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