Argh! Global Warming... stop talking about it and BRING IT!

69_knives

69_knives

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Freaking "Thunder Snow" as the weather man called it rolled in last night along with a 30° C drop in temp from yesterday. Snow that was coming down so hard it sounded like heavy rain against the front window AND thunder and lightning to boot.

GAH! had stuff to do yesterday so I didn't go setup the forge and what-not. doesn't seem worth it today to spend a couple hours setting up and warming up the forge to forge for a few hours in the cold and spend another few hours letting it cool down again and put it all away.

Oh well, I have lots of reading material to work through so maybe I'll be a wee bit less of a newb when I forge next weekend... One can dream.
 
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Yeah... when it's too cold to work around 1800°F steel you're pretty much screwed. Just wait. Spring is right around the corner. Or, you could wait 1000 years for the global temp to rise 1°F.
 
Okay all you folks. All at once fire up your forges and heat treat ovens, open the windows and bring on some global warmth all at once and get on with the beach activities and skip spring altogether.
 
I haven't seen snow or the freezing mark in months. We usually are still in the 50's for highs right now, but it's been in the 80's and pushing 90 lately. We did get a light dusting of snow on the ground back in December, but man, it's been dry. We've had fire weather advisories for months straight.

Makes me wonder if the spring will be active or just a continuation of the drought.

--nathan
 
The next time I hear someone whine about 'Global Warming', I'm going to invite 'em to spend a winter here!
 
It's been snowing all weekend here along with T-storms and hail. Right now there is sideways snow. Got 1/2" overnight. All of my wife's spring flowers that are blooming are getting hammered.
 
69_knives said:
Freaking "Thunder Snow" as the weather man called it rolled in last night along with a 30° C drop in temp from yesterday. Snow that was coming down so hard it sounded like heavy rain against the front window AND thunder and lightning to boot.

GAH! had stuff to do yesterday so I didn't go setup the forge and what-not. doesn't seem worth it today to spend a couple hours setting up and warming up the forge to forge for a few hours in the cold and spend another few hours letting it cool down again and put it all away.

Oh well, I have lots of reading material to work through so maybe I'll be a wee bit less of a newb when I forge next weekend... One can dream.
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You need to move South.
We don't get no stinkin thunder snow.
Don't get no rain neither.
Good for Carbon Steel:thumbup:
 
How you guys do it? I am the ultimate candy arse when it comes to cold weather......And by cold weather I mean anything below about 65*F.

I dont know what I love more. Living somewhere I can wear shorts and sandals 9 months out of the year, or working somewhere I can wear shorts and sandals 9 months out of the year.:)
 
It's real simple. Sure cold can be unpleasant. Extreme cold, or even mild cold if you are unprepared can, in fact be dangerous.

However, cold and snow is all we have to deal with up here. Down south they get things like hurricanes, tornados, killer bees, fire ands, and heck, even smaller but more dangerous bugs...

The very idea of a bug that can kill me is not a comforting thought. A bug. A little speck that I might fail to notice, and it's got the power to kill me because I failed to notice? No thanks! 100mph winds that toss cars and flip open houses, I'll pass! Gators, poisonous snakes, scorpions, and ant colonies that will not die, I'm all set with that!

OK, so we get cold, and lots of it. I can always add another layer. Fighting the cold is simple, straightforward stuff, but killer bugs!? Damn!
 
I'm with you, Dan. Up here we don't get so many bad storms/tornados, certainly no earthquakes or hurricanes. I don't fear the creepy-crawlies much. I'm never farther than walking distance from a water source. And I'm far enough upstream from the big rivers that I don't worry about floods much.

Wait, forget I said all that... Wisconsin sucks! Don't come here!! :D
 
Well what ever you get blows our way in a day or two.
One camp of global warming thinks it will warm up briefly and then plunge into a ice age.
I am ready though the kids got a square snow form for making blocks to build a igloo, so right on breinger on, and stop talking about about it. :cool:
Cheers Ron.
 
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