Re: I Need Your Opinion

Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 15, 2006 at 16:49:33 from (209.226.106.16):

In Reply to: I Need Your Opinion posted by Allan In NE on September 15, 2006 at 15:34:05:

Allan: I think you've just got to sit it out. Depending on how cold it gets, will be the deciding factor. If it stays above 25-27F you should be in decent shape. But then again I'm not familiar your climate. I have a feeling these cold fronts hang around you longer than what we had on the east coast. We'd have it cool for 5 days but actually only one night in the 5 would come in below 32. That is quite different from freezing 4 nights and the sun hitting it each day. Freezing and thawing are going to be the culpert, that makes the alfalfa deteriorate.

Having lived alongside the North Atlantic, I can tell you that body of water had big impact on our weather. I find even here in southern ON, specific temperatures hang with you much longer. We had 3 major factors out east, a west wind brought us continental weather conditions, a south wind would blow the stream out of Gulf of Mexico right up our backs and an east wind was right off the North Atlantic and the only time that water was warm was Sept to Jan. It takes all summer to warm it and takes all winter to cool it again.

On the edge of the continent you have those 3 factors constantly competeing. I remember a story about an American tourist, (in July and temp about 45F) asking an old gentleman on the doorstep of the general store, "Do you folks ever have summer?" The old gentleman replied, "Last year it was on the 10th and again on the 25th and one day late in Aug."

I can remember once, but only once, having this severe, in Jan. -30F at 7 am, the wind came in south, with it the effects of the gulf stream an by 7pm the temp was +50F. 80 degrees in 12 hours, man did we have an uncomfortable barn full of cows. Couldn't turn them out, frozen ground had turned to a sheet of ice. Probably 4' of frost in the ground, so the ice wasn't going fast.

We have a group in Halifax, call themselves the polar bear club. They go to an Atlantic beach on New Years Day and have a dip, even with air temps at -20F. They let on to the whole country, what a macho bunch they are. What they don't tell everyone, the North Atlantic waters are about 50F on Jan 1st. Not bad at all while your in the water, but you damn well scamper for that waiting motor home when you come out. I am not a member.

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