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steve123 said:
Here at my place in northern AZ it was a low of 4 not two weeks ago but it's supposed to be 63 on Monday.
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Yeah, 9 was our low. The wind picked up as soon as it warmed up a little. I'd much rather the cold than the wind. This time we had both for 10 days.

Our area just west of the divide is the best weather anywhere though. Even when the weather is bad it's beautiful. And bad weather never lasts very long. Always a perfect day just around the corner.
 
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In my area usually from December through February the wind slows down but not this time. I live in a wind tunnel area so if it's 5 in town it's 8-9 at my place. Wind and cold combined sucks!

Come March it's wind season though, Arrrg, and it'll last until monsoon season which is end of July.

It's so dry here! I went on a bike ride yesterday and the inside of my nostril is scabbed up. Need some moisture!

I hate Cali politics and crowds but it's a beautiful state.
 
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steve123 said:
In my area usually from December through February the wind slows down but not this time. I live in a wind tunnel area so if it's 5 in town it's 8-9 at my place. Wind and cold combined sucks!

Come March it's wind season though, Arrrg, and it'll last until monsoon season which is end of July.

It's so dry here! I went on a bike ride yesterday and the inside of my nostril is scabbed up. Need some moisture!

I hate Cali politics and crowds but it's a beautiful state.
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Yeah it's dry. We got a couple nice snows and freezing nights so it helped the ground a lot. But the humidity is often in the single digits.

The past 10 years have been super dry. We haven't got rain in the growing season at all. There is no water in the lakes and the water table is dropping fast. Desertification is real on the western slopes.

I've been using saline solution in my nose. If I have to breathe hard I snort a shot or two of that and it helps a lot. I'm keeping my mouth and nose covered with a gaiter too. The dry nose and chapped lips are a constant issue. It used to be only in the spring winds but lately it's a problem all year long.
 
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crowski said:
I don’t know about you guys , but I have my suspicions. Our weather is so different from when I was a kid. No where near the same. And not for the good. Crow
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Here in Western Washington we just had the best January I can remember ever. It seemed like we were living in a colder version of California with day after day of blue skies and sunshine and temps in the low 30s to low 40s. Typically our weather will be those same temperatures, but with daily drizzle and rainfall and endless cloud cover.

It really does seem to be a change in climate and I've been noticing that the cedar trees aren't liking it. Normally they are green year round, but for the past few years they have had a lot of dead foliage and many are dead or dying. It might be a good time to start planting redwoods.
 
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crowski said:
I don’t know about you guys , but I have my suspicions. Our weather is so different from when I was a kid. No where near the same. And not for the good. Crow
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It's completely different. Rain cycles, wind, temp cycles.

Our hottest days used to be about 101-105 for a couple days. Some years it didnt even get to 100. Now it's 100 every damn day for 2 months. A few years back it was 75 degrees in February. The next night it was -32 below zero. That's 107 degrees in 36 hours!

No rain. Less than 1" during some growing seasons. We used to get 3-4". That is a PROFOUND change. When it does rain in the summer it's violent storms and intense rain with hail. It does more harm than good on baked dry hydrophobic soil.

Fires so fast and intense horses can't outrun them up a canyon. Record cold and heat. The disappearance of almost every insect, reptile and amphibian in the ecosystem.

It's changing fast. Humans will be forced to adapt.
 
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It never got cold enough for the iguanas to freeze or fall out of the trees. I don't know what the temp was in orlando, but here in west palm beach, we got as cold as thirty nine degrees and it was raining throughout most days that were in the mid forties to mid fifties. We never got that a call to pick up any dead iguanas, and I barely went out to work.

That's last week was just fine with a low of sixties and high of seventies, and today is currently at eighty three degrees.
 
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JaceSpace1369 said:
It never got cold enough for the iguanas to freeze or fall out of the trees. I don't know what the temp was in orlando, but here in west palm beach, we got as cold as thirty nine degrees and it was raining throughout most days that were in the mid forties to mid fifties. We never got that a call to pick up any dead iguanas, and I barely went out to work.

That's last week was just fine with a low of sixties and high of seventies, and today is currently at eighty three degrees.
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Every time I hear an iguana story I think about you. On the internet they are falling out of trees like ripe peaches.

Are they moving around again? Did this cold slow them down much?

They are going to wake up hungry....
 
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Way too cold here in Denmark, but the last two outings with the rifle have been next to no wind,dropping to no wind at all, that is quite rare for Denmark, which as you might know is THE wind turbine country all other is copying.
Days getting longer as i type, and most important warmer, i am looking forward to the days where we do not have to fire up the oven in the shot shed.
 
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