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Beyond wrote:It got up to a whopping 45'-F in the quiet corner of CT. today. Snows been slowly melting for 3-days now. The freezer is becoming more refridgerator like, finally. Maybe now the roofs will stop collapsing.

Hey BMAONE23, California is a good place to learn the Hula. All you gotta do is put on a grass skirt and wait for the next earthquake

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=49224 wrote:

(MODIS) 1:25 Central Standard Time on February 10, 2011

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• Rooster Cogburn: We'll sleep here and follow in the morning.
  
  Mattie Ross: But we promised to bury the poor soul inside!
  
  Rooster Cogburn: Ground's too hard. Them men wanted a decent burial,
  they should have got themselves killed in summer.

<<The icy fingers of winter 2010-11 reached down into the south central U.S. for the second time in a week, breaking many local records for snowfall in a month that is still only 10 days old. Snowfall totals topped 20 inches in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas, just one week after a Groundhog Day storm coated the region with several inches. Meanwhile, temperatures dropped into the single digits in the American Plains and in Colorado. The storms moved east to dump more snow, ice, and rain in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Carolinas.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this clear view of the nation's mid-section at 1:25 Central Standard Time on February 10, 2011. Nearly all of the white in this image is snow and ice, except for a bit of clouds in the lower right (southeast) corner. In the larger image file, the outlines of the Ouachita and Ozark mountain ranges darken the snowy landscape, while river valleys such as the Mississippi appear brighter due to fewer trees. Gray-white areas are often developed, urban landscapes that have been coated by snow; some, however, are just rural areas that received less snow.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, received 5.5 inches of snow on February 9, bringing its total to 20.9 inches for the winter, the snowiest on record. In Oklahoma City, 6 inches fell as well, making February 2011 the second snowiest month (18 inches so far) in the state's records, behind March 1911 (20.7 inches). News outlets reported collapsed roofs on a number of public and private buildings and the state Health Department reported 80 storm-related injuries.

Between 12 to 17 inches of new snow fell in eastern and south central Kansas, and it has snowed as much this February as it usually does for an entire winter.>>

neufer wrote: between 12 to 17 inches of new snow fell in eastern and south central Kansas and it snowed as much this February as it usually does for the entire winter

Beyond wrote:

neufer wrote:between 12 to 17 inches of new snow fell in eastern and south central Kansas and it snowed as much this February as it usually does for the entire winter

Ya think that Dorothy is enjoying the warmth of OZ this winter

Chris Peterson wrote:

Ann wrote:It is not clear what "emerald green" really means.

It doesn't mean much. "Color" is a physiological concept, not a physical one. One factor in defining color is brightness. If you look at a bright OIII source, such as a reference lamp in a lab, you'll see a brilliant green color, which many might consider similar to how emeralds look. If you look at a bright OIII source through a telescope, and you have good eyes, you'll see a pale gray-green color. If you have bad eyes, you might see something like bright green- this would be symptomatic of a type of color blindness. As you look at dimmer OIII sources, you'll quickly reach the point where you only perceive shades of gray.

Beyond wrote:Hey neufer, i clicked on your wizard of OZ clip and it says "Embedding disabled by request." Who requested it be disabled??

neufer wrote:

Beyond wrote:Hey neufer, i clicked on your wizard of OZ clip and it says "Embedding disabled by request." Who requested it be disabled??

A lot of youtube videos require that you click on them
and watch them on youtube with the advertisements.