Thread: Hows your weather today

Originally Posted by Nomad

The snow can stay away as long as possible....too early for that stuff. Living up here, I still haven't gotten use to the idea of having snow on the ground for Thanksgiving.

we usually don't have snow on the ground until January. We will get flurries but it doesn't usually stick around

Originally Posted by weazel

mid 40's here today as well, supposed to be in the 50's all weekend and then back into the 70's next week. The mountains here and Montana got between 6 - 14" of snow in the last few days though.

does that mean the fires have gone?

High of 62 here, after a week in the upper 80's. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

does that mean the fires have gone?

No, it will take a while to get rid of them but it does help them contain it. The problem with forest fires is they burn so hot that they burn through the roots under ground as well, it takes a long time to put them out completely. The fire that destroyed half the city of Fort McMurry last July was just completely distinguished 4 weeks ago, that fire burned for over a year.

That's the problem with lightning as well, during the summer there are anywhere from 10 - 100 lightning strikes in a particular area and the businesses that own the logging rights to that area have to send fire crews out to those strike areas. They have to search a 1000 foot perimeter around each strike because when the lightning hits a tree it runs down through the roots and can end up lighting another tree on fire hundreds of feet away.

Going to be great weekend, 78 degrees and Oktoberfest in full swing... will be chugging German beer all weekend. Prost!

Originally Posted by weazel

Going to be great weekend, 78 degrees and Oktoberfest in full swing... will be chugging German beer all weekend. Prost!

Which flavor are you trying this weekend? I tried the new Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest, and it's probably one of the better ones they have made over the years.

Originally Posted by Nomad

Which flavor are you trying this weekend? I tried the new Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest, and it's probably one of the better ones they have made over the years.

It will all be German beers, Paulenars, Hacker-Pschorr, Weihenstephan, Schneider, Ayinger... We have an Oktoberfest in the park downtown this weekend every year and they order in thousands of cases of German beer. They have to make the order well in advance though because the Munich festival uses about 7 million litres per year.

Originally Posted by weazel

It will all be German beers, Paulenars, Hacker-Pschorr, Weihenstephan, Schneider, Ayinger... We have an Oktoberfest in the park downtown this weekend every year and they order in thousands of cases of German beer. They have to make the order well in advance though because the Munich festival uses about 7 million litres per year.

My Army neighbor had a case of Kapuziner Dunkel and Radler over the summer, pretty good beer. I like the way the German bottle their beer.

it is freaking ugly here today. 32 degrees, crazy north wind and snowing... sideways.

In the 20s and snowing. Zero wind

Been between 65-75 here the last couple weeks. Dry as hell, fire bans are back on

Ice fog for the last 4 days.. Hoar frost on the trees and grass looks wintry.

mid 60's today, mid 40's tomorrow. no snow though

Mid 70s tomorrow which will be great. I have the biggest playoff game in the city tomorrow afternoon.

Its still in the high 80s here. Unseasonably warm