I think it's great that you employ and enjoy "The Last Snowgun". It reminded me of growing up in North Central New Jersey and going skiing on man-made ice crystals the ski resorts called "snow", without which there wouldn't have been much skiing. Not to forget night skiing, where the ride up the hill might expose you to a -30 degreeF windchill just for the pleasure of a 1- or 2-minute somewhat-warming descent down the slopes.
I appreciate your winter temp and precip predictions as it is always a challenge to get through the North Central Florida winter with minimal plant losses requiring moving plants in and out of a small greenhouse as well as wrapping and covering loquat trees (a favorite fruit) and flowering frost-intolerant plants. I'm encouraged by the higher % likelihood of a warmer than usual February. Thanks!
Sounds like the local ski hill I frequent in western North Carolina. Although snow gun tech has improved dramatically, and the man-made snow is actually a nice ride these days. Even my gun puts down nice snow for snowballs and forts.
Next week already looks warmer with a SE ridge building. This is probably winter's last hurrah in Florida, but what a hurrah it may be...
Great to hear from you. My wife (74) and I (86 now) are finding the low 60's quite cold. In the early 90's we went to a New Years party at her employment and when we came out there was white stuff on the ground. Probably heavy frost but it did look a bit like snow. But after reading todays message I doubt we had hit all the triggers here in Southern Manatee County so it probably was frost. I hope to be around to subscribe for your next season.
I'd guess it was frost. I don't have any records of accumulating snow in Florida in the 90s. There were some flurries on the backside of the 1993 "Storm of the Century," though.
I asked my wife this morning and she swears there was falling snow. But it only lasted a little while. As a kid in NE DC in the 40's and early 50's we lived on a hill, the hill was three blocks long with a flat block at the bottom. They would block it off for several days. Beats your snow machine although when it started icing it did not matter how good your sled was it went down the way it wanted to. We do see the warming weather here, no more wrapping the backflow preventors to prevent freezing.
I think it's great that you employ and enjoy "The Last Snowgun". It reminded me of growing up in North Central New Jersey and going skiing on man-made ice crystals the ski resorts called "snow", without which there wouldn't have been much skiing. Not to forget night skiing, where the ride up the hill might expose you to a -30 degreeF windchill just for the pleasure of a 1- or 2-minute somewhat-warming descent down the slopes.
I appreciate your winter temp and precip predictions as it is always a challenge to get through the North Central Florida winter with minimal plant losses requiring moving plants in and out of a small greenhouse as well as wrapping and covering loquat trees (a favorite fruit) and flowering frost-intolerant plants. I'm encouraged by the higher % likelihood of a warmer than usual February. Thanks!
Sounds like the local ski hill I frequent in western North Carolina. Although snow gun tech has improved dramatically, and the man-made snow is actually a nice ride these days. Even my gun puts down nice snow for snowballs and forts.
Next week already looks warmer with a SE ridge building. This is probably winter's last hurrah in Florida, but what a hurrah it may be...
Great to hear from you. My wife (74) and I (86 now) are finding the low 60's quite cold. In the early 90's we went to a New Years party at her employment and when we came out there was white stuff on the ground. Probably heavy frost but it did look a bit like snow. But after reading todays message I doubt we had hit all the triggers here in Southern Manatee County so it probably was frost. I hope to be around to subscribe for your next season.
John
I'd guess it was frost. I don't have any records of accumulating snow in Florida in the 90s. There were some flurries on the backside of the 1993 "Storm of the Century," though.
I asked my wife this morning and she swears there was falling snow. But it only lasted a little while. As a kid in NE DC in the 40's and early 50's we lived on a hill, the hill was three blocks long with a flat block at the bottom. They would block it off for several days. Beats your snow machine although when it started icing it did not matter how good your sled was it went down the way it wanted to. We do see the warming weather here, no more wrapping the backflow preventors to prevent freezing.