[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

[cantor03 at aol.com]

I am just a little amused at the local NE Pennsylvania USA complete panicover our present deep freeze.  At the worst of it here we will have highsin the teens F and lows of 0F to -5F.  There is a little wind, so there arethe dreaded wind chills.  Temperatures have not fallen below zero atthis location for at least 20 years, so what's happening is somewhatunusual.
Having grown up and lived much of my life in NW Wisconsin at the Minnesotaborder it all seems much ado about nothing or at least very little.  Schools areonce again closed here in NE PA.
We'd have had no school much of the winter using the criteria they use here inPennsylvania.
In that Upper Midwestern USA climate the routine has been for the temperatureto drop below zero 24/7 for several weeks, with highs of, say, -10F and lows of-20F to-30F (actual temperatures, NOT wind chills).  There were occasionalfreaky cold nights below -35F.  One year, shortly before I moved here to NEPennsylvania, it was cold as I have described, AND there was high wind forseveral days.  My whole home became encased in ice.  Still, activities were notcurtailed.  Those Scandinavian ethnics are a tough bunch!
There was even a visit/concert by the famed Saint Olaf Choir during thiswind and cold, to a sellout crowd.
That said, climate change has meant that this pattern has been less severeover the past 30 years - for better or worse.

David Strang.






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