We Could Talk About The Weather

[n2ize]

I love hot weather. I can go to the flying field and fly RC, go to the gun range and shoot, and sit on the deck and drink cold beer. Ahhh..

I can do all those things in very cold weather. My ancestry goes back to Siberia and the Yukon territories of Canada. I inherited a strong tolerance for cold weather.

[n2ize]

That's a big probably, with wind that strong you'd see flying debris.

Oh there was flying debris. Some of the gusts were as bad or worst that Sandy. I nearly got hit twice with wind blown debris. Brooklyn is well known for very severe weather.

[N2NH]

Punxsutawney Phil or Staten Island Chuck?

The world's most famous furry forecaster, Punxsutawney Phil, will pop out of his burrow Saturday morning to tell the nation what our weather will be like for the next six weeks. Will we have an early spring, or will winter dig in its heels until mid-March?According to folklore, if it's cloudy when the groundhog emerges from its burrow Saturday, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter will soon end. If, however, it's a sunny day, Phil will supposedly see his shadow and, frightened, retreat back into his burrow, and winter will continue for six more weeks.
The current forecast from the National Weather Service is for a cloudy, snowy day, but Phil is a fickle fuzzball, so it's hard to know what he'll do.

Groundhog Day: What will unpredictable Phil forecast?

A famous Staten Island resident starts each day at 8 a.m. training for a yearly event that often draws hundreds of people from the five boroughs and New Jersey. To prepare for this program, he works out with a personal trainer and focuses on eating a healthy diet, rich in vegetables and protein.
After his work is done, he gets to spend some time with his girlfriend, with whom he'll share dinner and some quality R&R.
However, this Staten Island celebrity isn't human.
It's none other than Charles G. Hogg (aka Staten Island Chuck), an 8 1/2-pound groundhog who resides in a custom-built log cabin with a retractable roof and solar panels that power a functioning weather station at the Staten Island Zoo. The entire metropolitan area looks to Chuck's annual prediction.
Chuck and his galpal, Charlotte, are the only genuine groundhogs in any of the city's zoos.
Each year on Feb. 2, Chuck predicts whether spring will come early. "Over 31 years, he has been right 25 times," said Kenneth Mitchell, the Zoo's executive director. That's an 80 percent success clip.
The prediction is simple: If Chuck sees his shadow, we'll have six more weeks of winter. If not, we'll have an early spring.

I wonder if he'll take the traditional bite out of Mayor Mikey?

Take that Phil. SI Chuck raring to go.

Then there's Groundhog Day: The Movie.

And 12 Things You Probably Don't Know About Groundhog Day The Movie.

[ka4dpo]

I can do all those things in very cold weather. My ancestry goes back to Siberia and the Yukon territories of Canada. I inherited a strong tolerance for cold weather.

That's cool. My ancestry hails from Arthritis so I have a deep seated hatred of cold weather. I thought seriously about moving to Hawaii but I know i would go nuts there after a year, Oahu is the most affordable but small, the Big Island is incredibly expensive and a lot of it is off limits. The rest of the islands are really small and not very populated.
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Your post reminded me that you should move to Iceland. It's relatively cold there in winter and they are a lovely people who take you to court to use your own name. Swell place that Iceland.

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[X-Rated]

Got into the car this morning and thought of Three Dog Night when I saw the temperature.

[KG4CGC]

The Scots-Irish side of my genes are apparently not dominant enough to make me feel that I can just ignore the cold. The Russian side of my genes are also not doing their job. I hate cold.

[n2ize]

Your post reminded me that you should move to Iceland. It's relatively cold there in winter and they are a lovely people who take you to court to use your own name. Swell place that Iceland.

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I am thinking of eventually heading up to Alaska or the Canadian Northwestern or Yukon territories where although summers are short they can be quite warm.

[XE1/N5AL]

I am thinking of eventually heading up to Alaska or the Canadian Northwestern or Yukon territories where although summers are short they can be quite warm.

Alaskan summers also the best time for watching the mosquitoes feed.

[kb2vxa]

"Some of the gusts were as bad or worst that Sandy."
Now is that wind in Brooklyn or Crestwood? Brooklyn got clobbered but not so bad inland to the north. It's like New Jersey, the shore was completely wiped out in places while where I sheltered in Burlington County there was very little damage.

"Brooklyn is well known for very severe weather."
Brooklyn is well known for severe, period.

"I wonder if he'll take the traditional bite out of Mayor Mikey?"
So Chuck doesn't like Mikey either, I remember when Phil bit the mayor of Punxsutawney. He's worn heavy leather gloves ever since, could be Mikey's a slow learner? They're big, have powerful rodent teeth and are mean tempered and don't like to be messed with especially by the likes of Manic Mikey.

[N2NH]

"I wonder if he'll take the traditional bite out of Mayor Mikey?"
So Chuck doesn't like Mikey either, I remember when Phil bit the mayor of Punxsutawney. He's worn heavy leather gloves ever since, could be Mikey's a slow learner? They're big, have powerful rodent teeth and are mean tempered and don't like to be messed with especially by the likes of Manic Mikey.

The mayor does not plan to attend the annual Groundhog Day event at the Staten Island Zoo Saturday morning, in what would have been the last chance to mend his tumultuous relationship with the furry forecaster while still in office and presiding over the ceremony.

In 2009, Chuck chomped Bloomberg's finger as the mayor tried to coax him out of his winter nest.
Since then, the pair's relationship has been cool — though Staten Island Zoo director Ken Mitchell said he thought a final meeting would have gone by without incident.
“[The bite] was just a minor misunderstanding," he said.
"I’m sure that won't happen again.”
A Bloomberg spokesman did not reveal the mayor's reason for not attending the Groundhog Day event this year but said he has sometimes chosen not to attend in the past.
Groundhogs are generally not known for having sparkling personalities, but Mitchell said Chuck, who’s full name is Chuck E. Hogg, generally has a good temperament.
Bloomberg likely disagrees. In 2011, he refused to reach after the rodent, instead using a plunger to help get him out of his home.
"I love the plunger," Bloomberg said on the video, originally posted by the Daily News. "That was so much better than having to reach in and let the son of a b—ch bite you."
During last year’s prediction, the mayor even vowed to retaliate if Chuck took another bite at his finger.
"If I get bit again," the mayor said before picking up Chuck, "I have actually promised my girlfriend I would bite back."

Isn't that messing with tradition? Would Rudy have given up? Heck, would Mayor Lindsay have given up?

Staten Island Chuck Won't Get Last Chance to Bite Mayor Bloomberg