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I fucking hate winter, cold, dark, suck

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Hoping for a rough one, myself.

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Hoping for a rough one, myself.

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Winter is horrible - if we're speaking of cold and snow.  I miss TX every year I've been here during the winter.  I prefer one season - hot.

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I'll take a really cold winter if it means we can finally kill off some of the bugs.  We need a long period of below freezing weather and freeze the little bastards....

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I fucking hate winter, cold, dark, suck

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I fucking hate winter, cold, dark, suck

An extraordinary climatic shock, the "Great Frost" struck Ireland and the rest of Europe between December 1739 and September 1741, after a decade of relatively mild winters. Its cause remains unknown. Charting its course sharply illuminates the connectivity between climate change and famine, epidemic disease, economies, energy sources, and politics.[1]

Though no barometric or temperature readings for Ireland (population in 1740 of 2.4 million people) survive from the Great Frost, there are a scattered few surviving records from Englishmen who were in the habit of using the mercury thermometer invented 25 years earlier by the German pioneer Fahrenheit. Indoor values during January 1740 were as low as 10 °F (-12 °C).[1] The one outdoor reading that has survived was stated as "thirty-two degrees of frost", not including the wind chill factor, which was severe. This kind of weather was "quite outside the Irish experience,” notes David Dickson, author of Arctic Ireland: The Extraordinary Story of the Great Frost and Forgotten Famine of 1740–41.[1]

During the ramp up to the crisis in January 1740, the winds and terrible cold intensified, yet barely any snow fell. Ireland was locked into a stable and vast high-pressure system which affected most of Europe, from Scandinavia and Russia to northern Italy, in a broadly similar way. Rivers, lakes, and waterfalls froze and fish died in these first weeks of the Great Frost. People tried to avoid hypothermia without using up winter fuel reserves in a matter of days. People who lived in the country were probably better off than city dwellers, because the former lived in cabins that lay against turf stacks, while the latter, especially the poor, dwelt in freezing basements and garrets.

Coal dealers and shippers during normal times ferried coal from Cumbria and south Wales to east and south-coast ports in Ireland, but the ice-bound quays and frozen coal yards temporarily froze trade. When in late January 1740 the traffic across the Irish Sea resumed, retail prices for coal soared. Desperate people then stripped bare hedges, fine trees, and nurseries around Dublin to obtain substitute fuel. Also affected by the Frost were the pre-industrial town mill-wheels, which froze. Water powered the machinery which ground wheat for the bakers, tucked cloth for the weavers, pulped rags for the printers. As a result, the abrupt weather change disrupted craft employment and food processing.

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Hoping for a rough one, myself.

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I'll take a really cold winter if it means we can finally kill off some of the bugs.  We need a long period of below freezing weather and freeze the little bastards....

That said, F' winter.  Keep the weather just like today... 82*, sunny and low humidity!!!

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I think its going to be a weak winter.  Last year in the 757 was a good winter that brought us a mild summer.  So I'm expecting this winter to be warm and the next summer to be blazing hot.  YMMV