Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Forecast

You know how a 5-day forecast will have a temperature, an icon, and a short description of the day's weather? Well around these parts, the forecast doesn't just say "snow" or "chance of rain". Its more like this (these are all real):

Monday: Ice pellets
Tuesday: Freezing fog
Wednesday: Flurries
Thursday: Freezing drizzle
Friday: Wintry mix

So better watch out for that freezing fog. And what kind of cop-out is "wintry-mix"? To me its still just "cold".




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8 comments:

  1. RoJanuary 11, 2011 at 1:35 PM

    so fun! can't imagine how cold it is there!! at least you have snow to show for it! i love levi's snow shoes and love your mittens!!!

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  2. UsandthingsJanuary 11, 2011 at 2:51 PM

    Wintery mix sounds like some sort of candy sampler from See's. I bet it's not, though.

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  3. JerryJanuary 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM

    Wintry mix sounds like a Christmas album to me.

    And freezing fog is so confusing. At first I thought they were just combining "it's freezing out there" with "it's foggy out there" thus freezing fog. But according to wikipedia the fog is supercooled, and I think I took too many classes on thermodynamics because now I'm just annoyed that unlike wikipedia's assertions I have yet to "grab a handful" of it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog

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  4. MonaJanuary 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM

    Levi! What is on your feet?!

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  5. TracyJanuary 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM

    How fun! I need to go out and do that.

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  6. bethJanuary 12, 2011 at 12:13 AM

    the guy who is in charge of the weather descriptions is a hard working individual with a weather thesaurus.

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  7. bethJanuary 12, 2011 at 12:49 AM

    and who takes "too many classes on thermodynamics"? how many is too many?

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  8. JerryJanuary 12, 2011 at 12:43 PM

    Beth, is 5 classes too many?

    I guess the real answer is one class is probably too many. Why bother taking the class if after you're done you still can't understand the weather report.

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