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[Shortpoet-GTD]

dconklin, on 14 March 2012 - 07:31 AM, said:

Yeah I am worried about the flea population too.  We have so many wild cats in the neighbor hood that it is ridiculous.  Too many people abandoned their cats :(  It is strange because the fleas were tough buggers to get rid of (and I still have flea eggs all over my yard I am sure.)  The vet said that everything they have given to animals didn't seem to work this time around.

It's a heartbreaking thing to do, but you should get humane traps from the city pound.
They're free. Put some cat food on a dish, and they'll walk in to get it. It doesn't hurt them. The wire mesh is
spring loaded, and they can't get out.

Yes, most of the cats will be killed, (some young ones will be spayed/ adopted) but if you don't, they will stay
on the street breeding more, and the kittens will slowly starve to death or die of thirst.
Males will fight leaving infected wounds. Or they'll be roadkill.
So which is better? A OD shot in the butt or dying of starvation?

And don't forget-the Bubonic plaque killed before via fleas. It wasn't the rats, it was the fleas. Same thing with
cats if left on their own. They'll get infested with flea's and ticks.
http://en.wikipedia..../Bubonic_plague

Back to topic-weather report.
3/14- 84. High heat for March.

[dconklin]

Shortpoet-GTD, on 14 March 2012 - 01:51 PM, said:

It's a heartbreaking thing to do, but you should get humane traps from the city pound.
They're free. Put some cat food on a dish, and they'll walk in to get it. It doesn't hurt them. The wire mesh is
spring loaded, and they can't get out.

Yes, most of the cats will be killed, (some young ones will be spayed/ adopted) but if you don't, they will stay
on the street breeding more, and the kittens will slowly starve to death or die of thirst.
Males will fight leaving infected wounds. Or they'll be roadkill.
So which is better? A OD shot in the butt or dying of starvation?

And don't forget-the Bubonic plaque killed before via fleas. It wasn't the rats, it was the fleas. Same thing with
cats if left on their own. They'll get infested with flea's and ticks.
http://en.wikipedia..../Bubonic_plague

Back to topic-weather report.
3/14- 84. High heat for March.

Our local shelters won't do anything and one lady told me sorry and hung up last year when I called.  The town is doing a catch, fix and release back to the wild.  They offer us traps if we want to volunteer, but they have many of them fixed now.  It has been a battle here for quite a while.  The only thing the town did was claim to give a fine if you were caught feeding one.  It is just a mess.  Sorry to change topic before!

But yeah, back to the weather- we reached 70 today.  Warm for March here.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

"In Kentucky this past week, the weather was incredibly, unseasonably hot.
It was in the 80s in March. Not normal. What the heck?

So we asked our friends at The Weather Channel: please explain?
We were hoping they’d say something reasonable, like, about ocean currents or jet streams or something
that seemed scientific and vaguely comforting.

Anything but “I’m scared.”
But that’s basically what we got from Stu Ostro, senior director of weather communications at The Weather Channel:
"In recent years I’ve documented hundreds of extreme and/or unusual weather events nationally and globally,
but this one is even freaking me out with the nature of the air mass, clouds and downpours yesterday and today,
and how the sky has looked so tropical, where I live in the Atlanta area – in mid-March. It’s surreal."
Surreal!
This remarkable warmth is associated with a bulging ridge of high pressure aloft that is exceptionally strong and
long-lasting for March.
While natural factors are contributing to this warm spell, given the nature of it and its context with other extreme weather
events and patterns in recent years there is a high probability that global warming is having an influence upon its extremity."
http://climatesignal...rd-hot-weather/

We'll get cool again here too but we've had 3 consecutive days of mid to high 80's. 83/86 today 87 for March?

[Shortpoet-GTD]

"Today may mark the seventh straight day of 80 degree temperatures at O’Hare,
something that’s never happened before in March.
Or in April, for that matter.
“It is extraordinarily rare for climate locations with 100+ year-long periods of records to break records day after day after day,”
the local office of the National Weather Service said in a statement Sunday morning, following a Saint Patrick’s Day that
shattered 141 years of records.

And the Windy City is not alone. In International Falls, the mercury went to 77 degrees on Saturday —
which was 42 degrees above average, and 22 degrees above the old record.
It’s possible, according to weather historian Christopher Burt, that no station with a century of weather data
has ever broken a mark by that much.

“Never before has such an extended period of extreme and record-breaking warm temperatures affected such a large
portion of the U.S. in March, going back to the beginning of record keeping in the late 1800s,” Masters (founder of the website WeatherUnderground) wrote."

http://grist.org/ele...paign=gristacct

In the meantime, they're talking about contraceptives, closing post offices that they spent months on naming,
calling for more oil drilling................so many sandies-so little time.

[Jessi]

My parents and the majority of my friends are in tornado alley, so I'm always keeping up with the weather down there.....crossing my fingers it's a standard storm and not more tornadoes that destroy any given area already.

Where I am in Vancouver? It's just been rain for the last how ever many weeks, so there's really not too much to pay attention to. Imagine my surprise when yesterday morning, it was sunny....then snowed....then got bright and sunny again, rained for a bit....snowed again....and then stopped and stayed sunny the rest of the day. The switches in temperature, cloud coverings, and precipitation all happened in a couple hours there and were rather radical changes each way. It's not like we were teetering on the edge of rain/snow temperature and it just happened to change. They were very distinct weather/temp changes. Wow.

[dconklin]

Our weather has still been quite warm.  I was sweating today at the bus stop, it should really maybe be 40's possibly 50.  But then on Sunday there was snow in Arizona, but yet 70's here in New Jersey.  We usually get at least one snow storm in the winter and the only snow we saw didn't even stick to the road as it was too warm.  2 years ago the kids had a lot of snow days, this year we haven't used 1.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

"The winter of 2011-12 was Washington’s warmest on record.
The average temperature for astronomical winter; the period from December’s winter solstice to Tuesday’s spring equinox,
was 45.6 degrees, according to the local National Weather Service forecast office.
That was nearly two degrees above the previous record, set in 1989-90, the Weather Service said."
http://www.washingto...vfQS_story.html

[Shortpoet-GTD]

"NASA’s Earth Observatory released an image of North America illustrating the extent of this heat wave, which has
turned winter into summer for 1,054 locations experiencing record high temperatures between March 13 and 19
across the U.S. and Canada.
The map shows land surface temperature anomalies based on data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite.
The image depicts temperatures compared to the average same eight-day period of March from 2000 to 2011.

High temperatures broke previous records for the fifth consecutive day. In Grand Rapids, thermometers
climbed to 83 degrees — breaking a previous all-time high of 74 on March 20, 1921.

Only once in 140 years of weather observations has April produced as many 80 degree days as this March."
(Map on link)

http://www.mlive.com..._extent_of.html

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Related- (long term effects.)
http://www.altenergy...colder-winters/
http://www.newscient...er-winters.html


(Link added/edit)

[Shortpoet-GTD]

85 today-88 tomorrow and yes, it's still just March.   (Tx panhandle)

[hunysukle]

It's already in the mid-80s here in Phoenix. It seems like the blazing hot sun keeps coming back hotter and sooner each year.

[dconklin]

Well we are actually close to March weather now.  We had nice and warmer then average days for the past couple weeks up until yesterday  It got quite windy yesterday and this morning it was 25 degrees! I am not complaining because that is normal here for the morning during March.

[aspen]

Nothing like equinox to experience hot and cold. Snow last Friday and only 6C (43F for those who count backward)
This Saturday 26C (79F). Now where did I leave those skis?

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Had to uncover and get the ole' swamp cooler up and running today.
I hope I get another month at least before I have to recover it, and start using the a/c.

[aspen]

Shortpoet-GTD, on 29 March 2012 - 04:54 PM, said:

Had to uncover and get the ole' swamp cooler up and running today.
I hope I get another month at least before I have to recover it, and start using the a/c.

Never heard them called swamp coolers. They call something like that, evaporative coolers, Coolgardie safes, here.
Down down under it's such a beautiful day at 20C, 68F for those who read numbers backward.
Ducked indoors for a coffee and a keyboard hit.

[dconklin]

We have had more like spring weather the last 2 days.  The other day, I think it was Monday or Tuesday was quite chilly.  Now we are at about normal for spring 50 degrees.  Hot then cold then hot then cool and now about where it should be.

[aspen]

Yesterday and today would have been crisp air autumn days but our Forestry Tasmania have done some "regeneration burns". I call them more nazi science burns.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

April 1st-going up to 93 today. Hello?

[Shortpoet-GTD]

(Reuters) - "Last month was the warmest March on record across half of the United States
with summer-like temperatures, a weather expert said on Monday.
Accuweather.com said cities in more than 25 states, as well Washington, D.C., broke records for average daily
temperatures last month, including Chicago, Oklahoma City, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Detroit.

Albany, New York took the prize for breaking the oldest temperature record on the books, according to Accuweather.com. Its average daily temperature in March was 45.9 degrees, breaking a record of 44.4 degrees set in 1859,
the private weather forecasting firm said.

St. Louis also broke a longstanding record, according to the National Weather Service, enjoying its warmest March since
record-keeping started in 1874.

The average temperature in St. Louis in March was 61.1 degrees, the Weather Service said, soaring past the
former record of 57.7, set in 1910."
http://www.huffingto....html?ref=green

[dkramarczyk]

This isn't in my area, but my brother lives near where all those tornados hit in Texas. He lives in Haltom, TX and the tornados hit just south of him. Scared me to death when I first heard about it because it made me worry about him.