Feb 8th 2012 08:23 am Weather or not

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I’ve been enjoying the latest version of the bread discussion. Not long ago, I found the page I’d created several years back, detailing my own bread-making experience and recommending my technique to you. What a crock! It pretty much was a recipe for baseball bats. The real bread makers among you were kind enough to let it slide. I have deleted that page, so don’t ask. Jeff, good luck with the sale of your baking equipment and with your retirement! Wish I had a use for an industrial mixer.

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18 Responses to “Weather or not”

  1. hc on 08 Feb 2012 at 8:33 am #

    Uh-oh – we’re in trouble – we have a weather station at our house – with a “weather window” in the bedroom ( a feed off the main unit that provides a snapshot of all the information in a picture frame) – and I keep a weather calendar daily ………

  2. sandcastler on 08 Feb 2012 at 9:08 am #

    While I enjoy the ready access of weather information the internet provides, still have an outside thermometer and rain guage. I also maintain an annual rain diary allowing comparisons to prior rainfalls.

  3. John in Virginia on 08 Feb 2012 at 9:34 am #

    hc, I thought I was the only one who did that! I use Weather Bug [not intended as free advertising] because the stations are closer than the regular NWS units. One WB site is about 500 yards from me. That one doesn’t work because the lady who ran it retired and no one else knows how to operate the equipment…or, apparently, how to ask the manufacturer. Ergo sum [I love that Latin!], I have to rely on a WB site 4.5 miles from me which obliterates the value of the real time data. So, I bought an indoor/outdoor thermometer and use that for the records, wishing I had accurate rainfall and wind but life ain’t perfect. My wife, JJ, does me like Gene did Arlo in today’s retro. Bugs the heck out of me since I have two indoor thermometers working on the same outdoor app. Naturally, or unnaturally, the two indoor readings will be a degree or two off since the two are set about 100 feet apart. It’s the details that kill ya!

  4. John in Richmond Texas on 08 Feb 2012 at 9:43 am #

    I have two indoor/outside thermometers, one on the north side of the house and one sheltered on an east facing porch, it can vary a lot. I use whichever necessary to tell my wife it’s either too hot or cold to go outside to do yard work. Also have an automatic rain gauge, that my wife never wants to trust, but I have a plain old regular rain catcher/gauge and they usually seem to match. which we’ve been paying very close attention to with the drought; we did have a very good wet January.

  5. CIDU Bill on 08 Feb 2012 at 12:14 pm #

    My wife often says “Do you have your phone with you? I need to know tomorrow morning’s weather,” and neither of us thinks this sounds at all odd anymore.

  6. minnesotadon on 08 Feb 2012 at 12:34 pm #

    I can’t believe ever comment is “pro” weather knowledge. I too am a weather nut, I watch it in the evening and in the morning, as well as keep up with it on the radio and the internet during the day. I especially love the ability to track storms with the radar sites that are just awesome anymore. My wife is always rolling her eyes when I consume so much weather … she just says why do you care you can’t do anything about it. To which I reply, I can be ready with coat or rain gear or whatever.
    Weather … I love it!

  7. emeritus Minnesota biologist on 08 Feb 2012 at 1:21 pm #

    Here’s a summary of MN and other winter weather patterns:

    http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/updraft/archive/2012/02/growing_snow_drought_why_the_w.shtml

  8. Hoag in MA on 08 Feb 2012 at 2:55 pm #

    My son laughed at me when I put a “relay” to my outdoor meters in my bedroom.

    “Is that in case you wake up in the night desperately needing to know the temp outside?”

  9. Tom in Glendora, CA on 08 Feb 2012 at 3:10 pm #

    I use the National Weather Service website for my weather fix. I’ve found it to be the most
    accurate in the long run. I can pinpoint a square mile around my house for a point specific
    forecast. There’s also a service (can be kinda hard to find though) in the west part of the
    country that gives ground-based observations for temperatures, wind speed and direction, humidity….all that stuff.

    NWS is available for all parts of the country with that point specific forecast. Since I leave
    for Hawaii tomorrow (one week Maui, one week Big Island), I’ve been monitoring the forecast
    for those specific locations. Things are looking good for vacation. Nice weather at vacation
    points and not so nice weather at home.

  10. Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 08 Feb 2012 at 3:27 pm #

    I really enjoyed the bread discussion as well as the egg one as well. I think that you learn a lot about people in those discussions and it is much more pleasant than talking about politicss

    As far as the weather, one of my pet peeves is trying to find out the high/low temperatures were of the day before. You usually can get it on TV. I usually go to Weather Underground to find that out. However trying to determine the rain or snowfall for an area is often next to impossible. I have noticed that my wife likes to say that we got 2-3 inches when we get an inche and 12 inches when maybe we got 8 or 9…..I guess I can’t complain.

  11. NK in AZ on 08 Feb 2012 at 4:32 pm #

    Hmmm. My husband is a total weather wonk, so I am going to forward today’s retro strip to our grown-up son. But as I was reading the comments first–it seems to be a Guy Thing. Ya think???!!!

  12. Tom in Glendora, CA on 08 Feb 2012 at 5:33 pm #

    Steve from Royal Oak, MI – try this link. Then click on 3 day history.

    http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.48963111552252&lon=-83.14427375793457&site=sgx&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text

    And limber up the snow shovel. It says it’s going to snow Fri.
    Less than half an inch though.

  13. Ghost Rider 6 on 08 Feb 2012 at 7:20 pm #

    Thanks for noticing, phil. As we used to say back in the war, it’s good to be missed. I had to spend some time where Internet access ranged from poor to non-existent. Yes, there are still places like that and no, it still wasn’t prison.

    debbie: If I’d been able to post on New Year’s Day, it would have been this: Even though I danced with another last night, it was you on my mind, darlin’.

    I’ve missed hearing from you, babe. I hope you are faring well.

  14. David on 08 Feb 2012 at 7:31 pm #

    I’m a weather geek too! I have an outside weather station at my extended family’s lake “cottage”. My sister, as much as a geek as me, gave it to me for Christmas. I’ve even connected it to the Weather Underground as a personal weather station feed. There are three of us in the same general area on Lake LBJ. Look for station KTXGRANI2.

  15. alyre on 08 Feb 2012 at 10:21 pm #

    Can you imagine?… not ONE mention of the BAROMATRIC PRESSURE??

  16. sideburns on 09 Feb 2012 at 1:37 am #

    Going back to bread and baking for a moment, I hate to break it to you, JJ, but a 20 quart mixer isn’t an industrial mixer. I spent several years, long ago, working in bakeries, and real industrial mixers are all floor mounted. Think 60 to 80 quarts, maybe even bigger. By comparison, any mixer that fits on a work bench is little more than a toy. A useful toy, maybe, but still a toy.

  17. Jean from Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 09 Feb 2012 at 7:51 am #

    Ok, a bit late to the discussion, but better late and all.

    My husband has a weather radio by the bed and indoor/outdoor thermometers in every room in case he suddenly needs to know the temperature, I guess. I just hate getting woke up at 2am for a storm watch three counties over.

    I will admit that when I got my iPhone (a story in itself) I set the weather feature for not only the closest towns but several cities in Europe. Why? because I could, and those are places I’d like to visit.

  18. DeeBee's person on 09 Feb 2012 at 12:41 pm #

    I can relate to Jean’s remote weather-watch: my Yahoo page has links to Ulan Bator (Mongolia), Ushuaia (Argentina), Windhoek (Namibia) and Manaus (Brazil). All places I’ve visited in the past! Nice to know that Ulan Bator is a balmy 0 degrees (F) today!