Game 14 Tigers vs. yankees Game 1 April 15, 2018

[Mitchrapp]

This April has been the coldest so far in MI in 35 years, with a record low of -24 F in Stambaugh, in the UP about a week ago. If this cold and wet continue, it likely will become the coldest.

The winter of 81-82 then early spring of '82 were especially snowy and frigid. I lived in an apt near Hines Park Drive in western Wayne county back then, and on the first warm and sunny 70+ degree May day, the entire 35+ mile long park turned into Woodward dream cruise-like traffic gridlock.

It might be my memory but it always seemed warn in April when I was a kid. This was in the 70's.. I was 35-40 miles West of Detroit. The Easters especially.. I always remember playing outside with no coat or anything. Short sleeve shirt..

 

[tomdalton22]

It might be my memory but it always seemed warn in April when I was a kid. This was in the 70's.. I was 35-40 miles West of Detroit. The Easters especially.. I always remember playing outside with no coat or anything. Short sleeve shirt..

I think we weren't pussies back then. We were probably playing outside with short sleeved shirts on and it was 45 degrees out

 

[Mitchrapp]

I think we weren't pussies back then. We were probably playing outside with short sleeved shirts on and it was 45 degrees out

Possibly but I'm sure my mom would have mentioned to put a coat on and I generally listened to her. So I don't know.

 

[turok]

IIRC, the 60s-70s were seasonably normal, and it wasn't until the 80s, when we began to have odd weather and temps in different years. In '82, it was 65 degrees on Christmas Day, and on Jan 21 of '84, the lowest temp ever recorded here, ironically also -21.

In mid-late January of '17, we had 2 severe thunderstorms with 60 degree temps. Then another one in February. In March of '12 it got so hot by the third week, that our home AC clicked on. Then it failed two days later, and so we went to a store to buy a couple of box fans to use, until a HVAC repairman became available to service it.

Still beats where KC lives in Boston, though, what have they had...like 8 Noreasters there or something since last summer?>

 

[kalinecountry]

IIRC, the 60s-70s were seasonably normal, and it wasn't until the 80s, when we began to have odd weather and temps in different years. In '82, it was 65 degrees on Christmas Day, and on Jan 21 of '84, the lowest temp ever recorded here, ironically also -21.

In mid-late January of '17, we had 2 severe thunderstorms with 60 degree temps. Then another one in February. In March of '12 it got so hot by the third week, that our home AC clicked on. Then it failed two days later, and so we went to a store to buy a couple of box fans to use, until a HVAC repairman became available to service it.

Still beats where KC lives in Boston, though, what have they had...like 8 Noreasters there or something since last summer?>

iirc, February was the 2nd warmest since keeping records. Had a 70 plus degree day, and many in the 60's.
Last month March was one of the top 5 coldest since keeping records, and we had 4 N'oreasters in 3 weeks. Snow amounts were not bad just heavy winds and lots of communities lost power.
This month April seems to be similar with colder temps, rain.
Still the total amount of snow was more than the average for a winter here.

Monday is the Boston Marathon, and it will be 30's to barely 40 for the runners and crowd. The usual start time for the baseball game 11am or 12 noon, has been canceled.

like in Detroit and Michigan, everyone is saying "enough already, time for spring and warmer temps".

 

[Mitchrapp]

We been having a weird April here.. Been plus 90 most days which is a bit higher than normal, 100 just 5 days ago - but Tuesday it's suppose to be 75. By the weekend back up to 90 plus the rest of the month.

 

[tomdalton22]

We been having a weird April here.. Been plus 90 most days which is a bit higher than normal, 100 just 5 days ago - but Tuesday it's suppose to be 75. By the weekend back up to 90 plus the rest of the month.

boo hoo

 

[Mitchrapp]

boo hoo

For what.. Just saying it was weird is all. I wish we'd get a little more rain. It's the snow that I won't miss. It got to the point I had to go because I hated it so much.

 

[turok]

@ 8 am the temp here is 35 degrees...exactly the same as in Yakutz, Russia, @ 9 pm their time, being the largest and coldest Siberian city, where the temps regularly dip down to 40-50+ below zero from December through March, and their spring-summer-fall are June-July-August. But it does get hot in July there, 90 degrees or more on some days.

 

[Mitchrapp]

@ 8 am the temp here is 35 degrees...exactly the same as in Yakutz, Russia, @ 9 pm their time, being the largest and coldest Siberian city, where the temps regularly dip down to 40-50+ below zero from December through March, and their spring-summer-fall are June-July-August. But it does get hot in July there, 90 degrees or more on some days.

58 degrees here at 5:24.

 

[turok]

Growing up in the city of Detroit, the sidestreets were never plowed in winter, unlike the burbs. So if your family had several cars, like mine did by the mid-70s, I would have to shovel out a parking space in front of our house to park, then put lawn furniture and/or garbage cans in it, to prevent someone else on our block from taking it while away.

Navigating the deep ruts that formed by cars traveling back and forth after weeks of snow, kinda sucked, especially when someone else was driving in the opposite direction, and both have to maneuver out of both tire ruts, so to use only one of them each.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I generally had a garage in Michigan but the later years were a bit out in the country.. So sometimes we didn't get any snow removal for a while unless we payed someone to do it. We had some hills in our road near the home so leaving wasn't so bad but trying to get up that hill on the way back completely sucked.

As far as lawn furniture/garbage cans I'm surprised no one tried to just plow it over and grab the spot..

 

[turok]

As far as lawn furniture/garbage cans I'm surprised no one tried to just plow it over and grab the spot..

In our neighborhood, it was about 50-50 for single car or 2 car garages, we had only a single car unattached garage. I liked to park on the street, so that I wouldn't have to put my coat on and start up my freezing cold car to move it off our driveway, so that one of my brothers or sister, or parent could back out and leave, if their car was in front of mine.

Rarely would anyone use their cars to push heavy objects like wooden/metal lawn/porch furniture and full garbage cans out of the way, risking knocking them over and spilling their contents, but it wasn't unheard of for fights to break out over someone getting out of their cars to physically move them out of the way to park. Or the homeowner shoving the piled up shoveled snow back down around their parked car, blocking them in...lolz.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Sounds like fun..:nod:

 

[tigermud]

If the Tigers had a game scheduled for today it probably would have been canceled as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbgz2Eq9k8U

 

[tomdalton22]

Rizzo says season is too long

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...y-cut-fewer-games-says-play-too-much-baseball


BTW...game time weather forecast for tonight's game is 37 degrees with 16 MPH winds.