Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 26, 2010

Good plan. It always worked for me.

We topped 80 degrees today.

Given dad’s scientific insights of the past, this shouldn’t be all that surprising.

Bird, it was in the 40s here.

…and do some woogly dancing while you’re at it ;)

Snow Demons! That boy has a very active imagination.

Too lazy to convert 80F into Celsius but it’s <0C here and the earliest snow we have had in decades… Can I move to wherever you are it sounds so much nicer lolz

Wait’ll the snow goons arrive…

Begging for mercy is always good!

LX013 Which lady were you, the one in the choir, or the one playing the flute?

If Dad ‘leaves’ Calvin to himself, it appears that he will perform some sort of Wiccan ritual. Calvin might get ‘snowed’ by that theology.

The leaves are dead already, so it wouldn’t be a sacrifice anyway…just a cremation.

Eighty degrees Fahrenheit = about 27 degrees Celsius, DreamScourge. In other words, nice and toasty warm.

Nabuquduriuzhur, I live in WA and we had snow all day and then suddenly in late evening it began warming and continues to warm up. It has gone from the 20 degree range up to the high 30s this evening and 3” of snow is melting. If the temps drop the roads are going to be sheets of ice.

If Calvin has a grasp of Theology and Meteorology it is far from appalling.

Here in Finland, -15 Celsius and snow already. So, no need to please snow daemons!

nnswamy, (being Swede) - this is just when you need to please the snow demons - but not exactly the way Calvin wants it. Anyway, we are having November snow here in the UK….

Rain gods, on the other hand appreciate the odour of burnt meat. Well, that’s how it seems if we plan a BBQ.

Burning leaves pollute? Doesn’t dad grill?

C’mon, Dad. Calvin’s grasp of meteorology is no worse than most TV weathermen, and his theology seems to be a straightforward combination of Catholicism and Paganism.

Marg: I am the singing lady in the choir, not that with the flute!

I wanna move somewhere warm. It’s 27F in Michigan.

Here it starts to be cold! But we had such a seldom summer, too. Normaly our summers are hot, but this year there were only some warm days and than cold again, it was not warm for a longer time!!

It snowed here once (in my lifetime). Just some flakes - nothing “stuck” on the ground. But everybody got soooo excited - the event is still referred to as “The blizzard of ‘77.” Expected high today 82 degrees F. & tomorrow 83.

Several years ago I went on a couple snow ski trips to Vermont/Montreal just to see some real on-the-ground snow (I don’t even ski, but Calvin would understand).

I’m in South Florida - east of the Everglades & west of the Gulfstream.

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

The two headed Snow Goons will rise, you mark my words.

The snow demons can’t be pleased about this.

Light one for me too, Calvin!

G’Morning, Mike, Grog & Marg!

Calvin should include a pair of snow boots on the alter of the toboggan, it worked for me!

I have no desire to appease the snow deamons. Hate the stuff. The temps were in the mid-80’s yesterday, but I think we’ll be lucky to make it to the mid-50’s today.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠.

Living in a subtropical climate can make it VERY INTERESTING indeed when you get one of those rare but possible really cold anomalies. Many years ago we had a overnight sleet event lasting well into the day. Shortly after dawn we had almost continuous broadcasts asking for people to stay off of the interstate highways as no local could handle the high speeds in those conditions. Body-shop & Wrecker BONANZA!

There’s an old trick I learned when I was flying (we’d get weather in centipede and have to tell our passengers in gezunheit)

It’s not the exact scientific formula, but for temperatures you find on the termometer on the back porch it works well enough (to within a degree or two).

Centegrade (OK Celsius - whatever) to Farenheit Double the temp and add 30. So 10 degrees is 10 * 2 + 30 or 20 + 30 or about 50 degrees.

Do the reverse to go the other way. 80 - 30 is 50 divided by 2 is 25.

When you get to the extremes, the formula starts to fall apart. -25C is actually -13F but the pseudo formula says -20. Personally, I can’t tell the difference it’s ^%$%$#^ COLD!

My Mom grew up in extreme Southern Alabama, and says it snowed ONCE in the years she was there. The schools closed so the kids could play in the snow before it melted! How I wish I lived there now…

I always enjoyed the smell of the burning leaves and walking through the big piles of raked leaves! All the colored leaves and the chill in the air. I loved Fall! Of course that was before moving south to the tropics and now how I miss the cold this time of year. It doesn’t much feel like the Holiday Season. Anyway… Let me be the first to say Happy Holidays to all my fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans! ( I hope they sync the strip to the season).

Sorry I missed seing you LX013 singing in choir. For parts of KS we are now above freezing 36degrees. We didn’t get involved with midnight madness on shopping.

Here’s the way to tell the temperature - regardless of what a thermometer says…

brisk - sweater cool - light jacket cold is when you go out to get water out of the pond, and you need an axe to get to the water very cold - same pond, axe only develops ice cubes - water all frozen solid very VERY cold - same pond, same axe - break axe trying.

Poindexter: Depending on which holiday you observe…if it’s Christmas, consider the climate of Bethlehem.

dflak gave a very good approximation for converting from F to the rest of the world’s temperature.

All I know is that last week we were the third coldest (-47C plus wind chill) place on Earth. Antarctica was colder. Snow arrived two weeks ago and it will stay until April.

The Snow Goons will arrive somewhat later, but they leave earlier.

Happy Holidays to all …

So THAT’S why there is global warming. It all started when they wouldn’t let us burn leaves anymore. We all should have figured this out by now!

Burning leafs is not pollution. Yes, it can contribute to smog during a temperature inversion, but that is not the same thing. Sad to see Waterson become just another statistic among the millions fooled by the Green Meanies… No wonder he quit - the leftists cosied up to him just to exploit him.

We had snow on Thanksgiving day, enough to accumulate on the grass an inch deep, but the roads were warm enough that it melted there. It’s all gone now,supposed to get up to 50F tomorrow.

Indiana is where the snow demons come from…they like to play with our theological meteorology! One day is 70 and the next is 30. The saying goes, if you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes. It’s going to change. Calvin has the right idea!

I am with Calvin there is lots of historical examples of this.

Better yet, torch the toboggan Calvin. You and Hobbes can dance around the Toboggan as it burns. If that doesn’t please the Demons, I don’t know what will.

Florchi,

I left Kissimmee, FL the night the snow started to fall. We followed that blizzard (and it did become a blizzard as it went up the coast) all the way to upstate New York. I drove most of the way. On snow and ice, in an old station wagon with bad ball joints. It was not boring.

I will always take a warm day over a snowy winter. Calvin should be thankful that he does not live in Canada.

I’m apeasing the snow demons at my house but not by fire, by winter readiness. Living in upstate NY can be tricky in the winter. We used to get alot more snow but now we get more sleet and freezing rain which can break the power lines and make driving as well as walking scary.

Maybe Dad needs to pack Calvin in a box and send him to a place where the snow demons are stronger–like Buffalo or Niagra, NY. Or Toronto, Or…

I’m a third generation ‘born in Oregon’, and completely disagree with you Nabuquduriuzhur. I’m STILL proud to be from Oregon, and still proud to live here. If you think that’s not something to hold dear, maybe it’s time you found the perfect place to live. Maybe Cali would suit you. Don’t bash my home state, ok?

There’s snow on my car right now.

In New Jersey, USA, we couldn’t burn leaves. Bagged 90 bags of leaves out of our yard every fall for the truck to pickup….

There is an exact formula by noting that 5Cº=9Fº, so 0=32, 5=41, 10=50, or -5=23, -10=14…and intercalate between. It’s MUCH easier learning the system from scratch: 0=freezing, 4=refrigerator, 8=barely breathing smoke, 22=idea room temperature for clothed people, 32=ideal temperature for naked people, 37=human body temperature, 50=best for water heaters, etc.

The exact formula from Celsius to Fahrenhiet is: ((n x 9)/5)+32

Dino-1,

What part of NY? In my last little story, it was Freedonia and Gowanda that I drove to in ‘77.

Beautiful. Of course, it was covered in snow, so I have no idea what it looks like naked.

I appease the snow demons by wearing shorts and sandals all year round - even when shovelling snow, as I did the other day. For some reason, I don’t know why, I received some strange looks.

its always warm here in Texas