stfoskey12
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I think he said clearing, not cleaning.
Oh, the weather outside is...
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I think he said clearing, not cleaning.
Timsup2nothin
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My bad. Sooooo...there's a difference between cleaning and clearing. I must admit I know nothing about either one with regards to snow.
the weather's been nice and way too warm for weeks. On top of that, I can't even say when it reallly rained the last time. The state issued a ban on open fires outside of settlements yesterday, which is scary, because spring is usually the wettest time around here. If may/june don't get considereably wetter, we'll have some trouble by summer. As if the current troubles aren't enough.
The weather has been crazy here, too. Flurries one hour, sun's out the next, rinse, repeat all day.
And after 6 weeks, I felt like going outside and standing in it. But since it's awkward trying to maneuver a walker through double doors while trying not to touch anything, I settled for just watching it snow.
19C is a nice temperature. It's comfortable.
You clean the snow off yourself - stomp it off your boots or shoes before getting into a vehicle or wiping your feet before entering a building. It can also involve shaking it off your gloves or mitts if they're not waterproof ('cause it'll melt and make them wet if you have no way to dry them, and putting on wet gloves or mitts is not very nice). In my case, cleaning the snow off also means sweeping the wheels of my walker (I have a small broom I take with me when I leave the building and sweep as much snow off every time I enter another building; if I don't do that, the snow will melt into a puddle that someone will have to mop up).
Clearing the snow means shoveling it off the steps and sidewalk. I'm not sure if drivers refer to it as clearing or cleaning when they sweep the snow and scrape the ice off the car.
Snow can be dirty if it falls through a polluted layer of air, or if it gets mixed with dirt, sand, ash, or some other similar thing.
There are lots of interesting things about snow - it can be wet or dry, and it has a definite smell and different textures. If you have snow that's clean enough, you can use it to make a kind of ice cream (seriously, there are recipes online). But you have to be very careful where you scoop it from.
Zkribbler
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Our early morning overcast quickly burns off. The current comes from the southeast. So the monsoon is trying to put in an appearance. 
Zkribbler
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Cloud cover today, and thunder! 
My two new puppies have never before heard thunder. Lucky took off running. 
Little Rudy is bat guano crazy and ain't afraid of nothin'. 
We need rain so badly.
My two new puppies have never before heard thunder. Lucky took off running. Little Rudy is bat guano crazy and ain't afraid of nothin'. We need rain so badly.
Good luck! I hope you get enough and not too much.
Zkribbler
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Cloud cover today, and thunder!
12 hours later and we have rain. No need to call Noah yet, but it's wet.
Zkribbler
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Bah! The next day, it's sunny again. 
Darsnan
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Snowing. Again. For like about the 5th day out of the last week. 
On the bright side I asked my work if "working from home" meant that I needed to stay at my home (i.e. in case they needed me to come into the office), or could I drive with my wife to her next assignment in Arizona, and they said it didn't matter to them, so a week from now I'll be in Phoenix Arizona! Hopefully the Snow Gods don't follow me to AZ...
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On the bright side I asked my work if "working from home" meant that I needed to stay at my home (i.e. in case they needed me to come into the office), or could I drive with my wife to her next assignment in Arizona, and they said it didn't matter to them, so a week from now I'll be in Phoenix Arizona! Hopefully the Snow Gods don't follow me to AZ...
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LOL Phoenix will be sunny and in the 80s (if not 90s). Might be windy though.Snowing. Again. For like about the 5th day out of the last week.
On the bright side I asked my work if "working from home" meant that I needed to stay at my home (i.e. in case they needed me to come into the office), or could I drive with my wife to her next assignment in Arizona, and they said it didn't matter to them, so a week from now I'll be in Phoenix Arizona! Hopefully the Snow Gods don't follow me to AZ...
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Lexicus
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It's like rain in that it can have various atmospheric pollutants dissolved in it.
Morty
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Dry & cloudy, odd bit of sun - a very unexciting weather day.
But on the grounds that the last couple of weeks have been dry and sunny (not always warm), this was enough of a change to make we wonder when we last had rain.
EDIT: Apparently February was the wettest February on record, so from one extreme to the other.
But on the grounds that the last couple of weeks have been dry and sunny (not always warm), this was enough of a change to make we wonder when we last had rain.
EDIT: Apparently February was the wettest February on record, so from one extreme to the other.
Sunny and in the 80s today. Quite beautiful and dry.
Darsnan
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I went from not being able to mow last Wednesday cuz the ground was white in Syracuse:
To unloading in 110F heat in Mesa Arizona yesterday:
We drove thru your neck of the woods a couple days ago - we waved as we went by!
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To unloading in 110F heat in Mesa Arizona yesterday:
We drove thru your neck of the woods a couple days ago - we waved as we went by!
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Well thank you. i'm sure it made my day go better. I-25 and I-40?We drove thru your neck of the woods a couple days ago - we waved as we went by!
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We went thru St. Louis, so got on I40 in Oklahoma City and spent the rest of the day on that road. Then in Holbrook AZ we took Rt 377-->Rt260-->Rt87 into Mesa: that was a gorgeous drive thru the mountains! Here's a nice pic of
Then you saw NM east to west and saw our Sandia Mountains and the Rio Grande.
