Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/16

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Subject: [Leica] Friday WTB, Xenotar 2.8F wanted, Temp
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Fri Jan 16 11:19:07 2009

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>wrote:

>Hey Vick, the irrational side of me is wondering why I'm not heading south, 
>way south, with the air temperature here (as I was having my breakfast 
>coffee an hour ago) at
> -21F  =   -28C.   Dis is gettin' silly

>So much for global warming! oddballs reported a polar bear attack up near 
>Fort Ticonderoga at the southern tip of Lake Champlain.    ;-)
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This just came to me from a colleague at the University of Alaska in 
Fairbanks:

> It was 46?F (above) as I left home this morning.
>Snow's melting fast and the roads are crazy-slick. This comes after 18
>straight days of -35? or colder - our high pressure finally moved
>south and has ended up blessing you folks in the upper midwest.
>Nothing like a 90? temperature swing in a couple days to make you
>humble.

Alan

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