It's amazing what a little wind can do. I guess now, people in that part of
the country know, to a certain extent, what a hurricane feels like. Or at
least, a strong tropical storm. I was amazed to see that so many people
were without power, they recorded a gust of 69 mph which is certainly enough
to cause plenty of damage and knock out power but we've had a lot of
Hurricanes with winds to 120 that have not done as much damage to power
lines. I can only ascertain that all the recent rains/snows have put stress
on trees and caused them to snap easily, falling on lines.

I live in Kentucky and we received a series of derechos in early July of
2004, some with winds of up to 95 mph and a good, strong sustained wind of
50-60 for 30 minutes or so, followed by another blast of 80 mph winds. All
this after a very wet spring and early summer. I live in an area with about
600,000 people, these storms left 200,000 or so, without power. Some for up
to 3 weeks, they had to call people from Georgia in to help. I was
fortunate, my power was on within 72 hours.

The weather is absolutely nuts here, we had our December in October and now
we're having our October, with record temps in the upper 60's forcasted
through next week. Even Minnesota, where I go for Xmas, will not be getting
any snow this year, so what else is new? I grew up there and from 1975 to
1997 (these are the years I can remember) we may have had one or two green
(or brown) Xmas's. The last 10 years or so, it seems as though we've had
more Xmas's without snow than with it. The NOAA calls it global change,
maybe so but the change is certainly notable and possibly permanent. We
average 16 inches of snow where I live per year, that's not much, however,
we've only met (or exceeded) that twice over the last 10 years.

I wonder how the weather is in Europe or even Asia? I wonder if Russia is
experiencing a warm winter compared to normal. What about London? I know a
lot about American weather but very little about European or Asian. I know
the general climate during the winter in England, Germany and France but
otherwise, I can't rattle off statistics like I can when it comes to weather
here in the states.



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On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:58:57 -0500, "Count LeChance VonShnaps"
wrote:

I wonder how the weather is in Europe or even Asia? I wonder if Russia is
experiencing a warm winter compared to normal. What about London? I know a
lot about American weather but very little about European or Asian. I know
the general climate during the winter in England, Germany and France but
otherwise, I can't rattle off statistics like I can when it comes to weather
here in the states.

Northern Europe is warmer than earlier.

"Ken" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:58:57 -0500, "Count LeChance VonShnaps"
wrote:

I wonder how the weather is in Europe or even Asia? I wonder if Russia
is
experiencing a warm winter compared to normal. What about London? I
know a
lot about American weather but very little about European or Asian. I
know
the general climate during the winter in England, Germany and France but
otherwise, I can't rattle off statistics like I can when it comes to
weather
here in the states.

Northern Europe is warmer than earlier.


Warmer than normal you mean?



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