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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:34 am
by jonnythan
Candy750 wrote:28 degrees and a hard frost this morning. Thank heavens I am at least 280 miles from the SNOW in Buffalo... Ok - Indian Summer - any time now, please!
Yup, here too. Had big dots of ice all over my car this morning.
Oh well. The sooner it snows instead of just being cold, the sooner I'll be able to replace the riding with skiing.
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:39 am
by CNF2002
Almost down into the 60s here. Freezing!
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:59 am
by Candy750
Yeah, jonnythan, there ARE winter sports, I know. I just can't get excited about them yet! (I downhill ski, x-country ski, and I have the Artic Cat. ) Secretly, I am still wishing it doesn't snow. SHHHH!
I'm hoping to ride some on Saturday. It's going to be 50-ish, but if it's sunny and not windy I'm going!
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:32 am
by JC Viper
For some reason the weather centers keep saying with the moderate change in the jet stream NYC will be fairly mild this winter. I certainly hope it's true.
Anyhow when this comes out there will be snow tires made for it:
Piaggio MP3
http://www.mp3.piaggio.com/index_eng.html
I'll just wait and see if this is cheaper than a Ural Gear-Up.
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:44 am
by Candy750
My 81 year old mother lives in Queens. I hope you are right - it'll be easier on her!
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:23 am
by Sev
Loonette wrote:Well, I guess we can thank Canada for the weather we got here today. It did snow for just a few minutes around noon, but nothing significant at all. Just a sign of things to come, I suppose. We're lucky enough in this region that we'll still get some decent riding days in during the Winter. Not so for you guys, I know. Hang in there - Spring will come again.
Cheers,
Loonette
What's with blaming Canada for your crappy weather? There hasn't been any snow up here so far.
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:38 am
by jstark47
Nibblet99 wrote:Shorts wrote:Monsters! Don't say SNOW! heh, we're still getting rain...please no snow until after NOV..pleeEASE!
... aren't you south of the equator? Thought japans winter season would be june-august time

Shorts is in Misawa, northern Honshu, 40 degrees
north latitude. Just about the same latitude as Beijing. Remember the 1972 winter Olympics in Sapporo? Misawa is only about 100 miles south of Sapporo.
She's got some pics posted around somewhere (in her blog maybe?) of rides around her local countryside - some of it looks strikingly like northeastern North America.
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:41 am
by jstark47
Sevulturus wrote:Loonette wrote:Well, I guess we can thank Canada for the weather we got here today. It did snow for just a few minutes around noon, but nothing significant at all. Just a sign of things to come, I suppose. We're lucky enough in this region that we'll still get some decent riding days in during the Winter. Not so for you guys, I know. Hang in there - Spring will come again.
Cheers,
Loonette
What's with blaming Canada for your crappy weather? There hasn't been any snow up here so far.
The moisture is a local product, but the frigid cold air is strictly a Canadian export!! Why do you think we call them "Canadian air masses" down here??!!!

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:10 pm
by Social Distortion
cold, crappy and windy in chicago..
and when it warms up a tad, it rains.........

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:26 pm
by VermilionX
Social Distortion wrote:cold, crappy and windy in chicago..
and when it warms up a tad, it rains.........

you should move back here in SoCal.
