WTF, anytime now would be greeeeaaat.....

Average daily high for this time of year is 57. That would look glorious about now. I see 60 degree days about 10 days out in forecast but I’ll believe it when I see it. Wouldn’t mind seeing the grass turn a kite green.

Ohhh....KITE.

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6 degrees this morning. This is why I'm moving from the upper-midwest to the mid-south

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Illinois long ago restructured its seasons to be:

SUMMER: Jul-Oct
FALL: Nov-Dec
WINTER: Jan-Apr
SPRING: May-Jun


Thus we get Halloweens that are 70-80°, Christmases that are 50-65°, & snow during spring break.

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I'm a Skynyrd fan and even I don't have any of their shirts with the Confederate flag on it

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

why would you ever move to kanakee???

They're sending him to one of those southern states where the governor's a crook.

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I have opined for years the axis off the Earth has adjusted.

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Elections have consequences.

let's be honest, remove "southern" and wouldn't that description match Illinois and New York as well?

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Of course (go Cynthia Nixon), but then it wouldn't be a Simpsons joke.

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Things have simply changed over time, and our holiday customs have become seasonally inappropriate.

We based our Winter Wonderland/White Christmas/Let It Snow holiday around a freakish period of time called "The Little Ice Age" that lasted about 300 years, coming to a conclusion right around when Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol and Clement Moore penned A Visit From St. Nicholas. The Little Ice Age period's remaining chill waned and ended up stabilizing in the early portions of the 1960s, before some combination of global climate change and man-influenced temperature impact has given us many mild years of barely chilly Novembers and wet, humid Decembers.

It's not to say that white Christmases or the snowy holiday season stereotype is impossible to achieve. Snow in late December (at least in my regularly roamed chunk of I-57) has occurred, and even this past Christmas there was a very festive snowfall on Christmas Eve.

If we had the ability, however, I would highly recommend we adjust our calendars to the seasons. Move everything a month down the calendar at least. Christmas in January or February, etc. That will never happen, obviously, but it would certainly make the weather myths that surround our holidays more visually and seasonally correct. Until that point, you all must content yourselves to having the AC rumbling on October 31st, you won't need a heavy coat for Thanksgiving, and bring your rainboots home for Christmas.

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Bit. Not sure why it autocorrected there.

this is insanity

April 9th - SNOW

Yeah.. at least the forecast for Thursday is 70 out here. But we got a couple inches of snow last night.

Just started snowing again.

It'll be 70+ by Thursday. Be patient.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

60 on wednesday..relax

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I would be if March wasn't such a cocksucker of a month.

in like a lion and out like a lamb, my ass

Yeah. Outside of a few days, March was awful and April has been no better. Most of February was better than the last 3 weeks of this bullshit.

70 will be great, but then its back into the 40s again next week. I don't need 65 and sunshine right now. Just give me the average temps of mid/upper 50s with no more goddam snow.

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At least it's not dark at 5 pm anymore.

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How many plagues of snow must we endure before Pharaoh lets the Israelites go?

exactly

Siberia, IL

that's the killer for me....

Sun being up earlier helps too..I don’t like waking up in the dark.

Fire up the MidwestTransplantSportsMessageBoard! MTSMB!

How far south you going?

You and Robert Hayden both:

"Those Winter Sundays"

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Being the guy who fires up to stove in the morning while everyone else slumbers is a thankless job. Back when we heated with wood those were cold mornings before heading out to feed cattle.