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Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2014, 03:35 PM Oct 2014

At 5:10 this morning (Oct 4th 2014) it was snowing in south central Wisconsin.

I happened to be out this morning and noticed flakes of snow in the rainy drizzle falling on Beloit. The sign at the bank read 34 degrees twenty minutes later.

Remember all those movies where evil scientists would make a weather changing machine and threaten humanity? We got it wrong, it could never be scientists who could do that. Just the stupidity of the money addicted.

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At 5:10 this morning (Oct 4th 2014) it was snowing in south central Wisconsin. (Original Post) Half-Century Man Oct 2014 OP

yuck. eom uppityperson Oct 2014 #1

Nooooooooooo! hedgehog Oct 2014 #2

Ditto to a kennedy Oct 2014 #3

Have I mentioned lately just how much I hate winter? In_The_Wind Oct 2014 #4

that's okay. a little snow flaking never hurt anyone (in the midwest) orleans Oct 2014 #5

My wife and I were doing a newspaper motor route. Half-Century Man Oct 2014 #7

When it was still 30 degrees in MAY, that's when I got really disgusted. Archae Oct 2014 #6

I have a bad feeling you are right. Half-Century Man Oct 2014 #8

Reminds me of September 12, 2014 Ptah Oct 2014 #9

I live in the far... 3catwoman3 Oct 2014 #10

This is why I don't live up there. logosoco Oct 2014 #11

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

1. yuck. eom

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 03:38 PM

Oct 2014

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

2. Nooooooooooo!

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 03:45 PM

Oct 2014

a kennedy

(29,672 posts)

3. Ditto to

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 03:51 PM

Oct 2014

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

4. Have I mentioned lately just how much I hate winter?

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 03:54 PM

Oct 2014

It's lovely in the beginning. But then the snow builds and builds and builds.
By January I'm ready for Spring, glorious Spring.

orleans

(34,053 posts)

5. that's okay. a little snow flaking never hurt anyone (in the midwest)

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 06:21 PM

Oct 2014

i'm wondering what you were doing out and about that early on a saturday morning

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)

7. My wife and I were doing a newspaper motor route.

Reply to orleans (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 06:52 PM

Oct 2014

My wife has 3 routes and we were covering for a friend who has 2 larger routes. All together 300+ papers.

Just one of the many things we do to avoid losing any more of the life we had.

Archae

(46,328 posts)

6. When it was still 30 degrees in MAY, that's when I got really disgusted.

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 06:39 PM

Oct 2014

This past winter here in Wisconsin.

It was 35 here in Sheboygan at 9am when I got up.

We're in for one NAS-TY winter here in Wisconsin.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)

8. I have a bad feeling you are right.

Reply to Archae (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 06:54 PM

Oct 2014

This will be a bad winter.

Ptah

(33,030 posts)

9. Reminds me of September 12, 2014

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 07:10 PM

Oct 2014

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1062250

3catwoman3

(24,005 posts)

10. I live in the far...

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 08:21 PM

Oct 2014

...northwest uburbs of the greater Chicago area (we are actually closer to the Wisconsin state line than we are to the city), and as I was driving to the gym this morning about 8:45, there were some suspiciously white particles mixed in amongst the raindrops.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)

11. This is why I don't live up there.

Reply to Half-Century Man (Original post)

Sun Oct 5, 2014, 04:45 PM

Oct 2014

My sister moved to Madison in the early 80s and we LOVE the place, but you all don't know when to stop or start with the nice weather seasons! And this is coming from someone in St. Louis, where the famous slogan is "if you don't like the weather, just stick around a few days".

It is so beautiful up there!

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