Maurice,

I heard Florida and snow except last week.

Portions of all 50 states...including Florida (the panhandle) and
Hawaii (the mountains) had snow on the ground on Jan. 18, 2018.

Daryl

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Hey Daryl!

snow on the ground on Jan. 18, 2018.

Wow. Is that a first?

I heard ealier today that 2017 was the seventh warmest year on record. Speaking for this part of the world, last year was cooler and wetter - more snow as well - than any other year I've been here.

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Maurice

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On 01/19/18, Maurice Kinal said the following...

I heard ealier today that 2017 was the seventh warmest year on record. Speaking for this part of the world, last year was cooler and wetter - more snow as well - than any other year I've been here.

Record rainfall here in 2017. Heat drives the weather, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that we see more extremes when the average is unusually high.

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Hey John!

Heat drives the weather, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that we
see more extremes when the average is unusually high.

We definetly got extremes which they (weather people) are calling that the new normal. As for hot weather, July and August were above average temps and definetly dry, although the resevoirs were higher than usual, which was of little to no consequence to the record forest fire season in the interior of BC. All the excess water was in the 'wrong' place to do much good as far as forest fires were concerned.

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Maurice

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On 2018 Jan 18 17:07:00, you wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

I heard Florida and snow except last week.

Portions of all 50 states...including Florida (the panhandle) and
Hawaii (the mountains) had snow on the ground on Jan. 18, 2018.

it isn't the first time that's happened :)

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Hey Daryl!

Hi, Maurice...

snow on the ground on Jan. 18, 2018.

Wow. Is that a first?

It has happened before, but it's rare. In Hawaii, the snow is usually
on the tops of the mountains or volcanoes. In Florida, it's usually in
the panhandle. However, on Jan. 19, 1977, it snowed in Miami,
Florida...and I was there. :) That year, nearly the entire citrus crop
was wiped out...it became "Florida Oranges From California". <G>

I heard ealier today that 2017 was the seventh warmest year on record. MK>Speaking for this part of the world, last year was cooler and wetter - more MK>snow as well - than any other year I've been here.

I don't keep up with the statistics...too many other irons in the
fire.

Daryl

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Mark,

On 2018 Jan 18 17:07:00, you wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

I heard Florida and snow except last week.

Portions of all 50 states...including Florida (the panhandle) and Hawaii (the mountains) had snow on the ground on Jan. 18, 2018.

it isn't the first time that's happened :)

True...but the occurrence of such is rare.

Daryl

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Hey Daryl!

It has happened before, but it's rare.

This was the first time I've ever heard of it.

I don't keep up with the statistics

The radio people don't seem to care. They often tell me things without asking whether or not I am keeping score.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Quoting John McCoy to Maurice Kinal on 19-Jan-2018 16:37 <=-

I heard earlier today that 2017 was the seventh warmest year on record.
Speaking for this part of the world, last year was cooler and wetter -
more snow as well - than any other year I've been here.

Record rainfall here in 2017. Heat drives the weather, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that we see more extremes when the average is unusually high.
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And where might you be located...? (I didn't see any clues from your
origin other than Zone 1) :)

Nice to have another voice chime in here, too, btw... ;)

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Quoting Maurice Kinal to John McCoy on 20-Jan-2018 01:16 <=-

Heat drives the weather, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that we
see more extremes when the average is unusually high.

We definetly got extremes which they (weather people) are calling that
the new normal. As for hot weather, July and August were above
average temps and definetly dry, although the resevoirs were higher
than usual, which was of little to no consequence to the record forest fire season in the interior of BC. All the excess water was in the 'wrong' place to do much good as far as forest fires were concerned.

Not so easy to truck or airlift the water to where it was needed, after
all... We didn't hear so much about your fires.... mostly all our news
was about the ones in Southern California....

And, speaking of weather, were you affected by the recent earthquake in
Alaska and the tsunami warnings down the coast....?

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Hey Nancy!

were you affected by the recent earthquake in Alaska and the
tsunami warnings down the coast....?

No real impact but we were part of the warning. It was definetly a wake up call for many coastal residences here on the island.

Life is good,
Maurice

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On 01/25/18, Nancy Backus said the following...

Record rainfall here in 2017.

And where might you be located...? (I didn't see any clues from your origin other than Zone 1) :)

Ottawa CAN here. We didn't even get the worst of it. Nearby Gatineau was
almost underwater for a few weeks.

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Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 26-Jan-2018 03:43 <=-

were you affected by the recent earthquake in Alaska and the
tsunami warnings down the coast....?

No real impact but we were part of the warning. It was definetly a
wake up call for many coastal residences here on the island.

Glad you weren't impacted... I guess the US/Canada west coast doesn't
expect tsunamis like the Pacific islands and the east coast of Asia
would... Like we here on the east coast of US/Canada don't expect
earthquakes so much as California would....

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Quoting John McCoy to Nancy Backus on 26-Jan-2018 16:54 <=-

Record rainfall here in 2017.

And where might you be located...? (I didn't see any clues from your
origin other than Zone 1) :)

Ottawa CAN here.

Ah... Not all that far from me (in Rochester NY, just posting from a near-Toronto bbs)... :)

We didn't even get the worst of it. Nearby Gatineau
was almost underwater for a few weeks.

Now that is bad.... I know that Toronto was hit hard, too... at least
some parts of it... people on the lakeshore (Lake Ontario) here were
having a lot of issues as well, but not so much anywhere else in
Rochester... Dunno as ours was a record rainfall... the wind was
contributing to the lakeshore issues, as well as the abnormal height of
the lake itself...

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Hey Nancy!

I guess the US/Canada west coast doesn't expect tsunamis

Au contraire. The real issue is when and not if. Also many communities aren't
prepared for it given the lack of warning for the Alaska one which was definetly powerful enough to generate a major tsunami but didn't simply because
it was a slip-slide jobber and there wasn't enough vertical offset to generate a major tsunami. However that wasn't known until hours after the quake. It could have easily been a major tsunami.

I believe the last one was back in 1964 and did major damage to Port Alberni which isn't too far from here. That tsunami was caused by a 9.2 Alaskan earthquake.

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Maurice

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Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 30-Jan-2018 23:18 <=-

I guess the US/Canada west coast doesn't expect tsunamis

Au contraire. The real issue is when and not if.

So it's like us and earthquakes... not something that happens all often,
but something that can and does happen....

Also many communities aren't prepared for it given the lack of warning
for the Alaska one which was definetly powerful enough to generate a
major tsunami but didn't simply because it was a slip-slide jobber and there wasn't enough vertical offset to generate a major tsunami.
However that wasn't known until hours after the quake. It could have easily been a major tsunami.

Are you saying that the warning wasn't given out properly for this
one...? Here on the east coast news, we heard about the warning, and
then the eventually lifting of it when it was found to not be happening
after all... Or were you saying that the Alaska earthquake came without warning....?

I believe the last one was back in 1964 and did major damage to Port Alberni which isn't too far from here. That tsunami was caused by a
9.2 Alaskan earthquake.

That is a while ago... :) IIRC, this one was only a 7.2....?

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