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[SaveTheGreyhounds]

[ponders Philadelphia seasons...]

Hm. Starting in january, we get Late Fall, Harsh Winter, Early Spring, Second Winter, Spring, Summer, Second Spring, Mini-winter, Rainy Season, Heat Wave, Rainy Season, Heat Wave, Early Fall, Second Summer, Fall, Early Winter. Am I missing anything?

[Surgoshan]

AZ, the valley: Hot, really hot, hot and wet, laughably called "chilly". Construction year round.

[tracker4502]

Figures I put my marker on BEFORE I notice you can zoom in.

[appers]

Those satellite maps must be quite old- where my house is now is always still a small copse next to the main road.

Well, I've added Appers Forest (R.I.P) to the map.

Loving the Torg in Antarctica, by the way!

[Krail]

While we're talking about regional seasons, I feel I should regale you all with stories of my past year in Oregon.

So, you know, when I get there it's hot and muggy with scattered clouds offering the occaisional relief. It quickly moves into full time cloudiness with the occaisional bout of rain. Oddly enough it really didn't rain very much. Meanwhile everywhere BUT the Pacific Northwest is getting inundated. Anyway, as is expected, there's almost constant cloudiness. About halfway through fall, susets disappear. It goes from gray skies and subdued lighting to dark blueish skies and dark lighting, to solid DARK dark blue skies eventually fading into black. As you could imagine, this goes on for some time. Return from Christmas break, you're lucky to get that much. Soon as the sun starts going down it totally fogs up (Kinda cool, actually. I'd never seen that much fog in my life). Eventually, as the weather warms up, we start actually getting sunsets again, the clouds are hanging around. You might expect to see the sun by noon, maybe.

Then, one day, something weird happened. I'd been up late the night before working on a paper, and I felt really odd in the morning. Not the usual grogginess, but just a bit off balance. I got up late, so I hurried down stairs to grab breakfast and head for class. I come outside in a hurry and slow to a completely stop... Something was very wrong....
I looked around a bit and it took a few seconds for it to actually register. The sky was completely devoid of all clouds, the sun was shining, and the air was totally still.

I felt like I was on another planet. I completely did not associate my campus with sunlight, especially that early in the morning. And no wind even... It was just surreal.

[jadescarab]

Yes, well Krail, you live in WESTERN Pacific Northwest.
Out here where I live...
It rains through winter into spring, with scattered showers into summer and fall... but summer the past year or two out here has been reaching 110degrees F in the shade. It's dry, crispy (because of all the weeds), and very likely for huge fires.
In fact, just a few weeks ago, a cell tower was burned down because some idiot farmer decided to burn some of his fields.
There's almost always a bit of a breeze, and right now it's windy enough to have knocked down one of our windchimes.
It was nearly still out earlier today. *sigh*

[fthg42]

Hmm. I wonder if we could have this moved to Important Threads somehow? Seems important enough to me...

[MaxVT]

Yay! A block or two off - I blame the poor satellite map of my area... but at least I'm not alone in my country who knows what "ka-click" means... :)

[SSJJared]

tsk, i looked at the satellite image too late, so i missed it by one house.

[Krail]

Yes, well Krail, you live in WESTERN Pacific Northwest.
Out here where I live...
It rains through winter into spring, with scattered showers into summer and fall... but summer the past year or two out here has been reaching 110degrees F in the shade. It's dry, crispy (because of all the weeds), and very likely for huge fires.
In fact, just a few weeks ago, a cell tower was burned down because some idiot farmer decided to burn some of his fields.
There's almost always a bit of a breeze, and right now it's windy enough to have knocked down one of our windchimes.
It was nearly still out earlier today. *sigh*

Ah yes, I was actually a bit shocked on my first drive through Oregon, starting at the border with Idaho. I really did not expect to see so much yellow...

[Poing]

Hmm. I wonder if we could have this moved to Important Threads somehow? Seems important enough to me...

That seems like a really good idea to me, at least.

[drummer_dude]

Hmm. I wonder if we could have this moved to Important Threads somehow? Seems important enough to me...

That seems like a really good idea to me, at least.

It's in discussions. Move along

[daladus]

Posted mine much too far north, so hopefully it will get deleted, and I shall put where I really live there. Though I will only be staying there for about a year until I move again (and it will be quite a move ^^).

daladus

[jadescarab]

Ah yes, I was actually a bit shocked on my first drive through Oregon, starting at the border with Idaho. I really did not expect to see so much yellow...

*derisive laugh* Yellow? You're going to felicitate this area with a color?? Call it "Blah" and you've almost got it right.
The only time it has any other color out here besides blah brown and drab yellow is in spring when it rains.. then it's kinda pretty. Green looks so much greener against grey.

[Ruan]

That's why I liked England/Ireland/Scotland so much when I took a trip there... it's nice and pretty and green. And it rains a bunch.