Global Warming anyone????

[homebrew2]

Just checked the Orlando forecast......40% chance of sleet or snow
for Sat.

Oh well its supposed to be -10F with a 20 below chill factor here
tomorrow night. Glad I stocked up on "Antifreeze"

 

[Born 2 Fish]

This morning is 11 , chill fac. of 0. in mid Tennessee.

I'd just like to say, Thanks a lot uncle AL !!"

 

[des1954]

Denny - Are you back home? I thought you were in Fla for the winter??

Anyhow - you read correctly about the snow. Although in my experience that usually means snow flurries that melt before they hit the ground. Sleet? Oh yeah...I've seen sleet showers quite a few times in sunny Florida.

The unusual thing about this current cold snap is how long it's lasting and how severe it is for Florida. You might get one or two nights of freeze warnings the entire winter and then we're back into the 70's. This has been going on for almost two weeks now and the farmers & citrus growers are beginning to really feel the pain. I don't know if there will be many of the famous Plant City strawberries this year. Not that it matters to me because I think Florida grown strawberries are tasteless, as are the tomatoes.

 

[Pirate-Jeff]

Denny - Are you back home? I thought you were in Fla for the winter??

Anyhow - you read correctly about the snow. Although in my experience that usually means snow flurries that melt before they hit the ground. Sleet? Oh yeah...I've seen sleet showers quite a few times in sunny Florida.

The unusual thing about this current cold snap is how long it's lasting and how severe it is for Florida. You might get one or two nights of freeze warnings the entire winter and then we're back into the 70's. This has been going on for almost two weeks now and the farmers & citrus growers are beginning to really feel the pain. I don't know if there will be many of the famous Plant City strawberries this year. Not that it matters to me because I think Florida grown strawberries are tasteless, as are the tomatoes.

They are not tasteless. They taste just like the box they were packed into.

 

[DaveInTN]

They are not tasteless. They taste just like the box they were packed into.

Yep, because many of them are ripened in that box. I grew up on a tomato farm outside Buffalo, and my Dad used to work winters on a large tomato operation in Palm Beach County. They pick em green, pack them, and then stick them in a climate controlled room where they are adminstered ethylene gas to ripen them. Yummy!

 

[Judy in Texas]

According to the Dallas/Fort Worth Fox channel (Friday 1/8/10 @ 8:20 AM CT) it is 17 degrees with wind gusting to 25.

Funny Global Warming is no longer a hot topic...

 

[2goofycampers]

Funny Global Warming is no longer a hot topic...

Good pun.

 

[DaveInTN]

This is why they refer to it as "climate change" now.

When I was a kid we just called it "weather".

 

[ftwildernessguy]

How much longer is Al going to be able to make money by scaring all his blind followers? All the legitimate scientists have taken their name off his list of supporters of global warming, recently released emails have exposed the whole global warming business as junk science being kept alive in order to allow the junk scientists to continue to get government funding, and in fact, most recent indicators point towards a mini ice age.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Yes Jim, you are absolutely correct,,but then you still have our faithful leader, "he who walks on water", who says,"oh what the hell, I'm still gonna support uncle Al,,here Al, have some money, it's FREE for the taking, the people cant do anything about it !"

 

[dburg30]

This is why they refer to it as "climate change" now.

When I was a kid we just called it "weather".

Yep, you beat me to it. Since this whole global warming thing doesnt seem to be panning out, they've just started calling it climate change

 

[Judy in Texas]

I just checked out my list of webcam Favorites and if we want "warm", then the Panama Canal is it. Everyplace else is freezing!

 

[RvUsa]

I heard on the news on the way home today, that the farthest point south in the US, Key West Fl, had the coldest high temp in 105 years, 47, and that this weekend, they are going to break that record!


Al Gore can kiss my frostbit butt!!! It's COLD outside.

 

[MandMLUVMMandDVC]

Al Gore can kiss my frostbit butt!!! It's COLD outside.

ditto ditto ditto!!!

 

[des1954]

Yep, because many of them are ripened in that box. I grew up on a tomato farm outside Buffalo, and my Dad used to work winters on a large tomato operation in Palm Beach County. They pick em green, pack them, and then stick them in a climate controlled room where they are adminstered ethylene gas to ripen them. Yummy!

Where the heck is/was there a tomato farm outside of Buffalo? For most of my youth I lived in NE Amherst (farm country) and all that was ever grown in that area was wheat, corn, and cabbage. I hated cabbage fields most of all because whatever was not picked was left to rot in the field. Kimchee without the burying part. Not a pleasant odor at all!!

I've had field ripened tomatoes grown here in Florida and, while they are better than what you can get in the stores, they are no where near as good as a northern grown beefsteak!!! Mmmmmmmm!!

 

[mnsprk]

US Weather Bureau Report - Associated Press

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places
the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway .


Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical
change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.

Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81
degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.


Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.


November 2, 1922
The Washington Post

OOPS! We're not supposed to know that are we?

 

[Born 2 Fish]

 

[homebrew2]

Where the heck is/was there a tomato farm outside of Buffalo? For most of my youth I lived in NE Amherst (farm country) and all that was ever grown in that area was wheat, corn, and cabbage. I hated cabbage fields most of all because whatever was not picked was left to rot in the field. Kimchee without the burying part. Not a pleasant odor at all!!

I've had field ripened tomatoes grown here in Florida and, while they are better than what you can get in the stores, they are no where near as good as a northern grown beefsteak!!! Mmmmmmmm!!

That's 'cause there is no DIRT in Fl.......

only sand with gator droppings

Also just to get back OT.....from another old Missouri boy " Climate is what we expect........weather is what we GET

Mark Twain

 

[DaveInTN]

Where the heck is/was there a tomato farm outside of Buffalo?

I grew up near Silver Creek, in Chautauqua County. From there up through Brant and Evans in southern Erie County there were several large tomato operations. The Vacco family was a big grower that also owned (not sure if they still do) some huge farms in Palm Beach County.

My Dad sold the farm when he retired, and I don't think any tomatoes are grown there anymore. Mostly grapes in Silver Creek, which we also grew.

Anyways, I agree with you on the tomatoes....nothing beats a real vine ripened and fresh tomato. Especially on a BLT with real mayo....yum!

 

[WhitShores]

Aside from growing up here, there is a reason I live in Alabama... And that is to AVOID cold weather like this...
I don't do cold... And from what I have read, knowing it's this cold at the Fort is not very comforting... But had still rather be there, than here!!
28 degrees... BRRR!!!


Whitney