February 17, 2025 • 43 mins
From snow, to sleet, to rain, to ice….New England has been battered lately with just about everything winter has to offer! Now, an arctic blast has set in with real feel temps around 5 degrees. Plus, power outages and accidents have been reported all over the state. Dan discussed further with callers!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice with Dan Ray undoing you Crazy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, let me just recap for those of you who
have not been with us throughout the evening. We started
off tonight and really talked with four interesting guests. In
the first hour. We talked with a historian Jay L.
Bell about President's Day and his President's Day and the
story of the canons that the British troops went after
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in seventeen seventy five and the efforts that followed upon
that of then George Washington, who was not president, coming
to Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
J L.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Bell will be doing a presentation on this in Cambridge,
and if you missed the eight o'clock I he's one
of the really interesting guests. We talked with Norman Smith,
the rapto specialists of the mass Audubonne Society about these
beautiful full Arctic owls that at this time of year
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literally migrate south. Uh. They it's it's to me, it's
just an amazing to see these owls have actually seen.
Uh the owls that that I'm referring to there, they're beautiful,
they are they are white. Uh, they stand out in
the wintertime called snowy Arctic snowy owls. Then we also
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talked about food with a chef Laura Kline from a
very interesting uh background. She has a very interesting website.
And talk with Joe Dean, a captain of a book
of a boat called the Red Rum.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They harp their harpoon hunters. They they they hunt bluefin tuna,
which is extraordinary and else it does work on a
with a foundation of children with a rare disease. All
in the eight o'clock hour. Then we talked in the
nine o'clock hour with one of my favorite guests, Professor
Jeff Myron of Harvard University, and talked about the debt
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that we as a country have run up. It's getting
close to thirty seven trillion dollars. That was an extraordinary hour.
We will use that hour next Sunday night on best
of NIGHTSI because I can't think of an hour that
we could do that would be better than that. This
week and the last hour we talked about weather here
in New England, and I'd like to continue talking about
that this hour if you would. We'll get to some
(02:32):
of the more I guess contentious topics as the week
goes on, but it is just extraordinarily cold here in
New England. It's been extraordinarily cold now for weeks. The
month of February has been I think the coldest February
I've ever experienced, at least that I can ever remember.
And I'd love to know what your recollection is as well,
and love to know how you are putting up with
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this exceedingly cold month of February. We had snow and
sleep yesterday and the surfaces of most people's homes and driveways.
I was out yesterday trying to take advantage of the
rain and basically cause I guess what I call little riverlets,
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if you will, small little motions of water to break
up ice. And it worked a little bit, but then
of course it all froze overnight. So let's go back
to phone calls and let's keep it rolling here. And
I'd love to continue this for the balance of the
night and just have a nice, easy President Day's night
here on Nightside. Alice is in Beverly, Alice, welcome back
(03:41):
to night Side. Your thoughts on our weather pattern which
we seem to be stuck in.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Alice, Oh, Dan, I'm absolutely freezing. The thing that's getting
me is the ice now. I think I mentioned on
January twenty first, I slipped on the ice and I
have a fraction to tell.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
So I have been I have been housebound. I don't
think I'm going to go out till the spring whenever
that happens.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So when you say you fractured your patella, how bad
is it a hairline fracture or did you actually did
the did the bone bifurcate?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Well, well, it's it's actually well bifurcated. But but I
don't have to have surgery. But I'm in this grace.
It doesn't really work, but I have to keep my
legs straight, perfectly straight for.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Like, so are they are they hoping? Are they hoping
that over time, without surgery, the bone will will re
reform or re knit.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Well, little, it'll attached just like like like I guess
in the olden days, they would put you in a
cast and that would be you'd go you'd go crazy if.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Your whole leg was in a cast.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
But it was like today, I was I was going
absolutely nuts and I was just praying, understanding, God, I
know that you care about me. And I start to
think about the people like to have the fires and
all this other stuff can't be that there. This isn't
the worst thing in the world. And then all of
a sudden, I mean, out of a clear blue the
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guy at the orthopedic office called me. He said he
was thinking about me, and he said, I just really
was thinking about how horrible this mussed be for you
because the brace doesn't work, and we're asking you to
keep your legs straight, but the brace doesn't stay up.
So he just said, I think that I have something
else so of work for you. I go, I can't
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believe it, Joe, that you just thought about me and
decided to call me when I felt like not that
I was going to, you know, jump off the bridge, but.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
But it was.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
It was awful. But like when you're talking about the weather,
I mean, I do go by the window and I
look out, and I said, I don't know if I
ever want to go out again, because you have this fear,
you know, of slipping on the ice.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I will tell you I've had some extended, I should say,
attenuated experience. My brother fractured his patella last June and
he had to have surgery and it's a long recovery
and it's only now getting to the point where it
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is recovering. So, boy, I wish you. It sounds to
me like you might have lucked out because he he
actually the kneecap split and he had to get actual,
you know, surgery and then recovery and rehabilitation, and hopefully
yours is going to be a little less problematic.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Well, I better not have surgery, because I said, my
dance card is full. I have had I've had both
my knees replaced. And so some of the Oh I
thought you had your knees to replace, how come you
because they leave that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh, so I did not realize that. So the so
the the the new mechanical knee still has a your actual.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Potlio Yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Please please please please be careful and hopefully whatever you
have to do, you can get back to it. And uh,
I don't know, look, run the risk here of slipping
and sliding, and and I'm sure that there are people
today who slipped and slid and hurt themselves. It's it's
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been a miserable month of February. And I still am
hoping that someone can grab a farm, an old farmer's
almanac or a pharma's almanac, whatever they call it. These
days and tell me what it says for New England
in February, because if if they missed it, if if
they said, oh, you know, a typical February, but it's
going to start to warm up towards the middle of
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the month as spring nears, then I'll never have faith
in the Farmers Almanac.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Again, do you believe in that?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I mean no, I don't believe in that. I don't
believe in it, per se. I think it's fun to read,
but your long they have a tough time forecasting the
weather three days at advance, never mind a year.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Just like just like the what's his name, Punkture Johnny
phil Oh, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's that's a you know, I've listened. Someone said that
he's wrong like seventy eight percent of the time or
something like that, which I don't say. If he sees
his shadow, that means more winter. If he doesn't see
his shadow, that seems opposite. If he sees his shadow,
the sun might be out. I think that's all like
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the chamber, that's the chamber of commerce, and it's it's
like when you read your horoscopes. You ever read your
horoscope in the paper, and it's you know today will
be a day of great opportunity. There will be some
chances for you to take advantage of, so be aware
and be on the lookout for for good things today.
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It never says to you, stay in bed, this is
gonna be the worst day of your life. It's always
very kind of upbeat or romance. Good wash them today.
You never know who you might meet in the street.
Maybe it's an old flame, but but today, keep your
eyes open.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, you know, did I think about you with stuff
like that? Because about the Red Sox do you think
do you ever ready? How are we gonna do? Are
the Red shows?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I think? I think the signing of Bregman is great.
I mean, he's he is a really good player. But
now they have a little bit of a controversy because
Raffie Devers apparently does not want to be a d H.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I know, did you hear Alli just said you're gonna
do it?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
DH?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, No, he's very clear. It was Dan Shaughnessy who
was asking him the questions. And you know, it's funny
in the old days, In the old days, before twenty eighteen,
you'd have all three major TV stations down there covering it.
You know, you know, Dan Roach should be down there
from Channel four and you know whoever it was at
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Channel seven and the old days would be John Dennis
or whatever, and I'm dating myself there and Channel five
would have Duke stig leone. Channel five I think was
the only station down there last week when when Bregman
was signed. So, you know, I feel that the Red
Sox have been kind of downplayed. And look, they were
eighty one and eighty one last year with with not
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a great team, and they you win ninety games or
in the playoffs, they don't have to win that many
more games, more games than last year. I like they
had a pitcher who came up later they picked up
from the Yankees, Richard fitz He he got I think
it was three or four starts and he he pitched
(11:06):
really well. I didn't win a game, he was all
and one, but but he kept in. The Red Sox
just didn't hit for him. So they got they improved
their pitching staff. Uh, their bullpen looks better, you know.
Kenley Jansen's now with the with the Dodgers. Yeah, I'm
I'm bullish in the Red Sox this year. I really am.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
He and I hope that I want to go up
to Worcester. Now, your son does something up there, doesn't
He isn't in charge of the start.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
For many years, he was the general manager of the
past Socks and the Red Sox. That team has been
purchased now by a venture a private equity company. Uh.
And he has moved on to another position outside of baseball.
But you know the poll he was very much involved
for Well. He was the general manager. Uh, worked for
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Larry Lukeino and Larry passed away last spring. And she
know about the same time that this venture capital company
bought to wors Well. He was at He was the
general manager at Worcester, and then when the venture capital
company came in, Uh, they promoted him to a vice
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president of real estate development.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
UH.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And I just think that he felt that there was
not going to be as much of an opportunity with
the venture capital company as there was with Larry Lucino.
He had worked he had worked for for Larry when
they were with the Red Sox together, and went with
Larry to Protucket and then was instrumental in persuading Larry
that that the days in Patucket. You know, the politicians
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in Rhode Island were difficult for the pass Socks to
work with. They wanted to rehabilitate McCoy Stadium, but the
politicians were not cooperative, and Worcester stepped forward. Uh and
then Mayor at Augustus was very into rested, and Lieutenant
Governor Palito and Charlie Baker who was the governor, they
were very supportive and they stole the poss Socks for
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Rhode Island. That's the real story there. To be honest
with you, Alice, I'm up on my break. I gotta
let you run. I love talking with you. Be better,
get better soon. Okay, thanks, thanks, thanks night. Okay. We
got one line at six one seven two four thirty
and two at six one seven nine three thirty. If
anybody's got an old farmer's almanac out there, meaning a
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current one, I'd love to know what they say about
the weather here in New England, because it's been a
bitterly cold month. I'm ready to complain about it. I
hope you are too. Just remember in New England, when
you complain about things, you feel better. So let's all
feel better. Jump on board back after this.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Now, back to Dan ray line from the window World
of Nice Sight studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
All right, let's keep it rolling. We go to Glenn
and Brighton, Glenn, welcome back. How are you, Sarah? A
little chilly out there in bright tonight, I'll bet.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You, uh yeah. The reason I'm calling I told to
see a producers in the substitute. I told, is this
the wind this winter river or the windiest winter river.
There's a difference.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I think maybe both could be both. Glenn with the wind,
the temperatures twenty and with the wind forty fifty miles
an hour, it feels like it's below zero.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
So that's my feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I'm not an expert. We had Isaac Longley from accu
weather on last year.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't know if you heard him or not, but
yeah I did.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It was just, you know, it's crazy, it's crazy, what
you what we're dealing with. And I still hope that
someone out there has an old farmer's almanac who can
tell me, I know what they predicted for this February.
You know that goes on sale like in the summertime,
you know, for the next winter. And I would love
to know if they were accurate. Let's give them credit.
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If they weren't accurate. Let's give them some.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I know, well, I don't think faith. I'm the one
got to talk to. I have no faith in the
farmer's home. Like you say, we can't predict weather four
days ahead, We're going to predict weather a year ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, no, I know what. But it's it's fun, you know,
to read it.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Then you say, you know when you're really young, said
Tony Phil It's something to do. It is.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And it's also like during the look during the fall,
there are a whole bunch of things where they say
if the squirrels you're gathering nuts and and and you
know early, or if they got a lot of fur.
You know, there are all these they kind of like
what you call you know, I guess theories that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, it may or may not work, but I was hoping.
I was hoping. I'm almost as much time as the
last colony because I have quite a bit to say
on the weather ahead. Keep going going, well, it started
after Christmas. I just noticed I'll put on bezy and
I'll hear Emma Freeman say it's thirty two degrees potential,
say the wind who is nineteen and this is in
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the day. So I want I just I don't ever
recall the wind show being this persistent. Now I was yesterday.
I had the pressure of going to Coppo's restaurant myself
in Boston on West Broadway, and John John Russo was there.
(16:20):
He was in the Godfather. He was an actor. He's
eighty two. He told us his wife's story. He says,
I can't believe anybody showed up in this weather, and
I we eat it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Was he like a featured speaker or something there?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, well, yeah, he was a guest speaker.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Oh good, okay, yeah, he was in the garden. What
role was it? What was what role did he play
in The Godfather?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You know? He told me, and I can't remember. I
was too busy drinking my chardon eye, but that's.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Okay. He kind of was w So you you braved,
you brave the weather yesterday to do that, which is good.
That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well that's new Englanders. I mean eight inches of snow.
I mean I remember two years ago we had a
blizard on a weekend. It was like no, actually it
was twenty twenty two. It was three years ago. It
was the late January we had.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
We've had a couple of real easy winters. The last
I find out my driveway plowed once last winter, and
I don't think I had it plowed once the winter before.
And this year you mentioned couple you missed.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
You keep mentioning fifteen. You said the middle of I
think it was the end of January. I remember it
was Monday, January twenty sixth because my birthday is January
twenty thirty, and it was in the forties, and there
was no snow on the ground. Three days later, around
four thirty in the afternoon, it started to snow light
and it didn't stop till the end of March week.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
My recollection is somewhat different, and maybe people will either.
I think that was around January nineteenth twentieth when it started,
and it was pretty much over by the end of February,
because if you think it went through the end of March,
I don't have that recollection, but I'll see what people
say gonna. I may look it up during the news
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break here at the bottom of the hour, but I'd
love to hear what people have to say on it,
to be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, twenty twenty fifteen got we we were home free,
and then all of a sudden we just got dumped
on for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
No, you and I agree totally. We were home free.
There was nothing in November, not that it often is.
Nothing in December, and we got through at least half
of January, and it looked like we're all set. You
think it started on the twenty sixth. I think it's
maybe a week beforehand, but I think it wrapped up
at the end of February. I don't know if I
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could find that for.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Certain, but I remember it because my birthdays on the
twenty third.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
All right, Well, let's see. Maybe someone out there will
either say, yeah, Dan, you're right, or Glenn was right.
You said your birthday's on the twenty sixth, and that's
what twenty third started.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Twenty third You pinted on the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I think it was just a little earlier than that.
But well, we'll know.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I've pinted on the twenty six three days after my
birthday is one?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You got the twenty sixth. I think it's earlier. We'll
figure that out, and hopefully someone will call us with
the Farmer's.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Almanac, so I have a photographic memory.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Well, we will see. We'll get an answer. Glenn that
that's the.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Me you can. Steve Wavelli used to ask me what
temperature was the last time Gary for Woolburn called, and
I told you he looked it up and I was right.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I stand in admiration. So let's we'll see coming up
with my break here and we'll we'll figure it out.
I'm gonna I'm gonna get I will get information and
I'll report right after the news break here at the
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Fair enough, all right, all right, thanks Glenn, Thanks, thank
you too, good night.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
All right, we'll take quick break. I got some wide
open lines here six one, seven, two, five, four, ten
thirty or six point seven nine three, one ten thirty.
Tim in Winthrop was going to be first up on
the other side of the break. Do you do you
The general question is do you remember a colder February
in your lifetime here in New England? And I don't
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care whether you're in Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire doesn't matter. I think it's been brutally cold
this month. I can't think of a colder February. I've
said before that I think January is generally the coldest month.
And then sometimes February can be the snowiest. Well. Also,
I'm going to in the break here go back and
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try to figure out if Glenn is right. My recollection
was that the snow started sometime around January twentieth, so
I positioned in about a week at a time and
it never stopped. But we'll see, we'll see. And if
you do have a copy of the Old Farmer's Almanac,
I'd love to know what it predicted for New England
for this February. Normally the language and the old farmers
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Alms can be interpreted, you know, well, it could be
a little snowy, it's not a surprise or whatever. No,
I want to know what they say for New England
and February. I don't have a copy. Help us out.
We're coming back on.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Night said right after this, It's Night Side with Dan
Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
All right, let's uh. I got some information here. Okay,
So new England record snow track of Boston breaks all
time seasonal snow record twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen. We
know that, Okay, one hundred and eight point six inches
of snow officially mark making the twenty fourteen twenty fifteen
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season the all time snowy season in the city. Okay,
so one hundred and ten point six inches is the record. Okay,
this seems a little inconsistency by a couple of inches,
but that's okay. So in February sixty four point eight inches.
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What do we got here? They break this down. There's
too many different ways here. The one that was interesting
was that it said that Boston failed to reach forty
degrees from January twentieth through March third. The big snowstorm
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that started it off was from January twenty fourth to
February fifteenth, So Glenn remembers it at January twenty sixth.
I remember it as January twentieth, so I think we're
both off a couple of days. But the fastest ninety
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eight the fastest ninety inch snowfall went from January twenty
fourth through February fifteenth. Okay, Yeah, I think that we
have enough here, Glenn. I'll give you a break on this. Yeah, okay,
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But in January of twenty fifteen, we had forty six
point five inches of snow and I still can't figure
out when the first storm hit. But that's okay. Let's
keep rolling here, we have Tim and Winthrop joining us.
Tim welcome, How are you sir?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:39):
I got two points. According to the other network, the
Weather Channel, they we're talking on the weekend, and this
is not us, Rochester, New York has had eighty seven
days straight of a cold snap. That's a record for them.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Well, but here's the deal. That's what everybody knows. Rochester,
New York.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
We know that. I just want to get and Boston,
according to them, has had sixty two days of the
longest coat snap ever for us. Right now, we're in
it right now.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Really, I didn't know that. And how did they define Okay,
how do they define? Tim?
Speaker 8 (24:18):
If you know, forty degrees, it has to be forty
degrees twenty four?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Hold on, hold on, all right, So it's under forty
forty degrees or under is what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Yeah, but it has to be forty degrees for the
whole day. That's what they said, because it was like
that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And but but they last you go, whoa, Tim? Slow down?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Slow right? You must have watched the Daytona five hundred yesterday.
Slow down?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
What do you mean it's got It's gonna be under
forty degrees for the entire day, is what I think.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Yeah, for most of the day, that's what he was saying.
I couldn't understand what when he meant, well, I kind.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Of understand what you're saying. Tim. What I'm saying is
I thought you originally we're trying to say it has
to be exactly forty degrees for the entire day. No,
what you're trying to say is it doesn't reach forty
degrees for the entire day.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Maybe right, No, No, no, it has to be forty
for the entire day, that's what he said.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Okay, so so at no point during the day does
it ever get to thirty nine degrees? Is that what
you're telling me?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
No, it gets a thirty, it gets the thirty nine,
but it has to go over forty for a complete day.
That's what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No, Tim, I didn't want to I get you, Tim,
Tim listening, but please think what you just said to me.
It has to go over forty. Is that what you
just said?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Yeah, for a whole day, that's what he said. That's
what Paul. Well, I'm not going to mention the guy's name,
so it.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Could be so it could be forty eight degrees, and
it's if it's over forty that's what you're telling me.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Well, he was saying, But I'm saying what he I'm
just for beating what I said.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
No, he's what I think you're trying to say. Let
me help you out. I think what you're saying is
that for the entire day, the temperature cannot exceed forty degrees.
So it could be thirty six in the morning, thirty
eight at noontime, maybe being forty degrees, and then it
drops back and so that would be the first day
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of the cold snap. If it goes over forty degrees,
then the cold snap is snapped. How long have we
been under forty degrees? As far as you.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Know, we've been on a forty degrees he said, sixty
five days as of two days ago. This is Sunday
on they do a special show.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So is the heat. I hate it.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
It's weather rech out. It's in the morning. I don't
know the general's name. First name is Paul, and they
mentioned Boston, they mentioned Worston.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Tim Tim, I've never had this difficulty having a conversation
with you. Just listen to my question. Okay, I'm asking
simple questions and if you hear the question, you can answer.
And if you don't know the answer, tell me. Okay,
some guy here, so you're saying that you watched some
program on television called Weather Recharge.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Okay, what station was that program?
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Whether that's on the Weather Channel or the Weather Channel?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Okay, And they're saying, and they said that in Boston
or did they say Massachusetts?
Speaker 8 (27:22):
What did they say they said in Massachusetts?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Okay? Yeah, well, I don't know. Sixty five days, tim correctly,
that's a long will take us back if today was the.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Sixty fifth day before christener.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Take us back to yeah, well into Christmas before Christmas,
that's possible. That's possible, I guess.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
But he said it's the longest cold snap right now,
and some of those guys in Boston are saying the
same thing, like this is what they can remember. I'm
sixty eight. This is the longest cold snap that I
can remember. How about you? Dan?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well? According to an article that I'm looking at from
the Weather Channel, which was produced or weather dot com
excuse me, which I've found here now again, this came
out in twenty fifteen. It said in terms of what
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we're talking about, which is the longest day. In twenty fifteen,
Boston had failed to reach forty degrees, which is what
we're talking about, from January twentieth through March third. So
that was a record streak of forty three consecutive days record.
Thank you for interrupting, Tim, That was very helpful. The
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previous such record streak of forty two straight days was
set in the winter of nineteen sixty eight to sixty nine.
The point is that if we truly are in sixty
five days, that would shatter the record of forty three days.
My suspicion is that we may not be at sixty
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five days. That's only a suspicion. I don't know who
the person was to agree with.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
I agree with, you're right, Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
We'll see. Maybe he said, Maybe he said thirty five days.
I don't know. We'll figure out.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
I could have meant, he could have meant the whole Massachusetts.
I don't know what he meant, but.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Why All right, Tim, But thank you for that for
those clarifications.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
One more thing outside of that, it says before I go,
it says, my phone says two more weeks of this
and let's see what happens. I'm not going to go there.
But the other thing with the Red Sox is I'm
not bullish on them because what the Dodgers are doing,
they're ruining baseball. They're spending so much money. I like
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the bregmant thing, but the Red Sox are not being
thea to the fans because now they charge pay per
view for their network, for their local network. That's not
the fans either. And they have to get three more players.
It's not spending the money more money than this, Breg.
He don't hurt.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
But what players would you replace? Tim? What? What Red
Sox players are you looking? Dan?
Speaker 8 (30:14):
We need pitchers.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You got seven starting pitchers right now.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
We need to all of these status. At least.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Gelato is pretty good. Crochette, the guy from the White
Sox pretty good.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Yeah, but we can't compare to the Yankees of the Dodgers.
They got all this well, we used to complain about Sky.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Let's play the season to see how they do. Tim Okay,
I got to run, Tim.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
I just don't want the Dodgers to ruin baseball because
the ratings on baseball are horrible right now without the
Yankees and Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Tim, this has been a really interesting phone call, and
I think we should end it right now. Thanks very much, doctor.
Later we covered the waterfront. Will take a break, I promise,
And I'm told that Sean has the Old Farmer's Almanac.
And if any of you would like to join the
conversation and actually have a conversation, I'm available at six, one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty. Had a couple of little frustrations there with Tim,
who normally is pretty much he was wound up tonight.
Join the conversation where I got some wide open lines here.
Let's have a conversation. It's the art of conversation. You talk,
I listen, I respond, You listen, you respond. That's the
way it goes. Okay, simple as that. Don't feel any pressure.
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Not put any pressure on anybody tonight. The pressure will
resume tomorrow night. We'll get to some some serious topics
tomorrow night. We had a great topic at nine if
you missed the nine o'clock hour with Professor Jeff Myron
when my producer and Rob is not the producer tonight,
but when Dan puts up the podcast from tonight's newscast,
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you want to listen to that nine o'clock hour with
Jeff Myron of Harvard University was great. Need a couple
more phone calls, give us the hell coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Let's go to the man who has the Farmer's Almanac. Sean,
bail me out here. How are you, buddy?
Speaker 6 (32:15):
I'm good Dan, How are you today?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Sir? Good? So what does the Farmer's Almond? Is it
the Farmer's Almanac of the Old Farmer's Almanac? I always
get that mixed up.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I think it's the Old Farmer's Almanac. And I just
went on Google and they do give you a summary too,
instead of having to pay for the subscription. I just
pull up the summar quip, which I thought you'd find interesting.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Let's hear it all right.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
So Region one is the Northeast. That's basically mass Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine, in eastern New York. The prediction is
there is always cold and snowy. That's no brainer. But
we're predicting a gentler the normal season that's not so
rough and tough. Then is how cold the winter be
winter temperatures will be about average overall. January expected to
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be about four degrees above average, but the oldest periods
will be mid December in late February.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, I don't think they nailed it then, Oh man,
I think that they tried to sort of cover themselves.
But what was that first sentence that you read.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
They're predicting a gentler the normal season that's not so
rough and tough.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I think that's where they blew it. I mean, obviously
it's funny when they write that. It's always sort of
open to some form of interpretation. But of course was
not a gentler season. The month of February has not
been It's been brutal. It's been brutal.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
And yeah, the final, the finals. In the as will
there be snow, it says yes, there'll be plenty of snow. However,
precipitation in snowfall will be slightly below normal by about
one or one half percent. The snowiest periods, it's important.
The snowiest periods will be in early December, mid February,
in early March.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, if it really keeps going here, okay, i'll take,
I'll take. I'll give them the mid February. But if
all of a sudden we've seen the end of the
snow and it's just going to be cold weather. The
big story is not that the storm, the snow we've
gotten has not been overwhelming. This is not twenty fifteen,
this is twenty twenty five. But the cold has been overwhelming,
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there's no question.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Sure. The wind exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh, I mean today it was howling. It was howling.
I I was outside for like maybe two minutes and
it was like, let me back inside. Yeah, brutal. How
is it up in Beverly. I'm sure you're on the
water up there. It has to be tough up there today.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
You see the signs, the street signs are blow in,
the lamp post are blowing, which is that's pretty heavy
for this air. Even so, it was, it was definitely
substantially that had to be pretty much bundled up all
the way.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
All right, seanppreciate you you're grabbing that for me. That
was very kind of you to do. I really do
appreciate it. Thank you much good I do, thank you, sir.
I got a couple of open lines, come on, fill
them up. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty
six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. This the
coldest winter you ever remember. It's the coldest winter for me.
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Let me see what Rick and Bill Ricker says. Rick,
am I on the money? Or what do you do?
You agree to disagree? Rick? Go right ahead?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Oh, I agree, it's it's more like cold Rica. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Yeah that was dead. It's been incredibly cold. My only
recollection of thinking about cold winters was in two thousand
and seven. I don't know if it extended into February,
but it was January or February. I remember I was.
I was at my parents' house. I was still living
with them, and there was stra a couple of stray cats,
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well one that I knew for sure, and there was
another beautiful cat that used to come and see me
at night and I'd feed him, and it was so
brutally cold. I had him sleep in my car a
couple of times. This was like January, maybe early February
twenty seven, and I ended up putting him in a shelter.
I put him in a shelter. I tried to I
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don't think he had an owner, and I tried put
the listing up. I love this cat. It was. It
was the cat chows me, but I couldn't have taken it.
So I put him in a shelter in Sudbury.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And what we call feral cats.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
One of them is that never I could never grab her,
but she used to see me. This this other one
may have had a place to stay. Looked really good.
But he didn't have a call her and he was
always out in the freezing at night. And but cats
have a high metabolism. They can stand the cold, you know,
because they stay warm somehow through their high metabolism. But
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I was so aware read I just said, I'm putting
this cat in the shelter. It's curious.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I'm just curious. How were you able to get the cat?
The federal cat wouldn't come close enough to to grab
him right or grab her.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Well, this this is I believe this was a This
was a boy and I was able just to put
this guy in a in a in a cat thing.
So it may it may have had an owner, but
I tried to put the word out and uh, there
was never a caller. And so.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
So understand I'm trying to stay here. So you you
get the cat, and you you scoop the cat. Out
and you put him in your car, and you at
least give him the warmth of the car at night.
Did you ever think about bringing him into the house or.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
No, Well, I couldn't have. At the time, I couldn't have.
It wasn't my host, you know, I couldn't record. But yeah,
I got I didn't have an option. But I just
remember I remember putting the cat in in a shelter,
and I found out that a nice, an older woman
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adopted him, and I visited him before he was adopted.
He was pissed at me. He wouldn't even look I
mean was he was not happy with me. But it
was so cold. It was so cold like right now.
But I don't know if it's just I'm reminded of
that small spian of time. I don't know. I think
it might. It's probably has been colder for a longer
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period than in January two thousand and seven, but I
think it extended January into February. I can't remember exactly,
but it was around How.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Did you know so you brought him to the shelter.
Was he upset that you brought him to the shelter?
Is that is that?
Speaker 6 (38:51):
Well?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
The cat was pretty the cat was pretty easy, you know.
I was able to deal with the cat easily and
brought him to the shelter. And I tried, like a
couple of weeks putting up signs and no, I get that.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I get that. So he was your He was your
cat on a temporary basis. Good for you.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Yeah, he used to come at night. He was a dog,
a beautiful cat, and I had the cat was more
like a dog. He used to run to me. And
but I was so afraid with this brutal cold, it
could have even killed a cat, and the cat probably
would have survived fine, but it was a good looking cat,
and I didn't want it to become ragged. It may
have been left behind by a family that had moved
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or something, but there was no indication of it. Always
ticks me off from people don't put collars on their animals.
But it was so cold, like now, that's what I
That's what I did, and I'll always remember that, and
it was what I thought I thought I was doing.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
You did a good thing. You took care of the
cat under some difficult circumstances, and the fact that he
ended up with an adoptive home. That's a great story.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
No, thank you, thank you. And like I said today,
with my house here, I could then I could grab
up a cat and to take the cat on if
it was if it looked like it was it was
really roughing it outside and it was too much, I
could help it. I couldn't at the time. It wasn't
my place. I just want to quickly add. So that's
the cold part, the snowy. But after my father died
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it was twenty fourteen, and that winter was brutal because
I used to work for a town and I used
to remove the snow on that massive January twenty fifteen snowstorm.
I was like January twenty third or twenty fourth, there
was a snowstorm that was smaller a few days earlier
or something that only gave us a few inches. Then
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this massive one comes along and I had I was
out all night.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Well I remember the first one. I mean I remembered
that first one. That's why I thought about it.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Yeah, absolutely, you're talking about the January twenty third, the
really one that mocked that season.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Oh, I remember the big one, but I remember the
one being forward and it just kind of started, that's all.
It was so simple that's right. That's that's how it
got going. So maybe I'm I'm more on the money
than Glenn was, because Glenn was insisting it was the
twenty sixth or or yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
I mean, I don't even know. I thought it was.
I knew it was. I knew it was into the twenties,
all right, it could have been. Yeah, but that was
a big window. Another big winter was twenty ten to
twenty eleven. That was a huge winter. And that was
all all right, Rick, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Let you run here. Man, I'm flat out. I think
I'm one more call. I going to try to sneak in. Okay, Thanks, Rick,
appreciate it. Thanks, talk to you soon. Good night. All right, Dan,
if you get that one of the call, let's wrap
them up here real quickly. Put the name up and
let's go. Mike. We're gonna give you a real quick
minute or so, go ahead, Mike.
Speaker 7 (41:46):
Oh listen a minute. Dan, I'm just curious. So this
last hour doesn't interest me. Maybe you know, obviously some
people called and were interested, but we can't change the weather.
Move to Florida, take a ten day vacation. I like
the season.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
So what would you like to have talked about this hour, Mike,
what what other than what would you like to what
would you like to have talked about?
Speaker 7 (42:09):
Well, I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining. I don't call
it a complaint, but just a suggestion when you're planning
your program. The professor that was on was very interested. Uh,
you had a lot of callers there. Why was opening
on nine to eleven? Two hours would have been great?
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Well, I'll tell you why, Mike. Let me explain to
you why sometimes when you're a professor at Harvard you
sometimes have classes the next day. You know, Mike, you
should you should apply for a job as a producer
and you can help us out here. Any suggestions you
want to make are always welcome. Uh. The comment that
you made to start off with, certainly end of the program,
which I thought was a pretty good program on a
bit of a hour. No, but I appreciate you calling nonetheless.
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Oh a great one. All right, we're done for the night. Everybody,
all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
my pal Charlie ray Is, who passed fifteen years ago
this month. That's why your pets are passed. They loved
you and you love them. We'll see it get tomorrow night.
Glad that Mike called, but wish she called with a
more positive point of view. My name's Dan Ray. I'm
always positive. See you tomorrow night. Everybody. Thanks to Dan
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for a great job tonight
It's nice with Dan Ray undoing you Crazy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, let me just recap for those of you who
have not been with us throughout the evening. We started
off tonight and really talked with four interesting guests. In
the first hour. We talked with a historian Jay L.
Bell about President's Day and his President's Day and the
story of the canons that the British troops went after
(00:29):
in seventeen seventy five and the efforts that followed upon
that of then George Washington, who was not president, coming
to Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
J L.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Bell will be doing a presentation on this in Cambridge,
and if you missed the eight o'clock I he's one
of the really interesting guests. We talked with Norman Smith,
the rapto specialists of the mass Audubonne Society about these
beautiful full Arctic owls that at this time of year
(01:06):
literally migrate south. Uh. They it's it's to me, it's
just an amazing to see these owls have actually seen.
Uh the owls that that I'm referring to there, they're beautiful,
they are they are white. Uh, they stand out in
the wintertime called snowy Arctic snowy owls. Then we also
(01:29):
talked about food with a chef Laura Kline from a
very interesting uh background. She has a very interesting website.
And talk with Joe Dean, a captain of a book
of a boat called the Red Rum.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They harp their harpoon hunters. They they they hunt bluefin tuna,
which is extraordinary and else it does work on a
with a foundation of children with a rare disease. All
in the eight o'clock hour. Then we talked in the
nine o'clock hour with one of my favorite guests, Professor
Jeff Myron of Harvard University, and talked about the debt
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that we as a country have run up. It's getting
close to thirty seven trillion dollars. That was an extraordinary hour.
We will use that hour next Sunday night on best
of NIGHTSI because I can't think of an hour that
we could do that would be better than that. This
week and the last hour we talked about weather here
in New England, and I'd like to continue talking about
that this hour if you would. We'll get to some
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of the more I guess contentious topics as the week
goes on, but it is just extraordinarily cold here in
New England. It's been extraordinarily cold now for weeks. The
month of February has been I think the coldest February
I've ever experienced, at least that I can ever remember.
And I'd love to know what your recollection is as well,
and love to know how you are putting up with
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this exceedingly cold month of February. We had snow and
sleep yesterday and the surfaces of most people's homes and driveways.
I was out yesterday trying to take advantage of the
rain and basically cause I guess what I call little riverlets,
(03:18):
if you will, small little motions of water to break
up ice. And it worked a little bit, but then
of course it all froze overnight. So let's go back
to phone calls and let's keep it rolling here. And
I'd love to continue this for the balance of the
night and just have a nice, easy President Day's night
here on Nightside. Alice is in Beverly, Alice, welcome back
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to night Side. Your thoughts on our weather pattern which
we seem to be stuck in.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Alice, Oh, Dan, I'm absolutely freezing. The thing that's getting
me is the ice now. I think I mentioned on
January twenty first, I slipped on the ice and I
have a fraction to tell.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
So I have been I have been housebound. I don't
think I'm going to go out till the spring whenever
that happens.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So when you say you fractured your patella, how bad
is it a hairline fracture or did you actually did
the did the bone bifurcate?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Well, well, it's it's actually well bifurcated. But but I
don't have to have surgery. But I'm in this grace.
It doesn't really work, but I have to keep my
legs straight, perfectly straight for.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Like, so are they are they hoping? Are they hoping
that over time, without surgery, the bone will will re
reform or re knit.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Well, little, it'll attached just like like like I guess
in the olden days, they would put you in a
cast and that would be you'd go you'd go crazy if.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Your whole leg was in a cast.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
But it was like today, I was I was going
absolutely nuts and I was just praying, understanding, God, I
know that you care about me. And I start to
think about the people like to have the fires and
all this other stuff can't be that there. This isn't
the worst thing in the world. And then all of
a sudden, I mean, out of a clear blue the
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guy at the orthopedic office called me. He said he
was thinking about me, and he said, I just really
was thinking about how horrible this mussed be for you
because the brace doesn't work, and we're asking you to
keep your legs straight, but the brace doesn't stay up.
So he just said, I think that I have something
else so of work for you. I go, I can't
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believe it, Joe, that you just thought about me and
decided to call me when I felt like not that
I was going to, you know, jump off the bridge, but.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
But it was.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
It was awful. But like when you're talking about the weather,
I mean, I do go by the window and I
look out, and I said, I don't know if I
ever want to go out again, because you have this fear,
you know, of slipping on the ice.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I will tell you I've had some extended, I should say,
attenuated experience. My brother fractured his patella last June and
he had to have surgery and it's a long recovery
and it's only now getting to the point where it
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is recovering. So, boy, I wish you. It sounds to
me like you might have lucked out because he he
actually the kneecap split and he had to get actual,
you know, surgery and then recovery and rehabilitation, and hopefully
yours is going to be a little less problematic.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Well, I better not have surgery, because I said, my
dance card is full. I have had I've had both
my knees replaced. And so some of the Oh I
thought you had your knees to replace, how come you
because they leave that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh, so I did not realize that. So the so
the the the new mechanical knee still has a your actual.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Potlio Yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Please please please please be careful and hopefully whatever you
have to do, you can get back to it. And uh,
I don't know, look, run the risk here of slipping
and sliding, and and I'm sure that there are people
today who slipped and slid and hurt themselves. It's it's
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been a miserable month of February. And I still am
hoping that someone can grab a farm, an old farmer's
almanac or a pharma's almanac, whatever they call it. These
days and tell me what it says for New England
in February, because if if they missed it, if if
they said, oh, you know, a typical February, but it's
going to start to warm up towards the middle of
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the month as spring nears, then I'll never have faith
in the Farmers Almanac.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Again, do you believe in that?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I mean no, I don't believe in that. I don't
believe in it, per se. I think it's fun to read,
but your long they have a tough time forecasting the
weather three days at advance, never mind a year.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Just like just like the what's his name, Punkture Johnny
phil Oh, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's that's a you know, I've listened. Someone said that
he's wrong like seventy eight percent of the time or
something like that, which I don't say. If he sees
his shadow, that means more winter. If he doesn't see
his shadow, that seems opposite. If he sees his shadow,
the sun might be out. I think that's all like
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the chamber, that's the chamber of commerce, and it's it's
like when you read your horoscopes. You ever read your
horoscope in the paper, and it's you know today will
be a day of great opportunity. There will be some
chances for you to take advantage of, so be aware
and be on the lookout for for good things today.
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It never says to you, stay in bed, this is
gonna be the worst day of your life. It's always
very kind of upbeat or romance. Good wash them today.
You never know who you might meet in the street.
Maybe it's an old flame, but but today, keep your
eyes open.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, you know, did I think about you with stuff
like that? Because about the Red Sox do you think
do you ever ready? How are we gonna do? Are
the Red shows?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I think? I think the signing of Bregman is great.
I mean, he's he is a really good player. But
now they have a little bit of a controversy because
Raffie Devers apparently does not want to be a d H.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I know, did you hear Alli just said you're gonna
do it?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
DH?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, No, he's very clear. It was Dan Shaughnessy who
was asking him the questions. And you know, it's funny
in the old days, In the old days, before twenty eighteen,
you'd have all three major TV stations down there covering it.
You know, you know, Dan Roach should be down there
from Channel four and you know whoever it was at
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Channel seven and the old days would be John Dennis
or whatever, and I'm dating myself there and Channel five
would have Duke stig leone. Channel five I think was
the only station down there last week when when Bregman
was signed. So, you know, I feel that the Red
Sox have been kind of downplayed. And look, they were
eighty one and eighty one last year with with not
(10:43):
a great team, and they you win ninety games or
in the playoffs, they don't have to win that many
more games, more games than last year. I like they
had a pitcher who came up later they picked up
from the Yankees, Richard fitz He he got I think
it was three or four starts and he he pitched
(11:06):
really well. I didn't win a game, he was all
and one, but but he kept in. The Red Sox
just didn't hit for him. So they got they improved
their pitching staff. Uh, their bullpen looks better, you know.
Kenley Jansen's now with the with the Dodgers. Yeah, I'm
I'm bullish in the Red Sox this year. I really am.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
He and I hope that I want to go up
to Worcester. Now, your son does something up there, doesn't
He isn't in charge of the start.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
For many years, he was the general manager of the
past Socks and the Red Sox. That team has been
purchased now by a venture a private equity company. Uh.
And he has moved on to another position outside of baseball.
But you know the poll he was very much involved
for Well. He was the general manager. Uh, worked for
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Larry Lukeino and Larry passed away last spring. And she
know about the same time that this venture capital company
bought to wors Well. He was at He was the
general manager at Worcester, and then when the venture capital
company came in, Uh, they promoted him to a vice
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president of real estate development.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
UH.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And I just think that he felt that there was
not going to be as much of an opportunity with
the venture capital company as there was with Larry Lucino.
He had worked he had worked for for Larry when
they were with the Red Sox together, and went with
Larry to Protucket and then was instrumental in persuading Larry
that that the days in Patucket. You know, the politicians
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in Rhode Island were difficult for the pass Socks to
work with. They wanted to rehabilitate McCoy Stadium, but the
politicians were not cooperative, and Worcester stepped forward. Uh and
then Mayor at Augustus was very into rested, and Lieutenant
Governor Palito and Charlie Baker who was the governor, they
were very supportive and they stole the poss Socks for
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Rhode Island. That's the real story there. To be honest
with you, Alice, I'm up on my break. I gotta
let you run. I love talking with you. Be better,
get better soon. Okay, thanks, thanks, thanks night. Okay. We
got one line at six one seven two four thirty
and two at six one seven nine three thirty. If
anybody's got an old farmer's almanac out there, meaning a
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current one, I'd love to know what they say about
the weather here in New England, because it's been a
bitterly cold month. I'm ready to complain about it. I
hope you are too. Just remember in New England, when
you complain about things, you feel better. So let's all
feel better. Jump on board back after this.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Now, back to Dan ray line from the window World
of Nice Sight studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
All right, let's keep it rolling. We go to Glenn
and Brighton, Glenn, welcome back. How are you, Sarah? A
little chilly out there in bright tonight, I'll bet.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You, uh yeah. The reason I'm calling I told to
see a producers in the substitute. I told, is this
the wind this winter river or the windiest winter river.
There's a difference.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I think maybe both could be both. Glenn with the wind,
the temperatures twenty and with the wind forty fifty miles
an hour, it feels like it's below zero.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
So that's my feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I'm not an expert. We had Isaac Longley from accu
weather on last year.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't know if you heard him or not, but
yeah I did.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It was just, you know, it's crazy, it's crazy, what
you what we're dealing with. And I still hope that
someone out there has an old farmer's almanac who can
tell me, I know what they predicted for this February.
You know that goes on sale like in the summertime,
you know, for the next winter. And I would love
to know if they were accurate. Let's give them credit.
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If they weren't accurate. Let's give them some.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I know, well, I don't think faith. I'm the one
got to talk to. I have no faith in the
farmer's home. Like you say, we can't predict weather four
days ahead, We're going to predict weather a year ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, no, I know what. But it's it's fun, you know,
to read it.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Then you say, you know when you're really young, said
Tony Phil It's something to do. It is.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And it's also like during the look during the fall,
there are a whole bunch of things where they say
if the squirrels you're gathering nuts and and and you
know early, or if they got a lot of fur.
You know, there are all these they kind of like
what you call you know, I guess theories that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, it may or may not work, but I was hoping.
I was hoping. I'm almost as much time as the
last colony because I have quite a bit to say
on the weather ahead. Keep going going, well, it started
after Christmas. I just noticed I'll put on bezy and
I'll hear Emma Freeman say it's thirty two degrees potential,
say the wind who is nineteen and this is in
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the day. So I want I just I don't ever
recall the wind show being this persistent. Now I was yesterday.
I had the pressure of going to Coppo's restaurant myself
in Boston on West Broadway, and John John Russo was there.
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He was in the Godfather. He was an actor. He's
eighty two. He told us his wife's story. He says,
I can't believe anybody showed up in this weather, and
I we eat it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Was he like a featured speaker or something there?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, well, yeah, he was a guest speaker.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Oh good, okay, yeah, he was in the garden. What
role was it? What was what role did he play
in The Godfather?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You know? He told me, and I can't remember. I
was too busy drinking my chardon eye, but that's.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Okay. He kind of was w So you you braved,
you brave the weather yesterday to do that, which is good.
That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well that's new Englanders. I mean eight inches of snow.
I mean I remember two years ago we had a
blizard on a weekend. It was like no, actually it
was twenty twenty two. It was three years ago. It
was the late January we had.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
We've had a couple of real easy winters. The last
I find out my driveway plowed once last winter, and
I don't think I had it plowed once the winter before.
And this year you mentioned couple you missed.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
You keep mentioning fifteen. You said the middle of I
think it was the end of January. I remember it
was Monday, January twenty sixth because my birthday is January
twenty thirty, and it was in the forties, and there
was no snow on the ground. Three days later, around
four thirty in the afternoon, it started to snow light
and it didn't stop till the end of March week.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
My recollection is somewhat different, and maybe people will either.
I think that was around January nineteenth twentieth when it started,
and it was pretty much over by the end of February,
because if you think it went through the end of March,
I don't have that recollection, but I'll see what people
say gonna. I may look it up during the news
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break here at the bottom of the hour, but I'd
love to hear what people have to say on it,
to be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, twenty twenty fifteen got we we were home free,
and then all of a sudden we just got dumped
on for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
No, you and I agree totally. We were home free.
There was nothing in November, not that it often is.
Nothing in December, and we got through at least half
of January, and it looked like we're all set. You
think it started on the twenty sixth. I think it's
maybe a week beforehand, but I think it wrapped up
at the end of February. I don't know if I
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could find that for.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Certain, but I remember it because my birthdays on the
twenty third.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
All right, Well, let's see. Maybe someone out there will
either say, yeah, Dan, you're right, or Glenn was right.
You said your birthday's on the twenty sixth, and that's
what twenty third started.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Twenty third You pinted on the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I think it was just a little earlier than that.
But well, we'll know.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I've pinted on the twenty six three days after my
birthday is one?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You got the twenty sixth. I think it's earlier. We'll
figure that out, and hopefully someone will call us with
the Farmer's.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Almanac, so I have a photographic memory.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Well, we will see. We'll get an answer. Glenn that
that's the.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Me you can. Steve Wavelli used to ask me what
temperature was the last time Gary for Woolburn called, and
I told you he looked it up and I was right.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I stand in admiration. So let's we'll see coming up
with my break here and we'll we'll figure it out.
I'm gonna I'm gonna get I will get information and
I'll report right after the news break here at the
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Fair enough, all right, all right, thanks Glenn, Thanks, thank
you too, good night.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
All right, we'll take quick break. I got some wide
open lines here six one, seven, two, five, four, ten
thirty or six point seven nine three, one ten thirty.
Tim in Winthrop was going to be first up on
the other side of the break. Do you do you
The general question is do you remember a colder February
in your lifetime here in New England? And I don't
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care whether you're in Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire doesn't matter. I think it's been brutally cold
this month. I can't think of a colder February. I've
said before that I think January is generally the coldest month.
And then sometimes February can be the snowiest. Well. Also,
I'm going to in the break here go back and
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try to figure out if Glenn is right. My recollection
was that the snow started sometime around January twentieth, so
I positioned in about a week at a time and
it never stopped. But we'll see, we'll see. And if
you do have a copy of the Old Farmer's Almanac,
I'd love to know what it predicted for New England
for this February. Normally the language and the old farmers
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Alms can be interpreted, you know, well, it could be
a little snowy, it's not a surprise or whatever. No,
I want to know what they say for New England
and February. I don't have a copy. Help us out.
We're coming back on.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Night said right after this, It's Night Side with Dan
Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
All right, let's uh. I got some information here. Okay,
So new England record snow track of Boston breaks all
time seasonal snow record twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen. We
know that, Okay, one hundred and eight point six inches
of snow officially mark making the twenty fourteen twenty fifteen
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season the all time snowy season in the city. Okay,
so one hundred and ten point six inches is the record. Okay,
this seems a little inconsistency by a couple of inches,
but that's okay. So in February sixty four point eight inches.
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What do we got here? They break this down. There's
too many different ways here. The one that was interesting
was that it said that Boston failed to reach forty
degrees from January twentieth through March third. The big snowstorm
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that started it off was from January twenty fourth to
February fifteenth, So Glenn remembers it at January twenty sixth.
I remember it as January twentieth, so I think we're
both off a couple of days. But the fastest ninety
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eight the fastest ninety inch snowfall went from January twenty
fourth through February fifteenth. Okay, Yeah, I think that we
have enough here, Glenn. I'll give you a break on this. Yeah, okay,
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But in January of twenty fifteen, we had forty six
point five inches of snow and I still can't figure
out when the first storm hit. But that's okay. Let's
keep rolling here, we have Tim and Winthrop joining us.
Tim welcome, How are you sir?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:39):
I got two points. According to the other network, the
Weather Channel, they we're talking on the weekend, and this
is not us, Rochester, New York has had eighty seven
days straight of a cold snap. That's a record for them.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Well, but here's the deal. That's what everybody knows. Rochester,
New York.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
We know that. I just want to get and Boston,
according to them, has had sixty two days of the
longest coat snap ever for us. Right now, we're in
it right now.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Really, I didn't know that. And how did they define Okay,
how do they define? Tim?
Speaker 8 (24:18):
If you know, forty degrees, it has to be forty
degrees twenty four?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Hold on, hold on, all right, So it's under forty
forty degrees or under is what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Yeah, but it has to be forty degrees for the
whole day. That's what they said, because it was like
that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And but but they last you go, whoa, Tim? Slow down?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Slow right? You must have watched the Daytona five hundred yesterday.
Slow down?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
What do you mean it's got It's gonna be under
forty degrees for the entire day, is what I think.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Yeah, for most of the day, that's what he was saying.
I couldn't understand what when he meant, well, I kind.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Of understand what you're saying. Tim. What I'm saying is
I thought you originally we're trying to say it has
to be exactly forty degrees for the entire day. No,
what you're trying to say is it doesn't reach forty
degrees for the entire day.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Maybe right, No, No, no, it has to be forty
for the entire day, that's what he said.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Okay, so so at no point during the day does
it ever get to thirty nine degrees? Is that what
you're telling me?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
No, it gets a thirty, it gets the thirty nine,
but it has to go over forty for a complete day.
That's what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No, Tim, I didn't want to I get you, Tim,
Tim listening, but please think what you just said to me.
It has to go over forty. Is that what you
just said?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Yeah, for a whole day, that's what he said. That's
what Paul. Well, I'm not going to mention the guy's name,
so it.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Could be so it could be forty eight degrees, and
it's if it's over forty that's what you're telling me.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Well, he was saying, But I'm saying what he I'm
just for beating what I said.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
No, he's what I think you're trying to say. Let
me help you out. I think what you're saying is
that for the entire day, the temperature cannot exceed forty degrees.
So it could be thirty six in the morning, thirty
eight at noontime, maybe being forty degrees, and then it
drops back and so that would be the first day
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of the cold snap. If it goes over forty degrees,
then the cold snap is snapped. How long have we
been under forty degrees? As far as you.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Know, we've been on a forty degrees he said, sixty
five days as of two days ago. This is Sunday
on they do a special show.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So is the heat. I hate it.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
It's weather rech out. It's in the morning. I don't
know the general's name. First name is Paul, and they
mentioned Boston, they mentioned Worston.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Tim Tim, I've never had this difficulty having a conversation
with you. Just listen to my question. Okay, I'm asking
simple questions and if you hear the question, you can answer.
And if you don't know the answer, tell me. Okay,
some guy here, so you're saying that you watched some
program on television called Weather Recharge.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Okay, what station was that program?
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Whether that's on the Weather Channel or the Weather Channel?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Okay, And they're saying, and they said that in Boston
or did they say Massachusetts?
Speaker 8 (27:22):
What did they say they said in Massachusetts?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Okay? Yeah, well, I don't know. Sixty five days, tim correctly,
that's a long will take us back if today was the.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Sixty fifth day before christener.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Take us back to yeah, well into Christmas before Christmas,
that's possible. That's possible, I guess.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
But he said it's the longest cold snap right now,
and some of those guys in Boston are saying the
same thing, like this is what they can remember. I'm
sixty eight. This is the longest cold snap that I
can remember. How about you? Dan?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well? According to an article that I'm looking at from
the Weather Channel, which was produced or weather dot com
excuse me, which I've found here now again, this came
out in twenty fifteen. It said in terms of what
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we're talking about, which is the longest day. In twenty fifteen,
Boston had failed to reach forty degrees, which is what
we're talking about, from January twentieth through March third. So
that was a record streak of forty three consecutive days record.
Thank you for interrupting, Tim, That was very helpful. The
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previous such record streak of forty two straight days was
set in the winter of nineteen sixty eight to sixty nine.
The point is that if we truly are in sixty
five days, that would shatter the record of forty three days.
My suspicion is that we may not be at sixty
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five days. That's only a suspicion. I don't know who
the person was to agree with.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
I agree with, you're right, Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
We'll see. Maybe he said, Maybe he said thirty five days.
I don't know. We'll figure out.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
I could have meant, he could have meant the whole Massachusetts.
I don't know what he meant, but.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Why All right, Tim, But thank you for that for
those clarifications.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
One more thing outside of that, it says before I go,
it says, my phone says two more weeks of this
and let's see what happens. I'm not going to go there.
But the other thing with the Red Sox is I'm
not bullish on them because what the Dodgers are doing,
they're ruining baseball. They're spending so much money. I like
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the bregmant thing, but the Red Sox are not being
thea to the fans because now they charge pay per
view for their network, for their local network. That's not
the fans either. And they have to get three more players.
It's not spending the money more money than this, Breg.
He don't hurt.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
But what players would you replace? Tim? What? What Red
Sox players are you looking? Dan?
Speaker 8 (30:14):
We need pitchers.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You got seven starting pitchers right now.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
We need to all of these status. At least.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Gelato is pretty good. Crochette, the guy from the White
Sox pretty good.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Yeah, but we can't compare to the Yankees of the Dodgers.
They got all this well, we used to complain about Sky.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Let's play the season to see how they do. Tim Okay,
I got to run, Tim.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
I just don't want the Dodgers to ruin baseball because
the ratings on baseball are horrible right now without the
Yankees and Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Tim, this has been a really interesting phone call, and
I think we should end it right now. Thanks very much, doctor.
Later we covered the waterfront. Will take a break, I promise,
And I'm told that Sean has the Old Farmer's Almanac.
And if any of you would like to join the
conversation and actually have a conversation, I'm available at six, one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty. Had a couple of little frustrations there with Tim,
who normally is pretty much he was wound up tonight.
Join the conversation where I got some wide open lines here.
Let's have a conversation. It's the art of conversation. You talk,
I listen, I respond, You listen, you respond. That's the
way it goes. Okay, simple as that. Don't feel any pressure.
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Not put any pressure on anybody tonight. The pressure will
resume tomorrow night. We'll get to some some serious topics
tomorrow night. We had a great topic at nine if
you missed the nine o'clock hour with Professor Jeff Myron
when my producer and Rob is not the producer tonight,
but when Dan puts up the podcast from tonight's newscast,
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you want to listen to that nine o'clock hour with
Jeff Myron of Harvard University was great. Need a couple
more phone calls, give us the hell coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Let's go to the man who has the Farmer's Almanac. Sean,
bail me out here. How are you, buddy?
Speaker 6 (32:15):
I'm good Dan, How are you today?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Sir? Good? So what does the Farmer's Almond? Is it
the Farmer's Almanac of the Old Farmer's Almanac? I always
get that mixed up.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I think it's the Old Farmer's Almanac. And I just
went on Google and they do give you a summary too,
instead of having to pay for the subscription. I just
pull up the summar quip, which I thought you'd find interesting.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Let's hear it all right.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
So Region one is the Northeast. That's basically mass Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine, in eastern New York. The prediction is
there is always cold and snowy. That's no brainer. But
we're predicting a gentler the normal season that's not so
rough and tough. Then is how cold the winter be
winter temperatures will be about average overall. January expected to
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be about four degrees above average, but the oldest periods
will be mid December in late February.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, I don't think they nailed it then, Oh man,
I think that they tried to sort of cover themselves.
But what was that first sentence that you read.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
They're predicting a gentler the normal season that's not so
rough and tough.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I think that's where they blew it. I mean, obviously
it's funny when they write that. It's always sort of
open to some form of interpretation. But of course was
not a gentler season. The month of February has not
been It's been brutal. It's been brutal.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
And yeah, the final, the finals. In the as will
there be snow, it says yes, there'll be plenty of snow. However,
precipitation in snowfall will be slightly below normal by about
one or one half percent. The snowiest periods, it's important.
The snowiest periods will be in early December, mid February,
in early March.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, if it really keeps going here, okay, i'll take,
I'll take. I'll give them the mid February. But if
all of a sudden we've seen the end of the
snow and it's just going to be cold weather. The
big story is not that the storm, the snow we've
gotten has not been overwhelming. This is not twenty fifteen,
this is twenty twenty five. But the cold has been overwhelming,
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there's no question.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Sure. The wind exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh, I mean today it was howling. It was howling.
I I was outside for like maybe two minutes and
it was like, let me back inside. Yeah, brutal. How
is it up in Beverly. I'm sure you're on the
water up there. It has to be tough up there today.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
You see the signs, the street signs are blow in,
the lamp post are blowing, which is that's pretty heavy
for this air. Even so, it was, it was definitely
substantially that had to be pretty much bundled up all
the way.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
All right, seanppreciate you you're grabbing that for me. That
was very kind of you to do. I really do
appreciate it. Thank you much good I do, thank you, sir.
I got a couple of open lines, come on, fill
them up. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty
six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. This the
coldest winter you ever remember. It's the coldest winter for me.
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Let me see what Rick and Bill Ricker says. Rick,
am I on the money? Or what do you do?
You agree to disagree? Rick? Go right ahead?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Oh, I agree, it's it's more like cold Rica. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Yeah that was dead. It's been incredibly cold. My only
recollection of thinking about cold winters was in two thousand
and seven. I don't know if it extended into February,
but it was January or February. I remember I was.
I was at my parents' house. I was still living
with them, and there was stra a couple of stray cats,
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well one that I knew for sure, and there was
another beautiful cat that used to come and see me
at night and I'd feed him, and it was so
brutally cold. I had him sleep in my car a
couple of times. This was like January, maybe early February
twenty seven, and I ended up putting him in a shelter.
I put him in a shelter. I tried to I
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don't think he had an owner, and I tried put
the listing up. I love this cat. It was. It
was the cat chows me, but I couldn't have taken it.
So I put him in a shelter in Sudbury.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And what we call feral cats.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
One of them is that never I could never grab her,
but she used to see me. This this other one
may have had a place to stay. Looked really good.
But he didn't have a call her and he was
always out in the freezing at night. And but cats
have a high metabolism. They can stand the cold, you know,
because they stay warm somehow through their high metabolism. But
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I was so aware read I just said, I'm putting
this cat in the shelter. It's curious.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I'm just curious. How were you able to get the cat?
The federal cat wouldn't come close enough to to grab
him right or grab her.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Well, this this is I believe this was a This
was a boy and I was able just to put
this guy in a in a in a cat thing.
So it may it may have had an owner, but
I tried to put the word out and uh, there
was never a caller. And so.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
So understand I'm trying to stay here. So you you
get the cat, and you you scoop the cat. Out
and you put him in your car, and you at
least give him the warmth of the car at night.
Did you ever think about bringing him into the house or.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
No, Well, I couldn't have. At the time, I couldn't have.
It wasn't my host, you know, I couldn't record. But yeah,
I got I didn't have an option. But I just
remember I remember putting the cat in in a shelter,
and I found out that a nice, an older woman
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adopted him, and I visited him before he was adopted.
He was pissed at me. He wouldn't even look I
mean was he was not happy with me. But it
was so cold. It was so cold like right now.
But I don't know if it's just I'm reminded of
that small spian of time. I don't know. I think
it might. It's probably has been colder for a longer
(38:33):
period than in January two thousand and seven, but I
think it extended January into February. I can't remember exactly,
but it was around How.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Did you know so you brought him to the shelter.
Was he upset that you brought him to the shelter?
Is that is that?
Speaker 6 (38:51):
Well?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
The cat was pretty the cat was pretty easy, you know.
I was able to deal with the cat easily and
brought him to the shelter. And I tried, like a
couple of weeks putting up signs and no, I get that.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I get that. So he was your He was your
cat on a temporary basis. Good for you.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Yeah, he used to come at night. He was a dog,
a beautiful cat, and I had the cat was more
like a dog. He used to run to me. And
but I was so afraid with this brutal cold, it
could have even killed a cat, and the cat probably
would have survived fine, but it was a good looking cat,
and I didn't want it to become ragged. It may
have been left behind by a family that had moved
(39:33):
or something, but there was no indication of it. Always
ticks me off from people don't put collars on their animals.
But it was so cold, like now, that's what I
That's what I did, and I'll always remember that, and
it was what I thought I thought I was doing.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
You did a good thing. You took care of the
cat under some difficult circumstances, and the fact that he
ended up with an adoptive home. That's a great story.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
No, thank you, thank you. And like I said today,
with my house here, I could then I could grab
up a cat and to take the cat on if
it was if it looked like it was it was
really roughing it outside and it was too much, I
could help it. I couldn't at the time. It wasn't
my place. I just want to quickly add. So that's
the cold part, the snowy. But after my father died
(40:23):
it was twenty fourteen, and that winter was brutal because
I used to work for a town and I used
to remove the snow on that massive January twenty fifteen snowstorm.
I was like January twenty third or twenty fourth, there
was a snowstorm that was smaller a few days earlier
or something that only gave us a few inches. Then
(40:43):
this massive one comes along and I had I was
out all night.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Well I remember the first one. I mean I remembered
that first one. That's why I thought about it.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Yeah, absolutely, you're talking about the January twenty third, the
really one that mocked that season.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Oh, I remember the big one, but I remember the
one being forward and it just kind of started, that's all.
It was so simple that's right. That's that's how it
got going. So maybe I'm I'm more on the money
than Glenn was, because Glenn was insisting it was the
twenty sixth or or yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
I mean, I don't even know. I thought it was.
I knew it was. I knew it was into the twenties,
all right, it could have been. Yeah, but that was
a big window. Another big winter was twenty ten to
twenty eleven. That was a huge winter. And that was
all all right, Rick, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Let you run here. Man, I'm flat out. I think
I'm one more call. I going to try to sneak in. Okay, Thanks, Rick,
appreciate it. Thanks, talk to you soon. Good night. All right, Dan,
if you get that one of the call, let's wrap
them up here real quickly. Put the name up and
let's go. Mike. We're gonna give you a real quick
minute or so, go ahead, Mike.
Speaker 7 (41:46):
Oh listen a minute. Dan, I'm just curious. So this
last hour doesn't interest me. Maybe you know, obviously some
people called and were interested, but we can't change the weather.
Move to Florida, take a ten day vacation. I like
the season.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
So what would you like to have talked about this hour, Mike,
what what other than what would you like to what
would you like to have talked about?
Speaker 7 (42:09):
Well, I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining. I don't call
it a complaint, but just a suggestion when you're planning
your program. The professor that was on was very interested. Uh,
you had a lot of callers there. Why was opening
on nine to eleven? Two hours would have been great?
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Well, I'll tell you why, Mike. Let me explain to
you why sometimes when you're a professor at Harvard you
sometimes have classes the next day. You know, Mike, you
should you should apply for a job as a producer
and you can help us out here. Any suggestions you
want to make are always welcome. Uh. The comment that
you made to start off with, certainly end of the program,
which I thought was a pretty good program on a
bit of a hour. No, but I appreciate you calling nonetheless.
(42:48):
Oh a great one. All right, we're done for the night. Everybody,
all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
my pal Charlie ray Is, who passed fifteen years ago
this month. That's why your pets are passed. They loved
you and you love them. We'll see it get tomorrow night.
Glad that Mike called, but wish she called with a
more positive point of view. My name's Dan Ray. I'm
always positive. See you tomorrow night. Everybody. Thanks to Dan
(43:10):
for a great job tonight
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