Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:00:59 -0800
Reply-To: Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: It's cold out there (Even in Florida)
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Oh man! I have a whole rack of them that I could wear in for every day of
the month....
Steven
91 Westy
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On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:58 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> It was indeed clear and sunny and dry as a bone, except where it was
> covered in ice from broken pipes. And blowing like stink. The elevators
> at the Ramada Inn quit working, and the courtyard was flooded (with ice).
>
> The local restaurants worked, though. We a steak house a few miles away
> where if you wore a tie they cut it off you and nailed it to the wall. Of
> course people would wear ties there on purpose... Fine steaks. A bit
> large.
>
> Yrs,
> d
>
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:31 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If you noticed (sometimes the pilot will mention things like this), as
> you
> > were coming in to Dallas, you would have seen a distinct visible division
> > between the subtropical air over Texas and the polar air to the north.
> > What you experienced is called in "folk speak" in Texas a "blue norther,"
> > or sometimes a "blue tailed norther" if there was a cloud bank along the
> > front, followed by the clear polar air. A thirty degree temperature drop
> > when the front passes is not unusual, though the 5 below the next morning
> > would have been. I'd bet that the relative humidity when you were
> sparking
> > was below 10%, and that the sky was the color of a robin's egg.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:37 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The all time record low in Dallas is 8 below F, and lows in the teens
> >>> are regular
> >>> events in December and January.
> >>
> >>
> >> I went to Dallas once to exhibit at the Crystal Palace. Outside temp
> >> when we landed was 60F. While we waited for a gate I watched all the
> old
> >> paper cups etc by the taxiway suddenly leap into the air and vanish. By
> >> the time we got off the plane it was 30F out and the next morning IIRC
> it
> >> was five below. The place was in shock. I set up the machines for the
> >> show with a thirty foot open loading door a hundred feet away, drawing
> >> sparks off everything I touched.
> >>
> >> Yrs,
> >> d
> >>
> >
> >
>
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