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Old Sat Apr 13, 2013, 07:50pm
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I am jealous of all of you! Our high school season is scheduled to open April 22 but a couple of feet of spring snow has but that in jeopardy. I drove past one complex where the majority of Anchorage games are played and they trying to snowblow the fields.

I am hoping for a lot of sunshine this week!
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Old Sun Apr 14, 2013, 10:26am
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I am jealous of all of you! Our high school season is scheduled to open April 22 but a couple of feet of spring snow has but that in jeopardy. I drove past one complex where the majority of Anchorage games are played and they trying to snowblow the fields.

I am hoping for a lot of sunshine this week!

Umpire Ernie:

Don't be too quick to be jealous. My first H.S. game (baseball or softball) was supposed to be on Monday, April 01st (no April Fool's Day jokes please). It was a girls' varsity softball game and was canceled because the game time (05:00pm) temperaturee forcast was 38F with a windchill factor of 28F.

Yesterday I umpired a boys' varsity baseball DH at 10:00am. The temperature was 40F with a windchill factor of 30F and the temperature and the wind never did get better. MTD, Jr. was supposed to be my partner but had to scratch because a work scheduling screw up but ended up being assigned a girls' JV softball DH with a start time of 01:00pm and it was canceled because of the cold weather.

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Don't be too quick to be jealous. My first H.S. game (baseball or softball) was supposed to be on Monday, April 01st (no April Fool's Day jokes please). It was a girls' varsity softball game and was canceled because the game time (05:00pm) temperaturee forcast was 38F with a windchill factor of 28F.
If games here in northern VA would've gotten canceled due to those conditions, I would've umpired about 6 or 7 less games so far this spring. There have been three of my games where it was snowing. I have worked only one game (out of 11 total) in short sleeves.

But I guess things are much better here than up in AK.
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Old Mon Apr 15, 2013, 09:50am
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I don't suppose you want to hear how miserable it was yesteday when a I got out of the car after driving about a00 miles south and felt like I was in a sauna - about 85F and about 90% humidity...
Those days arent supposed to start till June/July...
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Old Mon Apr 15, 2013, 09:52am
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about 85F and about 90% humidity...
That's called a coolfront here.
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Old Mon Apr 15, 2013, 04:18pm
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Sorry to hear all the bad weather stories. I have had 1 game rescheduled due to rain. I have been able to work 6 HS Baseball and 24 HS Softball games since February 25th.
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Old Tue Apr 16, 2013, 07:35am
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That's called a coolfront here.
Hmmm a heat index of 102 is better than 108 granted but it's not much of a difference at that point.
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Old Thu Apr 25, 2013, 03:43am
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I am jealous of all of you! Our high school season is scheduled to open April 22 but a couple of feet of spring snow has but that in jeopardy. I drove past one complex where the majority of Anchorage games are played and they trying to snowblow the fields.
I am hoping for a lot of sunshine this week!
Spring for the most part have been good. Playoffs have begun......local HS girls are done. They did not make it past Bi-District.
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Old Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:02am
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They did not make it past Bi-District.
You have districts based upon sexual preferences?
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Old Fri Apr 26, 2013, 12:03am
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You have districts based upon sexual preferences?
OUCH!!
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Old Fri Apr 26, 2013, 08:00am
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You have districts based upon sexual preferences?
I'm in Nor Cal and we have gay softball leagues. But no gay HS ball, yet.
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Old Fri Apr 26, 2013, 08:03am
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I have my first HS playoff game tonight .... will be my 71st HS game this season inc. JV and pre-season scrimmages
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