Sunny and warm in the Twin Cities!
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Dang. Weather in the U.P. can feel bleak sometimes, but at least it’s in color.
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Love that medieval-lookin’ church. The brutalist things near it, not so much. It’s a great image.
We Trolls* get such dark, gray, gloomy, gets-into-yr-bones damp cold Februaries, it seems like the longest month.
*Troll - Pr. n; Frequently playful pejorative applied to residents of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula by residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
See also Yooper: Pr. n; A resident of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
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I’d add that the T word is used because Lower Peninsulapodes live under the Mackinac (silent “c”, of course) Bridge.
I gotta say that the Internet has taken most of the fun out of using the term.
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here we go again.
traffic in and out of the keys is shut down, due to yet another drought-worsened brush fire on the 18 mile stretch:
https://www.flkeysnews.com/news/local/article306031896.html
this some bullshit, man.
no onebox. here is info from.the article:
The fire has grown to 350 acres and was only 25% contained as of Friday morning, according to the Forest Service. Shortly after 7:00 p.m., the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office announced the brush fire had closed Card Sound Road and the 18-Mile Stretch of U.S. 1 connecting Florida City on the mainland to Key Largo. Intermittent closures are expected for both roads. MCSO said to expect continued disruption entering and exiting the Florida Keys due to the fire’s migration. The closures, on the Miami-Dade County side, have already started to cause large traffic jams.
Read more at: https://www.flkeysnews.com/news/local/article306031896.html#storylink=cpy
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OMFG! WTAF! Hope that shit ends sooner than soon !!!
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finally!!!
it’s raining in Key Largo! w00t!
dear dog, we need this. good soaker started early this am and still going.
this should keep those fires out on the stretch calm, keep the roads open. good thing. gotta take the mum to her retinologist in miami tomorrow.
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Summer rainy season is late starting in the Bahamas, the Keys’ “cousins” across the Gulf Stream, too. Hope the Bahamas will get some of your rain too. Worst bush fire season on Great Abaco, Grand Bahama, and even New Providence (Nassau) in a long time. On Abaco last week, one of the second homeowners with a place on one of the fancier cays had one of his crop duster planes fly in from Texas to do water drops on some of the fires threatening residential areas on the outskirts of Marsh Harbour. Almost all the firefighting is volunteer on Abaco, with donated equipment and a modicum of training.
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This morning it was 55 degrees at 6am. This afternoon’s high is 91. Currently 87
Tomorrow’s high is predicted to be 101. Day after 104
A decade ago we didn’t hit the over-100 temps until at least mid July
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That’s miserable, I’m sorry. It got to the upper 80s here today and I’ve been opening doors as little as possible and keeping shades drawn.
Yesterday, Hallock, MN (almost as far north as you can get in the state) hit 100 degrees. I’m not feeling great about this summer.
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whoa! ain’t that some shit?!
no, i don’t feel good about this summer, either.
and 104F in central texas, in early May?! wowsers, @Kii , having grown up near there, that is concerning.
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