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    Was a nice 51F today, 29F at 9:20PM and should get all the way up to 24F tomorrow....maybe. AND I've heard that we'll have something like 4 inches of partly cloudies on the ground in the morning.

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    James - we have annual passes (we live less than two miles from the place). I think our passes are about $170.00 or so.

    A single day park hopper pass is around $90. Single park pass is about $80 I think. We get the niece and nephew passes for Christmas each year, then passes for ourselves so we can take them.

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    Well, even though Pleater didn't give me permission to use the phrase.

    Zarking Fardwarks was it cold for the first cigg and coffee out on the patio this morning. I have a thermometer thingy that registers the high and low temperature, and according to it, we had 29 degrees fahrenheit (that's 1 degree celsius for some) sometime last night. The current temp still says 31 degrees.

    That's pretty cold for Southern California! I didn't even think about going out in anything less than a wool heavyweight. Still couldn't see my breath though. Somebody said that to see your breath it has to be humid? Which it isn't........ For me it's just Brrrrrrrrrr.

    Love it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Well, even though Pleater didn't give me permission to use the phrase.

    Zarking Fardwarks was it cold for the first cigg and coffee out on the patio this morning. I have a thermometer thingy that registers the high and low temperature, and according to it, we had 29 degrees fahrenheit (that's 1 degree celsius for some) sometime last night. The current temp still says 31 degrees.

    That's pretty cold for Southern California! I didn't even think about going out in anything less than a wool heavyweight. Still couldn't see my breath though. Somebody said that to see your breath it has to be humid? Which it isn't........ For me it's just Brrrrrrrrrr.

    Love it!
    Correction Jay 29F = -2C. That is below freezing which is 0C. Celsius is based on water, 0C water freezes 100C water boils. See how simple it is? I only get confused with everything in between, at which point I use Fahrenheit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ccga3359 View Post
    Correction Jay 29F = -2C. That is below freezing which is 0C. Celsius is based on water, 0C water freezes 100C water boils. See how simple it is? I only get confused with everything in between, at which point I use Fahrenheit!
    Yep, you're right! I too get confused, even though I try and use Celsius more. It should be more logical. I need to find out the ear-marks: What is hot? What is cold? etc etc etc........... Thanks Grant

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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Yep, you're right! I too get confused, even though I try and use Celsius more. It should be more logical. I need to find out the ear-marks: What is hot? What is cold? etc etc etc........... Thanks Grant
    I've been trying to figure out temps for decades. I can drive in miles, kilometres and knots easily (although I used to own a couple of VW Beetles and a '53 Willy's M38A1 so breaking the speed limits were simply not possible ). I also fluent in inches and metric (too the point of an industrial accident I can indicate to somebody to **** off in both, yes I'm a True Canadian !).

    Unfortunatly where I live, on the Great Lakes, we have humidity. In the summer they give us two temps, the actual temperature and the humidex (where it feels like...) so an 90F (32C) day would be most welcome, the slightest movement causes profuse sweating. Whereas in the winter a pleasant cool day of 14F - 32F (-10C - 0C) would be fine with some bundling up. thenm they add the wind chill factor, with the humidity in the air make it feel 20 degrees colder and that just slices through you no matter what you wear. When the temp scales match is at -40 F & C (w/ windchill factor). Rarely if ever do we see it in southern Ontario but it's common in our midwest. Gents like Mr Kilt, et al must be just nuts to endure this!

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    Last night, we finally got weather here in extreme Southern Arizona. It rained all night and there is snow down to about six thousand feet on the mountains. Currently 40 F or 4 C here. Turned on the heat for the first time last night. My daughter loves the fireplace going so I might have to give in today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    ...I try and use Celsius more. It should be more logical. I need to find out the ear-marks: What is hot? What is cold? etc etc etc.....

    It helped me to commit this simple poem to memory:

    thirty is hot [86]
    twenty is pleasing [68]
    ten is not [50]
    and zero is freezing [32]

    However, living in South Carolina instead of Southern California, we had to add:

    but 40 is so derned hot [104]
    that you'd better be wearing a kilt!
    Ken Sallenger - apprentice kiltmaker, journeyman curmudgeon,
    gainfully unemployed systems programmer

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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Well, even though Pleater didn't give me permission to use the phrase.

    Zarking Fardwarks was it cold for the first cigg and coffee out on the patio this morning. I have a thermometer thingy that registers the high and low temperature, and according to it, we had 29 degrees fahrenheit (that's 1 degree celsius for some) sometime last night. The current temp still says 31 degrees.
    Ah James - you have passed the test - you have absorbed the fundamental warkness - you need ask permission of no one to continue to zark.

    Though if you did - you'd need to ask Douglas Adams writer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as I believe it was his character Ford Prefect who used the term. It could have been someone else in the same narration - trilogies in five parts can get confusing.

    The frost on the windows was beautiful this morning.

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    Cooler weather finally getting here.

    Finally! Cooler weather!
    Of course, I only consider it cold if walking out the door feels like a wet towel snapped on your nether region.
    Anything less is invigorating.

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