[AT] OT for the northern guys

Bob McNitt nysports at frontiernet.net
Sat Feb 19 18:02:27 PST 2011


Greatest Aurora Borealis show I've ever seen was one night in far 
northern Quebec. They were spectacular and continued almost all night 
long. I can understand why some early civilizations' explorers, 
believing the earth was flat, thought the oceans were on fire.

Bob in CNY

On 2/19/2011 8:02 PM, Charlie V wrote:
> After a good 2 1/2 day thaw, the weather sure changed it's attitude,
> didn't it. Bob.  Probably like your area, we have had only snowing and
> blowing all day here.  I am not going to worry about any snow clean up
> until mid day tomorrow when the wind goes calm.  No Northern lights
> last night, but the full moon was a dandy.
>
> Charlie V. in WNY
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Bob McNitt<nysports at frontiernet.net>  wrote:
>> Ralph and All - We seldom see them these days unless you live several
>> miles from larger towns or away from lighted highways. Too much ground
>> level man-made lighting that tends to interfere with seeing the night
>> skies clearly.The 50-60mph winds of last night took out one of the north
>> facing windows on the 2nd floor of our big garage out back. With this
>> Arctic-driven weather due to stick around for a while, I'll have to play
>> it by ear as to repairing. Sure don't want to do it with below-zero
>> chill factors. This kind of weather makes me wish I was still back in
>> Las Vegas.
>>
>> Bob in CNY
>>
>> On 2/18/2011 5:50 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "charlie hill"<charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:45 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT for the northern guys
>>>
>>>
>>>> I think it has more to do with dark and luck.
>>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>> Yes, once its dark the northern lights should be obvious if they are out
>>> there. I'm going to check them out tonight too. From indoors probably as its
>>> only hit a "high" of -2F today and is headed back down for tonight.
>>>
>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>>
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