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Rep Retirement Lodge 199 - Dumb Poll of the Month

Rep Retirement Lodge 199 - Dumb Poll of the Month

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Jimjamesak said:
In fairness, I get away with a lot as is. :D
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Ditto. I prob should have been suspended a couple times more than I have, thinking back. Also in fairness, I've dialed it back quite a bit since I've been here.
 
The Rube said:
Ditto. I prob should have been suspended a couple times more than I have, thinking back. Also in fairness, I've dialed it back quite a bit since I've been here.
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I’ve dialed it back as well but just felt the need to crank it up one more time consequences be d-ed.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
I’ve dialed it back as well but just felt the need to crank it up one more time consequences be d-ed.
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Gotta do it once in a while. If not for the cause, it would be to be true to oneself.

Edit: cc to bbdl: The Houghton vacation is the one thing I've so looked forward to for so many years. It just feels....right.
 
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Good Afternoon, Lodge!

Is it Friday yet? The guest is moving out and I cannot wait to get my house back.
 
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Well a dusting of snow is now 6-9 inches on Saturday. Whee. And more next week.

I will agree with bbdl: this is the first REAL winter we've had in quite a while.
 
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This isn’t a real winter at all. This is record setting. It hasn’t been that long either. Like 2 years at most. People also forget January of 2018. We got a lot of snow then too.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
This isn’t a real winter at all. This is record setting. It hasn’t been that long either. Like 2 years at most. People also forget January of 2018. We got a lot of snow then too.
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Oh it's a real winter. We've had cold, or we've had snow, but the combo this year is reminiscent to my childhood where we had both. The constant stretch....it's been old-school.
 
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The Rube said:
Oh it's a real winter. We've had cold, or we've had snow, but the combo this year is reminiscent to my childhood where we had both. The constant stretch....it's been old-school.
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Sorry, I meant it’s beyond “real” for snow. I wasn’t very clear. Though I’m not sure what “real” entails.

The idea that this is what it always was just isn’t supported by the data.

For snowfall, we’re significantly above average:
https://www.climatestations.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MSP1819.gif

And if you look at last year, we ended up with more than 50% more snow than average. Was last year not “real”?

If you look at the totals on this graph and use 2017-2018 as a reference, you can see we are going into the snowiest months of the year already above average.
https://www.climatestations.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/mspsnow.gif

I suppose you could argue the early 80s had an insane stretch of snowier-than-average years, but that was all significantly above average.

And the cold has been fairly average if not warm February was cold, but most of the winter has been fairly warm. We had the latest-occurring subzero day ever this year. Prior to February this was the 11th warmest winter on record. January and December had highs almost hit 50. January. Minnesota.

It wasn’t but a couple years ago we had a stretch of something like eight or nine days below zero in a row. 2014 has something like 20 days in a row where we had subzero minimums. It was also the coldest year since 1978 (and that was the only year where either of us were alive in the top ten) and before that you’d have to go back to the 1800s.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/at_or_below_zero_13_14.html

Edit: I had been discussing this with a coworker ;)

And I think we can agree though that February was an extraordinarily brutal month.
 
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The Rube said:
Well a dusting of snow is now 6-9 inches on Saturday. Whee. And more next week.

I will agree with bbdl: this is the first REAL winter we've had in quite a while.
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This morning MPR was saying up to 14" in the western and SW suburbs. And it's going to be Heart Attack Snow.

ETA: Oh, and possible THUNDER SNOW! :eek: :)
 
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