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01-17-2024, 04:55 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
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TIL that the world outside of Sweden used to call Celsius 'centigrade' (which fits phonetically with that whole metric thing) but then it got changed to Celsius to honor some Swedish scientist with that surname. What a topsy-turvy world.
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Mr Celsius did invent the whole zero and one hundred for boiling and freezing points of water* thing - although he wanted to have it the opposite way round, with 100 for freezing and 0 for boiling!
Celsius himself said that the scale should be called 'centigrade', which is Latin for one hundred steps, but after he died, other scientists reversed his scale (so that an increasing temperature actually resulted in a rising number!) and started using his name to refer to it. That gradually spread across the English-speaking world, though we were still calling it centigrade until fairly recently** in the UK.
* pure water at standard atmospheric pressure. Actually, the modern accepted values are 99.97 °C for boiling and −0.0001 °C for freezing.
** The BBC officially swapped in February, 1985.
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I was thinking, yesterday, that the story was something along those lines, and had planned to go dig it up today, after I had my Coffee.
Thanks!
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01-18-2024, 09:40 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
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What's the snow like in y'all's parts of the woods? Here the snowploughs come out pretty quickly after heavier falls ... but the banks of snow beside the paths are getting more solid, and the mountains of snow at the corners of larger areas are now above the level of the street signs.
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This is what I'm talking about - a few days ago:
Then they scooped up that pile! (but not any of the smaller piles around the rest of the village)
It is of course now snowing again.
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01-18-2024, 10:44 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
Are those from yesterday?
It's back
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01-18-2024, 12:39 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
Tuesday I think.
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01-18-2024, 04:41 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
Not to brag (totally to brag) I walked to the gym in shorts yesterday evening. It wasn't warm, it was cold, but it wasn't that cold.
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01-18-2024, 05:21 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
I used "centigrade" a lot as a kid because I had trouble pronouncing "Celsius".
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01-19-2024, 05:41 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
I accidentally went "sledding" last night. I thought the driveway was ice-free, but only half of it was. I slipped and fell at the top of the driveway, since I was surrounded by ice on an decline, I decided the safest way to handle it was to slide down until I hit the not-icy part.
I was not injured, but the dogs were confused.
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01-19-2024, 06:02 PM
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Pontificating Old Fart
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
We've got a beautiful sunny day out there, today, except for the fact that the temperature is heating up to a balmy 17 degrees, farenheit.
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02-04-2024, 08:11 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
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02-05-2024, 06:18 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
Our power has been out for 6 hours, with no idea when it will be restored. That's pretty unheard in this area. Where we live is so central and dense, whenever something scary happens, we're like, if it's going to get to us, it has to get through a lot of other people first.
Thousands of PG&E customers without power amid stormy weather
I'm going a litttle crazy.
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02-05-2024, 06:53 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
It does sound like you are having some fucking weather. Stay safe. And dry.
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02-05-2024, 04:09 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
There is a Winter Storm Warning in Arizona!
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02-05-2024, 05:28 PM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
Power goes out.
Power at 5am "JUST TO REMIND YOU THESE ARE ALL THE LIGHTS THAT WERE ON BEFORE I WENT OUT, OK?"
Me, "Fuck, ok."
Power goes out.
Power back on, maybe.
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02-05-2024, 08:22 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
fr tho. As I was lying in bed last night, I was like "I wonder what all we left on" and "STFU, brain, we don't even own a margarita machine, go to sleep"
Still no power today. I brought bey into the office so we could eat hot food and coffee and charge all our devices and batteries.
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02-06-2024, 05:00 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
Yay, power restored. Who wants margaritas? Oh wait.
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02-06-2024, 06:12 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
We have a whole different problem.
A week of above freezing temps and all the things like Crocus, Iris, Tulips, are starting to poke up, and the Apple and Peach trees are budding.
Guys! It's fuckin' February!! Go back to sleep!!!
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03-30-2024, 01:38 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
It's wet, which I don't love, but at least this is happening.
They were taken 15 miles and 45 minutes apart. I followed me home.
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04-07-2024, 08:36 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
All y'all Muricans:
Who's in the path of the eclipse tomorrow? And who has a chance of clear skies?
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04-07-2024, 08:57 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
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All y'all Muricans:
Who's in the path of the eclipse tomorrow? And who has a chance of clear skies?
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The Seattle area is only supposed to be 20% coverage, and it's unlikely to be clear skies.
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04-07-2024, 09:44 AM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
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All y'all Muricans:
Who's in the path of the eclipse tomorrow? And who has a chance of clear skies?
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Partial in all the contiguous states, but totality in a strip from Texas to Maine.
NASA's guide of where & when for Muricans
Europe will be safe from his particular apocalypse.
Except for the social media inundation, of course. Probably safest to avoid the internet all of the coming week.
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04-07-2024, 08:20 PM
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Pontificating Old Fart
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
We're in Texas and have a 50 per cent chance of rain.
We'll see the totality, Or not.
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04-08-2024, 05:00 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
Looking pretty unlikely we’ll have clear skies this morning for our minimal eclipse.
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04-08-2024, 06:17 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
0% chance of seeing totality.
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04-08-2024, 06:41 PM
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
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All y'all Muricans:
Who's in the path of the eclipse tomorrow? And who has a chance of clear skies?
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I'll only see about 35% coverage, but at least it's nice and clear out. A lot of central texas will get the totality, and then places north and east of there.
My team has an office in Plano, TX, and a few teammates traveled to there to see it. It didn't even occur to me to do that until I saw them dialed in to the morning meeting from the wrong office. The weather forecast for there was not great, which would have given me major anxiety if I had traveled, but it looks like they have sunny skies now. So fuckin jealous.
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04-08-2024, 07:03 PM
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Adequately Crumbulent
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Re: How's the fucking weather where you are?
Yeah, jealous. After the last eclipse I planned to be in Dallas for this one. But life circumstances has rendered that impossible.
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