Subj : Re: Weather
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Fri Jun 05 2020 19:03:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 06-04-20  06:07 <=-

 > That only holds a grain of truth, for when the weather did move down
 > from Lake Erie into WV... ;)   It really came from the West Coast and/or
 > Canada, of course.... ;) 
 JM> I can predict the weather in a way.
 JM> If a snow comes directly from the west, it will generally go around
 JM> us when the front hits the mountains and splits.  But if coming from
 JM> the north we get hit since nothing to block it.
 JM> If a hurricane hits the Carolina's we will get some watery back
 JM> lash, but if from the Gulf it goes up the Mississippi and makes a right
 JM> at Cincinnati and we get hit with a lot of rain.

Of course, there's always enough exceptions to keep you from perfect
preduction.... 
 
 > My sister who lives about 45 minutes southeast of us often gets more
 > snow than we do in the city.... weather patterns just aren't totally
 > predictable or sensible...  <G>
 JM> There's a town near Erie that gets hit with a lot more snow from
 JM> time to time.

Probably in just the right position for lake effect from Lake Erie...
and that actually is part of why my sister gets more snow than we do...
the track off the ends of Ontario and Erie tends to stay more in line
with where she is... ;)

 JM> A few years ago was a late winter snow, around early March.
 JM> We got maybe an inch, if that, but a town about 20 miles east of
 JM> here got two feet!  
 JM> Of course that late in the year it didn't last on the ground that
 JM> long, a few days.

True, even two feet will melt fast when it gets warm and sunny....

ttyl       neb

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