[speaker002:] about the weather uh
[speaker001:] oh yes uh very appropriate I guess uh you ready for this
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] okay John just a moment  well guess what we get to talk about the weather uh
[speaker002:] the weather is uh this time of year has actually been kind of unusual I've expected it to be colder until you know what we've gotten last couple days
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I don't know I I fly for a living and I've uh the weather's been terribly unusual every where I've been
[speaker001:] oh you do so you you you probably go everywhere and have all sorts of weather and imagine it's kind of an experience also trying to land and take off in the weather
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah that way it was around here last night I'll tell you that
[speaker001:] well actually I'm I've I've heard on the news that we uh will be setting a record here in the state of Texas for the uh large amounts of rain and moisture we've had this year that it's gonna break all kind of records that were set set set back since nineteen thirty two
[speaker002:] no kidding
[speaker001:] so yeah if it uh keeps on raining like this and I understand it's supposed to rain until Saturday night
[speaker002:] hm Saturday or Sunday they were saying yeah
[speaker001:] oh yes so we're gonna
[speaker002:] yeah I know the systems have been real strong out I went through uh Phoenix on twice on uh Wednesday morning
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh shot approaches to low minimum it was both both times you know and Phoenix never gets that kind of weather
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] well so are you an airline pilot
[speaker002:] yes I am with Southwest yeah yep
[speaker001:] oh great with Southwest fantastic I have a brother I have a brother that's a pilot also with American
[speaker002:] yeah yeah oh is that right
[speaker001:] yes and so I imagine you uh oh with all this kind of weather it's uh makes it kind of dangerous for you
[speaker002:] well now I no I wouldn't call it danger this is uh this really isn't bad stuff to fly around in this is much better than dealing with the thunderstorms in the springtime
[speaker001:] oh I guess so yeah
[speaker002:] you know the the the air systems are reasonably calm you don't have uh the turbulence you know you little bit of chop but it's not like it is in the spring time
[speaker001:] um-hum oh yes well we moved actually down here from another location and it's spectacular the the thunderstorms and rain storms you get in the spring time the torrents of rain
[speaker002:] so  spectacular is the right word for them
[speaker001:] pardon me
[speaker002:] spectacular is a good word for them
[speaker001:] I've never seen a thunder show like I've seen down here before in in Texas
[speaker002:] it's amazing
[speaker001:] lights up the whole sky and even on a on a actually I've I've seen it where there's not a cloud in the sky it's a cloudless night and the rain isn't falling but you can see the thunder and lightning excuse me see the lightning going horizontally across the sky and and back and forth and what a light show it's it's fabulous
[speaker002:] oh yeah yeah yeah cloud to cloud it can be real really sensational here
[speaker001:] yes yes that's true
[speaker002:] yeah really where you from originally
[speaker001:] I'm from uh northern Utah and that's a very arid climate from uh Salt Lake City area
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and there's always a lot of snow in fact where I grew up we were about an hour's drive from seven to uh twelve different major ski resorts and so there was an awful lot of snow and because it was an arid climate the snow was always a crisp powder light snow
[speaker002:] oh oh yeah
[speaker001:] which made it fantastic for skiing and and sleigh riding and everything else so we had a great time and
[speaker002:] oh oh yeah yeah were you near Park they were near the Park Cities area
[speaker001:] um yeah
[speaker002:] yeah that's beautiful area
[speaker001:] in a in Snowbird and Solitude and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and Brighton and yes all those areas so I imagine have you skied before
[speaker002:] well we've skied I have not skied that area I've driven through it several times uh I've skied we skied California a bunch when we lived out there and
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh um and of course grew we grew up in Minnesota and we do some skiing there
[speaker001:] oh yes oh yes
[speaker002:] lot of cross country skiing there
[speaker001:] yeah great well do you think this the the weather is typical for this time of the year
[speaker002:] well not really I you know Minnesota's gotten just hammered with snow um the uh the um uh we've getting a fair amount of rain for this time of year already I I think and uh I've been surprised that we haven't seen more of the temperatures that we've got today you know that moved in last night
[speaker001:] yes yeah yeah it's been it's been cold there was a time though in the uh middle part of November that got really cool really really unseasonably cool
[speaker002:] yeah yes it did
[speaker001:] and then it warmed right back up and I thought great and that's
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] that's a fun thing yeah uh my wife was just listening here and she said yeah it froze in fact
[speaker002:] yeah it was it was real cold that was that was very unseasonable for us down here
[speaker001:] and uh but uh I've really enjoyed the weather down here too because uh two years ago we were the day after Christmas able to go out in shorts and play tennis in the nice sunny weather weather and it's not as severe I should say as the weather that I've experienced up in northern Utah
[speaker002:] yeah oh yeah that's that's real true same with us from Minnesota it's it's uh in fact I've I played golf on the first on the New Year's Day one year
[speaker001:] down here
[speaker002:] you know it was yeah yeah
[speaker001:] not in Minnesota
[speaker002:] no no no no
[speaker001:] I have a brother-in-law that lives in Minnesota and they say boy six months out of the year it's bitter cold and
[speaker002:] oh it is it is
[speaker001:] and the wind and the blowing snow and everything it's
[speaker002:] well and they've had uh you know usually in Minnesota they get their snow in January and uh February
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and they're up over sixty five or sixty