Cold Front

@cranky1950

@mfladd It has not been cold enough to frost and the leaves for the most part are just turning yellow then brown and falling due to the length of the day. So leafing sort of sucks. However the South mountains don’t usually turn until about now and it is getting cold enough so maybe the foliage will be better there. Anyway the Blueridge north of Linville is past peak( which wasn’t much to get excited over anyway). Back to my whine and cheeze.

@cranky1950 Oh, I was just focused on the “betta”.

@mfladd Oh

@mfladd Sounds like a fishy excuse.

@f00l

No hail for me. Yea!

@narfcake

Just pulled this data.

@narfcake Not quite that bad here.

@ruouttaurmind 30° shifts from day to night… Insane. We had a 9° shift today.

Supposedly Wednesday is a low of 57℉. I’m excited.

@RiotDemon Last week it was 40 degree shifts like what @narfcake is seeing in Ontario. That’s more the norm here in non-summer. When I take the dogs out in the morning I’m wearing a jacket, in the evening it’s shorts and flip flops. It’s like having all four seasons in a single day.

@RiotDemon

Those huge daily temp shifts happen at altitude and in very dry climates.

Here (DFW) that sort of shift is uncommon unless a big weather changes is happening.

In winter we get these either when a big new storm crosses the Rockies headed our way, or when frigid weather from the West and North gets into a big fight with warm weather coming in from the Gulf of Mexico.

@Kidsandliz Tired of being eaten by mosquitoes. Got about six bites sitting here in the screen porch for 15mins.

@connorbush Run away! Run away!

@connorbush where in Wisconsin?

@mfladd verona area

@connorbush ok, I lived in a few different areas of WI, but the Madison area is not one of them.

@cranky1950

This one did mess with my allergies.

@f00l Well guess I’ll over medicate.

@cranky1950
I just do a Allegra or whatever and move forward.

I’m showing real serious guts there, huh?

@f00l Yeah, one tough cookie alright.

My way is more fun though.

@cranky1950
/giphy Tennessee medicine

@RiotDemon ??

@ruouttaurmind I’m skipping that this year!

@f00l It got down to 33 here a couple nights ago, and it’ll do it again next week. I broke out the sweatshirts and Halloween socks, but I’m still wearing sandals.

@OldCatLady

Do you have orange groves and citrus groves around JAX? Do they still burn heat pots in the groves when it gets cold, or cover the trees? Did they have to do all those anti-freezing precautions?

For anyone who didn’t know this:. If you drive to Florida, be sure to stop at the official state welcome centers on the freeways.

Fresh squeezed orange juice there. It’s awesome.

They still do that at the welcome centers, don’t they?

Is the St Pete newspaper still free on the next day, every time the sunshine never hit the newsletter building the previous day?

@f00l maybe it’s just me… I don’t find that much difference between fresh squeezed oj and the Florida oj I can buy at the store.

@f00l No groves, despite towns named Mandarin, Orange Park etc. The industry moved south a long time ago. I don’t know about the juice; I remember it from when I was a kid, a long time ago. Then we moved downwind of a Minute Maid plant. I’ve only recently started drinking the stuff again. The St. Pete paper story is completely new to me.

@f00l @oldcatlady
Had to look up that newspaper thing… Long discontinued.

A current (2012) nearby plaque in St. Petersburg reads, “On September 1, 1910, The Evening Independent, St. Petersburg’s first daily newspaper, initiated its famous ‘Sunshine Offer.’ Proclaiming St. Petersburg to be the ‘Sunshine City,’ Lew B Brown, editor and owner of The Evening Independent, vowed to give the paper away ‘absolutely free-without cost or condition-to subscribers and strangers alike…everyday the sun doesn’t shine on St. Petersburg.’ The offer, which remained in force until The Evening Independent merged into the St. Petersburg Times in 1986, attracted national attention, enhancing the city’s image as a popular tourist and retirement community. Over this 76-year period, the paper was given away only 296 times!”

@RiotDemon
Sorry they brought the
no-sunshine=free-paper
tradition to an end.

I like the St Pete paper. They have taken the lead investigating some questionable incidents at Scientology’s Sea Org compound in Clearwater, FL.

They’re now The Tampa Bay Times and have twelve Pulitzers since 1964.

Another reason to like them:

The newspaper operates PolitiFact.com, a project in which its reporters and editors “fact-check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups…”[13] They publish original statements and their evaluations on the PolitiFact.com website, and assign each a “Truth-O-Meter” rating, with ratings ranging from “True” to completely true statements to “Pants on Fire” (from the taunt “Liar, liar, pants on fire”) for false and ridiculous statements. The site also includes an “Obameter”,[14] tracking U.S. President Barack Obama’s performance with regard to his campaign promises. PolitiFact.com was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for “its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters.”[15]