HI Mark,   
      
   On Sun 2011-Aug-07 08:29, Mark Hofmann (1:261/1304) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
   RW>   I'd have to think about that.  I'm trying to recall   
   RW> what year it was we got snow Christmas day in NEw ORleans,   
      
      
   MH> I was really only basing that on about 2-3 years worth of extreme   
   MH> weather here in Maryland.  The years that we picked up record snows   
   MH> were also years we had very few hurricanes.  It also seemed to work   
   MH> the other way around.  The year we had all the hurricanes, we have   
   MH> an average/below average snowfall.    
      
   I'll have to ask our radio club's pet meteorologist about   
   that one if I see him at a meeting.  That's an interesting   
   thought.  There's another guy active on 14300 khz that was a U.S> navy meteo   
   guy I'll maybe query on that one as well.   
      
   Trouble with me is, when I lived in the midwest I paid   
   attention to those systems only if there was radio ops   
   involved, and had the big snows anyway in Iowa.  Then I   
   moved to NEw ORleans, didn't pay that much attention to the   
   snow but found myself paying doubly close attention to the   
   tropical weather stuff.  Now I'm sorta betwixt the two   
   environments, but I still maintain the area is more like the midwest in   
   climate, just a bit more moderate winters.   
      
   MH> That is why I get excited when I don't see many hurricanes.. :)    
      
   YEp, I can always do without the snow and ice though,   
   especially around here, the folks just aren't equipped for   
   it.  IN the upper midwest the utility companies trim back   
   trees that might endanger power distribution during such   
   events, where down here they don't worry as much about it,   
   and then there's the driving ...   
      
   MH> It will be hard to top our winter from two years ago when we picked   
   MH> up 94" of snow for the season.  Complete with (3) blizzards, (2) of   
   MH> them in the same week!    
      
   YEp, we did above average snowfall that winter too iirc.  I   
   spent a lot of that winter camped at hospitals with Kathy,   
   not fun.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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