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Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

That's just a tad bit creepy....

Please stay on topic. We are talking about Reese's Pieces tonight.

Quoting ClaySFL:


Hi Geoffrey. I've been around here recently haha, but i'm very good, how about you?

Doing good. I see Grothar is back causing trouble.

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:
I think saying Florida was "hit hard" in this decade is a bit of an understatement.

Well what can I say?.Hurricanes just hate Florida.

Quoting Grothar:


Please stay on topic. We are talking about Reese's Pieces tonight.

I thought the topic was space cows or some utter nonsense.

Quoting GeoffreyWPB:


Hi Clay...Longtime no see. How are you tonight?

Hi, Geoff. Haven't seen you on much. This weather is great we are having. Should be like this for awhile.

We had some nasty winds in the Colorado front range the past few days. Last night they caused damage in Georgetown, CO along I-70 and turned over several semi trucks along the freeway. Locals said it was some of the worst winds they've experienced in about a decade.

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0200 AM NON-TSTM WND GST 5 S FRISCO 39.51N 106.10W
11/13/2011 M115 MPH SUMMIT CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0200 AM NON-TSTM WND GST 2 SSW LOVELAND PASS 39.64N 105.89W
11/13/2011 M100 MPH SUMMIT CO TRAINED SPOTTER

1224 AM NON-TSTM WND GST 2 WNW ASPEN SPRINGS 39.84N 105.52W
11/13/2011 M87.00 MPH GILPIN CO MESONET

1135 PM NON-TSTM WND GST 2 ENE ESTES PARK 40.38N 105.48W
11/12/2011 M77.00 MPH LARIMER CO MESONET

1103 PM NON-TSTM WND GST 4 ENE NEDERLAND 39.99N 105.45W
11/12/2011 M72.00 MPH BOULDER CO TRAINED SPOTTER

1030 PM NON-TSTM WND GST 3 SSW BOULDER 39.98N 105.27W
11/12/2011 M90.00 MPH BOULDER CO MESONET

NCAR MESA LAB

Quoting GeoffreyWPB:


I thought the topic was space cows or some utter nonsense.

I believe that was an earlier discussion. And don't you mean udder?

Quoting Grothar:


I believe that was an earlier discussion. And don't you mean udder?

*snicker*

Quoting BaltimoreBrian:


*snicker*

So now we have moved on to Snicker bars. The blog is on a roll.

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Quoting BaltimoreBrian:
No wrong way to eat a Reese's!

Scary video. You should have posted that on Halloween.

Quoting Grothar:


So now we have moved on to Snicker bars. The blog is on a roll.

It would seem so!

Grothar, post 502.
As can be seen from your Map, there is plenty of Red and Green all over the place.
This tends to indicate (to the Observant) that it could possibly be raining somewhere in Northern South America.
From careful and persistent Observations here, I can confirm the following--
1- it has indeed rained
2- it has rained on-and-off every day for weeks
3- the gardens are Swampy Bogs of Evil Smelling mud
4- there is no prospect for sunshine until tomorrow morning(it being night time)
5- and anyway, it will doubtlessly rain again tomorrow

See? Your map is filled with Spurious yet Strangely Accurate Information.
I trust you have a Pleasant Evening.
And ask that tomorrow you post a map that has none of those bright colours on it.

With thanks,
The Residents of Boggy Spong.

Quoting Grothar:


So now we have moved on to Snicker bars. The blog is on a roll.

So now it is a tootsie roll? Do you have a have confection to make?

Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie:


So now it is a tootsie roll? Do you have a have confection to make?

His blog is somewhere else.....

Quoting pottery:
Grothar, post 502.
As can be seen from your Map, there is plenty of Red and Green all over the place.
This tends to indicate (to the Observant) that it could possibly be raining somewhere in Northern South America.
From careful and persistent Observations here, I can confirm the following--
1- it has indeed rained
2- it has rained on-and-off every day for weeks
3- the gardens are Swampy Bogs of Evil Smelling mud
4- there is no prospect for sunshine until tomorrow morning(it being night time)
5- and anyway, it will doubtlessly rain again tomorrow

See? Your map is filled with Spurious yet Strangely Accurate Information.
I trust you have a Pleasant Evening.
And ask that tomorrow you post a map that has none of those bright colours on it.

With thanks,
The Residents of Boggy Spong.

You certainly have had your share of rain this season. We didn't get much at all. Spurious???

Quoting BaltimoreBrian:


*snicker*

Don’t encourage him Brian. He is an “utter” garconanokin.

Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie:


So now it is a tootsie roll? Do you have a have confection to make?

You got it! :)

Quoting weatherbro:
Waves have been getting smaller here(since I moved here in 1991). Is there some kind of 15-30 year ocean oscillation I'm not aware of(where average wave heights increase and decrease)?

Well you'd have to look at buoy data before you could accurately determine what changes have occurred with average wave height.

It does makes sense that the average wave height for a given area does change over time. Large scale ocean oscillations (such as the PDO, AMO, or ENSO) have a large influence on global ocean temperatures and, as a result, also have large complications on the global atmosphere. Since waves are created by winds in the atmosphere, large scale oscillations certainly would have an impact on the average wave height for a location.

Quoting Grothar:


You certainly have had your share of rain this season. We didn't get much at all. Spurious???

Specious???

Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie:


Specious???

Facetious?

Quoting Grothar:


You certainly have had your share of rain this season. We didn't get much at all. Spurious???

Certainly.
Without going to check, my understanding of 'spurious' is 'information that can be, or indeed may not be correct.
As in your map.
I mean, can we TELL that it is raining anywhere, from that?

Please feel free to correct my use of the word if I am in error.
But know that I will never talk to you again.

:):))

Back at 11-ish.

Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie:


Specious???

No, just pure serendipity.

Quoting BaltimoreBrian:


Facetious?

Factoid!

Quoting GeoffreyWPB:


No, just pure serendipity.

Purely you jest?

Quoting GeoffreyWPB:


Don’t encourage him Brian. He is an “utter” garconanokin.

Just trying to bring a little geflerkenurkin to the blog when it is a a little slow.

Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie:


Purely you jest?

Don't call him Purely.

Quoting Grothar:


Just trying to bring a little geflerkenurkin to the blog when it is a a little slow.

If you cannot spell it, just say so.

Quoting Grothar:


Just trying to bring a little geflerkenurkin to the blog when it is a a little slow.

I know you're not prevaricating...

Quoting Grothar:


Don't call him Purely.

Don't worry. I have it on autopilot.

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

I know you're not prevaricating...

No. Grothar is just shy.

Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie:


Purely you jest?

Surely, purely used preceeding you indicates poor jestation...

Quoting pottery:

Surely, purely used preceeding you indicates poor jestation...

That would be worse than poor gestation?

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

Peanut Butter? That's just disguisting.

is this a joke?

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

and Reese's would be MUCH better off without Peanut butter.

no wayy

Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie:


That would be worse than poor gestation?

Apparently.
Terminal, from all reports.

Quoting TomTaylor:
is this a joke?

no wayy

You're being a little ambiguous...Could you elaborate on what you mean?

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

I know you're not prevaricating...

Right now I am just gesticulating.

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

You're being a little ambiguous...Could you elaborate on what you mean?

Someone here is being ambiguous???

Quoting Grothar:


Right now I am just gesticulating.

Family Blog....

Quoting pottery:

Someone here is being ambiguous???

Yes, was I not specific enough?

Soyuz Booster Rocket
JSC2011-E-209247(10 Nov. 2011)---The first stage engines of the Soyuz booster rocket are visible as engineers mated the rocket with the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Nov. 10, 2011. Preparations continue for the Nov. 14 launch from Baikonur to the International Space Station with Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin aboard. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

New Crew Members Set for Launch to Station

A new trio of International Space Station residents, Expedition 29 Flight Engineers Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, are set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:14 p.m. EST Sunday (11:14 a.m. Baikonur time Monday) aboard the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft.

In preparation for Sunday’s launch, the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft is scheduled to roll out to the launch pad Friday morning. The rollout will not be seen live on NASA TV. Video of the rollout will be played on NASA TV at 12 p.m. Friday. Photos of the rollout will be posted on http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/ when they become available.

Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin will join Expedition 29 crewmates Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov when their spacecraft docks to the Poisk mini-research module at 12:33 a.m. Wednesday.

Five days later Expedition 29 will end when Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov return home inside the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft. The trio is scheduled to undock from the Rassvet mini-research module Nov. 21 and land in Kazakhstan at 9:25 p.m. Expedition 30 will officially begin when the Soyuz TMA-02M undocks. Burbank will take over station command in a ceremony scheduled to take place on Nov. 20.

Aboard the orbiting International Space Station Thursday, Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov continued preparations for their upcoming departure, gathering and packing gear for return to Earth inside the departing Soyuz spacecraft. They also performed a series of leak checks on their Sokol launch and entry suits.

Fossum had some time set aside to conduct experiments, including the Binary Colloidal Alloy Test experiment. The current version of the ongoing study, called BCAT-6, may help manufacturers design new leading edge materials with molecular precision at the nanoscale.

Fossum also joined Furukawa for Ultrasound 2 operations as part of the Integrated Cardiovascular experiment. That study measures the decrease in a crew member’s heart size during long duration microgravity missions.

Volkov replaced some filters that are part of the carbon dioxide scrubbing unit in the Russian segment.

Thanks for the laffs.
I'm Gone>>>>>>>>>

heheheheh

This blog page made me use a dictionary...

Quoting WeatherNerdPR:

LOL Just had to do this xD
Lee wasn't very nice with you.

Even better

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

You're being a little ambiguous...Could you elaborate on what you mean?

you need peanut butter.

is that better?

Quoting pottery:

Apparently.
Terminal, from all reports.

I did give birth to a new thought but, I do believe it was premature.

Guess I killed the blog. dang

Quoting GeoffreyWPB:


Doing good. I see Grothar is back causing trouble.

Haha yes he is. There's a rumor that Canes might come back too.