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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 1:24 pm
At 2:00 A.M. the actual temp was -17. Now, at 3:25 it's a balmy 9 above. And possibly 30's this week. If your car starts, you drive to the store to get a Powerball ticket.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 3:30 pm
i think we got about an inch and a half of snow overnight...no biggie, but it is flippin' cold! my front page says local weather "very cold". LOL, no shit! i think it's something like 17 degrees fahrenheit, but with wind chills it feels like 5...nice. i just keep telling myself in less than 3 weeks, i'll be in the bahamas.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 4:15 pm
LOL Marej, hey my car started so I got out and bought my lottery ticket this morning. I braved the below zero weather several times today. But it is now a balmy 4 degrees above zero, which is really normal weather for this time of year, but we got so spoiled all winter so far these past few days have really sucked.
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Craven
Member
05-23-2004
| Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 4:34 pm
I have all of you beat, -25 degrees this morning at 6:45AM PT. Of course that was at 25,000 feet while flying out of Seattle on Delta, but still WAY cold, right?? roflmao!! Craven 
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 5:25 pm

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 7:54 pm
Nope, Coco, but for some reason yesterday I read a news article about snow in Berkeley and the bay area. People were taking the day off work to go visit the snow. There was snow in Tilden Park, which is in a high place in Berkeley. And people were trying to go visit the snow on Mount Diablo, but they closed off the roads to keep them out. Closed off access to Mt. Tamalpais too, I think.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 8:14 pm
Part of the mile high (or would that be 5 miles?) club, Craven???? LOL At that hour of the morning, I'm glad it was YOU who was aware of the temp while I was blissfully sleeping under a down comforter. 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 10:36 pm
Earlier around noon or so we got some major clouds and it started to sprinkle, then it rained really hard for just about 3 minutes. Within maybe half an hour we had a blue sky. Then we went out for dinner earlier and it was freezing out! My car's thermometer said 44 but with the wind blowing over the tops of the snow covered mountains it was an icy cold. As we were sitting there eating, we watched dark, heavy, ugly clouds roll in from over the mountains. When we left it was so cold it took me the whole drive to warm up, lol! We've been following the weather station and news and have been getting conflicting reports. Everyone says rain but different places have different snow levels listed and at one point we saw we might get up to six inches of snow tonight and in another less than an inch. Everywhere we checked though said it would start around midnight. Right now it's quiet out and cold, though it doesn't feel as cold as it did when we got home at 7. We saw pics from the mountains around San Fran earlier, they got quite a bit of snow in the last day or two and from what the weather person said it was pretty unusual for that area. They also said by Tuesday or so the temps should start climbing again and by next Saturday we should be around the 70's.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:13 am
freezing rain last night, so they are telling everyone to stay off the roads
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:31 am
We had freezing rain all day yesterday. Temp's never got above 19 degrees. Today, the sun is shining and some of it is melting. Suppose to get another round of freezing rain tonight. This ain't Mississippi weather.
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Buttercup
Member
09-10-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 10:33 am
I am sorry so many of you are having miserable weather After two weeks of cold weather (I know, it's all relative--but we had to turn the heater on ) it's finally in the 80's again here in south Florida and it feels wonderful I tell everybody to come visit now because too soon the too hot and too humid hurricane season will be here again. SO COME ON DOWN 
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 10:39 am
Relative!? lol I just set up a heating pad for my California kitty.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:41 pm
I want 80's! After raining most of the night we got snow about 6am. It was so wet though that nothing stuck and it didn't last more than an hour or so. It's been cold and windy, but a few degrees warmer than it was yesterday. We're supposed to be warming up in the next couple days so I'm excited. I really don't like cold weather!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:56 pm
The cold has settled in -- we got another 1-3 inches of snow yesterday, but today we actually saw the sun this afternoon. If it were warmer than 20, it would have been an excellent afternoon -- the wind, though, was frigid. Good day to be curled up on the couch, looking out over the orchard, and watching the Olympics. (Of course, I was out getting groceries, grading papers, and then working on lesson plans, but at least I was close to the pellet stove! LOL)
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 7:48 pm
Ok now I know we are light weights as far as weather here in California, but right now it is raining so hard and the wind is blowing so hard that it is really scary (and I don't scare easily). I have never in all of my life in California experienced anything like this!!!!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 7:53 pm
And the really bad news Mamapors is, it's supposed to be like this all week! I'm in Northern California, no wind just lot's of rain! I expect there will be flooding tomorrow. Light a candle and stay inside!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 8:23 pm
Cold here with just enough snow to make the roads bad.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 8:42 pm
Hehe, I've got a funny story about us lightweight Californians when it comes to weather. A friend of ours is out from North Dakota visiting with her 4 year old daughter. It's not a happy trip, friends grandma is dying from cancer and she's out to help her sis and mom and hoping to stay through the end. Today they were told grandma probably won't make it the next few days and our friend dropped off her daughter with my sister so she could spend the day fully concentrating on grandma. The girls (friends daughter and my youngest niece) were outside playing and sis said it was starting to get cold and they needed to come in. She said our friends daughter looked at her like she had two heads, said the look was so funny like you have no idea what you're talking about. Well I got to laughing cuz after talking to her mom, who'd talked to her dad who's still in N. Dakota, she'd told me today it was -12 back home so obviously our 50 degree weather probably felt like spring to the little girl! Then it started to rain and sis told them they really had to come in cuz it was raining. Little girl cocked her head at sis and told her this isn't rain, it's a sprinkle! As sis was telling me this I was almost on the floor laughing because here's this four year old pretty much laughing at us lightweight So Californians because we think we're freezing and the rain will never stop. It sprinkled from about 2pm til 6:30 or so and then started to come down really hard and has continued since then. We don't have the high winds and it's really not that much colder now than it was older. I did see earlier on the news weather advisories for the burn areas, they're expecting mudslides and flash flooding. 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 12:32 pm
Can someone in So. Cal explain to me what the heck is up with our weather? For the past four or five days we've heard about this horrible storm coming in yesterday that was supposed to last the first half of the week and then clear up for a few days and a new storm over the weekend. Yesterday we had a couple minutes of rain in the afternoon, then later in the evening a couple hours. Freezing cold and windy too. We lost power a couple times and the phone, which after seeing edison and the phone company out working on lines this morning I think has more to do with the wind than the storm. Todays been cold and windy, but no rain and up til a while ago not even any clouds. I heard on the news earlier it was supposed to rain later this afternoon, plummeting snow levels (1,500 ft was the last I heard) cold cold and wind. Then it's supposed to clear up some for a day or two before more rain Fri/Sat. At the same time I'm reading online that after the little shower today we should have temps in the 60's (other than Fri/Sat rain.) LOL, I can't figure out what the weathers supposed to be like! Temps in the 60's or snow????
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 12:47 pm
are you sure Wargod you do not live in New England? We have that kind of weather all the time.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 12:52 pm
war, we've been getting your weather and not giving it to you. i'll gladly ask the weather people to send it your way! i'm tired of it!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 1:01 pm
LOL pretty sure, Dfennessey, unless my desert has moved up your way! It's not so much being cold one day and then expecting much warmer temps the next, we go hot to cold, cold to hot in 24 hours all the time. But with reports of very low snow levels (at 1500 ft if it snowed, we'd wading through feet of it!) on one hand and on the other reports of almost 70 degree weather, I'm starting to wonder if the weather people are just taking big wild guesses about whats coming next and really have no idea, LOL!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 1:12 pm
war, i think they have a magic 8 ball. scenario: Weatherman Question: Is it going to snow today? <shake><shake> Magic 8 Ball Answer: It's possible.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 1:32 pm
hey, i was part of the first (and last) annual slalom in berkeley, outside bowles (bowels) hall. must have been about 26 or 27 years ago. we got half an inch of snow and the students with skis brought them out and snowed down the grassy knoll in front of bowles. it was hysterical. you had to be drunk or high to appreciate it...
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 1:37 pm
dh is still under a severe winter storm warning. they just keep extending the time. it was supposed to end at 10:00 a couple of nights back he was amazed that the ADT alarm installer got out to the house. dispatch told us they don't have snowchains or 4-wheel drive vehicles and she wasn't sure if the installer would have to reschedule or not. the heater we ordered got from kansas to oakland in about 36 hours, by way of san pablo, ca. my husband kept checking the ups tracking and seeing it sit and sit in oakland since friday night. then he sees it go back to san pablo to be shipped north to the redding area. his question is why it wasn't shipped from san pablo to start with, rather than spending 3 nights in oakland and going back to san pablo to be shipped. i guess when they said 'expected delivery tuesday', they didn't want to mess up on their guesstimate! "hey, guys we can't get this to the guy on saturday or even monday. by gum, we said tuesday, and we mean it!"
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