average weather again!!
29: 50/34
30: 54/43
31: 59/49

The above is a fairly good representation of what we (in the East) can expect in January with the combination of the Pacific Jet and the SE Ridge. It takes two to tango and these two are gonna get together and party. It's gonna be a Blowout BASH that's gonna make the 1999-2000 New Years Party look fairly lame by comparison. The East will see impressive savings in heat bills this "winter". The northern Plains will be cold enough to freeze the genital organs off of a brass monkey lol, because some of the arctic air will bleed over into the northern Plains. But then, most years, some cold air gets into the Plains, they are climatologically favored for colder air, are they not? Why are Minneapolis malls built underground? Cold and winds and potentially dangerous, life-threatening visibilities caused by blowing snows up there is one big reason. The Pac Jet will dump disastrous amts of snow on the Western Mts.

I didn't say winter was over. True, some people are saying winter is over, but I did not say that. I am saying that winter over much of the CONUS will be substantially milder than has been generally expected. We have all been way too excited about last winter, myself included. We need to take this thing one winter at a time. The 2003-2004 winter WILL BE DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT than the 2002-2003 winter was. It's sure NO 2001-2002, there is much more cold air up in Canada this winter. But the Pac Jet is strong this winter. The synoptic setup is different. The Pacific Jet is very, very active and ferocious this winter. It will prove to be semi-permanent. Seeing deep cold and significant snow in the MA is difficult at best because so many variables have to come together and be just so in order for the MA to see significant snows and lasting cold. Climo will verify this: Washington DC's average temperature range for this time of year is approximately 44/28. That averages out to about 35 degrees, ABOVE FREEZING. Give it a little ESE winds ahead of an approaching low and voila, RAIN is your best bet. This winter we are averaging more like 48/34. Can anyone say Rain's in the forecast?

I said the Pac Jet and the SE Ridge will tend to give the East a mild winter. The South will be downright warm at times. The West will be stormy and unsettled. The West will begin to make up some of the 7-year deficit, but they need MUCH MUCH more to make up for a devastating 7-year drought. The SE Ridge will keep Florida in the 70s and 80s clear thru March, easy. It aint goin' anywhere anytime soon. I've seen this before. The Pac Jet is super strong and it'll give the cold air up in Canada hell and then some. The cold air up in Canada will slide east out to sea, there will be no such animal as Greenland Blocking this winter on the North American continent. That was LAST YEAR, not THIS YEAR. The 34C airmass in Canada is very cold I'll grant you, but I've heard of worse.

Winter ain't over with, by a long shot. The West is going to get BURIED by snow, people are gonna unfortunately perish and I regret that deeply, I do not want that, but that's the Rockies for you. They are life threatening in the winter. There will be excessive rain in California, Oregon, Washington. There will be mudslides and flooding. Homes will be lost. People will be caught in some of these mudslides. The West has been in a severe drought for 5 to 7 years and it may just be getting ready to end, beginning in this winter.

The Northern Plains will be super-cold at times. The Midwest and upper Northeast will be cold at times; they will see some snow at times. The south, southeast and MA will be average to slightly above average in temps, just as we are already witnessing now. There will be rains from time to time.

No winter aint over with. But it is going to be A LOT DIFFERENT than we all wanted it to be, A LOT DIFFERENT than it was last year.

JEB

I need a nice hot plate of CROW SUPREME cooked up for jeb here...in the spirit of his crappy forecast... which is about to BUST....

[Lindaloo]

LOL FLguy!!

Now, Jacki... you are so used to staying up all night your poor mind is all confused. hehe.

It is warm and humid here today. I need an ice cold root beer.

[David]

Hi y'all....

*Passes Linda a root beer.*

[FLguy]

LOL FLguy!!

Now, Jacki... you are so used to staying up all night your poor mind is all confused. hehe.

It is warm and humid here today. I need an ice cold root beer.

I mean forecasting 68F tomorrow in DC is about as smart as voting for howard dean or drinkning a vomit flavored milk shake...

[David]

I say 68°F for Topeka, KS! Vote Bush.

[FLguy]

I say 68°F for Topeka, KS! Vote Bush.

Vote GORE --- oops wrong election year...Vote Wesley Clark for president...

as for georgie boy...i/ll vote for him when learns how to speak one word in the english language correctly...

[JCT777]

Let's see if I got all this right:

1) A big "your welcome" to Garrett. And I will never give away the secret for why the BBQ sauce is so good.

2) A couple hot dogs and a nice charbroiled burger with cheese for Joshua.

3) A hot plate of crow supreme for FLguy to take to Jeb.

4) A shot of southern comfort for me, to take the edge off. Heck, better make it a triple.

[southerngale]

Can ya whip up some chicken fajitas John? YUM!


Oh, btw...

[FLguy]

Can ya whip up some chicken fajitas John? YUM!


Oh, btw...

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[FLguy]

Can ya whip up some chicken fajitas John? YUM!


Oh, btw...

:snipersmile: --------->

Actually folks i stand incorrected...

THIS figure describes Georgie MUCH better...

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[southerngale]

Hey, that's ME you're shooting holding that Bush sign!!


Oh, and doggy pic, not funny. See me laughing?


Democratic candidates all have a few things in common though...hehe

:gossip: :23:

[JCT777]

I only serve chicken fajitas to folks who are not married to one particular political party.

j/k of course.

Here are your fajitas, Kelly. Just make sure you share them with a democrat.

[FLguy]

Hey, that's ME you're shooting holding that Bush sign!!


Oh, and doggy pic, not funny. See me laughing?


Democratic candidates all have a few things in common though...hehe

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Now i never said i was a democrat did i....