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Article: WINTER WEATHER PHENOMENON CREATES QUITE A CONUNDRUM
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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If Albert Bernhard Nobel were alive today, I believe he would
offer a special prize to the individual who could explain the
mysterious human behavior triggered by cold weather. I call it the
"Winter Weather Milk and Bread Phenomenon."
Somewhere in physics, there must exist a formula that explains the
strange proportionate increase in human activity as it relates to the
decrease in temperature and the severity of a winter weather
forecast.
Consider this: My Postel Feed Mill thermometer read 8 degrees
below zero when I got up Saturday around 4 a.m.
By 4:15 a.m., you couldn't find a parking spot at the local Huck's
store. All the tables were filled with old farmers who had come to
town to get a ...