Month of November 2022 Nat’l Avg $3.758)

Gas may be plentiful, but to me in our Northwest, gas is not cheap. With the manual Elantra I was going to fill up at Costco for $3.859 (down from a week ago). But, I misplaced my Costco card. Going to one of my backup stations, I got it for $3.499. Still not cheap, but I saved $4+. Yeah, I can use the $4 very nicely.
After I gassed up, it was dark. Never liked driving in the dark much. No mountains, valleys, rivers or seas to see. But driving the manual Elantra was nice in the dark. The lights, not the super bright searing, blinding blue-white lights, as they come at you, but the Elantra lights are OK, specially at my poke-along speeds. Avoiding the freeway backup, I took Highway 9 home. Tho fairly busy traffic, the stoplights were pretty generous to us in the south bound lane & later in the multiple lanes. & of course, the manual shifter & 4 disk brakes made for positive & accurate responses, when razzle-dazzlers had to make their ways forward in the traffic. Yes, no nerves were jangled, & no spirits were depressed, & home was reached with all due comfort.

 

Whoa! Nothin’ about driving in this post. Just raised the Venetian blinds in the computer room. There is a sweet red-streaked cloud sunrise! AND there is a beautiful thin crescent moon higher in the sky, accompanying the sunrise! Just wonderful! I got to get to the window & look at it for a while. Bye.

 

Thanks, CleanMPGers! (US holiday)

 

Yes, after the outside parked Hyundai Accent thaws in the sun a bit, I’ll take a drive with binoculars to see how the animals are celebrating Thanksgiving Day! Hope I’ll see some good action. Anyhow, I started my Thanksgiving Day breakfast by eating……pumpkin pie!

Was looking at an ABC Thanksgiving Day parade……..but they truncated the actual picture strongly, so they could surround the image with still holiday decorations. I immediately found another parade that was full screen on NBC. It was much better with more impact. If TVs are getting increasingly bigger, there is no reason to make images smaller for the sake of “artistic freedom”.

PS……Got some good views with the PennCrest 7-15x35mm zoom binoculars. Was some Common Merganzers & other ducks on the river looking for their Thanksgiving dinners. A Bald Eagle flew off, just as I got him in the binoculars. Some good fog pictures as the sun streamed down thru the trees. Met some fishermen who were trying to catch a Thanksgiving Day fish, instead of the usual store-bought Turkey. Over at another site, Trumpeter Swans were taking their ease out in the open fields. Once in a while, one to 6 Trumpeters came to join the other Swans. Got some excellent views as they swept low over my head.
Lots of airliners were in the air, traveling on Thanksgiving Day. I saw 4 airliners, all in the same 15 power view.

 

I had chocolate pie for breakfast.

 

Chocolate pie! Oh that must have been good. Ya got me going. So I had more pumpkin pie…..with ice cream! & now we’re watching the Westminister Dog Show. So many spectacular dogs. It’s so strange all the new dog breeds.

Oh, watching the Wizard of OZ now. Oh, Boy!

 

FREE charge noted!

With 357,000 wonderfully excellent miles on our 3 Hyundai cars, I bet your wife’s Hyundai i10 is really roadworthy, too!

 

Went to Detroit to visit Jackie for two days.
Not actually Detroit , but Bloomfield Hills MI , which is
a LOT nicer. We had a very good visit. Home late Friday night.
round trip was 637.3 miles , fcd = 57.8 x .943 = 54.5 MPG.
My target speed was 60 MPH , with some "free" speed/MPG on downhills,

 

Edwin……you say that Chicago area doesn’t get as much Lake Affect snow as places further east. Does Detroit area get more Lake Affect snow?
Heard an early season weather report for Washington state, that some mountain areas are getting about 30% more snow than normal, while other areas are getting only about 10% more snow than average.

 

I don't really know. Jackie's coming here for Christmas so I may not go out there until the end of January.

 

re: lake effect snow

from Midwest Regional Climate Center at Purdue



more..

 

I lived there for a number of years in the mid-70s as a student. Not quite as snooty as Beverly Hills, but a lot of Michigan wealth resides there.

p.s. no offense meant toward Beverly Hills, just my impression from movies, other media, etc.

 

Oh, how interesting! Thank you Bill. It does appear, as Edwin states, that Lake Effect snow is worse, east of Lake Michigan as compared to west of the Lake, especially in southern latitudes into Illinois.With the quick overlays comparing the 2 different decade periods, there appears to be a slight reduction in lake-effect in “more recent” decades. Could that be due to variants of weather over time, or if the overlaps might be an indication of global warming? It would be nice if the Purdue report showed the same study up to 2022, specially including the Great Snow of 2014.
Anyhow, thanks again Bill!

 

Today , 40 deg F in Naperville , 41 in Elk Grove.
Wind SE 10
33.2 miles , fcd = 60.4 x .943 = 56.9 MPG.

 

Predictions for snow in the Salish Sea (Puget Sound) area, were supposed to begin around 12 Noon, PST today. Small flakes are falling right now(8:30AM, PST). Oh, now the predictions “predict” the snow should be coming down now. Ha ha. Parked cars, roofs, & lawns are starting to be covered. Three to five inches are supposed to fall, but warming rain is due to wash the snow away……maybe. Doesn’t sound like any rain will be strong. Predicting showers.
Anyhow, sounds like a good time to stay inside. King-FM (yeah…..the same station with its own thread here on CleanMPG) schedule says lots of my favorite music will play till the noon hour. OK, I’m listening.

PS……Snow is slackening. But its a short reprieve before more snow is due. Possibly, the coming (stronger?) snow is what was predicted earlier to begin around noon? Now predictions for 8 inches may occur in some areas…….time for popcorn! Got a Pepsi cooling in the refrigerator freezer. I like Pepsi really cold, but NOT frozen…….at least when I’m NOT cold.

 

Today , 24 deg F in Naperville , 25 in Elk Grove.
Wind W 17
33.3 miles, fcd = 58.3 x .943 = 55.0 MPG

 

From 11-29-22:

PS——7:43AM, 11-30-22: Got up this morning & we have 10 to 12 inches of snow on the ground. Needless to say, I won’t be driving anywhere, altho the roads may have been treated. Opening the computer room window, I see darker clouds moving into the mountains & gray clouds in all directions. Possible light rain showers today, altho a storm warning till latter afternoon is in effect. Colder, clearer weather for Thursday.

PS…..Hearing about more Lake-Affect snow on the Great Lakes. The winds could raise lake waves as high as 10 feet & greater, which should increase beach erosion.