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From: "Virginia" <>
Subject: Re: [S-I] Worse weather?
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:28:13 -0800
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This is one contest I am VERY happy not to enter. Today we will be sitting
on the patio in 80 degree weather, enjoying the Super Bowl with some
friends -- pot luck on the table & libations of one's choice at hand.
Greetings from sunny San Diego!
Virginia

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----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 8:50 AM
Subject: [S-I] Worse weather?


> Bill, yes, how thick is the ice? The ALlegheny has froze over and people
> are watching for ice jams here in balmy south-western PA.
>
> So....who among us has the worse weather? Maybe we can aware some kind of
> prize.
>
> Apparently Bill in Erie is the man to beat with his 129 inches of snow
> this year. Can anyone beat this?
>
> Linda Merle
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "W.F. Stephens" <>
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2009 6:01:39 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [S-I] Researcher recommendation
>
> Bill:
>
> How thick is the ice on the lake?
>
> Woody Stephens
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William McKinney" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [S-I] Researcher recommendation
>
>
>> Linda,
>>
>> Since you ask, here's Erie snowfall picture so far:
>>
>> Friday's total -- 6.9 inches
>> January's total -- 59.2 inches
>> This season -- 129.5"
>>
>> So, we boast the fifth snowiest winter since they've been keeping records
>> of
>> such things here in Erie, and we still have February, March and April to
>> go.
>> Yes, I said April. For those of you not fortunate enough to have grown up
>> in
>> northwestern Pa., we have Aprils on record of up to nearly 20 inches, and
>> routine months of February and March with accumulations of 30 inches.
>>
>> Will we set a record this year? Let's put it this way, we now need less
>> than
>> 20 inches for the rest of this season. So, it's hard to imagine a
>> scenario
>> in which we do not shatter our record.
>>
>> Unfortunately, we didn't break our January snowfall record. We came in a
>> putrid third. The snowiest was 62.4 inches in 1978; the second snowiest
>> was
>> 59.9 in 2004. But neither of those years had preceding months with any
>> kind
>> of real snowfalls.
>>
>> Gotta wonder what it was like for our ancestors who didn't have snow
>> blowers, automobiles with heaters, stores within easy reach. Guess that's
>> why so few of us up here in Pennsylvania's ice box don't complain much.
>> Fact
>> is, we kind of like setting records.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
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