Winter 2014/15

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jim wrote:I literally have not seen the sun in 3 weeks. It did not make an appearance today. Chicago is one of the bleakest places in the country in terms of sunshine we receive. We beat Seattle, that's about all you can say about it. I have several colleagues from Moscow and they tell me the winters are easier to deal with there because it's so drab here.
You better hit the tanning booth before the Cancun trip.

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I think they are being pretty generous with what they are calling mostly cloudy. I don't remember seeing the sun on the 11th at all, maybe we got it in the morning or something. 12th is bull [expletive], it was cloudy and overcast the entire day - I know because I "worked" from home and remember thinking nobody could accuse me of taking the day off because of the weather.

I've never done a tanning booth before but I know people do that. It might not be a horrible idea.

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Of all the places I've lived, Colorado is the best for sunshine. I can't even fathom 3 weeks without seeing the sun.

(the other places list includes St. Louis, Dallas, Milwaukee, Houston and Endicott, NY)

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Chicago ranks low in sunshine on that list but that list is top-loaded with a heck of a lot of places in Arizona, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, and elsewhere in the south where I'd rather have my nuts eaten off by squirrels than live.

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Weird thing I never noticed until now:
Sunrise in STL MO proceeds to get later until January. Sunset gets later by more-thus the longer day.

Dec 16 2014 sunrise 7:12A
sunset 4:41P

Jan 11 2015 sunrise 7:19A
Sunset 4:59P

I always assumed once it was official Winter - it was combo of earlier sunrise later sunset that accounted for longer day.

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33anda3rd wrote:Chicago ranks low in sunshine on that list but that list is top-loaded with a heck of a lot of places in Arizona, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, and elsewhere in the south where I'd rather have my nuts eaten off by squirrels than live.
We are behind Moline, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Philly, BOSTON!, Topeka ... the weather here S-U-C-K-S. It's depressing. It's cold and drab and [expletive]. It's just a [expletive] awful horrible miserable place to live. That's why everyone wears black and looks depressed. That's why everyone in Chicago is so god damned pasty and ugly and talks like they have a 52 week sinus infection.

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Surprise two inches of snow over night. [expletive] this winter. My already aching back is now throbbing because I've been scooping and plowing for three freaking hours already.

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I see patches of blue sky but have yet to see that fireball in the sky you speak of. Why? Because the god damned thing is so low in the sky because we so god damned far north that it's hidden behind lake effect clouds.

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Aah yes, City life. We get to see some nice white snow for a change of pace, but with the heat island - nothing sticks to roads and sidewalks.

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jim wrote:
33anda3rd wrote:Chicago ranks low in sunshine on that list but that list is top-loaded with a heck of a lot of places in Arizona, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, and elsewhere in the south where I'd rather have my nuts eaten off by squirrels than live.
We are behind Moline, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Philly, BOSTON!, Topeka ...
What we? You don't live in Chicago. You live in some boring suburb.

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