> > > It's cold down here in Georgia and there is snow in Tennessee. I heard they were closing schools west of Nashville because of up to 4 inches of white stuff. I'll be glad when spring gets here.
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> > > Dogwood winter is gone, so this must be blackberry winter. By the time I left home this morning we had already gotten 2 inches of rain, so I guess that little dry spell is over. When that stump in the yard disappears, I plan to mow the grass. June, maybe?
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> > > In this area, about two traffic jams north of Atlanta, they had a low of 28 degrees F in 1940. That was the year when the Cumberland River froze over in Nashville and the Easter bunny left tracks in 8 inch of snow. Yes, I remember that.
> > > Howard
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> > We Canadians feel your pain. Really.
> >
> > Maybe you can go to Madeira and give some perspective to the misguided people there who wear buttoned-up winter coats in the 18 C (64 F) "winter".
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> 18 °C is "winter" these days? A few degrees more and we Finns feel it's so schorching it's barely bearable. I've managed to survive temperatures of almost 24 °C mostly by wearing only underwear indoors, and shorts and a T-shirt outdoors.
> What do those Madeirans call summer? Something like those temperatures we Finns normally have in saunas? (80 °C, 176 °F. None of that sissy 40 °C, 104 °F stuff I'm told they have in foreign saunas.)

I'm at home in Tennessee now and there is frost out there this morning. That isn't supposed to happen in Tennessee in the middle of April. My cherry trees are in full bloom!
Howard