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Old 06-06-2007, 03:26 PM
 
Location: Northern CA but can't wait to get out!
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Here in Northern CA, we have a wonderful deck off the back of our house that we would love to enjoy in the evenings during those warm summer months, you know - bbq and enjoy your meal outside. Unfortunately, right around 2 or 3 in the afternoon the wind picks up and it gets too cold to be comfortable sitting outside and the wind is a nusance when you're trying to eat. Then you also get the fog rolling in off the coast sometimes as early as 3 or 4 and that makes it really cold.

Wondering what it's like in that respect in Cookeville? Do you get a lot of wind, is it every day, and what about fog?

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Old 06-06-2007, 06:33 PM
 
Location: Cookeville, TN
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No, it's not necessarily windy in Cookeville. However, Tennessee weather is unpredictable. Our motto is, "If you don't like the weather in Tennessee, wait ten minutes.". It's not foggy on a regular basis, but after a rain it can become foggy, especially going up the mountain to Monterey on I-40.
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Old 06-06-2007, 06:49 PM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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No, it's not necessarily windy in Cookeville. However, Tennessee weather is unpredictable. Our motto is, "If you don't like the weather in Tennessee, wait ten minutes.". It's not foggy on a regular basis, but after a rain it can become foggy, especially going up the mountain to Monterey on I-40.
That quote drives me INSANE.

My first 34 years were spent in New England, where that quote is said all of the time, for good reason.

My first son's birthday was on March 31. It was warm, it rained, it snowed.

I moved to Florida, and guess what, they say the same thing, which is curious since the weather stays the same for months at a time. Granted, there might be a thunderstorm that can turn on a dime, but usually all other weather patterns are extremely predictable. I've always said that meteorologists that aren't terribly smart in Florida. And when a hurricane is bearing down, the locals are screwed, because they don't know what they are doing. I relied on the National Weather Service.

I moved to Tennessee and guess what quote I heard? Same one. Even though Tennessee weather is fairy predictable.

I researched it.

The quote is:

"If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.. "
by Mark Twain, who lived in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Old 06-06-2007, 07:01 PM
 
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"If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.. "
by Mark Twain, who lived in Hartford, Connecticut.
I think Mark Twain also said something like, "The coldest winter I've ever spent was July in San Francisco." I thought that was funny.

At any rate, to answer the original question, occasionally we get some strong winds around here, but they're generally a good thing, particularly in the dog days of summer when the afternoon temperatures hover around 90. Plus, we have enough trees to (I'm sorry for putting it like this) break the winds.

And unlike the strong winds out west, here the winds won't dry out your bread if you're eating out on the deck!
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Old 06-06-2007, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Cookeville, TN
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Well, I would call Tennessee weather predictably unpredictable. For example, this year when we took our students to camp in April, we went from 82 degrees to 31 in a 3 day span. It was 22 degrees here in Cookeville for four days in a row in April, killing my hydrangeas! And now, it literally hasn't rained more than a sprinkle at my house in A MONTH. In MAY! The month normally known as being the wettest and stormiest! I've never seen that happen! No one would have predicted that!
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Old 06-13-2007, 05:16 PM
 
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