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Merry Christmas! And best wishes for a joyful 2016!
Hey Noel, the temp is predicted to reach 60 degrees up here in Maine today... that's about 35 degrees above normal and would shatter the previous record high for this day. Maybe I'll go to Wells Beach and work on my tan!
MEC407 Moderator: Pan Am Railways — Boston & Maine/Maine Central — Delaware & Hudson Central Maine & Quebec/Montreal, Maine & Atlantic/Bangor & Aroostook Providence & Worcester — New England — GE Locomotives
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016 to all here at Railroad.net!!!
As MEC mentioned record high temperatures have been recorded all over the Eastern Seaboard today - it was well into the 60s F on Long Island on this December 25th - one of my relatives today thought this weather was more appropriate for Spring and felt today was more like Easter then Christmas.
There are places in the Upper Midwest and western US that are getting Winter weather - and the picture posted by Nomis probably would be appropriate for those folks - but not here in the East this year when all time record warm temperatures are being set in many places today. December 2015 may be one of the warmest Decembers on record.
Only time will tell how harsh the Winter months of January, February and March 2016 will be and with the strong El Nino pattern in place the season may be quite different then what occurred in 2015 (End of weather buffing )
MACTRAXX
EXPRESS TRAIN TO NEW YORK PENN STATION-NO JAMAICA ON THIS TRAIN-PLEASE STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING TRAIN DOORS
After five days of driving, 3,100 miles later, I find it strange to report that the deepest snow I encountered was that along the surroundings of BNSF territory in Flagstaff, (spotty ground cover at best) and that of the Grand Canyon Railway in Williams. Just odd to leave the Pacific, and have the same weather conditions here in the Granite State at the end of December.
Casey
Stuck in the midddle of multiple abandonments. Sometimes, you gotta drive for several hours in the middle of the night, to see the local railroad in action.