[speaker002:] have you snow had any snow up your way
[speaker001:] no we haven't had any since uh oh just before Christmas and uh we got a lot before Christmas the ski resorts were really excited and uh but now uh
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] we have we've had fog for about forty days in a row and temperature inversion so but no uh no snow
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] the snow's all melted off the mountains uh
[speaker002:] well I talked to a woman who lived up in the hills uh mountains in uh Utah uh guess this last weekend and she had uh quite a bit of snow on the ground her way
[speaker001:] uh-huh I guess there there's different parts of the state of Utah that that that does have some but uh not usually we have up to a hundred and fifty inches up at the ski resorts and they're down between thirty eight and uh forty inches
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] this time of the year and uh we've been in a drought for the last five years this is the sixth year and it's getting quite serious as far as water next summer
[speaker002:] yeah well the weather uh here is always a topic of conversation in Texas
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but uh we have wide variations and have warm weather when most people have cold weather but we have our share of cold weather as well the uh temperature this morning was right at freezing it didn't stay there but it was
[speaker001:] oh well that's that's different isn't it
[speaker002:] right at
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] we usually have some of our coldest weather toward the uh end of January but this year it wasn't bad at all I guess that's because we had so much rain
[speaker001:] I know my son was telling me about the rain down there he said yeah well it just and we read in the newspaper southern part of Texas I guess
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] flooded out
[speaker002:] well my uh my sister lives in Houston and they uh the river there was uh in the flooding stage near where her son lives and that uh caused some uh concern of course they have a uh lake cabin and uh their dock was completely under water on the lake
[speaker001:] oh wow
[speaker002:] so we really had a lot of rain
[speaker001:] yeah my son in Plano he lives fairly close to there's quite a wash that goes down uh through Plano
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and uh there's walking trails on both sides a walking path and uh when I've gone down to visit him I've gone on that but uh that was clear full and up to up to some of the streets I guess it just gets
[speaker002:] yeah we had a lot of flash floods in the area we had a few people who ran into uh water and a few fatalities just uh just uh a few not more than ten
[speaker001:] um-hum that's funny that uh we can't have it in moderation instead of having either a drought or having too much
[speaker002:] but
[speaker001:] seems like
[speaker002:] well the uh there's an old profane expression about Texas weather it's always too damn cold too damn hot too damn windy
[speaker001:] yeah well it's uh interesting uh I'm going down to El Paso next week and uh I was wondering what the weather was but I imagine that if it's that cold in Dallas it
[speaker002:] well El Paso won't be cold
[speaker001:] it's not a doesn't get that cold I guess huh
[speaker002:] no it's it's quite southern and it's it's rare to get real cold in in El Paso the uh you'll be flying in there
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] well uh take off is uh fun from El Paso because you normally the way the winds are you take off right toward the mountain the Rockies
[speaker001:] uh-huh yes
[speaker002:] and they're towering above you and so you circle back over the air and then make a circle around and come back over again
[speaker001:] right yeah we're kind of used to that here in Utah of course there are mountains and I fly into Montana a lot and we have a the mountains are are really uh high and a lot of places we go into you just kind of uh it's in the little valley but and I uh sure hope we we really need the moisture I hope we can get uh get some there's supposed to be a storm but it split went down through uh northern Arizona and southern Utah and
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] they're not predicting any for the next uh week anyway up here so
[speaker002:] well I noticed on the weather map on uh cable network that there was supposed to be a storm front moving into California and on down your way but I guess it didn't pan out huh
[speaker001:] yeah well that's that's what the went above uh some of it went to the south and some to the north up into Montana so that just left us we got a high pressure
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] system that's just been sitting in here and uh we broke the record for the amount of fog that we've had uh you know airport's been shut down uh till about noon everyday and they they seed the clouds or seed the fog to try to
[speaker002:] oh boy um-hum
[speaker001:] to get the airplanes in and out
[speaker002:] huh well we uh had a bad siege last uh Christmas a year ago we went up to visit my wife's uh sister who lives in uh Calgary Alberta Canada
[speaker001:] um-hum