> In a message dated 10/20/02 3:05:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> bockhouse_at_earthlink.net writes:
>
> > Hey, Moon--how cold does it get at night in the depths of the Wilmington
> > winter?
> On really rare occasions it has really gotten cold here but most winters
> maybe a 6 scattered nights with quick lows in the low 20's. The thing is
that
> over night lows can be twenty but it really only hit 20 for maybe 30
minutes
> just before dawn and was above freezing most of the night. The ground
almost
> never freezes here. For most of the winter over night lows are in the low
> 40's to mid 30's with an occasional, hard frost. Every once in a long time
> we'll get an arctic air mass and see several days of night time temps in
the
> teens but it's always above freezing in the daytime usually in the 50's at
> least. I have seen it really snow here three times in 30 years, once it
was
> more than two feet deep but the air temps never got below about 30 and it
was
> 70 by the next day or so. Nothing like a severe thunder storm with driving
> snow instead of rain. it all fell in about 4 hrs or so. I think they
called
> it ocean effect snow, really rare, but we do get an odd snow flurry every
> year or two. Our weather is greatly influenced by the ocean and the gulf
> stream off shore. One year in the early 80's it dropped down to around 12
one
> night, it was a real shock, pipes were bursting all over the place. It
stayed
> really cold for maybe 3 days or so. We get far more stretches of 70 and 80
> degree weather in the middle of the winter than we do cold. Nothing like
> getting a suntan on the beach in January! But you have to shelter amongst
the
> dunes to avoid the cold wind whipping in off the 45 degree ocean that time
of
> year.
>
> Moon
>
> Moon
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