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Reading John's Journal today inspired this little climatological comparison between the Keweenaw and Phoenix, AZ this weekend: Something's just a bit Topsy-turvy here! :indecisiveness: <tbody> LOC DATE MAX MIN RH% DP(°F) CMX 09/23 88 62 57-93% 60-71° PHX...

(This might actually be "on topic" for a weather oriented site. Yes, snow counts!) So you think you know a lot? … something? … anything? … about water? Think again! (click →) "Water Structure and Science": "This page forms the entrance to a website concerned with the physical, chemical and...

From TWC, August 15, 2017: "Climate Change is Threatening Great Lakes" (video, 0 min. + 58 sec.), quoted here in part: [Fake tweet, too! -FRN :devilish:]

Oh yes indeedy! From NWSFO MQT: (click →) Frost Advisory, quoted here in part:

This is Tuesday, and still no Journal this week? And no sign of him on the forum. I hope all's well. "Gone to Joffe's"? From an old advertising gimmick, a regular appearance in the Daily Mining Gazette from Joffee's Mens Wear on the north side of Shelden Avenue in Houghton, many decades ago...

Best plan: Personally fetch copies of your medical records (Certainly those concerning the kidney stone! — And not just a "detailed note"!) from your physician and bring them to your appointment with the AME. Odds are they'll want them anyway, so better now than later! FAA is obsessive about...

A doctor? Maybe he's wunna dem "Veteran Aryans" (DVM), like those that yoosta visit my grandpa's dairy farm: That would possibly 'splain how he's so fulla sh*t! :devilish:

Let me tell you about that: As crazy as it seems, "I never had so damn much trouble with water until I moved to the desert!" A recent local news headline: "Monsoon madness! Powerful storms pound the Valley" (But only a few drops in my neighborhood! — This time!) Unlike...

Perusing the Discussion Board's main forums, I see we have (among others): Vintage Sled Chat Boating/Fishing Chat ATV Chat Camping Chat Motorcycle Chat Hunting Chat but no Weather Chat (Huh, what?) So I guess Miscellaneous will have to do. Now, have you ever seen a "Mushroom...

Note to all you amateur videographers. Normally it's all I can do to endure a 3 minute amateur video (of snowmobiling, for example) with endless same, same, same scenery then more of same, on and on — often accompanied by a "musical" (pardon the expression) sound track that just begs to be...

Whut, Uber is now in da UP? :eek-new: 'Fraid not: "Uber is currently not available in this location."

Click → Copper Country Limo & Taxi: There may be another alternative. FWIW, apparently (click →) Mak's Taxi (Facebook link, they don't have a website! :stupid:) (906)-523-7477 (← although I don't quite understand that: 523-xxxx should be a Chassell number, not Hancock.) … has taken over the...

That's a mighty strange looking web site: Does it look like that for you? [Edited: Strange, the original link now works for me. (What the heck was that?)] In the immortal words of Gilda Radner as Emily Litella, on Saturday Night Live, circa 1975-1978): But just in case: This is a good link...

Highest temperature ever recorded in Arizona. Curiously enough the highest temperature ever recorded in AZ was not in either Phoenix nor Yuma, but in Lake Havasu City, right on the Colorado river! From (among other sources, click →) Wikipedia, Lake Havasu City, AZ Climate: That's a mere 6...

Are you looking for the ultimate badass ORV? How about the (click →) Ripsaw EV2 from Howe & Howe Technologies, of Waterboro, Maine? Just whatcha need for chasing Bigfoot through the hinterlands, eh? See the Robb Report, June 6, 2015: (click →) "Finally, a Luxury Super Tank You Can Call Your...

Or, without the extraneous characters: Wainwright, AK - 70º 38' 09.35"N 160º 00' 37.44"W Sighting location - 69º 56'40.66"N 156º 40' 29.99"W (You can plug those coordinates into Google maps.) I dunno what this has to do with (click →) Wainwright, AK, but it's about a ≈91 mile hike from there...

Yikes, it's French! Maybe I shoulda known that. It does look vaguely similar to the old Citroën DS: I actually yoosta own one of those upside-down bathtubs! 'Twas quite a unique vehicle, as the (click →) Wikipedia article says: It was all that, and that hydropneumatic self-levelling...

Oh what a flashback! From the article: Oh that story was quite the flashback for me! Back at da family farm north of Bruce Crossing, way back in the 1940s or perhaps before, my uncles and several of their neighbors and hunting companions build such a "camp" down along the Middle Branch of the...

Okay, John, you're driving me nuts! If it isn't "top secret", where was your truck parked for the video clips in this week's journal? I can't begin to identify that location! :ambivalence: This self-designated "Yooper geography wizard" is having an identity crisis! :grief: (If you prefer, you...