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NWS forecasters are local forecasters, and local forecasters are fresh
By adamg on Sat, 02/07/2015 - 10:33pm
It is, of course, to laugh: The latest NWS forecast discussion for the Boston area alerts us:
ANOTHER CHANCE FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW LOOKS TO OCCUR THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY.
And then, the NWS discussion continues:
WICKED COLD AIR FOLLOWS THIS COASTAL LOW
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I like this bit about the
I like this bit about the expected storm later in the week,
ugh.
ugh I'm running out of places to put it. I'm really wishing I had gotten a wheel barrel yesterday at home depot.
Speaking of which.. i went to Home Depot to get rock salt yesterday.. three out of four didn't have any. And the employee of the store I was able to get it it at (Chelsea) said the 6-8 skids they had of the stuff would be gone by noon (yesterday). Glad I picked up several bags! Good luck to anyone after this storm who needs rock salt..
Local eggs jingle is apparently stuck in our heads forever.
I was in Stop + Shop yesterday while everyone was of course buying eggs for French toast. Someone asked me if brown eggs were the same as white eggs. I responded that while we were taught that "brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh," I had heard that they are all really the same and it was all a marketing gimmick. : )
Egg colors
White eggs come from leghorn chickens. They're typically the chickens used by large commercial operations.
Bluish green eggs come from araucana chickens.
Dark, chocolate-brown eggs come from copper maran chickens.
And the common lighter brown eggs come from most any other breed. It's likely that if it's a local egg, it's brown, but it's not necessarily true that if it's brown, it's a local egg. (Converse fallacy.)