We Could Talk About The Weather

[n2ize]

I saw more than a few guys who fell off of the bumper. If they didn't get run over by a car behind the bus, they usually got pretty banged up. One guy fell on his head and discovered his hidden love. He filled every nook and cranny of his hospital room with her. Orange Juice. It smelled like crud in that room after a week. And nobody had Orange Juice for 3 days too.

Those buses were nice, but I'd hate to drive one. No power steering, and no air conditioning. Rode pretty good though. The Macks were like trucks. They'd shake every time you stopped for a red light.

Luckily I never saw anyone fall off the bumper. But my Mom and Dad were always afraid of that happening, especially when kids were riding the bumper and my folks were the first car behind the bus. Kinda glad I never saw it happen either.

Bout the most risky things I did were to ride the subways between cars. I always rode in between cars. Also crossed the tracks a couple of times and one time ran along the tracks between one station to another.

[NQ6U]

Nice old bus. I used to race one of those on XBOX. Burn Out 3: Takedown.

I used to drive one IRL. Too slow to be much fun.

[KG4CGC]

As of 4pm, it was 78º in Key West FL.

[kb2vxa]

The best part was a carboned up Diesel engine and an exhaust under the rear bumper. When the driver hit the accelerator if you were in the car behind you'd sit there choking until the air cleared enough to see where you were going.

[N2NH]

The best part was a carboned up Diesel engine and an exhaust under the rear bumper. When the driver hit the accelerator if you were in the car behind you'd sit there choking until the air cleared enough to see where you were going.

I think almost all of these were gone in NYC by the time I was 14. There might've been a few in Brooklyn or The Bronx, but not where I went to. They were pretty comfortable unless you had to stand. They even had the leather straps for straphangers (a dead term).

[K7SGJ]

I think almost all of these were gone in NYC by the time I was 14. There might've been a few in Brooklyn or The Bronx, but not where I went to. They were pretty comfortable unless you had to stand. They even had the leather straps for straphangers (a dead term).

And here I aways though straphangers were tits.

[N2NH]

And here I aways though straphangers were tits.

Over the shoulder boulder holders.

These are later versions of those leather straps. Stronger and they didn't break like the straps did when they got old.

[PA5COR]

- 5C here, sunny weather.
The wadden islands 30 miles above me had 4 inches snow and with the gale force wind snowbanks of 20" were reported on the Islands.

Southern Netherlands, Belgium, Northern France see a blizzard pass by giving 4 to 20" snow with gale force wind, lots of people stranded in their cars, stuck in the snow, in freezing temperatures.
Belgium reported about 1000 miles of traffic jam, and people are called up to help stranded automobilists.

It has not been this cold sinc 1929 on the 11th of march, here i'm looking at another freezing day and no temps above 0.
No snow though, just bitterly cold with the wind blowing from the North East.
Germany also reports lots of snow and problems with the traffic as does Luxembourgh.

[N2NH]

- 5C here, sunny weather.
The wadden islands 30 miles above me had 4 inches snow and with the gale force wind snowbanks of 20" were reported on the Islands.

Southern Netherlands, Belgium, Northern France see a blizzard pass by giving 4 to 20" snow with gale force wind, lots of people stranded in their cars, stuck in the snow, in freezing temperatures.
Belgium reported about 1000 miles of traffic jam, and people are called up to help stranded automobilists.

It has not been this cold sinc 1929 on the 11th of march, here i'm looking at another freezing day and no temps above 0.
No snow though, just bitterly cold with the wind blowing from the North East.
Germany also reports lots of snow and problems with the traffic as does Luxembourgh.

That is cold. I wonder if it is tied to the Gulf Stream?

We're 53ºF (12ºC) with rain showers. About where we should be a month from now. Hope it clears to I can get a look at Comet Pan-STARRS this evening.

[PA5COR]

That is cold. I wonder if it is tied to the Gulf Stream?

We're 53ºF (12ºC) with rain showers. About where we should be a month from now. Hope it clears to I can get a look at Comet Pan-STARRS this evening.

We had some weird winters the last few years in a row, coldr, more wet = snow and weird summers too.
Since the ice at the Northpole is dwindling fast we see changes in the Jetstream and in the development of the high and low pressure area's that linger longer as ever before, bringing wet summers to the UK and the EU, the jetstream is slowing down and meandering more, bringing in winter more cold from the north as it does now, the splitting of the cold on the Northpole by pools of warmer weather brought storms there that made the ice even disappear more and faster and splitting the cold bubble on the northpole brought some more cold down here.

Snow and frost isn't uncommon here in March, but seldom enough to let yesterday be the coldest and snowiest day since 1928, today will be another day without teemperatures above 0 ( half past 1 here and still - 2 C) so another new record with the blizzard over Germany, Blgium South Netherlands UK and France.
Just 4 days ago it was 18 C here sunny and almost summer like.
We had 5 different cold spells here from December 3rd till now, all from weird unusual behavior of the Northpole weather according the weather buffs.

That forced unusual cold and wet weather down here, giving lots of snow, and freezing cold, far above the normal winter temps.
Normally we see the cold come over Germany from Russia but this and the last winters it dropped from the northpole directly south over Sweden etc, shorter rounte, more cold and moree over the sea, so picking up lots of moist from the sea.
The normal pattern is over the land and it can be quite cold ( last year -28C in some places) but always dry air.
With the normal pattern we just get snow when the winter starts and ends, or an attack comes from the Northsea on the cold weather.

The blizzard now is just such an attempt of an depression that comes from the UK over the North sea headbutting the cold air that dropped down from the northpole.
Good for lots of moist and force 7 gales from the north east always good for some road chaos and snowbanks...