There's Always The Weather

[Arab Nights (imported)]

anyone looking for relief from snow measured in feet should consider Seattle and the surrounding areas as better places to avoid the weather...

I live in Arizona where we measure sunlight by the bucketful. Please don't come. No more rainbirds or snowbirds or moibirds, PPUULLLLEEEEAAASSSE.

[nutless1 (imported)]

I am seriously considering relocating to Arizona at the end of this year from Michigan!

I live in Arizona

by the bucketful. Please don't come. No more rainbirds or snowbirds or moibirds, PPUULLLLEEEEAAASSSE.

[ambiguous (imported)]

A toasty 3.5 C in UK bit of a cold breeze. colder in Scotland but then again it generally is.

Glad I got a woolly hat and a big beard to keep my head warm.

Its getting time for me to hop on a plane and catch some winter sun in the Canary isles.

Its weird there also, There folks who wear puffa jackets when it gets down to 20 C

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Happy to give you suggestions on where would suit you, nutless. The state is pretty variable.

[moi621 (imported)]

Happy to give you suggestions on where would suit you, nutless. The state is pretty variable.

Yes. But, the whole State of Arizona has Summer.

As certain as Canada has Winter.

And the Southern area is prone to "monsoon" season. Humidity plus!

I like my desert by the sea.

I could live almost anywhere with my pension and no local family but,

mid, coastal Orange County, California is "it".

Waiting on promised rain.

Updates as they happen.

Moi

[PetJohan (imported)]

When I first came to the United States, I'd never seen snow, only pictures. On one occasion it did snow in Jo'burg but only a very little-actually got to below freezing. Christmas was spent wearing the most minimal bathing costume I had whilst going to one of a myriad of beaches, taking a number of boxes of Pilchards-to feed the penguins which, years later I determined, were like Mariachis, and would not go away until they were fed. We had a choice of oceans but we preferred the South Atlantic as there were fewer sharks than on the Indian side. Also, there were fewer people. Cape Town was and is a beautiful city, usually warm so when I left there to be adopted in New York I had no idea what to expect, apart from what I'd seen in pictures. The man who collected me to be delivered must have had an odd idea as to how to entertain foreigners as he took me to a Hockey game, unheard of in South Africa. I was so bleeding tired all I could do, as I had no understanding of the game, was to calculate what all that ice might have sold for back on the Cape. That was decades ago. When I was looking for a university with grad school I desperately wanted to go to Northwestern-they had a real winter. However, they would not take the cash deal they were offered to pay for all my education through as many post doc years as I wished. USC did and, once again....a Christmas on the beach, just no penguins. In California it was said one knew it was Autumn when the birds turned colours and fell from the trees. I thought of that the other day when Iguanas turned colours and fell from trees.

I do sympathize with you and am sorry you're deep in snow, ice, sleet, salt etc but know that there are those of us who love winter. A fellow Doctoral Candidate was from Iceland and I've gone winter camping with him, also Kayaked from Iceland to Greenland although that was in high summer.

I would offer you a hug for warmth but we're not acquainted so accept my hope that you have at least a warm place to snuggle up, snarl at the weather and remember....there are only 79 days of Winter left.

Best,

Petr-Johan

[kristoff]

When I first came to the United States, I'd never seen snow, only pictures. On one occasion it did snow in Jo'burg but only a very little-actually got to below freezing. Christmas was spent wearing the most minimal bathing costume I had whilst going to one of a myriad of beaches, taking a number of boxes of Pilchards-to feed the penguins which, years later I determined, were like Mariachis, and would not go away until they were fed. We had a choice of oceans but we preferred the South Atlantic as there were fewer sharks than on the Indian side. Also, there were fewer people. Cape Town was and is a beautiful city, usually warm so when I left there to be adopted in New York I had no idea what to expect, apart from what I'd seen in pictures. The man who collected me to be delivered must have had an odd idea as to how to entertain foreigners as he took me to a Hockey game, unheard of in South Africa. I was so bleeding tired all I could do, as I had no understanding of the game, was to calculate what all that ice might have sold for back on the Cape. That was decades ago. When I was looking for a university with grad school I desperately wanted to go to Northwestern-they had a real winter. However, they would not take the cash deal they were offered to pay for all my education through as many post doc years as I wished. USC did and, once again....a Christmas on the beach, just no penguins. In California it was said one knew it was Autumn when the birds turned colours and fell from the trees. I thought of that the other day when Iguanas turned colours and fell from trees.

I do sympathize with you and am sorry you're deep in snow, ice, sleet, salt etc but know that there are those of us who love winter. A fellow Doctoral Candidate was from Iceland and I've gone winter camping with him, also Kayaked from Iceland to Greenland although that was in high summer.

I would offer you a hug for warmth but we're not acquainted so accept my hope that you have at least a warm place to snuggle up, snarl at the weather and remember....there are only 79 days of Winter left.

Best,

Petr-Johan

Never met you. I'm from Sweden. But I grew up in Minnesota. In some ways I envy you, but not too much. G'day

[nutless1 (imported)]

Hooray! Summer all year! I was a July baby and the enjoyment of summer is my favorite season of the year, absent humidity and monsoons! My body just can no longer tolerate the bitterly cold winters. I like the dry hot climate with cooler temps of days and nights other seasons.

Yes. But, the whole State of Arizona has Summer.

As certain as Canada has Winter.

And the Southern area is prone to "monsoon" season. Humidity plus!

I like my desert by the sea.

I could live almost anywhere with my pension and no local family but,

mid, coastal Orange County, California is "it".

Waiting on promised rain.

Updates as they happen.

Moi

[nutless1 (imported)]

Thanks for the offer of a warm hug. I am counting off the days until Springtime and warmer temps and no snow and ice, although the first spring back from California at USC studies for my master's degree, brought 6 inches of snow on none other than April Fool's day, April 1. It made me wonder why I didn't stay in California, but family was here, my friends in California were gone from HIV/AIDS, and I was offered employment in Michigan during a recession period when jobs were not plentiful at the times.

I have never enjoyed winter sports or outdoor activities, and my winter sport is curling up in a warm room to read a book. I get lots of books read during the bitterly cold months. I wonder if that could qualify for the Winter Olympics? <grin?

When I first came to the United States, I'd never seen snow, only pictures. On one occasion it did snow in Jo'burg but only a very little-actually got to below freezing. Christmas was spent wearing the most minimal bathing costume I had whilst going to one of a myriad of beaches, taking a number of boxes of Pilchards-to feed the penguins which, years later I determined, were like Mariachis, and would not go away until they were fed. We had a choice of oceans but we preferred the South Atlantic as there were fewer sharks than on the Indian side. Also, there were fewer people. Cape Town was and is a beautiful city, usually warm so when I left there to be adopted in New York I had no idea what to expect, apart from what I'd seen in pictures. The man who collected me to be delivered must have had an odd idea as to how to entertain foreigners as he took me to a Hockey game, unheard of in South Africa. I was so bleeding tired all I could do, as I had no understanding of the game, was to calculate what all that ice might have sold for back on the Cape. That was decades ago. When I was looking for a university with grad school I desperately wanted to go to Northwestern-they had a real winter. However, they would not take the cash deal they were offered to pay for all my education through as many post doc years as I wished. USC did and, once again....a Christmas on the beach, just no penguins. In California it was said one knew it was Autumn when the birds turned colours and fell from the trees. I thought of that the other day when Iguanas turned colours and fell from trees.

I do sympathize with you and am sorry you're deep in snow, ice, sleet, salt etc but know that there are those of us who love winter. A fellow Doctoral Candidate was from Iceland and I've gone winter camping with him, also Kayaked from Iceland to Greenland although that was in high summer.

I would offer you a hug for warmth but we're not acquainted so accept my hope that you have at least a warm place to snuggle up, snarl at the weather and remember....there are only 79 days of Winter left.

Best,

Petr-Johan

[devi (imported)]

Not all of Arizona is all that warm. Flagstaff has just about the same weather and temperatures as do Durango, Colorado and Santa Fe, New Mexico also Salt Lake, Utah. Btw, Grand Junction, Colorado is generally warmer than Gallup, New Mexico. And I do remember about freezing my butt off with a dusting of snow one July near Show Low, Arizona at a rainbow gathering.