Hatunen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:02:58 -0400, "Frank F. Matthews"
> wrote:
>>Sarah Banick wrote:
>>>"Frank F. Matthews" wrote in message
>>>news:470d921b$0$18939$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>>Sarah Banick wrote:
>>>>>>Based on a small LA sample of 4 winters I would expect that the winters
>>>>>>are milder than Houston let alone those up north in Atlanta. Certainly I
>>>>>>never saw snow (outside of dance decoration) in LA. There have been
>>>>>>three snows in Houston over 3 decades. In the very few days I have
>>>>>>visited Atlanta I have seen snow there. I suspect that it isn't
>>>>>>uncommon.
>>>>>>Since the humidity is lower in LA (it is a desert after all) it will get
>>>>>>hotter in the summer than Houston or NO.
>>>>>Actually, snow is pretty rare in Atlanta these days. We used to see it a
>>>>>few times a season, with maybe one day off from school (that only takes
>>>>>one inch :-) I don't think we saw any in the city in 2007 (the northern
>>>>>'burbs might have it, 45 minutes or an hour north of the city).
>>>>>
>>>>>Houston is warmer than Atlanta, but it also gets more ice storms.
>>>>
>>>>Nope. Although there is a severe disparity in the time spent in each
>>>>place I've been in more ice storms in the Carolinas than in Houston.
>>>>I don't see much reason to expect Atlanta to be too different from
>>>>Greenville or Charlotte.
>>>It is. There are some mountains in between.
>>
>>I must have missed them in all the times I've driven up 85. I did see
>>an occasional hill off to the north but nothing in between the cities.
> Easterners have a different concept of mountains than us
> Westerners.
Nah! I'm talking about things that an Ohioan would call a mountain.
They simply do not exist between Atlanta and Charlotte. Off to the side
OK but not on I 85.
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