What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 07:58 PM

...hmmm well, let's see......the land of flowers is very hot and sultry... the salt air has ninety eight percent humidity and it is ninety five...we've had a lot of rain finally and the fires are mostly out...now it's sinkholes cropping up...

flowers are wonderful this year...I have coreopsis daisies, pentas, caladiums, basil, mexican heather, hydrangea...the air smells like ripe fig trees ...we had fifteen inches of rain last month and five so far this month...rain brings out the scorpions,

I am off the porch from a late afternoon music session, driven in by mosquitoes, which I hear are carrying west nile virus to crows in the next county...lots of cicadas in the still wet air....it's great to be alive....hope everyone is having a nice day...harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:10 PM

Well, the weather was nice and seems OK again now. My parents went to see an outdoor production on Hamlet in Felbrigg (local National Trust Place and I believe, a lovely setting - I've yet to walk through the grounds). There was a flash and a bang and although the players at first tried to carry on, it was abandoned.

Garden here is great - enjoying new potatoes and brocolli at the moment. My favourite flower at the moment is the foxglove that decided to take root here. The roses, particularly one I believe is called "Rambling Rector" are looking splendid...

Jon

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:29 PM

Here in southeast Alaska we're in the middle of summer. Meaning it has cooled off again- down to the middle 50s, from the upper 60s- and the rains have been back since July 4th. Doesn't sound much like backyard barbecue weather, does it.

However, the flowers are in full, brilliant bloom and the grass is lush and green. The lilacs have just finished, astilbe and columbine are thriving, phlox in all its many colors is taller and brighter than I've ever seen it, on every hillside and dale, foxglove is blooming and stands about 4 feet tall now, on its way to 7 or 8 feet, petunias and pansies are in riotous color, nasturtium are budding and bachelor button is past its prime, day lilies are gorgeous yellow, scenting the air with their grapey, lemony, vanilla-y smell, the asiatic lilies are coming on; in the flower beds I have calendula,impatiens and geraniums.

Salmon are spawning and the eagles and sea gulls are in hog heaven; we are aware that if you don't want to meet bears it's not a good idea to go into the woods right now, especially next to a spawning stream.

Summertime- and the livin' is easy.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Benjamin
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:35 PM

It's been rather sunny. I've been tan this whole summer from working outside by the water. I've heard it was suppose to rain today. So far it's been sunny. I'm starting to wonder why I had to cut the grass yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MarkS
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:55 PM

Cooler than usual for this time of year in Pennsylvania, but thankfully no rain for the past week. My tomatos are finally growing and the zucchini is coming along great - but no joy with the peas this year. Lets hope for some slightly warmer weather for August == Mark

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 09:12 PM

South Portland Maine, temp 76 degrees, humidity, 50%. Perfect.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 09:35 PM

Orillia, Ontario, Canada - a sunny, breezy, gorgeous day, with small cumulus clouds. Could hardly be better.

- LH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 09:47 PM

Prescott, Arizona: mid-80s, mostly sunny, we had our first rain of the summer monsoon season today. The afternoon wind is blowing through the cottonwoods. The columbines have been up for a few weeks now, but most of the other wildflowers are over.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 10:40 PM

Bardstown Kentucky - the last four days have been gorgeous. low 80's F in the daytime, down to 55 F last night. This is unusual for July. Last Tuesday was awful. Even though it only got up to 94 or so, the humidity was about the same, would catch your breath and fog your glasses just to walk outside. I can come upstairs and visit Mudcat when it cools off, but I'll have to stay downstairs if it gets hot again.

My perennial garden is in full bloom. Garden phlox (from my grandmother's garden) is blooming, along with the Black-Eyed Susans. Coreopsis are still blooming too. My gardenia bush in a pot on the patio had its first bloom this week!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 10:45 PM

The past two days here in Tupelo, MS have been heavenly. Our oppressive heat / humidity has taken a vacation, and today actually gave a little hint of autumn.

So our weather is wonderful!

khandu

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 10:47 PM

Here in Virgin-eye-ay, it is as beautiful as it ever gets! Low to no humidity, warm and temperate, and sunny with a nice breeze. I only wish we were playing some outside gig this weekend. I imagine that this will not hold out for my groups next outside public performance. I can only hope and pray!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 11:58 PM

From the High Plains of eastern Wyoming, US--Hotter than the Hubs of Hell. Last two weeks it has been over 100F nearly every day. Hasn't even cooled off much at night. Maybe down to 80. The two days it did not reach 100, we had Gale Force winds and 4" of rain each day.......(caused flash flooding but not too bad). Now it's hot again and VERY humid because of the rain.

At least the rain helped the fire danger; going to be another bad fire summer in the West, I'm afraid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:32 AM

Phoenix, Arizona-105 to 116 degrees. Very, very hot. I envy artbrooks who lives less than 100 miles away.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: fox4zero
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:45 AM

Block Island, RhodeIsland: clear, dry, sunny, mid-70's today and mid-sixties tonight. About the highest average winds in the U.S. and today was no exception. Glorious weather for our Bastille Day party this evening! Larry Parish

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 09:56 AM

Sort of damp and grey at the moment.Last week we had temperatures well into the 80s and children were dropping with heat stroke at school but it didn't last long!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:21 PM

The last few days have been perfect here. Temperatures in the mid seventies to low eighties. Low humidity. Gentle breeze. A few clouds in an otherwise clear blue sky. I wish it could be like this all summer long.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:42 PM

There were some exotic places visited along this line. Now back down to the ordinary, Lurgan Co Armagh,Ireland, Temp low 60`s now dropping to mid 50`s 6.30pm, no extremes, Winter and Summer I can walk my dog. I remember paying a a visit to my US cousins and suffering in the low 100`s in West Virginia. I was also informed that in Winter you were also inhibited by heavy snow. Yes the locals may moan about our extra ration of rain but I will take this anytime in preference to most US climates. Where ever you are enjoy the rest of the day. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:48 PM

I'm in West Virginia. It's gorgeous here right now. However, it is pretty common for the heat and humidity to be opressive. Snow isn't a big problem in this part of the state, but it can be in the higher elevations of the more mountainous parts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 05:00 PM

Carol, I forgot to add your state is beautiful and all of the people I met, I remember we drove from Charleston to Logan County and not a feuding Hatfield or McCoy to be seen.Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 05:15 PM

(*smile*) Ard Mhacha, you are very gracious.

(We make West Virginia jokes here, too.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 05:20 PM

Well yesterday in London we had a mini tornado making it's way up the Thames, but regrettably, it stopped before it hit that Godawful Millennium Dome.... shame... It did bring with it a fairly ferocious thunder storm though... and some torrential rain. Today has been a bit Vivaldi - four seasons. Very hot and sunny this morning, cloudy and breezy at lunch time, a few spots of rain this afternoon, and chilly with no wind but great grey clouds this evening....

Happy St Swithuns' Day. Another 40 more like this to come!!

LTS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:09 PM

Central west New Jersey, in the Delaware Valley - about 80 degrees at the most with low humidity. Down to 50 at night. This morning on my way to work I had to turn on the heat in my car. The tomatoes are starting to produce fruit, and the squash is blossoming. Groundhogs ate my beans, but they are trying to come back.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:38 PM

"Don't mind the weather, if the wind don't blow"

very pretty here right now north of Wash DC

guess our local, sometimes poster, SongBob is doing ok, too he doesn't need to sing this now

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:54 PM

From the west coast of Vancouver Island, a cool wind came up from Washington State a couple of days ago bringing the temperature down to the low 20s and threatening a sprinkle of rain. Lowered the fire hazard in the bush and gave me the impetus this afternoon, to stack in the shed, the bales of sweet smelling hay that have been sitting in the driveway for the past week.

I itch and as usual I'll ache tomporrow, but I am thankful for the pleasure of the aroma and the connection to the earth and seasons the job provides.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:02 PM

ahhh...LTS...you have a delightfully wacky sense of humor!!! .... but there is no such thing as "chilly with no wind"....*wink*

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dorrie
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:11 PM

its stopped being summer already in hull they say its nevre dull in hull but they're wrong

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 02:00 AM

Ah Harpgirl, you have a point. Were that it were so though.... I'd have more of it!

There were some photos of our tiny tornado in the papers, surprised no-one else mentioned it.... it travelled down the river and got to within 2 miles of my place.... it got so dark I had to put the lights on and the street lamps came on!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 03:02 AM

Sunny,but not hot here, its 8AM on the east coast of England.I think Dorrie is right, summer has ended here.john

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 08:18 AM

Even the eighty year old folks I have asked have never seen summer weather like we've had this year this in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. So far this summer, we've only had about a half dozen days of 30C and above. The rest of it has been 10 to 15C overnight and 20 to 25C daytime, RH around 50 to 80%, and little rain. Don't expect it will last much past the new moon, though.

The New Brunswick shore of the Northumberland straight is a big tourist draw because of the warm waters and beautiful beaches but I've seen a lot of them walking around with jackets and long pants and disgusted looks on their faces.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 05:19 PM

Nashville, TN - mid to high 80s the last couple of days, very pleasant evenings. It's supposed to get hotter this week, though. ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,emily b
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 06:30 PM

I'm here in Houston and it's been hot, mid-90's and quite humid. Many mosquitos after our big flood last month. Summer is nowhere near over. It'll be like this through Sept. at least. Right now I'm in the middle of a thunderstorm that is no doubt lowering the temp a bit but the a/c will continue to run for a few months. The crepe myrtle is beautiful, I found a lone, late magnolia on Saturday that I buried my nose in for that wonderful scent.

I'm a city girl who doesn't grow things except rosemary and bouganvilla which is also beautiful. All the perfect weather elsewhere sounds too good to be true but I know it is true. I'm escaping to Maine in a few days so maybe Kendall's perfect weather will hold for me. I'll have to put out another thread about music up there.

Please, everyone up north, flap your arms collectively and send a cold front this way. We would be forever grateful.

All the best,

Emily

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Atomic.T
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 11:20 PM

Rain and more rain at the moment in the winter of New Zealand bush...but ...that's why we live here

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Angie
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 10:23 AM

Pretty mingin here in devon, never mind I'll be in Scotland next week and no doubt it will be sunny.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: English Jon
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 11:40 AM

Pissing down like a bastard.

EJ

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Louisa
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 11:53 AM

Dark and gloomy and raining! Horrible. The summer better come back soon

Louisa

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Cheydi
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 11:54 AM

There are many scientific terms, but I think 'crap' sums it up nicely.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: English Jon
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 12:01 PM

Currently we have a bit of an occluded front, as we say in East London.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 02:11 AM

Sydney, Oz - just glorious. About 18 degrees Celsius and it's mid winter; almost sunbaking weather.
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DancingMom
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 07:13 PM

Raining kitties and puppies at the moment, but we were getting desperate for rain in VA. Muggy, humid. It's supposed to COOL OFF when it rains! But I picked the first tomato off my vines today. It's a beaut. Doing lots of herbs this year, and I have pink and blue morning glories running up and down my fence, and burgundy hollyhocks. And it's all starting to come back year after year. AND my teenager enjoys weeding! Cool, huh? Sharon

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gervase
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 07:22 PM

The weather? More like bloody climate. And so very English - pissing down and pissing off the cat, who doesn't appreciate rain. He's starting to take it out on the furniture and my feet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:00 AM

Just starting to cool off a bit (down to about 90 and its 11PM here) in middle Kansas from 105 degrees this afternoon. Humidity also high. Can't even hope for rain very hard because you get severe thunderstorm warnings and possible tornados with it. I'd rather have snow up to my butt anytime than this kind of heat. Come on, December.

Lin (kvetch, kvetch, kvetch...)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pattyClink
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:37 PM

Okay, so it's hot as blue blazes! It's bright and humid and sweaty and the UV index is at 'warning' level. I am going to leave a frozen bottle of water in my car while I go walking at lunch, knowing it will be liquid before the first lap is over. It's Hot. But the tomatoes and peaches are trying to apologize.

And we'll bring the subject up again again in February, you girls and boys of the North Counteree!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:52 PM

Well, just as I posted above. New moon tomorrow and the next three days are forecast to be in the high twenties C. I expect the next few weeks will be low to mid 30's, but hopefully that won't go on too much after the next full moon. All depends on the cloud cover. Could be two weeks or six weeks of hot weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 09:22 PM

HOT

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 11:50 PM

It isn't. The weather here has gone on strike, because it's sick of everyone talking about it. We have no weather anymore. It's a real problem. People don't know what to say to each other, and they are getting really crabby and tense. Things are going downhill around here fast, so I think I will just stay indoors for awhile...

- LH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gypsy
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 10:39 PM

Well, we are at the height of summer. Which means: fog with delusions of granduer (trying to be wet) to grey. When tourists ask when the fog will burn off, i look at my watch and reply: October! :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 11:12 PM

I like it hot. Some don't. But I do like the nights to be cool.... Every window it is safe to open at night, is open creating enough draught to make the door bang, but not enough to cool me down. Which is why I'm posting here at 4.15am GMT. Just off for a semi naked wander in the garden I think.....

LTS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Melani
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 12:14 AM

San Francisco Bay Area--low clouds and fog in the morning, clearing to near the coast by midday, highs in the 60's near the coast to the 90's in the warmest inland areas, lows tonight in the 50's...the other day the radio announcer said, "And the weather today--oh, you already know it." We are remarkably consistent.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 12:19 AM

STILL HOT!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 12:23 AM

HOT!! (100F/38+?C) Tonight, severe thunderstorms and rain with lightning, and still hot. At least the rain will help with the fires. I too, prefer "too hot" to "too cold." I seem to always be able to cool off, but never get warm, esp at temps below 0 F/-32 C. Shudddddddeeeerrr. Please cover my feet.

Why is it that cold looks colder in Centigrade, and hot looks hotter in Farenheit? Shouldn't there be a "real relative" scale, (grin)?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Shields Folk
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 03:47 AM

AND NOW THE SHIPPING FORECAST ISSUED BY THE MET.OFFICE AT 0505 ON TUESDAY 31 JULY 2001

THERE ARE WARNINGS OF GALES IN FINISTERRE

THE GENERAL SYNOPSIS AT 0100 SHALLOW LOW TYNE 1017 MOVING RATHER QUICKLY EASTSOUTHEAST AND FILLING. ATLANTIC LOW MOVING STEADILY NORTHEAST EXPECTED 150 MILES WEST OF SOUTH BAILEY 1014 BY 0100 TOMORROW. NEW LOW EXPECTED SOUTHEAST FINISTERRE 1012 BY SAME TIME

THE AREA FORECASTS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

VIKING NORTH UTSIRE SOUTH UTSIRE NORTHEAST FORTIES WEST OR NORTHWEST 4 OR 5. SHOWERS. GOOD

SOUTHWEST FORTIES CROMARTY FORTH VARIABLE, MAINLY NORTHWESTERLY, 3. ISOLATED SHOWERS. GOOD

TYNE NORTHERLY 3 OR 4 BECOMING VARIABLE 3. MAINLY FAIR. GOOD

DOGGER CYCLONIC BECOMING NORTHERLY 3 OR 4, THEN VARIABLE 2 LATER. RAIN AT FIRST. MODERATE OR GOOD

FISHER NORTHWESTERLY 4 OR 5. SHOWERS. GOOD

GERMAN BIGHT VARIABLE 3 BECOMING NORTHWESTERLY 4, OCCASIONALLY 5. RAIN THEN SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD

HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT WESTERLY VEERING NORTHEASTERLY 3, OCCASIONALLY 4. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD

PORTLAND PLYMOUTH WESTERLY BECOMING VARIABLE THEN EASTERLY, 3. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD

BISCAY NORTH OR NORTHEAST 3 OR 4, INCREASING 5 IN WEST. THUNDERY SHOWERS IN FAR SOUTH. MODERATE OR GOOD, BUT OCCASIONALLY POOR IN FAR SOUTH

SOUTH FINISTERRE NORTHEASTERLY 6 OR 7, OCCASIONALLY GALE 8, BECOMING CYCLONIC 5 LATER IN FAR SOUTHEAST. THUNDERY SHOWERS. MODERATE OCCASIONALLY POOR

NORTH FINISTERRE NORTH OR NORTHEAST 4 OR 5. FAIR. MODERATE OCCASIONALLY POOR

SOLE NORTHWESTERLY VEERING NORTHEASTERLY 3. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD

LUNDY FASTNET WESTERLY VEERING NORTHERLY 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY 5 AT FIRST. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD

IRISH SEA NORTHERLY 4 OCCASIONALLY 5 BECOMING VARIABLE 3. MAINLY FAIR. GOOD

SHANNON NORTHWESTERLY BACKING SOUTHWESTERLY 3 OR 4, INCREASING 5 LATER IN NORTHWEST. RAIN OR DRIZZLE LATER. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE WITH FOG PATCHES

ROCKALL MALIN NORTHWESTERLY BACKING SOUTHERLY 3, INCREASING 5 OR 6 LATER. RAIN OR DRIZZLE LATER. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE OR POOR, WITH FOG PATCHES LATER IN ROCKALL

HEBRIDES WESTERLY 4 BACKING SOUTHEASTERLY 5 OR 6. SHOWERS THEN RAIN. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE OR POOR

BAILEY WESTERLY BACKING EASTERLY 4 OR 5, DECREASING 3 FOR A TIME. SHOWERS THEN RAIN. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE OR POOR

FAIR ISLE FAEROES WESTERLY 4 OCCASIONALLY 5. SHOWERS. GOOD

SOUTHEAST ICELAND WESTERLY 4 BACKING SOUTHERLY 3. SHOWERS. MAINLY GOOD

The Shipping Forcast

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: sledge
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 08:12 AM

Well since I got back to work out here in North Africa, its been hot, damned hot. Today though its exceeded that and is now chuffing hot. Difficult to say what the temp is cos the thermometer burst a while back. Its often windy as well, the winding is also chuffing hot and contains half a ton of sand in each gust, this mean that we never have to buy overpriced cleansing products that promise to remove dead skin and so on, we just go outside for 5 minutes with t shirt off. Oh yes, no clouds, just perfect blue.

Sledge (done this side flip me over)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,53, Glenda
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 09:12 AM

Half an Hour from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA: beautiful day today, blue sky, not as humid as usual - only 90% today. 70 degrees this morning but warming up to low 90s later.

We've been having some rain everyday lately, but that is better than drought.

Enjoying farm produce like okra, watermelons, cantaloupes, beans, etc. from the local farmers market.

Glenda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rowana (at work)
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 09:22 AM

It's glorious in southern New Jersey this last day of July. Very low humidity; early morning temperature of low 60s; expected high is 83; sunny; light breeze. Had fresh Jersey blueberries for breakfast and will have a fresh Jersey peach for lunch. Life is good!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Drumshanty
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 09:33 AM

I am sitting at work looking out on to West Parliament Square in Edinburgh. The tourists are flooding the place and most look quite happy - nice. There is a young man sitting beside St Giles Cathedral playing a clarsach - I think the tune is "Dark Island" - which lends an air of serenity to a chaotic scene.

It has just clouded over after a morning of blue skies and scuddy white clouds. It is very warm but, judging by the past few days, it will rain before dark. Edinburgh seems to have missed out on the heatwave so far.

Tracy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 02:54 PM

Here in the north of Scotland, 50 miles north of Inverness that is, the weather is rubbish. Once again it rained to-day for a short time. I don't think that we've had any more than 10 days without rain since end of May, this is without doubt the most miserable summer I can remember. I'm going over to Boston and points north from 6th September for 2 weeks, so it will probably rain there too. Excuse me Mudcatters but I'm feeling paranoid.

You know what they say, "Just because nobody's getting at you; don't mean you can't feel paranoid"

Jock

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 01:55 PM

Weel that sort of killed that one then!!!!!!!!!!! Jock

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: vindelis
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:53 PM

Not as hot as it has been and still waiting for the thunderstorm predicted yesterday. 77oF in the shade, on Sunday was too hot for me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Arnie
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:05 PM

Verrrryyyy wet today in Dover! However, off to France tomorrow so hope for a bit of sun - helps the wine go down smoothly!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:33 PM

Just came in again to have a look, thanks Shields Folk for that lovely poetry the Shipping Forecast. Used to go to sleep listening and making my way down through the cold North Sea passing Shields on the way and heading south to Plymouth and round into the Irish Sea and I seldom made it to Malin, out like a light. Lovely, better than counting bloody sheep. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:54 PM

Hot, muggy, steamy, and slightly overcast. Could be worse.

- LH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,guinnesschik
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 08:54 AM

Hot! Mostly dry. I have to water every day, and my miniture rosebush is failing. The only thing in my garden that seems to be doing well is the aloe vera. It's been in the low 100's, down to about mid 80's at night. Did I say hot?

In the north Texas area, late summer takes on the smell of dried grass and hot asphalt. We try to do all of our travelling after sundown, and even the the kids have become nocturnal creatures. I'm a mom, so I never sleep, and sunrise and dusk are my favorite parts of the day this season.

Anyone in a northern clime wish to summer in Texas? We'll do a time share thing.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Cheydi
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 09:01 AM

Yes please. Last time I was in Texas (early May) my knees stopped hurting for the first time in years. Want to swap now?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: LR Mole
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 10:02 AM

Cloudy and close in Rhode Island. Chance of big donder and blitzen tonight, with heavy rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 10:21 AM

...we've started a hurricane watch here on the Gulf. 120 days left in hurricane season. TS Barry seems to be going towards Louisianna but recent forcast models indicate a northerly turn. Still too soon to tell. It's hot and sunny but the rain is due tomorrow. I'm going to Gainesville to play autoharps since I can't get away longer for Clifftop...wish I was there....harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:32 AM

...Good News! No hurricane in LaFlorida!!! However....it is a frog-strangler today....hg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:39 AM

Muggy in southeastern Mass.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: brid widder
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 12:44 PM

wet all day in Hull....but back to sunshine tomorrow apparently

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: guinnesschik
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:03 PM

I am ready to swap now, Jim. Where are ya'?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bobbi
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:27 PM

Caliente'! Ready for Winter...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:37 PM

It's hot......it's real friggin' hot.......and it's humid........it's real friggin' humid. The word "friggin'" here applies to only the weather 'cause it's too damn hot and humid for the other kind!

I was hoping we'd make it through this summer without one of these episodes, but it's Ohio and in the midwest, this is the way of things. We have now had a 110 degree difference in temperature this year so all is about normal.

I hate the weather dudes on the tube............

"There's some relief coming as the cold front moves through.".......Lemmee ask you if 5 degrees seems like relief? When the humidity is at the 80-90 level, who cares?

or

"We have the potential for some thunderstorms popping during the evening hours and of course this time of year severe weather including flash floods and tornados."........Yeah, great....at least the wind will be blowing.

or

"Thunderstorm activity will be scattered and I hope it doesn't interfere with your fun wherever you are.".........Fun? Sweating your ass off is fun? What did I miss here?

What he's referring to is the State Fair now in progress. I love County Fairs and Ohio has lots along with assorted festivals. My county has there fair in October......cool weather, fall colors, a beutiful od time red roofed permanent fairgrounds...it's a postcard from another era. But the state fair???? It's August, it's hot. It's dry and dusty, but the humidity allows the dust to cake on you like a clay colored "Man-Tan." Then it pours down rain and the place turns to mud. But the sun pops out about twice as hot with the extra humidity and the mud dries quickly leaving you once again covered in dust. I haven't gone to the damn thing in 35 years and I'm still trying to get the crud off from that time!

Still, I'm an Ohio boy and I've lived a lot of other places..................but home is home ain't it?

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Shields Folk
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:46 PM

Its not friggin hot in Shields!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Shields Folk
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:49 PM

See for Yourself

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Cobble
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:54 PM

WET.

Cobble.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 09:28 PM

What catspaw said, only in New Jersey. And no rain. It's time for the annual drought. At least I have a deep well and really cold water. I can go lie in the tub for an hour. And to continue his gripe about the weather reporters: why do they have to deliver bad news with a smile? HOW ABOUT THOSE TORNADOES IN TEXAS, HUH? HA HA, AND BOY IS IT HOT, A HUNDRED DEGREES HERE IN NJ AND NO RAIN FOR 6 MONTHS!!!!!HA HA HA, BUT IT'S AIR CONDITIONED HERE IN THE STUDIO, SO THE HELL WITH YOU VIEWERS OUT THERE!!!! I checked the Criminal Code book at work, and apparently, weather reporters are not exempt from the laws against murder or manslaughter. Our laws need updating.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 10:14 PM

haven't read the rest of the replies..but it is hot and extremely beautiful in Vancouver, WA. I am moving to Long Beach, WA in a week or two for a job with WSU. Kite capitol of at least Washington. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 10:35 PM

My inside thermometer with outside sensor said 118F (47C?) today. I think it was a tad off as the bank thermometer only said 111. No rain, dry as a bone, and fires everywhere. I'm spending a lot of time in the pool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bert
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:15 PM

Bleedin' 'taters! In the Pot that is, not in the Mould.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: guinnesschik
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 10:19 AM

Ssshhhhh! Don't tell Jim we have tornadoes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Fortunato
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 10:30 AM

arlington, district of columbia, southern baltimore, including the cities of alexandria, arlington, baltimore, falls church, washington 330 AM EDT TUE AUG 7 2001

...heat advisory for today... ...excessive heat watch Wednesday through Thursday...

Today...patchy morning fog...otherwise mostly sunny with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot and humid with highs in the upper 90s. West wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight...partly cloudy with areas of fog developing. Lows in the mid 70s. Calm wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 12:39 PM

You wouldn't believe how many 'lower 48' people have come up to southeast Alaska these last two weeks! Here our current temps are in the low 70s, sometimes misty. Just the way I like it.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 03:53 PM

Shields Folk, I spent three winters in sunny Sunderland just a couple of miles south of Shields and it was bloody perishing, but the warmest people you will ever meet. Right now in County Armagh Ireland 9pm it is a pleasant 60. Slan Ard Mhacha

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:23 PM

Hotter than the hinges of hell. We had one of those brief "scattered showers" the other day, and everybody felt like the steamed broccoli in a Chinese restaurant.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:30 PM

Yesterday: 113degrees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:30 PM

It's 103 in Richmond ,Va.right now!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:40 PM

'Fox, I am so sorry that I fouled up our meeting and all 'cause I sure could have used a shot of Goshen right now!!

It's still hot.......no breeze to amount to anything. Word is the weekend may get cooler although I'm waiting to see and not counting on it. We're all living down in the big den which is the only palce that's air conditioned. The main house ventilates well, but it's still way too damn hot. The fans upstairs blow hot air and I've got them all (but one) set to blow the air out of the house, but it's still pretty hopeless. I also notice that folks around town are getting crankier.......I am anyway.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: black walnut
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 04:22 PM

Intense.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 05:09 PM

(speaking of cranky) I'll let you do it this once, 'Spaw, but if I ever catch you apologizing for having an excellent reason to change our meeting date, I'll give you a dopeslap to the head worthy of Click and Clack, the Tappett brothers. OK? Probably just after we meet and hug. *G* Yeah, I guess we'll have to make do with our local brands today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Grab
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:00 AM

Just been to give blood, and I thought after that I'd have some good karma. No such luck. In the car on the way back, it started raining so hard that I had to slow down to 20 so I could see where I was going. Got back to work, still raining. Sat in the car for 5 minutes waiting for it to clear, still raining. So I thought I'd better get into work, rain or not. I was soaked to the skin by the time I'd locked the car door, and was utterly dripping by the time I reached the entrance. Lucky I did make the dash though - it's taken half an hour for that rain to stop!

Graham.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Firecat
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:11 AM

I'm just about to look out of the window. Hang on...

The sky's kind of a bluey-greyey colour. There's loads of clouds and no sun to speak of! So basically it's lousy!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:18 AM

Grab, Firecat, I'm willing to swap, even up, for a day or two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:31 AM

(95°F and 90% humidity)..Hot & Muggy....and Tueggy...and Weggy...maybe some relief by Fryggy

and G.W. Bush left this for Texas....only sense he has shown, at least the humidity is lower and the pollution warnings are not ringing...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 12:06 PM

Yesterday I spent the day on an excursion boat to Tracy Arm, a fjord about 40 miles from downtown Juneau. My face got a bit sunburnt, I see this morning. It was an absolutely gorgeous day.

We saw whales, orcas, bears, mountain goats; acquamarine water, glaciers piled 800 feet into the sky... They 'calved' several times while we watched, but the most spectacular thing was having a 'shooter' come roaring up from the very depths of the glacier. It was like being present at the birth of the world. It was tremendously big, longer than a city block, tall as a ship, and shiny as a satin wedding dress colored in an unbelievable shade of opalescent blue and silver. When you realize that the top of a glacier has been there for several hundred years, who knows how long it's been since the bottom of it has seen the light of day. As the captain said, I hope you realize this is a very big event!

Incidentally, to bring this back to music, we talked about how neat it would be to 'park' there and have a music party.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 12:26 PM

9:30 am temp, 87 degrees, humidity 70% This is Maine? we already broke a 100 year record the other day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 12:31 PM

The only reasonable place around is in the shower. Or under the hose outside. One of those kiddie pools is sounding VERY good right about now!

Lets all go visit Ebbie!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 02:48 PM

Guinnesschick, I live in what you might call a northern clime (so do Kendall and Jeri, for that matter- I notice it's taken until now for northern New England to post here!). Believe me, you don't want to swap. Not this week at any rate. The heat index for my region is supposed to reach 115 F today- no break until tmw night. I could use a bloody miserable rainy northern Scotland right about now.
I'm coping like a newborn, tho- I took about the second nap of my life a little while ago- really slept for almost an hour. Later my kids and I are going shopping in the air conditioned stores (way up north here we don't generally invest in air conditioning- most summers there's not much point to it!). Guess I'll go give the dog a bath. At least I'll get wet!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Firecat
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 07:20 PM

Hollowfox, you're on!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 08:22 PM

I wouldn't be too sure G.W. bettered himself. I was raised about twenty miles from Crawford, Texas, and lived in Washington, D. C. for two years. They are both pretty miserable in the summer.

Here in Phoenix, we had a cool front move through today. it only got up to 95 degrees. Humidity probably 25%.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:18 PM

Hotter than the hinges of Tofit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:20 PM

Saw a dog chasing a cat, they were both walking.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:36 PM

YUCK!! It is a friggin' godawful time to be a chef!!!! I survive by arriving at the kitchen at 6 in the morning and doing all of the cooking by 10:30 or 11 It's a bit slow as no one wants to eat much. sitting at the computer, dripping sweat, no breeze, whine, whine, growl, whine . . . . What is this?? 90 in the SHADE, in VERMONT?? whine, whine, whine. . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Firecat
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 07:33 AM

Hollowfox, please swap! It's even worse now. I was kept awake by a thunderstorm last night!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 08:00 AM

Not one blade of green grass anywhere in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Someone swap us some rain. We've been getting 35C and 50%RH. Roofing crews are pulling off at noon because the shingles are like a skating rink. Today's humidex is forecast at 43C. I can't imagine some of the heat and humidity described above. How do people work in 95F/95%RH or 115F !!??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: guinnesschik
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:00 AM

Well, at least we have that lovely cripsy leaf smell to look forward to, if the heat doesn't singe your nose hairs....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 10:06 AM

101 degrees F on Thursday, Aug. 9, hottest day ever in August since the Attleboro, MA, water department started keeping track of these things in 1938.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 10:44 AM

We had rain last night and this morning, and it's much cooler. Thanks, Firecat, your drought is in the mail.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 01:02 PM

So sorry for all you good hot people in the US, it is a nice 65 Degrees in Lurgan Ireland, just walked my dog around a lovely Lough and he enjoyed a nice swim, the luxury of being able to go for a walk. When I was in the States I found the weather good training for Hell.Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DancingMom
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 08:45 PM

Good training for hell is RIGHT ON TARGET! It's STILL 103 in Richmond, VA, and humid, hazy,and just obnoxious. This is worse than being cabin-bound with a house full of kids in the dead of winter. (bitchbitchbitch) But, Ah! Nine P.M. Friday night, and what do I hear? Thunder? Be still, my heart, it's THUNDER!! Sharon (leaving now to go sit on the porch.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeep man
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:18 PM

North Carolina Mountains.

The heat lays on the land like a heavy wet blanket which can not be removed. The sultry nights make me long for the crisp cool air of autumn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 06:36 PM

Its freezing cold, with wild winds blowing, snow on the Blue Mountains, rain, trees are being blown about, dogs flying down the street - its Bad weather here in Sydney.

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Cruiser
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 06:52 PM

That weather sounds good freda.

Here in southwestern Arizona it is a relatively cool 108 degrees with a monsoon dewpoint of 56 degrees. Muggy, sweaty, and cloudy, but it does not rain (we desperately need rain).

Cruiser

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 10:11 PM

We've had an odd summer- entirely too much sun. Last month we had a record breaking 8 days in a row of 80plus degrees. One day we even hit 86! The humidity was down, which helped.

Then the last several days we've had warm, sunny weather again. Keep in mind that Junea, Alaska, is in a temperate rainforest- if we didn't get rain, we'd have to call it something else. Texas, maybe.

Today we're back to the misty, silvery, soft air that I love, with wispy clouds clinging to every crevice and curve of the mountains all around. The top of Mt. Roberts is lost in clouds that in most places would indicate a smoking volcano.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 10:41 PM

My wife and I spent today at San Diego's Sea World. Beautiful warm sunshine, dolphins spashing water all over us as we watched the show from the second row. Water rides and Mexican food filled out a wonderful day.

I'm a little sunburned, but I'll live. Besides, tomorrow I'm heading back over to Amos' house for some more beer, food and folk music. 5 more days here until we head back to Anchorage. This is a great place to spend a couple weeks, but it will be good to be back home.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mike_in_st_c
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 11:08 PM

My wife and I just got back from Tobermory on the peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay here in Ontario. Rained most of the time. Saw reports of flooding in Peterborough, ON. Of course as we were driving back to St. Catharines, it was sunny. Cloudy, cloudy, cloudy. Off and on rain in St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. Good for the grape vines, I guess.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 02:40 AM

Ebbie, your beautiful description of Junea, Alaska, (in a temperate rainforest) has just blown all my ideas of what Alaska is like..

its great reading about the hot & cold in all these places.. just had coffee with a neighbour who has just driven back to sydney from Victoria (further south) - they drove through 60k of snowfields from Yass to Goulburn in NSW - so Thats why we're so cold here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 03:39 AM

Well I just re-read my original post from 31 July 2001, and it's deja vu all over again [tautology] We've just had the wettest June for 36 years, and July is heading down the same path. Our summers here are definitely getting wetter, with the sunshine hours down by a long way, plants in my garden suffer from wind burn regularly, and that never used to happen in summer. It's true what they say, "The world's going to hell in a hand basket"
Giok

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 04:02 AM

There are such severe snowstorms in some of the snowfields that they have had to close quite a few skilifts.

High winds here in Sydney, roofs off buildings, trees down, the harbour is too rough for the Manly ferry to run, there is snow in places that have not seen snow for years. More storms, rain and wind expected for the next couple of days too. The Weather Bureau has put out a warning for "Hazardous Winds and Damaging Surf Conditions". Well, we DID need rain.

Meanwhile there are floods in New Zealand, and two people have died.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:10 AM

bit nippy today - winter has finally started. I've been sitting around elegantly dressed in track suit & dressing gown!

we had a bit of rain in the last few days, after a very dry June (1 day with a few spots of rain, if I recall properly.) Lots of Drought Declarations around & Sydney's dams are very low, we have had water restrictions most of the year.

the climate is changing?

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,jacqui.c
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:55 AM

I'm at my daughter's in Newark England for the weekend. It's warm and a little windy, but it keeps threatening to rain - only a few spots so far though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 12:11 PM

In the words of the Bard Formby "Eeeh turned out nice again"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Anne Croucher
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 12:37 PM

Odd really - every day I wake up and think something along the lines of 'turned out nice again' as I look out of the window - I don't pull the curtain across the middle of the bay window as it faces the street and is not overlooked - our house is the tallest and at the top of the slope - it is on a ridge so the ground drops away both sides. Downstairs in the back there is a wall of green, apple trees, the loganberry, a grape vine, a holly tree, upstairs we can see Poole harbour between the houses further down the slope, and the Purbeck Hills beyond.

Here on the South coast of England the climate is mild, snow is usually just a few flakes once or twice a year, and it melts on contact with the ground. We have a few storms, but nothing that would ever make me think it is a miserable day. The positive energy of a storm makes me want to go out and dance, but most days the sun comes out for some of the time - maybe its like the half full/half empty glass - my days are as sunny as my own disposition.

Anne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 12:50 PM

The skies are a clear cerulean blue, with a few traces of white here and there, and the day promises to be warm, as most of our days in San Diego are. Today we are having a FolkenSplurgen here, a gathering of a clutch of local Catters and folkies for beer, burgers and singing. Alaska Mike is in town, so I ma glad he uis getting a smaple of our nicest weather. I look forward to the day!


A

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 01:03 PM

windy and wet in Wash DC...has been a VERY wet Spring & Summer so far...with last year being one of the wettest years on record. We got two days with no rain, so I went out & mowed grass, but it was so deep that it was still damp from LAST rain, so it gummed up the inside of mower. The plus side is that it is a bit cooler than usual on average...(but the humidity never slacks!)

3 years ago, we were ending a drought...I guess I'll take wet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 11:43 PM

We were hiking in the Sierra today. I'd say the temperature was a comfortable 80 Fahrenheit (27 C.). It was 90 at home (33 C.), so we were glad we were at a higher elevation. The wildflowers in the Sierra this year are the best I've seen - reds and blues and purples and oranges and whites - all in a sea of various shades of green.
There were still a few patches of snow in the Sierra.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 12:05 AM

Oh! The wildflowers of the American West! I've always wanted to see them. Perhaps next year we might! We're saving like mad. True-love would like to see his old homeland again one more time. We're plotting our course in the hope of it all woking out! Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 12:06 AM

Today was nice, 80's F, cool breeze. Last Tuesday night we had a severe thunderstorm, the one that rode the jet stream all the way across Indiana and Kentucky, 80-mile-an-hour winds. I was caught out in it, did some stupid things, but survived. We were without electricity for three days, many homes in Kentucky have been out for a week.

We've also had an extremely wet Spring and Summer. My garden, the first I've grown in ~25 years, is doing well. I've been picking three 40-foot rows of beans nearly everyday for several weeks. I've made over 30 quarts of bread-and-butter pickles, and I already have two pumpkins that are several feet in diamter!

Joe, I'd love to see the wild flowers there. One of my favorite Charles Kuralt episodes was of fields of flowers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 03:11 AM

The Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney, snow Sat. night but since then just cold, wet & miserable.

My wife tells me it's some freak conditions bringing cold from Antarctica in unusual quantities. To be honest it's no colder here than most winters, but I believe the snow has gone to places where it doesn't normally go, and there have been some very strong winds in Sydney.

Meanwhile there are some pretty ugly bushfires in America, and floods in New Zealand, I hear.
Reminds me of last time I posted to this thread.

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 03:54 AM

Fire hazard extreme here in the hills of Metchosin on Vancouver Island. The temperature has been in the mid 80s for a couple of days, but has cooled tonight to a comfortable 66. Weather forecast is for showers or a possible thundershower. Sure hope the forecasted rain does more than just wash the dust off the cedars and swordferns, but I won't hold my breath. Its always dry here in the summer, it's the unusually dryer winters, the past few years, that is most worrisome.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 05:29 AM

Clear fine days, cool mornings, temperature range about 6 to 20 degrees Celsius (about 42 to 68 Fahrenheit).

The glorious silver wattle is fading, and we need some rain.

Another bitter winter in Brisbane.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 08:22 AM

Alaska Mike, Amos, Have they got Sea Otters at San Diego's sea world? Just wondering Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 09:32 AM

80s to 90s. Yesterday we had OVER TWO (2) INCHES OF RAIN in less than a hour! Flash flood warnings then, and today from 3 to 9 pm. This is the second weekend with a delugic downpour. Not that we don't need the rain, but I'd rather it came in a gentle soaker over several days.

They say that there is a moist front and a drier front colliding over us.

Wildflowers. They're spectacular! Pale yellows, azure blue lupines, deep yellows, firey Indian paintbrush, purplish fireweed, all against the silver-green sage. Sometimes a magpie will flash black and white among them, or a red-winged blackbird will flit along. Even a golden or bald eagle or a kestrel can sometimes be seen. The best time to see them is probably mid-June. (And for a real treat, see Craters of the Moon National Monument in flowertime. All that dwarf buckwheat and such against the lava and basalt -- fabulous!) Maybe I'll see if I can have some pictures posted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 10:16 AM

Hi Joybell, I didn't see any Sea Otters at Sea World. They had a cute river otter named Opie that performed in a show with 2 sea lions named Clyde and Seymore.

We saw dolphins, pilot whales, orcas, sharks, sea lions, penquins, polar bears, and so many different kinds of fish it staggers the imagination.

But if you want to see sea otters, you will have to come visit Alaska. They are still quite plentiful and easily spotted on any of the many sight-seeing cruises that venture out past the coastline.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 10:56 AM

Ya gotta go here, Joybell. Last time I was up that way they had a video camera out on a island where the only inhabitants were sea lions. You could watch 'em from your hotel room, too. See Seward, see sealife, see?

It's only my poor opinion, but EVERYONE should visit Alaska, and NOT on one of those bloody damned cruise ships! Fly to Anchorage and rent a vehicle! Plan your trip in advance, dammit! You don't let someone else play your concerts, do ya? So why are you going to let them plan your trips? (I'm a bit vehement about that, perhaps.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 11:41 AM

We have a pod? family? collection? of river otters that we can watch go about their business out on the wetlands dike trail in Juneau. And as Alaska Mike said, sea otters can be found in many different spots (One Christmas day I watched three or five- hard to tell- cavorting in Gastineau Channel right here at home) and reliably so in the kelp beds in the Hoonah area. They look like nothing so much as huge upside down Cairn terriers.

I'm originally from Oregon and I do like Oregon. It's just that I like Alaska better.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 09:02 PM

I saw Sea Otters off the coast at Big Sur. One of the highlights of my life. We were passing through. Too poor to actually stay at the place. We watched one banging clam shells on it's special rock that it held in it's arms. Then it floated on its back eating the clam. I was entranced.
Mike and Rapaire thank you for the information. We do plan to hire a car. Alas! we'll be a bit restricted as to where we can go - because of the cost and because True-love will probably never be able to visit again. He has a dear friend in New Mexico so that's where we'll be heading. We will try to see lots of wild places on the way. I am keen to see desert wildflowers and grassland areas. Also as many Mudcatters as possible - wild or otherwise! If they are willing. We are looking at April next year so there's time to plan it all. Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 10:27 PM

Fly to Seattle. Whoop it up with folks like Deckman there. Drive across to Spokane and on into Idaho, stopping to party with Rangeroger up that way. On into Montana (by the way, you're sort of following the Lewis and Clark trail when you hit Idaho from Washington) and take I-15 down south. Stop by Pocatello here; I'll probably be able to find a place for yout to sleep and we can always water the soup.

Keep on South, through Utah and into New Mexico. From New Mexico, cross into Arizona and into California. Amos is in San Diego. Northward along the California coast; lots of folks around San Francisco. Onward through Northern California (don't forget to see the redwoods!) and into open mike/Joe Offer country. Portland has a bunch of 'catters, and north of there is Seattle again. A short flight from Seattle is Anchorage.

A few thousand miles, a few months -- what the heck, eh?

Oh, yeah -- brucie's just up the road in Alberta, and there are the western Canadian 'catters, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 08:49 PM

Sounds wonderful. We don't mind watered soup. I'll check out our possibilities closer to the time. Meanwhile those photos are so good, Rapaire. Thank you. I'm keen to see wildflowers against lava and rocks. And wildlife of all sorts. Cheers Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: TS
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 09:22 PM

sticky and hot at about 30 C in Saskatchewan...with yet another severe thunderstorm and tornado warning which is yet to prove true....Slainte!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 01:02 AM

Absolutely perfect in Long Beach, Washington. Probably 80 degrees this evening, cloudless skies, perfect sunset. I found my sandles in my car and had a swim suit so I went to the beach and splashed in the surf for the first time this year. It's shameful how we don't take advantage of our own places..people come from all over to visit the beach here and I haven't been going at all since I moved farther away from it. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 11:33 PM

It's too damned hot here on Vancouver Island. It's after 8:00 PM and it's still in the 90s.........bitch, bitch bitch...whine...whine...This is not normally a climate where air conditioning is required, but I sure would appreciate it tonight and so would the dogs. I think we'll probably sleep in the basement, to try and find some relief. Wait, I think I felt a breeze cropping up now, off the Sooke Basin, which might cool us down by midnight. Oh dam! it's gone again.

I popped in on my 84 year old Mum this afternoon, to see how she was faring and it was 96 degrees inside her wee mobile home, but it was hotter than that outside. I did manage to talk her into having a sponge bath and got the place more comfortable, by getting more air moving with her bathroom fan and the fan over her stove.

Its supposed to stay like this for another day or so, before we get back to more seasonable temperatures in the mid 70s. Fire hazard still extreme, promised rain, awhile back, only settled the dust.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 05:22 AM

Nearly or around 100 degrees F every day in Tokyo, but I can survive without air-conditioning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 10:11 AM

I'm finally back in Anchorage where the high temps are in the mid 60's F. San Diego was sunny and warm with lots of things to do, but its good to be home. Partly cloudy today, chance of showers, nice breeze to keep down the skeeters, its a perfect day.

Mike

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sweetfia
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 07:38 AM

Shit, at the moment. Thursday nighgt was horrible, it went from almost warm to a complete downpour, and the sky turned from clear to black in about 10mins. Then friday it was absolutely sweltering. And then over the weekend it's just been raining.

I wish the weather would make it's bloody mind up!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,crazy little woman
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 08:04 PM

The Canadians have shipped some life-saving cool air down, and it's heavenly. Temperature maybe 75, blue sky, white puffy clouds, flowers in bloom, birds twittering.

Kansas City has such extremes of weather, and now it's extremely beautiful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,kk newyorkcity
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 11:50 PM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: C-flat
Date: 26 Jul 04 - 02:47 AM

We have a word which sums up the British weather perfectly, "changeable".
Some years ago I worked for a large import company selling cheap novelties and gift items. One such item was a barometer/clock which was a popular seller wholesaling at around £5. It wasn't untill I dropped one in the warehouse that I noticed that the only working part of the barometer/clock was the battery operated clock, the barometer was just a dial with a glued-on plastic needle set to "changeable".
I have often imagined how many people have tapped the face of their barometer/clock uttering "Changeable again Doris!, we'd better take an umberella, just in case!"
In the U.K. there's not a more accurate barometer!
C-flat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: s6k
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 06:33 PM

i want a big fat thunderstorm

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Naemanson
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 09:43 PM

A year and a half ago I was scraping ice off of my windshield and muttering about how cold my feet were. Now I live in a tropical paradise with palm trees, ocean vistas and mountains on the island of Guam.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 10:17 PM

still...humid...menacing...two storms coming!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 10:21 PM

Surprisingly cool for August in Alabama. I had on long pants and a sweatshirt this morning. First time since maybe April or May that I wasn't comfortable in shorts and a t-shirt.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnomad
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 04:46 PM

Been chucking it down rain for days, rivers are bursting, structures colapsing.

Apparently (ie I heard it on the local news) West Yorkshire generally averages 2" of rain in August, yet on Tuesday alone we got 4".

I never liked heat much, but this feels like a monsoon to someone who has never experienced the real thing. Anyone out there got some gopher wood?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blackcatter
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 04:48 PM

As Jimmy Buffett says in Tryin' to Reason With Hurricane Season: Squalls out on the gulf stream, big storm comin' soon.

Charley will likely hit my mom's place tommow moring, my place by 7pm. Wish us all luck.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: muppett
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 04:20 AM

Whilst its pissed it down over most of mainland England & Scotland for the past week I heard on the news that the Shetlands have got a water shortage and they're having to bring tanker loads over on the ferry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Holly Butcher
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 10:52 PM

I want a hot day tomorrow

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 10:54 PM

Clear and cold with a chance of New England schizophrenia...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 11:25 PM

Snow on the mountains all around me. Patchy snow left on the ground in protected areas. Temperatures ranging from 26 to low 40s. Breezy and damp. Both ocean and sky are silvery. Looks colder than it is.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 05:49 AM

Grey but not too cold with a bit of a breeze...I can see a tiny bit of blue sky though....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 04:51 AM

For South Wales,its DRY for a change with high cloud...Yippee for dry weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 05:53 AM

Well it WAS beautiful bright and sunny this morning in North West Leicestershire but it's clouding over now. Oh well...probably means there won't be a frost tonight...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 06:03 AM

London...grey and decidedly parky. But I'm a softie Suvner.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Nemesis
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 08:39 AM

England south coast - started out grey and overcast .. been dry for a few days .. very cold and slight wind chill factor .. danger of slight overnight frosts .. and now early afternoon the sun has just broken through and is casting this glorious, autumnal glow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 04:20 PM

It's been siling down in Hull (that's raining for you poor benighted non-Hullensians).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 05:29 PM

Beautiful, sunny day yesterday here on Vancouver Island, around 50F, pissing down this morning. The wind picked up this afternoon, blew away most clouds and a watery sun is now streaking through the trees, transforming grey rain and fog cloaking moss and branches into dripping gold and silver.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 09:57 PM

It's a fine day for weather...

About 7C, kinda hazy, still nice enough to enjoy a piss in the back yard. Think I'll go for a walk later.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 09:59 PM

It was beautiful today in many ways. Hope tomorrow's more of the same. I'd be nice...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 03:28 AM

Today its dull and drizzle.Thats Wales for you.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 06:43 AM

Well it's the same in NW Leicestershire Yas if that makes you feel any better!

I'd like to say something beautiful and poetic about it like some of the others have, but what can you say about a dull grey day? (I'll have to go away and think about that...I'm sure I can come up with a dirge if I try!)

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 11:28 PM

Grey today with a little wind that actually smelled like snow. It was altogether too warm for snow, however. Makes me shiver just thinking about it.

d

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 09:04 AM

Unusual for this time of year here, but we just had a small thunderstorm pass through. A couple of bolts of lightening overhead, thunder and a deluge of hail. The dogs didn't like it at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 01:15 PM

it's rained constantly all day and caused some small floods on the roads - but now IT'S SNOWING (heavily) - first of the winter season!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 01:23 PM

Sleet here in Yorkshire although gather its heavy snow on the higher ground.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 03:18 PM

Pissing down all day here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 03:27 PM

pouring down all day here in Wales

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: sue exhull
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 04:51 PM

Hi   ITs bloody snowing here in St.neots(cambridgeshire) I didnt believe em when they said it would, but it has!!!! settled a bit too :(.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blackcatter
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 04:58 PM

currently 79 deg (F) and white puffy clouds all around. Temp toight is supposed to dip to 63! Such is life during a November in Orlando. Got a date to go surfing this Sat. May have to where my wetsuit bottoms... burrr - water temp of 72 deg.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:51 PM

From the betty swallocks weather of the summer (35 Deg C + with 80%+ humidity) it has turned rather chilly here in Shanghai, sunny but chilly, about 17 Deg C.

Ones blood has thinned a bit living here so I am not looking forward to deep winter even though it does not get realy cold here our houses are not insulated which means I need to start digging out the long johns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 02:57 AM

Snow all over the ground...and it's frozen. Looks pretty with the sun on it, but only if I'm looking at it from in the house! Time to light a nice log fire I think! Ahhh winter in the English Midlands! Think I'll go back to Australia!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 02:58 AM

Dark.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 03:07 AM

Blue sky and dry here,no snow though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 04:57 AM

Woke up to the first snow of this winter, it's about 4C and we keep getting more light snow showers interspersed with bright sunshine.
Giok

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 04:39 AM

Its wet where i am but up the Valleys its snowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:03 AM

A thick blanket of white snow and more falling. It started yesterday. Five months (at least) of shoveling snow starts now. crud.

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Chris Green
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:29 AM

It's brass monkeys out and I've had my hair cut really short. I regretted it as soon as left the barbers. I am now off to buy a woolly hat!

Chris in Coventry

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:48 AM

Raining!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:59 AM

You can tell winter is coming by the fistful of gray clouds that stubborn the sky until well after sunrise. Where I launch my kayak, the beach is cool from the night, not warm. The water is still swimmable, though. But the surf is higher than usual, and that is one reason I find out it is swimmable. Launching, trying to time the sets for minimum fuss going out, I make it past the line of the forming waves twenty minutes before sunrise, with only a couple of wet sloppy slaps from the sea for my trouble.

After an hour or two of paddling around visiting with the sea lions sleeping on the bouys and watching flights of cormorants wheel over the deeps, I paddle back in, the deep-water swell rising and falling beneath me like whale's breath. Closing in on the beach these swells become the surf, and timing them is impossible from the outside, because the patterns are less visible. I count the breakers and time myself, hoping for a keyhole that will give me a clean run through the surf. I start to paddle rapidly at just the moment, and am rising on the back of the wave I have chosen to come in. I am high on its back stroking and surfing at the same time, riding like a wave-master, the curling surf just under my prow. But as the break begins to unroll, the kayak swings, ignoring steering command, and is brought broadside to the curl, and rolls. I am tumbled into wet blackness, ducking to avoid the impact of the kayak or the paddle as evberything is carried away to the will of the insane water. Then I am standing and dragging my kayak in through the shallows, up on to the wet sand. The morning light is diffused and still largely gray even though sunrise was over an hour before. I am dripping from every corner and desperately in need of a hot shower, but not so cold that I cannot take care of business, putting things to rights and getting the kayak mounted to the car-top and strapped down.

All in all an interesting morning, and only 7:30 by the time I am in a hot shower at home, thinking about that scary moment just after I realized there was no more control, that my craft was rolling willy or nilly!

Thank god for civilization, hot water, dry clothes and a warm office!


A

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 12:00 PM

Grey, miserable and BLOODY cold!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 12:13 PM

London...dark, rainy and really really bloody cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 05:13 AM

its dark,grey clouds and dry spells.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 10:41 AM

Sob...it's even greyer and more miserable...the day is dead...and it's my birthday...and nobody cares! (except my family who gave me some presents!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: *Laura*
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 05:15 PM

Shanghaiceltic - 17c!!! Thats the kind of weather we get in summer when we're hoping for 24! the height of heat!

Cold and wet and dark and wet and windy and wet and rainy and wet.

Why did the english people send their convicts to australia? Why not leave them here and go to australia themselves!
Just think how the picture would be reversed! Ahhh.......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 07:44 PM

In Alberta, we don't get weather. We get climate--twice a year. From October to May it's cold. From June to September it's warmer than cold.

Here, in winter, it's too cold to measure the temperature. Thermometers always freeze at forty below and stay there until late May.

Right now it's blowing like a bugle player on a parade square. And it's cold.

I will write again in May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,AKgrown
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 07:52 PM

Here in southernish Alaska it is...let me look out my window...cloudy VERY icy, and about 36 degrees farenheit. It's also getting dark at 3:50 AK time. Yee-haw!

AKswimmer

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 09:43 PM

Its grey and cloudy and wet and cold. No ice yet but it cold enough already.

d

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 10:13 AM

well its been dry all day but gloom.That is Wales for you mind this time of year

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu2
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 06:32 AM

I just love southeastern New Brunswick, Canada weather. Here is the next 24h as issued by Environment Canada for the Moncton area....

Tonight .. Cloudy. Snow beginning near midnight changing to ice pellets mixed with freezing rain overnight. Snowfall amount 5 to 10 cm. Wind east 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 overnight. Temperature steady near minus 3.
Saturday .. Ice pellets mixed with freezing rain changing to rain in the morning and ending late in the day then cloudy and 60 percent chance of drizzle. Risk of a thundershower. Rainfall amount 5 mm. Fog patches. Wind east 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming southwest 20 late in the day. High 7.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 06:41 AM

Hot, steamy, wet..... oh.... Sorry, i am in the bath.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 06:25 PM

Read what Gnu posted, I'm a little more than an hours's drive south west.

Another NB'er here, very interesting!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 07:17 PM

rain, followed by mist, followed by showers, followed by a few hours of cloudy...then more rain. I hate to think how deep the snow is gonna be when it finally gets real cold...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 07:36 PM

Bill D, I'm quite sure that you and I are not in the same geographic zone- what are you doing with that much rain?

Juneau, Alaska:

Today: Cloudy with rain and snow. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds light and variable. Chance of precip 80%.

Tonight: Periods of rain and snow. Low 34F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 80%.

Tomorrow: rain and snow in the morning changing to rain late. High 41F. Winds ESE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precip 80%.

Tomorrow night: Cloudy and windy with periods of rain. Low 38F. Winds SE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall may reach one inch.

I once wrote:

                Rain Country

In the winter it's raining; the clouds are dark and low
It's the normal condition - everybody wants it so
With snow-covered mountains, the valleys wet below
In Southeast Alaska we have more rain than snow

In Spring, the clouds are heavy with impending change
Fog and hail, brief sun and wind, we go all the range
There is no predicting, but always - or in the main-
In Southeast Alaska, in Spring there is rain

Ah but in the summer, the misty air's serene
Clothes damp-dry on the line, the grass is cool and green
But hang your coat by the fire lest you go out again
In Southeast Alaska, Summer brings rain.

In Autumn the storms return, dark clouds are in the sky
Wind strips leaves from all the trees and sends them flying high
Galoshes slosh and waters rush. A familiar refrain:
In Southeast Alaska, it's raining. Again.

We're a special kind of people who live here, don't you know
We've made our peace with weathe (with rain, not with snow)
So we take pride in saying- though it may cause some pain-
This is Southeast Alaska. Bring on the rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 08:17 PM

love it Ebbie!

Made me think of the lines from a poem I saw once with the lines

I love the rain in its every manoever
I have to love rain
I live in Vancouver

Similar weather here right now too.

My duaghter and I just had a soak in the hot tub in the rain. Usually its OK when its raining, but this evening its raining so hard it stings your face if you look skyward.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 08:40 PM

I dunno, Ebbie...*grin*..it's been quite a wet couple of years here. We set some sort of record last year, and this one is not far behind.

Makes it interesting, as the grass grows faster, but the windows for mowing are smaller...and I have a BIG yard to mow!

Still, it beats the 2-3 years drought we had before that....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 09:20 PM

The same thing happens here, Bill D. I have literally mowed in the rain. But mostly I just set the mower as low as it will go so that most of the time the lawns can go much longer than the scheduled time. Darn sure it's not going to kill the grass. In our cool, moist climate not much of anything dies.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 08:14 AM

Ebbie... excellent ! Number 6... there's several of us and there's several more who seldom post. I can't recall names right off the top of my head because I haven't been around the neighbourhood for close to a year. If you're curious, start a thread. Hmmmm, I'm curious to see who's still around.... look for an Atlantic Canada thread.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 08:32 AM

Its a lovely afternoon here in Wales,UK.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 11:12 PM

Here in Vermont it is wet and rainy, on top of snow this is sometimes interesting. Hope my brother got home from dinner ok tonight, the back roads tend to turn into bobsled hills. I want snow!!!!!! (whine whine)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 03:19 PM

very very windy in Long Beach WA USA. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:56 AM

Not bad now. It was clear at 07:30h with very little wind. When I went to my dentist at 08:30h it was snowing hard. When I left the dentist at 09:30h, the first thing I heard on the radio was a call for people to stay off the roads and I was thinking, "Good idea." I popped into the powerhouse along the way and picked up some Buddies. I had to drop 'er in cat-putt-cat (dat's Shaques dere Amos) to get back on the road. Near a white out on the causeway across the Peticodiac River. Then, I had to go to Sobey's for watermelon for Mum, just to brighten her day house-bound in the storm. Played in the near-empty parking lot and scared the crap out of a couple of Toyotas. Slid over to the local convenience store for smokes and a chat. Got home just in time to beat the snowplow. Now it's letting up. Expecting ice pellets (modern for sleet) and then rain. Sniff, fun's over. Now I've got two driveways to do.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:11 PM

I think you almost ran me over in that parking lot today, gnu!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:17 PM

Dentist, beer store, Sobey's, or Quik-mart?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:18 PM

Just started snowing

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:21 PM

Hey Bri... Are you the C103 $10,000 fugitive?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:34 PM

I'd like to 4X4 that SOB into the dry pave!!! On and on about it when he's likely never "been" anywhere yet. Sheep! Wouldn't be so bad if C103 had more than a half dozen LP's.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:39 PM

A lot more snow last night, but it's not very cold today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:42 PM

Peeing with rain this afternoon - Roll on Summer !!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:03 PM

We've had a little bit of snow today. It seems to have stopped now and the snow plough's been round, as has our lovely neighhbour with his snow blower. The dog insisted on a walk in the snow this morning, but that's the only time I'm going out today!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:09 PM

Hear that Kendall? It's your turn to walk the dog next, and maybe next again. Kendall? You in the cellar?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:12 PM

Its raining here in South Wales,UK.We have had no snow here yet!!!!!.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:42 PM

We've just had the sunniest February here since they started keeping records about 100 years ago. Temperatures between 10C and 15C during the day and the Japanese plum and cherry in full bloom. Grey and a bit of drizzle on and off today, about 9C and the power went out for about an hour for no apparent reason but, other than the rumbling of the Juan de Fuca Plate, all seems to be well on the west coast of Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:51 PM

"... the Japanese plum and cherry in full bloom." The birds here are so hungry they are eating the apples still clung to my mother's apple tree.... FROZEN SOLID IN THE DAMN SNOWSTORM!!! Here's the world's tiniest mandolin, playing just for Metchsin. Can you hear it? No, of course not, because the snowplow is too loud! You're just lucky I can't throw that far Metch... of course, the snowballs would melt by the time they got that far. Hmmm, frozen apples?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:52 PM

Oops... MetchOsin... sorry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:18 PM

oooh, do they shrink when they get cold, gnu? Mandolins that is. LOL Out here they stay the same size all year round.

Hey, the weather might be great, but when the Plate that's hung up at our end, finally lets go, bring out the really big stuff and pipe me out while I kiss my ass goodbye.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:49 PM

That's the sort of job you've got to do for yourself Metchosin.
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:55 PM

Not weather, but maybe I should explain, we have had a series of earthquakes off the west coast of the Island here for the past day or so, little ones, 4.5, 5.2 etc., a step up in the usual stuff, which is good in some ways, because it relieves the pressure where the plate dives down under the Island.

The bad part is all the quakes are at the north end of the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the south end is doing nothing and has been doing nothing for years and it is believed that our end is hung up and it is hung up right below where I live and so any change in activity comes up on my personal radar screen.

Snow!....I scoff at snow! But I tend to hang on a bit when I contemplate the BIG BUMP. The only thing that gives me a bit of comfort is that this Island was up, even when Alberta was an inland surrounded by dinosaurs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:12 PM

snow yesterday, snow today - predicted - snow tomorrow. Par for the course.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:14 PM

That should read Alberta was and inland "sea"

Right Giok, bit more difficult to do if you're under water or your house is down around your head. LOL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:16 PM

Well I've been looking at lots of pretty pictures and diagrams of 'John the Fucker' and rather you than me, but it's still a DIY job when it come to kissing your arse goodbye, sorry.
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:25 PM

chili today but hot tamale

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:32 PM

Beautiful! High of 78 degrees.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:56 PM

Metch... the big bump. Minds me of the time I was in Springhill, Nova Scotia so many years ago on a history field trip in High School. We went underground and an elderly miner was telling us that coal "bumps" and noises were regular and welcome.... it was when it grew silent that the miners got nervous.... of course, his voice trailed off and we were left to listen to absolutely nothing but our own fears and heartbeats. At that moment, I picked up a large lump of coal and flung it upside a large wooden coal bin. Beth Rothwell screamed, pissed her pants and ran back up the ramp, along with several others. I had to admit to the prank before the teacher would continue our trip and I spent a great deal of time writing "The Mining History of the Maritimes" as punishment. It was worth it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:59 PM

LOL gnu. There has been a lot of blasting in the neighbourhood over the past couple of weeks, but fortunately I still have relatively good bladder control.

Giok, I volunteered to kiss my own ass, the playing of pipes I will leave to others.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:28 AM

We had 4" of snow last night, and it's just started snowing heavily again, what the heck the freezers are well stocked.
Giok

In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun or sky

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,*laura*
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:01 PM

Snowy. but pathetically. and it won't stick properly cos the ground is too wet. Bloody loser snow. If it snowed PROPERLY we could have time off college!
Damnit - why don't I live in Kent? Or Yorkshire?

Stupid Somerset Snow. pfff.

You know - the only snow I've ever seen - proper snow I mean, was in Leicester a few years ago. Six inches of dry powdery proper snow. Six inches! that's pathetic - some people get six feet!
And down here we're lucky to get six millemetres!

pff - thats all I'm saying. PFFF.

xLx

:-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:23 PM

Well darlin, I've see 1.62m in less than 24h with high winds and I'll trade you any day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Layah
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:39 PM

I agree with Laura. The snow here is not nearly good enough. No chance of classes being canceled because of it. At least living in California it didn't get cold, now I'm in Edinburgh and it's cold but not snowy. Snowed this evening, but it didn't stick, and now it's all gone. And rain and hail, which are not nearly as nice as snow. The best snow I've ever seen was last week when it snowed and it stuck (first time!) and it was like an inch deep. Now that was exciting.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: annamill
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 03:11 PM

No comment here in San Diego, California.

;-) *BG*

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 06:04 PM

May was wet and cold here in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Had to shut my windows every night. Then, May 30, it didn't rain. May 31, the sun peeked out. Yesterday was sunny and I had my windows open all day and night... warm and a nice breeze. Today, I shut my windows at 10:00h. 33C at 17:00h!! Mom nature sure is a moody bitch!

How's by you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 12:45 AM

Well, in Juneau Alaska, the sun is shining as it has for the last few days. This is the time of year that our days get really long and bedtime can slip right on by. It's the only place I've ever lived where perfectly good parents suddenly realize that it's almost 1:00 AM and their kids are not in bed yet.

I don't think we've hit 70F yet this year but I know it's been 68 a couple of times. That's good and warm, I can tell you.

It's scary to think about but we may have a VERY early fall. From my third floor window, looking down on a number of trees I can see that the top branches of the maple trees are yellowing. And these are NOT Japanese maples...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 01:00 AM

cloud flurries and chances of snow - miserable start to summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 01:00 AM

Beginning of winter officially in Australia, but our winters in Sydney are quite mild compared to lots of places in the world. Lately it's been fine and sunny every day with temperatures getting up to 17-20 degrees C during the day and down to 3-5 in my particular part of Sydney at night. Everybody I know has colds - me included - the day starts to cool off quite suddenly from about 3pm and you can find yourself breathing cold air before you know it. It's also been very dry - we are still very much in drought conditions - the water level in our main supply dam has fallen below 40% for the first time in a long time, and they have just brought in more severe water restrictions.

I'm actually enjoying this weather at the moment. If you can find yourself a sunny spot in the middle of the day, it is very pleasant, and a good time to be gardening because it is not too hot and humid, like it is in summer. Some seeds from the tomato plants from summer decided to germinate where they fell, and they looked quite healthy, so we decided to give them a little bit of protection by building a sort of green house over them, made of clear plastic on a frame. One of the plants has even set some little tomatoes, so we'll see how that goes. The soil temperature is going to drop, but a blanket of mulch might help. The space is 8ft square and sloping on top - big enough to walk in. I'm going to try a few other plants in there too. It will be an interesting experiment anyway.

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 09:55 AM

after four years of drought, our dams are nearly empty and the Premier of our state is wondering how to continue to provuide drinking water to us sydneysiders. so it finally starts to rain.   and rain. and rain. and rain. It is coming down in troughloads outside as I write, pouring off the gutters and drenching the street. there are floods further north and a gale warning has been issued. The wind is coming up now - its getting wilder and wilder - imagine a huge drenching downpour, and then triple it!

this is typical in this part of australia - its all or nothing - long harsh months and years of unremitting heat and drought, and then a maniacal downpour leading to flooding, trees coming down, cars being tossed along flooded road (two deaths already)...

what's the weather like where you are?

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 10:18 AM

I don't think the weather knows quite what it's doing here. I went out yesterday morning and could hardly move for the heat, then got caught in the mother of all rainshowers walking back from the pub at chuckin out time. It was that really wet rain, too (don't deny it....you all know that some rain is wetter than other rain!)

Now it's just kinda grey and uninspiring. No wonder the Scots keep emigrating...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 10:27 AM

Yes, I was thinking about the contrast as I was inching my car through the wild rain and wind today. The words of Dorothea Mackellar in her well known poem about Australia - "My Country" - came to mind. She certainly had it right:

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,freda, from the back door
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 10:35 AM

after turning my front footpath into a river, the rain has finally become much lighter. here are some photos of today's rainy day in sydney and in new south wales..

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,freda, from the back door
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 10:50 AM

Big Wet forces thousands to flee

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 11:12 AM

I got to see one photo before it insisted I register. I don't like having to do that, so I'll have to miss them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 11:28 AM

Hope everything os OK with you, Freda. Glad to hear the storm is letting up. Did you finally get some sleep?

Moncton, NB, Canada: 30 to 35C and humid until last night at 8PM... I kid you not... went down 10C in twenty minutes... 13C at 6AM. Me mum's got a sweater on! Supposed to be no more than 24C all weekend... then, we'll bake for about six weeks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 11:40 AM

Gnu, I don't think any of us in Sydney were in too much trouble, as long as we drove carefully - I certainly did.

As you can see here 256km Sydney Radar Loop the rain is now moving out to sea. They are predicting a foggy morning and a sunny day tomorrow - amazing!

Some people in other towns in Northern NSW were not so lucky:

Northern NSW on alert as floodwaters rise

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,bobad
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 04:19 PM

HOT

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 04:21 PM

Thanks JennyO. I hope Freda is sound asleep and never sees this. Poor dear.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 04:33 PM

Another silvery day here in Juneau, Alaska. (Silvery is different from grey- the sun is on just the other side of the clouds, lending a silvery glow) The temperature, the last few days, has been around 60F, a little cooler than typical. Before this, we had several days of upper 70s-- very hot for this part of the world.

Everything - the grass, the bushes, the mountains - is green, the fireweed is brilliant and about 2/3 of the way finished ("Fireweed half done = Summer half gone"), the mountain ash berries are in the dull-brown wispy stage before they burst into heaps of brightness, the tops of the maple trees give hints of fall color (as seen from my window), autumn morning fogs (most common in August) force our many cruiseships to moan their way into our harbor. We may have an early fall.

Everything has been early this year- We had a very short spring. We seemed to jump from winter almost directly into summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 05:31 PM

"...the tops of the maple trees give hints of fall color..." Oh dear, already? Nooo? This soon? An early fall? How early can you get it?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 06:26 PM

Rain Country
Ebbie 1999

In the Winter it's raining. The clouds are dark and low.
(It's the normal condition- everybody wants it so
With snow-covered mountains and the valleys wet below)
In Southeast Alaska, we have more rain than snow.

In Spring the clouds are heavy with impending change
Fog and hail, brief sun and wind- we go all the range
There is no predicting but always - or in the main-
In Southeast Alaska, in Spring there is rain.

Ah, but in the summer the misty air's serene,
Clothes damp-dry on the line, the grass is cool and green,
But hang your coat by the fire, lest you go out again
In Southeast Alaska, Summer brings rain.

In Autumn the storms return, dark clouds are in the sky.
Wind strips leaves from all the trees and sends them flying high.
Waters rush, galoshes slosh. A familiar refrain:
In Southeast Alaska, it's raining. Again.

We're a special kind of people who live here, don't you know-
We've made our peace with weather (with rain, not with snow)
So we take pride in saying, though it may cause some pain:
In Southeast Alaska, bring on the rain.
This is Southeast Alaska- BRING ON THE RAIN.

When you are geographically located this far north with mountainous terrain and practically surrounded by ocean you get a lot of rain (upwards of 90 inches a year, PLUS 105 inches of snow.) Winter can arrive most any time. I've seen snow fall on the mountain tops in July, finishing up the old year and new snow fall in September.

On the other hand I've seen the Northern Lights in every month but June and July (the sky is just too light in those months).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 11:14 PM

Hot and muggy in Hillsborough,Norht Carolina---Just got back from walking the dog at 11:00 pm, and am dripping sweat.

Janie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 05:56 AM

I hope Freda is sound asleep and never sees this. Poor dear.

Gnu, I don't know what you think she was going through - she lives in Sydney, same as me. We live about 7 km apart. Our part of Sydney did get some of the highest rainfall - the suburbs further west didn't get as much. We both had the same conditions to contend with yesterday, except that she uses public transport, I drive - more risky for drivers, but probably drier.

Anyway, I've seen worse here. It was up in northern NSW that got it worse. Three people dead I believe.

Today as promised, it was sunny. I had to go out and try to repair the little home made greenhouse that we made a few weeks ago. Some tomato plants were blown over by the wind, and a couple of plant pots were tipped right over, but a tray of capsicum seeds that have just germinated were still okay.

And after all that, they are saying that the rainfall has hardly made any difference to the water level in our catchment dams. They say it would have to rain heavily and continuously for a week to be useful. We are still officially in a drought - that's Australia for you :-1

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 06:49 AM

I thought she wasn't sleeping well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 07:27 AM

I think she's just a bit like me - gets hooked into Mudcat and stays up late, then can't get to sleep. We've both been known to haunt the chatroom in the not-so wee small hours!

It's probably worse for her because she knows she has to get up early, whereas I don't have to be up so early. I know from experience that sometimes when you have a deadline and you can see the hours disappearing and you know that if you don't get to sleep soon, you won't have had enough sleep, and you TRY so hard that it actually keeps you awake.

By the way, her most recent post on this thread, at 10.50am would have been 12.50am here - not really all that late - for us anyway :-)

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 10:10 AM

hi gnu and jennyo - all dry on the western front here (12.07 am - not too bad..) jenny i think gnu was about when i was carrying on earlier in the week about not being able to SLEEP - and was belting this message about in various ways til about 4.00 am - had to get up and go to work the next morn - still recovering!

deeps sleeps and happy dreams to you both!!

night

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: *Laura*
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 10:32 AM

drizzling.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 11:23 AM

Hot as blazes and so humid that you begin dripping as soon as you walk outside! A friend from a nicer climate said it was difficult to breathe, as well. Plus, the rain is frequent in the summer. Oh, and did I mention the hurricanes? (Gee, maybe I've gone to hell already????!!!)

love, harpy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:39 AM

Here in the California Foothills, it has been a cool summer, with much more rain than we usually get. It got up to 100 degrees the last day or two, but won't stay up there for very long. My wife and I took a hike today to Donner Peak, up at the summit of the Sierra off Interstate 80. Much of the trail was covered with water from melting snow, but we kept our feet dry by walking on rocks.

But we didn't make it to Donner Peak. The snow was too deep, so we found our way to a rocky crag with a beautiful view of Donner Lake. The wildflowers were spectacular. Unfortunately, so were the mosquitos.
Beautiful hike, though.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,sandra in sydney walking thru the backdoor
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 10:59 AM

today it was warm & sunny, maybe 18C!!

I could have left my jacket at home when I went grocery shopping at 2pm, & it's still pleasant now (12.47, time to get to bed soonish) but I am wearing a medium weight tracksuit & will be sleeping under a 80% down quilt as it does get a bit nippy in the wee hours. I haven't heard Monday's forecast yet.

Winter in my part of Sydney (a few hundred metres from the CDB & Sydney Harbour) is always relatively mild. I don't use a heater, tho JennyO & freda certainly do cos they live a few kilometres from the coast, & I keep my windows permanently locked open so I can get fresh air.

My suburb is full of tourists from colder climates who wear summer clothes here as they think our winter is really summer.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Kaleea
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 01:36 AM

It shudda been a hundred & plenty but wow it's been raining in most of Kansas today. After temps in the 90's, we had quite the thunderboomers, 50-100 mph winds (depending upon where in the state one was attempting to stand), the occasional twister/rope tornado, & of course, some street intersections here in Wichita with waist deep water which idiots just had to drive into only to be swept aways down the block/into cars, buildings, etc. Tomorrow, supposed to be 95 here. yee-haw!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 01:42 AM

Climate's what ya expect; weather's what ya get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 02:32 AM

If our weather doesn't go back to 'normal' soon, our climate will have officially changed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 02:43 AM

It's 40 (celsius) out there if it is a degree.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 03:02 PM

It's hot....It's humid....The air quality stinks.....It was the strangest June on record. 85% of the total rainfall in June came in the last 4 days of the month. The crops are confused.

And it is just too damn hot even for early July....This is like August. June was like August. My only hope is that August will be like April.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 03:56 PM

Pat, it ain't the weather; it's yer calendar that's all screwed up. Get a new one and see what happens.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 02:43 AM

Its grey and damp and the garden is like a jungle. Its been nothin but rain, rain, and more rain. We get a couple of days of partial sun once in awhile. Summer has not yet arrived in Vancouver. Its hard to believe its so late.

Of course I'm hoping for an Indian Summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 02:28 AM

Damn! Its snowing. Its not supposed to snow this early here. I've got to move a few loads of furniture tomorrow in a van with summer tires........

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 02:40 AM

Well yesterday as I sat actually looking at a local internet weather forecast showing cold but sunny and no sign of precipitation, it started to snow, and snowed quite heavily for the next couple of hours. It's freezing now, and white everywhere, but the sky is a clear, early morning blue and it's all rather pretty. Better if I could stay in here and not go out in it though!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 04:08 AM

Cold and snowy here in the north of Scotland, but then I bet lots of you think that's normal for here. ☺
G.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 05:17 AM

Funny you should ask - right now there is lightning flashing and thunder booming around the house and it is pouring with rain. We didn't get any severe thunderstorm warning tho, like we normally do. The radar shows it being very isolated, so I think it will be gone soon. If it gets any worse I might turn the computer off for a while.

We've had a lot of weather like that lately, and afternoon thunderstorms have been predicted for the next few days. It's exciting anyway, and my garden is very happy with all the rain!

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From:
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 06:39 AM

Its cold here and overcast, but no snow!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leftydee
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 08:39 AM

Snowy and slushy on and off. Close to 50F today but the lakes are iced so I guess I can't get my old boat out again 'til April. Rats!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:36 AM

12C and sunny here in Southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.... better enjoy it!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:54 AM

Yeah you better gnu, its usually you whining, not me. Doesn't look very pretty here this morning, the temperature has risen above freezing, the snow is plopping from the trees and the drive is mostly bare with a few slushy patches, so it looks as if I'll be able to do the move after all. Thank you, thank you, thank you......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Katie
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 11:21 AM

I am in the canary Islands and we have just had the first EVER tropical storm. It was meant to haed for Cuba, but changed direction and came here. Scary !

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 11:47 AM

As gnu said .... sunny and warm here in southeastern N.B.today .... but this certainly isn't going to last.

sIx

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 10:11 AM

We had a cold snap last week north of DC but the last couple days were a balmy 65 F which has been great for hot tubbing at night under blustery and threatening skies.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 01:01 PM

Early morning sky was crimson and the ocean's sooty water in places was painted with its colors. Now an hour later there are bright skies and it's breezy and crisp and cold. With my binocs I see the town thermometer seven blocks away and it says it's 26F out there.

When this cold snap breaks we have snow forecast but I don't know when that is supposed to be.

We've had snow on the ground a few times- had a foot of it up here on the hill the other day - but it's all gone. Except on the mountains, of course.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 09:39 AM

-12C and snow last night, but only 50mm. -8C and sunny. Another skiff of snow tonight and 6C with rain tomorrow. We are a month behind calendar-wise. But, with the full moon Thursday, I suspect we may catch up.

Guest Katie - hope all is okay.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 10:01 AM

11 degrees wind chill, clear with 6 chemtrails rpidly spreading.
The 90 ft tree in back still has all of its green leaves and probably won't drop for another week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 12:24 PM

Low 70's.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John O'L
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:14 AM

It's hot. 36 degrees Celsius. Has been 38 in the back yard.

We had months of drizzle and steady soaking rain all through Spring, and now we've had about a week of this very hot weather and everything is brown and as dry as a chip. Where did it all go so fast?

No energy.

I just heard that today has been the hottest day of the year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:17 AM

The weather is just fine here. The temperature could go up 21 degrees C and get us just above freezing. That would be nice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:37 AM

It's nearly 5.30 on a nasty hot humid Sunday in Sydney.

The latest temperature listed at Sydney Observatory Hill was 44.2 Celcius at 4.24pm. I'm about 1km from this site which is next to the Harbour Bridge.

I've been hiding from the weather all day behind dark curtains with the fan whirring away, tho I can still feel the heat & humidity. In an hour or so I'll open the blinds when the heat & glare subside, & I might go for a walk after 8pm as I did last night.

.........................
METROPOLITAN FORECAST
Issued at 3:39pm on Sunday the 1st of January 2006

For the remainder of Sunday   

Fire Weather Warning for extreme fire danger.
The NSW Minister for Emergency Services has totally banned the
lighting of fires until midnight Sunday.
Very hot. Dry and mostly sunny. Some cloud late in the day.
Freshening northwest winds before a strong, squally southerly change
late evening.
..............................

Southerly changes usually are cool, so a walk seems a Good Idea.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:40 AM

John O'Lennaine, a pack of Aussies were here this week- they're touring but as long they were here they played soccer (football) in a game against our High School team. I didn't get to talk with them but I saw a number of them in McDonald's yesterday. They were dressed pretty warmly. Must be a shock from the weather at home.

Our temps had been in the upper 30s the last while but it's gotten nippy the last couple of days. Icy pavements today. The wind has picked up this evening so it will probably bring in new weather soon. At this dark time of the year I'd like some snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:58 AM

44.2 Celcius at 4.24pm - no wonder i'm so hot. like you i have been indoors today sandra, avoiding going out. I'll be meeting the kids in Glebe at 7.30 - hope it's cooler by then!

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John O'L
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 02:34 AM

I pity you poor Sydneysiders. I grew up in Steak & Kidney and the summer humidity was one of the things I was happiest to leave behind when we moved to the Blue Mountains. It's been hot and humid here today, but nothing like what it must have been like in Sydney. If you're near the coast or the harbour you are relatively lucky too. Imagine what it was like in Penrith today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 04:24 AM

Bushfires around the state (must be summer)

I've been listening to the radio since 7pm (it's now 8pm). Sydney's temperature today was the hottest ever January temperature in 150 years of records, & we're currently waiting for the famous Southerly Buster, the winds that cool us down, but can bring big winds.

3 big Fires in the Central Coast - about 50 miles north of Sydney, 3 houses lost so far. When the southerly passed thru Kiama (about 50 miles south of Sydney) the temperature dropped 20 degrees, but it brought gusts around 100km per hour.

Rural Fire Service says the F3 Expressway is still open, but if the wind hits with the predicted 100km gusts the fires will join & close it. Hundreds of cars are stuck on other roads, including Wiseman's Ferry road, the road leading to St Albans village (where Alison holds her Festival in April).

Weather Bureau

more later

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 05:18 AM

Gosh. I hope you Aussies get a break from the high temps and fires. I couldn't handle that kind of heat.

It suppose to get up to -4C today. So it can snow again. Peace...
-21c... kinda nipply! I expect we will be in that range by the full moon on the 15th. Better than the rain - freeze - snow cycles we have been having.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tootler
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 06:46 AM

Typical British weather. Snow and temperatures around freezing last week. Snow went yesterday and daytime temperatures up to around 6C, though damp and cloudy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 07:11 AM

Still hot here - it's almost 11pm.

I went for a walk 9pm & it was still hot & humid, then the southerly hit while I was walking back. I had told a shopkeeper that the forecast for the southerly was strong gusts so he said he would roll up his awning. I hope he did cos the wind was really blowing stuff about & I was glad to get home. One of the cafes had a huge well-weighted umbrella blewn over knocking over chairs & tables & scaring nearby folks. It was very exciting from my vantage point 20 feet away, I'm glad I wasn't closer. Planes are being diverted from the airport & powerlines are down, etc. Other fires have started.

The temperature here is now in the low 20's, but it's still hot inside my place.

The Central Coast fires are growing. The highways are closed as fires are on both sides of the road, and also in the middle of the dual carriageways in some places.

Our Local Radio, part of our National Broadcaster, has fantastic coverage - constant reports from Weather Bureau, Rural Fire Service & residents.

Sydney's hottest New Years Day on record

Current weather

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,just a guest
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 11:42 AM

It was damp in the piney woods. Then the sun burned the dampness off. The wind blew through the cypress trees; the woodstorks wooshed and swooped; the sun warmed your shoulders; the portages were low; the watery path was free of roots...the swamp was mostly gray and brown. You could smell alligators.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 07:31 PM

it's sooo much better today - temperatures half those of yesterday, fires apparently under control. But 9 houses & lots of stock were lost across the state & 1 fire fighter has 60% burns & a volunteer died from a heart attack. Summer has barely started & we will have more fires in the next few months.

The sky is a light whitey blue (no glare!!) so I haven't drawn the curtains & I might even go shopping. It will be goodd to get back to my airconditioned office tomorrow.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 08:08 PM

Several fires down here too in Southwest Victoria. It's been even hotter down here than in Sydney and Darwin. AND we didn't get much rain all last year. Rained a bit last night. Tanks filling a little. Some homes lost in our nearest fire but we're out on the plains and surrouned by grazed paddocks.
It's the loss of dwindling wildlife habitat that is so serious in the long term. People tend to expect national parks to be cleared as fire breaks for their homes. Plantation companies expect the same. Essential undergrowth,leaf litter,old dead trees,logs and such are thought of as "fuel". "Fire reduction" burning and clearing is a complex issue.
Oh dear! it's Greenie bashing season again. Must stop raving. It's cooler at last. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 09:45 AM

You think you've had hot in Sydney? You may have had one very hot day on Sunday, but you should have been in Gulgong, where I have just come back from the folk festival there.

The day I arrived (Thursday the 29th) I carried a backpack and wheeled a large suitcase up a steep hill in 38 degree heat. From then on, EVERY DAY was like that, or hotter.

Thursday - 38
Friday      - 40
Saturday - 40.3
Sunday    - 39.2

Today was cooler, only getting up to 34.

Needless to say, we spent as much time as possible in air-conditioned pubs. Unfortunately there were events we had to be at, such as the Music Hall Concert on Saturday in the Opera House (which should be called the Hothouse) where we were up on stage under lights performing in the middle of the day. It was probably nearer 50 up there! Good festival though... :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 10:13 AM

I'm still recovering from 44.2 in Sydney yesterday, jenny!

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 01:40 PM

Its all very well you Ozzers having Summer when we are having Winter , But PLEASE dont keep on about it !!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 01:41 PM

Unless I can get a Three Hundredth Post of course !!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 01:42 PM

There is a nice hue of industrial grey abounding in the sky today ... ah winter .... if it isn't cold and snowy .. it's dull.

sIx

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 02:15 PM

44.2C!!!! Gosh! I am glad my ancestors were forced to leave Ireland for dull New Brunswick, Canada instead of Oz... no offense... except the offensive heat.

sIx : "hue of industrial grey". Excellent imagery. Huge difference between our cities, only a hundred kms apart. We have had light snow - big flakes - falling gently all day, cleansing the air.

GUEST,just a guest - PM , Date: 01 Jan 06 - 11:42 AM - Excellent.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,AR282
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 02:23 PM

39 degrees F here in the Detroit area. Overcast and rainy. The moon is 11% full.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 10:42 PM

Your correct on that gnu .... I'd move to Moncton in a New York minute if I had the opportunity.

sIx

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:00 AM

Mid-thirties F. (hovering around 0 C.) for some days now, and it'll continue. Rain, sometimes mixed with enough snow to make the roads slick. Winds up 45 mph. Bright blue today, though -- lovely. Partly cloudy the rest of the week, the high dropping into the high 20s (F) later in the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 07:45 AM

JennyO - I have no sympathy for your hot days - I toldya not to go cos it is HOT in Gulgong.

that'll larn ya!!

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 04:27 AM

Today is the 24th day in a row of rain....I know this is the wet coast, but by gawd its beginning to get depressing.....could be worse I guess......it could be 24 continuous days of snow and be piled up tp three metres like some parts of Japan right now....but then....things aren't dreary in the snow, are they?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 05:36 AM

We've had some rather hot, humid days this week, but this afternoon it was relieved by a weak cool change and right now some thunderstorms are going through - it's all rather pleasant after the heat. It's still very humid though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 09:27 AM

It has been unseasonably warm in North Carolina, USA. Stuff is breaking dormancy that is going to get slammed. While we have had some hard frosts--we really have not had any winter weather yet. If we don't get a good spell of at least chilly weather, I don't think the tulips and daffodils will bloom much this spring. ('course, we still have the rest of January and all of February to go.)

Janie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: *Laura*
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 10:13 AM

Well here in Somerset UK it is a cold, bright day with that slightly depressing (but also kinda beautiful) weak winter sun.

xLx

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 11:20 PM

This is pretty much the view from my boss's office: clicky. (You can click on individual frames, or choose a day to get a time-lapse movie.) Too much blue sky. ('Cept right this minute of course, when it's pretty black!) Lately it's cooled off a bit, that time of year when there's a 35 degree (F) variation between the low and high of the day. We might get a sprinkle this weekend, but mostly it's interminable blue skies...

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 12 Jan 06 - 12:10 PM

Day 25....rain again....four metres of snow in some parts of Japan now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 05:36 AM

On Jan 6 I posted : Peace... -21c... kinda nipply! I expect we will be in that range by the full moon on the 15th.

Not yet... 10C and rain yesterday. 6C today, 8C tomorrow. I'm lovin it!! ... in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 09:41 AM

10c and mild today here in Saint John N.B. which is just down the road from Moncton.

I'm wondering if I'll get to use my new snow thrower this year ... better not wonder too much.

sIx

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: jimmyt
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 09:44 AM

been around 70 F in daytime all week, camillias are blooming. SOme spring trees are showing color. Hard freeze soon I am sure

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: *Laura*
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 06:39 AM

damp.

again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 07:05 AM

8C at 05:00h!!!!! Going to 12C today. Never seen it this mild this long.

sIx.... sure as Tim's got Bits. I'm gonna top up the gas today, while it's nice and warm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 08:23 AM

Hot, dry and windy conditions causing very high to extreme fire danger in sydney today. 38 degrees in the west of sydney today. Bushfires in four states.

Luckily tonight it has cooled down - a cool wind has come up. I went into the back garden tonight and soaked the ferns, lilies and trees with cool water, listening to Chris Kempster's CD and the latest Fagans - fantastic.

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 11:44 AM

And it's only spring! I fear it's gonna be a long hot summer here.

We've already had some weird weather in the last few weeks. Kangaroo Valley festival in September was under water, then we had heatwave conditions, then last Sunday a freak southerly that blew in while I was at another festival (Coastfest in Gosford). The temperature dropped 10-15 degrees in minutes, half the stalls blew away or were too damaged to stay open, a set of stage lights crashed down, fortunately missing the performer, all the tarps over tents blew down, including mine - I finished up with some very bent poles. Now this week the last three days have been increasingly hot, with another dramatic cool change tonight. I wonder what it's going to throw at us next?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 12:27 PM

In Juneau: Wet

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 01:07 PM

Nova Scotia is wet and windy (as usual)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 01:44 PM

10C and raining BIG drops straight down... yesterday 25C and sunny.... tonight, after the rain, clearing and near zero.... leaves, undergrowth, the works, will be matted down and the flies will be gone.... oh, my, if I was still a hunter - perfect fall.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 08:12 PM

Really nice sunny day,quite warm for the time of year here in middlesbrough,u.k

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 09:42 PM

It is beautiful mid-fall here. Just a tad on the dry side, Sunny, absolutely clear blue skies, just enough wind to make the trees talk. Temps relatively cool for us, high in upper 60'sF and a frost advisory tonight--the first of the season. The atmosphere is so clear that the stars seem to sanp, crackle and pop at night.

My front garden is popping with color--bright orange tithonia "Torch" stands about 7 feet tall. In front of it tall, willowy salvias in deep blue and sky blue. Then, a dahlia-that absolutely saturated red that only red dahlias acheive--nods over a large drift of single-apricot chrysanthemums. In just a place or two, common montbretia sends a stalk up through the mums, echoing the tithonia.

The hummingbirds are gone now, dispite the bounty. They've hightailed it to Mexico in advance of killing frosts. We have a couple of hives of bees. They are frantically at work among the flowers, as if they know the time of bloom is drawing to an end. Goldfinches perch on echinecea and verbena gone to seed. Cardinals join the goldfinches in going after tithonia heads that have gone to seed. Their red feathers in amongst the orange flowers is a real eye catcher.

Fall is nearly always an absolutely lovely weather season here.

Joybell and Freda--hope this year's warm weather season is not as dry as you fear.

Peace.

Janie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 01:40 AM

Absolutely beautiful in Rockport Maine.

sIx

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 01:42 AM

This is Alberta reporting. WE have CLIMATE.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 02:49 AM

I just went outside. Forget the above post. It's weather--FREEZING!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Cordwangler
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 08:16 AM

Hey, has anybody seen Tony Hancock's Radio Ham? Excellent sitcom episode and the title of this thread reminds me of it. In the days before the internet people all over the world used to talk about the weather using amateur radio.

In Warwickshire, UK it's cloudy and a bit damp. Anyone got first hand experience of what the weather's doing in Tokyo?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 01:59 PM

Back home now ... Outstanding weather here in Saint John!

Blue skies and relatively warm at 15c.

Blues skies in saint John ?!?!?!

sIx

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 09:15 PM

In Cambridge, MA, USA, this afternoon, the weather was (barely) warm enough for the MIT chantey singers to sing outside by the river. The sun peeked out occasionally.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 08:33 AM

I just got back from the Highlands, and have had a weekend of the most beautiful weather you could hope for. Warm sunny days, warm enough that people went swimming in the Loch (we were the sking area!), and absolutly clear nights, to see the stars by, well away from the city lights.

There was just enough crispness in the air to remind you that it's autumn, and to make the apples taste right, but still early enough we could pick wild bilberries and bluberries. The trees are just strating to turn up there, so it will a week or two down here yet....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 10:47 AM

I'm in the centre of Germany, near Frankfurt am Main. The weather is sunnyand warm, only a few small clouds, and a last rose of summer is blooming in my garden - but maybe not the last one since a new bud is forming.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 03:21 PM

Well its wet here! Very wet. We're had 4.2 inches of rain since dinner time last night and some areas around here are racking up about .98 inches of rain per hour. This is usually a dryer area of the BC wetcoast. I'm impressed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 03:27 PM

Six inches of snow, -20, streets like ice. It's the shits. BUT, we have no weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 03:31 PM

To put this in some sort of perspective, the average annual rainfall for the city of Victoria BC is only around 23 inches for a whole year, about half of what Vancouver gets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 03:40 PM

Well, I feel for you Peace, at least its relatively warm here at about 53F.

Could someone explain to me why in recent years we stopped having weather every day? At one time, even a bright sunny day was considered "weather".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 05:04 PM

Highly variable--cold (well, by our standards--60 degrees) and dry, cold and damp, warm and damp, but always buggy. Cold enough to drive the mosquitoes indoors but not cold enough to kill the little bastards.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John O'L
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 05:14 PM

Up until about a week ago it had been very hot & dry. Dams at record low levels, everything dry as a chip, just waitiing for a fire, in fact we had a few minor ones around about the state, but about a week ago it started raining, light steady drizzle; perfect. Today it's sunny again. Everything will be growing lush and moist again. For a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 06:06 PM

In Juneau, Alaska, we've had brilliant and cold weather for the last four or five days. Last night we had high wind warnings and today it is snowing. Very fine snow and swirling all around on the gusts but it's piling up in the corners. Chilly.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 06:18 PM

Snow! Not much, but, snow!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Naemanson
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 04:38 AM

I'm past the three year point in Guam and still loving the tropics. It got cool the other night, down into the mid 70s, and we considered rolling up the car windows...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:51 AM

So far, this is the mildest fall and and early winter I remember in my 20 years in North Carolina. We have had a few chilly days and a handful of nights when the temps dropped into the mid-twenties, but only the tenderest of the plants in my garden have gone completely dormant. I even cut grass today.

Janie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:56 AM

I am sticking my tongue out at you and making that pfffffft sound. Here when we say 20 it means below. If we refer to 'above' we specify that. Grass: that's the green stuff from lawns, right?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: menzze
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 05:14 AM

usualy we should have at least half a meter of snow at this time of year but it seems as if we have got it all last year for both years.
Sun is shining, a little frost during the night, the fields are still green and only the mountains are white on top(about 25km away).   

No need of snow for me, I prefer winter to go on like this.
We're expecting rain for the next week.
Where? Southern Germany, the 3country triangle Germany-Austria-Switzerland

Have a nice new years day all you catters

menzze

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: autolycus
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 01:01 PM

Mild this morning here in Norwich,Norfolk when I walked to the shop. Windy now but not freezing cold.






       Ivor

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black Beauty
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 01:08 PM

Wet,stormy,thunder earlier, need I go on ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 01:47 PM

thanks to global warming the weather here in Scotland is rubbish. Wet, Windy and rubbish, however God made it so it good. Because if we didn't have the rain, then the whole world would be a desert

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Penguin
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 06:12 AM

Cold!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Flipper
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 07:19 AM

Er, wet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,polar bear
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 07:29 AM

Also Wet.
Which is a bummer, as it should be cold and white, except Dubbya couldn't give a crap about Kyoto.
Anyone got any news of the iceberg...?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 04:50 PM

No snow at all in our part of Michigan; only a little short-lived white stuff so far this year. We had a very strange New Years Eve, with temperature in the 40's, fairly heavy rain, and thunder and lightning. I can't remember such a thing as thunder and lightning in this part of the country at this time of year; must be those strange signals from hacked satellites.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Becca72
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:38 AM

Here in southern Maine we've had 2 very small snowstorms this year...both of which melted within a day or 2. Right now it's 40° and the sun is out. I'm not complaining. I just hope we don't make up for it in February and get nailed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MMario
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:40 AM

it appears most of the snow this year is going to Denver for the ski season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:41 AM

Still piles of snow on everything. I have to drive east today, so hopefully the roads will be more clear where I am going.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:28 AM

windy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:17 AM

Yes things can be dreary in the snow! Temperature right now is below 0 f.
Sky is grey. Snow piled everywhere. At least the wind has not yet reached the forecast strength to make it -30.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scrump
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:29 AM

Overcast with winds light to variable, with occasional showers moving eastwards.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Juniperus
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:35 AM

Austin, TX. from January thru March is blessed with
the pollenation of a robust scrubby bush known as the
Texas Cedar; the male of the species becomes heavy-laden
with pollen to the point that it has a bronze hue, and
the pollen is so heavy that it appears as a smokey mist
in the wind. Life becomes pure hell for folks with
cedar allergies (cedar fever). Other than that the weather is
great.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:38 AM

It's supposed to be about 45 f today. We have not had anything I consider to be winter weather this year. They say we may get six inches of snow this weekend but I've heard that before. Only got a slight dusting once in early December.

I like winter and wish we would get some. It is expected to get cold next week but some of that will depend on whether or not we get that snow.

I think Spring is much better if there has been a real winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:17 AM

There is a large weather pattern right now over the western US. It is both windy and cold. Today it should hit Colorado and may bring snow as well as very cold temperatures. This front is large and should be felt from OK throught the Great Lakes for about the next entire week, bringing sub-zero cold, strong winds and icy roads.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:44 AM

The forecast this AM called for up to six inches of snow Sunday/Monday and then highs around 20 with lows around 0. Real winter to be sure but nothing crazy wild. Could be much different elsewhere of course.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:07 PM

It snowed last night, it's #@$!%!! snowing now, and it's going to have a high of 19 F today -- and by tomorrow the high will be 14 F and the low 3 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Partridge
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:42 PM

wet and windy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:53 PM

Nippy, but no wind this morning.

A nice thing about all the snow we've gotten in Juneau is that our darkest part of the winter has been much brighter because of it.

Incidentally our days are already perceptibly longer. Sunset today is at 3:34 but I noticed the other day that because of the snow it still wasn't dark at 4 o'clock.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 05:14 PM

Sunny, breezy 75F in Naples, Fl...sorry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 06:00 PM

Hey, van Lingle- for us, 75 degrees is on the edge of too hot!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Scoville at Dad's
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 07:31 PM

70/55 degrees, getting ready to drop to 48/32 on Monday, and overcast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 07:40 PM

It warmed up during the day to -15 (5 F) from -36 (-33 F). It's nice out at last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 08:37 PM

As of now (about 5:30 p.m. Seattle time), the temperature is 33^o F. (barely 1^o C.). It snowed a bit last night, starting around evening commute time. Television showed long lines of slowly-moving or non-moving autos on freeways and arterials under snow flurries.

Right now, evening commute time is under way, but I haven't turned the evening news on yet. Earlier news predicted that the currently wet roadways could turn icy if the temperature dropped a degree or two, which it is wont to do. Great weather for body and fender shops.

Barbara and I are hunkered down and we might watch a movie tonight (we subscribe to NetFlix. Just got "Casablanca"—seen it a dozen times or more, but it's a classic, of course—and "Rob Roy" with Liam Neeson. Saw that too, but I want to see it again).

Stay warm.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ragdall
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:03 PM

It's -22 C. At least the wind has died down.   

It didn't warm up here in the day, but it was sunny.   I tried to wash the dog footprints off the sliding glass door. Vinegar does freeze!

rags

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:11 PM

Cold.

biLL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:37 PM

Hot.

Here in my part of Sydney (at 3.35pm) it is somewhere in the low-mid 30sC, high humidity, very unpleasant. Possible thunderstorms promised for later in the day. That will be OK, so long as lightning strikes don't start any more bushfires.

The heat turns my brain to mush and I am not good for anything! Can you please send a bit of cold my way?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:58 PM

Vancouver got its first full day of sun in 72 days. Last full sunny day was Hallowe'en. I don't think we went quite that long here on the Island, but possibly we set a record too. Its a bit nippy out tonight, about 24 F and supposed to dip a bit more later on, but the stars are beautiful.

Sure glad the power's on for a change and the only pain in the ass for the next few days will be lugging water for the pony, because his water line is frozen. I'm taking a break from hauling wood for the woodstove, putting my feet up tonight and being thankful for small pleasures, like electric heat and functional toilets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 12:06 AM

Same as Jennie G - just had a shower to cool down, and I'm sitting in front of a fan. We've had hotter temperatures than this - it's the humidity that makes it really hard to take.

I think it's about to come to an end soon though. The Weather Bureau has posted a severe thunderstorm warning, I can see something on the radar moving towards us from the west, and it's starting to cloud over. I think I might have just heard my first bit of thunder too.

Better go and bring the washing in!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 07:12 AM

The wind is gusting along the valley at up to 80 mph and my outdoor table just blew, sideways on, right up to the conservatory. I'll go and do something about the table, just as soon as I can be arsed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 08:30 AM

-19.4 C (-3 F), windchill of -26 C (-14 F), high today of -14 C (+6 F), low of -21 C (-6 F), partly cloudy. All weekend (including Monday) is to be similar, but slightly warmer.

I saw a brass monkey pounding on a certain part of his anatomy, trying to warm it up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 08:44 AM

Well, today there seems little or no wind, & its sunny!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: guitar
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 09:42 AM

it is just typical scottish weather, nice and wet and cold and windy. My brother in law Peter he just loves this sort of weather, mind you he moved to Australia great for someone who love the cold

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 09:56 AM

Knew it couldnt last, now its blowing like hell again!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 10:56 AM

Sounds like the weather in Hull is the same as Saint John ... as the saying goes here "if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes".

What's the weather like here today ... warm.

biLL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 11:14 AM

-8 below zero f. on the outside north wall of my house. The wind isn't blowing at the moment. Clear deep blue sky. Lots of snow.

You can see what it looks like at the camera Here: Bozeman Pass
and Big Sky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 11:18 AM

Nice!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 12:22 PM

In Juneau it's snowing again. The tricky part for walking is the fluffy stuff on top of the previous packed snow and ice.

It's supposed to be warming up. A high of 25F forecast today- tomorrow in the mid30s.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:47 PM

Warm and very windy today. REd Flag warning--which is nearly unheard of this time of year. I'm realizing this winter has not only been too warm, it has also been to dry.

Janie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 12:37 AM

Blah grey.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ragdall
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 03:35 AM

dianavan,
Is it true that, in Vancouver, if you can see the mountains it's going to rain






















and if you can't see them, it is raining?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 04:02 AM

Snow!

That's our weather today here in Colfax, California, at an elevation of 2,300 feet in the Sierra Nevada Foothills. This is the first time we've had snow this season, so it was wonderful to see. We had no precipitation at all in January, so it's going to take some heavy weather to get us up to our 40-inch annual average rainfall and give us some decent spring wildflowers.
We have lots of daffodils in the snow, though. Julian of Norwich would be proud of us - camellias and almond blossoms, too.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 11:33 AM

rainy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 11:36 AM

Actually quit nice for a February winter day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 02:48 PM

Been a great winter so far, eh, sIx? Here in Moncton, it has been an old fasioned no-snow winter. That is, colder than a you know! We might have had about a metre or so all together. Only about a half metre on the ground now. Temps have been -15 to -25 overnight, usually around -15 daytime. WC (windchill) -20 to -35 most of the time. EXCELLENT winter so far!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 02:57 PM

Forecast is for up to 1/2 inch of ice by Saturday evening followed by 3 to 6 inches of snow with high winds. We are planning on hunkering down until Monday morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 02:57 PM

It's February and every single First Day silent worship since New Year's has been interrupted by the jingles of passing ice cream vans.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 10:05 PM

Well, our latest snow advisory has been cancelled. We got only about 4 inches this latest go 'round. Temperature is 17F and we expect a low of 12 tonight. We're supposed to be heading into single digit lows in the next few days.

I haven't heard lately how much snow we've had this winter but it's way above normal for us.

For some reason I expect Spring to arrive with a crash. And maybe a warm (for us) summer. Last summer was so cool and wet that no one was happy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 10:19 PM

Oh- I guess that was 300.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 09:52 PM

Southern Oregon - Snowing

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 11:50 PM

You poor folks have weather. WE have climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:20 AM

Ah, but remember, Peace: Your climate is changing, while ours is just weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 02:35 AM

We had our first snow of the season on Thursday - and our first mosquito on Friday!
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Carolyn in Burgundy
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:57 AM

What a very English idea for a thread! Well, it's very changeable here today. Sun, rain, sun, rain. Am I mad to want to go and live in Ireland?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Mar 07 - 02:09 PM

Speaking of mosquitoes, Joe, in the Oregon mountains I've seen what appeared to be mosquitoes IN the snow. I don't know what else they could have been.

Anyway, the Weather Service is forecasting a blizzard, of all things, for Juneau today beginning around noon. It's just past 10:00 right now and fine snow is flinging about. They tell us that we're expecting 8 to 14 inches accumulation, with winds up to 65 mph.

We'll see. By the way, it is COLD.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 07 - 06:29 AM

Most of last week, it was close to 30C and sunny here in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Tonight.......

Snow at times heavy becoming mixed with periods of ice pellets mixed with rain overnight. Snow and ice pellet amount 10 to 15 cm. Wind becoming northeast 30 km/h late this evening. Low zero.

Some fun in The Maritimes, eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 16 May 07 - 10:33 AM

Hello,

The weather here was delightful,
We've just had our dose of sun,
But true to the tradition
The rain has now begun!

We had a glorious April.
The weather felt like June.
But now it won't stop raining.
It's like a darn monsoon!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 May 07 - 11:47 AM

Ebbie, what you saw were probably Choronomids. The look quite similar to mosquitoes when they hatch, but they don't bite. Some years here they even show up in January in large numbers amongst the salal.

My sympathies gnu, we're having a less extreme form of that kind of weather on this coast too. A sunny 26C yesterday and then the wind came up and blew all that lovely weather away. Its cloudy again and a low of 6 is predicted for tonight.

We keep getting tantalized with a few warm sunny days and then it gets chilly again....warm spring weather arrived really late this year. We had salmon berry still blooming last week, when some years its finished blooming in late February and early March.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 07 - 12:40 PM

"We had salmon berry still blooming last week, when some years its finished blooming in late February and early March."

The only things that bloom here in February and March are nipples.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 May 07 - 01:21 PM

We don't have any weather here today. The weatherman got sick. He couldn't do his report. There's nothing but a big, blank, indeterminate nothing out there right now. No rain, no sun, no clouds, no snow, no nothing. It's spooky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 09:53 AM

rainy & stormy all around our part of Oz!
Wild Weather keeps SES (State Emergency Services) busy

A coal ship has run aground -
Newcastle (Oz) Freighter Emergency - ABC news online

more pics

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 03:11 PM

snowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 03:17 PM

Not snowing here... shhhhh... it might start again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: autolycus
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 03:33 PM

Snowing, then sunny, then overcast.

Then the next minute......

   Ivor

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bankley
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 03:50 PM

75 F. mostly sunny... a bit of a breeze swaying the Spanish moss in the oaks...

good for putting in a lot of porch time

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 05:03 PM

Effen cold ..... and effen windy.

Just downright effen miserable

biLL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 05:08 PM

Ah...Eastertide in the East of England....snow, hail, sleet, blusterous winds you name it...we got it!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 05:27 PM

Snow on the ground, but we might get up into the 40's f today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 05:30 PM

Sunny, breezy, temps in the low 70's F. here in North Carolina, USA. A lovely Easter Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 03:47 AM

it has been raining for sooooome























weeks.

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 07:21 AM

Ah yes...but it's stopped now!

Lovely Sunshine!

Peter

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jun 08 - 12:47 PM

31 in the shade, but the humdiddly is down to 56% so it's not bad here in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Jun 08 - 07:20 PM

Changing -- yet again today. I can tell because my shoulder (broken in December and fixed with a plate and screws) feels as if a tight elastic girdle is squeezing it -- and layers of muscle are "sticking" as they pull away from each other. (Feeling sort of like your bare tush when it sticks to a caned chair seat when you stand up.) Not painful (like winter weather-related pain) but mildly uncomfortable. Stiff.)

Dawned fair and humid, had thunder showers, then steady rain, now -- who knows. Sigh.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Jun 08 - 07:24 PM

About the same as it has been for the past month or so...blue sky, 90F/32C, 11% humidity. Might be a few thundershowers later. Boring - wish it would cool off and rain for a week or two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jun 08 - 08:12 PM

'Bout the same as Art.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Schantieman
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 12:20 PM

Sunny, warm, (ish - about 20) and breezy. Ideal really. bet it gets too hot later in the summer.

Steve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Def Shepard
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 01:22 PM

Tonight's weather...dark, followed in the morning by widely scattered patches of light. :-D

George Carlin: in memoriam

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 03:54 PM

About the same as always..between 45 and 55 degrees the year around..overcast. slight wind...No actually it is probably 65 today. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 04:54 PM

We cooled down to 110 degrees F yesterday.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 06:37 PM

Settled down to fairly steady rain this morning and kept it up all day. (Still raining -- it's about 6:30 p.m. here.) Low 70s (F.) Unbelievably humid. Thunderstorms earlier.

We've been having at least one thunderstorm a day for the past almost a week. Sometimes I've been driving in a total downpour but having to have my sunglasses on because of the sun and blue sky ahead. Lots of ground fog and patchy fog no higher than the trees -- very soft and layered landscape.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 10:10 AM

My wife mentioned this morning that she heard it's 60 below in Alaska; Ebbie, do you feel like a "real cool cat" about now?
Nothing extreme here right now in our spot of S.E. Michigan, just a light blanket of snow and chilly, but with a few more inches expected today and tomorrow.
                                 Dean

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 10:33 AM

We (in Wash DC area) just had 2 weeks of cold rain & clouds...now we are in our 2nd day of chilly, but sunny weather. The forecast (so far) for the 2 million folks who intend to attend the inauguration doesn't look too bad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 11:42 PM

Shorts, sunscreen, hats.

Auckland Folk Festival in two weeks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 12:57 AM

"My wife mentioned this morning that she heard it's 60 below in Alaska; Ebbie, do you feel like a "real cool cat" about now?" frogprince

It hasn't been that bad in southeast Alaska, Dean, but it's seriously brutal farther north and in the interior of Alaska. Juneau has had zero temperatures for lows and up to 15 or so in the daytime but up there for the last two weeks some places they've been registering 45-64 MINUS.

The other day it was warmer in Barrow - at the top of the state and much closer to the North Pole - than it was in a number of places a great deal farther south.

In Anchorage, which is on the water, which means the ocean should be moderating the weather, they've been minus zero temperatures even in the daytime.

As they say, the world may end not with a bang but a whimper... :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mctuff
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 09:50 PM

very cold and snowy, eastern pa, everyone's sleepy and annoyed, town is deserted, less snow then the weatherman predicted as usual, businesses closed early, people scrawling words on the cars

Subject: LYR ADD: Snow
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 11 Jan 09 - 08:22 PM

To turn this into a musical thread, I shall now post the lyrics to a lovely round by Susan Kisslinger, in answer to the topic at hand:

Snow, snow, snow snow
snow, snow, snow, snow
Snow is falling, falling, falling, falling, falling, falling,
Snow is falling, falling, falling, falling, falling, falling,
Down..............
Down..............


Lots of it here in southwestern NH, USA!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 08:41 PM

Rain, rain and more rain. Just shy of 3" in the past 24 hours and more on the way. We are about to get clear of the remnants of Ida, but a strong low pressure right off the coast is tailgating her, and will bring another couple of inches. Already starting to get wind from that system.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 11:17 PM

What Janie said...DC area is YUCKY.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 02:49 AM

My joints said for the last few days that it was damp and cold. Looking out the window in the morning. Yup. They were right.

Today don't feel so bad. And guess what, there is sunshine. Log may it reign.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 03:12 AM

Well, if I were to tell you of the weather we're having now in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of California, I'd be accused of gloating.

But it's beautiful, so I'll tell you anyhow. Chilly and clear at night, brisk in the morning, and very comfortable in the afternoon. A nice smattering of fall color, blue skies, and spectacular sunsets.

When I was working in Sacramento on Monday, it was downright balmy.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 01:09 PM

Downtown Juneau is expecting its first snow mixed with rain today and tomorrow. The mountains all around us have been white for a couple of months and the valley area where the glaciers are (7 to 10 miles away from downtown) has had some snow on the ground but downtown is next to the ocean and the air currents are different too, so we are warmer -and rainier - than they.

Our temperatures have been dipping to the low 30s and rising to the low 40s.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 15 Nov 09 - 10:44 PM

The rain finally left. Yesterday turned sunny and 65F. Today sunny and 75F. Temps still quite moderate and my windows are still open. Spent the day washing windows, blowing leaves, cleaning off the carport, etc. and some time tonight sitting outside with a glass of wine, watching the moon and listening to the thinning chorus of night insects.

Average 1st frost date here is about October 15. I still have impatiens in bloom.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Nov 09 - 12:21 AM

Well, we got a bit more snow than expected. We have a good 7 or 8 inches out there - more than that in the valley - and more snow is forecast for the next several days. Most purdy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 16 Nov 09 - 06:27 AM

It was hot today in Sydney, and there are fire warnings because in somer parts of the state it's windy as well as hot. But this evening, it rained and it's much cooler where I am.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ranger1
Date: 16 Nov 09 - 06:55 AM

We're drying out after the record-setting five inches of rain overnight on Saturday night, and the temperature is in the mid-fifties. It is not supposed to be this warm in Maine at this time of year. This is unnatural and no good will come of it.

Tami (hauling out the snow shovel and looking nervously at the sky)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 07:23 PM

I was thinking that it was pretty chilly here in Anchorage at -5F yesterday morning. But I just returned from Fairbanks where this morning's temperature was -41F which, as it turns out, is -41C also. Very cool, in more ways than one.

Mike

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 08:16 PM

Rain.

Again.

But warm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 08:22 PM

Cold, with deep snow drifts all around.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 08:31 PM

A bitter winter has set in. The temperatures are plummeting down to 65 in broad daylight, which is unconscionable. I had to dig out a sweater when I drove to work before sunrise today. Its abysmal, I tell you!!!


A

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 10:13 PM

aw, amos,
I feel your pain ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 02:36 AM

getting cooler as the day ends in electrical storms & maybe rain (tho not in my bit of Sydney) - we've had very hot temperatures today & 2 house fires in Sydney Metrop area due to lightning strikes -

& the summer bushfire season has arrived early with fires & very high temperatures (40's & that's Celsius, not Fahrenheit!) in 3 states

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 12:12 PM

Hang in there, Amos. A bitter winter always leaves hope for a benevelant spring.

Mike

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 01:22 PM

Flakey. Not many but every one counts.

Tonight: Cloudy periods. Clearing near midnight. 40 percent chance of flurries over eastern sections this evening. Low minus 8.

Brrrr and grrrr!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 05:01 AM

It's not bad here in Bristol, mild winds sunshine not bad at all. But I remember it was like that last year and then we paid for it by having three or four months of severe winter conditions. It could be the lull before the storm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 06:23 AM

Temperatures this morning in Midcoast Maine: 21 F inside; 36 F outside.

We had snow along with a rainbow last week. So far, no precipitation has reached the ground as snow here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 06:24 AM

Temperatures this morning in Midcoast Maine: 36 F inside; 21 F outside. It's cold.

We had snow along with a rainbow last week. So far, no precipitation has reached the ground as snow here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 12:25 PM

Snow. Welll, fluffies. Only supposed to get 5cm. -9 last night. The last four potted plants are not caring too much for it (in the garage, of course)... the begonia looks half dead and and I expect it will be by tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 03:19 PM

Yeah, I konw. Turn the lights off in the room.

Great day for a boiled smoked ham picnic shoulder with green beans, carrots, spuds, cabbage... and WARMTH from the hob. Smells good eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 11:27 PM

Fierce winds shaking the camper tonight are equally effective in keeping us from sleep. The moon and stars were bright when I came in from the chicken house tonight. I could easily skirt the perimeter of the filled foundation without a flashlight. I'm about to go back outside to unhook the ringing wind chimes for the night.

Maeve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 12:14 AM

Here in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of California, we had a dusting of snow in the morning, and rain all day. Probably a bit more snow tonight, and maybe a lot of it.
I grew up in Wisconsin, but sometimes get snow earlier here in California (but much warmer winters overall).

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 06:29 AM

It has been a rather warm autumn with only a couple of veggie-killing cold nights, but in the last last few hours the Nevada sagebrush got snow. Looks like Christmas.

The ski resorts in the Sierras will be real happy with this amount of snow this early. Make your ski reservations now and avoid the late rush.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 07:21 AM

Yup, the begonia is a begoner, the purlple mini petunia is a ptuie and the fuscia is a fuscta. Maeve suggested I take cuttings from the snapdragon so I garbage bagged it and brought it in... I opened the bag this AM and it smiled at me. I'd keep it in the house but there's no telling of what manner of wee beasties it harbours.

And the snow stuck and stayed on everything, even the pave. I had to salt around Mum's back door.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 07:37 AM

Grey

I have seen neither sun nor blue sky in more than a week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 08:48 AM

Gorgeous day here in the Blue Ridge Mountain in Virgina... Sunny and around 60 (Fahrenheit), tomorrow's gonna be the same and warmer and Tuesday is going to be mid-70s...

But by the end of the week it's gonna be winter like with temps in the 40s during the day and 20s at night... You know, like winter...

Oh well, I'm gonna go harvest some leaves today with my lawn tractor and bagger attachment... Make good mulch...

B~

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 08:32 PM

We have had temps in the 50s and low 60s much of November.
Today it is November 21 and we have Dandelions blooming!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 09:21 PM

We had a southern day here is Missouri - lovely, moist air about 60 degrees that must have come up from the Gulf of Mexico. Made us think we were in Florida.

Ah, the middle of the continent. Some days it feels like Florida, some days it feels like Canada, some days it feels like hell.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 03:16 AM

Dull, damp, grey, UK.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 09:13 AM

Just looked on the 10 day weather and snow showers are forecast for the weekend oooh!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 04:15 PM

Not my weather, but a report from "up northwest" in the US might be of interest.

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 04:23 PM

The camper has been shaking all last night and all day today from extremely strong winds. It's cold; we can feel it seeping in through every possible crack. Winds appear to be dying down as night falls.

Maeve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 04:41 PM

To those folks in the Rockies and points east: duck. This storm has snow, wind and cold.

It was 8^o F last night in the Nevada sagebrush and is going up to about 28 for a high. That is colder that Fairbanks, Alaska, for the same day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 04:47 PM

Yees, b'y... I can see it being a nasty winter here too. Especially after we had the best winter here last year I can ever recall. Well, there was a couple that I really liked, like the year I shovelled 45 minutes... ALL winther but it was SO cold.

In any case, I hope it doesn't get too bad for anyone. Especially my friend maeve who is trying to get a ew house built way to late in the construction season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 05:07 PM

Thanks, gnu.

Winds changed direction and have picked up again. O goody.

m

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 05:30 PM

Surely the wind ain't that bad, m.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 05:43 PM

We've been riding this boat on rough seas, g. I'm not so worried about capsizing now that the hellhole has been filled in, but it is unsettling and makes for a rough night. The camper rocks strongly enough we can feel each gust.

We're in no danger; just thought I'd post our weather.

Maeve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 06:03 PM

It's constantly changing...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 07:13 PM

coming out of an icey few days..30 degrees F, cold but no wind, which is unusual. I think it went down to 19 or so...which if the wind blows is really cold for here..not bad if the sun is shining and no wind though. I live right on the ocean..didn't feel a draft in my little cabin but a real wind blowing right through it. But it is sturdy..most of our winter weather is strong winds and driving rain even though temps are usually mid 40s. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 07:14 PM

65 yesterday, 50 today. Last night I saw chem trail cloud formations from high altitude jets. THis is the first I have seen any in 3 weeks. Why at night? I thought their whole purpose was to lower ground temeratures. Its very confusing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Penny S.
Date: 25 Nov 10 - 02:12 AM

Spotted the first snow an hour ago when I put out the rubbish for the bin men. About 8 tiny flakes! Not enough to dim the nearby lights! But it is unusual here, in north west Kent, close to London, this side of Christmas.

Penny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 25 Nov 10 - 03:11 AM

We haven't got our snow yet but a few flakes are expected later today. It is cold but no bitter winds yet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Nov 10 - 10:23 AM

It's still changing...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 10 - 02:50 PM

SUNSHINE! Ohhhh, wait... we HAD sunshine. I shoulda went outside instead of posting this before I went out. Nevermind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 25 Nov 10 - 04:46 PM

WE don`t HAVE weather. WE have CLIMATE!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Nov 10 - 04:57 PM

really cold, bit windy, cloudy and waiting for the snow... due to arrive Saturday and Sunday in goodly amounts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 03:50 AM

It is cold but blue skies and sunny we are forecast to expect 10 inches of snow. Even with the warning what is the betting everything grinds to a halt on Monday if it lasts that long.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Phot
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 06:30 AM

Bright sunshine but -3c in Aldershot at the moment!

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 07:36 AM

Snow, sleet, freezing rain in Midcoast Maine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 09:30 AM

2.30pm here in Chester, England, just started heavy snow & its sticking! AAAAAAaaaaaargghhhhhhhhhh!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 11:16 AM

Here in Somerset, near Bridgwater, we started off with a blue sunny day, then it went grey, and now it's snowing - quite steadily, but it hasn't settled yet. Current temp is zero C. Looks like we might be in for a winter like last years!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 12:54 PM

bitter cold here, no snow yet, mostly blue sky today but clouds started moving in late afternoon. will there be white int he morning?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 12:54 PM

Piss off Amos.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 04:51 PM

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.... like we got a friggin choice... grrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 05:06 PM

Free from Yahoo, here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 06:50 PM

Whacky About Verse... will you ever stop cluttering up my day? WTF did that link have to to with anything on this thread? Yes, it is friday night and I have had a few ales and this is an outburst that I would normally rue in the AM... but I doubt it this time. Seriously, stop it. You need help.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 06:58 PM

I'm where Donuel is, and I have 2 more days of a craft show to sit thru...PLEASE do not send us any bad weather till Monday, and preferably not for another week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 27 Nov 10 - 05:17 PM

Oh......it's all pretty again!

-6 degrees and counting!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Nov 10 - 07:10 PM

Perfect night for the Santa Clause parade here... about 0C, no wind and a gentle snow. Cleansing. The air is fresh. Glad I don't have to stand in the cold listening to the kiddies whining and crying.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 08:27 AM

Dear Gnu: so much for Thanksgiving!...that above link leads to a handy up-to-date answer re. the thread's question "What's the weather like where you are?", and puts my fellow Catters - including your goodself - onto a free device they may wish to add onto their own site.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: curmudgeon
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 11:33 AM

Winter is icumen in,
    Lhude sing Goddamm,
    Raineth drop and staineth slop,
    And how the wind doth ramm!
    Sing: Goddamm.
    Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
    An ague hath my ham.
    Freezeth river, turneth liver,
    Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.
    Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
    So 'gainst the winter's balm.
    Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm,
    Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.

    - Ezra Pound, tune: trad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 07:35 AM

It's late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.
Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.
But, being a practical leader, after several days, he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, 'Is the coming winter going to be cold?'
'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,' the meteorologist at the weather service responded.
So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.
A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?'
'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'it's going to be a very cold winter.'
The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?'
'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.'
'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.
The weatherman replied, 'The Indians are collecting a huge load of firewood'

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 08:19 AM

It is bitterly cold here, real brass monkey weather. Somehow I don't think even Santa could put up with doing a walkabout today. This is supposedly going to last for at least 2 weeks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 12:29 PM

well I am in the most southern part of ireland, and we have just had 3 inches of snow, ITS SUFFIN COLD

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 02:58 AM

There is about as much as on an iced Christmas cake this morning bitterly cold but with less of the biting winds of yesterday. But I am prepared with every bit of clothing I could pull on and surprise surprise no problems with buses, hoorah.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:39 PM

It's still changing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:43 PM

500 sorry lead fingers

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:48 PM

We have over a foot of snow now and it's still snowing. Lincolnshire UK

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:56 PM

snow!   puuurrrrtttyyy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:01 PM

Just got an email from a friend who we go skiing with.

Wanting to book the holiday.

Made me laugh anyway.

Lots of snow here in my neck of The UK. But even more where I was over the weekend. Beer in front of a fire in the pub sounds good. Will get my coat / hat / drinking head on and off I go.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:12 PM

Not a cloud, nare a strip a wind, 5C... Just walked a mile and took the last bit of ice off the driveway. If I didn't have work, laundry and supper on the go, I would still be outside.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mandotim
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:35 PM

A foot or so of snow here at the southern tip of the Peak District. Still snowing, and the wind is causing drifts now.
Tim

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:44 AM

bout 5 inches in mid Essex... I am working from home today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:18 PM

Absolutely perfect and unusual for winter here..no wind, 47 degrees F, no rain. Lovely morning. Was pretty windy yesterday. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:43 PM

14 inches plus in Gainsborough

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:44 PM

That is snow of course!!!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:47 PM

We are expecting torrential rains today. Hell, even the geese will be walking.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:02 PM

14+ inches. Glad I live in Moncton... today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:10 PM

Just east of Peak District - the most snow I've seen here in 30 years.

Does anyone have any good cat recipes?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:13 PM

Fried cat, boiled cat, roast cat... what is your preference?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM

Re Cat Recipes

I would suggest stir fry. Treat as one would chicken.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:18 PM

Treat as one would chicken.

What d'you think I am? Some kind of pervert?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:25 PM

In north central Pennsylvania it's been quite a mix.

Yesterday: Lots of heavy rain and high winds (moved my 60 pound kayak, lots of trees down in the area, bird feeds are down, lawn furniture all over the place).

Today: Started with rain, then sleet, then snow and now it's sleetish....temperatures dropping...glad that we don't HAVE to be on the roads today. I imagine power will be out in some areas of the county before bedtime.

Michelle

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:01 PM

Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.

22 Degrees C at 9:00am.
Lots of rain yesterday. Overcast now.
Cool for this time of year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:26 PM

Cold as a step-mother's kiss...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:29 PM

Colder than a grave digger's arse..

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 09:36 PM

Blowing in the wind. Tied of shaky campers, me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM

I've heard "colder than a whore's heart" but never "a step-mother's kiss". Perhaps a "mother-in-law's kiss"?

8 with drizzle here but I saw crows massing at dawn. I have been waiting and watching for the migration... got my camcorder and camera at the ready. I wish I had been more on the ball a few years back. When I noticed it, they were directly over me and it was awesome but I stood and watched for at least five minutes before I even thought of a vid. By the time I was set up it was too far away to be impressive.

I watched a shorebird migration at dusk in PEI about thirty years ago. Remarkable how millions of birds wait their turn and join in, from north to south along the shore. As do the crows in similar fashion. Fascinating.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 07:32 PM

Big wet delays new Mad Max film

It's in a part of the country officially called a "Semi-arid area" - I've driven past the sign on the highway warning people attempting to enter that section of the highway!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 01:00 PM

Mike Harding summed it up perfectly in his monologue "Ackroyd's Funeral."

Some brass monkeys outside were singing carols, soprano.
You could hear them cursing and swearing,
As they wandered round lost, in the fog and the frost,
They couldn't find their bearings.




So many cats, so few recipes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 01:09 PM

I woulda thought you preferred em steamed.

The lawns are green and little yellow flowers are sprouting along my house foundation... silly buggers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mandotim
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 04:45 PM

I'm finding this hard to believe, even though I saw it myself. My neighbour's recording thermometer showed a lowest temperature last night of -24C. It was -16C when I set off for work this morning. This was in the southern end of the Peak District, in the Staffordshire Moorlands. I've never seen temperatures that low in the UK.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 04:15 AM

It's 9.05am here in beautiful Somerset, and it is -5 degrees. No snow at the moment, but there is a thick hoar frost covering everything. I don't remember a frost this thick even in Aberdeen last year. It's also colder than Aberdeen last year, although not by much. The sky is a uniform white and I can't tell if it's fog, cloud or if the sun hasn't made it over the top of the garage yet. It all looks very spooky.

Fog is everywhere, and our usual view of the Mendips is shrouded in fog. In fact, The forecast for today is 'fog'.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,kp
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 04:30 AM

Oh no
Its snowing again in Edinburgh this morning.
Just when we thought it had stopped and spent much of yesterday digging out cars!

And my walking boots have a hole in them...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:00 AM

Fog followed by gorgeous sun yesterday, today dense freezing fog. Okay the novelty of winter has now worn off. Some sun is forecast for the rest of the week - we are just thankful that it isn't windy to add to the chill.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:27 AM

Too much rain to mow the grass so I could drag the junk out to the foot path for special collection day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:48 AM

Don't know where you are, Patsy, but this sounds like our weather. It was beautifully sunny yesterday - still very cold but from the inside it looked warm, and it actually warmed up our enclosed south-facing front porch. Today it looks bleak and cold with, as you said, dense freezing fog, but thankfully not a breath of wind. Nearly 11am now, and still -4 degrees. BRRRR!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:46 AM

The drought has broken... and broken.. and now .. it's flooding in New South Wales..

and the rain's still pattering outside.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsay
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:10 AM

Hello Jenny this is in North Bristol and looking very bleak, where are you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:43 PM

Ah yes, Patsy, you're not all that far away. I'm in Cossington, near Bridgwater. It's been like this all day and now it's even colder - minus 6 degrees according to the weather on my computer. Tomorrow looks like more of the same.

Today we were in town, in Bridgwater, and the air was so cold it was making my teeth ache when I opened my mouth to say something.

Tomorrow I'm going to try and brave the cold for a while to take some macro shots with my camera of the ice crystals on the leaves. It's actually quite beautiful!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:32 PM

Saw some flowers trying to sprout yestreen..50.1 degrees at 4:30 p.m. No wind to speak of..no rain. Warmest place in state of Washington USA. Could not be better for a December day. I think we still have rhododendruns blooming in some places, especially the dark red ones. Pinks bloomed last month but are done now. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:43 PM

It's 29 balmy deg C in our beer garden this morning....that's 84.2 deg F for those not fortunate enough to be in Oz....and because we now live in the country well away from the coast the humidity is quite bearable. The view from the beer garden is birds, magpies, rosellas and galahs singing and sqwarking in the trees. We have a native reserve on the other side of our back fence and the birds provide us with endless entertainment.

It's not raining today for a change, but more is forecast tomorrow, and we are well away from floods but it could happen here - we had a flood in late July. But if the flood waters ever get to our house on the hill.......then the rest of Oz is really in deep shit.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:47 PM

Right then... what's a beer garden?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 09:58 PM

In answer to the thread title, the weather here is the shits. Cold as a well diggers arse and the snow is blowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 11:47 PM

Gnu, a beer garden is the back garden of a pub - most Ozzie pubs have an outside area where kids are allowed, some pubs have a beautifully landscaped beer garden, others are more rough and ready. But "beer garden" is the official term, some pubs even have a sign pointing out the whereabouts of theirs.

The back of our house is L-shaped, the previous owner had filled in the L with brick paving, roofed it over, and added a low lattice wall. It's a lovely spot to watch the birds in the reserve, on the hill, over the fence. Here's a view of ours.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 01:06 AM

Since I had no reason to be concerned, I didn't make a serious attempt to determine where this link originated; but it quite obviously

WAS WINDY SOMEWHERE

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 08:03 AM

Well, in the swampy bog hole I live in, it actually stopped raining and the sun came out for a couple of hours today, long enough to actually run the mower over part of the waist high grass... before it started raining again. Of course, it's not raining now, but the mower doesn't have headlights, and the neighbors might complain anyway about mowing in the dark ...

5 States are flooded over substantial parts, and in the parts that are not, we have swarms of locusts. 9 major river systems are flooded, looks like water will reach Lake Eyre again. Looks like we don't have many bushfires so far this year, would be a bloody miracle if water burned, I suppose....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 09:04 PM

Heaps of rain.
Some sun this morning.
Managed to do some washing.
Can almost see the grass growing.
26 degrees C
Sunshine Coast QLD

Must have been someone's idea of a joke calling it the Sunshine Coast.
Sure we have plenty of sun, but plenty of rain too!

Hope it's not still raining Friday evening for our 2 choirs Christmas concert.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 10:19 PM

Heavy, heavy...fog. HIGHLY unusual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 04:53 AM

JennyO, Bridgwater is not too far away 'as the crow flies' so I expect it is pretty much the same. Today a bit of a breeze is picking up too. Hopefully there won't be any heavy snow fall too close to Christmas. It can do what it likes after that.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 05:47 AM

JennieG that pic of the view from your back yard is beeeeyoutiful! enjoy your peace!

fredalina :-D

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 05:49 AM

cold grey surprise surprise

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:41 PM

Yesterday was the best of all for freezing fog and amazing pictures. Haven't got them off the camera yet, but I got some fantastic macro shots of leaves with ice crystals around them, icy spider webs everywhere, and more distant shots of the winter wonderland. The locals reckon they haven't seen anything like this, or experienced these low temperatures for 20 years or more. I don't think it got above -6 degrees.

I was really glad I braved the cold yesterday to get the pics, because today the sun came out, and although there was still a lot of white and frost everywhere all day, the amazing ice crystals on things had gone. It's a balmy -2 now :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:56 PM

Cold as a pump handle here in the Blue Ridge... Wind blows hard from the northwest and then get caught right upside this here mountain and then swirls and swirls...

Can't even leave the beer out in the barn 'cause it freezes... I put a few in a gunny sack and they froze??? Had to put 'um in the barn refrigerator to warm them up enough to no be froze...

That's cold, people...

B~

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 09:37 PM

It keeps flippin' changing!

- Shane

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 12:34 PM

We've had a fairly mild winter so far in Juneau. Snow, but no great amount. Cold but not much wind.

Today we are forecast up to a foot of snow. I like the prospect. Since my job doesn't entail having to go out in it I get to choose how much of it I brave.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 12:43 PM

It's changing...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 01:56 PM

For the better or the worse, Little Hawk?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 02:08 PM

Ontario and Quebec have been in the news here lately with lots of snow, wind and cold. I heard today Quebec is gonna get freezing rain and wind in the south.

Environment Canada is threatening us with heavy rain, high winds and 12C, starting last night but all we have had is a bit of rain and some stiff winds so far. The nasty stuff seems to be edging by Moncton. 80km west is a different story. I assume sIx is inside with his camera today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 02:13 PM

We had a terrible cold snap the last few days. I had to wear a sweater until 10:00 AM!! Outrageous. Now, however, things are back to a normal balmy 75 degrees Farenheit, with clear skies. Thank Gawd!! I thought the world was coming to an end...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 02:18 PM

Posted this on the grownup thread...

Piss off, eh.

If I win the lotto, I am gonna buy a house next to you and get a big snow machine and... hmmm... on second thought, maybe just an ice maker... shaken or stirred my good man?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 02:31 PM

Oh, gnu, what a suckup.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 03:18 PM

Pretty chilly over there Amos! We always need a jacket in the morning over here this time of year, but we'll probably break 80F today.

nothing but blue skies

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 03:23 PM

No wind, no rain..great summer day. http://funbeach.com/oyster-cam/

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 03:29 PM

Just you wait, Amos. Just you wait.

Ebbie, it was pretty terrible yesterday. Big snowstorm, and the barometer went about as low as it can go. Driving was inadvisable, to say the least. Today things appear to be improving a bit. The snow has been plowed and the barometer is rising.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 04:05 PM

Suck up? Or lulling him into a false sense of security so I can smack him with snowballs... I pack em real tight with my bare hands so they are hard as the knobs of hell and I can whip em like Nolan Ryan. But, don't tell him eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 04:24 PM

We had another flood at the weekend, worse than the July flood but still nothing major really, more of an inconvenience because two of the three river crossings are closed and traffic chaos ensues, as they say on the news.

It's clear and sunny today but don't get your hopes up, more rain is forecast......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Dec 10 - 04:32 PM

Military rescue in Ontario.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Dec 10 - 07:39 PM

well, we had a dusting of snow (in the Wash DC area) last night. It is a lot colder today. I expect we'll get our 'share' soon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,biff
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 07:26 PM

cold with angry gusts of biting wind. fracking on the horizon near the delaware.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 05:29 PM

South eastern UK several centimetres on the ground from Saturday and now starting to snow again. ARRGHHH!!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 06:10 PM

All you really need to know about the weather...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 06:16 PM

I was just out for a walk here in The Banana Belt of New Brunswick. Walked 1.5km in the slight breeze, overcast and wettish weather (not stll fluffying but warming up to rain) and I shall go out again but with lighter garb. How are things in Uppity Canada LH? I hear youse got a few flakes. >;-(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 06:25 PM

We've had more snow than usual, but it depends on where you are. Some areas got hit harder than others. I'd say there's about 8 inches of accumulation out there now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 06:27 PM

We got 2" the other day. I used a stiff pushbroom to clear the driveway of the cold, fluffy stuff. It is 10°F colder than 'usual' for this date, but we have so far been spared the nasty stuff that many are getting.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:08 PM

Bill... I forget where you are to?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:38 PM

Scary..weather alarm came on this morning...water spouts forecast, which I think is like tornados..I saw something that looked suspicious on Friday and last week there was a tornado not far from here..Also ferocious thunder storms predicted..I was hoping they would be over by now because I don't want to walk a mile to bus stop and have them...all ships told to move to shore this morning. Just was a sad drowning this weekend of a fisherman but one did survive due to Coast Guard swimmer rescue. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:39 PM

My ten minute commute took almost two hours. Two hours of slipping and sliding and dodging idiots who thought they could go faster. Accidents at every corner in Portland. Gridlock - I have never seen gridlock in Portland.
I am so glad to be home. I am trying not to wish evil on the idiots in their four wheel drive monstrosities blowing their horns at those who were shimmying with every touch of the gas pedal. F**Kin' morons.
That feels better.
By the way, my little Hyundai performed admirably. At one point, a group of men had formed to push cars uphill (read incline). My little Elantra went up all by itself.
SIN, sipping on JD and trying to relax.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:44 PM

I believe Bill's in the Washington, DC/Maryland area, gnu.

Sins- We watched Portland traffic on the news. Amazing gridlock indeed! We're happy you and your car arrived home safely.

There's snow on the yurt foundation and a stiff wind blowing things around. Cold, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:37 AM

Yesterday was bitterly cold today is still very cold but without the windchill of yesterday. Everything is still white here in Bristol UK and some more light snow is expected tomorrow. Good news is that Thursday and Friday we should see some sun which will make last minute Christmas preparations that much easier. Christmas Day could be disapointing with cloud but still dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 05:07 AM

Can't tell really....too much fog.

David

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Becca72
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 08:59 AM

Took me 2 1/2 hours to get home from work (17 miles) last night. I never got out of 2nd gear! My Passat is pretty good in the snow but traffic was the problem, as Sins mentioned.

Then I get up this morning to come to work and the car won't start. I tried a dozen times, called Dad, tried once more and she started. I got to work and turned it off and tried again - nothing. Gonna have to repeat the process this afternoon, I guess.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 09:06 AM

We are here in Paris now, and tho there has been some snow, it's melting, and the temperature isn't as cold as it was at home in Somerset. It's a balmy +1!

We weren't sure if our flight to here would even take off, but it did. They had to close Bristol airport at one stage to clear the snow earlier in the day yesterday, which made everything run late, so our flight was delayed by nearly 2 hours, but otherwise there were no problems. I just hope we don't have problems getting back in a week, similar to the ones we had last year on New Years Eve, when Aberdeen airport was closed due to snow, and we had quite an adventure getting back.

I think next year we might spend Christmas at home, and everyone can come to us!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 09:43 AM

The radio weather person projected that the only two areas oc Canada that would have a green christmas are the east and west coast.

Unfortunately, beyond human travellers having difficulty getting to parts of Europe from Canada and the US of A, the Nova Scotia lobster folk are suffering. They can't get their lobsters by air to many of the christmas markets in Europe. If they miss it, there could be hardship...not to mention a lot of lobsters for us local folk to eat....maybe at reduced prices:))

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 11:38 AM

Sooo... that is why Sobeys has been selling the HUGE lobsters for $6.49 a pound. Markets are $7.99 cooked... if they do drop in price it'll be a yummy Xmas indeed.

BTW... 2C, rain, 70 to 90kph.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 01:56 PM

Fog over the Tyne, North-East England, today, making the Sun here look like the Moon - pic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 01:14 AM

The rain's stopped at last.[for the moment anyway!]
The sun's out!
Sunshine Coast QLD Australia    4:00pm 26 degrees C

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 05:34 PM

and speaking of rain in Queensland, Australia, floods in Queensland have covered an area the size of France and Germany combined..

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: framus
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 05:45 PM

If only you you had a "swop" card.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 06:02 PM

Light rain in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
A snowless mild winter, so far.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 06:13 PM

Gosh freda! Sounds bad. Hope things get better.

Ed... had every window in the house open for an hour today. Chilly but ya gotta love it eh? One day closer to spring! 15cm of THAT stuff tomorrow here but it's JANUARY and we haven't taken a big hit yet... hope this winter is even half as good as last year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 01:08 AM

Yesterday it turned warm and drippy in Juneau, Alaska. Today the snow is retreating fast. 37F out there at 9:00 tonight.

When it does this kind of thing, I hope it continues until just about all the snow and ice are gone from the sidewalks and pavement so we can start over. A hard freeze on top of rain isn't all that good.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 03:11 AM

Thanks gnu - these are QLD's worst floods on record.
Here are some pix, to give you an idea of what's happening up there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 01:26 PM

Yup... pretty nasty indeed!

The past several days have been close to 5C with sunshine for the most part. Today, about 0C and 20cm of sticky snow fell in four hours. So far, only one snow with wing and this one today. Doing GREAT for Moncton, NB, Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 02:16 PM

gnu, we got rain overnight,and into the morning (and plenty of it). Afternoon has been quite nice.It may snow a small amount tonight? But, let's wait and see.

It has been a great mild year for my newly-installed (energy efficient) mini-split heat pump. It's been pump'n out heat for the entire house. My oil fired furnace hasn't kicked in yet, zero oil used this winter (sorry, oil Barons). It has been a good investment decision to date.

Only had the snow blower out twice last year. Got it tuned up a week ago, just in case we get dumped upon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 05:16 PM

Ed... "... just in case we get dumped upon."

Just in case? You DO live in Canada, right? >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 05:29 PM

"You DO live in Canada, right"

Yes, but I forsee a long-term climate change pattern for east coast Canada that has been established over the past few weeks. Added to that, I am a born again believer in philosophical optimism.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 05:35 PM

Well, good thing you gotter tuned up on accounta philosophical optimism round these here parts will blow the snow right up yer arse.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 05:51 PM

Good advice gnu. I will wear tighter pants to reduce the liklihood of such a frigid (if not frightful) occurance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 06:55 PM

I am aghast! I was out cleaning up the snow and felt a strange sensation. I have a hole in me rubber boots! It's on the right side of me right boot, right where it crimps near the intersection of me toes and me instep. And the fookers is only 28 years old! I'll be at Crappy Tire first crack (I'd go tonight be I don't care to drive after dark, especially with a wet sock in this cold) and get a new right boot.

Jaysus H! eh? I paid $18 fer them sonsawhores!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 07:19 PM

"I have a hole in me rubber boots!"

Hopefully, it did not result in snow blowing up to the great divide?

You aren't far from Dieppe Mark's Work Warehouse, are you? Crappy's owns them now also.Not sure if their crap has been downgraded to the parent's crappy goods though:)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: open mike
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 01:56 AM

it is going to be below freezing from 20-30 degrees all week...that is because the skies are clear...there are still bits of snow on the north sides of hills and in shady parts of the road, but the snow we got for a couple of days is mostly washed away at the 2000-3000 ft elevation. ihear they have something like 15-20 feet of snow in the high sierras and the ski resorts are happy ! In the valley below here it is often very foggy in jan. and we usually have sunny days in the foothills.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 05:45 AM

Grey, frosty, back to work, horrible!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 06:32 AM

No snow, It is now -5 C, just turning bright. It is supposed to be no warmer than -2 today, with Sun.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 06:12 AM

How NASA sees flooded Central Queensland

This would be about a day north of me up the highway - if you could drive there at the moment .... the water in the town of Rockhampton (noted in map) is expected to take most of a week to subside. The total impact on Qld GDP is estimated to approach 1% GDP ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 06:46 AM

-14C here with snow and ice on the ground and snow with high winds expected for the weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Kweku
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 07:32 AM

Here in Accra, the weather is as it has always been around this time of the year, dry and hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 07:57 AM

A brisk wind picked up this morning but now it is just grey, damp and murky not the kind of day for making any New Year Resolutions.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 10:52 AM

First snow storm for Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. It has been "green" all this winter, now it is clearly white. We are supposed to get 10 cms today. But, the temperature is not supposed to drop much this week. So, some of it may melt later this week.
It seems to be following the ocean coast now. So, others in the province have not seen this snow...yet, that is.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 01:13 PM

Sunny but cold as a dead man's tongue in Hillsborough North Carolina.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 01:22 PM

Beautiful sun, cold although not as cold as it was last week,snow on the ground, strong winds shaking the camper.

Maine

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 02:43 AM

I'm ok ....

Flash Floods - all gone now...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 04:18 AM

60 mm in one hour on ground soaked for weeks, 2 dead, more missing from town center.

City downpour sparks flash floods

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 07:35 PM

In Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley now 8 confirmed dead and 72 missing. We drove home right thru the damaged area 20 mins before the flash flood swept down the 2 creeks in centre of town. Water mains, phones damaged in parts.

The creeks drained down to the valley below and created what is now being called an inland tsunami - that's where the bulk of the missing and deaths occurred.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 07:40 PM

Been reading about Oz in the news. Terrible stuff.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 08:14 PM

Still very overcast but not much more rain today so far.

Floods in Gympie, about 45 mins drive north of here.

Sunshine Coast!!! Queensland.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 09:49 PM

The Iceman cometh. Brought work home with me in case I can't make it in to work tomorrow. (Gotta save that PTO!)

Snow and sleet now - not a lot of accumulation in my particular little piece of the southern part of heaven, but it has been quite chilly for several days so it is sticking. Changing, probably very soon, to freezing rain. Temps predicted to rise no higher than 32 F tomorrow.

Not expecting of tons of ice and don't anticipate a power outage, but it is going to be slicker than snot for the next 18-24 hours. I'm quite intrepid about driving in snow, but 40 miles of secondary roads covered in an inch of sleet, then glazed with ice from freezing rain is not something I go out on if at all avoidable.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 07:01 AM

It's just not stopping, now Ipswich and Brisbane are being flooded - possibly higher than 1974. Still raining

7 metre high walls of water down in Lockyer valley...

Rain Map - looks like it might be clearing - see national map link - now a cyclone is winding up in Coral Sea area.... also one outside West Australia

Queensland flood disaster zone now spans 75pc of state

'Mega disaster zone' could be declared for Queensland floods

Wivenhoe at 190 per cent and rising

Not silly - it was expanded above 'optimal water supply capacity' after it was built to have a temporary flood buffer - it can go to 225% before it tops - but it is not designed to top as it will erode and possibly collapse.

Btw - arsonist bushfire in West Australia too ...

Australia - land of drought and flooding rains - we do nothing by halves!

BTw cat loading very slowly - we seem to be having some net hassles in various areas....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 09:58 AM

Looks nice outside because it is sunny, but we aren't fooled - it's not as nice as it looks - a chilly windy 6 degrees. Thank goodness for central heating, although that is proving to be rather expensive - especially after the real cold snap that we had. We are looking to go round with the sealant gun to fill in any little gaps around windows etc which might be letting the cold air in and decreasing the efficiency of our heating. While it's windy is a good time to detect the leaks. The windows themselves are double glazed and look to be in good order.

Meanwhile, my heart is going out to all the Oz people affected by the terrible floods in Queensland. We are not getting enough news here, so I have to resort to the internet to get comprehensive coverage. Thanks for the links, Foolestroupe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 11:03 AM

North of Atlanta we're snowed in for the second day. I'm enjoying it but my wife is getting stir crazy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 08:26 PM

Massachusetts is supposed to be pretty well snowbound by tomorrow. It hasn't started yet here in Malden.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 08:43 PM

Today was about +3 C, and nice. Tomorrow night, we are scheduled to get what's left over of the storm moving north from the eastern USA. Hopefully it will be rain?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:18 AM

Spent all morning at Food Assist - handing out food - washing eggs, repacking things, giving out milk, bread, etc. All ok, but transport hit hard, meaning food supplies are limited. Wish people would not panic buy - there will probably be some waste thru stupidity....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:46 AM

Pouring down but nothing compared to what is happening to the people in Queensland. My heart goes out to them too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:07 PM

Ed T... now THAT was a dumb thing to post... taunting Mom Nature like that! >;-) Enjoy the storm. I saw the CBC NB weather map last night. All of NS was snow white. I heard 25+cm and gusts to 80kph for you.

We are to get 10 to 20cm and a bit of wind here in the Banana Belt. Been having the nice temps and not much snow, much like the weather you described above.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:27 PM

Clear and sunny in Long Beach, California, and due to reach 70oF today.

The Weather Service reports that snow is on the ground in 49 states today, though. (Florida is the exception.)

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:28 PM

Cold as a Witch's tit and snow that's hub deep to a Ferris wheel. Yes, we are back in Maine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 03:18 AM

Dumb question here, but I don't mean it to be insensitive: When there is a long drought and then heavy rains causing floods- is there an impact on the drought? Do things green up and grow? Or does flooding strip the topsoil?

In any case I recognize that it's horrendous. I have a couple of acres in a small valley in Oregon through which a creek runs. Some years it rises out of its banks and people pack their campers with emergency supplies in case they have to flee. But I've never experienced anything like what is happening in the land of Oz this year.

Here in Juneau, Alaska, it is clear and cold. 11F, with the wind chill factored in, it's minus 9. We expect a low of 5 tonight and tomorrow night a thermometer low of minus 1 is forecast.

A scary thought is of a possible area-wide power outage. Outages are fairly common in Juneau- partly because high winds are frequent. We've had some strong gusts these last 24 hours - gusts to 60 and 70 miles an hour are not uncommon - and the high wind warning has been extended to tomorrow afternoon, subject to revision.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:40 AM

gnu!!! THAT was a dumb post! Banana Belt my ass! Mom Nature kicked it... but not tooo badly, thank goodness. The drifts in the driveways are ass deep in spots. Hope my NS buddies faired out well. Doctor's office called at 7 and rescheduled my appt.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:01 PM

This morning's paper amplifies my comment on high winds in Juneau, Alaska. (Douglas, cited in the article, is on the island across from downtown Juneau.)

And the morning sky was red...




(http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011311/loc_769349355.shtml)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:05 PM

WE faired out well in Nova Scotia gnu. Maybe three to four inches in total. We got a few inches over night.But, no wind. It is warm today.

I hope you got a new set of boots. That hole would only get bigger.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 07:26 PM

86.1 " of snow fall to date for this winter. 30" higher than average for central NY state. 121.8" of snow is average for a season. My thermometer says 16 F. More coming tonight and tomorrow.

Don

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 09:03 PM

"When there is a long drought and then heavy rains causing floods- is there an impact on the drought? Do things green up and grow? Or does flooding strip the topsoil?"

The simple answer is "Depends".

While some areas right under the biggest flood flow force will have a degree of stripping, when the flow slows a bit, it starts to dump the spoil. As soon as the water clears, things green up - grass will grow several inches in a few days, especially with the sun out. So there may be patches of erosion among lush plant growth.

Drought will strip topsoil far more devastatingly, as there is nothing to hold the soil.

Millions of years of evolution here have caused plants and animals to cope - West Australia regularly runs 'Flower Tours' to show the regrowth after drought breaking rain - you would not believe the ravishing solid spread of intermixed color where a week before there was only dry sandy soil. Animals appear from apparently nowhere (where they all hide is still not really understood), especially small ones.

Kangaroos can have a joey at foot, one in the pouch, and one in the womb. When it rains, the one in the pouch is kicked out, she gives birth, then immediately breeds. The one in the womb can go into stasis for quite a while until conditions improve. I'm surprised that the RC Church has not adopted the roo as their emblem ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Slag
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 09:06 PM

The weather here is pretty much the same as it has always been: Hot in the Summer, cold in the Winter, varialbe tending warm in the Spring and variable tending colder in the Fall. No sign of global warming, no indication that the next ice-age is on the way. Some Summers are hotter than others and some winters colder, some Springs and Falls are shorter than others, some longer. Some days set records for hot or cold, for wind, fog, total rainfall and ocasional snow.

The planet is fine, the axial tilt will insure the seasons will continue. This old world has survived astroidal and meteoric bambrdments, ice-ages, extended periods of volcanism on a global scale, overpopulations and hardly any life at all. The planet is fine but we human are what is in danger. We are in danger from ourselves and our selfishness and ignorance. If global warming is a fiction, so what? We need to live as though it were a fact because the human animal cannot survive long in its waste output. We need to become very intelligent about our actions and their consequences. We need to see that our lives are inextricably bound up in the environment as it is. Health to the environment is health to Mankind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 11:35 PM

Thanks, Robin.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 03:52 AM

"No sign of global warming"

Queensland's 'Salad Bowl' is now officially considered destroyed in the floods in the Lockyer Valley (where the 'inland tsunami' went thru). Dairying, growing plants in the ground, etc, will take up to a decade to get back to the capability that previously existed.

We have had several '1 in a 100 year critical events' in a few months here, there definitely has been a change/blip in the normal cycle of the last 250 years of documented occupation. The Brisbane River was forecast that 1974 was a 1 in 100 year e\vent, and the Wivenhoe was constructed to take the capacity - but we had twice the rain of 1974, so it was almost overtopped (it wasn't because it was managed properly), but it had to start releases before all the .

Those who wish to deny something will never learn - but it's a good idea to be prudent ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 02:08 PM

Was 2C and sunny for a while this afternoon. Two days ago, about 350mm of blowing snow, and for several days before that near -40WC (wind chill). We've only had several decent snowstorms and they didn't last long... a day and a half was the longest. We are doing very well so far this winter. I can still see over the snowbank on my front lawn. Only plugged the truck in a half dozen times. And spring is only 2 to 3 months away. >:-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 07:05 PM

Perth has been tickled by a cyclone - they never normally get that far south! - and North Qld has been hit by a low level cyclone - not too much damage. But just behind it is a possible level 4 or 5 that will hit in a few days time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 07:32 PM

Weather has been decent, for winter, on the Atlantic Ocean side of Nova Scotia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 08:54 PM

cyclone yasu now following in behind Anthony which crossed coast last night...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 08:56 PM

You can have some of ours Ed ... no problemo ... :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 09:16 PM

Sorry, should have been Yasi ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gurney
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 10:50 PM

It prepissitated down on Friday, first night of the Auckland Folk Festival. Warmish, of course, it's the middle of Summer.
The rest of the festival was pretty reasonable.


My tent leaks a little.
The guy in the Mercedes campervan next door said that that thing leaked a bit, too. I was SOOOO sympathetic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 07:51 AM

Winter has returned this morning with a severe frost in the South West UK. It is forecast to be pretty much the same tomorrow then getting wet and windy further into the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:44 AM

we're around 45 mins into Tuesday & it is 23.9˚C with 87% humidity

typical Sydney summer night in January/February

max. for Tuesday is predicted to be 36˚ here in the CBD near the harbour, and 41˚ way out west.

I had intended to stay indoors hiding from the heat & humidity but have a farewell lunch to attend so will do a spot of air-conditioned shopping afterwards! One of my former colleagues is finally joining me in retirement!

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:04 AM

Sharing Patsy's weather in the south west of England. It's 2.58pm and -1 degree C. Looks bleak and grey, tho the cloud cover is only thin. There was still frost on top of the hedge at 10.30 this morning.

Sandra, I remember those unpleasant humid summer nights in Sydney, and I don't miss them at all. At least here we can be warm inside with the central heating, and turn it down a bit at night and be very comfortable. Of course we have to put on layers of clothes to go outside, which tends to keep us indoors a lot and can lead to feelings of cabin fever. I'm looking forward to when spring comes - my first spring on this side of the world!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:38 AM

We are getting -20C at night again... must be gonna snow in the next few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 07:50 AM

I confess that I sometimes get a little bit envious about other people's good weather. 'Unpleasant humid summer nights' are a very welcome thought at the moment.

The temperatures seems to be getting a bit milder here but lots of rain on the way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:00 AM

Snow today - 3"; snow tomorrow - up to 20" sigh.
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. Maybe Phil will have some good news for us.
SINS in Maine

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 11:39 AM

Expecting freezing rain tonight in Wash DC area. We had a thin coating last night, but a lot more predicted for tonight. More limbs down & power outages, I suppose.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:19 PM

"Foreboding" would be the word in S.E. Michigan just now. It's darned cold; the web page says 19(f) just now, but it's so glum and breezy it feels colder. The prophets keep insisting that we're going to get buried alive starting within a few hours. The father-in-law has pled for us to come the 20 miles to his place before it hits, to be there if his generator needs started; not a good idea for him to negotiate the basement stairs and pull on the rope at his age.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:30 PM

Heavy snow, very cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 02:06 PM

Bright and sunny..pink rhododendrons are blooming beautifully. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 04:42 PM

Yasi now a Cat 5. This one is gonna hurt ...

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/mosaic/images/xxmosaicir-s.GIF

And we have bushfires in NSW and Viv .... you may not believe it, but yesterday, it was 'raining on the rock', and we still have drought in some parts...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 04:47 PM

Warm thoughts for your safety, Foolstroupe and other 'Catters living yonder in the path of the storm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 06:04 PM

I'm halfway across the country, but we are expecting some sidelash - maybe some rain and a bit of light blow ...

It is now looking as being a cat 5 + (300 Kph winds and maybe stronger) when it hits Innisfail (about 100 years ago they had a big one with over 5 metres storm surge) and they are talking about cat 2 and cat 3 effects on nearby towns (in Aussie scales!) along the coast.

Willis Island is about to evacuate the 3 weather guys - it will pass over them RSN, and the auto instruments are expected to give interesting readings - till they break ... the effects are expected to last nearly 24 hours from when the wind starts, to fade off. Up to a metre total rainfall in many areas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 06:34 PM

In Sydney Australia it was 43 degrees C and boiling yesterday with predictions of even higher today

AD

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:30 PM

My 18 month old nephew says it all
Little guy with shovel

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 11:10 PM

And here I sit, complaining with neighbors and co-workers because we have actually endured some winter weather here in the Southeast USA this year, are having a bit of a warming spell, and the buds on the hydrangeas are swelling early and might get frostbit for it.

Remind me not to whine....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 11:18 PM

Expecting a low of minus 15 C tonight, 15 cm of snow and 40-60 km winds tomorrow. It would be our first big blast here in Montreal. Guess I'll stay home. As long as I can get to the Cafe on Friday, I don't care what it does tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 12:53 AM

Unusually warm here- 42F and raining. It started out as a bit of snow this morning and developed into rain.

The cold storm that is about to sweep across the US reminds me of what we endured in Alaska a couple of weeks ago. Not so much snow bit heavy winds and zero temperatures. It was wicked, especially this building I live in is drafty and the furnace couldn't keep up. At least, the power didn't go out- we'd have had to vacate.

Watchng the developments with my heart in my mouth- stay safe and warm, everybody.

And in Australia, get the heck out of Dodge!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 06:21 AM

Authorities in NQ are now telling people it is too dangerous to move, and stay where they are and do the best they can with what they have.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:08 AM

latest on the northern Australian cyclone

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:25 AM

Snowpocalypse here, but holding those in Queensland in my thoughts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maire-aine
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:38 AM

Got about six inches of snow with a two-foot drift down the driveway. Not nearly as bad as the 10-12 inches they predicted. But it's still snowing (here in SE Michigan). Thanks for good neighbors who helped shovel my front sidewalk.

Keeping Aussie friends in thoughts & prayers.

Mayranne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 12:59 PM

My neighbour is a carpenter. He is building a giant snowshoe that will measure 300 x 50 x 30 cubits.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:08 PM

Could you please ask him to add a nice roomy space for us?
Sincerely,

Snow Woman of Maine

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:39 PM

"What's the weather like where I am?"

shitty ... absolutely shitty.

biLL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:28 PM

The snowplow man couldn't make it through today in time to clear the driveway for Judy to nose back in. We've had over a foot of snow in Midcoast Maine and whiteouts on the Interstate made for treacherous driving. Eventually I shoveled out the head of the driveway, the huge bank of snow the town plow had left, and threaded Judy's car through the tunnel thus created. I'll have to take some photos tomorrow.

Most of the State offices were shut down today but Judy works for the Legislature and the person in charge thought they should all come in and twiddle their thumbs. They were finally released at noon time.

Down on the coast on mother's farm, she got about a foot and a half of new snow but fortunately pretty light stuff and this time around she didn't lose power. She's got a nice propane back-up generator which has gotten a lot of exercise this year. And when you're 93 years old, you need some back-up.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 11:01 AM

It has been pleasant here with sunshine putting a smile on some faces. It is not bad here at all, hope the people in Queensland keep safe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 11:11 AM

Here's a link to what Richmond, Maine, looked like early this morning after yesterday's blizzard: click here for PIXS

Now it's back to shoveling off the roofs before the ice dams flood the place out.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 01:58 PM

TGFMLSB

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 01:59 PM

Thank God For My Little Snow Blower.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 02:01 PM

Gosh, I hope the Aussies are safe. Bad stuff!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 02:04 PM

Like this.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:50 AM

Gawd, look at that snow and ice. how do you cope? meanwhile it's drippingly hot here in Syd.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 10:37 AM

"... drippingly hot here in Syd."

Gawd, how do you cope? I'll take the cold and snow over that any day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 10:39 AM

I expect there may be a happy medium.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maire-aine
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:38 PM

Brilliant sunshine and 23F (-5C) degrees at 4pm. Oh, and about 12 inches of snow on the ground.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 05:09 PM

999... "I expect there may be a happy medium."

Well, I would like to know where this happy medium lives on accounta I ain't real happy with the weather here over the last half dozen years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:03 PM

Home 'O the Hardware Man has roof rakes back in stock... it was on the news last night. And, they are going fast. My neighbour borrowed my scoop today to clear his roof. He used a pusher type shovel a few weeks back and I offered him the scoop at that time. Apparently, his macho got left on the roof back then.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:58 PM

Doesn't look good with regard to ice jams in the gutters. Now that snow is beginning to melt the gutters are frozen solid and melt water in getting into the walls and even dripping through some of the ceilings. I was able to shovel off the lower roofs today but I'll have to wait till Sunday to try to shovel off the main house. We're expecting another six inches of snow late Saturday.

On the bright side, an old friend and I brought lunch to mother down on the farm, an amazing Greek style gourmet pizza, and while we were there I took some photos of the sculpturing the snow has done on some of the out buildings. It's a pretty amazing art form. Snow doesn't just pile up. It forms drifts, and cones, and rounds everything off in a graceful way.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 10:18 PM

Snow sculptures - that sounds beautiful, Charlie. In the meantime, its 41 degrees in Syd (that's 105.8!!)..

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 05:32 AM

41!!!! And here I was POd to read that we are getting another foot overnight and into Sunday with "rain over southern sections". I have a whack of heavy snow on my roof already so the rain concerns me. I hope the rain stays well south. But, I still wouldn't like 41C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 06:32 AM

It's hot in Sydney, but that's all so far. tho with temperatures like this there's bound to be some bushfires somewhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 01:45 PM

Speaking of hot, it's 4C and sunny here. A beautiful day. After 2km walking with Long Johns, sweatshirt, parka, scarf, two toques and heavy gloves I started to feel a sweat coming on. Last night, I even had a balaclva and heavy boots on and near froze.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 05:13 PM

Heavy snow with a southerly flow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 07:30 PM

Sunny and warm today. This week's snow is melting and rain is in the weather outlook for tomorrow.

I was in Montreal last Tuesday to Friday. It was really nasty weather. It's amazing to me how few die on the winter roads in Quebec, given they drive mostly the same in harsh winter conditions, as if it were summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maire-aine
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 08:02 PM

More snow snuck in on us today. About 5-inches with a 10-inch drift in the driveway. No warning at all from the weather gurus. The forecast I heard at 9am said "about 1 inch". My poor snowblower has worked harder this one week than it did all last year. Seems to have stopped for now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 08:24 PM

Here's the latest link to how Robinhood Farm looked after the latest snow storm: click here for transport

There really some nice snow sculpture created including some barns a la mode.

It's the last 7 images which are from the Farm.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 08:30 PM

That's beautiful Charlie. Meanwhile, yesterday it was 41.5 degrees (105 degrees), last night in Sydney was our hottest night on record, following our longest heatwave. It was 33.2 degrees at midnight, following a record-breaking seven days of temperatures over 30 degrees, a feat never before seen in 150 years of records of Sydney weather.

(while we've had hotter days in Sydney, we haven't had such a long heatwave).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 10:46 PM

It snowed earlier, then it turned to rain. Now, thunder and lightening have been added. I'm going to bed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gecko
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 03:04 AM

Tropical Cyclone Yasi just ripped it's devastating way through Cairns and Far North Queensland and caused great damage though, fortunately, we were spared the full force of the cyclone here in Cairns as it veered off the predicted course during the last hours before landfall. Most of us lost powe (plus a few trees) for a few days but doesn't it make you appreciate the luxury of something we don't usually even notice - just a flick the switch and bingo! We are now back to hot and sticky monsoonal weather after three days of electric storms as the cyclonic low moved further south.
YIU
gecko

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 06:13 AM

It's great to hear from you Gecko - what you've been through! Sticky heat probably never felt so good :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 06:28 AM

I just moved 6" of heavy, sticky snow from the doorways and the truck. Sleet, freezing rain and 6" of snow to come before noon. And I am happy as a clam after hearing the stories from Oz... hope youse all fair out okay.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 08:48 AM

Typical grey winters day here in Somerset, but not as cold as it was before. 10 degrees C right now - positively balmy compared with the cold snap we had before Christmas and again about a week ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 12:51 AM

..snow.. grey winters.. at last we've had a cool change. It's 22 :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 08:30 AM

Yesterday it warmed up to 40 F and I managed to get up on the hipped roof and shovel off a three foot perimeter, hoping to thaw out the gutters. We've got some major ice dams up there and there's no other way to deal with them. I was tempted to break them up with an ax but thought better of that! Today I might try sprinkling salt if the melt water hasn't found its own way out.

My lower back has earned some quality time soaking in the tub.

More snow and colder weather tomorrow.

Charley Noble, in Maine

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 07:33 PM

The sun poked through a few times today, in between the clouds. It's still a few degrees above zero, so not too bad. Some of my pot plants out in the greenhouse are showing signs of coming to life. I'm really looking forward to my first spring in England! We started to prepare for that today by buying some things from the hugest garden centre I've ever seen, near Taunton. We've bought a heated propagating thingy that we can grow seedlings in so that we can get a head start on growing our veggies, a long hose, and some other bits and pieces.

There are so many grey days and not many sunny ones, that I really feel happier when I do see the sun. What a difference from the way things have been in Sydney lately, with the heatwave! Glad you have a cool change now, freda. I don't like having to cope with that kind of heat. If only it could all be evened out around the world - not possible of course.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 07:51 AM

We've had over 2.5m of snow. Thank goodness it didn't start until just before Christmas... it could have started two months earlier. Another 10 to 20cm has begun.

Two roof collapses recently have brought in lads with ladders and shovels from all over the countryside knocking on doors. My neighbour shovelled his twice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 10:12 AM

On the coast of Dorset - England - just to the left of the little triangular island.

This morning there was fog - now the sky is clear and the air just slightly crisp but so invigorating - just breathing is like drinking a dry peach wine with bubbles.

I have been out in the garden looking at the new leaves just emerging on the more adventurous plants, and I had a bounce on the trampoline.

It has been cloudy and a bit windy recently, so it is nice to see the sun. We do get a bit of weather, but the climate is changing so we get less and less Winter. Good for ripening the grapes.

Anne Croucher

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 10:34 AM

It was foggy this morning but transformed into a really lovely day. Spring is on the way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 01:46 PM

`What's the weather like where you are?`

Just wonderful!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 04:16 PM

Snow, blowing snow, drifting snow and





da da






more snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 04:38 PM

What 999 said, in three part harmony.

Maeve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 06:14 PM

great..flowers starting to bloom..saw jonquils this morning..pink rhodies in full bloom and fuschia ones almost there. Cloudless sunny skies. This is the cloudiest place in U.S. though I just read. Not a lot of sun and near constant wind...

Not a good economy but if you have retirement income and good health a good place to retire. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 06:24 PM

What 999 said, in three part harmony, with a marching band and baton twirlers. Oh yeah--pantyhose on my roof holding ice melt stuff. I used some black ones I'll never fit into again. The fishnets didn't work so well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 06:35 PM

Jeri... The fishnets didn't work so well.

You didn`t use salt codÉ

Grrrr... keyboard is messed up againÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 07:13 PM

The previous snow storm that buried the eastern half of the US a week or so ago pretty much missed us in Wichita KS US, with only a couple of inches here. Winds during that snowfall were high (~40 mph while it was coming down) so our accumulation then was "6 inches wide" on the sides of obstructions. Roads aligned with the wind direction didn't even need plowing, although crosswise ones had "nothing to feet" of drifts.

After about a week of "there's another one coming but it probably will miss us" we've had an overnight 5 or 6 inches (visual estimate in my neighborhood) and the predictions have suddenly changed to "6 to 12 inches" locally and up to "feet" nearby toward the east and southeast.

Temps during the past week have been a little lower than normal, but "zoomed up to 40F" (4.4C) yesterday afternoon. This afternoon the high temp was about 0F (-18C) but the wind is again (intermittently) strong, and reported current wind chill at -20F (-29C).

I can see through the small hole where the snow isn't plastered on the front window that the trash/recycling pickup has been on schedule (and that the driver didn't get down to shut the lid on one of the carts like he usually does); but I'll have to go out the back and walk around to shovel the two foot drift blocking the front door before we'll be able to get out normally. Weather maps on TV now show two additional bands of (what we call here) "heavy snow" approaching, so I think I'll wait until they pass before reassessing the situation. If the wind changes direction it may all blow away, and we don't have anyplace we need to go for the next few days.

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 07:21 PM

There are many similarities between JiKs weather in Wichita, where I used to live, and the DC suburbs where I am now. We don't usually get major snows. We had one very wet, cold day on Sat., but some chilly but sunny days since...and a week or two more of decent clear days predicted! It won't be 'warm', but no nastiness in sight.

I sure hope it eases for everyone else... whether they need heat or cool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 08:26 PM

The biggest difference between my part of Kansas and most of the east coast is that in six years spent in Boston I only heard thunder ONCE.

(It definitely frightened the local neighbors, many of whom didn't know what it was. The "media" had to explain - extensively.)

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 10:20 PM

Indeed~! We had thunder the other day, and it was a bit like being home in Kansas... that plus WIND... today we had wind warnings on my weather program until noon, and what we got would be considered 'average' days in Wichita, which at one time was on of the top 10 windy cities. (well, that was 40 years ago :>) I don't know about these days.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 03:30 PM

Wasn't aware you were from Kansas, Bill. Just by chance, did you ever meet Dorothy?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 04:09 PM

Dorothy? No... but I could introduce you to a couple of wicked witches....and several yappy little dogs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 03:23 PM

Next person that asks, "Enough snow for ya yet?" gets a shovel upside the head and then up...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Feb 11 - 02:57 PM

5C, sunny and breezey! In mid February! My windows are open... fresh air! I can hear the drip, drip, drip of the snow melting.... die you bastards, DIE!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bob Landry
Date: 17 Feb 11 - 10:24 PM

Maiulny clear skiers and -21 celcius (pushing-10 farenheit). Tolerable!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 11:12 AM

The weather is definitely getting warmer here. I think the Groundhogs were right this time!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 11:41 AM

3 days of sunny & balmy..... It's still Feb! Watch out!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 12:54 PM

it is snowing big fat blobs

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 01:08 PM

Snow, mixed precip, freezing rain, and now rain... which will reverse order near dusk.

Which actually isn't a bad thing on accounta I had my roof shovelled off and I had to make a ramp up to the front door and clear clear a metre of snow from the front door... that crystalized stuff that's hard to stick a shovel blade into.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 05:34 PM

Just rain

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Goose Gander
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 02:52 PM

In between rain storms, a new one's moving in right now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 07:34 PM

Vicious winds buffeted this locality all last night...moderating today as the day went on. A lot of small stuff came down from the trees, along with a bit of blowing snow.

The Groundhog has locked his front door and won't answer the doorbell.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 02:59 PM

In Juneau, Alaska we just got out of a winter storm warning situation that brought us about a foot of snow but the temperature is just at freezing so it probably won't last long. Very pretty though.

We've had a mild winter, except for when it wasn't. A couple of times it was brutal- high winds, low temperatures and slicing snow. This time it started out that way but the winds died and it became lovely.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maire-aine
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 10:49 AM

We (SE Michigan) got about 10" of snow (drifts to twice that) overnight. Just finished digging out my driveway/sidewalk. Frogprince, how much did you get?

Maryanne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 12:34 PM

Bright, sunny, and cold out there. A nice day to look at the scenery. The Groundhog expresses cautious optimism about the approach of Spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 07:31 PM

77°F here last Thurs...35° and preparing for snow tonight, and predicted down to 18°F tomorrow night.

sheesh! What an... interesting... Winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 10:34 PM

78 was the high today, lovely weather all week.

This morning the first daffodil bloomed!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 09:31 AM

Hey Art... make sure ya keep yer roof clear a snow eh!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:31 AM

I was in Salisbury over the weekend and it was quite dry with glimpses of sun but chilly. Back here in Bristol the temperatures are starting to climb to double figures but dull damp grey. It has been a weird Winter rather than interesting, plummeting to cold temperatures and then 13-15 degrees in the early hours and then plummeting again. My Isle of Wight friend has reported the same kind of temperature changes on the Island, one minute shivering and the next breaking out in a sweat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 02:09 PM

Snowing again. 35cm and 90kph gusts.

That pic two posts ago... the lads were shovelling out the soil stacks, laundry vents and exhaust fan vents so they'll be at it again on Monday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 02:38 PM

Predicted to be the coldest day this season in the sagebrush desert.

Tonight may get down to 0^o F and tomorrow just 23^o F high.

We had a freak cold spell in early November with one day of 5^o F low and 28^o F high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 09:58 AM

Cool pic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 02:28 AM

had snow for a few days..got 10-12 inches..
power is out and phones are intermittant at best.
i have been away from home for several
days...I had several gigs...
babgysitting 2 year old grandson
playing at 2 birthday parties and
helping to shear sheep...
i am not looking forward to
being back home with no electric,and no pnone.
with no power, the pump is also out, so no water either.
with no wood stove, there will be no heat
i heat with propane, but the heater requires
electricity ... so life will be miserable
without power...

back when i used to live in a cabin with a wood stove,
gravity flow water, and wood burning water heater,
power outages did not bother me...the only fear
was spoiled food when the fridge and freezer were
without power...but i could still cook, bathe, and keep warm without
needing electricity....

not so any more in my motor home....

the highway was closed due to multiple jack-knifed big rigs

and the dirt road into my place may not be cleared yet,
although the high way and the county road have rbeen plowed,
so i hear. since the fire 3 years ago there are still standing
dead trees, and many were toppled by the weight of the snow.

this was the cause of some of the downed power and phone lines.
i will try to return home tomorrow when the temps get above
freezing...i do not want to try to drive the steep mountain
roads when it is below freezing.

..will send update when I make my way back home...
i am about 20 miles away now at my daughter and son-in-law's house.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 09:49 PM

In Juneau Alaska we're back in the bitter stuff. High winds- 84 mph has been the highest clocked so far, I think - but it has been mighty gusty the last two or three days. Temperature around 10F today- with the wind chill you might say it is cool. This drafty old building is chilling now- it took awhile to permeate the walls, I guess.   This is forecast to last until Tuesday morning - earlier they had said *Monday* morning, so who knows.

My little Chinese Crested Hairless dog is wearing 1 and 1/2 sweaters, a coat and a 'robe' pinned around his neck. He looks like Yul Brynner swooping around in The King and I.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 11:18 PM

Whereas here in north central North Carolina, spring has sprung - early and dry. Some fairly wild temperature fluctuations, but all mild compared to many other places. High tomorrow 80F, high Tuesday is predicted to be 55F. That sort of thing has been the pattern for the past few weeks. Has been a weird winter. Colder average temps and more frozen precipitation, but much lower precipitation over-all, and no periods of what for us is extreme cold. And now a much warmer and drier February than is typical, in spite of significant fluctuation in temps.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: KT
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 12:02 AM

Those chilly winds are unceasing! Sounds like a freight train is tearing around the house!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 01:07 AM

Oh, and KT, two people have told me that the news tonight said it will be like this the rest of the week. Sounds like December - or was it January? - all over again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:15 AM

The wind is a bit chilly here in Bristol now and grey clouds with a few spots of rain but the odd glimpse of sun. For the last day in February it's ok compared to last year's snow which seemed to go on and on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:41 AM

Snow snow snow snow snow. Wind. Ice. Snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 11:36 AM

Maeve, my troubles pale alongside yours! Although this is a drafty old building with insufficient heat, I have four floors to roam around in, and as the manager, plenty of work to do.

Where the advantage is on your side, not on mine, is the bright world Spring will bring you. Chin up- it will come.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 01:02 PM

Take a wild guess. Gowan.

Glad I got the rooves shovelled off when I did. I put a couple of pics of Mum and me standing in our front room windows on Saturday on my Flickr page.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 01:21 PM

This winter, it seems like there's...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bettynh
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 03:01 PM

Well, we're above freezing again at least. Time to make maple sugar around here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 02:53 PM

SPRING has SPRUNG! I was just outside and heard the first true sound of spring... a motorcycle!

Suppose to snow tonight tho...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 08:36 PM

very windy and rainy this morning but now it is sunny sort of and windy. The wind blows so much here it blows the rainclouds away sometimes. I am very grateful that for the tsumani evacuation we had very reasonable weather..I walked 4 miles with a pack and even with raingear would have been drenched..a number of teens came to evacuation center wearing only shorts..hopefully they had other stuff in cars. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 08:46 PM

1st day of daylight savings, and wonderful (a wee mite cool, but sunny) weather! Everyone was out (Sunday) chopping up fallen branches & filling bags & barrels for tomorrow's recycling collection. I will have several weeks to get caught up. I wish I had invested in a chipper 20 years ago.
Still, the early bloomers are showing their noses and if I work fast, I can get ahead of some of the weeds and ivy that is hard to even get to if I wait till May......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 09:31 PM

Snow and ice around, but the river's breaking up. Saw about 1200 snow geese returning, and they pretty much indicate that spring is soon to arrive. If geese are too high up to see markings, you can tell the difference anyway because Canadian geese fly in V formations, and you can see a point to the V. Snow geese look like a boomerang or the top half of a letter O cut in two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 09:37 PM

The geese were less pointy?

I can see grass, and the seasonal run-off streamlet in back is running off. It was still cold, but there were men out wearing shorts and T-shirts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 09:23 AM

It was a crisp frost this morning but really pleasant with pretty sunshine. The sun is shining, everyone is smiling hope it stays like this for just a little bit longer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 08:57 AM

Beautiful sunny and warm, hurray the thermals can come off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 09:50 AM

Mum can see out her front room window. The snow is down by about a metre.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 16 Mar 11 - 01:50 AM

Spring is creeping in, and telling the cold, that its days are numbered...........till winter sulks for a few months, then gets even.

GfS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 09:08 PM

9 days ago... snowstorm... about 8". At the moment, thunderstorm.

I am pissed at Mum Nature. She need some good drugs to chill out man.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 03:45 AM

Tonight began our Alaska Folk Festival. From midApril to the end of June is typically our driest, brightest weather. There have been years when people with their instruments gathered in parks and street corners and played and sang.

Not today, for sure. It started with snow and ended with drippy rain and chilly temperatures.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 05:51 PM

The storm that has been causing havoc throughout the south made for a tense morning and afternoon - the weather radio was blaring alert after alert as the squall line moved through - and a boring 10 minutes huddled in the hallway during a warning for a tornado that missed me by a good 6 miles. Eastern North Carolina is getting battered right now. Reports are still preliminary but sounds like there will be some significant damage here and there from Raleigh east.

It was really quite something. The fastest moving and most intense squall line I've experienced since moving to NC 26 years ago. I'm fine.   Got 1 3/4 inches of rain in one 15 minute period, and then the whole thing had moved on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 06:57 PM

Dark and drear again in Calgary. Light snow. About nine inches here last weekend, a foot more added at my daughter's place bordering Kananaskis Park, she has to use the big diesel truck to get feed to the horses.

Over 450 cm base at the Fernie Ski area, B. C, on the mountain back of my younger son's place.

Spring might come sometime in May. If we're lucky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 07:36 PM

Gosh... I am lucky here in Moncton. It's good weather compared to youse, Take care eh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Apr 11 - 04:02 PM

That's some nasty stuff down south. Saw the damage on the TV. frightening. 37 dead. Stay safe Janie.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 17 Apr 11 - 04:16 PM

Beautiful spring day like we should have had in February. Yesterday was freezing and windy, like January, but today is sunny and breezy. Probably 50 degrees. Yesterday must have been in low 30s, or at least felt that way. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 04:22 PM

82 and sunny in North Florida. The spring blooms are waning, with coral honeysuckle, jasmine and knockout roses holding steady. Crape myrtle will be coming into bloom next, the blueberries are ripening, and the figs are starting to grow just a tiny bit. I've picked romaine and bibb lettuce and tomatoes are ripening....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 04:30 PM

hg... if I knew ya better I'd have harsh words... >;-)

Just as I was getting ready to take Mum to the eye doc... savage wind, rain, snow, hail... she was distressed.

82F and spring blooms are waning... it just ani't FAIR I say!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 04:51 PM

**pedant alert**

'crepe' myrtle.

**end pedant alert**

Alternating days of lovely Spring and nasty rain here in the general DC area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 12:55 AM

Partly sunny and 81 F today.

"Hallelujah, the great storm is over."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 04:13 PM

Lovely! Sunny, 10C, a bit windy. Tomorrow... 10-15cm of ice pellets and snow. Spring in The Maritimes eh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 11:56 PM

You're incorrect Mr. Day. It's proper spelled crapemrytle as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 03:16 AM

By UK standards it was roasting yesterday and it seems to have been the longest spell of decent weather we have had in a while. It is forecast to be good over the Easter weekend so good for Easter Egg hunts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 07:00 AM

This is my first spring in England, and I've been told that the weather is quite exceptional for this time of year - day after day of sun, increasingly warm temperatures, stretching on as far as one can see over Easter! I'm loving it, and my garden is loving it too!

However we'll get a dose of the cold when we spend Easter in Aberdeen - well, colder than it is here in Somerset anyway. There is so little rain around, that we have had to make arrangements with a neighbour to come in and water things while we are gone.

It's interesting - we had the snow and freezing fog in winter earlier than usual, and now spring has sprung with a vengeance with nary a sign of the occasional frost that usually plagues this place in April. Looks like summer will be early too. It almost feels like summer already with temps regularly reaching 20 degrees or higher!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 03:33 PM

Snow, wet snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain at the moment. But little wind so I like it. I can take any kinda weather, except heat and humidity, without wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Apr 11 - 03:12 PM

Slight change from 5 days ago. 22C, sun, no wind. I almost got a sunburn in a half hour (Irish eh.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 May 11 - 05:28 PM

A month ago, snow. At the moment I am sweating after mowing lawns and swatting skeeters... 25C and humid. WTF did my forefathers land here?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 19 May 11 - 05:41 PM

Rain, rain, rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 19 May 11 - 09:57 PM

Absolutely incredibly perfect..probably 70 degrees, light breeze and sunny. Very rare weather for this area. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 31 May 11 - 09:57 PM

Pouring rain, thunder booming, warning of possible damaging wind. Beautiful earlier today other than kinda hot, upper 90's. We had a little adventure on Monday, though. Packed up the tent and went to go camping at a resort just southeast of Battle Creek. By the time we got there, things looked threatening enough that we took a lodge room instead of tenting. Just as well. We were in the indoor pool in mid afternoon when we got a tornado warning. Everyone got into the clubhouse johns, and we listened to a few minutes of nice loud roar.
No one hurt, and little or no damage to the clubhouse, but trees uprooted or snapped off all over the grounds including within a few feet of the clubhouse, tents ripped up, at least one camper turned over. Taped off areas with power lines down in a snarl. The weather on Monday was beautiful, but we had to find our way into the lodge and around in our room with a flashlight after dark.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 01:11 AM

Hot. In Juneau, Alaska, 75 is hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 09:05 AM

its been between 99 and 95 for the last 3 days.

Its a lot cooler than the Indus river basin in Pakistan that was a hot 128 F.

Moscow last year was 14 degrees above normal.
They lost 40% of their grain harvest to heat.

You don't think that things are getting warmer lately do you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 09:22 AM

For Saturday the 28th of May, we had a high of 51 F and a low of 27 F. Sunday was a high of 59 and another veggie-killing frost. The forecast for the next 7 days suggests the mid-to-upper 60s again.

Normal high in the sagebrush desert this time of year would be upper 70s, at least 25 degress warmer than it was Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 11:22 AM

Fierce thunderstorm, complete with quarter size hail thumping down on the camper roof and skylights.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 02:13 PM

...followed now by a tornado watch. 30% chance, so if one shows up for afternoon tea we'll take shelter in the yurt or yurt basement rather than the camper.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 04:58 PM

A multi-vortex tornado (thought to be EF-1) is now about 10 miles east of Springfield, Massachusetts, crossing the Connecticut River, over Rt. 91 on its way toward Sturbridge, Boston, New Hampshire, and Maine. It seems to be traveling at a velocity of 85 miles per hour.

There are reports of trees down and roofs (rooves for gnu)off. Traffic in the area is at rush hour levels.

Anyone in that general path please hunker down, take cover, be wise.

Maeve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 06:36 PM

Now thought to have been an EF-3 tornado cruising through Springfield, MA. Appears to have traveled a 17 mile wide, through Springfield with much building and tree damage. It ran straight into Sturbridge, but we haven't seen any reports regarding the damage there.

A second, possibly weaker tornado came through Chicopee, a bit northwest of Springfield, now moving just north of Springfield toward Wilberham. Major damage is being reported in several Massachusetts towns.

Here in Midcoast Maine we've had some severe thunderstorms with an estimated 11,000 lightning strikes and hail from 2 1/2" up to the size of a baseball. At the moment we have sunshine; after several strong storms including heavy rain, strong winds, hail, lightning and thunder. Birds swooped back to our feeders as the winds died down, and tree toads and peepers, restarted their evening chorus.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 06:44 PM

Gee... are twisters like that common or rare?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 06:55 PM

We don't see them very often, gnu, but they do occasionally arrive in New England states as well as the Midwestern states.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 07:32 PM

I've been following the tornadoes in New England, on the weather channel. Thinking of all the folks I know back there, many Mudcatters, and some family. I hope all stay safe. The basement of the yurt sounds like a very good place to be, maeve.:-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 04:13 PM

Well, the tornado warnings certainly got our attention, but all we got was thunder-and-lightning (of a strength that certainly got our attention) and wee little hail pellets. My daughter lives closer to Springfield, MA (in Northampton, Kat!) and was sent home early on her first day of work because the city ordered all non-essential workers of all professions to seek shelter!
...she lives in a 3d floor walkup but managed to locate the basement (it's a new-to-her rental). Noho was spared, but several other towns were slammed.

There are some mighty impressive videos. My connection is wonky right now but lots are on youtube- or "google" springfield ma tornado and you can see it in action!

My heart is with all those affected.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 04:14 PM

Allison, can you tell whether much was damaged at Sturbridge Village? Thank goodness your daughter- and you & Hunt- are safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 10:30 PM

Even in the Piedmont of North Carolina, it ain't "supposed" to be in the upper 90's the first week of June with no real relief in sight.

Shaping up to be a long, hot summer. Hope it includes rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 04:12 AM

It was beautiful and very warm yesterday and today is going to be more of the same, sunshine and very warm. The local farmers in the West (UK) are becoming concerned over the lack of significant rainfall and reporting very dry fields due to the driest spring months on record.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 08:22 AM

Maeve, from what I understand the buildings at Old Sturbridge Village were not damaged at all. More info here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 08:28 AM

That's good. Thanks, Allison.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 10:50 PM

I am so glad to hear that about Old Sturbridge. Our family loved going there. Thanks Allison. Glad you are all safe, too. I wondered about Noho as I heard they'd included Hampshire County in the warnings. That's neat your daughter is living there now! My Rog used to work in Westfield and we often went to Springfield. Never would have a dreamed a tornado would hit there some day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 05:16 PM

HAD to run the furnace today... several days after the ACs were on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 05:23 PM

Thunderstorm with heavy rainfall after a hot day in the middle of Germany. Had to wear my toppee.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 12:10 AM

totally perfect, which is rare here. sunny and breezy. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 10:34 PM

81 degrees F at 9:30 p.m.   Which should tell you how much of a blazer the daylight hours were. It's hunker-down time for a week of this. On the bright side, the blueberries don't seem to mind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jun 11 - 07:43 AM

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have never heard such moanin and groanin in my life on the first day of summer. Everywhere I went yesterday... Enjoying summer? Are we gonna have summer this year? I've never seen anything like this. Etc, etc, etc.

Max temp yesterday was 14.7 and I AM LOVIN IT! Sure better than last year when we went from winter to summer in an hour and it was nasty hot and humid (for what I am used to, of course) well into the fall.

>:-D

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jun 11 - 02:01 PM

The weather? As Shane says, "It keeps flippin' changin'!"

But I bet if it stayed exactly the same, he'd complain about that too. ;-)

On the whole, it's been pretty good. But cooler than average this summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jun 11 - 03:19 AM

We just finished the third day of perfection: Temp right at 70F, light breeze, bright sun- enough to make me seek the shady side of the street- people lying in the sun, sleeping on the grass.

Very confusing to our cruiseship touri- people with their heavy jackets tied around their hips, hair tied back off the neck. This is not the kind of weather they were warned against.

If our weather was like this half the time, we'd have a million people trying to live here. So thanks be that we don't...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 23 Jun 11 - 06:15 AM

So far in Bristol June has given us the April showers we were supposed to have had back then. One minute it's sunny the next it's a downpour so much for scaremongers here who predicted a drought. But then again Glastonbury is coming and you can't have a fest without the mud.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 11 - 04:10 PM

Me and my big mouth... it's too hot and it ain't even hot yet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 11 - 06:06 PM

Stubbs Nuclear power plant is 2 feet underwater but mostly dry due to a massive inflatable rubber ring. It was put offline but for some reason the monitors have just started to fail.

The US floods are claiming more than farmland despite our best efforts to open spill ways and double up levees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 07:27 AM

A new record for the 02 July date appeared for Phoenix Arizona yesterday: 118 F (47.8 C). The report at msnbc pictured people at the town jail - the "Tent City Jail" - trying to keep cool under the canvas.

Of course there will likely be a few warmer days there next month, as it's still early in the summer season.

My town (Wichita KS) has bent the record for "consecutive days above 100F in July," currently reporting it as 13 days straight in the nearby counties, with another few expected before the string breaks off for a couple of days; but we've had a (rather sparse) sprinkle or two to take the edge off the heat.

The "real record" for consecutive >100F day stretches in Wichita was in August a few years ago, when I believe we ran something like 42 days in a row. I recall helping a few old ladies (mostly 20-somethings, I suppose' but I was only about 17 then so they looked pretty "mature") across the street because the asphalt pavement got so soft it sucked their shoes off. (I picked a small one to carry, but a couple of other "leaners" needed help prying their shoes out.)

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 01:03 PM

But I hear it's a dry heat, John.

Even so, I would perish in such heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 10:24 PM

Well, we don't curently have much heat here in Juneau, Alaska. Today it's been in the low 50sF and tomorrow is forecast to have a high of 59. With rain. It may be a soppy parade.

We always have our Independence Day fireworks at midnight the previous night (At midnight it's as dark as it's gonna get) but most likely the clouds will affect the spectacle. They are hanging pretty low.

A number of Juneau musicians are not in town- in Colorado, Tennessee and Washington State - and I imagine they will feel summer heat tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 04:50 PM

Well, I'll be kicked! As my father used to say.

Turns out that we had beautiful weather for the parade (just ended), sunny, a little breezy, no rain. Don't know what will happen the rest of the day; showers are forecast. The only times I've ever gotten sunburnt in Juneau was on July 4ths- could happen again, I guess.

And last night's fireworks went off fine. The spokesman was quoted as saying that they prefer clouds at about the 1500 foot level, (which is what we had) that it makes the sky darker so the bursts are brighter, and also because a cloud cover holds the blasts better so they are louder.

So I guess it is the best of all possible worlds. :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 05:28 PM

Absolutely perfect here in NH, USA. One of the first days above 80F (and only just). The humidity of the morning burned off and it has been a sparkling day with a few passing clouds. We've had our day of summer!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jul 11 - 05:27 AM

Moncton, NB, Canada : 8.7C at 6:30AM! High of 18C today. Yesterday, 16C and a stiff breeze!

And I am lovin it! For today... back to 30C stuff tomorrow. Has only been too hot 4 or 5 days so far and THAT is unusual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 14 Jul 11 - 01:30 PM

A day or two ago, local reports were that the 116F (46.7C) at Hutchinson KS - about 50 miles west from us, was the "highest in the nation."

Wichita reports 20 days of >100F daily highs in June, which is a bit more than usual for that early in the warm season, and those were not all strictly consecutive. (A couple of 98s crept in.)

Forecast is for another week of mostly similar, depending on w-i-d-e-l-y s-c-a-t-t-e-r-e-d cloudiness. It sounds like the weather radar is showing 10 or 11 droplets floating over Kansas, but they can't predict where (or if) they'll fall.

Last night's local TV had a picture sent in by a local resident showing that the (structural plastic?) post holding up a mailbox had melted and bent about 90 degrees off plumb. (All that bulk mail advertising probably contributed?)

(Ours is on a wooden post, but I haven't seen any indication of combustion - yet. Maybe I should go out an wet it down?)

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jul 11 - 01:45 PM

Holy moly!

Me, my arthritic fingers are locking up. It's cold here! 16C and windy. NEVER seen a July (even tho it's only a few days) like this. But better than last summer which was hot like I have never seen (felt? I am not a spring chicken) it before.

JiK... better you than I. I can put on a sweater.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 14 Jul 11 - 02:27 PM

For those who live in the United States, the figure 16^o C is about 61^o F.

I looked at the temperature for San Francisco a few days back and it had a high of 62^o F, but that place has a constant flow of air from a cold Pacific Ocean.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 14 Jul 11 - 03:19 PM

81F and sunny here in Midcoast Maine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jul 11 - 06:29 PM

Well... this is freaky! I was just out scraping and painting after supper on July 14 and I had hoody on! A hoody! July 14! I absolutely love it!

So, full moon on the morrow, maybe a month of hot weather, then cooling to new moon and then ??? early fall? looong and cold winter with little snow? Could be. I hope so.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 11 - 02:26 PM

Anybody following the "Effing" thread will know about our wet and much cooler than normal summer. But, yesterday I saw a Hairy Woodpecker in my yard. Now, that just don't happen until a month from now.

Full moon in three days and I am keen to see what happens in the week or so after that. Could go either way but I am hoping to keep my windows open as they have been for well over a week save two days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Sep 11 - 03:48 PM

So, SRS is between the griddle and the frying pan.

Yesterday at 7AM I could see my breath and I had to turn the heat on in the truck. I now have both ACs running full tilt. I can't wait to see what happens after the full moon on the 12th. I expect an early fall here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Sep 11 - 04:26 PM

Now... I haven't seen THIS in years in earlt September... Partly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers this evening. Clearing overnight. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low plus 4 except 7 along parts of the coast. Risk of frost.

I gotta move the fleurs around ta tha lee!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Penny S.
Date: 10 Sep 11 - 06:25 PM

We are apparently expecting the tail end of Katia. A few squalls today, but only Cardiff was washed out of the open air Proms.

Penny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bettynh
Date: 17 Sep 11 - 09:17 AM

First frost for much of northern New England last night, so Indian Summer has begun. There wasn't frost here in the city, but I'm sure the tomatoes are done in the local farms. I saw a monarch (butterfly) yesterday, and there'll be a steady flow for the next few weeks. My Seven-sons tree/shrub (at 15 feet tall it's hard to think of it as a bush, but it has multiple weak stems that arch over a diameter of about 30 feet) is in full bloom. The monarchs gather in the afternoon on it, and in the morning they'll warm up and be gone. It's time to watch for hawks moving south. And the local goslings are now flying around. They'll be gathering in flocks soon, flying in circles, and then move south. The northern geese are quieter, and they'll arrive later. We're the breeding grounds for one group, the "southern" wintering grounds for another, so there are always geese here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 12:43 PM

Sunny, calm, -3C. Rain on Thursday with 9C. We are heading for a green Xmas. >:-D

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 12:48 PM

About 60 (15 C?) warm breeze, It was in the 20's last night (-5c)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 01:21 PM

-5F/-21C here this morning. Johnny-Jump-Ups can still be found in bloom. Two year anniversary of the fire, and like that night, last night was the coldest of the season so far.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 05:22 AM

At the moment in Bristol UK it is quite mild for the time of year after just one or two mornings of a slight frost (we escaped the snow that fell elsewhere) it looks like that the temperatures might go to double figures in the run up to Christmas. The weather has been strange since April up in temperature one minute and down the next, heatwaves in October, the winter so far is nothing like the severe snow of last year or the year before.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 11 - 10:37 AM

They were just teasing. -10C and about 12.cm of sn... sn... you know... that white stuff down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 24 Dec 11 - 04:30 PM

It is an extremely rare kind of weather we have here on the SW coast of Washington USA...sunny, warm..no wind at all. I am so grateful because that wind was hard to walk in..now we have turned the corner on dark days but it has been a great reprieve not to have to face winter storms this year..yet...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 24 Dec 11 - 04:55 PM

For Cape Breton Island about an inch of snow is on the ground, and it looks kike our Christmas will at least be tinged white.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 11 - 05:17 PM

Far as I am concerned, this fantastic weather results in one thing... every day that's "good" is one day closer to spring without s***. I recall winters where we were over arse deep by now.

And, I can't forget the birds. I watched one I could not name yesterday eating maple seeds off the pave. Made me smile.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 24 Dec 11 - 06:08 PM

Things are still green here east of Toronto but I'm relieved all is FINALLY frozen! That "fantastic weather" nets me 14 filthy things for each day it lasts:
12 paws sometimes muddied right up to the elbows & knees, plus
2 bellies.
It's nice that one of our 3 dogs is a large standard poodle, plenty tall enough that he never splashes mud up onto his tummy hairs. While the dogs themselves are thoroughly indifferent to the cold mud (two seek it out and shove their heads into the mud of the creek banks during warm weather), I get the task of cleaning them up before they come back in the house.

[groan] It's supposed to get warm again tomorrow so I'll be back to cleaning up mud for a while. I have one question: Where the heck is that snow?? I need snow!! Ahh, the joyful thought of 12 clean feet and 3 clean tummies...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 06:45 AM

That's some snowfall in Alaska! http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1113763--alaska-town-pummeled-by-storms-runs-short-of-snow-shovels

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 11:09 AM

Alas the freeze up didn't last long, periodic precip. continues to make the back yard and walking trails a mess. So I've been cleaning up muddy feet and tummies again for at least 10 days, which feels like forever. Today's wet sloppy snow and temperatures just above freezing will make everything an even BIGGER mess. Oh. Yippee.

I keep telling my husband we're going to retire to somewhere north enough to get reliable real winter every year, north of 60 if that's what it takes! This time of year is supposed to be my break from dog-related laundry (towels over the back of the SUV to collect dirt & mud, towels by the front door for dirt & mud, towels by the back door...) but no real respite yet this year. I don't usually complain about weather but this is getting annoying.

Where's my winter?? I WANT MY WINTER!! Wahhhhh!!

Ahem, thank you, I feel much better now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 02:19 PM

Here, bare ground, it was -BRR last night, 10 cm of snow tonight and rain and 10C tomorrow. Then, -BRRRR for a while.

Re Alaska... "Since November the fishing community of Cordova has received 447 centimetres of snow"

??? Doesn't seem like much. HOWEVER, tack on all that rain they had and THAT is nasty.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 11:41 PM

Here is today's "Special Weather Statement." Since early December we've had a mild winter- but it appears that is ending.

The mentioned winds are our 'Taku winds' that consist of strong, swirling winds straight off the icefields that surround us, while the air is clear, the sky sunny, and temperatures range from minus zero to about 10 above. Each incident of Taku wind lasts anywhere from three days to two weeks. They can be brutal, as they were last winter.

THE WEATHER PATTERN ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALASKA WILL TURN VERY COLD AND WINDY STARTING LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND PERSIST THROUGH NEXT WEEK.

A STRONG HIGH PRESSURE CENTER WILL BUILD OVER THE YUKON FRIDAY NIGHT AND THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE SATURDAY. THIS HIGH PRESSURE WILL SEND VERY COLD ARCTIC AIR ACROSS THE AREA CAUSING TEMPERATURES TO FALL THROUGH THE DAY FRIDAY INTO THE 20S OVER THE NORTHERN AREAS AND LOWER 30S OVER THE SOUTHERN AREA.

TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO FALL THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH HIGHS RANGING FROM THE SINGLE DIGITS OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE PANHANDLE TO THE MID 20S TO MID TEENS OVER THE SOUTHERN THIRD. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM BELOW ZERO OVER THE NORTHERN HALF TO LOW TEENS OVER THE SOUTH THIRD.

THE COLD AIR WILL PERSIST INTO NEXT WEEK AND HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM SINGLE DIGITS OVER THE NORTHERN HALF AND NEAR 20 OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF. LOWS WILL REMAIN BELOW ZERO TO SINGLE DIGITS. PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE ACTION TO KEEP PIPES FROM FREEZING SINCE MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALASKA ARE SNOW FREE.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 11:52 PM

(BTW, the previous post with its all-caps is a simple cut-and-paste; it isn't meant to be a howl.

But here is a bit more Alaskan weather. If they think Cordova has it bad, take a look at Valdez:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Another Prince William Sound community could argue it's been hit even harder with snow than Cordova this winter.

Valdez normally has 149.7 inches of snow by this time of the year. This year, the National Weather Service says Valdez has had 318.4 inches of snow-- or 168.7 inches more than usual.

Valdez resident Kathryn Hawkins says the scary part is it's only mid-January.

There's three more months of snow to be had in Valdez, and she has no idea where it's going to go.

If there's a plus side to all this snow, her 12-year-old son Trevor has found it

There's so much snow, it up to the eaves of their house, and he's spending a lot of his free time sliding off the roof into their yard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 02:15 PM

26.5 feet? and it's up to the eaves ?... must be a BIG house!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 02:26 PM

"What's the weather like where you are?"

Blowing snow, freezing rain, gig tonight out of town: what's the weather like? In a word, it's the f#ckin' sh#ts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 02:32 PM

Had to cover my geraniums in the greenhouse this evening with fleece, it's below freezing just now. But honestly, it's been like Spring for most of this winter up 'til now. My husband is moaning, he's fascinated by snow, and feels thwarted that we haven't seen any yet. I tell him to shut up!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Jan 12 - 10:33 AM

January 24, southern Maine - it's currently 43° LOVE that January thaw!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 12 - 01:14 PM

A few days ago it was -20C. Now it's 10C and the rain has taken most of the snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 24 Jan 12 - 01:23 PM

New Hampshire: 47 degrees and sunny. Headed for the beach.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 12 - 03:46 PM

A walk on the beach sounds great! Just don't swim in the salt water... salt water and a cool temp make for excruciating nipple pain. Been there, ain't goin back.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 24 Jan 12 - 04:48 PM

Actually I'm headed for Miami Beach.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 02 Feb 12 - 07:44 AM

2 days ago boiling hot. now - soaking, bucketing, pouring with rain. Rain on the roof, rain in the gutters, rain in the roads, rain all over the garden, rainy, rainy, rain. the skies have opened - for some hours now. and flooding further up north, as usual.

freda (sydney, australia)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 12 - 09:22 AM

Hope the flooding isn't too bad this year.

My furnace is hummin almost constantly. At daybreak, it was -22C with -34WC. Even when it hits the forecast high of -12C, still a -34WC. At least it's sunny.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Feb 12 - 10:30 AM

It rained hard Saturday, turned to sleet overnight Saturday night, last night it dipped down to -18C. A small bit of white sleet and ice remains on the ground. Supposed to be cold today, gradually warm up to rain again on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Feb 12 - 10:33 AM

My mini split heat pump was still pumping out heat at -18 C. Only went through about 1/8th of a 100 litre tank of furnace oil this year yet, because of the trusty "mini split" heat pump. These things really work. Second year for it and it has been amazing, heating and air conditioning my open concept two level house.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 12 - 11:33 AM

How much did that run ya, Ed. Been thinkin one for Mum's house.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Feb 12 - 12:28 PM

I bought it for 1300. plus a hundred for the outside wall bracket, the cover for the lines will cost about a hundred (a rip off, but it looks much better-though cheaper stuff may be available than what I got).

I got it installed by an electrician (needed for the warranty) for about four hundred- Cuts a hole in the house, attaches it to the wall inside, puts a bracket for the compressor outside and electric box, snaps the compressed lines to the compressor and hooks up the electric to the indoor panel.

I suspect I could have gotten it a bit cheaper.

Most companies want to sell them to you installed. That is anywhere between 2500 to 3500 (depending on the size, area that you want to heat, and the company).

Napoleon pushes their model alot. Even Sears carry them now. Mine is UHF, imported by a firm in Moncton from China and distributed mostly through pluming shops.

It cost me about $100. a day to operate in the winter(depending on the temperature). On cold days it could be a few pennies more.

It works very well for me, as I have a energy efficient house that is open concept.

There is a government grant, but I did not apply for it. To be eligible, you foist have to arrange for an energy audit, that costs from 150 to 175.

What seems to be the difference in various brands is the compressor. There are a few different ones, mostly made in Japan. The warranty can differ, as well as service level). My indoor unit is warranted for two years and the compressor for five-hich is about standard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 12 - 01:18 PM

"It cost me about $100. a day to operate in the winter"... assuming you meant $10 a day... that's $300 a month. How much has your heating cost dropped? My electric furnace runs about $300 per month from October to March. Today might be a "little costlier".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Feb 12 - 03:57 PM

Sorry. Not one hundred, not even ten. But, about one dollar (Loonie) a day to operate the unit.

My heating bill went from about 1600 down to about three or four hundred last year, which was a colder year than this year. This year my furnace rarely kicks in, even in today's cold temperature. Under $two hundred for extra electricity, and about $ one hundred and fifty dollars for oil. I expect it to be slightly cheaper this winter, as it was a warmer winter.

Heat rises, so, I also benefit on the upper house level, which also benefits from daytime solar heat.

Air conditioning benefits in the summer is limited to the lower level, as cold stays low, and does not rise much.

If I ever need to replace my forced air oil furnace, I would buy a full heat pump furnace replacement. I could then use my air ducts to put it all around the house. These are about 5 K at Home Depot, and they claim you can get a 1k subsidy back - though I have not looked into that.


It is only the power to run the compressor and indoor fan. No wires are heated. The inverter technology makes them much more efficient over the past two or three years, than earlier models .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Feb 12 - 08:00 AM

We were lucky in the South West the short winter snap didn't last and it seems that we missed the heavy snow that the east side of the UK had. With the amount of snow we had we got off quite lightly much to the disappointment of a number of children hoping to use their sledges and to get time off school! For once it didn't happen and everything didn't grind to a halt like it normally does.

It is now back to milder temperatures again with the odd glimpse of springlike sun.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 12 - 02:33 PM

-20 this AM. +4 tomorrow. I expect another snowstorm by weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 02:52 PM

Snow is almost up to the tops of the car tires and more on the way.
Now they tell us that it is supposed to rain!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 03:06 PM

Kendall... THAT sucks! Rain on snow... yuk! Is the snow you have fluffy? We ain't supposed to get squat here. It must be headed for Ed and Sandy, which, personally, I don't mind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 08:37 PM

Today, in eastern Massachusetts, it was a light wet snow, not accumulating -- dreary, but could be worse.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 06:12 AM

The weather has been very strange since December we have had some very short cold spells followed by very mild for the time of year. Again we are having mild sunny summery temperatures but next week cold and snow is expected. It seems to have been the pattern since the very hot spell in October that we had, so unusual of the UK.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 02:11 PM

On top of that, my snow blower snuffed it! The gears that drive the auger wore out.

Definition of time: Just one damn thing after another.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 03:02 PM

Kendall... best buy on the market is a Troy-Bilt 420 cc 45-in OHV Snowthrower. Go to Canadian Tire, paste that in the search and read the specs. It's STEERABLE! and you know what THAT means.... worth every penny. They are selling for just under $2000 here now. I bought a Honda a while back that cost over twice as much because it's got tracks and can climb stairs... dumb move on my part on accounta after my back gets bad using the shortass thing I don't care about it climbing steps.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 03:16 PM

Oh... yeah... don't forget the reviews. I just read them and some of them are nightmares. Still, I'd take a chance on it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 09:12 AM

I just bought a two year old Troy Bilt 26 inch 7 hp with electric start for $550.00.
I'll repair the old 11 hp 30 inch Troy Bilt and sell it for about the same price.
This could be the last snow storm of the season but I don't want to take that chance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 01:48 PM

"This could be the last snow storm of the season but I don't want to take that chance."

You live in Maine, right? >;-)

Here... VERY strange. A snowsquall, followed by sleet, turning to rain soon and the temp going up to 8C. On another thread, 999 saw flocks of Canada Geese in southern Quebec. It's MARCH!

Strange not to be shovelling. And, I am NOT complaining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 12 - 02:42 PM

T, W, Th... 19,22,20C??? It's March! Where am I? Calleeforneeah?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 02:56 AM

It's a little early for it - our annual bright, clear weather usually runs from about mid-April to the end of June - but spring appears to have arrived in Juneau, Alaska. Berries are budding, plants of various sorts are up two inches, very little snow left, temperatures in the mid-30sF; I've seen ravens with mouthfuls of dried grasses. Light snow still falls overnight but is gone before noon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 02:29 PM

We have songbirds here that never... usually don't... arrive before May. The apple growers are scared out of their wits. Apples are big business here and losing blooms to frost could be devastating... buds are forming. Of course, there are other fruit trees in the same danger.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 02:38 PM

We're concerned about the fruit trees as well, gnu. Also, the maple syrup season is pretty well a bust.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 04:11 PM

24C here in the shade in my back yard. Unreal. maeve... I pray your fruit trees don't blossum too soon. Forecast here is back to reasonable temps by Saturday but will that be too little too late? This is a very serious situation.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 10:03 PM

Here in RI, we had a record high of 73 yesterday. The Newport mansion tours are starting two weeks earlier than usual. My son's family planted some seeds--not a lot, just in case--during the weekend, ignoring the "wait 'til the last full moon in May" wisdom. I'm waiting to see if the farmstand near their house opens early. Every year the sign says, "Reopens in April." Then at the beginning of April they post the opening date, usually a weekend in the middle of the month. I hope this year they open at the beginning of April or sooner.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 10:33 PM

3km walk in a tee shirt at 7pm. UNreal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 10:49 PM

85 degrees in Michigan on March 20th ????
It's due to drop back to something like normal again for awhile, but the last few days have been delightful but weird. As some have mentioned though, hope the plants and crops aren't all screwed up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 09:56 AM

It is very warm in Bristol this afternoon too warm to be inside.
The weather has been a bit odd since last October with very few really cold days and the pattern seems to be continuing. Daffodils intended for shops have been reported in flower way too early and no good to sell which has been a bit of a blow especially with Mother's Day last weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 11:17 AM

It's a bit late for daffodils, Patsy. If they're not ready for 1 March, they're not much use.

Phil

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 01:16 PM

Old Man Winter must be off on a bender. The snowbanks are gone. My thermometer is reading 26C in the shade and it's only 2PM. I had to close my windows a little while ago. I expect there will be flooding in some river valleys.

maeve... are your fruit trees budding?

I noticed in Sobeys this AM that only two bottles of Maple Slurpup were on the shelves. Usually, there would be close to 100 (various sizes). I wonder if Quebec maples will be affected. La Belle Province produces 4 times the amount that all other jurisdictions combined produce. That would hit a lot of Quebec(ers) hard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 09:33 PM

Sunny with a high of 25 east of Toronto today. Perfect dog walking weather. For mid-June.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 03:07 AM

OK...we are making up for all your summer weather. After a very dry and not so warm but markedly nonwindy winter, we have had weeks of snow showers, hail, rain, just cold weather. Some daffodils out but spring very delayed. Rhododendruns all turned to brown mush. Very odd how little wind we had though..usually nonstop. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 03:34 PM

Light snow today in Calgary, more tomorrow, but the Spring Bull Sale is bringing good prices.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 03:44 PM

28C in the shade on my thermometer. About 32H. I am not pleased. Two years ago, we had NO spring and it was HOT from early May to late October. Not hot like Texas and the like, but too hot for this little black duck.

It's supposed to get back to more normal weather tomorrow, but even that fprecast weather is not normal for March in NB, CAN.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 09:24 PM

Very slight overcast, 59F at present, you can see the mountains 120 miles away across the Snake River plain. Supposed to be 70F on Saturday and partly cloudy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 10:41 PM

Got into the 80sF here in RI today. A friend of mine in Merrimack, New Hampshire, posted on Facebook that temps there got into the 80s, too. I have managed not to use my air conditioner for the last three summers, but I may use it this year. My heating bills this winter were low, but my electric bill this summer may be high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 11:13 PM

Way too warm all winter. Did we have winter?

Tomorrow, highs in the mid 80's F, has been ranging from the mid 70's to the low 80's for the better part of the last 2 weeks. Night temps in the mid 50's. Bloom times for trees and shrubs anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks early.

Messing with our many local farmers who count on spring farmers markets. Stuff like asparagus is 3 weeks early and will be finished before some local farmers markets open for the season.

We have not had, all winter long, a succesion of hard frosts and cold weather sufficient to either kill off or render completely dormant some common insect pests.

Also, while we are not in a drought phase, it certainly has not been a wet winter or early spring, and ground water reserves are not being adequately recharged so far to sufficiently replenish ground water reserves.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Mar 12 - 03:47 PM

Bright warm sunshine and smell of pig sh*t.   Apparently the fertiliser of choice around this part of Essex.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Mar 12 - 04:53 PM

Warmest March on record here...(MD-DC)

Sure hope Summer is not a similar amount above normal... we will bake!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:45 AM

Way too early for high winds and fire danger, but Colorado has both this week: CLICK. We need more snow in the high country and rain elsewhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:55 AM

We also have high winds and Red Flag fire warnings in Maine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ole Juul
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 09:12 PM

Here in Coalmont BC, the snow is starting to disappear and we just got the first crocuses poking through. Still burning a lot of wood though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 09:42 PM

It was snowing on the canary in my maple tree yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:16 PM

Seasonal temperatures returned. Parts of RI were supposed to have freezing temps last season, a concern for plants which had already blossomed, especially for fruit trees in orchards. I have managed to miss all the weather reports today, so I don't know if the temps really got that low.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 09:16 AM

The West of Ireland is having it's summer early this year. It's lovely, no sign of rain (the usual haze the eastern winds bring though) and nearing 20C but there's always the worry we are indeed using up our good weather allowance for the year early on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 11:56 AM

One week ago today in Southern Maine it was 80° - today we got a dusting of snow!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 03:53 PM

Had slight fluffies today. Windy and cold. Had my AC on in the truck not long ago... I like to run it on the first hot day with the windows open as I find starting it up the first few times with the windows up can give one a cold. I expect we'll have a heat wave after the full moon on the 5th.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 05:00 PM

RI had temps in the 80's for a few days about a week ago, but last night it got close to freezing and temperatures are expected to be seasonal for a few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bettynh
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 06:31 PM

Here in southern NH we had the 80F degree weather with heavy winds and no rain for 3 weeks (and no snow melt of course), with brush fires all over. After a good rain it's now seasonal, but that means 20F tonight, and my apple tree is blooming. A heavy freeze will kill this year's apple crop, peach crop, and perhaps cherry crop. Even if everything else this season goes well, farmers around here will be in trouble. My cherry tree bloomed during the heat and drought and the petals just turned brown and hung on, never falling as they usually do. Does that mean the cherries didn't fertilize?? The tree is too big for me to harvest any but the lowest fruit, but it'll mean tough times for the catbirds this year. Lilacs are mid-bloom. I have no idea what a hard freeze will do to them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 07:08 PM

Oh dear! Bettynh... that sounds absolutely dreadful! Seems to be the norm on the northeastern seaboard of America this year. Frightening, really. Everything seems a month early but that cold weather sneaks back in for a bit and messes things up. Good luck.

If you are really worried, you could place a lawn sprinkler near/under the tree. Of course, how many nights might you need to do that?... especially if you pay for water usage.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 02:46 PM

Even I am starting to dislike this... my furnace has been thumping for several days. Again today, 9C, rain and wind. It's crappy. But the full moon was Monday so I expect a change very soon. Of course, in a week or two, I'll be complaining about the heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bettynh
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 03:12 PM

Yup, Gnu, since my last post we've had about a foot of rain, solving the fire problem, and temperatures that seesaw from 55F to 90F. Currently, we're in harmony with the mother country, with New English weather of 55F and rain on and off for the past 5 days. The season is nevertheless advanced, with strawberry picking starting Saturday, about a week early. Roses are in full bloom or going by, something that usually happens for Fathers' Day (June 17). Hay crops must be ready to cut, but the farmers don't have a clear shot at 3 days of fair weather for about another week (by then it'll be 90 again, I suppose).

The freeze I worried so about apparently wasn't so bad as feared. The local orchard is celebrating it's 165th anniversary this month (in the same family) so I guess they knew where the trees should go. I do have a decent fruitset on the cherry tree, but the apple has gone biennial with only a few this year after a heavy crop last year (that got snowed on last Halloween).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 07:21 PM

We have had rain for all or most of the last several days, including a torrential downpour late Monday afternoon. Today the sun poked out briefly before rain resumed.

It's a good thing I keep two clean plastic trash bags in my car. Today was laundromat day, so when I took my clothes out of the dryer I put my laundry bag in one plastic bag, fill it with my clean, dry clothes, then slide the other bag down over everything to cover the opening in the inner bags. I wish it wouldn't rain on laundromat days, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 08:33 AM

A flock of blackbirds arrived several days ago. This AM, bluejays. Full moon soon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 11:14 AM

This time of year is usually blistering hot, humid and dry here. The past two weeks have yielded plenty of rain but not too much, moderate temps, and right now it is only about 72F with highs expected only in the very low 80's.

Looks like BWL may get a hurricane early in the coming week!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 12:34 PM

Yes, Janie, we are getting ready for a visit from Isaac. Current "most likely storm path" prediction has the eye of the thing going over my house. But that path has been moving around a bit over the last few days, so it's way too early to know anything for certain. It's probably going to hit within 100 miles of here regardless, so we'll see some nastiness in any event. I'm hoping it goes to the east so we'll be on the less intense western side*.

We're not planning on evacuating for this one unless it's predicted to be Category 3 or above, and that's not looking to be the case. Ivan and Dennis cleared out most of the trees within striking distance of the house back in 2004 & 2005, and I figure that if the ones that are still standing didn't get knocked down then, Isaac's probably not going to do it. So I'm not much worried about getting crushed by a falling tree. But I do have plenty of gas and oil for the chainsaws just in case.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 01:43 PM

NHC isn't saying it's gonna pack a punch but EC is... 155kph near landfall on Tuesday and carrying 120kph well on shore.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 08:57 PM

You have weathered more than a few of these, BWL, and are a sensible man (well, in some senses;>) Keep yer head down after you get the hatches battened down. Will be thinking of you with concern as the storm approaches, for what it may be worth.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 11:46 AM

Yes, indeed. I hope all goes well, BWL.

Gee... blackbirds and bluejays and a full moon soon and 11C overnight to 26 day. I was gettin spoiled. It's almost 30 now (35H) so it'll be warm by supper time. I am expecting another good show by the hummingbirds in the heat and this eve.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 12:38 PM

Well, the most likely storm path has been being pushed gradually to the west. Currently, the bullseye is on Gulfport, Mississippi. That's 150 miles from here, and that's far enough away that I can put the Tums back in the medicine cabinet. From that far away, we'll get wind gusts in the 40 MPH range, and rain's pretty much a 100% certainty, but it looks like I won't be needing to board up the windows.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 06:24 PM

The weather here in RI (and nearby CT, where I spent yesterday in Mystic) has been ideal for a few days. I hope all hurricanes stay away from here--or any place where people live. Stay safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 11:24 PM

Since I started this thread I thought I'd check in.....warm,sunshiny,windy,and the moon is now bright. The hot air coming out of Tampa has pushed Isaac farther away from Tallahassee and I may not have to worry about the thirty five trees within thirty feet of my house....hope everyone is well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 02:04 PM

Checking in again. The wind is still up and we are getting sprinkles with a lot of clouds. The air smells like mildew in the mildew capital of the south. Expecting more of the same but glad for the hot air in Tampa pushing the storm to the Mississippi where water is desperately needed.....love, harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: polaitaly
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 01:12 PM

"What's the weather like where you are?(Italy)"
hot
hot,hot,hot
hot, humid, and hot
mostly hot.

paola

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 11:32 PM

Harpy and BWL, I know the Isaac passed well west of you, but are you high and dry enough?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 01:50 PM

Small spuds to our friends down south, I know, but I sweated in a tee yesterday and i am cold in a sweatshirt today. 10C overnight. Feels like fall.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 03:19 PM

What's the weather in London, Terry?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 07:08 PM

Isaac's been pretty much a non-event here in my part of NW Fla. We've only had an inch or so of rain and there hasn't been enough wind to shake the dead limbs from the trees.

I hear there was some beach erosion and flooded roads down on the Gulf itself, but that's 50 miles south of my humble home in the woods.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 07:28 PM

Good to hear, BWL.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 10:26 PM

What gnu said....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 10:49 PM

A non event here, too Janey. Not sure about the coast near St Marks, St.George and Cape San Blas. Glad my roof wasn't destroyed before I can chop down some more of my beloved trees.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 02:05 PM

My furnace is on. Had our first frost last week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 03:27 PM

Not cold here yet -warmer than normal for the season.
But, as Charlie Pride once sang "Rain dripping off the brim of my hat" today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 03:33 PM

Yeah, rainin and blowin here, too... I am just up the road from you, Ed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Oct 12 - 08:41 PM

After some heavy rain yesterday and last night here in RI, today was beautiful with sunshine and temps in the very high 60s. I opened the doors and windows and let the air in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:29 AM

We in Juneau Alaska are under a 'heavy wind warning' tonight until noon tomorrow. Very gusty. I was out with my little dog tonight and he was excited by it but after awhile of being blown around he decided he'd had enough and became imploring about going home. We had to duck into a couple of protected shop doorways on the way home.

It's not particularly cold - low 30s - but with the wind chill factored in it's brisk.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 08:21 AM

First fluffies! The little b*****ds will melt by this PM and then back to rain and plus temps for at least several days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 01:57 PM

Snow that's staying and now rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 02:27 PM

67 light breeze

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 03:34 PM

We're having a heat wave, the past few days have been very hot - Saturday was 39.7 deg C, that's about 103 if you still think in old numbers. Today is forecast to be milder, only 35 deg.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 07:42 PM

High of about 80 in SW FL with a light breeze. Took out the 'yak this afternoon and got a big snook on fly and a couple of smaller ones.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 07:58 PM

It's mild in RI right now--in the mid-fifties today, but we've already had snow twice, including some on Tuesday that left a white coat on everything but no snowdrifts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 08:31 PM

40? 40!!!??? I guess I LIKE being cold! Seeeweeet JAYSSUS!

Jennie.... I sweat for fer ye! That just ain't right, lass!

Ya know, I complain about the weather here but if I had to pick a spot to stay fer good, I can only think of two and I am already at one. So, I guess this is where I will die.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Dec 12 - 06:02 PM

45.5 down under? Well, I just rearranged the garages, placed the snowblower in my garage, serviced and gassed it, gassed the generator, put brooms and small shovels and scrapers in both weehicles, put large shovels near the doors of each garage and inside my house by the back door, bungee corded one large shovel to the railing at my back door, and parked my truck with the back of the cab in line with the front of my house.

It was clear and sunny and 4C this afternoon with a 40kph NW wind that died to nare a strip o wind two hours before dark! First NW this fall when it was less than 10C. I can smell it! New moon on the 13th... any time within the next 24 to 96 hours we will have our first "winter". It won't be bad but we will see the face of Old Man Winter. Miserable old git that he can be.

Now, I could be wrong but my old man taught me well... we'll see.

Freda... 45.5C? That is insufferable! My heart sweats for you!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Dec 12 - 10:25 PM

About 50-55 here today with gentle rain "inland" where I live but much heavier rain along the coast. Some may find it hard to believe that in a state as small as rhode Island we have micro-climates.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 12 - 10:39 PM

Ohhhh... it's beginning to look a lot like SHIT! About 4" of wet snow, sleet, freezing rain.

Told ya I could smell it. But, we had a wind shift and I expect it will melt. Then... anybody's guess for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Dec 12 - 10:45 PM

Well gnu.....I don't really like extremely hot weather, but it is part and parcel of living in some parts of Oz. We moved out of Sydney (hot and humid summers) in May 2010 to a country town (hot and dry summers) and much prefer the lack of humidity here. Winters are cool and pleasant, and we don't get snow.....but an hour away, up in the hills, they do.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Dec 12 - 07:46 AM

Well, JennieG... even tho the RH here at the moment is 88%, it's a dry RH. Ya don't feel it when it's sunny and -10C at 9AM.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 04:06 PM

Put me longjohns on today. Gotta dig out me woolies fer tomorrow cause she's gonna be even colder wit a norwest wind. As I said on another thread, I am a fashion Nazi and nuthin makes a fashion statement better than yer heavy black wool pants and suspenders. Well, fact is, at -20WTFITS? (WTF is that s***?) I can still make a statement without my teeth chattering when I gots me woolies on, eh?

An, I seen 'iss guy goin in a parkin lot taday wit shorts an a t-shirt. I tot, buddy, yer gonna be buddled up like me in t'rty years and wishin you 'AD been taday on accounta my ar'tritus kept me up in pain alf da noight.

Amos! If I wins da loto tanight... yer property value is gonna go down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 07:32 PM

Going to be a white Chrissie, would you say?

It's 11.30am here, and already 31 deg. And I am sitting here at the computer drinking hot coffee......seemed like a good idea at the time, and I do make good coffee after all.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 02:08 PM

It keeps changin, eh? Been pretty bad since yesterday. A dog don't go out in this kinda wether and neeterh d o I.

- Shane

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 05:47 PM

cold, wet, windy, dark. Typical.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 08:23 PM

Hot again. Sunny and hot.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 08:32 PM

Wow, I started this thread eleven years ago! North Florida on the St. Marks River, where the Manatees go in winter to stay warm, is sunny, seventy degrees, witha bit of wind. Global warming, anyone??????



love, hg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 08:38 PM

Cool to cold and drizzly!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 09:27 PM

-6C last night, with wind. It's +2C now, rain tomorrow and +4C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 10:04 PM

Here in Juneau, Alaska, it is code.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 03:08 PM

Here on the South coast of England it is trying to be cold, but there are still flowers in the gardens and insects about in the afternoons, my deadly mousetrap with it's month old bait of chocolate and caramel remains set and ready, but the mild weather has not sent any wee sleekit thing looking for shelter as yet.

There was a frost on the bins when I took rubbish out a week or so ago, but all the rest has been a lot of rain and a few clear days.

The Spring this year was very dry, the apple trees which were loaded to breaking last year produced a few small cracked fruits this Autumn. The fruit and leaves fell off early. The strain of drought then deluge might have been too much for them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 07:04 PM

A slight segue: It seems unbelievable that more than 2/3rds of the US has drought conditions. Is this something new? I don't remember such figures in my own lifetime.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 05:10 AM

Rain?

It's all come to the UK - where it is now raining. Not so much again as taking up where it left off last time.

Usually we don't need to encourage clothes to dry, just hang them up for a day or so, or this Spring, an hour or so, but now hanging things up just keeps them damp, so I have to put everything through the tumble dryer and then store it over the radiators or it feels damp when put on.

Some might not admit to the existence of climate change, but really - the weather is very strange these days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 08:38 AM

It's not all about you, Rumncoke. Ottawa, Ontario is wet and miserable today with the temperature hovering around the freezing point, streets full of slush, and precipitation alternating between rain and snow.

In short, it's 'orrible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 04:47 PM

We had some welcome rain last night, 21 mls - nearly an inch, in old numbers - this morning it is overcast and a little humid so more rain must be on the way. Today's forecast is for 35 deg.

Charmion, Ottawa doesn't sound very nice at all!

Rumncoke, when one lives in a very dry continent (not cure if it's the driest - I think Antarctica may be be drier) then rain can be a blessing. As Ebbie says, parts of the US would welcome rain too.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 05:13 PM

Interesting looking back.
Strange weather here in Victoria, Australia just now. One day it's 40 degrees and the next it's 16. Cool today and it rained yesterday.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 05:22 PM

60 pounds per cubic foot here today, 6 inches deep. It IS white, but is IS water... ooooh, me back! Buckets of rain and 10C by Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 03:38 PM

" The Times Record   USGS: 2.4-magnitude temblor hits Mid-coast...
Quake felt like 'loud explosion' in Arrowsic, knocked items off shelves in Bath.

The U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed a 2.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Edgecomb at about 1:19 p.m. today. There are no reports of injuries or damage, but several Times Record readers report feeling the quake, as far away as Arrowsic and Bowdoinham. "http://www.timesrecord.com/news/2013-01-14Front_PageUSGS_24magnitude_temblor_hits_Midcoast.html


Knocked my clothes drying rack over on the porch, it did. Sounded like a big, loud wind. The chickens were too darned pleased, either.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 03:44 PM

Bright sunshine, no wind and it's 57 degrees. You hear that, Dani? :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 04:34 PM

Hot still, although today is slightly cooler so far. On Saturday the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded officially here was broken, the new record now stands at 42.7 deg C. That's nearly 109 deg F if you still use old numbers.

Either way, it's hot.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 04:40 PM

We have had sunshine and 75-80 degrees all day. Almost perfect weather. 90% humidity is less than ideal for gardening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 06:24 PM

43C? 80F and 90RH? I am stayin out... 10C, sunny, wafting breeze.

God is gonna get me for this post! It January in NB and, although this is not unusal over my 55 years here, it sure as hell ain't normal... could just as easily be -30 with wind and a three day snow OR a one day snow with 1.5m of it.

That there 43C is unthinkable, tho, to me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 06:49 PM

51 degrees and sunny at noon today in Southern New Hampshire. 48 degrees at 6 a.m. on the top of Mt. Washington; a record I think.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 08:12 PM

That other Guest was me. We had a record high today, 59 degrees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 09:26 PM

I don't know what it got up to here (also southern NH), but Portsmouth got to 60°. I had a window open, and listened to dripping all day. There are patches of actual ground outside. I got motivated enough to cook down some bird stock.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 09:27 PM

Ridiculous warm in Rhode Island, too.--into the 60s.

Maeve, I hope your chickens continue to lay unscrambled eggs!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 12:18 AM

The ice that was on the river is melting fast. The birds are all screwed up thinking spring has arrived. Only two critters I have yet to see are Charly the Skunk and Charly the Chipmunks 1, 2 and 3. It's hovering just above freezing all day and dropping to juuussst below freezing at night. This would be normal were it early May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 04:04 AM

We had six feet of frost yesterday morning!

Now it's snowing!
I don't know what it's like outside!

David

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 07:09 AM

Here in Staffordshire, frosty first thing this morning but now it's 3.5C and sunny. We had a dusting of snow a couple of days ago but it all melted yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 08:21 PM

It was a balmy 80 degrees in north florida today. My Meyer lemons are almost ripe. I hear cold is coming back in a day or two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 05:41 PM

Frosty and very sunny..lots of icy roads here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 05:49 PM

First snow in a while. Just a skiff and it's only about -5 at 7PM. Warm as a bug in a rug for days. No ice on the pave. One day closer to spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 09:38 PM

Snowed last night here in RI, then mixed with rain early this morning, making the snow on the car heavy and hard to remove. Luckily it was only a few inches deep.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 06:53 AM

On the weekend, -40WC. Presently, +13C and 60 gusting to 90kph.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 11:53 AM

Juneau, Alaska: Freezing rain yesterday and this morning, on its way to rising temperatures.

But odd weather. For about 10 days, up until four days ago, it rained, the billowy snow all disappeared and the temperatures got to the low 40sF.

Bears out of den were sighted- scary for all, because there is nothing for them to eat, except for humans' garbage. With the segue to snow and cold weather I imagine they heaved big sighs and returned to their dens.

A man with his snow machine fell through the ice in the lake in front of our biggest local glacier last weekend and just barely made it out alive- sprawled full length he made his way through the breaking ice until he reached firmer surfaces. His snowmobile remains submerged.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 05:00 PM

In Sydney, it's been so changeable. we've recently had meltingly hot weather (45.8 = 114f) followed by WILD winds, massive storms and days of soaking rain. we're lucky, in other parts of the country there have been raging bushfires followed by flooding.

this week we had a few pleasant sunny days, I woke up this morning to a brown/grey sky, and wild winds sweeping through the garden. trees bending this way and that, the sound of the wind in the
weeping lilly pillies is like waves crashing on sand.

and now for a cup of tea :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 07:31 PM

Well, we had snow on Monday, freezing rain on Tuesday and unbelievably thick fog on Wednesday. No snow left this morning. The wind is howling through the trees and the dryer vent is flapping to beat the band...almost enough to tip me over the edge. Glad the wind is drying up the mud, though.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 08:31 PM

Last week here was extremely cold with temps well below freezing. There was some light powdery snow one day--Tuesday, I think. This week has been much milder but with a lot of wind and rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 09:20 PM

Yesterday was 70 F but tommorrow is 24 with an inch of snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 09:33 PM

Sleet and ice and freezing rain and cold temps in the high teens and mid 20's(for here, anywho) Friday, late warm-up to almost normal temps for the rest of the weekend, normal on Monday and Tuesday, then 2 days in the 60's and 70's (F), yesterday the wind commenced to blow, thunderstorms and the wind howling, thunderstorms or no (was very glad it is winter with the leaves off the trees). Temps started dropping some this afternoon as the wind began to significantly ebb, and now we are in for a chilly but not unseasonable weekend. Was planning on driving up to Mom's in WV for an overnight this weekend, but three days snow and low temps forecast for the northern half of the journey. Latitude and altitude both in play.

On the otherhand, the winds have scoured out the atmosphere and now it is is a chilly night with an unusually clear sky. Orion right overhead just now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:18 PM

I am glad it turned COLD again. The guy that shingled my roof a couple of years ago will get to my repairs asap.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 03:54 PM

Cold again here, too, but at least it is sunny.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:35 PM

Am I missing something, but if you don't say where you are, it doesn't mean much to me.

Subject: RE: weather you like where you are? or not
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:41 PM

Hwere do you live andrew? hhh do you have a basement? Are you alone?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:19 AM

It has turned cold in Sydney, the doona is on the bed. We've just had the coolest February weekend in 19 years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 08:37 AM

It's so fuckin' cold here in southern Quebec that we no longer have weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:39 PM

In case anyone doesn't know my general location, I'm in Nottingham, New Hampshire USA -- about halfway between the New Hampshire/Maine seacoast and the mountains. Southern New Hampshire. Half hour from Portsmouth, but with slightly different weather (inland and uphill).

I moved here to come to a "warm climate"...since I was born in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (ayuh, I'm a Yooper) and grew up in Milwaukee. If you can put up with a Great Lakes winter, just about anything else is moderate. Coastal New Hampshire and coastal southern Maine sure is compared to Wisconsin.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 08:17 PM

Halifax NS, Canada- Everything was green yesterday, it snowed overnight and this morning, then it turned to rain, and still is raining - The weather can't make up its mind this year, if it is actually winter or not.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 09:15 PM

Sorry, andrew e. I'm in Rhode Island.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 13 - 08:43 AM

I have said Moncton, NB, CAN so many times in the past dozen years that I tend to assume almost everyone here is in the know. Technically... sorry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bobad
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 10:50 PM

Why it was so cold here today I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 09:35 AM

It was so cold yesterday that I saw a hitchhiker holding up a picture of his thumb!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 07:19 PM

We have a blizzard going on right now in Rhode Island and most of New England. Some people have already lost power. I'm good for now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 04:44 PM

61 degrees and sunny in the mountains of North Georgia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:43 AM

It's raining in Sydney. Thunderstorms, heavy soaking saturating constant rain. The cat has come in, wet, and the skies are just pouring bucketloads of rain.

Flood warnings in NSW, two flood related deaths already, and sheets of rain pouring across the state.

And, thinking of rain..

My Country

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ...

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

******

©Dorothea MacKellar

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:53 AM

This song really needs to be belted out by a big baritone, in a strong declamatory style. But in the meantime, this gives you an idea of the song (and of how wet it is here)

Hey Rain by Bill Scott

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:14 PM

from the local paper: Mini tornadoes hit hundreds of homes across Sydney and the Illawarra region overnight, there is flooding across NSW. One resident of north Sydney's Kirribilli described seeing a "funnel cloud" that struck just after midnight, bringing down trees in the Willoughby Street area, damaging cars and ripping off the roof of the Kirribilli Sailing Club. The wind "sounded like a freight train," and the cloud was between 50-100m wide.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Feb 13 - 06:32 AM

Woke up this morning, even though my back door was closed and locked, the wind had driven water under the door and onto the floor in my living room. Rain got into my neighbour's roof, and broke through her ceiling pouring into her house.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 24 Feb 13 - 02:04 PM

Oh, no! Stay safe--and dry!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 09:53 AM

Here in the mountains of North Georgia there's just enough snow today to make it beautiful. We moved here recently from New Hampshire to be near our kids. Thought I'd never see snow again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 12:08 AM

It's Wednesday night, and it's raining in RI. It may turn into snow. Whatever it is, it's supposed to last into Friday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 08:21 AM

it's just after midnight on Friday & very humid, temperature is 22.6Celcius

I HATE HUMIDITY! The little fan is blowing air on me & I feel a bit cooler, but as soon as I turn it off to go to bed ...

at least I have the bigger fan on my bedside table ...

We have 71% humidity at the moment here near Sydney harbour (did I say I hate humidity???) but the poor buggers in Sydney's west & south west are several degrees cooler but have 80-96% humidity - lucky me!

forecast is for 19 Celcius overnight rising to 26 in the day for the rest of Friday.

sandra (getting ready to log-off & turn of the living room fan)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 11:50 AM

Yesterday it snowed for hours: sometimes heavily. Today- almost no remnants.
33°F-36°F will do that. We dodged the bullet. 20 miles away, they were building snowmen.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 05:36 PM

Well - it is Spring here on the South coast of England.

There is blossom on the trees, the spring bulbs are all in flower, the air is mild - and it is so misty you can't see the end of the street and it is pouring down with rain.

Oh yes Spring in England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Mar 13 - 11:33 AM

The part of RI where I live dodged the bullet, too. We had mostly rain with only a thin coating of wet snow Friday morning. Some other parts of the state got more, but I think most areas were in the 3-inch zone with a few parts getting slightly more. If it had all been snow, we would have been in much worse shape. And while there were strong winds, I haven't heard anything about power outages. I guess from Hurricane Sandy until now, the damage to power lines had already been done. The trees had already fallen and the lines had already been repaired.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 09 Mar 13 - 11:44 AM

Sunny and 60 degrees in the mountains of North Georgia (USA). The daffodils are looking good.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: terrier
Date: 10 Mar 13 - 09:13 AM

I just love weather. Here in North Wales,UK, as usual, it's...undecided!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Mar 13 - 10:03 AM

10 mins ago it was 23.1C with 68% humidity in my neck of th woods - almost 1am on Monday morning.

Monday forecast is it will fall 3 degrees overnight & get up to 27. The rest of the week will be around 28 most day, which of course means high humidity.

We have some nasty hot weather heading our way from the south & south west of the country.

sandra (getting pissed off with this never-ending hot humid weather!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 07:04 AM

Snow, proper snow, in Eastern England! Not what we expect in mid-March!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 08:02 AM

And it's bloody freezing here in Staffordshire, with light snow that isn't settling as yet. Razor-blade wind though...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: billybob
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 09:26 AM

snow here in Frinton on sea, and a bitter east wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Mar 13 - 08:51 AM

It's raining in Ottawa, grey and generally mizerubble. Environment Canada's crystal ball says the temperature will drop below freezing again soon, bringing a bit of sun and probably rather a lot of glare ice but welcome all the same, for the sake of the maple syrup season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Mar 13 - 10:20 PM

It's raining here in Rhode Island, too, and it's windy, but it is not supposed to turn to snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 12 Mar 13 - 10:34 PM

Nice.

It's currently (1.30pm) 25 deg C with a light breeze blowing from the south west. Other parts of Oz are still having unseasonably hot and humid weather but here in the north west of New South Wales summer is winding down. Trees are beginning to show signs of the coming autumn with fading colours, and the vine - could be an ornamental grape - covering a corner of the fence round a local football ground is already red and bronze! Nights are much cooler than just a few weeks ago so sleeping is easier.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 11:02 AM

This time of year, the US can have an extreme spread in themperatures...

NATIONAL TEMPERATURE EXTREMES

HIGH THU...100 AT THERMAL CA AND OCOTILLO WELLS CA

LOW THU...13 BELOW ZERO AT 2 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF STAMBAUGH MI AND WAKEFIELD MI

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 11:58 AM

Here in Juneau in southeastern Alaska, after a month or so of springlike weather, we are under a winter storm advisory for snow and blowing snow. It was to have arrived at 4:00 this morning and to last until 7:00 tonight- well, it *is* snowing but grass is still poking through so not much has accumulated.

On the other hand, the snow is fine and persistent. We'll see what happens by tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 06:26 PM

They have now lifted the weather advisory. It's still a little gusty but the accumulated snow measures perhaps 2 1/2 inches. So now- on to Spring?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 09:56 PM

i hope so, Ebbie! In Rhode Island, it is very cold and windy with possible snow flurries overnight but no accumulation expected.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 11:03 PM

In coastal SOuthern Caqlifornia the sea-mist rises early in the morning and crawls down the streets, hangs from trees and flowers, and makes everything look ghostly and intimate like a lover's sleeping breath. The trees look like explosions of fog and the streets only crawl if there is any traffic at all.

By nine AM, the mists have been banished by the sturdy persuasions of a rising sun, the skies clear away to a pristine blue dotted with white fluff, and the city bustles to life. The temperature climbs from 55 degrees F at sunrise to 75 degrees in short order, over-coats and sweaters are tossed into the back seats of cars, dogs come out to romp and mark their turf on the grassy fields and canyon paths, and the world is blessed with a golden, benevolent warmth that lasts until sundown.

Then the mists start to move in again, wisping through the dark streets and across the busy highways as people head for home after a day of busy productive work, one assumes. No guarantees, of course. The weather does not care whether you've been productive or not.

The clouds roll in, mist again covers the valleys, and night falls in peace on a comfortable land. Occasionally Orion, a few planets, and the inconstant moon peer through the mist to reassure the world that space has not gone awry. Only the foolish and naive are reassured, but the gesture is always appreciated.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 11:04 PM

ANd ONE K!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Mar 13 - 01:56 AM

It's still snowing. (I cannot resist 1001.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 16 Mar 13 - 07:39 AM

April may be the cruelest month, but March bites, too, in the higher regions of New Hampshire. Just 10 miles away in the valley, green shoots are poking up and crocuses are preparing to make their appearance. Here in the hills we still have over a foot of snow on the ground, ice everywhere, and the forecast for the week promises no thaw in sight. Forget February, I dream of heading South for the months of March and April. Now is when I'm sick of winter!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 16 Mar 13 - 05:35 PM

On the western shores of the Caribbean, though one may read much of the night, the question of whether to go south does not arise at this time of year, there being no winter here. All here are presently enjoying typical March weather - lots of bright and warm sunlight, strong breezes and very little rain. If only I could share this with some of the less fortunate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Mar 13 - 06:53 PM

It's lovely weather here for March but I must say, Amos... fuck off.

Meant in a nice way, of course.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Mar 13 - 10:58 PM

The first showers in Auckland after a long, long Summer.
Not enough to break the drought.

Morning light taking 1.5 hours longer to arrive.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 13 - 05:58 PM

St. Pat's Day in style! Beautiful day and THEN cloud and wind and a snow squall... nasty! And then sunshine and snow and wind and then sun. A "Smelt Storm". Mum is 86 and never saw a St. Pat's Day without a storm of some type.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Mar 13 - 09:13 PM

We had snow overnight which changed to rain in the early morning. While there were only a few inches on the ground and my car, it was heavy snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Mar 13 - 10:13 AM

38 degrees and snowing lightly in the mountains of North Georgia (USA), where we moved recently. Quite shocking to this old Yankee.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Mar 13 - 10:23 AM

After a couple of days of unexpected (to me!)snow we have reverted to light rain and expect a high of 40F today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Mar 13 - 11:11 AM

Snowing like crazy in Maryland/DC...but only sticking on the ground a bit. It is white out there, but streets are just wet and slightly slushy. We are expecting snow..changing to rain... and back to snow... for the next 12 hours- then into the 50s & 60s by the weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 25 Mar 13 - 01:17 PM

We had snow all weekend with icy winds here in Staffordshire and across other parts of the country. Some roads on higher ground are still blocked. Unseasonably cold again today (1.5C) but at least the snow has partly melted away.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Mar 13 - 10:42 PM

Once again Rhode Island is expecting more snow, bbut only 1-2 inches overnight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 May 13 - 01:28 PM

I went out shortly after dawn to sniff the air before the big rain rain due in. Yesterday, the apple blossoms were at the "any day now" stage. BLOOM BOOM! Man it looks purrrdy! And the blossums have a pinkish hue I have never seen before. I'll try to post some pics of it after the ducks and canoes are gone.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 May 13 - 05:10 PM

Small but nasty lookin thunderstorm is comin in. Might just miss us but I am ready if it doesn't. Got me Kent County Waders (sneakers) ready and I got me light printed (decorum, eh?) boxer shorts on. Gonna stand outside in the rain and sing! 30C... we need a shower!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 31 May 13 - 06:29 PM

We're expecting rain later today, and it will be very welcome.......although the rainfall so far this year has been slightly above the long-term average, it fell back in February-March. The past couple of months have been very very dry so we will take any moisture we can get!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jun 13 - 05:41 AM

Talk about wake ya up! I stood in the middle of the driveway and it just poured! Then, the wind came up... and the temp dropped at least 10 degrees in about 30 seconds and sent me a runnin into the house like a scared child! BRRRRRRRRR!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Jun 13 - 09:32 PM

Hot and humid. One degree short of a heat wave. Three consecutive days of 90F temps is a heat wave. It was above 90 on Thursday and Friday, but today it was 89. The heat should continue tomorrow but break on Monday. I'm waiting to hear a forecast for the days of the Mystic Sea Music Festival. I'll be there no matter what, but I want to know what to pack.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Jun 13 - 12:19 AM

Cooling, anticipating rain. Also, forecasts are predicting rain for the Mystic Sea Music Festival.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 13 - 10:22 AM

Snowflakes! Not many. Tiny things. But they ARE snowflakes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 09 Nov 13 - 10:49 PM

40 degrees and dark in the mountains of North Georgia. (USA)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 01:55 AM

Friday night in Rhode Island the temp dipped below freezing, I think for the first time this fall.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Kampervan
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 04:30 AM

Here in Faversham Kent it was cold overnight but no frost.

Today is clear blue skies with sunshine, crisp with a bite in the air.

All in all, a great autumn day.

Let's all go for a walk.

K/van

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 11:30 AM

It's pissing rain in southern Quebec. About 5 degrees C or 43 F. Joy!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 11:41 AM

Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Light snow today. Still snow on the round from two falls of 4-5 inches each. Ground frozen. Winter is here!
Ski areas gearing up for the season and mountain hotels adding staff.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 12:19 PM

My heart goes out to you, Q... but I suspect not for long. Wet flurries/rain is strating within a few hours and shall last 24h with rain or snow Tuesday. Our ground has not yet started to freeze.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Nov 13 - 02:25 AM

The high today was at 8 o'clock tonight: 35F! Says it "feels like 26". This morning it was 21. A bit cloudy tonight but sunny today.

If our ground is frozen at all, it isn't frozen deep yet. Leaves and puddles are sparkling and crisp though.

We often have a White Hallowe'en but not this year. I hope we get lots of snow but not so much ice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Nov 13 - 08:28 PM

First snow of the season in RI today, at least in my part, but I think it was the first snow anywhere in this state. And in my part it was the fat, wet stuff. I heard there were some cars skidding on the roads, but the time I left this morning at 9 AM the roads I drove on were wet but not slippery.

Snow at this time of year is early, although we have sometimes had snow even earlier.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 12:50 PM

42 degrees and sunny in the mountains of North Georgia. (USA)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 02:05 PM

CC (Carol for those who remember) awoke to a layer of snowy ice on her car this AM in SC. SC! BRRRRRRRRR! Earliest snow in SC ever, I believe.

Our weather is up down hellwest and crooked as is the norm in fall. The Yanks send us warm air (mostly rains) from the south. It stalls when it hits the Atlantic just north of PEI. This hot air rises and sucks in cold air from the north and west of us. This repeats in ever dwindle temperatures until the Yanks stop sending us warm air and then we endure a never boring winter, at best. So, as a Herring Choker, I blame the Yanks for all this mayhem. Screw Free Trade. I want a Free Weather Agreement. I sall write a Goddamn letter to that effect to my MP forthwith with forthwit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 04:02 PM

Herring choker? Is that anything like a puddle jumper? In my youth, when I began to work for a living one of the workers called me a puddle jumper, and I didn't know what they meant.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 10:16 PM

Herring Choker = New Brunswicker (nb.ca).

Puddle jumper?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 11:22 PM

Gnu:

I didn't do it! Don't blame me!

Swamp Yankee

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 17 Nov 13 - 06:34 PM

Midwest USA Mudcatters- everyone ok? We're seeing this:
"Particularly Dangerous Situation issued for parts of Central U.S.

Tornado Watches indicating a Particularly Dangerous Situation have been issued for parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. Several rapidly-moving, intense tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, large hail events and damaging winds are expected in these watch areas. A High or Moderate Risk of severe weather is in effect for most of the Upper Midwest and Ohio Valley. "
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Indianapolis&state=IA&site=DMX&textField1=41.3969&textField2=-92.4333#.UolP5uL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,laptopgnu
Date: 17 Nov 13 - 06:48 PM

Yes.... very serious, m. An NFL football game has been delayed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 17 Nov 13 - 09:35 PM

That's a good one gnu. I'll laugh after I've heard from friends in Indiana and Missouri. One, a 90+ gentleman is sitting in the dark waiting to learn if his family will need to get to him for emergency evacuation. Others I can't reach. By tomorrow they should be able to contact us.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Nov 13 - 09:57 AM

Any news, m?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Nov 13 - 10:25 AM

We had fire hose rain arriving horizontal in screaming wind last night (Southeast Michigan). I haven't heard of any serious damage nearby, but Tim Horton's was jammed with people who didn't have power to make their coffee at home. Our own power didn't blink at all this time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Nov 13 - 01:54 PM

THANK GOD YE DIDN'T HAFTA GO UP TA HORTON'S EH? I have long been of the opinion that the change to plastic swizzel sticks has not improved the coffee but only left many pigeons unemployed. Oh yeah... you didn't know? Tim's use ta pay pigeons in stale doughnuts fer retrievin the wooden swizzle sticks fer ta grind up ta make more coffee with. Not well known, that. But, jus look round, eh? See all them pigeons walkin round with sad faces? lookin fer handouts? Tim's.

She's comin down in sheets on yer diagonals ere now. I got tree foot eaves wit short windows in me sout bedroom and I can't open a window me zon, me zon. Jus seen tree ducks carryin a canoe wit er ead round ta the weadder, sir. If yer chickens ain't tethered, be no eggs fer a while, sure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 18 Nov 13 - 07:52 PM

All are ok, thanks. My 90+ friend is still alone, waiting for someone to change a hearing aid battery, but he's ok.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Nov 13 - 09:42 PM

I'm glad your friends are okay, Maeve.

It was foggy and drizzly here yesterday and poured last night. Today was sunny and warm enough so that at most only a sweater was needed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 02:14 PM

Glad to hear it, m.

Today's weather here would be welcome in late March or April. Nuff said.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 10:23 PM

And cold and windy today. I wore a sweater, a fleece jacket, and a wool cap pulled down over my ears. It wasn't enough!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 10:31 PM

We, in Canada, don't have weather. We have climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 12:25 AM

In Juneau, in southeastern Alaska, we've had nippy weather the last week or so, temperatures vacillating between 17 degrees to 7, Fahrenheit, of course. Not bad, at all, at least until the wind kicks up. Tonight we've been told that by tomorrow night we could have a heavy dump of snow, followed by rain, with snow showers for the next week or two. At the moment it is snowing lightly, and it's scuddering around on the pavement (asphalt). Still nippy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 12:22 PM

Minus 22 C. in the old cowtown (Calgary) last night. We are all quivering like Jello. Have ordered sealskin underwear.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 01:57 PM

Ebbie... "Not bad, at all, at least until the wind kicks up." Yup. Wind sucks when it blows. I can take any kinda weather without wind.

Q... when are ya headed south? >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Troubadour
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 12:01 PM

To quote an old Music Hall double entendre:

Winter Draws on!

And they are.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 02:02 PM

like THIS; 5 degrees f, -14 wind chill, much colder promised for the next day or two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 02:07 PM

That last picture is from Michigan, where frogprince lives :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 02:43 PM

We had -21.6 F, -32 F windchill effect until yesterday. Today it's driving rain and strong winds and flooding at 50.6 F. Tonight, the Arctic Vortex brings a return to below freezing. At least the thaw allowed access into the chicken pen so the chooks can have some outside time under protection.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bert
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 03:01 PM

Bleedin' 'taters!   Brrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 03:03 PM

Wow, maeve, that's kind of a meteorological flipping the switch on and off again quickly - a freeze after all of that water? Ouch!

For North Texas we're threatened with rolling blackouts or brownouts today because of the high demand for electricity - it got to 13^o last night and is only going to come up to 32^o during the day, then way down again tonight. We're not accustomed to so much of this, and temps this low are quite rare.

SRS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 03:09 PM

I visualise the day when humankind goes underground. :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 06:26 PM

What maeve said. Fun stuff. As I type, I can hear my neighbour chopping ice. Thank goodness we got off light. In the SW of nb.ca, thousands were without power for over a week. Please Old Man Winter... please make it really winter. Full moon on the 16th here. Got me fingers crossed this will stop soon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,michaelr
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 06:42 PM

What's the weather like? Ridiculous, here in Northern California. There's a high pressure system that's been parked for three weeks now: 70 the high, 32 the low, and we haven't had any real rain in 2 1/2 years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bobad
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 07:00 PM

Why the Entire Country Is Frozen Solid

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: brashley46
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 07:13 PM

It is colder that polar bear crap right now here in Toronto ... -14 C with significant wind chill. We just thawed out from the great Christmas ice storm and now this. My buddy Marc Matthieu up in Hearst ON would be used to this ... I am not any more. We are getting his weather, my friends in Oklahoma are getting ours. Ghu only knows what it is like in Attawapiskat or Iglulik right now. Global weather chaos, welcome to the 21st century.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 09:09 PM

Inconsistent! Colder than usual with snow and extreme windchill Thursday and Friday, still cold Saturday, less so Sunday, mild and rainy today but going down below freezing tonight so we're anticipating black ice in the morning. And I have to go back out before bedtime to raise my car's windshield wipers into the snowstorm salute so they won't freeze to the windshield. Wish I'd remembered to do that when I parked it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Jan 14 - 12:35 AM

Last Friday we had the hottest temperature ever recorded in this town, 45.1 deg C, or 113.something in old money. Hottest temperature in my entire life. While my poor baby (35 YO but still my baby) is freezing in Toronto,Canada, we are melting here in Oz.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 07 Jan 14 - 12:33 PM

Over here in Lancashire it has been wet and windy but much warmer than this time last year. Electric bill for December is about 1/3 that of last year's. The water is running downhill across the top of the grass in what I call "winter bournes", having lived in the south. All the reservoirs look full.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 07 Jan 14 - 02:38 PM

On a group on FB, someone complained about 57F!! I informed her that was 70 degrees warmer than we were! It is all relative and I am relatively tired of being COLD! Today is only minus 14 C. Hoping for a weekend of just barely above freezing. Be nice to have a break!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 07 Jan 14 - 02:59 PM

All relative. It's been 10-20 degrees and windy for the past couple of days here in the mountains of North Georgia (USA). We've been bitching and whining. When I lived in New Hampshire and vicinity for the previous 71 years we barely noticed a 20 degree day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bobad
Date: 07 Jan 14 - 03:17 PM

At least it's good for something

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jan 14 - 03:50 PM

"Good for something"... well, if your beer NEEDS to be cold to be palatable.. *grin*.

Here in the metro Wash DC area, we are durned chilly at about 11⁰F, but no snow and no major issues... (except for a few old water mains cracking and some very cold repair crews).

I am not exactly used to this in recent years, but 60 years ago I walked a paper route in Wichita, Kans. in 2⁰F.... a time or two. I did shopping just BEFORE the Big Chill, so we can stay inside till it eases a bit on Thurs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 07 Jan 14 - 06:48 PM

While it is rare to get this cold here in NC, at least it will be short and there was no ice or rain. I dread the ice storms much worse than I dread the cold.

maeve, you win the prize for hitting opposite extremes in record time!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jan 14 - 12:56 PM

Windchill temp (WC) here is only -22C but it's -11C so it's time we invented a new "feels like" temp scale for the interior of a building. I'd suggest the Kee Kee* (KK). Such a scale would indicate the perceived effect of the combination of ambient temp and wind on the average indoor temp over time by taking into account the measure of the rate of heat loss from a building and the proportional length of the heating system cycle above and below the thermostat setting, that is, the the ratio of the length of time during which the interior temp is lower than the thermostat setting to the length of time above it. Perhaps a specific example would more clearly illustrate the premise for my proposal than a continuation of the discussion in the above manner. For such purpose, I will use an example which relates to my experience as I type.

Heating system : central electric forced air; cycle +/- 2C

Case 1 : -20C, -30WC.
Cycle off - 15 minutes
Cycle on - 20 minutes

Case 2 : -10C, -30C.
Cycle off - 10 minutes
Cycle on - all fuckin day












* Kee Kee Keeriste it's cold!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jan 14 - 12:32 PM

Awwwww RATS!

Case 2 : -10C, -30WC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jan 14 - 11:41 PM

Still below freezing here but only by a few degrees and the wind has died down. It felt almost tropical! Well, maybe not. I still wore a long wool coat, scarf and hat, but most of the day I left my mittens in my car!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 Jan 14 - 04:27 PM

Bear cub comes romping up to his mother and says, "Mommy, what kind of bear am I?"

"Why, you're a polar bear, honey," sez his mother.

The cub wanders off, looking thoughtful.

After a bit, comes back and asks, "Mommy, what kind of bear did you say I was?"

Again, she say's "Well, you're a polar bear."

Again, the cub shambles off, looking thoughtful.

Then he comes back and asks once more, "What kind of bear did you say I am, Mommy?"

"You're a polar bear, honey. Why do you keep asking?"

"B-b-b-because I'm f-f-f-freezing my b-butt off!!"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 01:33 PM

Near 70 F. In the single and teen digits 5 days ago. Currently under severe thunderstorm warning and tornado warning. Dark as twilight right now and the wind is raging. The weather radio alert is going off every 2 minutes as storms move across the Piedmont. Wish it was practical for the alarms to not cover such a large area. Ditches and gutters overflowing. Tree limbs down in the yard and the yard, even though it slopes, looks like a lake. Yikes! I want my mommy!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 01:36 PM

Very high winds very dark clouds. Temps prob in forties. Cannot find. A decent jacket for this weather. Lands end totally useless.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 02:00 PM

Steady rain in the 50s all day here in DC.... no serious winds...so far. Supposed to rain till after 6PM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 02:02 PM

mg, I picked up a rain jacket this fall at a Columbia outlet store that works well for my climate in winter, where temps most often range from the 40's to upper 50's during the day, and it is hard to find a happy medium with respect to dressing in layers and staying dry on wet days. Made from their Omni Heat reflective fabric. Waterproof, breathable, and reflects one's own bodyheat very effectively. Does all it promises to do. Check it out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 02:51 PM

We've had it all this week. It was comparatively warm on Monday, then Tuesday was down to about 10F with a brutal wind. But sunny. Wednesday wasn't much different, perhaps a little warmer, but that's when my bathroom pipes burst.

I'm waiting for the plumber right now -- bathroom water has been shut off since Wednesday (which I can live with -- we have a composting toilet). Most of the damage was the pipes under the bathroom window, but it extended into the area under the sink. The problem there is that it's accessed through the closet in the bedroom...which I've been avoiding for several years because of flying squirrel damage. Okay. It's now safe for the plumber and I've not only cleared the floor TO the closet, but shovelled out the closet itself. And this will make it easier for me to do other things that need to be done. (If only the plumber will get here...)

It snowed all yesterday but it was pretty much a nuisance snow -- no real accumulation. Just made driving complicated. So I decided against the 55 mile round trip drive to The Press Room session late afternoon despite REALLY needing a music fix. (And to be with friends...) And freezing rain was predicted before I'd be coming home so that influenced me, too. And the fact that cleaning out that closet and schlepping heavy things down the stairs had worn me out. I was sound asleep in my comfortable bed before the session was over.

AccuWeather says it's supposed to be up to 50F today...but then, more realistically, says the "Real Feel" is about 36F. It's raining. And foggy. And it feels COLD, not 50°. And damp.

I'm feeling overextended...a bit depressed...and the weather is certainly NOT helping! And I can't even hunker down with a bowl of popcorn and episodes of "Stoney Burke" because I'm waiting for the plumber...

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 03:01 PM

Who cares. Flat free holder had free cavity wall insulation installed. It's been boiling in here since last night. We've had the windows open most of the day even though it only got up to 47 celsius today. Wine makes me feel warm too. hic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 03:07 PM

Had thunder earlier in the day here in the mountains of North Georgia. Not much rain. It's currently 60 degrees and sunny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 05:01 PM

Thunder- loud. Lightning- bright. Driving wind and rain...in January, in Maine, in winter. All area driveways are glare ice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 09:22 PM

Another heatwave on the way.....expected temp today, 36 C. Currently just after 1.15pm, and already 35. For the rest of the week - 35, then 36, 38, 39, 39, 39. As a comparison, 36 deg C is 96.8 deg F. No rain is forecast for the near future, or probably the distant future either.

No matter whether you use C or F for your degree measurement, it's bloody hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jan 14 - 01:39 AM

In the news today, JennieG, were stories of Australian wildlife perishing from the heat. For instance, it is said that near Pilbara on "the rugged northwest coast" temperatures have reached 122-123F and that animals, ranging from kangaroos and emus and parrots to bats have died by the thousands. I imagine that's hundreds of miles from you but is your wildlife also being overwhelmed?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 14 - 06:39 AM

Gosh! Wild weather all over!

I have all my windows open and the central heating fan running to refresh the inside air. It's almost 10C and it's glorious. Mild weather is forecast for the coming week and the huge drifts and piles of snow are dwindling quickly. The five inches of ice in my driveway have disappeared. I am lovin it!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 12 Jan 14 - 09:38 AM

After yesterday's wild storms the skies are clear, gentle winds and seasonably cool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jan 14 - 09:46 AM

Darned near shorts and t-shirt weather here in Quebec. It's about 35 F or 2 C. First time in a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Jan 14 - 02:01 PM

Last Tuesday was 10°F with a vile wind, yesterday was supposedly 50ish, but the "real feel" was close to freezing -- and it was foggy, slushy and spitting rain on top of Friday's snow.

Today is sunny and close to 50°F. Still windy, though. Most of the snow is gone. Forecast is for mild weather. Go figure...

Plumbing is fixed!

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Jan 14 - 08:37 PM

Yesterday alternated between fog and wind-driven downpours.

Today was mild until after sunset when the temp dropped. I'm waiting for the forecast on the nightly news!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 03:44 PM

Glad to hear about the plumbing, Linn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST, Eb
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 01:47 AM

Windy and heavy rain tonight here in southeastern Alaska. Snow is almost all gone. Forecast to be warm and wet the rest of the week.

Probably not related but we have a lone bear roaming the town checking bird feeders and garbage cans instead of holing up as he is supposed to. He is reported to be unprosperous looking, rather scruffy. Poor guy isn't going to make it, in all likelihood.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 12:27 PM

Snowing at a steady pace here in the mountains of North Georgia. It's pretty. 6-10 inches predicted. More ice expected in Atlanta. When we moved here from New Hampshire a year ago, we never expected to see this much snow again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 01:23 PM

Stay warm and safe indoors. You may know how to drive in snow and ice but the Georgia-born natives do not.
SINS, about to get another foot of the stuff in Maine

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 02:21 PM

From: GUEST, Eb - PM
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 01:47 AM

Better get the time machine serviced, Eb!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 02:23 PM

In Juneau, Alaska, we haven't had any new snow since January 5. For the last week or so it's been nippy out - down to 1F this morning - but until then we've had a lot of mild temps and just plain wet.

When this cold snap ends, it could bring some snow but I won't bet on it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 02:25 PM

I just noticed mine needs service as well...

From: gnu - PM
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 03:44 PM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 02:30 PM

Hmmm... ignore my last two posts. Must be a lack of sleep.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 04:18 PM

From another thread...

From: gnu - PM
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 05:34 AM

I sit on the lap of winter. As I type, it is -20C about 2m away. The only thing between myself and frostbite is an R12 wall and nuclear power. But, it is gonna warm up... so it can snow. Wild predictions abound in the media, delivered in ominous hype by weather terrorists who desperately need ratings. Environment Canada says "... we could get some "heavy at times" snow, maybe some rain, and expect strong winds in coastal regions... we'll see." Jonna Brewer of the CBC Radio show Early Morning just said that she heard as much as 55cm and high winds. 'Wailin' Kalin Mitchell of CBC NB TV was in fine form last evening and even said 80km winds. I haven't made a final forecast for Thursday night and Friday personally but my preliminary forecast is "It's February in New Brunswick. I need a turnip for my chicken stew."

From that same thread, moments ago...

Well talk about Mudcat Mojo! Downgraded to about 20cm of snow tomorrow eve/night, 70kph, then 30mm of rain, and + (yes +!!!) 7C on Friday. Snow Saturday but not much.

Thanks!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 04:41 PM

Ebbie... want us to mail you some snow? We are expecting a few billion tons of it... heavy & wet & deep.. around here tomorrow. I have been covering the car, cooking stuff, locating all the shovels, staging bird & squirrel food and crossing my fingers, toes and eyes. (I don't think praying will help.... otherwise 50-60 million other folks would keep it off MY house when thye protect their own)

I'll post tomorrow how it went... if I have power. (I bought charcoal, just in case.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 04:51 PM

Boo ho gnu
We've got a half inch coat of ice on the roads and if there is a single snow tire in 500 miles its on some Quebec mini van on the way to Daytona. The local cops are ordering people to stay off the roads because they are tired of helping idiots get towed out of ditches!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 05:09 PM

Holy moly, JtS! That's wicked bad!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 05:27 PM

Britain and Europe are suffering the worst storms in living memory.
Vast tracts of England are flooded and may remain so for months.
We had a very wet December, the wettest January since records began and unprecedented rain already this month.
Today hurricane force winds hit our West coast, and another storm is due to hit us on Friday.
No-one can remember anything like it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 05:32 PM

The scariest thought is that this may be the new reality! And set to get worse...

How do y'all feel about subterranean living?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 05:37 PM

I realize that going underground wouldn't be feasible in flood-plain areas. But there are nearly always nearby areas of higher ground.

Actually, I am not really kidding. I have often thought of it in hot desert areas, like Death Valley and the Mojave.

The greatest hazard, it seems to me, would be the reptiles that would seek to share one's cool space.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 05:47 PM

We don't need to live underground. A propane tank, and appliances would get us through much worse than this. Or a generator... Or underground power lines.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 06:07 PM

why not put power lines underground?

Some places, maybe....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 07:28 PM

"Temperatures increase 'typically' ~25 degrees celsius per 1 km increase in depth."

Going deep underground may make sense in cold winter climates-start digging :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 07:58 PM

Storm over Britain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 10:06 PM

We have learned to be accustomed to being nearly absolutely protected from the vagarities of nature. No protection is 100% and we no longer take it very well when mother nature practices "tough love." When I lived in a tent, (which I actually have done, btw) there were many challenges, but one of them was not fear of busted water lines and the expense of repairing the damage. Once the nasty weather event was over, it was over. I would prefer to not live in a tent again, but there definitely are advantages if one takes a broad view.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 06:02 AM

Well, what a change. Half the forecast snow, twice he rain, 80kph gusts, and 12C tomorrow!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 06:23 AM

hoar frost 

This morning every tree is covered with a heavy layer of wfrost, bI suspdct it is hoar frost.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 06:54 AM

marine weather warning 

Tonight, wind and rain, after a possibility of snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 10:27 AM

Woke to 8-9" of snow... almost none falling now, but they predict another heavy band later this afternoon.... maybe another 4-6". So far, no serious problems..(but then I haven't tried to shovel yet.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 10:43 AM

As of 9 this morning trees were blocking the one road in and out of our neighborhood and ground crews were cleaning it up.

Love Grove trees

Carol took some artistic sleet (frozen rain) pictures and put them on facebook.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 10:47 AM

Carols' ice pics

https://www.facebook.com/carol.dale.12/media_set?set=a.611152498956940.1073741834.100001865856708&type=1

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 12:32 PM

Well, finally, we, in southeast Alaska, are to have winter- a winter storm watch is on for the next 24 hours.

Given the misery this winter's weather has brought others, I know it is insensitive of me to be glad for our new snow- but I do like seasonal weather. I don't want winter storms in April, for instance, nor heavy snow weighting down trees still in full leaf.

I don't require perfection, you see, but I do like excellence. :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 12:36 PM

Then I shan't bother mailing you any, Ebbie. Anyway, this batch is pretty heavy & wet, so postage would be prohibitive.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 02:53 PM

The power stayed on so I am happy. More white stuff with some freezing rain coming down from a second system now but not expected to knock power out. So again, I'm happy.

The cat and I are really enjoying watching all the birds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 03:18 PM

Oh, pshaw, Bill. I was already watching for a really large truck.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 24 Sep 14 - 08:14 PM

On the western shores of the Caribbean, it is good to see that, with the peak of the 2014 hurricane season now behind us, we still have not been threatened by a hurricane. Thank God. Changing the subject slightly, I hope to be in London in the next 10 days or so. I would be grateful to hear from folks in London how cool the weather is out there at this time. Are sweaters and jumpers already very much in use at this stage?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 11:58 AM

Calgary last week had a pretty heavy snow, causing millions of dollars damages to trees (and the cars or structures beneath them), and power outages.
Heavy frost; trees now yellow and many plants have died back.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 12:35 PM

...as that great philosopher Jimmy Buffet once said:

"The weather's here, wish you were beautiful"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 02:51 PM

Drizzly here in Rhode Island today, which is a good thing. We've had a dry summer. This weekend temperatures should be quite warm, but on a few nights recently I contemplated turning on the heat but resisted the urge. I did turn on my electric blanket, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 11:41 PM

Sounds like some philosopher, indeed, pdq!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 26 Sep 14 - 07:15 PM

The south of England is still warm during the day, tee shirts are enough for the natives but the nights are cooling, and a light jacket or extra layer is welcome in the late evenings.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 26 Sep 14 - 08:09 PM

Rumncoke, I've read what you posted above and find it very helpful. Many thanks. Take care.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 28 Sep 14 - 09:28 AM

Spent a very hot but fun day in peaceful Chetumal in southern Mexico yesterday. Yes, I think you could have fried a snapper on the bonnet of any car on the street there yesterday! Now I must prepare for the autumnal coolness (hopefully not the unseasonable coldness) of London.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 14 - 10:07 AM

I don't have to go anywhere for a temperature swing. 27 today and 7 tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 28 Sep 14 - 09:28 PM

Sounds like you might be talking of Maritime Provinces weather, Gnu.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,ChanteyLass on smart phone . . .
Date: 28 Sep 14 - 10:09 PM

(. . . and this phone is smarter than I am):
The weather in Rhode Island and into New Bedford, MA, was absolutely beautiful all weekend as I traveled back and forth daily for the Working Waterfront Festival. It was sunny and warm with a slight breeze: shirtsleeve weather. Also, the leaves have started to put on their fall colors. They are not at peak yet, but they are getting close. Oh, and the sea music was great as were the spoken word pieces by the fisher poets. The seafood was delicious, and the crafts (as in arts & crafts and boats & ships) were well made. I wish I'd had more money to spend!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Kathleen
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 12:06 AM

In Chicago IL. the weather is not doing anything special, just a very slight breeze and dark since it's 11:00 P.M. Tomorrow is when the mice start trying to find a warm place for the winter and to have their babies So I will be outside looking for any tiny hole's that they might be able to get in to the house even though they are very small and cute I am scared of them don't know why since I have never been bitten or slapped by one I am totally scared of them   even dead ones I am not a killer so if they come in I will leave the door open with some cheese outside when they can see it to lure them out of the house

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 09:05 AM

Kathleen, good of you to share with the rest of us as to the weather in Chicago and, more importantly, to have decided to post once again. As to the mice problem, please do keep them out at all costs, as getting rid of them once they enter will not be that simple at all!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 10:22 AM

here in Sydney is it allegedly early spring.

Today we had 30 on the harbour near where I live, with our western suburbs (usually a few degrees higher) a few degrees cooler. If you prefer degrees F. instead of Celcius, double + add 30 to get an idea of our day.

We also have a crop of nasty summer fires in other parts of the country - as winter has been very dry across the country we can expect a very bad fire season when summer gets here, tho perhaps it is already here.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 11:52 AM

NB.ca (Forgot to include my location in my last post... thanks Manuel.) Poor day to paint the kitchen and bathroom. Cold, damp and windy with isolated showers. Yesterday, the windows were closed due to hot weather.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 01:47 PM

West of Scotland has had the best Summer that I can remember, wall to wall sunshine!

Of course, being a Scot I must say...."We'll pay for it!" :0(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 08:26 AM

Cold, damp and dark.











Well, it is before sunrise.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Guest Over the bar
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 11:09 AM

Warmest September on record, warm Summer also. Armagh Ireland.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 11:21 AM

Guest Over the bar, I note your post with interest. I wish someone in the south of England, preferably London, would say something about how September has been, especially the end, weather-wise.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 12:15 PM

70 degrees (f), sunny and beautiful here in the mountains of North Georgia, USA.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 12:19 PM

Snow up to my waist. Freakin' cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 12:21 PM

Sorry. It was a calendar I left on the month of February. My bad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 04:16 PM

Considering that it will be October in the morning we have had a good year here is Dorset.
the weather has been warm We are still enjoying warm days, the apples are still growing larger on our trees, but by about 9 o'clock at night it is becoming chilly so going out to the supermarket makes me think I should look for my jacket, though it has not yet made be turn back to find it - but I am of hardy Yorkshire stock raised in the North of England and we don't get many sports cars up there - it is difficult to even find them when it snows.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 07:24 PM

My daughter had to scrape the ice from the windshield this morning when she came to town.
Dark and drear, but not really cold; near freezing at night, 10C the high today.
Deciduous trees yellow. Our decorative potted plants outside froze, so time to clear the pots.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 07:26 PM

Sorry- the last was Calgary, Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 03:55 AM

The last year has been rather different from the previous few. The lowest temperature here in Pennine Lancashire last winter was -0.8C as opposed to -16C last year.
We have had very little wind for the last three months compared to the last few years as well.
I'm well on the way to making lawns from what was field after cutting the grass so many times this year.
The temperature last night at 10:00pm was 14C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Oct 14 - 06:42 PM

Three days of gentle rain will slightly alleviate fairly dry conditions recently. Last night I turned on the heat for the first time since late spring, but I left it on only while I took a shower and my hair dried!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 02 Oct 14 - 08:01 PM

Commendable resistance there, ChanteyLass. And since you didn't go all the way, I, for one, will not count that one against you.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Oct 14 - 04:20 PM

At the rate our weather is going, we'll have snow on the ground before Hallowe'en, maybe as early as next week. Snow has already reached down the mountains toward us as far as the treeline.

We've had a cool, wet summer. Not unheard of, by any means, but very different from the summer of 2013 when we had a lot of sunshine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Janet
Date: 04 Oct 14 - 02:59 AM

Temperatures have been extremely hot here in Southern, California and the temp. for Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 is supposed to be around 106 degrees in the area where I live.

It's unbelievable that here we are in October and it is going to be that hot tomorrow. Well of course as I type this it is close to midnight - Oct. 3, and even at this time of night I have to have the air conditioner going. It is still very, very warm even close to mid-night. Tomorrow, I plan to be in an air-conditioned car, an air-conditioned restaurant for lunch and then back home.

There are different outdoor events scheduled for this weekend that I would have liked to attend but most are outdoors like a day time food and craft festival or some other events - but man, 106 degrees outside - no way! I am not near the beach at all and anyway the beaches will probably be packed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Oct 14 - 12:32 PM

Cloudy, damp with rain expected later for the fourth day in a row. I keep telling myself the earth needs it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 11 Oct 14 - 12:22 AM

On the whole,London, England has been delightfully cool and, of course, wet since we arrived here last Sunday morning. But the sun's few appearances have been entirely welcome. A whirlwind visit to Canterbury and Wye Kent yesterday got us away from the rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Oct 14 - 09:27 PM

We had a lot of rain on Saturday, especially in the morning. Today, Sunday, was gorgeous: very cool but sunny. The fall foliage seems slow to show up this year. Often by now it is at its peak. That's true here in Rhode Island and in southeastern Connecticut, where I spent the day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Oct 14 - 05:50 AM

Earlier this evening we had a thunderstorm with rain, actual real live wet rain, falling onto our garden.......and, hopefully, farms in the district too. The drought has been biting hard for some time now so any rain is welcome - our town received 10 mls, but a local agronomist said tonight on the news that we need at least 150 mls to make much difference to current conditions.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Oct 14 - 07:33 PM

Janet... my heart goes out to you! I hope you have relief from the heat.

First decent frost yesterday. Now back up to 20C daytime. It will bounce back and forth here in the Canuck Merrytimes until it doesn't. Buying four cans of gas tomorrow on sale (double Coop coupons) for the quip and generator. I am a Boy Sprout... always prepared. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 13 Oct 14 - 09:03 PM

JennyG's post paints a pretty grim picture. I am wondering what part of the globe is experiencing the drought she has described to us.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 02:18 AM

Guest Manuel, I live in Tamworth, a town in north-western New South Wales, Oz.

After I wrote that last post we had more rain for a grand total of 19 mls over 24 hours yesterday, and more storms and rain are forecast tonight. Oz has cycles of drought and flood, drought and flood; we had a flood four years ago and well above average rain for a couple of years, but last year (after a promising start) was below average and this year even more so. Concern is felt because town water supplies are a bit low and we are heading into what is forecast to be a dry hot summer again, last year's summer was the hottest ever.

But what the heck, next year we might have a flood again......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 09:32 AM

& I'm about 5 hours south east of Jennie, near the world-famous Sydney Harbour, & a km or 2 west of the even more famous Bondi Beach.

We are in the middle (end?)of a big storm & in the past 15 hours have had 53mm of rain, most of it in the past 6 or so hours) a lot more than Tamworth has received. Go away, rain - head out into the dry inland areas, we don't need you here on the coast. Sydney weather radar

In the past 5 or 6 hours the Sydney & surrounding areas have had floods & blackouts etc. I'm keeping my torch close just in case, I'd hate to try to avoid all the stuff that lives on the floor in a search for light.

sandra, 12.30am Wednesday morning


as a poet, Dorothy McKeller put it we live in a land of droughts & flooding rains & here's a bit of light relief

my favourite drought relief cartoon

cartoon - drought relief floods

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 10:13 AM

Thanks for the enlightenment, JennieG. Here's hoping Tamworth and surrounding areas get that additional 131 mls, and more, before long.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 12:47 PM

Sandra, the nicholson cartoon emphasises your point quite well! Thanks. Hope the downpour goes away for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: brashley46
Date: 15 Oct 14 - 12:05 AM

Still warmish, fixin' to rain here in Toronto ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Oct 14 - 01:36 AM

Yesterday and today, barely an hour south-east of here, it snowed! It's supposed to be hot in the middle of October, geez!

So yesterday and today it is not ~quite~ warm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Oct 14 - 11:08 AM

last night I slept undeer my 80% down quilt after several nights under my finest woollen blanket with the fan blowing nearby!

Today I wore winter clothes after days of spring clothes.

Quilt & winter clothes were meant for the weekend when I'll be at a festival several hours south where life is cooler, not for Sydney.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 01:39 PM

The HORROR! The CARNAGE! It was 13C just an hour ago here in Moncton, NB.ca... the children are stricken with grief and tears... snowmen (snowpersons?) are mere puddles containing rocks and carrots and... I can't bear to type the graphic description of such tragedy... dead!... all of them dead. No news at eleven.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 04:14 PM

Rhode Island's h aving a heat wave, too, after unseasonably low temperatures on Saturday. We were told to expect more severe cold in a day or two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 07:59 PM

I think it's -12 here tomorrow. Such are the Merrytimes of Canuckistan eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 02 Dec 14 - 12:00 AM

Temps and cloud cover bouncing all over the place. Today was sunny and about 70 f. Sunday was cloudless and mild, in the low to mid 60's. Friday was chilly and Saturday was cool. Tomorrow, rain and high of 46. Bounces a bit the rest of the week but headed for more seasonable weather in the low to mid 50's as the week goes on.

Typical erratic late fall here on the Piedmont of North Carolina. Not a wet fall, but at least not completely droughty.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Dec 14 - 09:54 PM

For four or five days we had brilliant blue weather with high temps of around 20. Beautiful, no ice underfoot, no wind.

Then day before yesterday it clouded up and started snowing. Not a whole lot. We ended up with an official 8 inches.

Tonight it is raining into the snow. It is forecast to freeze overnight. Gonna be a slippery drive in the morning...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 04:04 AM

here in just-after-sundown-Sydney it's still bloody hot & humid. I'm close to the harbour (can't see it!) and get the same weather as at the official Sydney location Observatory Hill.

14 mins ago it was 21.4C with 87% humidity. About an hour ago we had a big storm - lotsa' rain - in a tropical fashion - down it came then away it went! 22mm fell between 6.30 & 7pm. Max temp today was 29.3C.

forecast for today (Wednesday) was min 21 & max 29 with the same tomorrow, & we are expecting more rain.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 04:31 AM

"... it's still bloody hot & humid." Ouch!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 06:48 AM

Here on the South coast of England the weather is decidedly chilly for short sleeves - I think less hardy souls than I are in overcoats now. The temperature overnight went below freezing inland, I am sure. The barometer is showing high pressure the sky is clear and the sun is shining, so all in all a good day, just cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 01:48 PM

15kph tops this AM. LOTS of accidents on the roads. Every time the radio announcer came on, he said SLOW DOWN! I helped some elderly people up ta yer Sobeys get in and out for groceries... got my quota+ of good deeds for today done in jig time. The temp is up to 5C now but she's windy and heavy rain. Back to -10C by Friday. Makes a man feel ALIVE! And bloody wet and cold. Brrrrrrr... grrrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 03:32 PM

Well - it's not cold.

I live 5-6 hours drive north-west from Sandra, who lives in the heart of Sydney in the Big Smoke, and here today in the Small Smoke very welcome rain is forecast. Welcome because we are in drought, and the drought is biting hard; we are now banned from using hoses to water our gardens (or for any other purpose), although we can use buckets or watering cans between 6pm and 8pm. Elderly folk who may have trouble carrying buckets can apply for a dispensation, and will be allowed to use a hose for two hours a week. Local farmers are having a tough time, as you can imagine; many are having to sell cattle, even breeding stock which they had hoped to keep, because there is no feed for them and they can't keep buying feed with no end in sight to the drought.

So rain, which is forecast for the next few days, is eagerly awaited.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 06:32 PM

In those dire circumstances, then, JennieG, here's hoping that it comes down in torrents!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Dec 14 - 04:39 AM

Thank you, Guest Manuel.....and now I am going to turn off the computer, because thunder is getting closer!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Dec 14 - 03:20 PM

It's now morning, storms have passed and we had very good rain last night with more forecast for today - fingers crossed that actually happens! One thing that we don't want, however, are 'dry' electrical storms with lots of thunder and lightning but no (or very little) rain. Many fires are started by lightning strikes and, to quote a favourite media cliché, the bush is "tinder dry".

It's such a cliché, in fact, that many people eagerly await the first sighting of the phrase in spring each year, and newspaper columnists announce it with glee!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Dec 14 - 07:55 PM

Nothing as dire here in Rhode Island as what some of you are experiencing! I wish you relief from heat, humidity, and drought, or freezing temps, ice, and snow. Today was chilly: sweater and long wool coat weather. Yesterday I needed only a heavy sweater.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 11:49 PM

Cold. Really cold. Below freezing cold. So cold I didn't bother turning on the car's heater when I drove between home and the Y because it's a short distance and the motor wouldn't have time to warm up. By the time I reached my destination I was almost frozen.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 12:18 AM

Oh, I can't imagine how cold that must be!

It's raining here, again. Over the past week we have had more than our average December rainfall, with more to come over the next week. The hill behind us was dry, brown and dead last week, now it is green.....wonderful to see.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 02:12 AM

Rain. Very wet. Most roadways are clear of ice and snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 05:29 AM

Twas -17C yesterday morn but it's slowly warming up to snow a bit and then turn to sleet to freezing rain to rain by tomorrow morning. Rain and snow are no problem. It's the ice+wind that I worry about.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 02:50 PM

The gulls are inland (I am about 20 miles from salt water). We have them all the time but have many more when a storm is coming in. I can tell just looking at my black truck in the driveway. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 02:56 PM

No snow this winter season yet. It generally has been warmer than most years, with a few colder below freezing nights. Heavy rain and wind forecast for the next few days. Seems like we are on the southern side of a winter snow event.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 08:40 PM

After yesterday's below freezing temps, today we had pouring rain. It's a good thing the temp had come up enough so that it was rain, not snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 01:41 PM

Just ended a restorative visit to the Yucatan where it was nothing but mild and balmy weather; the sun out and shining every day but no oppressive heat to contend with, thanks to an abundance of clouds providing cover and bringing no rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 02:54 PM

Relatively misty today- yesterday the same temp. -but sunny.
Rained, heavily, like it would never stop, for 24 hours before that-low lying areas had flooding, and a few rivers rose beyond their banks.
Overall, warm for the time of year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 09:08 PM

After three days of rain and gloom, today was a beautiful winter day of cold but not freezing temps, sunshine, and no wind. I would love winter more if it was filled with days like this. (It can rain gently at night, though.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Feb 15 - 04:11 PM

It's snowing again in RI. It's supposed to change to a wintry mix, freezing rain, sleet, rain, whatever later tonight. The condo association finally hired people to remove snow from roofs, but they haven't reached mine yet. If the conditions get too bad for the workers to continue, will my roof hold up under the weight of wet snow?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Feb 15 - 05:30 PM

#$@&%*!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 22 Feb 15 - 02:56 PM

Soon as the snow clears so I can look out the window, I'll let y'all know.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ranger1
Date: 22 Feb 15 - 09:17 PM

Heat wave here on the coast of Maine today - temps reached the low 30s!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Feb 15 - 10:25 PM

I've been meaning to check in here. A week ago, we set a low temp record for that date. Then, sometime Thursday night or Friday morning, we set an all time recorded low for here, at least 28 below. Where I grew up in Minnesota, that would just be a chilly night. But for southern Michigan...
A majority of the people in this town whom I've heard to comment on the record temps have rattled off the "so much for global warming" line.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Feb 15 - 07:12 PM

After last night's snowfall, the news today includes the story that this has been Rhode Island's snowiest February on record--more snow than even in the February of the blizzard of '78. It is also the second coldest February but unlikely to break that record in the few days left. Not breaking that record is fine with me!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 15 - 08:34 PM

Well. That was "refreshing". I needed to shovel more snow. Makes me sleep better. Fresh air and exercise eh? ****!!!!

I just (two minutes ago) emailed my cousin about costs of apartments in Vancouver.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 25 Feb 15 - 09:31 PM

Rained most of the day-good for making icy streets tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 15 - 07:16 AM

I'd rather have the snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Feb 15 - 07:57 AM

snow blower adjustment 

"I'd rather have the snow."

Not much choice, when it comes to weather, unless a guy flys away:)

Yesterday's rain did not involve snow- so, no "heart attack" slush to shovel or fluck-up the blower's innards. Ideas in the link may help a snowblower ability to blow slushy snow?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 15 - 11:17 AM

My Honda does a reasonable job with slush. I went with the "twice the price" Honda just to have hydrostatic drive. Works a treat... much easier on the arthritis. Before the Honda, I had a 12HP MTD with a 6" throat and it worked pretty good in slush.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jun 15 - 06:06 AM

lucky us - a
double rainbow & golden clouds!

otherwise cool & a bit wet!

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 17 Jun 15 - 01:02 PM

SiS: the second link give a 'page not found'.

Nice rainbow(s).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jun 15 - 07:42 PM

weird - the second link came from a story on the first page - looks like I only copied part of the URL.

still weird - I just pasted the full URL http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/a-glorious-sydney-sunset-stops-traffic-thanks-to-rainbows-and-golden-clouds/story-fni0cx12-1227402696793 into the blikifier but only part of it appeared - this bit -   
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/a-glorious-sydney-sunset-stops-traffic-thanks-to-rainbows-and-golden-clouds/story-fni0 & once again I created the same incomplete blue clicky

cut & paste the URL into your fsvourite brower to see the pics - http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/a-glorious-sydney-sunset-stops-traffic-thanks-to-rainbows-and-golden-clouds/story-fni0cx12-1227402696793

or just click on the link in the first story

sandra


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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Jun 15 - 08:10 PM

Amazingly gorgeous pics, Sandra! I had the same problem gnu had, but the last link in your second post worked.

Subject: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 03:34 PM

Would a re-visit to this thread be timely? As the weather is...transitional, which means any darned thing could happen, at any moment. Shudder to recall New England at this time LAST year. Presently we are in full-on "mud season" what with almost all the snow and ice thawed by now....kind of early for that to have happened.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 11:27 PM

& here in Sydney Australia we are still in high summer - hot & humid.

Sydney - what's behind the city's record run of warm weather?

The city has had a record 31 straight days above 26℃ (and counting), smashing the previous record of 19 days in a row set in 2014. Nights have also been unusually warm, with only two nights in February dropping below 19℃ (equalling the record set in 2003 and 1983).

We are allegedly heading for a change of season ...

sandra in sunny Sydney, 26C & 65% humidity

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Mar 16 - 12:38 AM

Hot......much hotter right now than Sydney, where Sandra lives! 35 deg an hour ago, and 16% humidity. Sandra lives in a sauna, we live in an oven.

And dry, so dry. Since late January we have had about eight (8) drops of rain. They fell a couple of evenings ago, I stood outside and counted them. Gardens are struggling, people are stressed.

This coming week is supposed to be a little cooler, but after Tuesday we won't be here. We'll be in Canberra for the Aussie National Folk Festival where it will be even cooler again! Yay and double yay! Coolth, wonderful coolth!

We have had enough warmth for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Joe On Test Computer
Date: 13 Mar 16 - 12:39 AM

Dry February in the Northern California Sierra Foothills, which caused us to worry about continued drought.
It started raining March 4, and hasn't stopped. El Niño is back at work.

Good news!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Mar 16 - 03:21 AM

Dense fog here in the Backwoods (of Lincolnshire, UK).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 14 Mar 16 - 01:35 AM

Arise, my love, my lovely one come,
The winter is past and the rains are gone.
The flowers appear, it's the season of song,
My beautiful one, arise and come with me.

Who is it that appears like the dawn?
As fair as the moon, as bright as the sun?
Show me your face, let me hear your voice.
My beautiful one, arise and come with me.

Set me like a seal on your heart,
For love is unyielding as the grave.
The flash of it is a jealous fire,
No flood can quench,
For love is as strong as death.

Arise my love and come with me
Before the dawn breaks and the shadows flee.
You ravished my heart with just one glance
My beautiful one, arise and come with me.

Set me like a seal on your heart,
For love is unyielding as the grave.
The flash of it is a jealous fire,
No flood can quench,
For love is as strong as death.

Do not arouse or awaken love
Until it so desires.

Arise, my love, my lovely one come,
The winter is past and the rains are gone.
The flowers appear, it's season of song,
My beautiful one, arise and come with me.
I am my love's, my beloved is mine.
Arise and come with me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 16 - 08:55 AM

Its a 47 F drizzling reprise

Taken by surprise I came to
a grandiose Magnolia tree
Its magnificent one hit wonder
Blossoms with an arrogance to winter

There, the first Robin standing resolutely
despite how near I approach her
She is so staunch her name should be
Stands with fist

Bowing in the rain the simple daffodils
are being called to muster
to wage a mass demonstration soon.
But for now quietly assemble

Tiny Crocus draw all attention
from the winter debris to its oasis
of color and a promise of
great things to come

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 16 - 10:07 PM

Quite nice. Here in Ka;anapali the sky is a beautiful blue, the temperature is about 78F, there is a gentle breeze, and the surf high enough for beginning surfers but not too intemperate.

Soon enough though we'll be back to this sort of thing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Mar 16 - 02:59 PM

It is wet, wet, wet. Just as well. While I can do without floods, I can do without brush fires as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Mar 16 - 07:52 PM

It's supposed to get cold. The temperature may drop by two or three degree F.! I don't know how people will survive when it gets down to a high of 75!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 12:08 PM

Talk of a snowstorm on Palm Sunday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 12:49 PM

66F and clear right now. High today of 77, no rain. Palm Sunday: 81, 10% chance of rain (whale watching on the schedule, from a boat instead of from the lanai as yesterday).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 01:48 PM

Very light snow. Ya know, it's pretty when it melts on the pave and you know spring is coming. This *is* winter... last year at this time, I had 5 feet of it in the backyard so I can handle an inch of it today. Yesterday, I had patches of green grass, saw my first robin of the year and heard Blue Jays chirping that "Spring Call".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 16 - 12:21 PM

Yes, Palm Sunday is supposed to bring a "nor'easter" to New England. Time to stock up the cupboard and refrigerator.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 18 Mar 16 - 05:51 PM

Chili today...hot tamale.

GfS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 16 - 12:35 PM

As from previous posts, it's been a great winter. Lulled into a false sense of security by Old Man Winter, the bastard strikes Monday with a Nor'easter. Warnings/watches are out but alerts have yet to be issued and they may not be as the track is uncertain. Alas, the temperatures have dropped... -15C tonight... so this could be a real Nor'easter given that the cold air may stall the storm when it hits the Isthmus of Chignecto (The Isthmus of Chignecto is an isthmus bordering the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia which connects the Nova Scotia peninsula with North America.). I have seen us storm stayed for over three days with one of these late winter storms stalling over us but, given the weather over the last 15 years or so, even *I* have been lulled.

Nonetheless, I welcome the vernal equinox in the early hours of the morrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Mar 16 - 04:09 PM

cold dry

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 20 Mar 16 - 11:22 AM

"What's the weather like where you are?"

Just lovely. But then I'm indoors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 16 - 11:39 AM

Indoors? Well, it is Palm Sunday so I suppose just lolling around the house jerking off is apropos.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Mar 16 - 04:44 PM

Snow here overnight. Not much, though, which is how I like it. Most of it has already melted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Mar 16 - 10:51 PM

PFFFT! Boring. A Nor'easter? More like a Snore'easter. Weather Terrorists on the TV and radio selling advertising spots was the real storm. Bastards like to scare the elderly. Pricks. Why they can't predict the weather any better than me is all about $.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 22 Mar 16 - 12:39 AM

These f*&^&*% weather networks suck. Had one a few days back that told me it was snowing here. Sun was out and the sky was cloudless. Robin Williams was right: "You got a window? Open it!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:44 PM

GLORIOUS weather. In like a lamb, out like a lamb this year. I am LOVIN IT! I hope we have a long spring and a moderate summer like we did last year. Of course, with the snow cover (WAY down from last year), well, we shall see.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Mar 16 - 06:51 PM

Darn it, the forecasts are using the Ess-Word AGAIN. I could go several months without hearing that word.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Mar 16 - 10:27 AM

Great day again. March Squalls yesterday... wind and sticky snow but it didn't stick long. And, there is a crocus up in front of Mum's house that I assume will open today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 11:30 AM

Talking not only snow, but hurricane-force gusts of wind. If I have got a window, it's staying closed, thank you....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 08:56 PM

62F., a very few clouds in a blue sky, and now it's getting darker and darker because I think the sun is going out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 09:23 PM

Yesterday, it was 62 F, rare at this time of year, in these parts. I took advantage and was on my deck in shorts and in shirtsleeves smoking a cuban. Today was a bit cooler, but a nice spring day, with everything showing signs of greening up. Seems like the jet stream will dip down a bit for a few days, which will likely mean below freezing?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:57 AM

cooler - the nasty humidity has gone (YAH!)

nights of 19/20C, with days 24-31C but no nasty humidity. Bit of rain on the way, too.

sandra (looking forward to the cooler days & nights)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:33 AM

After a few days of winds so strong it was hard work to push my car door open here in RI, this morning it is snowing! It's a far cry from days earlier last week when I didn't even need a sweater to go outside!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:45 AM

This winter storm didn't get a name because it's past the equinox, heck, it's past Easter.....I don't know how many inches of snow I just scraped off the top of my car. We are due for another storm with more snow tomorrow. And it is cold enough at night for the melted stuff to freeze into black ice on the surfaces. Spring? So last week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:53 AM

Re my previous post about 30 minutes ago: never mind. The sun just came out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:55 PM

Yes, the sun is out, blindingly reflected in the new snow.
Wonder if it will stop the spring peepers from peeping in the wetlands though. Their mating calls have been deafening, of late.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 01:01 PM

keberoxu... where aboust you at? I forget.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 01:03 PM

Not so far from Chantey Lass actually. There's a state line between us, though -- she's in Rhode Island, I'm in eastern Massachusetts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:36 PM

Half rain, half big white flakey things fallung, melting as they hit the asphalt (or ash-fault, as many locals tend to say).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:32 AM

It's 'Ash-Felt' here in the Backwoods of Lincolnshire, Gnu.
Damn stoopid Backwoodspersons, eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:37 AM

68 F and partly cloudy in the DC beltway. Got to mow the yard full of of violets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:40 AM

Turns out the winter storm DID get a name: she's Ursula, as in the Little Mermaid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 03:20 PM

Ess-Word, with a vengeance. People have forgotten how to drive in the stuff, and the rush-hour traffic is a battlefield.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 09:59 PM

More about Sunday: yes, it snowed. Then the sun did come out. Then snow, sunshine, snow, sunshine, etc. Today, Monday, snow fell then stopped in time for me to go to yoga. It was an easy drive. Snow hadn't accumulated on pavement. By the end of the class, snow had started falling again--thick flakes. I skipped the fitness circuit to come right home, also skipping the stop at the market I'd planned. I live about 2 miles from the Y. The short drive was horrible. Untreated roads; cars sliding everywhere. Thank goodness for anti-lock brakes and front-wheel drive. I've never seen the skid signal appear on the control panel so frequently. At 7 PM I took shower, got into my PJs, then heard the plow in the condo parking lot. I threw on my coat and hat, brushed the snow off my car, and moved it so the plow could do a good job clearing my corner of the lot. I am so done with winter, but Mother Nature may not be.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 10:44 PM

Wind woke me at 3AM. North wind. Roof and walls creaking. Woke up to
-24WC and the wind didn't die down until dark. Hit -5C today with sun. Cold again tonight but no wind. In a few days, rain and 16C. Such is spring (and late fall) here in Merrytimes Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 01:26 PM

This time I think the road crews, God bless 'em, were caught napping. In previous storms, those truck drivers have done yeoman's work, plowing, sanding, salting, treating the road surfaces. But this week their timing was off. They were just that little bit behind the arrival of the snow and ice. And so the driving conditions suffered, especially those Monday rush-hour timespans. The trucks were out there, to be sure, but they got there too late, and they were scrambling to catch up with the snow and ice, instead of being prepared for it. The crashes and spin-outs were not major, most of them, but there were such quantities of them!

It did nothing to help drivers' morale when one car had a rotten TREE, for heaven's sake, crash on the roof and kill both occupants.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 05:54 PM

Blinding blue sky sunshine reflected off of the inches of new white snow today. It's bitterly cold, especially at night. Now we are being promised a visit from a storm system which will warm up everything, and bring thundershowers and temperatures well above freezing.

A lady from the German-speaking part of Switzerland once passed on to me a couplet-verse:

Im April
Thut das Wetter was es will!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 12:28 PM

They're talking about the coming weekend and more snow. Enough, already.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Llanfair
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 01:42 PM

April showers,rain, sleet, hail, thunder, wind, bright sunshine.

All part of a Welsh spring, and all the above happened this afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 07:09 PM

rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 09:25 PM

Same here, of course!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 10:08 PM

Here in the supposedly sweet sunny south, high winds coming for Saturday (been windy all week) and low of 25F Saturday night. The hydrangeas are fully leafed and setting flower bud, the solomon's seal is up and the earliest day lilies are sending up flower scapes, and the azaleas are in full bloom. Fruit trees either blooming or already starting to set tiny fruit. Strawberries in the fields.

I'm not sure covering will be enough to protect stuff at that low a temperature, plus, if the wind doesn't die late day, will be very hard to keep covers on and hydrangea branches from breaking under cover whipped by wind.

An occasional light frost is not unusual the first part of April, but 25?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 02:41 PM

Not sure if I'm looking at small hail or sleet. It's surprisingly warm for frozen stuff to be falling out of the sky. Probably change in a matter of minutes, with that spring wind blowing the clouds about. We had direct sunshine just minutes ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 03:02 PM

....and now there is blue sky sunshine again, with neither rain nor frozen pellets. And that wind blowing and ringing the changes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 02:34 PM

Yowsa; we set out about 11am for the care facility where the FIL now resides. A few scattered flakes were falling. About 2/3 of the way there, we drove into it. A couple of minutes after that, we drove slowly unto the ramp from Michigan 24 to I75, zigzagged all over the ramp, and crept on hardly believing we hadn't gone off the ramp. I went right back off the ramp to head back north, and enjoyed 30 miles of driving as nasty as I've ever seen in my life. NO traction, crud freezing on the wipers, stretching to see through what spots stayed halfway clear. A pickup pulls across short in front of us, I'm scared to brake and scared not to, he makes it before we hit, and my heart gradually slides back down from the throat. We made it home unscathed. It's been an hour or so. and I've settled back to feeling fairly normal. April ????

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 02:39 PM

Yikes! Been there, done that, and in no hurry to do it again. My sympathies.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Apr 16 - 06:35 PM

Hope things are better in Michigan now. It's picture pretty just before Sunset: blue sky with puffy cloudlets like flocks of sheep ambling in one direction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 16 - 08:32 PM

MUCH nicer day here !

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 16 - 01:23 PM

Glad you're recovered, frogprince. That sounded really scary.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 03:21 PM

Well, tomorrow is the Patriot's Day Marathon, and the sun will be out, the air will be warm to the bystanders and hot to the poor runners, and the trees will be bare! The flowering trees and shrubs have got blossoms on them, but the trees, most of them, have not even got little green leaves yet: buds, at most.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 01:12 PM

Upset victory in the men's marathon, and the weather could not be more ideal, at least for us spectators. The women's winner says she likes it this way actually, as her muscles don't contract to battle a cold morning start.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 09:13 PM

The weekend weather for the New England Folk Festival in Mansfield, MA, was great! Today has been glorious, too, in RI. I hadn't heard the Boston Marathon results nor what went on at Fenway Park, so I'll be tuning into the 11 PM news. I'm not much of a sports fan, but it's still good to know. Tomorrow should be cooler.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Apr 16 - 05:04 PM

Bracing for another April Shower tomorrow. The rain is needed. That said, the day is supposed to be cold, gray, and dreary. Pull out the long underwear again...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 12:13 PM

The rain is here, with a vengeance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 01:13 PM

Snow here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 08:15 PM

Snow, Maeve? Oh, my! (That's my polite way of saying "Horrors!") Well, even in RI we've had snow at least into May, but still, stay warm and dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 08:42 PM

Via Twitter from Tim Peake the astronaut, above Edinburgh today:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg5VFZOXEAA4UEh.jpg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Apr 16 - 05:08 PM

Looks good to me, Jack!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 29 Apr 16 - 07:33 AM

Well we had the first swallows here last week and nearly four inches of snow this morning.
It was starting to settle at midnight whilst we were coming back from performing at the Topic at Bradford and was a complete blanket with some local roads closed when we woke up this morning.
It is melting now so we should be able to set off for Upton Festival soon!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Apr 16 - 10:52 PM

85F in DC suburbs early this week...barely in 50s today.... and rain...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Apr 16 - 08:48 PM

Surely not winter here in Massachusetts -- there are leaves & blossoms on some of the trees -- and last week we had a couple of days in the 70s (F), so I got my annual haircut; but mostly it hovers in the 50s. This happens every spring: I keep being indignant that it is not 10 degrees warmer, right up into the 80s. Maybe I should move back to Virginia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 May 16 - 03:29 PM

Your part of Massachusetts, Joe F., sounds a great deal like my part. I'm just glad to put as much distance as possible between this ending winter, and the 2014-2015 winter, I need say no more, SHUDDER.

RE: relocating. Do stop and consider the cicadas. Another batch --"Brood V" -- is due to emerge with the next warm rainstorms, which raise the ground temperature where they are getting ready to come out of hibernating.   

"Brood V" is supposed to be concentrated mainly around southeastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania, with that sliver of West Virginia in the mix. In 2020, however, there is another big brood, forget which Roman numeral designation, due to come out; and that will occupy more of Virginia.

Currently there are numerous online articles updating the whole periodic watch for broods of cicadas, both the 13-year and the 17-year types; many of them have brightly colored maps of the lower 48 states, showing the geographical distribution of differently-timed emergences.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 May 16 - 08:24 PM

I wouldn't mind learning to cook cicadas. (I think they're even kosher!) When I was last in VA (1970s) we had a massive crop of grasshoppers one year, and a friend of mine fried a batch for breakfast, but they were terribly tough.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 16 - 05:36 PM

The April showers are back -- whoops it's May

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 16 - 07:02 PM

1 to 3 inch hail in DC area.

I've never seen so much hail.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 16 - 07:03 PM

Yes, on the radio I was shocked to listen to accounts of violent weather across the continental US. It sounds apocalyptic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 16 - 03:24 PM

Gray, cold, and wet, and forecast to remain that way right up to Mother's Day Weekend. Well, at least it is above freezing, and things are growing, blossoming, budding, and putting forth leaves and shoots. Those things will rejoice in cool humid weather even though the gray skies are depressing to us bipeds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 May 16 - 09:49 PM

I scheduled a singaround and flower hike at my house April 9, but very few people showed up because it was threatening to rain. We worked around rainstorms, and saw lots of flowers without getting wet. I was hoping to schedule a makeup hike this Saturday, May 7, but it's supposed to rain all weekend. The flowers sure love it, though - there were more flowers in the wooded ravine next door, than I've seen in the 14 years I've lived here.
The mosquitoes love it, too. I just came back from a flower hike, and I'm itching all over. The flowers were pretty, though.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 May 16 - 08:06 PM

I have a vague memory of something called the sun and hope to see it again someday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 May 16 - 06:59 PM

The weather here is raining another serial killer spewing death for 3 and wounding two. Coincidentally with the DC snipers who shot and killed people at the same intersection and grocery store. This time a federal cop that was stripped of all that he felt he had achieved went on a murder spree at locations in which we see movies and go to eat. Picking up some Zithromax at my drugstore I ran into the arrest scene of the killer and watched his car get towed away.

I was thinking of starting a new thread called Your daily local shooting but The Brits don't have this kind of problem that Americans do. Shootings here get as much coverage as the weather and often even more.

To me the shootings have become as common as the weather in conversation, injury and more often than weather, death.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 May 16 - 09:31 PM

Wow, Donuel!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 16 - 02:11 PM

I hear the sun might come out for a change.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 16 - 05:01 PM

How's your weather in this changeable month? I finally put away my long johns. Air conditioning needed for a parked car in the hot sun.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 May 16 - 02:50 PM

What I love about this time of year, is that the insects have yet to hatch out and run amok, because it's too cold at night; but the flora are budding and blossoming all about. It will end all too soon, when it gets warm enough for creepy crawly flying things.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 May 16 - 08:45 PM

Sun's out here, too! I haven't used the AC in my car yet. I put a reflective window shade in my car and crack the windows about an inch when I park, and I try to park under trees. I have used the car's fan, but not the AC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 May 16 - 09:15 PM

Most of a very nice warm day here. We made our usual visit with the FIL at his care facility, and took him out in a courtyard for some welcome fresh air. We did get some booming noises and heavy rain in the late afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 13 May 16 - 07:17 PM

-- effan' Baltic today in the West of Scotland, after about a week of (for us) scorching sunshine, sandals, havin' tae water the gairden (almost unbelievable here!)
Our Copper Beech tree has now completely opened out its leaves -- a bit later than usual, normally 1st May.
Hope the cold wind diminishes tomorrow - - - -

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 May 16 - 07:00 PM

The wind, the "coolth", and a spot of rain are due back here. Good thing too, before conditions get forest-fire or brush-fire tinder-dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 16 - 05:41 PM

Dark gray clouds overhead, and a wind so stiff that the forecasters are broadcasting wind-chill factors again; the night will be cold. That's good -- it will keep the bugs at bay....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 15 May 16 - 08:29 PM

gorgeous day here ... not as warm as the previous spell but bright and sunny- -a great welcome back home to the Clyde for TS Queen Mary, which was towed and shepherded by tugs Vanguard and Buster all the way from Tilbury to the James Watt Dock at Greenock. (Well I'm not sure if Buster did the whole route - check the Friends of TS Queen Mary website or facebook page for correct info!)
Now the fundraising begins to refit her.......poor wee boatie. Hope they can get her steaming again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 16 May 16 - 05:56 AM

----just realised Gordon Lightfoot was born the same year as TS Queen Mary was launched!
Going to see him in GRCH on Wednesday -- - - journey back in time to my teens and student days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: vectis
Date: 16 May 16 - 10:32 PM

Summer has been unending this year. The night time temperatures are still in the high teens and it has been very dry since early January. The sea temperatures have only just dipped below 20. This is winter in New Zealand in an El Nino year.

I love the log burner in winter but it is far too hot to light it yet :-(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 17 May 16 - 03:52 PM

oops, mistake- - need new specs! read launch year of boat as 1938 instead of 1933 -- - - G L is younger than the boat!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 17 May 16 - 08:19 PM

It's been a very pleasant, if somewhat cool, spring here in the mountains of North Georgia. [USA}

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 May 16 - 05:56 PM

Hot enough for early summer, and us with a long holiday weekend coming up. In fact, it's Thursday and a lot of people are leaving town as though it were Friday -- the traffic reports are unsettling.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 16 - 11:35 AM

A lovely steady soaking rain. Nice change from unseasonably hot and dry. With everything growing like mad, the rain is welcome, and cools things down....it had been like summer a month early.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 May 16 - 12:00 PM

Very strong chilly wind here in Norfolk, and mizzly rain which could even be sleet. I'm so sorry for all the organisers of Bank Holiday events, and little families who must have been looking forward to their break. My lovely neighbour is off camping with her Brownies, poor soul.
And the blackbird is still sitting on her eggs hidden in the honeysuckle at the front door. I keep putting out best lean raw mince for her, and leftover catfood. She looks frozen stiff!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 30 May 16 - 07:09 PM

Spring. Summer. Spring. Summer. Until summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 30 May 16 - 07:29 PM

Totally great warm weekend for bumming and reading in the shade and swimming a bit. Never saw so much weekend time with 100% chance of thunderstorm predicted and nothing but a minute or so of scattered raindrops once.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 May 16 - 09:12 PM

Ha, we Westcountry types love to indulge In a bit of schadenfreude when the south-east gets the brunt (and that includes you, Norfolk!), as all too often it's the other way round. We've had a super weekend in Cornwall, wall-to-wall sun on Sunday and Monday, temps in the low 20s. And more of the same tomorrow. I'm going brown!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 May 16 - 04:18 AM

It's even worse here today Steve, so you can gloat still more! :)
It's pitch black, lashing with torrential rain and a high wind.

My snotty sister rang from Scotland to smirk, as like you she's sunburnt and sitting in the garden doing the Times crossword. The cow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:07 AM

Well it's 11am, the sun's beating down from a cloudless Cornish sky and the gentle breeze is moderating the temperature to 17°C. 😎 I think we'll get 20 or 21 this afternoon. I'll be putting out my bedding plants. You're so lucky to have all that rain and that nice, cooling breeze! 😈

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:20 AM

I'm beginning to hate you! :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:43 AM

here in Sydney we finally have autumn or maybe even winter after a very looooong summer.

Since Easter I've been sleeping under a fine woolen shawl & it is only in the past few weeks I've got my thin blankets out & finally got my down quilt out late last week. I also brought out fleecy & woolen stuff for daytime wear.

forecasts for this week in Sydney are up to 20C max, with nights 12-14 + rain. Latest temp recorded (7.10pm Tues) is 13.8C

sandra


National summary for April - (May figures will be released in the next few days, but it has been warmer than normal)
    Australia's April mean temperature second-warmest on record (2.00 °C above average)
    National April mean maximum temperatures second-warmest on record (2.38 °C above average)
    National April mean minimum temperatures third-warmest on record (1.61 °C above average)
    Many late-season high temperature records across the country
    Eighth-driest April on record for Australia (rainfall 67% below average)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 May 16 - 01:10 PM

30C and 36H (feels like). Tomorrow, 13C with 20 kph wind. Glad I have a mini-split heat pump.

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 May 16 - 03:58 PM

We're going hiking in Switzerland at the end of June, so my wife is trying to get me in shape. Sometimes, I'm convinced she's trying to kill me. We just got back at noon from the wooded ravine next to our property, and the temperature is 88°F (31°C). I got warm by the end of the hike, but not like I was going to die. So, maybe I'm getting in shape.

There has been good rainfall here this year after a four-year drought, but not a huge amount over the average. For some reason, the wildflowers are more profuse than I have ever seen them, and some varieties are much larger than what I usually see. The Mariposa lilies were the most spectacular ones this week, but there were maybe 25 other varieties we saw today. The Mariposa lilies were taller and had larger blossoms than I've seen before - and they were everywhere!

There is no rain forecast here for the next two weeks. I wonder if that means we've seen the last of rain until October. Here in the Sierra Foothills, we rarely have rain from June through September, although there are often afternoon thunderstorms in the mountains just east of us.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 May 16 - 04:58 PM

In a day in early April about ten years ago I was in Perth, WA, and the temperature reached 36°. That was the hottest I'd ever been in. I beat it last year in Andalucia, southern Spain, when we had three days that reached 40°. The odd thing was that all four of those days were comfortable because the humidity was very low. We Cornish denizens are unaccustomed to such things. We did have 31° in Bude a few years ago. That's about as high as it ever gets, and even that's rare.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 12:42 PM

Where in Switzerland are you hiking, Joe Offer? Which canton? Supposed to be breathtaking to look at.

Somewhere, reading an English-language article, I stumbled across a story and embedded in it was a description of an Alpine sign:

Geh' hinauf in die Berge!
Deine Seele braucht es
und dein Körper auch.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 07:54 PM

Beautiful day today--no snow or rain, not too hot or cold! Yay!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 08:09 PM

Over the past couple of weeks we have had our first two frosts of the year. Today is overcast, a few drops of rain fell earlier and the weekend forecast is for proper rain. As the drought has been biting hard here - Tamworth, north-western New South Wales - for a couple of years, this rain will be very welcome!

Apart from drought, and water restrictions (we aren't allowed to use town water outside for any purpose at all, no car washing, definitely no watering of gardens although some of us sneak a few occasional drops onto cherished potted plants) life here in the Small Smoke is great.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jun 16 - 11:08 PM

the weekend has arrived & rain falls everywhere.

email I wrote yesterday -
Last night the heavens opened at 2.20am & as I was still listening to Niagara falling at 3, I got up - & the rain kept falling yesterday & is still falling today.

Yesterday I went to an 80th birthday lunch & carried my raincoat as it wasn't raining when I arrived, & had stopped by the time I left! Lucky me, folks who left at different times ran the gauntlet of heavy rain, & my driver had to avoid fallen branches in the carpark & on the road.

100s ordered to evacuate & 1000s call for help as wild weather intensifies check out the pics including lots of twitter pics

The rain covers most the the east coast of Australia & as always happens State Emergency Services have so far rescued 77 drivers who drove thru flood waters, contrary to official advice.

sandra (mid-day Sunday)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 06:29 PM

rain, which we need.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 07:39 PM

The low pressure system that caused the damage has gone, maybe it's heading your way, kebereoxu, if so it will be less intensive by the time it arrives.

Check out the damage to coastal properties - backyards gone & a swimming pool on what's left of the beach

sandra (in drying out sydney)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 10:11 PM

Wow, Sandra, what a wet mess! Stay safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 02:33 AM

a caller to my local station remembered when a coastal council removed the sand dunes which stopped residents seeing the ocean & allowed building on the coast.

those who don't remember the past ...

pics of cleanup - check out the video 'Drone footage of Collaroy's coastal erosion, caused by waves up to eight metres high' & earlier pictures.

sandra (in rain-free sydney)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 03:11 PM

"Farmer fear unkindly May, / Frost by night and hail by day;
June just rains and never stops, / Thirty days and spoils the crops." -- "Song of the Weather," Flanders & Swann

Early June is a roller-coaster here: rain one day, sun the next, thunderstorms predicted tomorrow...

Subject: RE: LYR ADD- A Song of the Weather Flanders&Swann
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 09:27 PM

turning this into a music thread!

video and lyrics - At the Drop of a Hat

Both:         January brings the snow,
        Makes your feet and fingers glow.
        
        February's ice and sleet,
        Freeze the toes right off your feet.
        
        Welcome, March, with wint'ry wind,
        Would thou wert not so unkind.
        
        April brings the sweet spring showers,
        On and on for hours and hours.
        
        Farmers fear unkindly May,
        Frost by night and hail by day.
        
        June just rains and never stops,
        Thirty days and spoils the crops.
        
        In July the sun is hot,
Flanders:         Is it shining?
Swann:         No it's not!
        
Both:         August, cold and dank and wet,
        Brings more rain than any yet.
        
        Bleak September's mist and mud,
        Is enough to chill the blood.
        
        Then October adds a gale,
        Wind and slush and rain and hail.
        
        Dark November brings the fog,
        Should not do it to a dog.
        
        Freezing wet December, then...
        Bloody January again!
        
        (January brings the snow),
        (Makes your feet and fingers glow!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Jun 16 - 01:40 AM

We had proper rain over the weekend without the storms which battered the coast (a benefit of living a few hours inland) and local farmers are feeling more optimistic than they have done for quite some time.

So are the rest of us.

An Aussie poem - "Said Hanrahan".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jun 16 - 01:24 PM

It's April in June, allowing for slightly warmer temperatures: one weather system after another, the wind changing direction, the humidity careening up and down like a roller coaster.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 16 - 05:27 PM

We had cloudbursts on Saturday at the Mystic Sea Music Festival, Other than that, the weather was excellent!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jun 16 - 07:52 PM

The cool nights we are having are such a boon and a blessing. It won't be long at all, as summer wears on, until even the nights are warm, humid, and stifling, and my apartment will require the refrigerated air going all night long in order to sleep comfortably. But for now, the windows are shut, the air conditioner is silent, the fan is off, and it's ever so much more peaceful at night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jun 16 - 07:08 PM

Embarrassingly ideal: blue sky sunshine by day, cool and dry at night. It will be lovely while it lasts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jun 16 - 03:13 PM

Cold and wet. SPRING weather! 11C right now and that sure as hell beats 30 to 35C and muggy. Oops... shouldna said that. I just checked the weather forecast. Summer cometh soon. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 12:40 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 01:02 PM

A more perfect June day could no be dreamed of for another hundred years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 09:25 PM

Today was warm and muggy. Yesterday was, too. At my YMCA, the HVAC system has been broken for a week. I do not like heated yoga, but that's what I've been doing because the building is hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 01:41 PM

A US holiday weekend approaches, and will there be thunder and lightning as well as fireworks?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 04:05 PM

I've just got back from Puglia in Italy, staying in a beautiful town called Lecce. We had four days in a row with high humidity and temperatures of 35 to 36 degrees. Life had to be slow. When we got back to Gatwick last night it was raining, blowing a gale and 14 degrees. We thought we were going to die!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 04:41 PM

Damn good gelati in Lecce, however!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 08:44 PM

Downpours started at 7:15 PM, followed by lulls between downpours.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jul 16 - 08:27 PM

Yes, some parts of the country are getting serious storm systems.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 16 - 05:12 PM

...and the humidity is building right along with the heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jul 16 - 07:21 PM

it's a low ceiling of grey clouds overhead, and cool for this time of year

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jul 16 - 10:03 PM

It was cool and comfortable at the New Bedford Folk Festival today, but it looks like it'll rain there tomorrow. The two largest stages are indoors at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Zeiterion Theater, the others, except for the smallest one, are under tents. Attendance will probably be down, so most people should be able to get seats indoors or inside the tents. It may be tough for the vendors, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jul 16 - 01:53 PM

Lightning must have struck very close to our house while we were away at our grand-daughter's birthday party yesterday. It tripped a bunch of circuit breakers and ground fault circuit interrupters, blew about a dozen light bulbs, and blew the fuse in one of my potter's wheels. Amazingly, nothing with integrated circuitry got blasted. Computer, TV, DVD player, and computer-controlled pottery kilns are all fine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jul 16 - 06:43 PM

Thunderstorms again today. No lightning strike, just a three-hour power outage.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 11 Jul 16 - 12:32 PM

We moved here to South Zeal, on the edge of Dartmoor,Devon, UK, in September last year (2015). Since then, hardly a day has passed without any rain ;- in fact, from the end of september last year until around february the rain was with us on a daily basis,after which we got flooded out, and are still having repairs done ,courtesy of the National Farmers Union insurance company.But we STILL love living here, despite the weather !!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 16 - 07:50 PM

here come the heat and humidity....supposed to be unbearable by the end of the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jul 16 - 09:35 AM

Bubblyratf:

Welcome to lovely Devon
Where it rains six days out of seven.


Here it's going to be 82F today, clear and sunny, low around 55F tonight. And pretty much the same for the rest of the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 02:10 PM

Blue sky sunshine, high humidity.
And next week, the Republican Party convention. Long ways from here, but you know people will be cranky about it, even this far away.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rara Avis
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 04:13 PM

15 Jul 16 04:11 PM

Here in southern New Jersey it's mostly sunny, and 91F although humidity makes it feel like 98F. Hoping fool cooler weather tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 05:12 PM

I am in Rijeka, in Croatia at the top end of the Adriatic. We've got the "bura", the cold north wind off the Alps that the north of Dalmatia sometimes gets, but not usually this cold and this windy at this time of year. It's warmer in Edinburgh, and rather disappointing after Budapest where the 30C+ heat had most of the younger Hungarian women sashaying down the street in very brief hotpants or what looked like French knickers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 07:19 PM

Yesterday morning was the coldest morning of the year so far, minus 3.8 deg C with a heavy frost. It was very pretty and white, but it was very cold too!

I truly can't imagine what it would like to live in a climate which gets several feet of snow each winter. I feel the cold, but I don't mind winter - you can always add another layer or two but in summer there are limits as to what can be removed, in public at least - however compared to some parts of the world our winters are quite mild.

Positively benign, in fact.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Jul 16 - 02:44 AM

in summer there are limits as to what can be removed, in public at least

The Hungarians appear to be working on that.

Where is JennieG? South end of NZ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 16 - 11:43 AM

JennieG... "I truly can't imagine what it would like to live in a climate which gets several feet of snow each winter."

I can. It would be a change for the better.

Moncton, NB.ca has been in the high 20s with Humidex in the high 30s but we have had enough of a breeze most days that allowed Mum to sit in the shade. Takes me as long as six beers to mow both lawns - two front and two back lawns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Jul 16 - 06:30 PM

Still very warm and muggy here. I still feel like I'm in the tropics. There was a breeze, today, which helped. It also helped that the air conditioning at the Y has been repaired. Some people love hot yoga. I'm not one of them!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:28 PM

three beers for the front lawn, and three beers for the back lawn?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:49 PM

Flying home tomorrow from Rijeka (high 20s, muggy, one flash of lightning last night) to Scotland where tomorrow's forecast is temperatures about 30, muggy, then nationwide thunderstorms and flash floods.

Weather isn't much of a motive for travel any more, is it?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 05:37 PM

No, Jack, not NZ......even though I'm one-quarter Kiwi.

We live in Tamworth, north-western New South Wales, Oz. Far enough inland that we miss out on coastal humidity, but not so far outback that it's unrelentingly hot.

Today's forecast: 100% chance of rain (and very welcome it will be too, we're still recovering from drought) and 21 deg C, a warm temperature for winter. Our long term July average maximum temperature is 16.3 deg C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 07:40 PM

AAAArrrrrggggh!!

Turn it off - stop it -

the South of England - or at least my bit of it was like an oven this afternoon.

This morning there was a lovely cool breeze, but it gradually faded away and stopped, and we sizzled.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 08:21 PM

Finally the humidity has broken and temp is dropping!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JHW
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 06:53 PM

Tues 19th, Yorkshire, England
2 scoops Ice cream, Litre chilled non concentrate Orange in box, Ice cream milk shake, 2x 500ml chilled bottles water

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 07:19 PM

And now, as Donald Trump gets ready for his speech, New England anticipates a storm system with lightning, thunder, and hail.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Jul 16 - 12:07 AM

Pouring. Thunder, lightning. Wind strong enough to slam a bedroom door shut. Drove home from a chantey sing hoping not to hydroplane. Will the humidity subside?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jul 16 - 03:22 PM

a couple more rounds of storms due within the next seven or so days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 30 Jul 16 - 01:27 PM

I am in a pub that has just shown the Sky forecast, with speech-recognized captions. There is a system blowing in from the Atlantic that will lead to an outbreak of Rangers in north-west England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jul 16 - 01:47 PM

Here in the Sierra Foothills of California, it's very hot. 92 degrees F. (33 C.). It has been up to 100 much of the week (38 C.)
Rain? Not until October.
Fire? There was a big one about ten miles away earlier in the month. It's likely our fire season isn't over.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Aug 16 - 08:33 PM

The sun is back! And a COOL DRY night for a change. Just turn on the fan, no need for the refrigerated air for once.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 03 Aug 16 - 06:24 PM

Last night 2nd August we had a huge thunderstorm right above our wee town in the small hours of the morning- - -everyone was woken by ginormous flashes then forked lightning, and immediately a huge house-shaking thunderclap

There was a torrential downpour too - but the storm-   the storm seemed to be fixed right above us for a looong time!

My dog leapt onto the bed and straight under the duvet----the thunder and lightning just would not move away or diminish!

End of the world type stuff - - --

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Aug 16 - 07:44 PM

Aah, the poor dog. The pet dog of my childhood, a wonderful beagle-hound mix, was gun-shy, as well as explosion- and thunder-shy.
Poor baby, she would shake like the proverbial leaf during a thunderstorm. And she had to be touching her fellow humans at that point, until the bad noises went away. Walk from one room to the next, and she was UNDER your feet, between your legs, DON'T LEAVE MEEEE.
We didn't know, in those days, about "thundershirts" -- she was a candidate for such, if ever a dog was. I hope, on her side of the Rainbow Bridge, she is in the company of some fearless wee terriers, the sort who make joyful barking noises when it thunders -- OOOH, let me out so I can chase the thunder and catch it!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Aug 16 - 06:41 PM

Thunderboomers! It was sunny when I parked my car and went to yoga followed by a 15-minute meditation, so I left the car windows down an inch due to heat and humidity. Then, during meditation, the pouring began! It was hard to meditate on anything other than how wet the inside of my car might be getting, but after a few minutes I calmed down. When I got to the car, it wasn't too bad. It was sheltered under a tree (one of many, so I wasn't worried about being struck by lightning), and the raindrops seemed to be falling straight down.

When I went to post this, I discovered I couldn't because I wasn't logged in! It was startling to see a big red circle with a diagonal slash over this box. So that's what non-members see! I notice that awe and etta are gone and have been replaced by sonny. I wonder if that's why. Just curious!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 12 Aug 16 - 07:52 PM

Several servers are in use, thanks to Max's ingenuity. The icon seen by non-members and cookieless members is a result of guests being required to sign in as members to post downstairs... been in place quite a while. ;)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Aug 16 - 10:03 AM

The storm near Fla went west and flooded the south coast instead. Here in DC metro is about 100 degrees that fogs the windows that are in the shade because of the high humidity and air conditioning. Had a few brownouts yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 16 - 03:43 PM

Dear ChanteyLass, couple of topics here:

the members-only thing was a big deal, and goodness me! You must have done a neat job of avoiding the big stinking brouhaha behind it. There is no shortage of threads on THAT subject, some of them closed. "Quite a while" is relative: it happened during this calendar year, although it has been a number of months now.

The Mudcat servers: there is one irreverent thread on the subject, called 'my apologies to "chuck"' started by yours truly.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 13 Aug 16 - 04:24 PM

In terms of Mudcat history, 'twas a wee kerfuffle, though timing made it feel more personally upsetting, no doubt. :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Aug 16 - 12:48 AM

More thunderboomers as I drove home to RI from Shrewsbury, MA! And even more tonight here in RI!

I knew that non-members couldn't post below the line, but this was the first time it happened to me because I needed to log in again. I was surprised but not upset. I love Mudcat (she said, stating the obvious) and will happily accept what ever it takes to keep it going!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Aug 16 - 05:04 PM

Yes, it is the season of heat and humidity. Not only the thunder, but the heat lightning high up in the clouds, got my attention. Pity there is so little rain though, the lawn grass looks like straw.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Aug 16 - 04:45 PM

ChanteyLass, regarding the Mudcat servers, I am told that "awe" is no more. "etta" still turns up however.

It's been threatening to rain all day, but now I see fast-moving puffy white clouds with clear blue peeking through between them. The weather won't make up its mind today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Aug 16 - 07:00 PM

And today the server is chuck, but my cookie is still in place.
We had a brief light rainfall in mid-afternoon in my part of RI. Just a few swishes of the windshield wipers were all that were needed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Aug 16 - 04:35 PM

What horrendous calamitous weather/climate incidents across the continental US. New England, by report, has no greater concern than a lack of rain. What happened this month in Louisiana has been described, in a radio sound-bite with a local first responder, as Katrina without the gale-force winds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 16 - 06:33 PM

Stalled rain dropped as much as 30 inches of rain in some locales.

Aron Neville did a song about the last great Louisiana flood.
I think it was a Neville brothers recording.

Global warming expresses itself in Extreme events.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Aug 16 - 01:01 PM

Stealth Tornado?

Concord, Massachusetts was visited by a tornado at three in the morning. The tornado struck silently without lightning or thunder, classification EF-1 whatever that means. No injuries or fatalities thankfully.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Aug 16 - 02:35 PM

Sorry if I posted this before. Exciting news for me.

original message





On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 8:03 PM, RCDF / CLDN (EC) wrote:




Hello Gary,

Thanks for your email and so sorry for the delay in responding.

I do understand your concerns for the large red circles. It's a safety factor. The problem is one can't zoom in on the map. But we are working on that! We hope to have a geospatial map which one can zoom in to a specific location for next season. The danger circles will then be a more appropriate size and reflect the danger of lightning in the area. This will include not only direct strike but also ground current, side flash and upper leaders. http://www.ec.gc.ca/foudre-lightning/default.asp?lang=En&n=D401EB9A-1

Researchers have found that the next lightning strike will occur within 10 km and within about 5 to 10 minutes of the initial strike. A web map would reduce the size of the danger circles to 10 km.

We are trying to promote lightning safety. I'm afraid too many people ( my colleagues too) think we can dance around the lightning strikes. There was a man mowing his lawn in Ontario. He only had 4 more passes with his push mower before he was finished mowing his lawn. Unfortunately lightning struck and killed him. This is our first and hopefully only lightning death this year.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,
Lyn Mainwaring
Meteorologist - Canadian Lightning Detection Network National Service Office - Natural Resources Meteorological Service of Canada
1238 Discovery Avenue
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V9
Tel # [phone]
[e-mail]
"When thunder roars, GO INDOORS!"
"Quand le tonnerre gronde, RENTREZ VITE!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 02:29 PM

Iceland 352 Reindeer killed by lightening strike. (no red circle)

The weather is nice in DC.


Batten down the hatches East Coast. Just like the Louisiana storm there is an underestimation going on. In this case 3 tropical storms will effect the coast about Monday. Cable canceled The Weather with claims it exaggerated storms and frightened the public. Now the replacement channel does the opposite.

The reports say Washington DC will have Glorious weather on Labor Day.
Be skeptical.
Tis the season

Obama may be flying to a couple hurricanes in Hawaii after the Donald flies back from Mexico City.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 03:10 PM

Hey there, gnu. That is very interesting about the lightning maps becoming useful and accurate. Thanks.

Donuel- We're watching.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 03:27 PM

A 35 day storm is less than 40 days and 40 nights but possible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 05:09 PM

Yes, Donuel, I heard that about the reindeer.

Today I heard about Hermine on the radio weather spot; Hermine will bear watching this coming weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 12:43 PM

Best hurricane joke: Unfortunately, hurricanes are like men. Sure it starts out exciting enough but in the end you're left wet, frustrated and fumbling around in the dark for batteries.


It's overcast in Tallahassee. The storm is predicted to come through town. The schools are closed, the state offices just emptied out at noon. I've been caring for my dad for nine years and we are watching the Weather Channel. I have some more preparations to do at my house, down the road from dad's retirement community place at Westminster. I've got my tarps in case the roof gets damaged, flashlights, food, water, and a few dollars. Plus wine; lots of wine!! Haven't had a bad storm in eleven years in Florida....Wish me luck!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 02:52 PM

Luck, harpgirl. Lots of luck.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 03:37 PM

Good luck! The US Hurricane Center is good but I like this one better... https://weather.gc.ca/hurricane/track_e.html

m... you are welcome. Here is the link at present. It covers well into the US. https://weather.gc.ca/lightning/index_e.html

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 07:27 PM

Thanks gnu, and Chantey Lass. I'm filling dad's bathtub for flushing water then I go back to my crib to finish my preparations there. I'm afraid the power will be out for a while and cooking, showers, and everything else that needs electricity will be out of the question.

The coast around Spring Creek is already underwater. We won't be flooded but the power will likely go out and trees may again damage my roof. We haven't had a bad hurricane in Florida for eleven years when Wilma hit near my parent's old home. They were in their early eighties then, and that's when I started lobbying for them to move up here with me! Mom's been gone since 2012 but dad is about to turn 93. He needs full time assistance and that is what I have been doing.

If things turn bad here after or during the storm, I can take dad over to the main buildings of the Westminster retirement community for care and I will take the dog home to my house.

My son is working tonight and his girlfriend is a wildlife rehabilitator near the coast. They are expecting to bring in nesting baby pelicans which are getting washed out so she will be busy! My son works retail and he is very busy provisioning everyone! It's a lot of scrambling, to be sure! We have gotten used to no storms after eleven years but I have been through countless storms beginning with Kate shortly after I moved here when Nathan was just a toddler. It was really bad but somehow I didn't realize it that night I went next door and took shelter with my neighbors along with Nathan. Power in the city was out for days. Trees damaged countless houses and it took us a long time to recover.

When Ivan hit the coast some years later, in 2004 I had to rescue my son from UWF since they were devastated in Pensacola and school was closed for several weeks. Live oaks have shallow roots and fall over when they get soggy and so do the tall yellow pines. They get blown over and they are really destructive to property. I had a live oak smash my roof during tropical storm Francis. and that was interesting, climbing on the roof in the storm to tarp up the hole! Of course my neighbor guys did the climbing! I had a new roof put on in 2013 and the hurricane deductible is about 7500$ dollars so it could be costly!

Then there was Andrew of 92. It didn't impact me directly but changes in the state certainly did!

Right now the feeder bands are dumping rain and I have to leave dad to fill my truck tires, get ice if there is any left, and fill the tubs at the other house. I have a camera system for both my dad and my house so I can keep an eye of dad while he sleeps if I have to leave the house for any reason. I can call security to help him if I can't get back home tonight but I should be able to. I'm only 3.4 miles from him.

Hurricanes, exploding spaceships, zika virus, more and more coastal flooding, and two more years of Rick Scott...when can I leave, please? Wish me luck old mudcat pals, what's left of us...anyway...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 08:09 PM

When you can safely do so, please let us- any of us- know how you are, harpgirl. We'll be watchiing for your safe return here...Thinking of you and your family and neighbors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 10:03 PM

Hang in there, Harpie! Floridians don't let a little wind, rain, falling trees, and exploding electrical transformers get to them! It's the herd of cottonmouths that moves into your garage after the storm is over that makes you want to move to Arizona.

Anyway, weather report from about 150 miles west of Tallahassee: Heavy surf at the beaches. Fort Pickens National Seashore closed. (Ivan and Dennis [2004 & 2005] knocked that part of the barrier island so flat that the road goes underwater if anyone even says the word "storm".)   Inland where I live, nothing. No wind. No rain. Nothing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 01:50 PM

Dire reports coming out of the affected storm area.

That weather system may bring a little rain to Massachusetts, which is largely threatened by drought.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 02:34 PM

It is no hurricane Andrew but harpgirl will be without power for at least a couple days.

More power to her.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 02:31 AM

I'm in Glacier National Park, and the weather is...glacial. There were 2 downpours today, dusting the mountains above me with snow. It cleared after the second storm, and there was a beautiful sunset on Lake McDonaldo. It was a thrill to finally see this park. My wife has been here twice on no-men-invited trips, and I was jealous.
Now, off across Montana to the Dakotas. Hope it warms up.
Stay dry, Harpy.
Joe

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 08:33 AM

Ditto m, harpgirl.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 05:45 PM

I never broadcast the times I'm away from home, so this is out of date, but three weeks ago we were in Córdoba and the temperature was in excess of 40⁰C. It was oddly comfortable, at least out of the sun, as the humidity was rock-bottom. We don't get that here in Cornwall!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like in DC
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 08:54 PM

Until this week we had 53 days over 90 F. Humid days.

Last year was hottest year ever recorded until

this year which is again the hottest global year ever recorded.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Sep 16 - 04:46 PM

And here comes Hermine...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 09:52 AM

Calling harpgirl... How goes the water battle?
Maeve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 12:13 PM

Hermine stops by tonight for an extended visit; right now the sun is brightly shining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 04:06 PM

37C today here in Playa San Juan near to Alicante, Spain !!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 05:58 PM

25⁰C in Truro this afternoon, no sun, misty, almost 100% humidity. Jaysus, I haven't used deodorant for 25 years but I may have to start again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 06:35 PM

Harpy came through more or less OK, Maeve, according to her Facebook posts. Power back on now. No damage to house.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 06:49 PM

TMI, Mister Shaw, TMI...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 06:55 PM

Had hoped for a little more rain inland from Hermine than I got, but welcome what I did get, and glad the storm exited NC as quickly as it did and without widespread damage east of the I-95 corridor.

The last 3 days have been fabulous here in my little corner of the southern part of heaven. (NC northeast/north central Piedmont.) Daytime temps in the upper 70s F on Saturday, and mid 80s yesterday and today. Sunny skies with pretty, puffy clouds and low humidity. Very nice break from the high temps and high humidity we had been experiencing. A nice start to September, which is probably my favorite month climate wise in these parts. Gonna get hot for a few days again starting tomorrow but I think the humidity will stay in check.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 07:28 PM

Thank you, Janie.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 07:38 PM

Oi, keberoxu, I thought TMI meant "temperature mugginess index" before I looked it up. I'll have you know that I have at least two showers every day!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Sep 16 - 06:47 PM

Thanks from me, too, Janie, for the update on harpgirl. Enjoy September!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Sep 16 - 11:45 PM

Well, right now it's quite nice. Winter is on its way out......wasn't the worst winter ever, although it had its cool moments......we have had rain which was badly needed, so farmers are smiling. (except for those whose crops have been washed out because of too much rain) Storage dams are filling, and all looks to be well set for the coming summer.

However, the downside of the rain has been the prospect of a bad bushfire season, with the growth from the rain becoming fire fuel as it dries out with summer's heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Sep 16 - 07:04 PM

Hope harpgirl and her loved ones are all right.
Hermine was a bit of a damp squib up North.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 07 Sep 16 - 07:41 PM

On the South coast of England the weather is rather warm. There has been enough rain to keep the garden looking good, the apples are growing larger, but cosmetically damaged as what rain we do have is heavy. Light refreshing showers seem to have gone elsewhere

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Sep 16 - 10:12 AM

Sitting in me garden on the north Cornwall coast under a cloudless sky, 20⁰C with a nice breeze. Yesterday we had 26⁰C with high humidity but a little cold front overnight has seen to that. Going for a walk on the cliffs in a minute!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Sep 16 - 12:29 PM

thanks for your concern, Maeve. Neither my dad's duplex nor my home were damaged but my street looks like a bowling ball went down it mowing down trees. The power lines are buried in my subdivision but on the street into it, lines were down for several days. Our power went out on Thursday night at 11 and came back at dad's on Sunday at 5:30pm. I cooked on a camp stove on the patio and put the food we could save into coolers to keep. On Saturday night I borrowed a generator from my awesome neighbors and ran it Sunday so dad would have a light, a TV, and a fan. The first two days weren't too bad but it got hot on Sunday and it was uncomfortable.

The damage in Tallahassee was pretty extensive. I don't know if it was worse than Kate but the trees are all thirty yers older so they are bigger when they come down. At least five homes on my street at the front entrance had damage to the roofs.

I am still cleaning up debris in my own yard and have at least three more hours to work. I have twenty five or so trees on my little lot and they make a big mess.

Most people have power restored but Barry Sager, Dr. Sound has a hole in his condo roof and no power yet, today. He woke up at three am, walked into his living room, stepped back and his ceiling collapsed. He had to junk his keyboard and a few other living room items. Poor Barry.

About 9k still without power. We had crews from all over the south and lots of controversy because Gov. Voldemort (Rick Scott) criticized the mayor Andrew Gillum for the time it took to get power restored. It was two weeks during Kate so this was a whole lot faster. Everyone thinks Voldemort is an idiot, liar, thief, criminal, etc. At least among my friends!

The oldsters in the big buildings at Westminster had little power from the generators and no air conditioning so they suffered a lot. The food was boxed and Westminster didn't do anything to check on the independents who after all, rent homes from them. That is why I don't want dad in the nursing home section and I am trying to keep him in his independent living duplex.

The stores were all closed and had to throw out all the perishable food in their coolers. On the bright side, all our refrigerators are cleaned out!

I hope this is my last Florida hurricane, I can tell you that. When dad dies I will be free to love wherever I want. Taking suggestions!

And I have a babysitter for dad today and I am going kayaking!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Sep 16 - 12:34 PM

haha freudian slip: love/live

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Sep 16 - 07:52 PM

I wondered about that slip, harpgirl!
I'm glad you and your dad made it through, but it sounds like it's been a rough go.
Hmm, Voldemort. I have two friends in Stuart, FL, who intensely dislike that governor. I'll have to ask if they've heard that nickname for him.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Sep 16 - 09:37 PM

Here in RI, I can't say it's hot. It's more accurate to say it is very warm and stiflingly humid. How humid? Last night my smoke alarm blared twice. There was no smoke (thank goodness). I think the humidity was like fog inside and outside my home and the smoke detector assumed that the fog was smoke. If so, it may happen again tonight, and if it does I will check again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 10 Sep 16 - 05:30 AM

Thanks very much for your update, harpgirl. You're doing well by your father... and taking care of yourself. I'm glad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 03:00 PM

Ditto the others, harpgirl. Glad you got through it okay. I've been at others things and just got back here to check in.

As for here, Moncton, NB.ca, had my windows open all night and had TWO blankets on top of me. 8C and a breeze when I rose this AM. I am loving it. The temps will creep back up (mid 20s daytime and mid teens nighttime), but, on Thursday, the full moon, it's forecast to be showers and 16C. I love fall best of all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 05:11 PM

Hope ChanteyLass nearby is more comfortable now. In my town, the humidity is greatly relieved today, and one no longer feels that one will suffocate when leaving a refrigerated-air-conditioned indoor environment. It is a welcome change. On the other hand, so was it a relief to get a good soaking rain on Saturday morning, because the area is drought-stricken, humidity or no humidity.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 10:58 PM

Yes, today was just perfect! Also, I, too, have been grateful for rain and hope for more, especially the slow, gentle kind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: billybob
Date: 13 Sep 16 - 06:04 AM

Very hot and humid here on the East coast of the UK, very unusual, forcast 30 degrees C !Might go for a walk on the beach there may be a sea breeze.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 13 Sep 16 - 08:05 PM

hot hot hot!!!

Record breaking heat, woken by thunderstorm and hammering rain, changed to sunny and sucking up the moisture, then another storm, and back to sun, now it is one in the morning and I have the fan on and a headache.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 10:18 AM

Ottawa had its last full day of summer yesterday, with bright sunshin and a high of 28 C. During the evening, banks of cloud rolled in and today it's grey and dreary, forecast high of 18 C with periods of drizzle. With the equinox less than a week away, it's time to put away the cut-off jeans and dig out the flannel.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 11:08 AM

Today is 95 in DC. This is not the last record breaking heat for the year but it should be the last 95 degree day until next spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 02:32 PM

Spring started as usual, pleasant, frogs peeping in the ditch and pond. Then, drought; day after day hot and dry, no peepers. Finally, pouring rain, hub deep to a ferris wheel. In time, it stopped and normality set in. I ended up having to teach the little frogs to swim.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 03:19 PM

I was going home to Bude from Manchester yesterday afternoon and I'd pulled into Gloucester services on the M5 where there's a fabulous farm shop. I couldn't get out of my car for twenty minutes due to a viciously spectacular though short-lived thunderstorm. Such events usually mark the end of fine spells, but today has been glorious in north Cornwall with non-stop sun and 25⁰C. Just down the road in Camborne they had a 40mm deluge yesterday in a short time, making it the wettest place in Britain. Gravesend had 34.4⁰C yesterday, a hundred-year UK record for September. I think somewhere in East Anglia may have touched 32⁰ today. Weird weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 15 Sep 16 - 08:46 PM

Hot day here on the south coast of England, again - now a tremendous thunderstorm, I am eating ice lollies with the fan on and the lightening flashes all different colours. Its almost 2am but there's no chance of getting to sleep for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Sep 16 - 09:10 AM

Not a drop of rain in Bude for three days. It's a fine but windy day today with a daytime temperature colder than almost every overnight minimum in September so far. We do quite well in north Cornwall with these good, brisk northwesterlies!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Sep 16 - 11:20 AM

The pigeons have no necks. Rain ending this afternoon then cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Amount 5 to 10 mm. Wind southwest 20 km/h becoming north 20 this afternoon. High 15. (It's noon and only 12C.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Sep 16 - 05:37 PM

We were waiting at a bus stop today in a European city with a namesake in New York State. The bus was late and the bus stop had only half a roof. During a ten-minute deluge, there was nearly a riot at the bus stop as people less weather-savvy than me (I'd seen it coming!) tried to muscle us out of the way in their desperate efforts to stay dry. Manfully, I stood our ground. The whole city was in chaos with roads flooded everywhere. When the bus finally reached its destination, 25 miles away, we came upon weather that was hot and sunny and there had been no rain there at all. We stood on the roof of Santa Chiara church and had a wonderful view of an amazing baroque town that had been completely rebuilt after a devastating earthquake at the end of the 17th century.

I later discovered that, apart from a little strip near Barcelona, we were in the only place in Europe that had had such unsettled weather. If you can't guess where we are, I'll tell you on Monday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Sep 16 - 09:34 PM

Cool enough tonight for me to switch from summer PJs (really cotton t-shirt and long lightweight cotton PJ pants to winter PJs (really sweatshirt and sweatpants). I'm not turning on the heat yet!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 08:58 PM

Well we're home. We were in Siracusa in Sicily, where, in a single week, the weather turned from the sublime (Mediterranean sun with thirty degrees) to the unbelievable (thundery rain that lasted for hour after hour, mostly during the night, thankfully, that left the city inundated).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 09:37 AM

No need for heat yet in DC

If you are in Port au Prince brace for over a METER of rain.

Southern California has earthquake warnings, to the north fire and on the east coast a hurricane watch.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Oct 16 - 08:31 PM

When my flight left Providence, Rhode Island yesterday, it wasn't all that cold really; must have been in the '60s Fahrenheit. The problem was the wind. After the rainstorms moved out, the wind pushed in. The kind of wind that says, Summer is SO OVER. Dry, cold, biting, withering wind. I needed several layers, including the winter parka with the hood up, to get from my parked car to the airport terminal.

This morning I wake up in Paradise Valley, part of greater Phoenix, Arizona, where they tell me it is no longer so hot as it had been all summer. Now that it is no longer summer here, they actually get through an entire day without breaking 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and the nighttime temperatures drop down to almost 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

In my rental car, however, I still pack my winter parka -- to wear indoors, when the refrigerated air is especially, erm, refrigerated. Especially if I am sitting still at a computer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 16 - 10:51 PM

its cold, In fact were all home with colds.
So I'm definitely posting too much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 16 - 10:41 PM

Almost time to head north and east, leaving Arizona for home. Good thing I packed summer clothes, they were needed here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Oct 16 - 02:04 AM

We had an early snowfall in Juneau, Alaska, even beating both Anchorage and Fairbanks, which are much farther north. On October 16 our little but long town got from 3 to 9 inches of the white stuff. I'm glad. I hope we have a snowy winter for a change.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Oct 16 - 08:49 PM

After some seasonally cool days, we've had three days of almost-summer warmth. Gradually the cool air will return, starting tomorrow, and by the weekend things will probably be normal for this time of year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 16 - 07:49 PM

Ebbie, I hope YOU get all the snow, unlike the recent winter when Massachusetts got eight feet plus!

Chantey Lass, you spoke true; just arrived at the Providence airport, and it is more mild outside than the day I left.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Oct 16 - 08:58 PM

And today,it was slightly warm and felt warmer because of humidity which eventually became rain. Normally I would go to a chantey sing in Bristol, RI, on the third Friday of warmish months, but it's held around a campfire. The planners promised if it rained we would move indoors because this is the last one until spring, but I couldn't picture myself walking through rough, wet, unlit fields to get to the historic farmhouse or back to my car. I could see lightning in the distance and I heard flash flood warnings, so I turned my car around and drove home through Providence's commuter traffic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Oct 16 - 03:40 PM

Ah, that wind is back, as we all knew it would be: biting, withering, and cold. We had a nice break from it, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Oct 16 - 02:37 PM

aaggh, that wind...expletives deleted....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Oct 16 - 02:49 PM

I'm afraid that wind will blow all the leaves off the trees before they finish changing colors. That's what happened last year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 09:25 PM

Temp's predicted to drop to freezing, but not below, tonight! But I saw and heard black-capped chickadees in the bushes outside my living room windows this afternoon. What cheerful birds, and they can spend the winter here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 16 - 04:50 PM

oooo, yuck, that's what. At least here the temps are enough above freezing that the precip is liquid. Between Albany, NY and Chicopee, MA, on the Thruway/Pike, driving speeds are reduced thanks to the falling SNOW. That cursed s-word.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Oct 16 - 02:34 PM

More of the same. Yuck and yuck again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Oct 16 - 03:04 PM

I don't know how much farther south I am from keberoxu, but while Friday here was rainy and cold, both Saturday and Sunday were nice enough for me to walk to a local breakfast place in jeans and a flannel shirt, making them two of my favorite days of the year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 16 - 02:18 AM

In Juneau, Alaska today, we are forecast to have one more bright, dry day, closing October's record-breaking month. The weather in Juneau is typically cool, even nippy (we are at latitude 58) pretty much year 'round with lots of rain, right at 100 inches of it, on top of another 100 inches or so of winter time snow. These last couple of years have not been normal - last winter the ground didn't freeze to any depth. And now, just like many other places in the world, we're having record-breaking temperatures.

I'm hoping for a snowy winter this year- we're far enough north - and with mountains all around - that warmth traveling to us from the south may react to the Pacific Ocean outside our door and give us snow instead of rain. Fingers crossed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Oct 16 - 04:43 PM

The sun is back, at least.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Nov 16 - 02:29 PM

For people in my blue state of Massachusetts -- some of us are blue in more ways than one -- today is like an unexpected gift.
Although it is November and past Election Day, we are having October weather: warm, clear, and dry, with this cloudless blue sky overhead.

It is possible for people who have been curled up indoors to come out today, and pretend that November hasn't even happened yet. And all that comes with November.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Nov 16 - 07:55 PM

It was lovely at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, today, too--warmer than usual at this time of year, though there was a good breeze near the river. The demonstration squad must have appreciated the weather even more than I did.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Nov 16 - 08:19 PM

Last night was the first time this season I slept with the fan on.

Sunday I washed my quilt cover & packed away my 80% down quilt as I've not used it for a week. If we get a cool snap I'll bring out my thin blanket or my even thinner wool shawl.

Warm & very warm days, some with humidity, tho none last night!

We are heading into the normal hot humid Sydney summer, but this weekend I'll be 250km out west where nights are still cold (memo to self pack clothes for summer days & cool nights)

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 14 Nov 16 - 12:12 PM

Dreadful here in the mountains of North Georgia. No rain for weeks and the smoke from not too distant forest fires is unhealthy and unpleasant. It's even worse in nearby North Carolina.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Nov 16 - 06:50 PM

My French teacher taught me a memorable turn of phrase:

"Il pleut comme une vache qui pisse."

Which is what it is doing today, pissing down rain.
Certainly needed, though. There are as many leaves on the ground as there are remaining on the trees; and the drier the weather, the more the dried-up leaves contribute to dust and dander and everything. It was time for things to be safely damped down. At least it is warm enough, for some reason, not to have frost or freezes making things wintry tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 02:11 AM

I'd never seen that phrase but my early high school French kicked in from a distance part of my memory & I read it. It's an excellent way of describing wet weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 11:30 AM

And after yesterday's thorough soaking, puffy pale-grey clouds are moving rapidly across the sky, and an occasional hole in the clouds allows a well-scrubbed clear blue sky to peak through.

Of course, now that the sun is on the verge of coming out, it will shine on trees that are mostly bare, which was not the case even one week ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 11:01 PM

I drove through last night's rain, up 95 and 495 to the Worcester, MA, area and home again. It was not fun, but the earth must have been a lot happier than I was. It was good to see the sun today, but the earth really does need more rain. We experienced drought conditions in '77 which ended with the Blizzard of '78 in February of that year. I hope this drought ends without a blizzard or floods!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 16 - 02:06 PM

Hear there's a snowstorm grinding its way across the North American continent?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Nov 16 - 08:22 PM

Who's having a white Thanksgiving?

Here's hoping I WON'T....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Nov 16 - 11:58 PM

I'm hoping my son and his family won't! They live near Worcester, MA, and we are supposed to meet with other family members in Newport, RI, to celebrate. I want them to have a safe round-trip drive.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 24 Nov 16 - 09:00 AM

It's snowing in Ottawa. Again. Faugh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Nov 16 - 10:02 PM

Lot of cold hearts in Ottawa. If they sign the TPP, can foreign countries sue us if it snows?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 16 - 01:01 PM

The Scots, I hear, call it "dreich." At least it is well above freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 16 - 02:09 PM

I have been getting ready for the first "big snowstorm that wasn't" of the season. Even had a big article in the trashpaper about it. The weather terrorists laced into this one full bore. Twits. I expect, at present, some light snow and then light rain. Anyway, got gas for the car and quip, got the snow clothes ready, got the shovels ready... all the necessities. I figure it'll be just a matter of weeks before we actually get a real storm so why not? After all, I am a Boy Sprout. Always Prepared.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 16 - 06:06 PM

On top of weather stuff, was that change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time. Suddenly it was dark an hour earlier at night: instant depression, if you ask me. And right next to THAT election.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 16 - 06:28 PM

Depression can add to electile dysfunction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 25 Nov 16 - 07:20 PM

Baltic here for the last few days, tho' less cold today and this evening--- however we have had blazing sunshine during the short days! Quite amazing.
The nights have been 'fair drawing in' - sunrise is about 7.30/8am and chickens are all in the hutch roosting by 16.00/16.15 -- - and yet there are still flowers in bloom, green leaves, and spring bulbs appearing - very confusing!
I don't mind the winter when we have a blink of sun and blue skies- - not so pleasant if there's lots of rain and lowering clouds.
We seem to have less snow than in the past; being on the coast does often keep it at bay - - salty air?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Nov 16 - 12:39 PM

awww, gnu, that one SMARTS.

The sun and the clouds are agreeably co-existing overhead today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Nov 16 - 06:37 AM

Told ya. Some rain and then 2 - 5" of snow coming this afternoon and evening and it will be all gone by mid morning tomorrow. Sadistic advertising dollar chasing bastards that don't care how many elderly people they scare.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 16 - 01:39 PM

Yesterday, I saw it. It started real gentle like. Small and large flakes gently wafting straight down. I knew the last forecasts were wrong. One of those, "Oh crap." moments.

Well b'y, when I looked out afore I headed fer me bunk around 00:30 today, she looked like the arse end fell out of a cloud. I rose at 6:00 and walked through heavy wet snow 8+" deep and scuffed off the driveaway at Mum's back door. Lights flickered three times around 7:30 so I checked the outages... around 8000 in Moncton but we held steady. City plow didn't show up until about 9:30. That first wet snow plays hell with hydraulic hoses 'n such, eh?

Don't bother me much. Booked an appointment two weeks ago and got me badass HD snow tires with studs put on yesterday. Tell me who knows da wedder, eh? I suppose it could be just the Luck o' the Irish but I'll take the credit like a' Irish would. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Nov 16 - 01:50 PM

Ah, gnu, in for the long haul, you are.

In my youth, especially at university, I had no love for rainy winter days, like the ones we are having this week. Now I am grateful for days that are warm enough for rain and too cold for freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 30 Nov 16 - 05:39 PM

Heavy rain last night, overcast today 5C, 9 C forecast for tomorrow. Winter stay away.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 30 Nov 16 - 08:40 PM

It is officially Winter on the South coast of England - I am putting on a jersey to go outside. Until now a tee shirt has been adequate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Dec 16 - 07:50 PM

Here in Rhode Island, I wore sandals today with my jeans and flannel shirt after two days of rain. I hear that colder weather is coming. That's good, because these temperatures have unnerved me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Dec 16 - 03:44 PM

Gallus Moll, your report describes disorientation indeed! Can't tell if the seasons are coming or going. It's a little too warm for December here, as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 12:19 PM

Snowing at last. Warm enough to turn to slush underfoot, everything is swimming in puddles.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 08:15 PM

Here, a little morning snow changed to rain and then to sunshine. Now the sky is clear, the moon is bright, and the stars are twinkling.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Dec 16 - 05:01 PM

A few more welcome days of warmth. Meaning, above freezing. Swell while it lasts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Dec 16 - 12:31 AM

Yes, but possibly black ice during the morning commute! Drive carefully if you live in the affected area!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like in DC ?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Dec 16 - 04:50 PM

one day until official winter. Tomorrow Wed. it will be 17F but by Sun. it will be 60F
1,142 days till election day 2020

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Dec 16 - 12:40 PM

Donuel's report is on point. The weather is in a condition of conflict, as there are several systems fighting each other. Whip-sawed, I tell you, we are being whip-sawed. Tomorrow, into the subfreezing nadir for several days. Then a warm storm system on the weekend brings the temperature above freezing. Water-repellent boots, and put the dress boots someplace warm and dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Dec 16 - 03:30 AM

we had a very pleasant day, more like a spring day, in summery Sydney, Australia, cool, cloudy with a spot of rain, but very high UV readings.

I live on the edge of the CBD & have the advantage of harbour breezes, those who live in Sydney's western suburbs are always a few degrees higher. Here in the CBD we had 2 days around 36C (about 98F) + high humidity, temperatures fell to 30C at 6pm yesterday. Today (Thursday) was much cooler with 20 at 2.30am & 19 @ 2.30pm & no horrible humidity, yah!!

Those like JennieG who live much further west in the Small Smoke get higher temperatures, with very low humidity.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Dec 16 - 07:49 PM

Cold and windy here, and tomorrow is supposed to be worse. I would have icicles hanging from my nose and ears if the air wasn't so dry. Rain is predicted for the weekend, but so are warmer temps.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Dec 16 - 08:17 AM

Flippin' freezin' in Ottawa -- bright blue sky, condensation streaming down all the windows, frostbite warnings on the radio. Minus 30 when I got up, not much better now. A good day stay in -- it's about time to change the bed and wash the sticky ktchen floor.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ranger1
Date: 16 Dec 16 - 08:47 AM

It's up to -2 F here on the coast of Maine from a low of -5 F. Took me longer to bundle up to take the dog out than it did for him to do his business.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Dec 16 - 01:33 PM

I imagine Beau is VERY quick about doing his business outside in this cold!

The snowstorm and the winds are coming this way....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 02:09 PM

will we have a snowy Christmas?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 10:11 PM

I took pictures of roses frozen in ice storm lace and holly fused in the webs of ice. I saw about 10 spun out cars and heard about the 40 car truck pile ups just past our exit to the airport.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Dec 16 - 06:34 PM

Yes, Donuel, those Maryland icy roads made national headlines. It sounds utterly gruesome.

The whip-saw of weather continues in New England, a roller-coaster of rising and falling temperatures. There are heaps of plowed-over snow freezing up, and at the same time any slush and ice left on exposed surfaces -- as just a thin coating -- largely melted today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 12:42 PM

The sun is back, just in time for the winter solstice. And thankfully we are in between storm systems, so that bitter wind has calmed down for now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 04:38 PM

A dear friend told me that recently she was unable to fly out of the airport in Denver: the "jet bridges" were frozen. She uses that airport regularly year upon year, and this was a first for her.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 16 - 12:26 PM

Settling in for THAT holiday weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 16 - 12:28 PM

Forgot my gloves. Just because the sun is shining, that is no excuse for forgetting my gloves.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 16 - 12:38 PM

DC 47 sunny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 16 - 10:42 AM

Rain, Rain, DON'T go away just yet. Melt some of that dirty frozen snow from last weekend before you go.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 16 - 01:45 PM

Hear that some areas got storms for Christmas?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Dec 16 - 08:36 PM

Yes, I did hear that. I hope all 'Cattery are safe, warm, and dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Dec 16 - 03:11 AM

I'd rather be cool & dry

sandra in warm humid Sydney

ps. weather is a tad different in Central Australia - flash floods & waterfalls! check out the photos & video of waterfalls on Uluru

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Dec 16 - 03:29 PM

Sandra, wow!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Dec 16 - 06:21 PM

Australia is a country of droughts and flooding rains

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Dec 16 - 11:11 AM

Whip-saws again. The roller-coaster is rolling from West to East across the continent. Warm one day, snowing the next.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 16 - 01:19 PM

66 in DC and sunny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 16 - 04:15 PM

Nor'easter in full swing. Thank goodness it is warm enough to remain rain here, but some places are getting something a lot colder.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 16 - 08:32 PM

It is 20 degrees hotter here right now than average - 3 years running.

2016 is also the hottest year on record - as was the last 3 years or so.

Whuduya make of that?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Dec 16 - 11:03 AM

Just went from a bit over cast & chilly... to snow flurries... to dark skies and serious snow... to no snow and clear sunshine---- all in about 15 minutes. (Maryland suburbs of DC)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jan 17 - 09:17 PM

We've had record rainfall the last two days. Officially, 3.75" on New Years Day, which is three times what we usually get for the entire month of January. But I talked with a friend who said his 6" rain gauge had overflowed, so it was even heavier in some places. And another inch or two came down today. The bridge on our road is underwater. It spans a creek about 20' wide and the roadway is usually about 10' above water level. We can avoid that bridge, but we have to detour several miles and cross the creek via highway bridges with higher clearances. Interesting start to the new year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 17 - 01:08 PM

Wet, and thankfully, above freezing; no ice underfoot!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 17 - 07:24 PM

Cold, and gettin' colder. brrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jan 17 - 01:56 PM

How is the New Year treating the rest of us?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 17 - 03:42 PM

Elle neige! Yay!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 17 - 12:38 PM

Still "yay!," Mrrzy? Hope you are not buried under a blizzard right now....it looks pretty bad out the window here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 17 - 04:44 PM

Can't hear a darned thing for the snowplow engines.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Jan 17 - 07:20 PM

Snow's here, too, along with cold temps and wind swirling the flakes!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 08 Jan 17 - 02:42 AM

Two hours ago, at 4.43 P.M., we reached a maximum temperature of 32.9 deg C. Considering the forecast was for 35 deg C we were let off lightly! Another heatwave is forecast for the coming week, starting tomorrow......erk......

Anyone with excess snow to give away, please PM me for my address. It would be gratefully received.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: olddude
Date: 08 Jan 17 - 12:11 PM

,car buried
In ssnow

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Jan 17 - 08:20 PM

Olddude,
Oh, no!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jan 17 - 09:22 PM

Here in the Mother Lode (California foothills of the Sierra Nevada), we are underneath what they call an Atmospheric River this week. There's likely to be some flooding in the Sacramento River Valley. In areas like this that depend on seasonal flooding, this can be a good thing - if it doesn't go overboard. It's likely to bring some terrific birdwatching in the next few weeks, and maybe a memorable crop of wildflowers.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jan 17 - 12:37 PM

Sorry, JennieG, but the North American weather whipsaw continues apace. This means that after being buried in snow, we watch the Fahrenheit temperature, in a few days, crank up to fifty degrees, and the whole darned thing melts. Maybe it will flood? Horrors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Thompson
Date: 09 Jan 17 - 06:14 PM

Icy weather killing people across Europe; it's about to hit us in Ireland tomorrow or Wednesday. Went for a bike ride today and came back so chilled and tired after facing into a freezing headwind that I retired to the bed for the day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jan 17 - 12:45 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jan 17 - 07:45 PM

Rain and warm wind and all the snow and ice melting all at once? What if it floods....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 09:57 AM

it's almost 2am on Thursday 13th & Sydney is still hot & humid, 23C (but feeling hotter) with 76% humidity.

12 hours ago it was 36C (close to 100F) & as I waited for a bus in the shade, sweat was falling from my eyebrows & forehead onto my glasses under my wrap-around sunglasses. Naturally the bus was late (the route is famous for late buses!) & when I got in & said something like 'air conditioned bus' to the driver, he informed me it was broken ... It was only a short trip to the station & the train was air conditioned!

sandra (also wanting some cool)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jan 17 - 01:20 PM

Olddude, has your snow melted over there? Ours is rapidly disappearing. We have a warm spell, and then everything freezes up again on the weekend forecast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 17 - 02:06 PM

I have my windows open. 9C and breezy on January 12!!! Nice to get a change of air. Not too often this happens in Moncton, NB.ca.

We are going from lower than -20C to near 9C on a weekly basis with snow/ice pellets/freezing rain/sun. Gonna kill a lot of partridge and such in our woods.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jan 17 - 12:15 PM

Yes, gnu describes a weather roller-coaster, and it's that way here too. We've had our big warm-up for the week, now it plummets back down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jan 17 - 03:49 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 01:16 PM

"it might as well be spring..."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 07:37 PM

It's been 60 degrees or so for the last 10 days here in the mountains of North Georgia {USA}. Before that we had a massive 3 inch blizzard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 07:48 PM

How well do Georgia drivers drive with three inches of snow? Or does it depend on which part of Georgia?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 08:58 PM

Attn: Keberoxu I have spent most of my life in New England. IMO they {the drivers} don't have a clue. In Atlanta the officials are trying to get more and better equipment. In the mountains one should stay home.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 03:53 AM

Rain/snow/thunderstorms alternating in southern Spain today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 02:43 PM

Driving weather! Always a sound topic for a discussion. Hopefully an amicable one.

Thanks Elmore for answering my question.
My residence has been mostly in these areas: the Lake Erie environs, New England, and of all places New Mexico, where they definitely know about snow.

I was and remain sadly disappointed with drivers around Phoenix, Arizona, where they don't know the first thing about driving in the RAIN. That's all it takes to confuse the drivers. That kind of desert climate gets cloudbursts, monsoon-style, and when it does rain, the rain just dumps on you all at once. Then there is all that dust and sand about, which as one radio personality observed, in the rain becomes like ball bearings for automobiles.

Don't even get me started on flash floods in desert country.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 03:11 PM

gloomy, gloomy, glooooomy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 06:22 PM

My power bill is "pleasant" to open (forced air electric and a mini-split heat pump). I am over 20% down from last year and last year was good. Hardly any snow. I am starting the get nervous. The new moon is soon so... ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 03:06 PM

Like spring. Go figure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 03:55 PM

More of the same. I can live without the frigid temperatures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 17 - 12:45 PM

Today the weather doesn't just turn on a dime, it spins! The changes are like every five minutes, enough to make you giddy. Direct sunshine, followed by stormclouds and blowing snow, bam bam bam.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Jan 17 - 05:08 PM

38C here today (over 100F in the old money) & a friend & I are visiting an old friend who is not in good health, via 2 air-conditioned trains & an air conditioned bus. The station is close to my place, the bus-stop is next to the final station & our friend lives next to th final bus stop! But ...

I'm cool in my living room with my small fan going, but it's already 32.2 outside! eek, it's going to be 40C where we are going, & chance of a storm here & there ...

sandra (9am Tuesday)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 05:46 AM

12 & 3/4 hours later after the cool change it's only 21.5C & we only got to 35.6, not 38! tomorrow we are expecting 26.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 05:23 PM

The flip-flopping weather changes were blown away by a big old nor'easter. Weatherman says we need the rain hereabouts. Maybe, but I could have done without the darned wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JMB
Date: 25 Jan 17 - 09:14 AM

Yesterday in Nova Scotia, we had freezing rain really bad. Throughout town, many spots were iced right over so bad that I decided to crawl on my hands and knees so I wouldn't fall (ha ha).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Jan 17 - 09:48 PM

I saw the sun today!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 01:00 AM

Dc was shirtsleeve weather today. Why is it so hot?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 04:10 PM

Blow, blow, thou winter wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 04:05 PM

Started Tuesday night. Latest word was tomorrow between 10 and 11PM. I started hauling can goods to the basement and finished the last load, knowing all would be safe from freezing. I sat in my office for a well deserved smoke and a beer and... yup, my office lights came on. NB Power left an hour ago. I gave the boys a BIG thumbs-up and they gave it back.

Now they can join their buddies in NE NB. The poor buggers up there will be weeks getting power back on. I saw a video yesterday taken in Lamèque by a guy driving the main road... pole after pole after pole smashed and downed. The whole road, for miles and miles and it's all over NE NB. NB Power has to, essentially, "reinstall" the works... drill new holes for poles and all. Crews from NS, PQ, and ME are on the ground too.

It was eventful. Learned a few things, like, having home phone with a cable company means you can lose your land line when the power goes out and also your cell phone. That distressed Mum a great deal. Anyway, it was fun. The generator deal at Mum's was a big payoff for a ten year old investment.

Greco XXL (32 slice) Grecoworks pizza has been ordered for the celebration. The box takes up every inch of one shelf in my fridge. I should weigh myself BEFORE I get it because I know I dropped some pounds during this fun time. Didn't even eat for the first day and a half... 'cept fer a few ales. We men types throws food to the wind, we does, when there is "work" to be done.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 04:49 PM

Thread drift....throwing food to the wind when there is work to be done.

This reminds me of the story of Muddy Waters being introduced to a young fellow who went by Buddy Guy -- and hauling off and slapping his face, on the spot.

Buddy Guy had just arrived in Chicago and was trying to connect with people, with musicians anyhow. As I recall his telling of the story, he went for a day or two without eating solid food, we all know what that means. Muddy Waters slapped him after finding this out. And then he sat Buddy Guy down and bought him a salami sandwich. Heard of that one?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 05:29 PM

...and that wind keeps on blowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 08:53 PM

Mmm. Windy here, too, but warm enough so that I went for a short walk--a very short walk. It's rare for me to do even that because all conditions--weather, daylight, and my energy level--have to be just right.
Gnu, it sounds like you've got How to Survive the Storms pretty well figured out. I hope those living in NE NB do, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 04:19 PM

Glad to hear that gnu is out of the cold now, by the way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 01:26 PM

Hunkering down to wait for the next storm system.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 10:15 PM

A little colder, with a little snow, after a few unusually mild days.

By the driveway we can build a snowman,
And pretend that he is Friar Tuck;
He'll say, "Are you married?" We'll say "No, Man";
But later, by the fire, we might hug

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 12:38 PM

From another thread, posted today... On a sad note, them there poor buggers up north (30,000) are still in a hard way. Two dead from CO poisoning and others treated for same. 200 troops on the way to clean up trees and get people to safety and provide field ambulance services and such. Brings a tear to my eyes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 12:55 PM

I just plugged in new brunswick ice storm 2017 at YT and there are lots of videos. Here is one the caught my eye as it was happening because I was in the middle of it... in the dark. It was an event! Most excitement I have had in years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 08:16 PM

Snow here--just a little. I'm waiting for the condo's plow to come through if it bothers to. If so, I'll have to move my car so the plow can push the snow into my corner of the world without plowing me in

Gnu, wow! And I'm sorry about the people who died.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 12:51 AM

here in sunny summery sydney we are in the midst of a heatwave with
catastrophic fire danger in some parts of the state.
Bureau of Meteorology heatwave assessment

I'm on the edge of Sydney's CBD close to the harbour (tho I can't see it) but it's effect means we are cooler than out in suburbia & in most of the state. Temperature at 4.30pm Sat is 35.4C here, with 44 to 46 in the west. (38 is 100F)

Everyone has been told to conserve electricity - eg. turn off & unplug unnecessary items. One of our largest energy companies shut down a smelter for a couple of hours yesterday as it uses 10% of the state's electricity & is doing so again this afternoon.

and tomorrow is expected to be 29! yah, cool weather (not) & about 10 degrees warmer in the Western suburbs.

sandra (coolish under the effects of 2 small 6" fans, one running off my computer & newly bought this morning)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 05:32 PM

Here we are expecting more snow starting Sunday morning and ending Monday night. I'm just inside the bad zone for this storm which will be milder for those living in southern Rhode Island. We had a blizzard on Thursday. For that storm too I lived just inside the bad zone which was milder for those living in northern RI. This is what happens to those of us living in the middle of the state! The weather reports kept giving us a blizzard warning as the snow fell and the winds blew. Finally in the mid-afternoon it was declared a blizzard. The plows came through in the late evening and I wasn't able to get outside in time to move my car to avoid being plowed in. Thank goodness for a neighbor who did most of the work shoveling my car out. I owe his family a gift certificate to a nice local restaurant.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 05:38 PM

Blizzards going and coming in Massachusetts as well.
The right side mirror, the one outside the car, stopped reflecting.
It turned solid black behind the clear surface and it won't reflect anything at all.
I didn't know side mirrors on an auto could even do that.
The car service division has scheduled me for a repair appointment during Monday's snowstorm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 05:47 PM

I would like some cool - but yours is far too much for me. Living in a temperate climate where winter does not get below 10C, in an apartment where the windows are permanently locked open for about 6 inches ...

I've only once seen snow when I visited a friend in the Snow Mountains region early one winter. We spend a day at a ski resort & I touched snow & slid on it & created a snowball & threw it then, we had dinner & went back to his nearby town where it was just cold & not snowy!

sandra (29.5C 9.50am Sunday morning)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 07:22 AM

I couldn't take that kind of HOT!

Some forecasts paint a worse scenario but here is the Environment Canada forecast...

Blizzard warning in effect for:

Moncton and Southeast New Brunswick
Blizzard conditions with gusty winds and persistent visibility near zero in snow and blowing snow are expected or occurring.

A low pressure system is expected to develop south of Cape Cod this evening and intensify as it moves towards Nova Scotia tonight. Snow will begin over southwestern New Brunswick this evening and spread eastward throughout the night.

As the storm passes south of Nova Scotia on Monday, it will intensify and give heavy snow, very strong northeasterly winds, and blowing snow resulting in blizzard conditions to much of the southern half of New Brunswick.

Snowfall amounts between 25 and 55 cm is expected with winds gusting up to 100 km/h. The highest snowfall amounts and strongest winds are forecast to be along the Fundy coast.

The snow will taper to flurries Monday evening and the winds will gradually diminish Monday night as the low continues to move east.

Travel is expected to be extremely hazardous due to widespread poor visibility. Travel is not recommended.

Blizzard warnings are issued when widespread reduced visibilities of 400 metres or less are expected for at least 4 hours.
********************************************************

NS will get much worse... gonna be a real mess in Halifax.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 07:55 AM

Ah Sandra, when my husband first arrived from W Africa, he'd never seen snow, or experienced temperatures below about 28 degrees C. He was absolutely enchanted and rushed outside (I managed to get him into boots, a puffa jacket and a scarf, plus woolly hat) He started to build things with the snow, and I showed him how to roll a giant ball to make a snowman. He foolishly took his gloves off, and in a few minutes said, "Aiiiieee!! This snow is burning my fingers! And also my toes!" His poor hands and feet were almost frostbitten! He still adores snow (I certainly don't) There's an advert on TV at the moment about a toy meerkat and a 'snow dream' where he's invited to build a 'snowkat'. I always get a bit choked up as it reminds me of those early days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 08:42 AM

Bloomin' awful here in the Aire Valley today. Dull, grey and sleeting. Plus I dropped my hat as I got out of the car and it got wet through :-(

DtG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 09:02 AM

Same here Dave (Norfolk UK) Went down the garden to put food out for the birds (including a new one, a rather smart male pheasant, which I suspect is taking refuge from the guns, as the shooting season is in full swing) I was wearing my fluffy slippers, and they got soaked by the slushy wet muck on the path. It's dark too and like living in a tunnel. Very depressing. It's officially 2 degrees C. Can't stand much more of this! :(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 12:53 PM

Yes, Eliza, I knew a classmate from southern California who had never seen snow until she entered university in the northeastern US, and she too found it thrilling. I grew up near Lake Erie -- not so cold as Lake Superior, but more than enough lake-effect snow.

Today, far from Lake Erie, the wind has died down while the snow just keeps on falling; the blizzard-speed wind is due to return within the next twenty-four hours, and heavier snowfall with it. Can't we catch a breather here?!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 08:34 PM

gey windy - had to fold my Rotaire away in case it took off!

(brilliant invention - a canopy / cover for a rotary drying line, means you can leave washing out in rain, it still dries, even in Winter.
Just have to watch out for very strong winds or heavy snow)
I never need the tumble dryer now - and don't have piles of wet stuff beside radiators! Really great.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 06:06 PM

Wind, clear, sub-freezing cold. At least the snow stopped falling.

Oh, and the glass fell off of my auto right-side mirror when I was looking someplace else, maybe at the road or the traffic signals. The mirror turned black when the glass was no longer there. They replaced the whole thing at the service dept this morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 08:20 PM

It was lovely to see the sun again today and have temps above freezing. Yes, there were strong winds, but as the snow on the roads started to melt, the winds helped prevent black ice when the temperature dropped this evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 08:58 PM

We've had a strong, cold east wind for several days and today it was even windier, but the temperature got to almost 13⁰︎C today. It dried my grass off so thoroughly that I could get the mower out and get it down. It was nine inches high in paces! Job done!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 17 - 11:02 AM

Just hope we get some time to catch our breath before the weather gets feisty and frisky again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 17 - 03:11 PM

Gnu? Are you still ALIVE after Winter Storm Pluto?

All there is to complain about currently is the stiff winter wind that is blowing about the powdery snow already left behind...
and I for one am not complaining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Feb 17 - 07:26 PM

I'd expected clouds with some rain showers today. Instead, we got sun!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 17 - 11:02 PM

At this point Wash DC is the highest record setting heat in all of recorded historic weather among all the States for a winter season.
Just 4 weeks to go.
65 this weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 17 - 12:19 PM

Just really grateful that we get several days without any storms, stiff winds, or icy stuff falling out of the sky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 17 - 12:57 PM

We had winter storm Pluto, east of the pond you are having storm Doris. I can't hardly keep these names straight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 01:37 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Feb 17 - 12:58 PM

It's unseasonably warm and sunny here, with the big heaps of plowed snow melting a little at a time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 17 - 06:16 PM

its 75 at 6pm in DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 17 - 05:03 PM

We have cool weather schedule to return. Thank goodness. All the creepy crawly stuff is hatching too soon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 03:55 PM

And hopefully Gnu is recovered from the latest snow dump. A lot of it has melted here....and there was an awful lot to be melted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 11:32 AM

March comes in like a lion? More like a wet alleycat?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 01:56 PM

It's March, and not a wet alley cat, not today.
Withering dryness; the kind of blue sky with not a speck of humidity, blinding searing intense blue. And a lion of a March wind is blowing. If this were, not New England, but the Four Corners, there would be dust everywhere and tumbleweeds all clumped up and flying down the highway.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 02:13 PM

Unseasonably warm. 2/3 of the dumps of snow are gone. The maple trees are confused. Raining now. Back to COLD by tomorrow morn. Loads of Cedar Waxwings in the apple tree. A robin arrived several days ago too. Been drunk on the apples since. Two days ago, he chirped that spring chirp and I discovered his Missus has arrived. Love is in the air... which is odd as it's way too early given out usual climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like in DC?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 05:04 PM

The daffodils are now in full glory

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 06:37 AM

Hot and sticky, but dry. Love a sub-tropical climate.

After the hottest January on record, and the hottest February on record, we look like heading into the hottest March on record.

Bloody hell, I wish it would rain!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Mar 17 - 11:16 AM

Sunny and lovely today, but: howling, gusty winds all day yesterday; we're among 600,000 Detroit Edison customers out of electricity, with no restore estimate available yet. We put up in the (mostly packed) Best Western half a mile from home last night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Mar 17 - 11:46 AM

Frogprince, I'm glad you found a room at the inn. I hope your power is soon restored.
Here it's windy and sunny with snow predicted for tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 17 - 01:29 PM

ChanteyLass is right about the forecast, ...sigh. Just as long as it isn't another BLIZZARD or, worse yet, an ice storm. Going to live up to March being like a lion, I suppose.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Mar 17 - 03:27 PM

Still no repair estimate available. We've mostly been sitting around reading in the library, other than the forenoon turn on a 'puter and coming back to it just now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Mar 17 - 09:33 AM

...and the snow is back in town.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Mar 17 - 10:39 AM

74 yesterday.

21 tonight.


EPA and NOAA are both looking at budget cuts of 40%

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Mar 17 - 07:27 PM

Easy snow. Roads were pretreated. The parking lot at my condos wasn't, but still the snow melted on the pavement. It did stay on grass, trees, and cars, but I was able to push it off my car easily with a broom even though it was a few inches deep. If only all our snowstorms were like this!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Mar 17 - 08:13 PM

Warmest day since Nov. 1 in Bude. Shorts, cotton gilet with extra vest all that were required. Most people we met out walking were muffled up as if there was a big freeze. They'll never get their Vitamin D and I hope they'd sprayed their underarms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 17 - 07:05 AM

Here in Moncton, NB.ca it's -plugyourcarin and windy. Not to worry, full moon tomorrow so it will warm up... and snow. The weather terrorists are already calling for a Nor'easter and talking about blizzard conditions.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 17 - 02:59 PM

If that happens, gnu, then the blizzard will hit Long Island Sound as well....and our local weather forecast says it will. Shiver.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 11 Mar 17 - 07:26 PM

Do Heavenly Dancers (Northern Lights) count as weather?
We've had some amazing displays over the past few weeks- - and now there's a service that predicts when and where to view them! (usually in the middle of the night -- -)
In the garden snowdrops, hazel catkins and apple blossom have been out for ages, daffodils coming into bloom now along with various early rhododendrons.
As ever the sun/clouds/rain/wind/temperature vary not only from day to day but often from one extreme to another within the day - or between by home and the city 30 miles away!
So everyone has to wear layers and carry a backpack in order to add to the layers being worn - or stow away the ones needing to be removed!
As they say - several seasons in one day in Scotland.
Ah well, at least we never have to worry about water shortages, and always have lush green vegetation to enjoy!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Mar 17 - 09:14 PM

Here, it's biting cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 07:36 PM

it's the calm before the storm here.

Heavenly Dancers! They rate several mentions on other Mudcat threads, partly because song lyrics extol them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 05:23 PM

The Heavenly Dancers (Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis) are stunning!
--- Do they have them in Southern Hemisphere?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 05:48 AM

yes, but only in low latitudes - Aurora Australis I'll never see it here in Sydney. Maybe if I ever get to Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania I can see one, but as that festival is in January & summer makes if hard to see them, probably not.

Auroras: What are they and how do you spot one in Australia? - this article says Auroras have been seen in Kiama, a 2.5 hour train trip south where I have friends, I must ask them if they have ever seen the aurura.

Google image search Aurora Australis

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 17 - 05:58 PM

Hey Frogprince! Your power back on??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 17 - 07:29 AM

Round number 3? Mum's gonna freak out. Last week, the power was out from 2AM to 8:30AM and she was "having flashbacks" from late January (out for 4 days). Then it was out from 11AM to 1PM and she was really getting antsy.

4:35 AM ADT Sunday 19 March 2017
Special weather statement in effect for:

Moncton and Southeast New Brunswick
A low pressure system will approach slowly from the south tonight and Monday then linger around the region into Tuesday. Precipitation from this system will begin over southernmost portions of New Brunswick early Monday morning as a mixture of light snow, ice pellets and freezing rain but should change to rain later in the morning as temperatures climb slightly above the freezing mark. However, as temperatures fall later in the day and the precipitation continues to push northward, there is potential for a prolonged area of freezing rain to form Monday evening and persist into Tuesday morning. At this time northern and eastern portions of the province are most at risk for freezing rain, but there is still a chance it could affect western and southern portions of the province as well.

The public is advised to monitor future forecasts as freezing rain warnings may be required.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Mar 17 - 04:19 PM

Sparing a thought for you, gnu.
If the forecast here is to be believed, that storm will spare southern New England, but we will see. When it gets warm enough here for things to thaw, we won't need rain: it may flood anyhow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Apr 17 - 03:30 PM

I was just looking out my kitchen window.

At this time of year, when it snows, it's really pretty... because the little bastards melt and die when they hit the ground.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 17 - 03:39 PM

Dumb question of the hour:

how do you, gnu, post to two threads simultaneously?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Apr 17 - 03:04 AM

Amazing thing today: it snowed! Here in Juneau, Alaska, we're in what are typically the brightest, driest months of the year, from mid-April to the end of June.

Well, things were going on normally the last several weeks. In the sun it was warm, temps in the upper 40s/low 50s, bushes are budding, crocuses are up and blooming, day lilies stand 6 inches high.

And then today, it snowed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Apr 17 - 02:30 PM

Hey gnu!
Did your heatwave up there cool down?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Apr 17 - 02:40 PM

"how do you, gnu, post to two threads simultaneously?"

Trade secret.

"Did your heatwave up there cool down?"

It was 30H (Humidex) an hour ago but things should get back to normal soon, I hope. Too early for that crap. I want my Spring. Didn't open my windows today because of the temp and humidity.

Oh... yeah... Moncton, NB.ca

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Apr 17 - 08:38 PM

And now it's supposed to be summer-like again this weekend.

"Im April, thut das Wetter, was es will..."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 28 Apr 17 - 05:19 AM

It depends on what time of day we're talking.

France,Wednesday:Sun followed by snow,followed by sun,snow again,sun,followed by storm.

It rained this morning;Who knows what the day will bring.

Could be caused by Election boredom.At the moment the weather seems to be in a lite stupor.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Apr 17 - 08:43 AM

85 F in DC today, 90 tomorrow.
The last 3 years have beaten the hottest year in history 3 times running. Hottest February in History was set this year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 May 17 - 12:40 PM

A happy medium today.
It's well above freezing, and the plowed piles of frozen snow are gone.
It's too cool and cloudy to remind anyone of summer. (I have seen people with horrendous sunburns lately, forgetting to protect themselves on the clear warm days.)

It's showery, which the growing flowering leafy things need.
The earthworms, when it's wet, have been showing up above the surface of the soil for the first time in months.

I can happily wear layers in the day.
The nights are still cool enough for pleasant sleeping.

I could get used to this.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 17 - 12:17 PM

We're under a potential warning for flooding today on account of the rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 17 - 12:10 PM

Wet, Wet, and moreover, Wet. Warm as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 May 17 - 04:14 PM

Better'n snow!
The sun has finally popped out here in RI.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 May 17 - 12:52 PM

And the sun made it up here as well, it's a picture-postcard-perfect day, aside from that very gusty wind.
Well, at least it is a SPRING wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 17 - 03:18 PM

In the Four Corners area of the southwestern US, where I lived for years (not a native though),
at this time of year it would be lousy weather.

No spring rain, as the rain comes with the summer monsoons.
The spring floods result from the melting of the mountain snowpack.
That seasonal wind would blow, the one that has this magnetic charge that rubs everybody raw.
Dust and tumbleweeds EVERYWHERE.

By comparison I prefer this rainy green situation.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 May 17 - 12:14 PM

The Boston Globe reports that the persistent rains here have reversed the severe-drought conditions in Massachusetts for the first time in two years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 May 17 - 05:21 PM

Mother's Day is expected to be a cold wet washout of a day here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 May 17 - 12:28 AM

Here we are hoping that the rain will be enough to put a damper (ahem) on the gypsy moth caterpillars. Apparently it may cause a virus that will kill many of them before they chomp on the leaves. Trees in some parts of the state could be defoliated for the third consecutive year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Raggytash
Date: 13 May 17 - 04:46 PM

I've just spent a week down in West Kerry, the weather has been brilliant, not a drop of rain and barely a cloud in the sky on most days!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 May 17 - 11:20 AM

More like April than Mother's Day.
The green growing things will be happy with all the rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 17 - 10:21 AM

mud, mud, glo-ri-ous mud

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 17 - 04:12 PM

....and within the next four days, the temperature is supposed to go up about forty degrees Fahrenheit. Roller-coaster time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 May 17 - 07:17 PM

It is sobering to read of Mudcatters in "Oz," preparing for winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 May 17 - 02:57 PM

And on this Sunday, one week later,
we have the kind of picture-perfect weather
that might have been nice on Mother's Day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 May 17 - 12:30 PM

The rain is back, and cooling things down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 May 17 - 03:04 PM

Well, people talk about the weather,
but the weather knows better.
Hereabouts I hear many complaints that we go straight
from winter into summer.
That is not the case today:

It's well above freezing,
it is anything but hot,
and the rain is a gentle soaking one.
Sounds and feels like spring to me. And I'll take it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 25 May 17 - 04:42 PM

It's pissing down rain in Ottawa, and I wanted to cook a chicken in the barbecue today. Boo, hiss.

But it's good for the garden, as keberoxu points out, and we have lake trout fillets in the fridge. Yay!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 May 17 - 03:48 PM

Unusually hot for Scotland today! 29oC here in Edinburgh, humid too, sweat running doon ma face. Thunderstorms the marra!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 May 17 - 09:08 PM

Flash and boom lightning and thunder in Rhode Island last night!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 May 17 - 03:29 PM

Raining, overcast, and a little cool.

And the shopping centers and malls are jammed with people. (holiday)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 17 - 04:47 PM

The forecast speaks of SMALL HAIL before the weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jun 17 - 02:52 PM

Hey GNU!
Are you having spring weather up there,
as opposed to summer?

We are in eastern Massachusetts, spring I mean,
with chilly nights and damp grey days.

But the heat is supposed to catch up to us next weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 06 Jun 17 - 10:50 AM

Plenty of showers and thunderstorms here in the mountains of North Georgia {USA}. Scares the Hell out of our not so fierce pit bull.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jun 17 - 12:02 PM

keberoxu... In Moncton, NB.ca, it's presently (almost 1PM) cloudy and    9C with wind of 20-30kph. I am LOVIN' IT! Got the heat pump on, although I have refused to do so for a while. 3C and clear tonight so we'll see how my neighbours' bedding plants make out if there is no wind. Fools! Full moon is Friday and I told them two weeks ago not to put in annuals from the nursery before close to the full moon. But, they know all about the weather and I don't... according to them. Fools.

Forecast says 28C on Thursday. But, I have a heat pump for that. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 17 - 01:59 PM

Good for you, gnu.
You were gnashing your teeth a few weeks ago when the warm weather kicked in too soon for your liking.
But hopefully your esteemed mother has ceased to live in dread, for the moment, of winter storms.

The wind is kicking up here in eastern Massachusetts as well, there is no shortage of rain, and everything here is green enough to blind you. That will change when the heat arrives and the green grass turns yellowish brown on the lawns, as ever.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 17 - 06:20 PM

Il pleut comme une vache qui pisse.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 06 Jun 17 - 07:50 PM

Rubbish here today in Edinburgh: relentless rain all day. However we have had one of the driest Spring spells on record, so the gardens need it! But not much fun getting splashed up to waist level by buses passing through puddles!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jun 17 - 03:52 PM

After several days and nights of early April weather,
suddenly the weather is behaving like the month of June,
with a blindingly clear blue sky, not a cloud that I can see from my computer station.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 17 - 12:33 PM

And they are talking about the coming Sunday in terms of 90 degrees F.
Ups and downs again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jun 17 - 02:07 PM

32C and sun here. A nice breeze. Had the heat pump on 'heat' two days ago. Now it's on 'cool'.

k... rain? Up here, en Chiac, c'est... Il pleut da whore, la. I see tree canard avec canoe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 17 - 02:37 PM

Three ducks and a canoe?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 17 - 01:56 PM

Humidity has arrived. That wind I see gusting outside the window does nothing to make it less humid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 17 - 07:12 PM

really unstable and unpredictable this afternoon.
Just sultry where I am,
but north of the Charles River there were thunderstorms with downed utility poles and trees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Jun 17 - 07:41 PM

Some thunderstorms just rolled west to east across the middle of RI.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Jun 17 - 01:40 PM

We had about ten days straight of rain, during which time my roof sprang a leak. Then the rain stopped for about three days, which was just long enough for me to repair the roof. Then it started back raining and will probably keep it up for five or six more days. Thankfully, I have a good long book to read.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jun 17 - 06:30 PM

Nary a cloud in the sky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jun 17 - 09:39 PM

Yesterday, I didn't go outside much except to water the thirsty flowers. Too hot for me. Today, 16C with a breeze and down to 7C tonight. SPRING IS BACK BABY! for a few days. Yard work... alcohol and yard work... the key to a happy marriage*. That and divorce.**

* Can't recall that comedian's name.

** Mine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 17 - 02:39 PM

There is a monsoon pattern kicking in along with the humidity.
Clear in the morning, muggy and cloudy in the afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Jun 17 - 07:58 PM

Pouring here. Has been for several hours. I'm hearing reports of street flooding. I'm not going outside to check.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 12:56 PM

Big line of thunderstorms grinding eastward toward the coast of the northeast US.

And what's this about cyclones in the Gulf of Mexico?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 05:16 PM

The thunderstorms have crunched their way over the Berkshire mountains and are heading for the coast....the Doppler radar looks ugly.

And I just noticed that the Weather Terrorists are now
naming Tropical Storms and hurricanes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 11:43 AM

Flights are grounded in the American southwest. It is 117-119 F.

Hot air is thin air. A heavy plane cannot acquire lift at 117.
Also tires tend to melt and blow out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Will Fly
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 11:56 AM

Glorious sunshine and wonderful hot weather along the UK south coast today - 29C will do me.

Just strolled along to my local pub and enjoyed a couple of pints of "Doombar" - brewed in Cornwall but travels well - and strolled back to enjoy dinner.

Everything is green and warm and vibrant. This IS the life (for the moment...).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 06:55 PM

All that excitement over a nice soaking rainstorm. I didn't hear thunder, and there was no wind pulling down trees or power lines.

Instead we have a picture-perfect June day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 07:55 AM

As if it weren't already rainy enough, now we have Tropical storm Cindy promising to dump five or six more inches on us over the next couple of days. My pond will overflow. My driveway will be a river. The bridge on the south end of our road will be underwater, so we'll have to detour north and double back on roads with higher bridges.

Fortunately, we aren't close enough to the storm's center for wind to be a problem, just lots of rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Jun 17 - 07:50 AM

The effects of TS Cindy were pretty much as anticipated except that the cumulative rainfall was probably well over six inches. All area creeks and rivers are well out of their banks. The roof on my pottery studio sprung a leak and brought down a chunk of ceiling drywall. No big deal. I built it, I can fix it. A tree fell on my neighbor's fence allowing some of his cattle to escape and wander about on my property, but they're safely back home now. It could have been worse.

Today is supposed to be cloudy but dry, with the usual 50% chance of afternoon thunder showers resuming tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 04:07 PM

Gnu, how did your neighbors make out with the bedding plants from the nursery...?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 09:14 PM

BORING!!!!

Clear. Lows overnight in the mid 50s.
Sunday Night 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Clear skies. Low 54F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
Monday 06/26 92 | 61 °F
Monday 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Mainly sunny. High 92F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.
Monday Night 10 % Precip. / 0 in

A few clouds. Low 61F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Tuesday 06/27 82 | 50 °F
Tuesday 20 % Precip. / 0 in

Wind increasing. A few clouds from time to time. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 82F. Winds WSW at 20 to 30 mph.
Tuesday Night 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Clear skies. Low around 50F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph.
Wednesday 06/28 82 | 49 °F
Wednesday 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Sunny skies. High 82F. Winds WSW at 15 to 25 mph.
Wednesday Night 0 % Precip. / 0 in

A mostly clear sky. Low 49F. WSW winds at 15 to 25 mph, decreasing to 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday 06/29 81 | 49 °F
Thursday 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Partly cloudy skies. High 81F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph.
Thursday Night 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Clear. Low 49F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Friday 06/30 86 | 54 °F
Friday 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Sunny. High 86F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Friday Night 0 % Precip. / 0 in

A mostly clear sky. Low 54F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday 07/01 88 | 55 °F
Saturday 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Partly cloudy skies. High 88F. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 mph.
Saturday Night 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Partly cloudy skies. Low near 55F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph.
Sunday 07/02 86 | 55 °F
Sunday 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Except for a few afternoon clouds, mainly sunny. High 86F. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Sunday Night 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Partly cloudy skies. Low near 55F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 17 - 03:10 PM

I like boring,
especially if it isn't so bleeping humid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 17 - 03:21 PM

refresh

(here comes a US national holiday....)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jul 17 - 08:30 PM

wishing all a non-explosive Fourth of July

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 17 - 03:35 PM

lovely enough to make your feel superstitious about jinxing it
by saying the wrong thing.

The humidity and cloudbursts come back on Friday, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Jul 17 - 03:47 PM

A great day for Bristol, RI's, parade, and for Chepachet, RI's, Ancient and Horribles
Parade. Not that I'm going to either. I hate crowds. I usually spend this day at Mystic Seaport, but I've been sidelined by an achy back. I think I feel well enough, and the weather is good enough, to go to a friend's home near the seaport for a cookout, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jul 17 - 01:18 PM

Uncommonly pleasant for now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 17 - 03:05 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jul 17 - 11:36 AM

Encore, comme une vache qui pisse.

It beats drought and brush fires.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 12:16 PM

The kind of puffy white clouds that never, ever, shed rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 11:57 AM

101 F on Wednesday

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 08:08 PM

79, but the humidity's thick and the air is still. Earlier we had cloudbursts alternating with sunshine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jul 17 - 01:49 PM

Lightning! And thunder! Right on top of you!

Then bright sunshine, blue sky, and puffy white clouds, forty minutes later.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 17 - 03:38 PM

Gnu, Gnu, thinking of uuuuuuu....

you felt deprived of spring weather.

Here it is the middle of summer, and what do we have
in southern New England?

Spring. With rainclouds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jul 17 - 04:16 PM

keberoxu - Yesterday, at 1PM, it was 16C. YEAH BABY! This AM, at 5AM, it was 10C!!!! Now, it's 30C but low humidity and there's a breeze. According to the forecast for tomorrow, I am cooking a roast of beef in the oven! Alas, the next days will be cold cuts and potato salad. All said and done, except for the January just passed ice storm (4 days without power), the last TWO years have been, well global warming... rather pleasant. Although, I do miss crisp and cold fall days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jul 17 - 03:57 PM

Glad you enjoyed that spring interlude, Gnu.

Here further South we are back in the old monsoon routine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jul 17 - 11:56 AM

cool and damp. No thunder and lightning, fortunately.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 30 Jul 17 - 06:56 PM

Here in the southern part of heaven we have had 2 gorgeous days of weather more like early Sept. than the dog days of summer. My beloved home state of WV has again had floods - in the northern part of the state this time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 17 - 08:46 AM

This Thursday the evidence of bizarre climate reaches Tippy top Portland Oregon with temperatures of 107 F. The same for North California around Redding. I hope this will not spawn fire.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 17 - 07:15 PM

As good as it gets.
Low humidity, clear skies,
and dragonflies.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 11:43 AM

Humidity left for a few days, but it's back.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 11:59 AM

"Just strolled along to my local pub and enjoyed a couple of pints of "Doombar" - brewed in Cornwall but travels well - and strolled back to enjoy dinner."

For several years I was a member of the Doom Bar flavour panel, meeting every Friday at Sharps brewery in Rock. Someone had to do it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 06:09 PM

Thunder and lightning and raining the proverbial cats and dogs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 11:25 AM

A dry relief, after getting inundated last week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Aug 17 - 01:46 PM

Threatening rain again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Aug 17 - 03:06 PM

Typical for August --
and about time, too, after this roller-coaster of changeable stuff.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Aug 17 - 12:32 PM

Here comes the humidity and the cloudbursts again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Aug 17 - 07:29 PM

I guess I'm the only one not doing something about the weather,
just talking about it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Aug 17 - 10:32 PM

Not much reason for me to post. We live close enough that my weather is usually similar to yours!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 24 Aug 17 - 08:32 PM

Posts on this thread may pick up with the approach of Hurricane Harvey. Posts usually increase when the weather is severe. I hope it amounts to no threat for everyone here. Another possibility is that someone may start a thread about the storm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 02:00 PM

Where I am, the weather is glorious.
Keeping the people on the coast down south in my thoughts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JMB
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 04:37 PM

Here in Nova Scotia, the weather has been quite warm and sunny. It's not as scorching or humid as the last couple of days, but it is still warm. I can't wait for it to get cold again. I like winter the most. The main thing I like about summer is going to the cottage.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 10:46 PM

And now, there is indeed a thread about Texas and Harvey.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 11:01 PM

Harvey is coming to call this evening, a few hundred miles away on the coast. Under normal circumstances, that distance would mean their weather is completely different than ours, but this thing is so humongous that it has bands of weather radiating out from it. We expect to get some wind and rain in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, but not damaging and not torrential like down at the Gulf Coast. And it a few minutes ago it made landfall.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Sep 17 - 11:59 PM

Here in Phoenix, Arizona, it is over one hundred degrees Fahrenheit. Kind of beastly.
And a local man with whom I struck up a conversation this afternoon, had the nerve -- with Houston and Harvey in the news -- to complain that Phoenix is HUMID at the moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Sep 17 - 08:32 PM

It's been lovely today in RI and southeastern CT. Yesterday it poured. Typical New England: every day, sometimes every hour, is different.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Sep 17 - 12:07 PM

Phoenix is as hot as ever.
It will be a relief to get back to Massachusetts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Sep 17 - 01:29 PM

One of my closest friends surprised me recently.
This friend went, with their marriage partner, to view the total eclipse. The eclipse sighting, if I remember the message right, was in Wyoming; from there they took time to travel in Canada before winter shuts things down.

My friend's overall impression was of:
Smoke. Smoke in the air. Smoke everywhere, and they covered hundreds of miles.

Where I find myself, everyone is talking of hurricanes and water, and suddenly here is my friend talking of smoke.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Sep 17 - 11:07 PM

Hi all you cats. harpy checking in on the thread I started many years ago. As you all know we are about to get Big Irma spreading havoc over the entire state. The Europeon model has it going up the state slightly west fom previous models. The next forecast is 11tonight.   Have been tying down my iron patio furniture, lashing it to the fence. I have a big tarp ready for any holes in my roof. I moved the kayaks up against the back fence, moved the compost barrell to the corner near the fence and have cleared the yard of most missle like projectile objects. I have camp cooking equipment , water, propane and such to go to dad's tonight. I have been caring for him since mom died five years ago. He will be 94 next week..i stay with him and he lives three miles from my house in a big gexpensive retirement community called Westminster Oaks and has for ten years. I am his caregiver so he doesn't go in to the nursing home care.

I am on the west side of the path, with the eye probably 75 miles east of me. The west side is better with no tornadoes spawning as a rule.

Florida is a large parking lot with millions going north. No gas in south Florida and many people including my brother and his family staying in Stuart, my cousin staying in Miami because of her oxygen tank, and my niece about to have a c section next Friday. They all live with my brother in Stuart and he hopes she doesn't give birth early. So her new husband, six year old autistic son, my brother and his wife are together in Stuart.

I am not too worried, just taking it all in and remaining. Calm It is pleasantly cool in Tallahassee and I am on the front porch and soon to go back to dad's fir the night.

This is the worst soirm in history I'm afraid, but probably my tenth or twelfth in Florida. I am tired of hurricanes, I can tell you that. I hope everyone in Florida survives and I love you all. Keep making music. We need it. Love, harpy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Sep 17 - 12:10 AM

Love back to you, Harpgirl. I hope you and yours come safely through this storm. Let us hear from you.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 12:30 PM

How splendid to hear from the person who started this thread.

How are you and yours post-Irma?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 03:19 PM

The humidity that remains in motion, that used to be Irma the storm, is due in southern New England in the second half of this week. Most of the force has been spent to the south, all we are supposed to get is a little sticky muggy episode.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 17 - 03:06 PM

What the heck is that weather system crunching across the Dakotas?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Sep 17 - 05:32 PM

We will find out. In the meantime I keep hoping to see some posts from 'Catters in and near the destruction caused by Harvey and Irma.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 01:07 PM

Nice soaking rain, at the moment, with no wind to speak of.

That, alas, will change.

What was a hurricane is now more like a nor'easter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 10:42 AM

That Scots word "dreich" comes to mind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 17 - 02:16 PM

And today, as the leaves slowly change color,
we are back to summer heat and humidity,
with a blinding glaring blue sky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 01:17 PM

We need an update from harpgirl!

Fog this morning, which was odd. All burned off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 05:16 PM

This year has found a heckuva way to remedy a number of droughts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 06:32 PM

I'm in a beautiful place that enjoys beautiful weather all year round, no frost, no snow, no real droughts. Alas, I have to go home now. More on this later.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 07:57 PM

After a few days that felt like fall, I'm back in a sauna. Hot and humid!
That's a fact, or my perception. I'm not complaining. It's hard to complain when I think about what weather, earthquakes, and forest fires have done to others.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Sep 17 - 10:50 AM

Talking of hurricanes, with all the commotion in the Caribbean, did you notice Cuba this time around? Havana did not get the worst of it, Cuba was hardest hit in outlying areas, but the capitol was flooded enough that Habanerans (?) were photographed out in the street with only their chests and upper bodies visible, wading through the floodwater.

The story said, not so many deaths in Cuba, but enormous trauma for the survivors, just dazed with shock.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Sep 17 - 11:13 AM

. . . now going dry and cool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Sep 17 - 08:29 PM

I'm home. We've just spent a week in Madeira. Funchal is a lovely, human-scale city. The gardens are gorgeous and the civic pride is obvious. The weather was lovely all week, nothing above thirty and nothing below twenty, all sun, no rain. Madeira is beautiful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 17 - 02:27 PM

Solidly autumn, although it may warm up in a few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Sep 17 - 09:54 PM

Cool and rainy, but it was a wonderful, albeit damp, day at the Mystic River Oyster Festival at Mystic Seaport. I ate some oysters, but I really went for almost 4 hours of songs by three members of the seaport's chantey staff.

Every year I try to keep the heat off the until October, but I don't think I've ever managed that. If I can hold off until midnight, this will be my year!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Oct 17 - 09:30 PM

So far, have not turned on the heat, but I am bundled up.
I forgot to add that yesterday, on my way home from Mystic, I saw a rainbow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 17 - 11:33 AM

Still no heat in the rental apartment.
Nights under the Oh-My-God-This-Thing-Is-Heavy quilt.

Daytime is nice and temperate though, no problems.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Oct 17 - 02:13 PM

It's really pretty out the window
of the public library branch:
clear blue sky
and puffy white clouds.

Most of the trees still have leaves on them,
although the leaves are starting to turn colors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 17 - 10:30 AM

We have another hurricane barreling into the Gulf of Mexico. Nate formed down by the Yucatan Peninsula and headed north. Windy.

Heckuva hurricane season this time round.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Oct 17 - 01:48 PM

If all goes as predicted, Hurricane Nate is going to strike us a rather weak glancing blow. Looks like they're expecting landfall in the Biloxi, Mississippi area, and we're about 150 miles east of there. We'll probably get a few inches of rain and 30-35 MPH winds with some higher gusts. Enough to merit securing blowables and preparing for the possibility of a few hours with no power, but no need to board the windows up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 17 - 04:37 PM

What's left of Hurricane Nate has brought rain up north.
Just as well.
It's time for rain and wind, because early autumn has been dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 01:19 PM

it's steamy here, like a sauna.
Which would have sense in central Texas,
but in eastern Massachusetts - ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 17 - 06:26 PM

They turned off the humidity, finally.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Oct 17 - 02:59 PM

Cooling off, and not before time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Oct 17 - 08:07 PM

We might get frost tonight. Kill off some insects here and there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 17 - 10:13 AM

Its 81 degrees in New York City but they have the Rockefeller outside ice rink up and going.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 11:33 AM

Summer is well and truly over.
Frost tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 11:45 AM

Very weird here earlier today - Yellow sky with occasional glimpses of a red sun. Like something from 'Dune'!

DtG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 01:58 PM

I am in the middle off a hurricane, ophelia, but i am ok, its worse further east in cork city

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Iains
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 02:19 PM

It was blowing a hoolie on the Sheepshead. Power out, trees down.
158km/hr gust off Fastnet. Bit of a wild day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MikeL2
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 02:41 PM

Hi

We have been waiting to see what the tail end of Hurricane Ophelia has for us.

Like Dave we experienced brown skies and infrequent shots of a very red sun. The atmosphere was heavy.

Here in the North West of England we did not any wind all morning and in the afternoon I was able to mow my lawn. The the wind started and increased gradually all afternoon and now 7.30 pm we have a full gale. The strange thing is that we have not had any rain.

I have seen the news of Ireland North Wales ( Just got back on Saturday). My feelings go out to them and hope this passes very quickly. I understand Scotland is being buffeted by strong winds but as yet no serious damage done.

MikeL2

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 02:42 PM

"I am in the middle off a hurricane, ophelia, but i am ok, its worse further east in cork city"
She went over us here in Clare like a rather damp fart (compared to other storms we've had) Dick though those further North in Galway got it bad, particularly Galway
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 10:26 PM

Since flying three time zones west and a little bit south,
the weather here is beastly hot.
I don't even want to open the one bag of luggage,
as my warm coat got squeezed in at the top --
don't even want to look at the coat.

But it will be needed going back home in a week's time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 10:40 PM

Woo Hoo this year is only the SECOND hottest year in recorded history.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 17 - 05:47 PM

Hot here. And yet it WAS that much hotter in September (Arizona).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Oct 17 - 06:08 PM

I was in Prestwich on Monday, Mike, and saw that amazing dark morning sky and orange sun. Then in the early afternoon the sky cleared in a fresh wind and the rest of the day was fine and warm. We were up from Cornwall for three days to see Mother, staying at Bury Premier Inn. I completely forgot to put any kind of jacket in the car so all I had was shorts and shirts. Thankfully, the weather was unusually warm!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 17 - 06:17 PM

Here the mountains are prominent on the horizon.
The sky is so hazy and smoggy today
that you can barely see the mountains at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Oct 17 - 06:36 PM

It's been horrible here today. A force 8/9 all day with driving rain and drizzle. They called it, risibly, "Storm Brian." I think I'm getting SAD.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Oct 17 - 08:22 PM

October in the California Sierra Foothills is fire weather, and the world feels like it could burst into flame at any moment. And then the first rainstorm came the other night, and everything looks fresh and pretty again. I think we've survived through another fire season.

Wildfires are the price of living in paradise. We've made it through another year.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 17 - 05:07 PM

I got wind that Southern California is prone to fire storms over the world series week. Tomorrow Anaheim is 104 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 23 Oct 17 - 07:15 PM

i hesitate to mention we have a cloudless blue sky, temp prob around 65F, absolutely gorgeous day. finishing up cranberry harvest here and and got great pictures. of course we had 4 inches of rain this weekend...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Oct 17 - 09:44 PM

Now that the sun has set in Phoenix, Arizona,
the temperature has finally dropped below
100 degrees Fahrenheit,
and that IS good news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 17 - 12:40 PM

Getting ready to leave too-hot Phoenix, Arizona
and fly back tomorrow to the northeast US.
Which I understand has posted
FLASH-FLOOD WARNINGS.
Yikes!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 17 - 09:39 AM

Thankfully,
it had stopped raining by the time my plane arrived
on the East Coast.
Good to be home.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 08:47 PM

Pouring here now with high wind and street flooding warnings in effect and weather forecasters telling us to keep flashlights nearby.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Oct 17 - 07:28 PM

All's well here. My lights flickered briefly. My stove clock needed resetting but my bedroom clock was okay. However, there are a lot of power outages. Many schools, including the ones in my town, were closed today; others have already announced they'll be closed again tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Oct 17 - 06:34 PM

My town was fortunate. What my town endured was just another storm, although longer and heavier than usual. Little damage.

Other places in eastern Massachusetts,
and around New England in general,
were very hard hit indeed.
Some areas are still without power / heat / and so on.

Tonight is official Halloween;
but in some cities and towns, everything is so badly upset
that the children's trick-or-treat night
has been postponed for several days
while the local authorities and the citizens
try to get a little closer returned to normal.

But here, the weather is ideal:
no rain whatever,
the day was sunny,
and the night is cool but not frigid.
No wind to speak of.

So there are small flocks and troops of people,
some in costume, some are adult chaperones in street clothes,
trudging along the residential-street sidewalks,
making spectacles of themselves,
and doing the rounds of homes to collect sweets.

I haven't seen any glow-in-the-dark costumes yet as I drive by.
There was one spectacular carnivorous Jurassic-Park style dinosaur,
with this humungous papier-mache head that was
sitting ON TOP of the head of the person in the outfit.
Whoever was in there, was looking out through the upper chest.
Big ole tail dragging on the ground too.

Some small children as superheroes with shiny capes that they swish about.

Not a few living-dead zombie types.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Nov 17 - 06:39 PM

75 and sunny. warmer tommorow

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Nov 17 - 02:36 PM

Nothing like exchanging e-mails with a landlord ...
oh, nothing threatening.
Just wanted some heat in my apartment.
The landlord's e-mail response is
Turn the Dial to the Left.

Sheesh.
Does he mean counterclockwise
or clockwise?

just a little something
to make the rest of youse
feel smarter than I am, which you are ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Nov 17 - 04:48 PM

The landlord's response was truthful, for the record:
the heat is working at last.
I can stop grousing about that anyhow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Nov 17 - 07:11 PM

C-O-L-D

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Nov 17 - 12:22 PM

brrrr

on the bright side, no storms today

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 17 - 04:41 PM

Now the big deal is wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Nov 17 - 07:18 PM

Gail force winds are predicted in Mystic, CT, tonight. When I left this afternoon, the workers were making everything secure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Nov 17 - 06:02 PM

And yet more wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Nov 17 - 10:27 PM

The rain and the brief balmy temps have blown out
(some really impressive dark rainclouds)

and now we are plunging below freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 23 Nov 17 - 10:59 AM

In the Los Angeles area, on this Thanksgiving Day, the temperature will be in the 90sF. Autumn has been eliminated this year. Perhaps winter will be also.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Nov 17 - 08:17 PM

Thanksgiving Day was a lovely day to look at
from being safely behind well-insulated walls and windows,
as it was seasonably chilly out there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 05:18 PM

One more balmy day,
then back to the long underwear.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 02:43 PM

Blow, blow, thou winter wind.
At least the wind is dry,
and not raw with damp.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 03:26 PM

No weather news here, so:

How is the weather going into Advent for the rest of you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 05:28 PM

65 F and sunny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 17 - 02:50 PM

Boring.
Boring is good. Very good.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Dec 17 - 07:55 PM

It's fixin' to freeze again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 17 - 08:04 AM

Meanwhile we have had a minor earthquake on the other side of the bay.



The political climate here has apparently turned liberals into virulent hot heads.
As some of you suspect I am the real life Larry David who says the wrong thing at the right time. Over the last decade I have identified with our English cousins here to the point I think in terms of a UK perspective in everything from driving on the LEFT to feeling exasperated with Brexit voters.

So I am in the Christmas decorated Mall walking into Pennys when a cute couple are walking out blocking me from entering on the right. I go to the 'extreme right' against the 'wall' to enter.
But I had to open my mouth. Avoiding a collision I said "I'm an American, I even walk on the right". The couple's smiles turned downward and three seconds later from behind me they both yelled " FUCK YOU ". I figured out why they thought I was a Trump Nazi type, but felt good about their leftist gumption. My wife however was appalled and the incident further strengthened her opinion that I am a closet right wing bigot.

cue Curb your Enthusiasm music.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Dec 17 - 05:58 PM

The dreaded word
NOR'EASTER
has been spoken
for this weekend's forecast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 07 Dec 17 - 08:44 PM

We have had "Sweet Caroline" in Scotland, but mainly in the North - shetlands, Outer Hebrides etc all shut down. Doon here in Embra it's been cold and jist a wee bit windy. Gonnae get caulder by the weekend though!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 10:36 AM

Snow here in the mountains of North Georgia {USA}. 3-4 inches and still falling. A rare occurrence.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 02:55 PM

The nor'easter has a name now,
thanks to the Winter Terrorists of the mass media.

I can hear Gnu
weeping, wailing, and gnashing his teeth even now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 05:15 PM

Well, I don't know why I came here tonight
I got the feeling that something ain't right
I'm so scared in case I fall off the road,
And I'm wondering how I'll get totally snowed
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck on the beltway with you
Yes, I'm stuck on the beltway with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, and I'm all over the place
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck on 495 with you
Well, you started off with full tanks,
And you're proud that you snow tires all right
And your friends they all come crawling,
Hit you in the rear and say,
MOVE IT
Trying to make some sense of it all,
But I can see it makes no sense at all
Is it cool to pull off and sleep on the floor?
'Cause I don't think that I can take anymore
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
And you started off with some gas
And now the gauge is fallin fast as snow.
And your 'friends' they all come crawling,
Hit you in the rear and say,
Go **** *****
Yeah, I don't know why I came here tonight
I got the feeling that something ain't right
I'm so scared in case I drive into thin air,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down over there
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
Yes, I'm stuck in the middle with you
Stuck in the middle with you
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 05:23 PM

the forecast is saying three to six inches of precip.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 05:17 PM

This enormous cold front stretched from Texas through the south and curved north at the east coast. Friday morning I stared at my portion of this juggernaut. It was like a distant mountain chain with a mile wide front edge that had an evenly spaced waffle pattern extending horizon to horizon. It was the most interesting announcement of "winter begins here" that nature has ever shown me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 10 Dec 17 - 11:51 AM

Shepshed - Leicestershire - UK

Bloody awful - Snow all day - turning to sleet now

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Dec 17 - 08:31 PM

There has been a huge belt of snow right across the middle of England, Wales and Ireland, but here in Cornwall we were a mile or forty to the south of it. But last night we had one of those scary Cornish gales that we get about once a year. Our windows are all plastered in salt (we are half a mile from the sea at Widemouth Bay). They had to shut the Taw Bridge in Barnstaple to lorries, it was that bad. Bloody brexit...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 04:50 AM

Christmas card scenes of bright sunlight on snow here in east Lancashire.
Got home up the lane last night in the 4x4 after singing carols at Upper Denby in the afternoon.

Robin

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JHW
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 05:14 AM

minus 9 but beautiful clear sun this morning.
Thin coating of snow (by the Tees on the North Yorkshire/Durham border).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 12:03 PM

Now that all is soggy and wet,
we have a serious drop below freezing on the way.
Expletive deleted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 17 - 03:48 PM

It's too frigging cold, especially
with that WINTER WIND.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Dec 17 - 05:27 PM

Our local weather reporters ( meteorologists) get it right most the time but I don't think they really study meteorology

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Dec 17 - 11:36 PM

23F or -5C during the day, but little wind, so I won't complain. Oh, and snow, but just a few inches. I won't complain until I get plowed in tomorrow morning. At least I remembered to raise my car's windshield wipers in the snow salute.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Dec 17 - 02:05 PM

The sky has what I think of as a low ceiling --

grey, with a glare, and too thick a cloud layer
for the slightest bit of direct sunlight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Dec 17 - 01:52 PM

The northeastern US is headed for the deep [sub]freeze.

It's cold already and just going to get a lot colder.
At least today the sun is shining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Dec 17 - 03:46 PM

The Great Lakes region of the US is where my childhood was spent.
No longer live there. It's part of a snow belt.

Currently there are photos, videos, and soundbites online
about ice pancakes and ice balls in the water not far from Chicago.

Here near the Atlantic, am not aware that the ice is doing anything fancy.
It's just ... triumphing without any effort. It's that cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Dec 17 - 10:29 PM

I drove home from my son's home near Worcester, MA, to my home south of Providence, RI, tonight. The outside temp was 9 degrees F. when I got home at about 9:30 PM. I'm glad neither my car nor its heater died.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 17 - 03:27 PM

There goes the sun now,
and it's been too cold
even with the sun UP.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 29 Dec 17 - 03:45 PM

in low 50s in coastal SW WA USA. Moderate rain but fairly strong winds. Called dial a ride rather than walk my lazy self to work. I have a new jacket from lands end and again it is worthless in wind and rain. Walked two blocks to McDonalds last night in light rain and very light wind and got so cold. Took off jacket to get warmer. Put jacket back on to walk home...damp, very damp sleeves. I have sent several jackets back to lands end..stupid me for buying more but most of their stuff is quite good. they can not get jackets right but keep advertising them for serious weather and say they are waterproof. something happens with the sleeves...two blocks of walking today and wet cold sleeves hours later. Will have to return. Any recommendations for wind and rain and mild cold..strong wind, driving rain. I have a heavy yellow fisherman rain jacket..too heavy but i guess i will have to wear it. rubber does work here. And I personally do not worry at all about sweating. I am too dainty to sweat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Dec 17 - 07:35 PM

Snow. Started at 11 AM and is still coming down now. ((When is now? Easy. I live in Mudcat's time zone.) Luckily I'd taken my final 2017 donations to the post office yesterday and put three birthday cards for next week into the mailbox on the condo property earlier this morning. Also luckily I had not yet brought my laundry to the laundromat, so I've put that off until another day.

This snow is supposed to be light and fluffy and so far is not amounting to much.

Next project, for tomorrow: Writing snailmail thank-you notes.

And on Monday, I'm off to Mystic, CT, to practice a song with 5 friends to sing together at Mystic Seaport's Chantey Blast on Jan. 13 from I-5. It's a fundraiser for the seaport's Sea Music Festival, June 7-10. I hope to see some of you at both events!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jan 18 - 09:55 AM

The first week of the new year promises six straight days of lows in the high teens/low twenties (F) and highs not above 40?.

I suppose that's a normal forecast for Indiana or Ohio for this time of year, but I'm in Florida!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 02 Jan 18 - 03:08 AM

30 degrees Celsius, 80% humidity. We might build up to a storm in a couple of days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Jan 18 - 09:06 AM

but I'm in Florida!

Count your blessings. -16°F/-27°C here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 07:34 PM

Well, it's going to get hot. Forecast for today is 36 deg C, which is bearable.

However the next few days are going to get very hot with Sunday, Monday and Tuesday expecting 40-42 deg C. That's not just here, it's fairly widespread over quite a lot of Oz.

If I can survive that, it will be autumn in a few months.....yay!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 09:03 PM

That's dangerously cold Greg, its a brisk 7 here
40 degrees below zero with wind is my personal limit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 12:22 PM

Even powdery fluffy snow
is formidable
when there is over twelve inches of it
-- no, don't ask me how much --
piled up,
AND the temperature is dangerously below the freezing mark.
You could build igloos out of this I suspect.

Why does it have to be this cold cold cold!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 01:09 PM

Why? Because there is always cold weather *somewhere* in Winter, and various forces send the Jet Stream into unusual patterns for awhile. When I moved to Wash. DC in Feb.1977, there was snow on the ground in all 48 lower states, first time ever.

We are durned cold for the next 3 days, but it is supposed to get back up to almost 60°F for part of next week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 01:15 PM

Tomorrow (Sunday 7th Jan) in central eastern New South Wales, Oz it is supposed to get to 36 deg C (97 deg F) here on the coast, but 20 miles inland where I work it will be 45 deg C (113 deg F). Luckily I won't be working tomorrow.

I grew up in that town. I don't ever remember it getting much over 40 C/100 F. To get to 45C/113 F is just crazy.

And snow in Florida? That's crazy too. I've seen photos of a frozen fountain, and Niagara Falls frozen in mid fall.

Helen

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 10:50 AM

Massachusetts could be in for a thaw,
and I'm worried it could be too much too soon --
the last thing we need is flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jan 18 - 11:02 AM

Is it true what they said on the news,
that in parts of Australia
the asphalt on the highways
is literally melting in the heat ??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 04:35 PM

said it before, say it again:

DREICH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 11:24 PM

Hot. Hot, hot and more hot. Another heatwave this week.....I am well and truly over summer.

Roll on autumn.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 18 - 02:58 PM

The Winter Terrorists have been happy campers of late,
with one snowstorm after another.
We have been through the list of names through the letter R, next comes S.
The residents, not so happy.
Trees down, power lines down, power out.
Coastal homes flooded, some of them obliterated, evacuations.

We may get a few days to breathe before the East Coast
has another storm.
So it's cold enough for the snow and the snowmelt to
freeze overnight into black ice;
enough above freezing in the daytime to melt snow and ice a bit at a time.
Yesterday THE SUN CAME OUT for a few minutes before setting,
the rest of the day there were these roiling boiling grey-blue clouds
that gave no rain or snow but swept rapidly overhead.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 10:50 AM

Whine, whimper, bleat, moan, and any number of deletable expletives.
We don't need any more snow over here in the northeast US,
but the forecasters are agreed
that we're going to get it anyway.
And some households are just now getting electrical power restored
after as long as a week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 01:43 PM

in one word:
white.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 09:11 AM

It stopped snowing and the sun has come out.
The sun is welcome.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 18 - 11:50 AM

Catching our breath after too many blizzards.
Snow, snow, stay away . . .
we're still digging out from under the re-frozen snow from last time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Mar 18 - 06:27 PM

Donuel,
what kind of storm hit the DC area today?
Was it snow, freezing, or simply rain?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 01:14 PM

Pennsylvania is getting buried under falling snow,
and there is heavy snow in Baltimore as well,
so I wonder about Washington DC --
unless they are warm enough for rain.

The snow has yet to arrive in the Greater Boston area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 05:45 PM

We in & near DC had a lot of wet snow this morning. I got 5-6", but it slowed & pretty much quit after 1:00PM...It is above freezing, so a day or so and a lot will be gone.
It was NOT a good idea to be driving during rush hour, but we are in no serious trouble.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 07:38 PM

I gotta run up the genie. Make sure she's up for anything. Shouldn't be bad according to ECanada but I got seagulls up the ass here (again!). Seagulls can see way out to sea, see? And when seagulls see what they see coming in from the sea, the get away from the sea. Of course, it was garbage day today so... we'll know how much snow we're gonna get after it stops snowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 18 - 07:43 PM

Environment Canada zero. Seagulls 5. Man it's nasty outside. Seagulls can see way out to sea, see? EC just look at maps.

Gots ta put me big gums on ta walk 19 steps ta mudder's place and kick the white away from her door ta get 'er open, eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Mar 18 - 08:19 PM

By now I hope your big gums have taken you back the 19 steps to your place!
Seagulls can be great weather indicators.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 12:11 PM

Gnu?
Could you stick your head above the snow
long enough to tell us that
you and your mother are still alive?

I look at the current weather map
and I see Nova Scotia covered in snowstorm radar symbols.
That means close to New Brunswick and Gnu.

Winter and snowstorms
just will not let up
in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 09:19 PM

Gnu posted on Mudcat Cafe's Facebook page 1 hour ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 18 - 05:05 PM

gray, gray, gray.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Apr 18 - 10:04 AM

Not nearly enough above freezing, that's what it's like.
Need the long underwear and turtleneck sweaters all over again.
And it hasn't even started precipitating.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Apr 18 - 05:05 PM

snow ... snow ... what do we want with yet more snow ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 18 - 11:17 AM

The sun came out for a few hours. That's NEWS,
after the Patriot's Day Marathon was held in the rain and wind yesterday.
However, the Boston Red Sox postponed their Patriot's Day Game,
they'll reschedule it for May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 18 Apr 18 - 11:41 AM

Here in Perth County, we're having Winter, Part Trois. First we had lots of snow in December and a bit of cold in January, then a protracted thaw in February. Then it snowed a bit more in March, and stopped and warmed up again. But then we got to participate in the Southern Ontario Ice Storm With Extra Wind, which has been succeeded by yet another bout of snow.

Good thing we haven't taken the snow tyres off the car yet. The robins are looking somewhat disconsolate, however.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Apr 18 - 12:56 PM

It's not truly Spring until we have seven full days without a trace of snow -- not sticking on the ground, not flakes in the air.

Monday I drove home from a wonderful weekend in Brunswick, Bath, and Bristol, Maine. It was gray, damp, and cold all weekend and I saw flakes in the air mid-day.

I drove home to Nottingham, New Hampshire via I-95 on Monday. What an incredibly TEDIOUS drive! Wind, rain, fog... Sleet as I was passing through Yarmouth, remnants of early morning snow in the grass and rock crevices around Biddeford.

The temperature kept rising, degree by degree, from 34°F in Harpswell to 39°F when I got home. Snow on the side of the road after I crossed Rte. 125 in Lee, NH and I turned into a white driveway. A very slippery hard white sludge was outside my car door as I debarked and covered the deck.

Just tired of it. A year ago it was 83°F. I'm not seeing any leaf buds on trees and damned little greening up of grass.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 03:59 PM

A good soaking of spring rain in southern New England.
People are trimming their lawns for the first time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Apr 18 - 02:08 PM

Great black-gray clouds overhead, one has to keep the umbrella handy.
But the wind has stopped blowing,
the temperature is rising,
and for the first time in lo these many months
the trees have new green leaves.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 May 18 - 02:15 PM

The only thing that doesn't look enough like
the first day of May,
is the bare trees. It's been cold and wintry for so long
that the trees are JUST NOW budding with new green leaves,
many remain bare.

But after several straight days of spring rains
and cloudy skies,
today the sun comes out
and EVERYTHING perks up. It's pretty as a picture.

The blossoming shrubs and trees, like the forsythia and dogwood,
still have blossoms on them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 May 18 - 11:04 PM

Suddenly, it's summer--at least it was today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 18 - 01:57 PM

Yes, I reckon that all the heaps of frozen dirty snow have melted and evaporated hereabouts, by now.
Northern New England may be another matter,
but even there the ski resorts have closed for the season.

JennieG, how's the weather in Oz?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 May 18 - 08:41 PM

And today, humidity! My body needs time to adjust.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:40 PM

Had a few beautiful days in the mountains of North Georgia {USA}, but today it's cloudy and humid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:51 PM

What's the weather like where I am?
Lovely!
Of course, I'm in Northern California, in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.
Wildflowers are good this year, too.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:57 PM

And the frogs, Joe?
Are they still making noise?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 May 18 - 11:38 PM

Autumn has finally arrived so right now it's pleasant in the sun, much cooler in the shade with that chilly little breeze blowing. This morning the temperature here dropped to 3.3 deg C, I don't know what that is in F but I can tell you it's not quite warm.

Trees are changing, leaves are turning. Summer started early and went on for (it seemed) much longer than usual; it's been very dry, so plants are dying everywhere. The drought is biting hard.

But - it will rain eventually! Until then "we'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 18 - 04:22 PM

Just hoping we stay with the current season for a little while.
It does seem as though the seasons with the solstices
are eating into the seasons with the equinoxes,
from both sides.

For today, it is the season of the current equinox, and pleasant.
I'm just scared that
solstice weather will barge in
and flatten the joys of the present season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 May 18 - 01:04 PM

Had frost yesterday morn. Yuppies are uppity. Never seen frost this 'late'! I ask, "Where are they from?" Do they not understand the lunar cycle?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 May 18 - 05:16 AM

gnu,
no, I didn't realise the lunar cycle could affect the likelihood of frost.
What's the theory?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 May 18 - 10:55 AM

Cool overcast day today,
and I'm just so thankful that
it isn't what it was four weeks ago -- snow and ice...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 May 18 - 01:49 PM

FreddyHeadey... T'ain't no theory. Ya don't plant until after the full moon in June round these here parts. Now, the moons are late this year so ya gotta watch the sky and the tree buds carefully. Yer best bet is watching fruit tree buds... maples and such, not so much. Twas -2C here this AM but the wind kept the frost down. Most farmers (in the backwoods) will plant around May 26, three days ahead of the next full moon but that is still a situation to watch carefully. Some crops can stand a slight frost... others, not so much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 May 18 - 09:52 PM

A litle farther south than gnu's home, we in Rhode Island say not to plant until after the last full moon in May, but many people ignore that.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 May 18 - 03:39 PM

The sun came out today!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 18 - 04:41 PM

What are mammatus clouds? I've heard of cumulonimbus clouds, but never mammatus clouds.

Thankfully the tornado watch is well to the west of us.

We're still expecting severe thunderstorms and maybe hail. Sigh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 May 18 - 10:26 PM

Downpour, thunder, and lightning here earlier. Had my flashlight handy but didn't need it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 18 - 08:51 PM

10 inches of rain this week will result in big floods tomorrow.
Railroad tracks in our area have no earth under the rails for 10 or more feet, its washed out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 18 May 18 - 05:30 AM

It's a fine day for weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 May 18 - 01:13 PM

Green and humid, which is weird for eastern Massachusetts in May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 May 18 - 09:07 PM

Humidity. Luckily the temps aren't too high yet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 May 18 - 03:04 PM

Rain, rain, you need not go away,
it isn't the rain that bothers everybody at the moment,
it's the pollen and the allergies.
Complaints and lamenting everywhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 May 18 - 01:29 PM

The season of tropical storms is off to a windy start.
People are looking back at last year's Hurricane Maria
and ruefully observing that initial casualty reports were inaccurate.
Amongst other things.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 18 - 02:57 PM

Day two of pickaxing some more flood control ditches around the house.

Storms of 6 to ten inches of rain in this day of climate change is more than engineers expected 40 year ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jun 18 - 02:20 PM

Glad to hear that Mrrzy doesn't have a flooded home even though floods are in the vicinity.

Staying for a few weeks in Arizona, where the only floods are flash floods. It is very dry indeed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 03:54 PM

After the harsh past winter in southern New England,
visiting central Arizona is such a shock
as to feel like being on a different planet.

What's it like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 06:44 PM

Today was warm, but not hot.
Last night we had a sudden downpour.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 18 - 05:35 PM

Just drove south from Phoenix to Tucson, Arizona.
There are many more saguaro cactus here.
Air pollution worse than usual:
dry as it is,
the air has a haze to it.

Phoenix is so terribly FLAT FLAT FLAT
regardless of the outcroppings of hills and mountains about it.
Tucson is another animal:
ridges, arroyos, ditches, steep rises.
It looks like permanent folds in a wrinkled crust of the earth.
Kind of fantastic to the eye.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 12:44 PM

I told them we could have frost until late June this year. They called me crazy. Frost *again* tonight. Blueberry, grape, and other, farmers are hanging their heads. There are still apple blossoms on Mum's tree... even the birds won't eat those ones. My wild strawberries seem reasonably well.

Full Strawberry Moon isn't until the 28th. I told them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jun 18 - 03:56 PM

One week at a southern Arizona resort, starting now.
This part of the country has summer monsoon.
However this is the dry part of the summer.
The monsoon approaches but it has yet to arrive.
And even though it is dry as a bleached bone out here,
preparations at the resort
are in place for monsoon.

There are racks of umbrellas at every function building,
so one can walk from event to event
without getting soaked by the cloudbursts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 18 - 12:56 PM

There is much murmuring and muttering about monsoons
here in southern Arizona.
The monsoon may begin about the time I re-pack
for the return flight home to New England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 14 Jun 18 - 04:48 PM

Hector the hemi-hurricane has just been through S Scotland: didn't seem as bad as predicted, but plenty of leaves and branches down, and a few whole big trees!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jun 18 - 06:07 PM

Guess who's coming to dinner in southeastern Arizona?

Monsoon!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 18 - 02:07 PM

Monsoon is here, all right, and everything smells good in nature.
Of course, some unfortunate people
require a truckload of sandbags, I saw that on the evening news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 01:29 PM

When my return flight takes me back to the Northeast US on Wednesday,
the flight will probably have to fly through
a nasty storm system parked over the US's midsection.
Better buy some Dramamine.
Then maybe I can sleep through it.
(Dramamine hits me like a ton of bricks.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 05:29 PM

Keb it sounds like you find nasty storms thrilling and exhillerating
Its an index 105 F here

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 08:49 PM

As the feds have warned us for some time, it was hothothot today -- but with dry air & a steady breeze, so it was not at all unpleasant.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 18 - 08:02 PM

The plane takes me East tomorrow.
Why does Arizona feel like home to me?
I don't want to back.

Oh, the weather.
Hot, dry, and clear.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 18 - 07:25 PM

Surprised to find springlike temperatures
stepping off my return flight to Providence, Rhode Island.
After all, there's a solstice this week.

But then, it's over one hundred degrees F. in Arizona, where I started this morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Jun 18 - 12:10 AM

Warning: this post is tthread drift!

It amuses me that the Theodore Francis Green Airport airport is really in Warwick although the pilot announces that the plane is/has landed in Providence. Right now there's a possibility it will be renamed Rhode Island International Airport.

Now back to the weather reports!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jun 18 - 08:38 AM

The nights, at the very least, are still cool and refreshing
in southeastern New England,
but that, alas, will not last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jun 18 - 12:37 PM

Back to rain and humidity,
and warmth rather than high heat.
All the green growing things
are greening and leafing out to the max.

And the BUGS are out and about.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 24 Jun 18 - 06:52 PM

What is so rare as a nice weekend un June, for then if ever comes perfect weather. The weatherman got it twisted this weekend, which was Ham radio Field Day. We were told to expect brief t'storms yesterday but all we got was mild weather with morning fog today, clearing by 8 AM running up to the mid 80's f with mild humidity this afternoon in Central NJ. Loving it! With any luck, we'll do as well next weekend. Saturday we plan to put up a new radio mast and antenna at the local Red Cross and Sunday is the NYC Triathlon. No time to complain, just making the best of what we get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jun 18 - 05:44 PM

11C, rain, windy. Told ya. I am LOVIN' it! But, it will get hot... full moon on the 28.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 18 - 12:34 PM

Last night we had what I suspect will be
our last cool, even chilly, night for some time.

Currently, a new weather system is bringing to southern New England
not only heat, but greater HUMIDITY
and there go the pleasant conditions for sleeping.
The Fourth of July, which I think is a week from today,
will probably be the proverbial "hotter than" --
and muggy to boot.

It was sweet whilst it lasted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 27 Jun 18 - 05:43 PM

100 degrees F.

Was 101 yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jun 18 - 02:44 PM

Last night was overcast, and fixing to rain,
so I did not see the Strawberry Full Moon.

Did anybody else see the Strawberry Full Moon?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Jun 18 - 08:35 PM

Rainy, thunder, lightning in morning.
Downpour, thunder, lightning in afternoon.
Fog, humid in evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 12:52 PM

ChanteyLass, sounds like Greater Providence bore the brunt yesterday.

Now comes the hot muggy stuff.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 06:46 PM

Yes, heat is on its way or already here in much of the US. Here the anticipated heat wave didn't start today--the temp rose to a mere 89 degrees F. The forecast is for a possible 9 consecutive days of temps in the 90s or higher with humidity and little overnight cooling. I know many people live in places where those conditions or worse are the norm, but I don't! I hope the forecasters got it wrong.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 08:02 AM

Dry. Very very dry.

So far this year we have had barely one quarter of our average annual rainfall to date, there is a bad drought. Occasionally we get a few teasing drops of rain.

At least it's winter, so we don't have to contend with summer heat as well!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 06:51 PM

95 in DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jul 18 - 08:57 AM

Keep your head above water, Max ... as well as the rest of you ...

I hear that your half of Pennsylvania
is in danger of flash flooding
with heavy rain falling on already saturated surfaces.

The sooner that weather system comes over to New England,
the better --
we need the break from the high heat indices.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jul 18 - 02:18 PM

From an indoor spot with refrigerated air-conditioning,
looking out through a picture window (library),
the weather is pretty as a picture.
The clear blue sky and puffy white clouds
convey nothing to suggest the humidity / dew-points
contributing to the heat index figures.

Tomorrow we are supposed to have drenching rainstorms,
tomorrow night it begins to cool down,
and by Saturday night
it will be cool and dry for sleeping again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Jul 18 - 11:22 AM

To quote Ella Fitzgerald (or Cole porter):
Too darn hot!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 06 Jul 18 - 01:19 PM

Hosepipe bans, water pressure cuts, threats of drought and possibility of not being able to feed livestock
Welcome to Global Warming big time
I hope Donald Trump and his ilk all spontaneously combust in unison
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 03:47 PM

somewhat improved: humidity dropped at least.
Easier for sleeping at night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 03:59 PM

We have 3 fans going + cold air blower but still like a furnace in our house. When it does eventually cool down to a more manageble 22-24C maximum outside, it still takes several days for our house to cool down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 12:11 AM

Lovely yesterday and today. How long can this last?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 11:48 AM

Whatever, ChanteyLass, it's swell while it lasts,
to crib from Cole Porter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 08:41 PM

Dew points 'way up. Here come the cloudbursts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 02:24 PM

You wouldn't know that there is concern about a drought
in the northeastern US
from the sheer oppression of the humidity outside.
Drenching downpours forecast before the week is out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 03:42 PM

It was 32 degrees Celsius here today in Norfolk UK. It's been like this for many weeks. Not a drop of rain for literally months.

The countryside is slowly dying and turning to dust. They showed a farmer on TV who was harvesting grain with a combine, and he had some of last year's grain to compare. The grain he was getting was like tiny grains of sand, but last year's was plump. The yields are way, way down. Pasture is sere and non-viable for the stock.

I fear for the wildlife. The earth is like concrete and the birds can't get any grubs or worms. There is no water.

There's also the risk of wildfires in the fields, with dry straw lying waiting for the binders to gather it up.

Stupid brainless idiots have been letting off fireworks for various celebrations at the local pub. If fires broke out, we're all on oil-fired energy, and everyone has a tank with 1000 litres of kerosene. Bombs waiting to go off!
We've been putting out water for the birds and as much food as we can spare.
It all reminds me of when I was in Senegal in sub-Saharan Africa. Dry as dust and boiling hot.
It's really worrying and depressing. Please let it RAIN!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 03:57 PM

For all of July here on the north Cornwall coast we've had sunny days, mild nights and temperatures of between 22 and 26 Celsius. It's been much hotter inland, but our weather has been tempered every day by a lovely, gentle seabreeze off the Atlantic. We also had amazing weather in much of June, up to 30 Celsius once or twice. May wasn't half bad either. We've had more barbecues this last few weeks than in the last three summers put together! I'm all brown!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 01:01 PM

My neighbour came back yesterday from shopping in Dereham (very near to our village) and said it had actually RAINED a bit. Everyone had run outside from the supermarket and danced about in the wet, but the light shower had only lasted a few minutes.
I was very jealous - I'd give anything to dance about under a shower of rain. It hadn't rained one drop where we live :(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 02:22 PM

I'm sorry, Senoufou/Eliza, it's disheartening and discouraging
to feel so powerless over something so obvious to everybody.

The rain is positively pouring down here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 06:09 PM

Same deluge here. Of the 79 moons of Jupiter there are a few with precipitation but not all are water/

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 09:26 PM

A few pleasant sleeping nights forecast, with lower humidity,
before it gets muggy and uncomfortable again;
I'll take what I can get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jul 18 - 03:30 PM

Too good to be true,
that's how the weather is at the moment.
Which means it won't last forever.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jul 18 - 08:45 AM

First drop for three weeks, 7mm overnight, but that's all dried up already. Very warm and muggy today with strong sun and the forecast for next week is for extreme heat and humidity, and not much rain. At this rate the summer will outdo 1976, which was "nonesuch."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jul 18 - 05:34 PM

HOT. 109^o (42.8 C).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 03:15 AM

Have you had a hosepipe ban yet Steve? I reckon it won't be long before we all have.

We just use a small plastic bucket to put some water in our modest three tubs of flowers, and to refill the birdbaths and water trays for the wildlife. (We normally have a plethora of tubs and hanging baskets etc but for some reason didn't bother last Spring!)

There have been some very weird cloud formations over our Wensum Valley location. I was praying they would result in thunderstorms and deluges of rain.
No chance...
And they're saying it will reach 33 degrees Celsius next week and still not a hope of any rain. Oh Lord!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MikeL2
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:00 AM

Hi Sen

Here in leafy Cheshire we have been "advised" that the North West area will be prohibited from using the hose pipe from 5th August. I have two lawns that are rapidly burning up along with the plants and flowers.

We have been using up water that we have been washing up with etc but according to my garden water gauge we have had hardly any rainfall since 12th May. Luckily We have not done any pots or hanging baskets because we were away in Wales up until the middle of may.

My No 1 son has rigged up a siphon that my good lady can use to empty the bath water into an outside water butt. I prefer to shower and the siphon doesn't work on this.

This is the worse I can remember and has certainly gone on longer than I remember.

I do remember in 1976 we went up to South West Scotland and when we got there the rivers were dry and there were standpipes in the street.

But as we arrived it started to rain. All I had to do was to get my wife to sing....lol

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:27 AM

We had some lovely cloud formations here yesterday, mainly in cirrus clouds, including some virgae which were windblown horizontally for miles. They're actually snow showers of tiny ice crystals which sublime as they fall into drier air below. We also had a stunning whole-sky sunset of scattered altocumulus clouds with a very strange rainbow in the east exactly at sunset. No rain or anything. I've got a photo and I need to look up what was going on there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:36 AM

I’d have to fill them up with a hosepipe as I’m running low and there doesn’t seem to be any rainwater forthcoming but here in North Norfolk, I can store about 2000L of water and sometimes ponder storing more (I could get at least 1000L container in behind the pigsties). I can (and do) do the veg plot, small greenhouses with that. The water is pumped via a marine fresh water pump/ solar panel setup and some micro irrigation bits. The grass round the back is all brown.

At the front, we’ve lost a few things in pots that weren’t on that micro-irrigation set up but is otherwise OK. The last hosepipe ban here banned this too but did allow soaker hose. I did get some of this for the back bed that dries up very quickly but never got round to changing things over.

I’m finding many days far to hot for me to do anything outside but have been enjoying evenings round the back (where Pip/mum, who loves the heat, and Furball join me) and try to get the odd job done. Washed all the stuff in the (not used at all last year) BBQ shed (an old pigsty) up last night, checked the stove and have a new kettle on order so evening cups of tea should be available soon.

I suppose these pleasant evenings are one good side to this. It would be nice to have a BBQ out there but we’ve not worked out how to get Peter/dad down there and don’t want to exclude him from a meal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 08:57 PM

No thunder. No lightning. Little fits and spits of rain.
And a sky of highly threatening-looking clouds
that promise more than they deliver.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jul 18 - 04:20 PM

Mudcatter gnu has reported that things are tough for him.
Wonder if the weather is bothering him as well...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Jul 18 - 05:16 PM

Our local A&E is packed out with people who have collapsed in the street or had heart problems due to the intense heat.

I keep sweeping up dead dragonflies, moths, bumble bees, wasps, bluebottle flies etc from the floor of our conservatory.
It makes me very sad.

Oh how we long to hear the patter of raindrops!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jul 18 - 07:41 PM

From the radar maps online
it looks as if Scotland finally got some precipitation.
England as well?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jul 18 - 02:31 AM

Great weather for pre historic nemotoads, Some 300 species of ancient worms have re emerged from melted Arctic permafrost and have begun to eat and move again. The meek shall inherit the Earth.
Hottest June ever recorded for the entire planet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Jul 18 - 04:30 AM

36 degrees here yesterday, THEN - violent thunderstorms in the evening and torrential RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN!!!!!!!! Oh thank goodness!

Danced in the front garden and all the neighbours were doing the same. We were soaked through, and glad to be so!

Still pouring down this morning.
The wet earth smells gorgeous.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 28 Jul 18 - 08:15 AM

"Danced in the front garden "
Hope you were fully clothed (just because I wasn't there)
Jim

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Jul 18 - 10:10 AM

I was tempted to strip off Jim, and there were some requests, but I didn't. But I did dance The Floss!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jul 18 - 02:19 PM

Jeri called it correctly, on another thread,
regarding weather in the NE United States,
with the short-term rotation of
thunderstorms and downpours, bringing in cooler drier air
which is quickly replaced by hot muggy humidity,
and back to the storms.

Today is after-the-storm lower-humidity.
Feels better.
England is welcome to the rainy stuff.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 01 Aug 18 - 03:16 AM

Dry, very dry. Much of Oz is in its third year of very-below-average rainfall, some even longer. Long range forecasts are saying not much hope of rain before next February/March at least. Grass here is a thing of the past, farmers' stock is dying off, native animals - kangaroos etc. - are dropping where they stand.

Not much we can do about it, except cope as best we can......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Aug 18 - 08:26 AM

Historic hottest ever recorded temperatures in multiple locations as high as 127 yesterday. I think I know why

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MikeL2
Date: 02 Aug 18 - 10:33 AM

Hi

i have a separate shower with it's own electric heater. I have had it for some years now.

Like Steve when I work in the garden or when it is especially hot I shower out side. We are fairly well private so it is no problem there.!!! At lest I thought we were until a neighbour came into the Pub and during the evening let on that they could see me from their house.

This didn't bother me - many years in the Air Force and more in the Rugby club I am used to not being concerned about my nudity.

Later in the evening I told him I was surprised they could see me. He said "well my wife found out that if they stand on the toilet seat in the bathroom we can just see you." This was a number of years ago. I don't do it now.

PS. we have just heard that United Utilities who supply our water have decided to remove the hose pipe ban that was due to me on from Sunday 5th August.

cheers Mike

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Aug 18 - 03:53 PM

We have a heat advisory warning in effect at the moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Aug 18 - 06:12 PM

When I got into my car in the mid-afternoon, its outdoor temp reading said 100. It had been parked in full sun. After a few minutes of driving the reading had dropped to 97--plenty hot enough. It stayed at 97 as I continued to drive.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Aug 18 - 01:26 PM

A big system of storms just came through here.
The good news is that its movement was rapid.
As it was, there has been flash flooding;
had the storms moved more slowly, the flooding would have been deeper.

No tornadoes where I actually live,
although a tornado touched down a county or two to the west.

Wonder if we can visualize the storms hurrying over to the UK?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Aug 18 - 07:07 PM

And today, you would never know that we got any relief yesterday.
Same old same old, high heat, high humidity,
faraway blue sky looks as though
it ought to be cooler 'way up there
than it is 'way down here.

Refrigerated-Air-Conditioning working overtime, day AND night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 01:29 PM

Might as well be in Arizona as Massachusetts, hot as it is.
Advisories, warnings, these extend OVERNIGHT as it will not cool off
even when the sun goes down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 05:51 PM

Massachusetts is not a monsoon zone.

But we have an occasional monsoon day, and if ever there was one,
this is it.
We've already had drenching rains for the better part of an hour
under thick dark clouds.
Then the sun came out,
and NOW it's pouring down rain with the sun shining.
Must be a rainbow somewhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 10:26 PM

We (North of Wash DC) have had a lot of rain the last month... but the really heavy, long-lasting ones have been on either side and below & above my specific location. A few days it has rained all day... but not heavily... and I have seen really strong rains that lasted only 10 minutes or so. Perhaps the Rain Gods remember that they flooded MY basement 4-5 times the last few years and THEY are giving me a break.

Now I've probably jinxed myself by commenting...
watch this space.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 06:19 PM

Something unusual is reported on Cape Cod.
It wasn't the ocean surf doing a surge.
It was the rain coming down in inches per hour.
Regardless of the ocean,
streets had to be closed due to flooding,
and there were power outages.

But I merely heard this over the car radio,
as I don't live near the shore.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Aug 18 - 06:30 PM

Well, we have had a day or two to catch our collective breath here.
The storm systems, however,
are not done with us.

The whole weekend could be rained out,
as well as early next week.
Temperatures may cool thereby,
but no let-up with the muggy humidity.

Now if we could only shove the rainstorms
clear over to the United Kingdom ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Aug 18 - 03:18 PM

Well,
somebody has to post message number 1900.

The sky here has got a lid on it.
A lid of dark gray rainclouds.
And the lid/ceiling is expected to stay on the sky hereabouts
for the next four days or better.
It doesn't rain ALL the time.
It just hovers overhead and looks threatening.

Where it DOES rain there are flash-flood warnings posted.
And the humidity never lets up, not even overnight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 18 - 02:49 PM

The sky still has a lid on it. Ceiling. However you describe it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Aug 18 - 01:20 PM

"August: cold, and dank and wet --
Brings more rain than any yet."


And so help me,
this year it's true!

Outside, it thinks it's April.
The rain is POURING out of the gutters and drainpipes.
No itsy-bitsy spider has a ghost of a chance
of climbing up the water-spout at the moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Aug 18 - 02:35 PM

The lid came off of the sky today
and something was seen that hasn't been seen for days and days:
blue sky, puffy white clouds and bright direct sunshine.

(Still muggy/sticky/humid though.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Aug 18 - 06:23 PM

rain all over again ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Aug 18 - 01:49 PM

Here's a thing beyond my understanding:
the wind is out of the east,
and east of us is the Atlantic Ocean,
so it's a sea-breeze.

I get that it is cooling.
And ... it's also DRY. Not humid or sticky.

However it works,
it is welcome relief after the humidity and the rain-flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 18 - 12:30 PM

Winds in the east, mist comin' in
Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin.
Can't put me finger on what lies in store,
But I feel what's to happen all happened before.
Only this time its coming far faster
Than your average disater

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 18 - 12:41 PM

1906 was the # of that last post. hmmm ah oh
A great earth quake that happened before in San Francisco is going to happen again but not in San Francisco

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 11:17 AM

In Hawaii, Hurricane Lane is meeting Kilauea this week.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/hurricane-lane-could-cause-white-out-landslides-with-kilauea-volcano.html

"Other volcanoes have interacted with hurricanes and the results have been disastrous," said Tracy Gregg, an associate professor of geology at the University of Buffalo. "Kilauea is being polite, in comparison."

Volcanic eruptions have the most potential for catastrophe when they are spewing huge columns of ash and gas into the atmosphere, like Mount St. Helens in 1980 or Pinatubo in 1991, scientists say.

"They are putting heat and ash into the atmosphere and that interacts with the moisture in the hurricane and can cause the ash to glob into little balls while it is up in the air and fall down as essentially hail stones" and cause landslides, Gregg said.

Gregg described it as "two monsters passing in a closet. They are really not going to notice each other. They are just going to keep doing what they do."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 04:55 PM

I do believe Donuel was quoting the Brothers Sherman,
and one of their lyrics for Mary Poppins,
a post or three back.
Sounds like a lyric sung by Bert the chimney sweep
early in the Disney film.

Donuel, I hope you survive the Hawaii hurricane...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 18 - 07:12 AM

I assure you that this Hawaiian storm story is just my unique way of warning and advising that one can not truly run away from nature.
You can try but you just run away into nature.
However I'd still run from fire if I were you.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Aug 18 - 02:05 PM

The humidity is cranked back up again in the Northeast US.
Excessive Heat advisories in effect,
and then those weather patterns of
cloudbursts and drenching rains will cool things off ...

some schools have begun for the year already,
even before the long holiday weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Aug 18 - 04:02 PM

After 2 months of smoky skies and unbearable heat, we finally have blue skies and moderate temperatures in the California Gold Country.
The fire spotter plane was overhead yesterday, so there must have been a fire someplace nearby.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 18 - 02:36 PM

Thanks for telling us, Joe. Your part of the world
has had a horrible summer season.

We only need the rain here
in order to break the humidity;
it's like a sauna outdoors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 01:58 PM

Weather like this, we have not seen since the onset of summer:
in autumn it would be a balmy sunny day;
for the Labor Day holiday, one rejoices in the low humidity.
Which will be humid again within the week. Sigh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 18 - 01:36 PM

I looked at our solar minimum yesterday and we only had two sunspots when 57 is a typical maximum.
The Artic block (high pressure region) has rolled over to this hemisphere and El Nino is in full sway.

All this adds up to a WICKED WINTER in east North America this coming year.

Please pretend to be surprised when it happens.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 18 - 01:37 PM

its 105 today in DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Sep 18 - 08:00 PM

Soggy, since you ask.
Here in southern New England,
the weatherperson says that we are benefiting from
what is left of Tropical Storm Gordon:
that's what is dumping rain on us.
Thankfully there is not much wind. It's just awfully damp.

I'm writing from near to Holyoke, Massachusetts,
on the road again.
This means I am further from the seacost than usual.

I expect all of our New England Mudcatters are feeling the rain.
Of course,
the radar maps online indicate heavy rain also in
New York and Pennsylvania from the same system.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 18 - 11:33 AM

The little leftover shreds and tatters that remain of the
hurricane-force system called Florence
have arrived in the northeastern United State coastal area.

I'm not laughing. This is too much to be amusing.
To get to this public-access, rental-time computer,
I had to get in my auto and take a little drive.
well, I made it, soggy altogether.

But the soggy is the least of it.
The rain is torrential. It is coming down with such force
as to limit visibility to fractions of a mile,
and don't ask ME which fractions.
And when that expletive-deleted pickup truck passed me in the passing lane,
the side-splash over my front windshield
effectively blinded my driver's vision for several seconds,
which I am NOT used to, especially in motion.

I'm kind of west of south-west of Boston.
Now, north of Boston,
there has just expired a TORNADO watch.

Chantey Lass! Ahoy! Are you still above water?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Sep 18 - 03:37 PM

I am above water! Thanks for asking. At the moment I'm higher above than usual, on the 2nd floor of the local library. I'm having wifi problems at home so I'm spending more time here than usual.
I've had no problems, but it's raining with occasional thunder now and most of the day. I haven't even heard of problems in low-lying parts of RI that often flood. Maybe that's changed. I'll have to tune into tonight's local news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 18 - 06:56 PM

It stopped raining and the sun came out,
which sounds utterly uninteresting
unless
you have just had torrents of rain for hours....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 12:43 PM

I did hear on last night's news that there was some flooding in low-lying areas in RI.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 09:34 PM

Drying out at last, north of the Long Island Sound.

Further south down the Atlantic seaboard,
it will be a long time before they finish getting dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 06:53 AM

Storm Ali ravaged its way across Ireland and Scotland yesterday: 2 lives lost in Ireland, many trees down, no trains from Edinburgh or Glasgow (not "leaves on the line" but trees on the line), power cuts, scary Easyjet "drop" in the sky over Edinburgh with pilot having to make 4 attempts at landing before getting down safely. Much calmer and sunny this morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 01:08 PM

Thank goodness for some cool "Indian Summer" that isn't TOO cold.
I hope the muggy humidity of the past summer really is past.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Sep 18 - 02:26 PM

It's rather better now.

After a tropical-style rain deluge,
all green growing things are showing the green as if there were no tomorrow.

Appropriate, in a way, as autumn starts officially in a matter of hours with the equinox. Soon the leaves will change color.
But for now, it is gratifying
to see grassy lawns that are green, now brown or yellow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 18 - 01:45 PM

The humidity is gone, and not before time!
No need for refrigerated air-conditioning service overnight
to make the apartment comfortable for sleeping.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 12:46 PM

grey, grey, grey. The sky has a low ceiling today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 12:51 PM

In North Texas the mornings have a fall-like feel, but by afternoon it's hot and muggy. Same ol' same ol'. Soon, though, autumn will be fully in the air. We usually worry about the first frost in late October or early November.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 02:02 PM

At least we got a break from the rain ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Oct 18 - 11:46 AM

... and today the sun came out
and lit up the autumn colors in the maple tree leaves.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 01:07 PM

It's picture-postcard-perfect at the moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 03:14 PM

Yesterday was so warm and sunny I sat on The Bench and got a bit sunburned!

Today was as dark as the hakes and drizzling with rain. But the car headlights and the shop windows lit up made us feel very Halloweeny/Guy Fawksey/Christmassy. The world and his wife seem to have had the same feelings, because everyone was headed 'up the city'.

Lots of Halloween stuff, Crimbo decorations and cards everywhere, and the clothes shops now have winter clothes for sale (thick puffa jackets and nice cosy cardigans)
Our central heating is on full blast this evening. Cats are about three feet long on the sofa with big smiles.

Husband is like a little kid. Every time he sees anything with a picture of Father Christmas on, he points and calls out, "Mon ami! Mon ami!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 02:14 PM

Here comes that rainy-day feeling again ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 11:14 PM

The power went out for a bit since its so wet and rainy from Michael.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Oct 18 - 03:03 PM

Any time now, the leaf burning will start, regulations or no regulations.
Hope there is time to enjoy some refreshing not-too-cold
early autumn air
before the fires are lit and the smoke starts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Oct 18 - 11:58 AM

Is the sun afraid to come out ??

My umbrella wants replacing ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 16 Oct 18 - 05:18 PM

unbelievably warm and gorgeous. dark red leaves, which is unusual for west coast USA..usually yellow and brown.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Oct 18 - 10:42 PM

Here in the middle of RI, more or less, the leaves have only begun to change colors. There's a maple tree on my condo's property that I used to photograph to post it on Facebook, but for the last two years heavy rains and winds knocked the leaves off the tree while they were still mostly green. I hope I'll get a chance to snap a pic if it finally turns bright this year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Oct 18 - 06:14 PM

I do wish the landlord would turn the heat on ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Oct 18 - 03:18 PM

Oh, my goodness! No heat? Yuck!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 18 - 03:58 PM

... and bare trees, for the first time in months.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Oct 18 - 10:35 AM

We woke up to a light dusting of snow this morning - currently staying with friends in North Bay, Canada. We arrived in Canada on 3rd October and have since been through a heatwave, mild weather, heavy storm with wind and rain, cold days, and now frost and a little snow.

Four seasons, for sure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 18 - 10:48 PM

Sounds like you got the full package, Jennie!

It's pretty weather here, finally, but it was so wet for so long that the ground is still spongy, making any kind of industry in the yard almost impossible. The dogs are tracking in mud still - and a friend on Facebook remarked recently that clean floors are overrated. I must concur.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Oct 18 - 05:42 PM

Tornadoes may have struck in parts of Massachusetts. People sent videos taken on cell phones to local TV news stations. The US Weather Service has to confirm that these really were tornadoes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Oct 18 - 06:21 PM

I believe Massachusetts counted two tornadoes.
Where I was, everything got very very dark
during what ought to have been broad daylight.

The big newsmaker at that moment
was the lightning strike,
which set a church on fire, gutted it completely.
Very vivid film footage on the late night newscasts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 12:43 PM

I found out after I'd posted that there were tornadoes in Lincoln and North Providence, Rhode Island. They are neighboring communities. Where I live, we got dark clouds and a brief downpour.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 07:25 PM

Turned the heat on, the landlord did, finally, by the way.
Just in time for the wrath of God this weekend.
Sorry, I mean, just in time for the nor'easter.

The good news is,
the temperatures are still warm enough that
it will be a rainy nor'easter,
and even overnight it will not turn to ice.

Winter nor'easters are a different can of worms ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 07:40 PM

Were you traumatized by a weather event in your life?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 07:42 PM

Who wasn't?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 04:48 PM

Today we drove through The Beautiful Land of Much Falling Snow and The County of Drizzling Rain to our next destination.

Of course it stopped raining a moment or two after we arrived.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Oct 18 - 02:13 PM

Sunny and fairly warm for late October, but yesterday we had heavy rain and parts of the state--not mine--had high wind warnings.

Subject: RE: What's the climate like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 06:00 AM

The climate is heavy antisematism and falling Jews in Mr Rodgers niehborhood with bad hair days for the President in the midwest..

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 01:21 PM

The sun was gracious enough to come out today,
after a stormy weekend.

Ach, those poor people in the Merrimack River Valley.
You know, where there was an explosion in the gas main
and there are thousands of properties with no heat.

First, Columbia Gas promised that before the Thanksgiving Holidays
(always in late November)
all the gas/heat service would be restored.

Now they're saying,
it will all be restored before Christmas.

Have we not heard this song and dance before somewhere?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Nov 18 - 09:51 PM

I'm in Arizona where it's clear and dry, and pleasant.
Today has been Election Day
and back home on the US's East Coast,
they've had to struggle through high winds and rainstorms.

A rocky election year, this one.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Nov 18 - 11:44 PM

Pouring rain but mild temps today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 07 Nov 18 - 05:37 PM

beautiful sunny day. spring flowers are blooming.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Nov 18 - 08:44 PM

Todaythe sun, not rain, rules in southern New England, too, and mild temps continue.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Nov 18 - 06:44 PM

Back in Massachusetts,
and stormy weather headed this way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Nov 18 - 12:11 PM

Thank goodness for the warming up and the rain.
These followed our first snowstorm of the season,
and the rain did a first-rate job of melting much of the snow.

Meanwhile, up in the Merrimack Valley,
beleaguered Columbia Gas,
faced with literally hundreds of residential customers
who don't have their houses and kitchens back
in time for Thanksgiving holiday family feasts,
has contracted with I don't know who
to provide FREE THANKSGIVING DINNERS
to the afflicted families. Sheesh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Nov 18 - 06:24 PM

In southern New England it is warm enough for rain,
but this is due to change soon:
the forecasters are telling us
to brace for a record-breaking chilly Thanksgiving holiday
-- if not actually record-breaking,
then the wind-chill factor will make it feel that way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Nov 18 - 10:20 AM

Blow, blow, thou winter wind ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Nov 18 - 01:35 PM

and the sun came out and the wind settled down.
And everything is frozen hard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Nov 18 - 07:19 PM

Yesterday, in fact, only the 'remote' would unlock
the car parked in the open air,
as the lock on the driver's door was frozen stuck.

Today the door lock put up a struggle, but finally let the key open the door latch.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 24 Nov 18 - 04:44 PM

Here in Ambridge, UK it's been a dull, dull day :-(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 18 - 01:14 PM

Thankful for the above-freezing temperatures now,
as there are showers.
I know it will snow in due time, but I can expletive deleted wait.

Subject: RE: What's the weather you like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 18 - 05:37 PM

I like weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Nov 18 - 03:38 PM

Keberoxu, about a week ago I got the message on my car's control panel that my electronic key fob's battery was getting weak. I replaced it immediately. No sense getting caught in snow or cold and having to pry the mechanical key from the fob to get into my car!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 11:13 AM

I hear you loud and clear, ChanteyLass.

Tomorrow is December instead of November,
and the first day of winter may be a few weeks away on the calendar,
but for my money it's winter here and now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 04:19 PM

Sunset times horrify me. So do sunrise times. Winter Solstice, rescue me from darkness!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 10:29 PM

It was a fine day for weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 18 - 12:59 PM

I know what you mean, ChanteyLass, about the recent time change
from daylight time to standard time.
That afternoon darkness is positively shocking to me.

One last uncommonly balmy day up here, which I will celebrate
by getting a haircut.
Then it is supposed to get beastly cold, and stay there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 11:11 AM

Except for earthquakes wildfires and tornados this December's weather is canceled until further notice. Possibly until Dec. 21st when darkness 'grows shorter'.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 18 - 06:29 PM

The southern US is getting horrible weather,
with snow, rain, and flooding.

In the northeast part of the country, though,
we have bitter deadly cold
(heaven help the homeless under such conditions)
but the skies are calm and clear.

That said, storms and rainfall in past months
have left the wetlands, where I live and drive my car,
dangerously high in water levels;
the river at one point is well over its banks,
and you cannot distinguish the river from the marshes
as both are under water. It's an odd situation
for December.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Dec 18 - 06:45 PM

and how is everyone else holding up?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 18 - 09:33 PM

Yes there was a Midwest Earth quake 4.4 and recent tornados this week.
Its the new mid Decemburr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Dec 18 - 12:55 AM

Very stormy here! Much lights and music, and very heavy rain.....bu the official weather station on the other side of town recorded nothing. Not one drop. If you aren't under those black clouds you miss out.

And the ukulele group has a supposed-to-be-outdoors gig this evening. Plan B, I am told, is the local hall. The same gig last year ended early because of storms.

October to April is storm season in Oz.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Dec 18 - 11:18 AM

Much of the UK is promised a phenomenon called 'freezing rain'. Apparently it doesn't occur often, and consists of super-cooled droplets forming solid sheets of ice on roads surfaces, cars etc.
I'm so worried about the wildlife (wind is very strong just now and it's bitterly cold) and homeless people sleeping rough on the streets.
We always donate to the Salvation Army, as they do much for the homeless. But the trouble is they don't allow any alcohol to be brought into their hostels, and this means many of the needy (often alcoholic) don't venture in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 02:00 PM

The sun just came out! How startling.
We are in the middle of a thoroughly "dreich" spell. Dreary gray.
At least we are well above freezing,
and some of the flooded rivers and aquifers
are actually gradually lowering,
which is a relief.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 08:57 PM

I thought about complaining about the rain, but instead I'll write, "At least it's not snow!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Dec 18 - 07:43 AM

wide spread hail storms today!

Where I was 8km from the CBD we had lots of heavy rain & 3 short hail storms, largest hail about 2cm (almost an inch) in diameter but most was much smaller. When I got home (1km from CBD) I'd heard I'd missed golf ball size hail, my neighbour saw them smashing into roofs of cars below.

Sydney storms: city battered by tennis ball-sized hail as fronts hit NSW coast

Sydney's storms saw cauliflower-shaped hailstones batter the city. here's how they formed (read on)

google image search on "hail storms sydney 20th dec 2018" brings up some great pics


sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Dec 18 - 08:20 PM

Still in the storm season here too! Our daily thunderstorm arrives sometime after 4 p.m. More is forecast for today.

Sandra.....as one who survived The Great Sefton Hailstorm of 1990 and lived to tell the tale (albeit with several broken windows and skylights) I don't need to look at Sydney storm pics. Already done it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 18 - 06:39 AM

Yep its the first day of winter and this morning it is 60 degrees and will go up to 64 today. Springtime Tornados tore up an Amazon warehouse this week. The weather is bizarre to the extreme.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Dec 18 - 03:26 PM

It's 62°F. here in southern New Hampshire...and raining. Not exactly seasonal weather but not exactly unheard of, either.

We had two plowable snowfalls in November and last week was well below freezing...enough to maintain the patches of ice between my car and the house that were left over from the one inch of white concrete that precipitated a week and a half ago. (That's what quickly turned into that sheet of ice.)

At least it's not snowing...

Linn (fondly remembering a couple years ago when it didn't snow until the second week in February)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 21 Dec 18 - 04:34 PM

mild and sunny in SW Washington USA

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 18 - 03:45 PM

ach, that WIND.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 18 - 11:10 AM

Have traveled west, in Massachusetts, to a Berkshire Mountains resort in Lenox for Christmas.
And look here! It's snowing on Christmas Eve!
No blizzard, no wind, no ice to speak of --
just gently falling white stuff amongst the bare trees.
Pretty as a seasonal holiday picture.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 18 - 03:24 PM

It looks like a picture postcard outside. A very chilly one!
The sun will be setting shortly,
so the shadows are long
on the fallen snow under the bare trees;
clear blue sky, and no wind to speak of.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Dec 18 - 02:08 PM

Keberoxu, you've left me wondering which of the Lenox resorts you are at. I can think of two plush ones! And I understand if you don't wish to make your whereabouts public now or after returning home.
In the Berkshires I stay at a budget motel in Lee. I took myself there most recently for my birthday weekend and may return in February if my son and his family use their timeshare near the motel where I stay. There may be a problem, though. His wife recently switched jobs and may not be able to get those days off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Dec 18 - 04:26 PM

It was actually 14 degrees today, according to our car thermometer. Unheard of in late December. No wind either. Felt quite hot in my winter jacket. I'll be looking out my summer tops if this goes on!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Dec 18 - 05:20 PM

Yesterday morning at 0523 (AM) we had a magnitude 5 earthquake right under our buts here in Anchorage. Oh, you wanted the weather? Well, it's been snowing lightly but regularly so that we've got a nice layer of powder every-freaking-where and it is about 20 degrees F which is about -7 C. Which is typical South-Central weather. We had a lovely white Christmas and so far so good. This is seriously nice weather for the place and season. Don't jinx it, Jetstream!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Dec 18 - 12:24 PM

Gosh robomatic, that's absolutely terrifying! I've been looking at some of the videos of it actually happening. Hope you and your family/friends are safe, and that your property hasn't been too damaged.
I see that Alaska is prone to earthquakes but that this one was bigger than most.
Stay safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 29 Dec 18 - 03:16 PM

We're enduring what is being called "a low level heatwave", meaning days are in the 35-38 deg C range......better than the areas who are suffering through 40-plus temps, though.

Ah well. It is summer, after all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Dec 18 - 03:52 PM

Oh I want 35 degrees Centigrade!!! Now!!! Even as high as 40 would be absolutely fabulous!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 18 - 02:53 PM

Warm enough for heavy rain for New Year's Eve here.
I hope that the places that got snow and ice last week
get a chance to thaw or dig out, or both.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 18 - 03:11 PM

Sunny, 16F (-9C) with a wind chill of 10F (-12C). Tonight will be clear and -6F (-21C); tomorrow clear with a high of 14F (-10C) and a low of -1F (-18C).

The wind has been so hard until a bit ago that I wasn't going to go out to blow snow. I'm still not going to. There's about 6 inches (15cm) on the ground. Maybe by tomorrow morning it will all blow away.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 19 - 12:09 PM

Rapparee, Happy New Year.
I thought you lived in Idaho's banana belt??

Here, the contrast is striking with New Year's Day one year ago.
It was below freezing then.
Today there is a SPRING wind blowing and it feels balmy.
Never mind, it will all freeze up hard
within a week's time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 19 - 12:29 PM

An astronomical event is coming which sounds as though
it could certainly affect the weather.

21 January 2019: Super Blood Moon
combines a total lunar eclipse with perigee, the closest that the moon comes to the earth.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 19 - 09:25 PM

In DC there are scattered Democrats with a stalled Republican front that has shutdown a huge unstable government system.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 09:06 AM

In one word:   dreich.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 11:01 AM

I prefer the yiddish 'drek'

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 19 - 08:56 AM

Back in January 2001 the freezing wind stung my face as I carried our one year old from the car to the shops. Today I lay back and watch one lonely vulture pivot in cloudless sky. It is warm and mild as the sun makes the branches of tall trees glow golden orange. There is a sadness and sinister sense in this winter heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 19 - 08:50 PM

It may be mild around Alphabet City
but around Boston it is below freezing,
and we are being warned about
icy spots on the roads for tomorrow's commute.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:04 PM

To sum up the last three days, rain, fog, and crazy wind chill.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 03:09 PM

Yesterday: snow flurries. Today: below freezing temperatures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 05:03 PM

brrrrr,    brrrrrrr,   and moreover,
brrrrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 01:19 PM

The calm before the storm. Getting out my snow boots.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 08:12 PM

And here comes the snoooooooow ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 10:25 PM

Snow flurries predicted for early Saturday morning. Real snow is expected Sunday. possible ice-covered power wires causing power failure. Time for bread and milk!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Jan 19 - 06:08 AM

Hot......dangerously hot. Last night was the hottest ever recorded in parts of Australia, 35.9 deg in western N.S.W. Heat records are falling as we speak, and mutterings about "when is it too hot to safely work outside" are filling up news stories. This is the hottest weather for over 80 years, not a record we wish to set; we (indeed much of Australia) are suffering a run of daytime temps of over 40 deg.

It seems that night time temps are warming up at a greater rate than daytime temps, and that has health implications. People whose job requires them to be alert during the day are suffering from lack of restful sleep - and that is not good for society.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 05:48 PM

The US winter storm currently grinding its way from west to east
has been named Harper by the Weather Terrorists, as our Gnu calls them.

Who has dug out from under the snow yet?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 11:04 AM

Harper isn't finished yet.
I'm thinking of Gnu and his Mom in New Brunswick.

In the meantime,
some people are measuring snowfall,
and in other places
they are measuring ICE.

I hate ice storms. I cannot express how much I hate ice storms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 06:45 PM

It's so cold that you can feel the chill indoors and out,
no matter how well your heating works. At least, the storm is past.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:39 PM

Well, I got the garage door 'unfrozen' and working again. Wall-to-wall ice. Highways are passable again.

More rain coming after -17C tonight and then it will freeze again. Sigh.

Moncton, NB.ca.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:34 PM

Good grief, gnu. That sounds dire.
Keep your feet under you!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 02:54 PM

Somebody somewhere has been doing rain dances.
It's the end of January, and we have spring weather instead,
well above freezing, and rain pouring down in inches.

Hope New Brunswick got some thawing, as well, friend Gnu.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 04:09 PM

Pissing rain again on the top of the new snow. She's runnin' like ducks, eh? (Newf saying.)

I tire of the Global Swarming. SALT is my defense... lots of salt... lots.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 19 - 11:35 AM

The rain came down, the sun came out,
there was some melting and it was possible
to plow and clear and treat with salt,
and get the road surfaces dry.

Now there is this frigid air mass slouching towards the East.
Like the rough beast in Yeats's "Second Coming" poem.
At least we got the roads clear before it gets here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Jan 19 - 03:29 PM

We got some very bad news this afternoon. Neighbour-across-the-road is in his seventies, but still does a bit of lorry-driving now and then.

He had to deliver a huge wooden prefabricated building to some place in Wales. He succeeded in spite of the snow and icy conditions over there, and the enormous low-loader was to be left in Wales.

A chap picked him up in his small truck to bring him back to Norfolk but the vehicle skidded on the compacted snow and ice, overturned and our neighbour broke his neck.

He was taken by Air Ambulance to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and they operated immediately to relieve pressure on his spinal chord.
His wife says he can feel his legs and his hands are moving a bit. She's going with her son to visit him tomorrow.

The problem is that we don't seem to cope very well with snow here in UK. Other more snowy lands deal with it so much more effectively.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 11:57 AM

The polar vortex we have now was over Siberia last winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 12:17 PM

We are at the 11 year solar minimum this year.
If the sun had a heart beat it would be at rest now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 02:17 PM

Baltic in Argyll!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 02:42 PM

This afternoon there is a warning
about a line of snow squalls blowing through --
it would be over quickly,
but when the squalls hit there is blizzard visibility,
and you know what that means.
I'd better get my driving overwith for the day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 03:32 PM

Here in the Sierra Foothills of California, it's 61 degrees F (16 Celsius), and partly cloudy. We've had a reasonable amount of rain the last 6 weeks, and things are greening up nicely. Our first flowers came out last week - paperwhite narcissus, growing in profusion. I imagine our fruit trees will blossom soon. We'll get some snow before the end of April, but our weather will generally be mild and in the 50s and 60s in the day and 30s and 40s at night.
If you don't live in California, I'm sorry about your weather.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 06:10 PM

You can be sorry for us then, Joe!

Here in north-western N.S.W. it's been a very hot January. Daytime maximum temps are 5.4 deg C above average compared to long term January figures, and overnight minimum temps are 4.4 deg C higher too. This does not bode well for the future.

As well as the long term effects we are fed up with heat. No one is sleeping as well as we should, and days are very draining too. This morning.....10 a.m., as we speak.....is quite smokey, we can smell smoke in the air from fires. We can't see the hills on the other side of the valley because of smoke haze, usually we have a wonderful view for a very long way.

I think I will stay inside today, and drink coffee, and play music, and sew.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 06:21 PM

We are experiencing short days, about 7-1/2 hours daylight, but enjoying increasing light at a rate of 5 minutes a day, and the human organism notices this, if only unconsciously. So there is a chipperness in the air.
Considering the very cold temperatures being experienced throughout the American 'Lower 48' we had chilly but unremarkable weather two weeks ago, to about zero deg F (-12 deg C) which is not news for Alaska. But then we had a warm up to exactly a couple of degrees above freezing, and now we have dangerous conditions of rain mixed with snow falling on ice. So the danger is that we will be falling, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 19 - 12:30 AM

here in sunny Sydney it's not normally as hot as where JennieG lives 400knm to the west. She is normally living in a furnace & I'm living in a sauna, but we both have high temperatures & low humidity at the moment.

Today in the Big Smoke, next to the Harbour it's 38 with 24% humidity at 4pm, & only 32 with 29% humidity in the Small Smoke.

I'm not aware of Sydney's current low humidity, cos it feels like the 80% we had overnight when I was sooo pleased that I'd had my 12" fan fixed yesterday, because had a good blast of very cool air all night.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 19 - 11:57 AM

Two months ago I posted that the rivers near where I live
had risen, before freezing, over their banks.

It's still like that.
The one local route between towns, that I drive on every day,
has some low-lying stretches that cross the
upper part of the Charles River, the twisty turny part
with wetlands and marshes all around.

It gives me a turn to see
how high the ice -- the river level, I mean --
is over the banks and creeping up to the level of the road itself.
Are we in for another year where the river floods the road?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 02:29 PM

A gentle partial thaw is indicated for this week.

It COULD flood but I hope it won't --
better if it helps the river go back down
and uncover the riverbank again,
and the water level
not be so distractingly high and near the level of the route.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 03:09 PM

It was only 6C here today, but gorgeous bright sunshine and no chilly wind. Birds singing like anything, and some Spring bulbs showing a few green tips in the garden.
Hope it's not a false alarm. Last year we had thick snow in March and our village was cut off.
I even managed to sit on my much-loved bench in front of the house for a bit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 03:13 PM

Forgot to add that our neighbour who broke his neck after having skidded in the snow in Wales is still far away in Stoke Mandeville hospital, Buckinghamshire. His poor wife and son are driving all that way to visit him every few days. We fervently hope he won't suffer life-changing, permanent disability.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 10:00 PM

Senoufou, I hope not!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 04 Feb 19 - 03:48 AM

My sister rang to say it had been minus 9 up in her part of Scotland.
The poor girl is having a swanky new bathroom installed and the plumber had to drain down the system and flush out the entire central heating set-up.
This meant she's had no water or heating for a couple of days. At least she has a log fire in her sitting room.
I love Scotland, but it can be bitterly cold in the Carse of Gowrie in winter.
Unlike me, sister has rather hairy legs (she never shaves them) and I'm beginning to think it might be just as well! :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Feb 19 - 02:15 PM

Polar vortex? What polar vortex?
What am I doing with all this long underwear around?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 19 - 05:09 PM

Its not just 65 F, its 65 F degrees warmer than last week

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Feb 19 - 07:10 PM

Max in College Station PA
is probably among those
being confronted by a winter storm system right now.
Tomorrow it gets further north and east,
into New England.
Heavy snow and a possibility of ice ... stay safe, everybody.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 10:39 PM

I don't know how much snow fell, yet.
It was no blizzard, thankfully, as there was not the wind
that goes with a blizzard.
It was just heavy wet slick snow
that fell fast and hard.
Visibility much reduced.

Thankfully, in this part of Massachusetts,
drivers know how to drive properly when it's like this.

It started close to 2 pm when school was letting out and workers
were headed home early,
so traffic was heavy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Feb 19 - 12:11 AM

Today is very nasty because of dust being blown in from the west. The ongoing drought has stripped the land of much ground cover and the topsoil is being blown out to sea.

Our normally expansive view across the valley had dwindled to our neighbour's house across the road, with nothing beyond - just a fog of brown dust. I am staying inside; the lurgy still hasn't diminished and I am coughing like a champion, dust would make it much worse.

At least it hasn't reached the forecast maximum temp of 37 deg C, so we can be thankful for small mercies. 33.7 tops so far.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 04:04 PM

Under blue-sky sunshine,
I am anxiously watching
the river near town, and the marshes and wetlands around the river.
If the present mild weather does not get too mild,
then the resulting slight thaw
will help bring down the water levels
without flooding. It is a near thing.
You don't have to stop the car, or pull over to the side of the road,
in order to look out the car window as you drive across the bridge
and see how high the water is,
and how close to the level
of the bridge and the road.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 06:03 PM

Weather has been good so far this winter. It's been rather mild and without big snowstorms. I wonder what Mom Nature and Old Man Winter are plotting. I fear they are up to something sinister. I fear March.

My driveaway is bare pavement and it's mid February. I can see over
the snowbanks when I pull out of my driveaway. Something is going to happen. I can just feel it. I'm trepidatious.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 12:28 PM

We've had lots of daffodils this year in Applegate, California (2300 foot elevation), and the rhododendron is about to bloom - but we've had snow three times in the last week. Most of it came today, maybe three inches. It's beautiful here in the pines.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 08:25 PM

Max probably got snow again,
and it is headed this way. Again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 09:51 PM

The weather here in Zipolite, Mexico is hot enough that you want a bottle of water along when bumming on the beach. (It's a rough job, but someone has to do it.)

Subject: RE: What's a Super Duper Jupiter full moon?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 12:00 PM

I was browsing NOAA and learned about some new weather satellites that are dedicated to AK,CA and HA when my touch screen opened a site (unseen link) that listed preliminary reports. Going deeper I saw an item called a possible Super Duper Jupiter moon this March due to an unusual alignment. I was immediately reminded of an obscure article from the ESA that an object seen only in infrared may be causing havoc in the orbital mechanics of some of the smaller moons around the gas giants. Ganymede and Titan do not seem to be involved. (stick a pin in this)


I know that small rogue black holes exist and would have an infrared signature like any black hole. Only confirmation of gravitational lensing of an object obviously outside our solar system in the vector of Jupiter as seen from Earth this March will confirm a super massive unseen object and if it is approaching us or not.

But for now this is not a forecast but merely speculation.
Wouldn't it be exciting if a small black hole starts flinging moons and planets around?   May we live in interesting times.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 19 Feb 19 - 12:02 AM

Still dark

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 20 Feb 19 - 04:01 AM

Warm and sticky. If the cyclone headed this way gets here, the extreme weather warning cuts in.

We are expecting 100 mm of rain or thereabouts on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday (that's each day) - after the driest January for years and what, up to now, has been the driest February for years (but next week will fix that!).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 11:07 AM

It's been raining for days here in the mountains of North Georgia.{USA}. The birds are using what used to be my lawn as a bird bath.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 11:28 AM

Well, for once, eastern Massachusetts
did not get the very worst
of the most recent winter storm.
Oh, we got a little of everything --
freezing rain, snow, ice --

but not too much, AND the storm system
brought warmer temperatures
which will clear out much of what is frozen.

Other places got hit by that storm
a good deal worse than my area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 06:47 PM

Just saw some weather radar map video,
and wow --
Phoenix, Arizona is getting clobbered with precipitation.
And they're in the bleeping desert.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 07:01 PM

The perturbations continue for moons beyond Jupiter. While a small black hole does not seem like a usual suspect, a naked singularity moving at a 1/4 SOL is now suspected.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 05:03 PM

We have winter wind headed our way,
storm-force wind,
which is right down there with ice-storms
amongst my nemeseeses.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 09:17 PM

And indeed the wind arrived. Howling, rattling the windows, pushing against doors and making them hard to open. There were power failures in Rhode Island, but my home was not affected.
Now calm has returned to this corner of the planet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 09:22 PM

All-time UK winter high at Kew Gardens, 21.2c, which is a tad over 70F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 19 - 02:13 PM

... and now the SNOW returns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Feb 19 - 04:42 PM

Ah, yes, snow! It's supposed to be gentle, light, and fluffy, but the forecast looks like it'll go on for hours.
Without the wind, today felt much warmer than yesterday even though temps have been about the same.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Feb 19 - 05:47 PM

The forecast was correct about the snow being light and fluffy. Still, dealing with it while recovering from shoulder surgery and having one arm in a sling is . . . interesting. My technique is to have my good arm do the work and the bad one act as a guide. In all things I consider the bad arm the passenger and the good arm the driver.
And more snow is supposed to be on the way, arriving on Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 19 - 10:59 AM

ChanteyLass, did you get dumped on?
Up in Massachusetts it isn't too awful,
but Sunday is supposed to be heavier.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Mar 19 - 09:17 PM

The snow in Rhode Island wasn't as bad as I expected. We probably got the predicted amount of snow, but it wasn't too heavy. I was able to clean my car off without needing to take a break. When I was done, my bad arm was tired but not aching.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Mar 19 - 10:26 AM

I ought to care how many inches of snow fell last night.
I find that I don't.

It's easier to just brush and scrape it off the darned parked car in the lot,
and then get the heck outta there
so the lot can be plowed. Which I managed to do.

It's the heavy sticky kind of snow
which the Weather Channel's Jim Cantore calls
"white mud."

What a lovely visual scene it is, here, if you are so fortunate
that you don't have to get out and
move about in the stuff.
You can't tell, by looking out the window,
that it's the heavy wet type of snow.

All the bare trees are adorned with white as though
they had been covered in cotton wool,
it's pretty enough for a picture.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Mar 19 - 08:20 PM

I got by with a little help from my friends.

I went out and pushed some snow off my car, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of it. Then I went inside for a break. When I came out, someone had finished removing the snow and even cleared about a foot of snow behind it. No neighbors were outside, so I don't know who did that.

I backed the car up until the wheels started spinning. I couldn't go forward or back. Unfortunately, I was now blocking a neighbor's car. My appointment for therapy on my broken shoulder was less than a half-hour later, so from my car I called and said I couldn't make it.

The plow came and saw my predicament. The driver plowed around me, and the neighbor whose car I'd blocked easily removed the clumps of snow the plow had left in front of my tires. I drove back into my usual parking spot, called out a thank you to my neighbor, and went inside.

Before it got dark I went back outside and sprinkled Ice Melt from my front door to my car door. The condo fees are supposed to cover that, but it hadn't been done. Maybe the workers were going to come back to do it when the temperature dropped, but they usually do a poor job. Now I have peace of mind instead of wanting to give them a piece of my mind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 04 Mar 19 - 08:31 PM

don't hate Me please. Not a cloud in the sky. Flowers blooming. Probably 60 degrees. Could not be better.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 19 - 09:36 AM

Nothing to hate, mg.
We will have the weather you're having,
just not at the same time you're having it,
and vice versa.

Good on you, ChanteyLass, and I know what you mean about condos and sidewalks and condo parking spaces.
Whoever pushed the rest of the snow off of your car,
must have watched you doing it
and noticed that you had to favor one arm as you did so.

'Tis the season up here for what I call
parking-lot icebergs -- you know,
what's left when the plowed snow is shoved to the margins.
One of those things cost me a new (actually used) car door recently.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 19 - 05:32 PM

Maple slurpup gonna flow! >:-D

Many up in northern NB.ca are having to shovel out their lines... big snow up there this winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 12:10 PM

In this windy and raw cold,
this is a dreadful time and place to be amongst the homeless.
Today, with its bright sunshine,
is a good day to be indoors
near a window that lets in the sun.
You could actually get pleasantly overheated there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 01:46 PM

Could you move to someplace not so cold
?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 06:13 PM

Yes, cold! Bit windy this afternoon, too, when I had to be out and about.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 19 - 06:08 PM

The storms just keep on coming!
At least it isn't freezing cold now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 12:00 PM

Don't slip and fall, ChanteyLass!
It's slushy and messy underfoot,
what with heavy wet snow and temps just above freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 07:28 PM

Heheheh! This afternoon I returned to the scene of the crime, the cinema where I'd broken my shoulder in the parking lot, to see another Bolshoi Ballet broadcast. It wasn't slippery but might have been earlier before the snow turned to rain. As I walked toward the building, a man called out, "It's closed. There's a power failure." This is the second time that's happened in the 2018-2019 season!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 19 - 07:19 PM

There's some disastrous weather around
-- but thankfully not where I live ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 19 - 12:10 PM

How are you Mudcatters in the US heartland?
I hear the most dire reports of
hellacious weather descending upon your area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 19 - 08:19 PM

its 74 but at night it goes down to 68.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Mar 19 - 03:19 PM

The wind is back. With teeth in it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Mar 19 - 03:35 PM

At the end of October,
the question was posted to this thread
if a weather event had traumatized me in my life.

I wasn't prepared for the question, so I blew it off.

In fact, the tradition of talking about the weather
in my experience is a sort of double-speak,
and I guess I am as guilty of this as anybody.

A retired Dominican friar, whom I used to encounter in the elevator
(he and I lived on different floors of the same apartment complex),
used to greet everyone he met, including me,
with a current update on weather conditions.
This social response had become a habit, second nature, with him.

Which is a commentary of sorts about communal living.
In St. Dominic's Order of Preachers, much is made about community life.
It is only a retired friar, perhaps in delicate health,
who is excused from living in a priory or some such
with any number of fellow friars.

I never suspected that Father such-and-so had been traumatized
by a weather event in his life.
I just thought he was stating his neutrality,
like Switzerland,
in the world of pro- and con- social interactions.

In like manner,
my posts to this thread have kept it visible
whilst other BS threads catch fire, smoke the place up, and crash.

This is not to speak of
the place that vigilance has in my life.
Is all vigilance based on fear? So be it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Mar 19 - 07:27 PM

Thats a good reason. There is always an undercurrent that pushes us.
All I know is that extreme severe weather has only been a near disaster in my life but not for my brother. He lost everything except his family. When a threat comes near I am excited with vigilence but having never been harmed by wind fire and flood I celebrate our good luck.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 29 Mar 19 - 08:00 AM

Seeing as i am in girona spain it is exceptionally nice

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Mar 19 - 08:04 PM

Spring rain. What a concept.
Not snow. Not sleet. Not freezing rain.
Not an ice storm. Not a blizzard.

Just ... spring rain. It's been a LONG time coming.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Mar 19 - 06:07 PM

Some Northerners are still talking about ice.

The only ice left hereabouts
is where the standing water is,
the marshes and wetlands along with
ponds, lakes, and the like.
Especially in the shade.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 02:34 PM

It's April Fool's Day
and the wind is really gusty today.
Doesn't look like winter.
Doesn't feel like summer.
must be spring ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 05:18 PM

Rennes les chateaux.absolutely perfect. Almost too warm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 01:45 PM

Am I in the northeastern United States,
or in the Four Corners region?

Spring is a rather different experience in those two areas
of the same continent.

What is going on outside the window
as I enter data at this public computer station at the library branch,
looks like spring in the Four Corners

-- the Four Corners, for those of you who don't know this expression,
is a cross-shaped formation of state lines in the lower Forty-Eight.
The four states in question are
Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Spring there is not a rainy season.
Spring can mean moisture, insofar as the warmth of the season
results in melting snowpack on mountain peaks,
with the consequence of rising rivers and flash floods.
But the seasonal spring wind in the Four Corners,
in my experience,
is a warm and witheringly dry wind
which loosens up all the dried-up growth that turns into
that unforgettable sight,
The Tumbleweed.

At the moment I am looking at weather for tumbleweeds:
the sky is the driest possible blue, of piercing clarity
and not the remotest sign of humidity.
The wind is dangerous, in fact
power lines have come down in the last twenty four hours
and some people are still without utilities in their residences.

... and have I mentioned dust?
Which region has more dust in it?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Apr 19 - 02:07 PM

Look out the window,
and you see a sight fit for a picture post card.
The sky is THAT shade of blue that, when you see it, you wonder
if the photo has been retouched
because the blue is so intense and clear, the definition of pastel blue.

And the grass is green
and the forsythia is yellow,
and the magnolia blooms
have yet to fall off the tree branches. It's gorgeous.

Now, if only the water level would ease back down.
The spring thaw is in full force.
In my area we have some curled-up lengths of the Upper Charles River
and when I drive over the bridge, on Main Street,

I see the river over its banks and
covering the surrounding marshes,
like a great shallow lake.
God forbid it rises any higher!

If it rises any higher,
the road with my bridge
will flood in several low places,
and one nearby town
will turn into an isthmus, nearly inaccessible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Apr 19 - 09:41 PM

It's raining, it's pouring,
And I feel like snoring.

But it's not even 10 PM,

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Apr 19 - 02:13 PM

Still nervously observing the broad shallow lake,
far too close to the level of the road and the bridge,
where the Upper Charles River and its banks ought to be.
Maybe this nice warm sunshine
will evaporate some of that spring thaw
and the water level will go down where it won't
threaten to flood streets and roads.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 19 - 05:26 PM

Mudcatter Harpgirl, who started this thread,
posted the other day as a guest -- to a different thread anyhow.
Every time I see her member name,
I think of this thread.

The weather? rain, rain,   and more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 19 - 06:44 PM

The oddest things can feel reassuring to me.

For weeks I have been observing the consequences of the spring thaw.
The main road crosses, by bridge, the Upper Charles River,
and many low, marshy areas.
Some of the road's lowest spots are flood-prone.
And so I have watched the rising water level.
The riverbanks disappeared as the river got so high
that it merged with the wetlands and marshes on either side of its banks,

and it all looked like a great shallow lake with
vegetation of every size and shape sticking out of the water.

Today I rejoiced to see two things.
First, all that vegetation standing there
has got a ring of mud around it, right above the water's surface.

Second, little islands have appeared where there was only water before,
and the little islands coincide exactly with
the location of the riverbanks.

That means the water level, praise heaven,
is going down instead of up,
and with every lowering of the water level
it is less likely to flood the roads.

Who ever would have thought
that the sight of strategically placed mud
would come as such a relief.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 May 19 - 08:14 AM

We have evolved to read nature in a silent language more expansive than than anyhing you could voice to a friend a friend.
We just don't spend the time to read nature as we did in ancient times. We just google it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 19 - 05:58 PM

Last night we had a lovely last frost.
Less allergens and less bugs today,
and a delightful cool breeze under a sunny sky.

In high summer,
I will look back longingly on a day like this one.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 May 19 - 09:55 PM

Here comes more rain.
At least the river level went down in between.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 19 - 12:42 PM

Where I live the weather is tolerable.

But in other parts of the United States
the weather is freakish.

I mean, the rain! The floods! The levees!
The film and still photos in the news media ...
it's awful.

Anybody live near the flooded regions?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jun 19 - 12:20 PM

Pollen all over my parked car, and thick,
so that I just about have to use the windscreen wipers
to see out.

And if you wash it off,
it's just gonna pile up again within twenty-four hours,
if you have to park the car outdoors as I do.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jun 19 - 05:40 PM

Regarding the breaking news:
It has to be precarious at best
to land a helicopter in pouring rain
on a high-rise rooftop ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 12:25 PM

rain, rain, and more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 09:28 AM

Last year, I went out to Lytham Green (to add photos to my below poem) which, due to such a long dry spell, was more like Lytham Brown; this year "rain, rain, and more rain" (Keberoxu) and not much tennis or cricket being played; "Lytham and St. Anne's"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 07:47 PM

Brown indeed. I like your poem and photos.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Jun 19 - 05:14 AM

Thanks, CL - I think the Lancashire coast in general is great for seaside walks but, frankly, the way the tides are, not so good for swimming...perhaps that is why my late nan (who loved the water) and granddad took the coach from Manchester to Torquay every year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jun 19 - 03:07 PM

wet.
wet.
WET.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 19 - 01:43 PM

All around us afternoons storms and rain... and the weather report keeps saying "lots of rain possible", but it is amazing how much of it keeps going north or south of us.
Sure, we get rain.. occasionally a lot of it. But there seems to be a 'zone' just north of Wash DC that dodges a large % of serious weather...

Now watch... I will have jinxed us by saying that....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Jun 19 - 03:02 PM

On the longest day of the year, lovely here in Manchester, England, UN.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 05:25 PM

Hailstorm just went through my part of Rhode Island. It came from the north and lasted about 5 minutes. then the sun came out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 19 - 08:09 PM

Finally the nights are warm enough
that it's time to
remove, and launder,
the woolen blanket, until the seasons change again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 07:44 PM

Big thunder boomers rolling from west to east today,
but for some wierd reason,

they broke into bits, the storm systems,
and did not roll over my neck of the woods --
only skirted it to the north and the south.
Who knows ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 11:40 PM

I reported hail on June 19 and we had hail again today. I've lived all my life in RI and hail has been rare here. Most years we have none ot all. I don't ever remember it happening twice in the same season, and these two storms weren't far apart.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 19 - 05:32 PM

A break from the rain, at last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 04:03 PM

Hotter Than July, indeed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 04:04 PM

Donuel,
I understand why you can't speak up right now,
and I miss you anyway.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Jul 19 - 12:55 AM

Very warm here in the middle of RI and in Mystic, CT.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 19 - 01:28 PM

Plenty of complaints about today's weather.

It's that humidity, of course,
the closeness and the stifling air.

Thunderstorms are supposed to roll through again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 19 - 04:15 PM

Parts of the continental US
are having a deluge of biblical proportions --
poor Louisiana!!

Any Mudcatters caught in the currents out here?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jul 19 - 09:16 PM

This is weather for the comic relief in
Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate --

no, not Brush Up on your Shakespeare --

It's Too Darn Hot!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 02:05 PM

How did everybody survive the heat wave?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 05:22 PM

It's always a heat wave in July and August in Texas, and will continue through September.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 11:42 PM

How? Drank lots of water and sat in front of a fan!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 11:20 AM

This might sound a bit tame to you hot yanks, but this afternoon the shade temperature exceeded 30C in my garden. That's rare round here is that. The absolute record for Bude is only two degrees hotter than that. There's talk of the all-time UK record being beaten by Thursday. Watch this space!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 07:41 PM

Steve, it helped me to remember that the difference between Celsius degrees is greater than the difference between Fahrenheit degrees, so I entered those two temperatures into a converter. Of course I have no idea what the humidity was, either! However, when my home's indoor temp reaches 85F I am uncomfortable!

Stay hydrated!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 11:37 AM

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, had a tornado!

And if you know Cape Cod,
you know how much real estate development has happened there,
how many people have summer cottages and the like --
potential for astronomical sums of damages.
(I don't think anyone was killed though.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jul 19 - 02:05 PM

Cool nights for sleeping!
Won't last long at this time of year, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Jul 19 - 04:52 PM

Some friends and I hope to book a winter weekend in the motel after the roof that the tornado blew off is fixed or in a room that wasn't affected. News reports say that parts of it are still in use. However, construction noise can be a problem, too, for people who stay in the rooms where the roof is intact.
Our motivation for staying there is not to be at the scene of the disaster but to help the business which is family-owned, not part of a chain. This has to be hard on the finances, occurring during the high tourism season on the Cape. The owner said the roof was only about a year old. It's probably insured but there may be a deductible and loss of business may not be included.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Jul 19 - 02:43 PM

Further to Steve's mention of the hot weather in Bude (by the way, my late uncle & auntie lived there & I enjoyed visits - "Birdwatchers' Bude"
), we also had a heat wave here in Manchester and now have flooding rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 19 - 05:04 PM

The thunder and lightning I can take or leave,
but
we really need the rain coming down just now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Aug 19 - 02:32 PM

A lot of rain the last few days where I am and, just south, in Whaley Bridge, the damn is on the brink of bursting. Sadly, nearby Buxton has already suffered flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 19 - 07:33 PM

"The damn is on the brink of bursting."

Thank you, WV, for a much-needed laugh tonight.

Or, as a flustered award-winning songwriter said
live on television while accepting his award,
"Stank you very much."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 05:30 PM

That was a mistake, Keberoxu, but it's also true that some locals haven't been happy with it for a while.

And certainly doesn't bother me much but, before my 5 year, or so, gap on Mudcat, most here called me WAV.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 06:33 PM

WAV it is, then,
which is a better idea then addressing you
with the abbreviation for West Virginia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 06:52 PM

I've only visited LA and NY in the USA, and only know of West Virginia through John Denver - seems scenic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 19 - 08:08 AM

As long as the weather is decent for sleeping at night,
it's good weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Aug 19 - 07:42 PM

And tomorrow,
again with the cloudbursts and thunderstorms
AND stifling humidity. Roller-coaster weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 05:38 PM

Same roller-coaster going on outside,
with cloudbursts and rain and black threatening clouds
which break up
for humid muggy sunshine.

But I feared for this thread recently,
as it is
more than a thousand posts ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 06:41 AM

33 years ago today we moved from Loughton in Essex to Cornwall (best thing we ever did). Our move was blighted by two days of terrible weather caused by the leftovers of Hurricane Charley, which had formed near Florida the week before. The Cornish removal company, two men and the strongest woman I've ever seen in my life, loaded all our belongings, most of which was going into store, into the van in a blinding rainstorm (thankfully all was well when we finally retrieved our furniture four months later), then camped on the floor of our empty living room overnight, which we hadn't expected. I had to buy them all fish and chips. Charley wreaked havoc in Ireland that week via huge amounts of rainfall.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Raggytash
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 07:43 AM

Trying to cut the grass in the back "garden" 80 degrees plus not a cloud in the shy and not a breath of wind.

I've done about 3/4's of it, the rest will have to wait!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 08:43 AM

Beautiful day here too. Ten minutes ago I stripped off and turned the hosepipe on my overheated personage after a sweaty morning's gardening. (we enjoy a degree of seclusion). Lifeboat Day in Bude today. There will be shanties sung this afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 12:48 PM

Hi all! It’s 86f going up to 92f in Tallahassee. . We are preparing for Dorian whose path is coming in our direction around Labor Day. As many of you know I have been caring for my dad who turns 96 next month. This will be the fourth hurricane in fall in a row for us. The last two were the worst, of course. Dorian is now a category three. The gulf coast around Mexico Beach and inland was devastated last year.

I am weary of hurricanes. I have to keep dad cool and feed him, but he isn’t eating a lot anymore. ..... I started this thread eighteen years ago. We all have concerns about the weather, eh? All is well in my world, though. I play Bessie Smith’s BackwaterBlues on my Radio King parlour guitar and Little Gray Mockingbird by the late Dennis Dunne on autoharp.
Love, harpgirl.

PS I have been trying to arrange a lime jello match with Alison but she’s never on one continent long enough for us to meet up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 12:34 PM

Oh, Dorian, I hope Dorian comes and goes without harming you, your dad, or your property. Mother Nature can be a . . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 02:29 PM

Yes, harpgirl, and this is one of the Mudcat's longer threads now,
with no signs of stopping.

And the state-of-emergency declaration is official now
regarding Dorian -- do stay safe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 07:32 PM

Dorian sounds a bit like Hurricane Charley that I mentioned a few days ago. May the jet stream carry Dorian's remnants away from us. In the meantime, I hope that you escape the worst of Dorian.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 07:42 AM

Hurricane preparedness at ready.gov for folks in the path of Dorian. It looks like it might make land as a Category 4.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 08:55 PM

It's a relief to know that Mudcatter Donuel is back.
I missed him.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 19 - 07:10 PM

How are Mudcat members/families holding up
under Hurrican Dorian?
Hope none of them were in the Bahamas ... fatalities there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Sep 19 - 03:37 PM

... guess it isn't safe to come out yet,
or somebody would have updated this thread
about Dorian.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Sep 19 - 03:50 PM

Doesn't look like SWFL will be affected but it's moving slowly up the east coast of Florida with the eye around Stuart/Fort Pierce. Let's hope it stays offshore.
Oh, and according to one expert metorologist, President Donald Schlump, the folks in his beloved Alabama better watch out, at least the ones wearing the red ball caps, forget the rest.

CNN

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 11:08 AM

I was driving home from a music session in Pensacola last night, a trip which entails driving east on Interstate 10 for about ten miles. During that short stretch, I saw three or four convoys of utility trucks traveling westbound with their yellow warning lights flashing.

I was a bit confused at first since they were obviously emergency response teams from points west (Alabama, Mississippi, etc.) sent to help restore power post-Dorian, and Dorian was on the east coast. That meant either they or I was driving in the wrong direction!

Then I deduced that they had probably been pre-positioned outside the storm's anticipated impact zone (like in Tallahassee) and got sent home as unneeded when damage turned out to be less than feared.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Sep 19 - 02:53 PM

What is left of Hurricane Dorian
is in Long Island Sound at the moment.

Southern New England will feel its blasts and surges
for the next twenty-four hours at least.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Sep 19 - 03:03 PM

And how are all you folks in Alabama? Was Hurricane Dorian hard on you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Sep 19 - 11:33 PM

I'm in Florida, Joe, but just a few miles south of the Alabama border.

No real effects from Dorian here, but I've heard reports of amateurishly drawn black lines crossing Interstate 65, US-31, and US-84 in the Monroeville and Evergreen area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Sep 19 - 05:00 PM

Big blue-gray stormclouds visible out the window.
But if I go to the forecast website
and pull up the Doppler radar page,
it's an absolutely cloudless image. Beats me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 12:59 PM

Raining here in RI on my laundromat day, but I know how to keep my clean clothes dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 05:48 PM

shame the hurricane season isn't over,
it feels like we have had
enough hurricanes for one years, thanks very much ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Sep 19 - 01:02 PM

What's the weather like today?

Picture perfect, that's what.
Cloudless blue sky and sunshine,
with a gentle breeze
and dry air
(not the recent muggy humidity with high dew-points).

This is the sort of day that
if you could put it in a bottle,
you would stash the bottle someplace safe
and reach for it during those lousy foul-weather winter days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 10:28 AM

Its the season of color
Like Mums that please.
The mortality of our lives is
reflected in the falling leaves
like flying memories back to Earth
Bright summer turns to short days
and long dark nights
between sunset rays.
Every day has its seasons
from Spring to Winter.
There are many years
in the end days
for some of us
to play

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 08:17 PM

Nice, Donuel!
In much less poetic terms, here in Rhode Island the days are comfortable for outdoor activities and the nights are comfortable for sleeping! I'd be happy with weather like this all year, but I suppose plants could use more rain than we've been getting. In the small valley in which I dwell, few leaves have changed color yet. Things usual get bright about two weeks from now, but forecasters say that may be delayed slightly this year because temperatures have been so mild.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 08:50 PM

Mornings are my Spring full of growth and invention
From noon on, my Summer like afternoon is lost to a nap
My Autumn begins at dusk and ends by the family dinner fires
Winter brings the brass blasting pain from every bone breaking mishap

A day is a year, a year is a lifetime
and lifetime memories go by in a snap




We have a drought so the trees will will not turn bright this year

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 12:38 PM

its 95 today - a record

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 03:11 PM

Man, is it ever dark outside the library window,
at quarter past three in the afternoon.

Thunderous looking stormclouds out there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 07:40 PM

Dark clouds, warm temps, and humidity until mid-afternoon followed by wind blowing tree branches and leaves, followed by rain. Things are calmer now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 07:43 PM

UK and Ireland will get the weakened dregs of Hurricane Lorenzo this weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 06:04 PM

104F / 40C today. I'm in Virginia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 07:44 PM

Mrrzy, whoa!
My Y is holding a trip to NOLA next weekend. I've always wanted to go there, but when I remembered how miserable I was in heat and humidity at Disney World on the same weekend two years ago (had my first full-blown asthma attack that required use of my inhaler instead of an herbal remedy; thought at first it was a heart attack and paramedics would be picking me up off Main Street, USA), I decided NOLA will have to wait.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Oct 19 - 02:12 PM

At least it was a *dry* heat.

I kid. I like humidity. We are back to the 60's now (Fahrenheit, not years).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Oct 19 - 05:22 PM

We (North Texas) have been in the 90s for weeks. We are still in the mid-90s as we enter the second week of October, and it has been weeks since rain so the yard is tinder dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Oct 19 - 07:59 PM

Summer is starting early. The drought is biting hard and we are staring down the barrel of another hot dry season. Today and tomorrow will be hot with a lot of dust swirling around (indoor days for those who have any kind of breathing problems) but we should be back to more mild weather on Tuesday, thank goodness.

Rain would be nice.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Oct 19 - 08:20 PM

There are sleeveless shirts in my laundry, and my heat came on last night. (Thermostat set on 55°)
I think we've flipped.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 19 - 12:10 AM

Were thinking of hiring a Yout Indian rain dancer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 04:05 PM

Bright clear sunny skies
for the Head of the Regatta event on the Charles River
in Boston today.

I'm not there.
It must be a multitude/mob scene.
I just hear about it in the news soundbites
as I drive my car and listen to the radio.

In the meanwhile,
the weather is just starting to get cold enough
to dispatch mosquitoes,
especially those that carry West Nile/triple-E virus,
which has been sickening and killing people again this year...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 19 - 10:45 AM

The dolphin are going back to sea from DC. Come back next summer guys.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Perry_P
Date: 21 Oct 19 - 09:24 AM

We are on a Europe trip for a month now and our next stop after Spain will be Portugal. Seems like it's not a very good time to visit Portugal, it will be cloudy and kinda cold when we landed according to weather forecast. Or maybe it's the best time for me to visit Portugal since I'm not a big fan of hot weather. Anyway we are planning to buy property in Algarve with my wife soon so I should better get used to the hot weather as soon as possible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 19 - 01:09 PM

Last night I saw my first rain bar, not rainbow.
It was well after dusk/sunset and 2 very wide rain bars were shineing straight up with deep saturated color. Without sun shine the colors were not washed out but were intense so that even the violet was super strong. It appeared to go almost 10 miles up. I was reminded of a black opal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Oct 19 - 05:17 PM

The latest newsflash said that
Chicago's two airports
have many flights cancelled or delayed due to
a few INCHES of snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 19 - 07:20 PM

In a couple of hours we are getting thundertorms and tornados
Great 75F Halloween weather

Keb, may you have at least one rain bar in your life.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Nov 19 - 03:34 PM

That's sweet of you, Donuel.
If I had seen a rain-bar, I would remember it.

In New Mexico and Arizona
there were a wealth of double rainbows,
plainly visible for miles.

But I never saw a rain-bar.


Here in Massachusetts,
the sun is back,
after a week of rain and windstorms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Nov 19 - 02:23 PM

Pouring down rain here.

By week's end, it is supposed to be sn*w.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Nov 19 - 07:32 PM

Well, according to the Doppler radar on the weather map,
the Berkshire mountains are being snowed upon.
So is Buffalo (what else is new)
and northern New Hampshire.

A great blob of Doppler rain storms
is all over the northern Atlantic seaboard,
however it's likely to turn to snow
as the cold air pushes east.

Sigh. It was swell while it lasted ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Nov 19 - 02:15 PM

... and here comes the wind and the icy roads.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Nov 19 - 12:09 PM

...aw, man, is it COLD.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Nov 19 - 12:54 PM

Okay, it's still late autumn,
but without that bitter wind
at least one can draw breath again.
The wind is due to return tomorrow, however.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 15 Nov 19 - 08:10 PM

warm, somewhat sunny and/or foggy. rhododendrons are blooming.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 02:16 PM

nor'easters
and snowflakes
and ice,
oh my.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 08:50 PM

Now that its after several killing frosts the metro DC area has a earthy bacterial biome that has a decay aroma of rotten apples and skat. Weather has its oders too you know. Boston usually smells like fish.

Donuel (part canine - part human - mog) I'm my own best friend.
Spaceballs

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Nov 19 - 04:21 PM

another nor'easter forecast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 07:14 AM

bushfires are raging around the country, we also are in the midst of severe drought affecting large parts of the country & today parts of Sydney are suffering from a wild storm.

Sydney storm cuts power to 47,000 homes as 90km/h winds bring down trees

Tho not in my part of Sydney, we just had leaves & twigs around street trees & in gardens. Tomorrow's forecast 23C (approx 76F) Sunny. Winds west to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h becoming light early in the morning then becoming east to northeasterly 25 to 35 km/h in the early afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 10:46 AM

High 60 F with no fires floods or asteroid impacts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 09:05 PM

In these United States,
the day before Thanksgiving,
the weather is frightening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Nov 19 - 01:04 AM

Well, they weather people say that we in California are experiencing a "bombogenesis." The Weather Service says Bombogenesis, a popular term used by meteorologists, occurs when a midlatitude cyclone rapidly intensifies, dropping at least 24 millibars over 24 hours. A millibar measures atmospheric pressure. This can happen when a cold air mass collides with a warm air mass, such as air over warm ocean waters. The formation of this rapidly strengthening weather system is a process called bombogenesis, which creates what is known as a bomb cyclone.
And that parts of California may have winds up to 100 miles per hour.

We got about two inches of snow last night, and the temperatures are in the thirties. We may get more snow tomorrow. I'm glad our electric power is working.

Cheers!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 28 Nov 19 - 04:17 PM

absolutely gorgeous. probably mid fifties and sunny with some clouds. i will go on a walk soon as soon as i get unlazy, a condition that has plagued me since retirement. Camellias are blooming, likewise rhododendruns. missed the cyclone bomb..too far north for it but i have been in a couple of cyclones here and not fun. somehow all the bad weather we used to have..days of torrential rains this time of year..has moved elsewhere and we are at least for now in paradise.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Nov 19 - 08:04 PM

Here in RI and as far north into MA as I went (more than halfway to NH, I think), it was cold and windy enough that I had to hold the steering wheel tightly to stay in my lane.

But there's a beautiful thing crescent moon tonight!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Nov 19 - 12:23 PM

Here comes another doozy of a storm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Nov 19 - 03:56 PM

It's the end of November and here in Bude we have yet to have an air frost. I don't think that's happened since we moved here 33 years ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 06:46 AM

Freezing rain, wind. Looks like a skating rink our there, no snow, just a coating of ice.

I'm about to leave for my volunteer job opening the local Anglican church for worshipers. Not much to it, just checking the heat, unlocking doors, minor tidying, etc. Someone else attends to snow and ice.

I might need my skates.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 01:22 PM

... the snowstorm should be any minute now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 12:23 AM

well, I started out in New England
and ended up in Arizona,
and the weather is one heck of a lot better in Arizona
than it is in New England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 01:31 PM

I hear there is a south western stormin in by Xmas. It's named 'Rebel without a Claus'

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 19 - 02:09 PM

Where I am, in Scottsdale, Arizona,
it's mild, clouded over, and raining.
Before the end of this week,
I'll be back to the snow and ice
of Massachusetts. Oh, joy. (not)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Dec 19 - 04:58 AM

4:30 AM Wed. its 55 F in DC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Dec 19 - 11:44 AM

The New England region should ship some of the moisture
towards Australia --
there is risk of flooding here
from the rain and the melting of snow and ice,
and all this BEFORE New Year's.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Dec 19 - 08:26 PM

Below freezing, at the moment --

and when things thaw,
risk of flooding ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Dec 19 - 08:45 PM

I posted this on the Australian bushfires thread, but it is weather related!

Cloud-surfing at 3,000ft captures the perfect perfect morning glory clouds Like a surfer on a wave, Mike Zupanc balances high in the sky on a glider while taking photos of cloud formations that many of us can only ever imagine seeing.
The gliding enthusiast-turned-photographer's image of a morning glory cloud titled On Cloud Nine, will feature in the Bureau of Meteorology's (BOM) 2020 calendar.
    "People surf waves and for hang gliders we do the same thing," he said.
"We use an engine to help us launch off with power then we get to where the wave is and switch the engine off and just ride the waves of the cloud." (read on)

google image search on "morning glory clouds"

sandra in hot & smoky Sydney

Sydney temperature, measured at Observatory Hill on the harbour, was 21.1 at midnight & 37 at noon (40 mins ago)

Penrith, 60 km west of the CBD was 21.5 at midnight & 39 at noon.

Forecasts for today - Sydney 41, Penrith 45 & only 33 at Sydney best known beach Bondi.

Greater Sydney facing oppressive heatwave, extreme smoke, fire danger I'm not far from the harbour so am "only" expecting 41, but my place is cool as long as I stay near the fan.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Dec 19 - 06:47 PM

Wow, Sandra. Just wow!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Dec 19 - 08:36 PM

Wow 2
clouds

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 19 - 02:18 PM

The ice is melting here in eastern Massachusetts,
and if there is flooding
then it will be a soggy soggy Christmas for us this week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 09:06 PM

The Mudcat is back --
how's the weather where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 19 - 10:50 AM

It was 60 and sunny yesterday and tommorrow will be mid seventies in DC. It almost makes me think of this thing called global warming.

However we can still get 5 ft snowstorms or 105 heat.
Extremes have become the norm recently.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 19 - 10:55 AM

Post 2200!

A storm system is headed for the northeastern US
with snow, freezing rain, and rain where it is warmest.
But hopefully DC won't get the stuff below freezing.
Massachusetts, with my luck, probably will.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Dec 19 - 11:10 AM

2200 posts, and oddly, some of them aren't by you. How did that happen?

Maine is going to get dumped on. I don't know what we'll get here. No matter - it's winter. I need to go out for vittles.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 10:43 AM

It's wet, wet, wet --
and above freezing, thank heavens.
Yes, Jeri,
I'm sure that Maine is going to bear the brunt.
And just think of Gnu in New Brunswick.
Thinking of all you guys to my north.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jan 20 - 01:03 PM

Snow flurrying through the air at the moment.
And it's bitterly cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jan 20 - 01:41 PM

North Texas is sunny and bright, slightly crisp, and the air is jam-packed full of "mountain cedar" (juniper) pollen that drifts in from Central Texas every December and January and makes allergy sufferers miserable. It's just dry enough also that the sinuses are already unhappy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 20 - 09:19 PM

By this Saturday it may hit 70 F in DC. Average temp is 30-40

This is what runaway climate change must feel like.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 12:25 PM

A nice day to stay indoors and admire
the blue sky and the sunshine through the window,
away from that winter wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 12:25 PM

Same here, Don.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 07:53 PM

Here in North Cornwall we are having miserable drizzly weather, but it's been streaming up from the mid-Atlantic, right from the west coast of Africa. It's moisture-laden by the time it reaches us, but it's incredibly warm. We had a high of 16+C today, 62F, and we've had three days now with that kind of high. I've just checked the midnight temperature and it's 16C (ok, 15.9 to be precise). The average would be 9C by day and around 3C by night. I'm finding it a bit hard to check, but these day/night temperatures in January must be close to all-time records. I've kept a weather diary for just about all my life, and in summer I always note any midnight temperature that reaches 16C or higher. It might happen on maybe twelve or fifteen nights in a typical summer. But here we are getting it on 8 January.

Off topic, I've just reminded meself that, way back in the early nineties, in the very first pub session I ever played in, we played the American tune Eighth Of January. It's a bit late now and I don't want to wake Mrs Steve up, so I think I'll noodle that tune again in the morning. Haven't tried to play it for at least 25 years but I reckon I can remember It!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 08:19 PM

You don't lose music memory Steve. Not even in Alzhiemer patients.
Its something to do with how music is holographically stored through out the brain. I'm impressed with your weather diary.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 08:34 PM

I think you're right. Every now and then I just need to be nudged into a tune I haven't played for decades, but it always then comes flooding back. It's all stored in there somewhere. I must have a damn sight more gigabytes than I thought could possibly be contained in this tiny brain of mine...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 11:43 PM

We're in the midst of a below normal coldspell, which for Anchorage is below zero Fahrenheit (-18 C). It might get to -20F (-30 C) tonight. Parts of the State to the north will get far colder.
Since we have a decent amount of snow on the ground, there is little danger of public pipes freezing, which can happen with very low temperatures penetrating the ground with no snow to act as insulation. I have met someone who had a tenant from the lower 48, tenant took a break and to save money, shut the boiler off, little knowing this could lead to heat pipes freezing, busting, and house flooding.
Other than the low level of degrees, weather is clear and sharp, well worth a hike in the hills to the west. People drive up to the trailhead, often with dogs, and there are as many on thick tire bikes as on skis. Traction is good and hiking no problem. Just three weeks ago it was way too warm, and we had the second of two meltdowns. Hiking then involved bits of trail that was frozen or covered with glare ice. In this case we have provided ourselves with kah-too-las, a brand of hiking crampon which provide safety from slipping. My driveway was clear just the day before Christmas.

Now we're full in God's great fridge. The days are short but they are beginning to increase after equinox and I think we are insensibly aware of this and gaining cheer from the brainstem up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 08:16 AM

What do you breathe through when its waay below zero?
I could feel moisture crystalize in my sinuses.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 09:02 PM

My PR brother called and survived the hurricane but now he just had 6 earthquakes.
He said my niece and husband Heidi & Attila went on ancestry.com and found I have 2 more half brothers Mike & Ike. That makes 6 and counting.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 12:05 PM

It's wild today.
That's a spring wind blowing like gangbusters outside the window;
only a few days ago it was a winter wind.
The clouds are racing across the blue blue sky.
And underneath it all is
Mud, Mud, Glo-ri-ous Mud ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 20 - 05:54 AM

Boston was 74 Sunday and DC was ubjy 70

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Martin
Date: 14 Jan 20 - 06:16 AM

Just seen the back of storm 'Brendan' - at its peak at 14.00 yesterday saw 50,000 homes without electricity.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 20 - 06:32 AM

At some point we will no longer be seeing climate change.
We will be seeing runaway irreverable global warming. Like Venus.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 10:07 AM

The sun came out. Always helps.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gurney
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 10:20 PM

A hot summer here in NZ. Auckland Folk Music Festival this weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 03:25 AM

Beautiful blue skies on a perfect frosty morning in eastern England this morning.

Sister-in-law in Southern Spain enduring coastal floods, snow, strong winds and general misery. Heh heh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 08:10 PM

same here in DC with strong sunshine

The next poster wins 2222 nagalias

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 10:53 AM

Cloudy and somewhat cold in the mountains of North Georgia, USA. My dog is depressed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 12:20 PM

Here comes the MUD.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 08:03 PM

Better mud than flood! It's pouring here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 07:08 PM

Well, Sunday was a weird feeling.
The tragic death of basketball's Kobe Bryant in his helicopter,
because conditions were fog and mist and
visibility was lousy.
While here in the Northeast, a clear blue sky and sunshine.
(It's still winter, for all that, and chilly.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 10:53 AM

Ice is on the agenda again,
and on the roads,
and on the cars, and ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 01:11 PM

Our weather here in UK is getting weirder and weirder. This morning at 6am, there was a very hard frost. All the rooftops in our village were white, and our lawn was frozen. Probably 2-3 degrees below zero.

But by 11am, the sun was shining, the frost had melted and I was actually sitting on our famous garden bench out the front in just a light jumper, chatting to passers-by with their dogs. I was a bit too warm (!) and caught the sun beautifully on my face.
Sam the Skull (funny old white cat who lives up the road) came to sit with me, and honestly, it was just like summertime!!

Blooming strange eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 12:14 PM

there's one excellent word for it:

"dreich"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 01:56 PM

drek - yiddish (foul dirt)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 05:56 PM

Actually there might be distinctions between
"dreich" and the High German "Dreck" (as well as the Yiddish).

When I look further into Scots "dreich" online,
what comes up is
Middle English, Old English, and Old Norse.
And the sense is not just shit or dirt,
but of conditions that have to be patiently endured like an ordeal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 06:02 PM

When I lived in Edinburgh and then Glasgow, the word 'dreich' meant dismal, dreary, wet and depressing weather.

I'm a bit worried this evening, as the TV weather forecast was full of Met Office Warnings about this blooming storm Ciara, which will bring winds of up to 80mph, and will cause damage to property, power cuts and closure of roads, airports and bridges.
I worry about the wooden fences around our property, the roofing tiles, trees falling onto the roads (there are many large oak trees lining the roads everywhere in Norfolk). Also the poor wildlife.
It's due to hit on Saturday evening and continue through Sunday.
Gulp!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 07:25 PM

I worry about our local Farmers' Market later this morning: they have not called it off, as the worst of teh wind is predicted not to start until after 11 am. We are supposed to be going down to do our usual official busking: i suggested people bring sandbags or guy ropes for their music stands, and clothes pegs for the music, tho better still, ditch the stands and the music and play from memory.
The Six nations rugby internationals should be a bit "interesting" especially Scotland v England late afternoon by which time winds may be over 50mph!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 09:11 PM

strong wind and rain but it is on and off

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 08:24 AM

Yesterday we had 4 small tornados miles from the house,
Only trees and roofs were lost.
Historicly there was 1 tornado here in the last hundred years

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 01:01 AM

It is wet. Finally, it is wet!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Martin
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:02 AM

We're halfway through it and the rivers are already full!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Martin
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:06 AM

Storm Ciara that is in Ireland.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:47 AM

Storm Ciara is now in full swing here in Norfolk. There have been numerous power cuts throughout the county (not us, so far) and the strength of the wind is frightening.
My husband decided he'd like to run down to the village shop to get the Sunday paper (mad!) and nearly got blown away.
I'm actually a bit scared and worried about our house and nearby trees and fences. It's going to get worse according to the Met Office.
It's now raining horizontally! The poor birds and wild animals...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 10:34 AM

Our greyhound Dreamy decided that she'd had enough by the time she got to the end of our road this morning - just 200 yards away, and I was nearly blown over by a high gust of wind on the way back!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 11:37 AM

Violent gale blowing. I found an 8-kilo lump of ridge tile in my garden, five yards from the house. Could have killed someone! It was some gust that shifted it that far.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 12:12 PM

A ridge too far?
Pretty wild up here in the highlands, but so far we've not had the amount of rain they seem to be getting further south.
Snow forecast over the next two days though :(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 01:53 PM

Just had the most terrifying rainstorm, with horizontal rain pounding the house and almost breaking the window panes. But I watched the News and it seems the whole country is in trouble, with severe flooding and storm damage.
Hope this abates by tomorrow - I'm a bag of nerves!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 02:07 PM

We have had the most surface water that we have seen here in the eleven years that we have been here. It made those jokes about water-skiing on sloping lakes look possible!

The old rabbit holes were completely flooded in the warren below our house with water spouting up out of them. It has washed the mud away around the gates on our lane though so we might not need the wellies for a couple of weeks.

We have a few leaks through various window surrounds, I manage to find and fix more each time we have a bad storm. The window surrounds are stone slabs that do not easily seal to the windows or the rest of the walls.

Robin

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 02:51 PM

Ah Robin, we had a new double-glazed window installed last year in our sitting room, and the same problem occurred - a bit of a draught where the plastic frame didn't quite fit the brick wall. So my handy husband got some mastic with a gun type of thing and sealed it beautifully all round the edges, then smoothed it down with a damp cloth. Solved!
(However, mastic always stinks of vinegar for ages afterwards, and we had to have the window open for hours until it 'went off'!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:06 PM

Facebook post from London tonight:


Garden clearance sale

5 half trampolines

23 fence panels various sizes might have damage

88 marley roof tiles

Few sheds some are half

Contact me for prices

Update correction only 3 trampolines 2 and half have moved on.

New stock arriving every 10 mins.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:29 PM

...and Mary Poppins broke the speed of sound over the Thames, before getting stuck on The Shard and having to call an old ex-chimney-sweep mate to set her free.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 06:20 PM

John sez: "Pretty wild up here in the highlands, but so far we've not had the amount of rain they seem to be getting further south."

Oddly, here just outside Bude we've also had very little rain, 3mm today to be precise. The wind has been pretty bad, but we've had worse many times in our 33 years in our remote house. We've had four weather insurance claims (none for anything else!), all wind-related, one in March 1987, then the Great Storm of October '87, then the Burns Day storm in 1990 (I could write a book...) and then two weeks after that in February 1990. All of those involved roof damage and two a demolished greenhouse. So OK for the last thirty years, in spite of many a big gale...

We've had two lightning strikes, not directly on the house thankfully, both of which struck our telephone line close to the house. One took out all our communications all over one Christmas and New Year and the other blew our wall-mounted phone right off the wall and across the kitchen floor and, scarily, melted and burned the telephone wires to our bedroom extension. Both burned out my computer modems. For several years we've had hardly any thunder and lightning at all, a very noticeable trend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 08:00 AM

well, most of our fires are out, some because of flooding rains!, drought affected areas are better off What has the rain done to drought-affected towns running out of water? but the rain caused problems, too Hole in Queensland dam sparks evacuations at Talgai - check out the 2 videos.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 09:58 AM

All our roads are flooded. We're virtually trapped in the house. The only time I've seen it worse than this was on the afternoon of the Boscastle flood in 2004. Eight miles up the road from us at Otterham Station they had 200mm in a day. We got away lightly, with two inches here in 55 minutes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 09:00 PM

that was how parts of inner & greater Sydney were earlier in the month -
Sydney rains: Record rainfall brings flooding but puts out mega-blaze (10th Feb)
Sydney has been hit by its heaviest rain in 30 years, bringing widespread flooding but also putting out two massive bushfires in New South Wales.
Australia's weather agency said 391.6mm of rain had fallen in the past four days in Sydney, more than three times the average rainfall for February.
About 100,000 homes are without power, and officials have warned flash floods could be life-threatening.
But the rainfall means only 17 fires are still burning across the state ... great pic of a firefighter enjoying the rain. On the wettest & windiest day I saw more dead brollies than I've ever seen!

google image search on "sydney floods feb 2020"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Feb 20 - 04:31 AM

We've had a terrible night. The wind force was fearful, and there was a very loud, shrill whistling (I think it was the wind on the telephone wire attached to our guttering) Neither of us slept a wink. Bangs and crashes - we thought our tiles were off, or our fences down.
So relieved to see no damage this morning (miracle!) but I'm going to need a long nap this afternoon. I feel absolutely rotten!
Sorry about your flooding Steve. We haven't been down to the Wensum yet at our bridge. Bet the water level is high, if not over the banks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 01:48 PM

We hear about your monster storm on the news even over here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 08:43 PM

Do we have any United States Mudcatters in what we call
the Deep South,
that's the southeastern US ?

Because the Mississippi is flooding,
and so are the smaller rivers thereabouts,
they have had entirely too much rain
and the weather keeps getting
warm moist airflow from the Gulf of Mexico ...

mudslide city. Houses AND highways collapsing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 03:10 PM

walking a fine line, in my region.
The season has been warm and wet:
enough rain for concern about flooding anyway.

The rivers are unusually high for February, however.
Now the weather is cool, clear and dry,
and I see the water line going down gradually.
This bodes well for this region.

I have an absolute horror of flooding or surges.
My blood freezes to hear about the mudslides and floodwaters
in other parts of the country.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 03:57 PM

Re the floods from Storm Dennis, England needs more trees (to absorb water) & less people via birth control & repatriation (55 million is far too many for the area of land called England); or, in verse, my poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on "Congestion"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 05:50 PM

I'm in northwest Florida, just south of the Alabama line. We've had some fairly heavy rains, but the real flooding is happening in and around Jackson, Mississippi, which is about 200 miles northwest of us.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 06:30 PM

Caught between a rock and a hard place on Brown Mountain 2 truck-sized boulders fall on a 2-lane highway

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 06:41 PM

Australia - the land of drought, flooding rain & fires - all at once. 'Tsunami-like' floods destroy bushfire recovery steps leaving folk reeling

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 05:04 PM

My Country: recited by Dorothea Mackellar

"Millennium Dreams" from WalkaboutsVerse

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 09:56 AM

Now, what is this I see and hear about
Australia having snow?

I'm in Massachusetts near the Berkshire Mountains,
and the snow is falling in thick flakes here --

but it's not supposed to be snowing in
BOTH hemispheres at the same time !?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 11:21 AM

Today there is a mass shooting in the midwest and scattered death threats and violence in the west.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 02:58 PM

Well, we have had rain. Beautiful rain. That which was dry, dead and brown not so long ago is now lush and green.

The big complaint here now is weeds, the unwanted sort. Khaki weed, cat head burrs and that succulent weed which I do not know the name of are running rampart.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 02:06 PM

If you can stay indoors and watch it from the warmth,
it's picture perfect,
with puffy white clouds drifting through a dry blue sky in the sunlight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 20 - 08:58 PM

The deep South doesn't need any more rain, but alas,
it looks like you-all are going to get more of what you don't need.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 06:26 PM

This is 9 March, and it feels warm enough for 9 May,
up here in the northern hemisphere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 20 - 10:42 AM

Still warm enough for early May,
and bright and sunny and dry and ...
something has got to crash, eventually,
but right now it's flying-high weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?,
From: mg
Date: 12 Mar 20 - 07:08 PM

warm, sunny, breezy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 03:14 PM

Well, instead of early May,
it feels like early April now:
getting soaked with rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 08:08 PM

... and within a few hours,
all the clouds blew away and
we had blue sky and blinding sunshine.
The local weather
just doesn't feel like waiting for the vernal equinox here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Mar 20 - 07:01 PM

Everything was "lovely in the garden" today,
and tomorrow there might be rain
for the green growing things.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 16 Mar 20 - 09:30 PM

not a cloud in the sky. breezy though. i am about to head to the ocean (not passing a single soul on the way) to take some pictures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Mar 20 - 03:49 PM

Snowing!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Mar 20 - 09:39 AM

... and clear blue sky the next day:
postcard-picture perfect image.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 04:08 PM

More sunshine, AND,
someone collected some "pussy-willows" and put them in a vase.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 05:29 PM

I don't know if March is going out like a lamb,
but at least this is rain rather than snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 20 - 07:08 PM

What is going on in New Orleans?
It looks like a deluge!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 20 - 07:06 PM

no rain coming down,
but good heavens, the clouds are dark and stormy looking.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 06:55 PM

Weather is pretty comprehensive today.
Sure there is wind, direction, speed and air pressure, dewpoint, temperature along with sun duration, X ray sun storms and lunar phases.
We also report fires earthquakes and tsunamis along with pollen mold spores arroyos tornados hurricane rain hail snow ice and fog.
I think airborn virus has its own coverge but we have no direct means to measure it. I have yet to see an animation of viral infection but there will be soon.

Keboroxu have you considered becoming a weatherman?
You seem to have a passion for it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 07:18 PM

Naw, I just have a passion
for looking out the window
and making remarks ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 01:55 PM

April brings the sweet spring showers
On and on for hours and hours ...

(Song of the Weather: Flanders & Swann)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 05:56 PM

Level 5 tornados hit Mississippi last night.
Some debris was carried 50 miles ! away from its point of origin.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 04:23 PM

Snow overnight, and chilly and windy outdoors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 20 - 07:36 PM

What the heck is being visited on the South (Southeastern US)?
The rain won't let up there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 20 - 05:56 PM

The trees are a little less bare,
and soon it will be impossible
to see between bare trees
as we have done all winter long.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 20 - 05:25 PM

What's it like?

People are showing up, after the weekend,
with sunburns,
impatient as they are to get, and stay, outdoors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 20 - 11:32 AM

... and the magnolia trees
have spent their blooms,
the flower petals are all over the ground under the trees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 20 - 03:35 PM

Today, the weather in New England
reserves the right to change its mind.

Bright sunshine first thing in the morning.
Followed by snow.
Followed by bright sunshine,
and this time, gusty winds.
Followed by small hail, or maybe, large sleet?
All within a period of maybe six hours.
And the month is May ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 May 20 - 08:51 PM

There is frost on the roses.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 May 20 - 07:44 PM

"Graupel." I learned a new word.
It describes tiny pellets of ice precipitation
somewhere between sleet and small hail,
with ice and snow mixed together. Or something.
That's what fell out of the sky two days ago ...
in May, in the northern hemisphere.
Today it was just plain rain.
Rain is all right though.
The plant kingdom is greening and growing like gangbusters now,
and the growing green things
need all the rain they can get right now.
Even if there is a chilly wind blowing.

And with our luck,
we will go from early spring
straight into summer ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 May 20 - 08:48 PM

We have rain,
for which the many green growing things give thanks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 20 - 08:20 PM

Very pleasant indeed,
as the nights are still tolerable,
on this, the night of the summer solstice.

It won't last, of course --
we will, in two months' time,
be nostalgic for nights
that are cool and dry for sleeping.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jun 20 - 03:20 PM

Is there a North American monsoon going on??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 07:49 AM

In only 10 minutes I've seen storm cells on radar and my eyes swell up to 30,000 feet and rain heavily.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MikeL2
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 09:12 AM

HI

bLOODY hOT !!! AND RISING

Mike North West England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jun 20 - 10:18 AM

We have the summer heat across the pond, as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jun 20 - 05:02 PM

We're supposed to get the harmattan here in Virginia this weekend. Nostalgia!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 20 - 05:09 AM

Yep the Saharan sand dust will give us fantasic sunsets and asmthma attacks

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MikeL2
Date: 26 Jun 20 - 05:56 AM

keberoxu -

GLAD YOU HAVE GOT SUMMER WEATHER OVER RHERE
wHEN i pOSTED WE WERE HAVING RECORD TEMPERATURES FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR.

AS I POST THIS IT IS RAINING AND THE HIGH HEAT IS GOING AWAY,

c
CHEERS

MIKEL2

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 20 - 09:02 AM

The air is all after a rainshower fresh with touch of coolness and the morning sun with a touch of warmth.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 20 - 08:57 PM

The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain ...

tonight it's in the mountain valleys as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 28 Jun 20 - 05:29 AM

I've just bought a new weather station.

Th old one failed some time back, it only lasted a few years before the wind speed bearings gave out quickly followed by the wind direction indicator bearings.

I've gone for a different design this time.

My maximum reading on the wind speed on the old one was 124mph but I think it was failing then and giving spurious readings. Maximum that I have faith in was 86mph, which was caused by a violent thermal passing over, not quite a tornado, but in that family of events.

Robin

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 10:37 AM

Enjoy your new weather station,
caterpillar wrestler.

An electrical storm yesterday knocked out the power for a few hours.
Possibly more of the same today, along with the heavy rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jul 20 - 08:28 PM

Hurricane Fay has been and gone,
and there was footage on the news from
a platform on a station of the New York City subway:
rainwater flowing down the stairsteps from the streets above,
rushing over the station platform,
and pouring off to the tracks below.
maybe somebody can link to the video?

how's it doing where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 08:26 PM

As an earlier post by another member said,
Beastly Hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 20 - 07:07 AM

For the next week it should be cooler than 108F heat index but warmer than 82 in the early morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jul 20 - 08:14 PM

Blessedly clear and dry today AND tonight;
the cloudbursts all this past week
have bordered on monsoon-types,
and it's been a bit much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jul 20 - 12:35 AM

54 degrees here at 8:30 pm, the high for today here in southeast Alaska. Tomorrow is forecast warmer at a blazing 61. Showery today. it's been a wet summer so far.

I'm on my fifth month of exile in my apartment. Thinking of starting short walks soon. I can see how people stand 20 years in prison- the time goes very fast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 11:13 AM

"Alone in the dark with nothing but your thoughts, time can draw out like a blade. That was the longest night of my life." said Morgan Freeman in the Shawshank Redemption.

Space-time is relative.
Talking about the weather used to be an innocuous alternative compared to talking about religion or politics.

Get your vitiman D Ebbie and don't fear your socially distanced walks

Well fear them if you want but don't forget to enjoy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 03:14 PM

Thanks, Donuel. I may not be doing OK but more like fair to middlin'.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 01:54 PM

I read in the BS section that
somebody had Jewish Christmas in July, how nice!

Which means:
The tradition at Christmas, for
New York Jewish-Americans, is to dine at a Chinese restaurant.
And go to the cinema.

So a Mudcatter in the Southern Hemisphere, where
they also have social-distance and beware of COVID-19,
dined out at a Chinese restaurant for the first time
in lo! these many months.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 10:38 PM

Anyone feeling the impact of hurricane season?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Aug 20 - 10:02 PM

Thunder and lightning!
Flash! crash! boom!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 09:44 AM

Try on a Thunder shirt.
Hurricane Is-as-is is; bearing down, wolfing down, ottering down, beeteling down and spidering up the East Coast.
There is only a low risk of sharknados.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 02:08 PM

Ee-za-ee-ahss,
I'm used to hearing the prophet Isaiah's name at
scripture readings when I attended Spanish Mass on Sundays,
albeit a long time ago.

A welcome sunny break from the rain today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Aug 20 - 10:03 AM

Aaaah the hurricane going by on our coadt has broken the heat... Sat on my porch this morning and was actually *chilly* and could have used socks. AC off, windows open. Pourvu que ça dure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Aug 20 - 09:55 AM

A tornado elsewhere in the county
a few nights ago;
and last night the electrical thunderstorm
knocked out the power for some time.

No fans or refrigerated air most of the night,
and it was a really humid sweaty night at that.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Aug 20 - 03:53 PM

... well ... ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Aug 20 - 01:55 PM

Rain here has cooled temperatures down strikingly,
as it has been a hot muggy August.

Other Mudcatters, I see on other threads,
are rejoicing in the rain, where they live.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Aug 20 - 06:32 PM

Another cold rainy day yesterday,
and this in the hemisphere
in which August is supposed to be one of the hot sunny months --
someone where I am staying
got caught in the downpour yesterday,
and is home sick today
with a hoarse voice and a scratchy throat. In August.
Much as though it were autumn already.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 02:12 AM

Very hot (100 degrees all week), with lots of smoke and ash. Nearest fire is 30 miles away outside Nevada City California. It took out a favorite hiking trail on the Yuba River, and forced many folkies to evacuate.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 07:39 AM

In Dc it is mostly cold 65-80 and varies from dry to humid with scattered Congressmen returning to hear the Postmaster declare that "people 'should' be able to vote by mail" (with a big grin)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 06:36 PM

From wildfires to hurricanes!
Heckuva August we're having in the Northern Hemisphere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 06:41 PM

Plus
.04% chance of an asteroid strike. The Pandemic is also covered like the weather on the news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 08:46 PM

Down here in Oz we've just had two of the coldest days ever (last time we were this cold was when we were in Canada, late in 2018) courtesy of an 'Antarctic blob' - isn't that a wonderful technical term?

None of your polar vortexes (vortices?) here......we have blobs.

Today is currently - 10.45 a.m. - sunny, but cold. Forecast is for 14 deg C but of course it will feel colder, not surprising because it is still winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 05:44 PM

It's behaving like some sort of monsoon season here;
there are mountains, so maybe that contributes?

It must be awful for
the great areas of inhabited land
struggling with wildfires now, in the heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 06:04 PM

its 100 now

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 20 - 06:29 PM

electromagnetic weather in the Orion Nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2008/PIA22089OrionValley.jpg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Aug 20 - 07:11 PM

North Texas is north of 100.

106^o yesterday, 107^o today. The heat index (what it feels like with the humidity) is around 112^o. The weekend through Monday are supposed to be a little better, around 103^o. Thankfully there is a chance of rain early next week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Aug 20 - 04:24 AM

I am in Rep OF Ireland [which is not part of the UK] it is independent and part of E U, it is 12 c, wind 9 miles per hour, precipitation 3 per cent humidity 72 per cent

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Aug 20 - 08:33 PM

We're getting one heck of a
lightning display out of the electrical storm outside.
At the very least,
it might keep away
the bear that has been raiding the residence dumpster.

But wow!
the flashes of lightning outside the window.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Aug 20 - 03:24 AM

It was a very nice spring day today, except that it's not spring yet! Seems that we are in for a spell of unseasonably warm weather, something not unknown in the tail end of winter. The longer term forecast is for a rainy spring, after a dry start.

In this dry land, rain is good.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 06:07 PM

Uncommonly beautiful this First of September:
dry, clear, sunny ...
recent rains leave everything looking healthy and green.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Sep 20 - 11:15 AM

I cannot account for the FOG that formed yesterday.
It didn't last all that long, but
it was quite a trip to drive the car on the roads through FOG.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 20 - 06:08 AM

I've seen fire and I've seen snow
I've seen campers with no where left to go
I've seen Rap wear a sweater cuz its really so damn cold
But I never thought it be on the same 120F day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Sep 20 - 11:57 AM

What a hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere!
We're between storms now
and enjoying some refreshing dry, and relatively cool, weather today.
Yesterday was so muggy and hot
that it felt like a steambath outdoors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 20 - 06:46 PM

Today it only feels like a steambath inside my facemask.

How's the weather in the Southern Hemisphere?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 29 Sep 20 - 07:32 PM

Well, today is quite pleasant, mild and cloudy. It *might* rain later - rain would be welcome - and possibly/probably tomorrow too, before warming up for a sunny Friday.

Tomorrow, 1st October, we officially hit "storm season".....our late spring-summer-early autumn months can be very unpredictable.

We are staring down the barrel of summer, but hopefully (I say this every year) it won't be too hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 03:03 PM

This season is the counterpart to the
German saying about the spring:

Im April,
thut das Wetter
was es will.

That's true during the end of September
and the beginning of October as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 02:40 AM

The usual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 06:32 PM

can you believe all these hurricanes?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 20 - 07:16 PM

The remnant high winds of a hurricane
knocked out the power earlier this week --
stripping autumn leaves from trees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Oct 20 - 08:16 AM

Finally, a break from the rain.
Wish some of our rain could be shipped over to
the US west of the Rocky Mountains,
where they aren't getting enough rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 05:15 PM

The weather here is light by day followed by ever longer periods of dark.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 20 - 07:45 PM

I hear that one of the wildfires in the state of Colorado
is known as the East Troublesome Fire,
and another as the Ice Fire for its proximity to Ice Lakes.

I also hear that Colorado has had a bit of snow,
which does its modest part to keep the wildfires contained --
don't recall if the snowstorm had winds,
which would of course make the wildfires worse.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Oct 20 - 07:08 PM

... those hurricanes would help
if they could sort of turn about-face
and head for the wildfires north and west
of the Gulf of Mexico.

Instead they drift north and east
and soak the Atlantic seaboard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Oct 20 - 02:21 AM

Stormy! Heavy rain and strong wind is starting as we speak, with the promise of more going into the evening (currently 5.20 p.m.).

We had a doozy of a storm on Wednesday afternoon, wind, heavy rain, hail.....everything except sleet and snow. October-April - spring, summer, going into autumn - is storm season in Oz.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Oct 20 - 09:01 PM

It snowed here (north of Boston) -- a couple of inches. Lucky I didn't have to go out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Oct 20 - 10:52 PM

thunderstorm!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Nov 20 - 04:07 PM

Raining the proverbial cats and dogs out there.
Most of the leaves are off the trees by now.
Many are still on the ground, and all this past week,
the teams of maintenance / landscapers in their trucks with their leaf blowers
have been all over the local towns,
and they still have yet to get ALL of the leaves.
We still have lush green grass, from all the rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 11:11 AM

Saw some cars on the street this morning
that still had snow on them,
although it has not snowed in this town.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 08:43 PM

I can actually say 'snow' without thinking
'the dreaded S-word,'
which is how I usually think of the stuff
if it is too soon after a long bitter winter.

Of course, that's because
spring, summer, and fall are behind me now
and winter is closing in.
We had great fat snowflakes falling in the sunshine yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Nov 20 - 08:53 PM

... a little warmth today,
enough to retire the long-johns temporarily.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Nov 20 - 09:42 PM

Thanksgiving Day, where I am staying, is forecast
to be wet and muggy (for late autumn).

Some places, elsewhere, will have snow and ice ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Nov 20 - 08:12 PM

55 F is average for Nov. in DC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Nov 20 - 07:50 PM

We've had bad weather for two months. But the sky cleared tonight, and I live in a dark sky zone. At 4.58 the brilliant ISS passed over at sixty degrees, from south-west to east. It passed by sparkling Jupiter, next to dimmer Saturn, then headed close by the gibbous moon with Mars, definitely not to be outdone, Mars being straight above the moon and very close to it. A conjunction, I should say. Then off to the east, via the rising Orion. Castor and Pollux are there too, my sign. If the world looks dim and murky and depressing, you can always look up. The firmament don't care. I'm a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society too, member no 2468, great when the stars have gone in. Join us!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Nov 20 - 03:07 PM

Can't make up its mind between rain and snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Nov 20 - 06:38 PM

Google "atmosphere thickness." That'll clear it up for you...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Nov 20 - 06:47 AM

A couple of evenings ago, we were able to watch the ISS, very high in the south, leaving the sunlit firmament and diving into the Earth's shadow, briefly glinting a fading rosy hue, then disappearing. We tried to imagine what sunset looks like to the crew. I suppose they get the chance to see it (and sunrise) well over a dozen times every day! Last night it sang a song to the moon, which was glowing through high cloud wearing a gorgeous multicoloured corona.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 30 Nov 20 - 12:24 PM

It’s 57f in north Florida with cumulus clouds, breezes, and intermittent sunshine after several days of rain. Tornadoes northeast of here this am. The satsumas are mostly picked and distributed to friends. The ponkins are almost ripe. I’ve had six water oaks over fifty feet tall cut down. I will replant citrus and a sycamore, making room for more vegetable gardening. Still have over twenty live oaks, cherry, and tongue trees on the lot. I’ve cared full time for my 97 year old dad since 2013. I have a dirty thirty’s Recording King parlor guitar which distracts me from this isolation. We dodged hurricanes in Tallahassee this season. My son is engaged to a sweet wildlife rehabber and they’re looking for a homestead. Love to all my old Catter friends . harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 20 - 12:53 PM

Sunny blue skies and 28F in southeast Idaho right now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 01 Dec 20 - 04:46 AM

It is nasty hot. Today reached 41.3 deg C which is over 100 F, and tomorrow is forecast to be similar.

Summer in Oz isn't always this bad - certainly not every day - but this is a fairly extreme heatwave.

It should cool down slightly by Thursday, which is forecast to be *only* 35 deg with some falling wet stuff. Fingers crossed, as it's currently very dry.

Summer, to me, is something to be survived and tolerated rather than enjoyed, and autumn is always welcome relief.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Dec 20 - 08:02 AM

Just below freezing and snowing with determination in Stratford, Ontario. It’s the fluffy but dense kind of snow that clings to tree branches and looks f***ing picturesque. The highway will be actively unpleasant today; thank God, I have zero reason to be on it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 01:27 AM

Today it is still blustery but the last couple of days have been something else! Not cold but howling, high winds and torrential rain. A friend who keeps chickens said that her chooks this morning had frazzled feathers standing straight up and she said they looked like they hadn't slept a wink. That was the second night in a row. They must be wondering if this is the new norm. And being 2020, it could be.

Right now, at 9:30 pm the temperature is 43F, which is unusually warm for December and the wind is only 25 mph. We're expecting more rain but they assure us that the storm has passed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 05:20 AM

Despite being 29 F right now in DC, it is the second all time warmest monthly average.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 05:31 AM

But it's only the 3rd...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 04 Dec 20 - 03:30 AM

Thundersnow!

Slept right through it, as did everybody in Newtongrange - the bangs didn't travel far but scared the shit out of all the neighbouring villages as well as down in Edinburgh. Inches of snow overnight though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Dec 20 - 05:11 AM

It's 61 degrees F. here in SW Florida right now with a high of 78 and light breezes forecast. I'll be out kayak fishing in couple of hours hoping to bring back a pompano for the grill or at least a sea trout.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 02:44 AM

Tonight at 10:30, here in Juneau, Alaska,we have 48F degrees. The wind is calm but it is still raining lightly. It is a weird world.

The storm we had the other day did some serious damage. Lots of mudslides and trees down, but up the channel 90 some miles at Haines a village of some 2000 people, they are far worse off. Four houses were pushed into the ocean and they still have two people missing, presumed to be gone. Dozens of people evacuated and not allowed to return to their homes for the time being. Crews of people from Juneau have gone there to help but the mountainsides are so unstable rescue and exploratory work is dangerous.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 09:47 PM

cold cold COOOOOOOLD

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 05:14 PM

FINALLY cold here in Charlottesville. 2 days ago, t-shirt weather. Yesterday, snow. Today, chilly, windy, just lovely. Aah. Down comforter, space heater, soup, hot chocalate...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 10:26 AM

The weather is cold, lies and shadows that have been and will be deadly, foolish and insane. She saw shadows. She always had. She was spiritual, not Christian—she’d left that behind when she’d left Waco, in her early 20s. She got into Wicca, “super witchy,” says a friend. “She was fun, happy, a little wild. Just a normal girl.” I’ll call her Evelyn, because she’s in a sense a hostage now, a captive of her beliefs. There are Evelyns everywhere. This Evelyn was in Austin. She worked when she could, sometimes she danced, stripped. She had a boyfriend who took care of her. She’d never had much luck holding on to a job. She’d bounce back and forth between her family in Waco and her friends in the city, right to left, red to blue. She was bright—a good listener, says one friend, a liberal lawyer whom Evelyn called “freedom fighter.” She was gullible, says another friend, the one who introduced Evelyn to QAnon not long into the pandemic, “for shits and giggles.”

Which is how Evelyn came to believe that the shadows she’d seen within Wicca as the nuances of life were actually the satanic forces that Q—thought by devotees to be a government insider “dropping” cryptic clues via chat forums about Donald Trump’s decades-old plan to destroy the deep state—believes control the Democratic Party. She “followed the white rabbit,” as QAnon believers put it, she “went down the rabbit hole.” She came to believe that the darkness to which she’d always been sensitive was not part of the light but at war with it. That the shadows had become flesh and that the flesh had become politics and that the love of Trump she’d embraced because she loved her family, abandoning her once-liberal views, required the hatred of his enemies: the “cabal.” Child-sacrificing Democratic elites, a monstrous network not just of pedophiles but of cannibals, harvesters of children’s adrenal glands (all the better to stay youthful), for an evil concoction one part Botox and two parts blood libel, the old idea that Jews make matzo from the blood of Christian babies.

Do I need to say none of this is true? I do. But the delusion is every bit as dangerous as if it were.

On the morning of August 12, Evelyn decided it was time to #SaveTheChildren, as the hashtag that’s been co-opted by Q puts it. She got into her ancient little red two-door Pontiac Fiero. She’d been drinking—she’d later test at twice the limit—but that didn’t slow her down. She’d been awake for days, researching. That’s what QAnon followers call their hours committed to YouTube videos and podcasts and deep study. The algorithms fed her. She fed the algorithms, making memes for Twitter and Instagram. She’d text her findings to her friends. One tried to warn her: “You’re being us

“I’m seeing things,” she answered.

“Three a.m., 4 a.m., 5 a.m.,” says the friend who now regrets introducing Evelyn to QAnon. Evelyn didn’t realize her friend thought it was funny. Her friend didn’t know Evelyn was taking it so seriously. “One hundred percent,” says the friend now, “like the Bible, like it was gold.” When she realized what was happening, the friend tried to talk Evelyn down. “Go to sleep,” she begged. “I can’t,” Evelyn said. “I’m not sleeping till Trump does.” Like Q, she believed her president was working tirelessly to prepare for the Storm, the salvation of democracy via the executions of the cabalists, all of them.

At 9:22 that morning, Evelyn found one. It was obvious—the cabalist was driving a white van, the kind used by kidnappers in movies. Also the kind used by caterers in real life. The caterer had her young daughter with her. Evelyn jumped out at a light and began screaming. The caterer hit the gas. Evelyn got back in her Fiero and returned to the prowl. Soon she saw another shadow. A young Latinx woman driving a Dodge Caravan. Evelyn veered into the middle turning lane so she could try to force the Caravan over. The driver—a 19-year-old on her way to register for classes at community college—tried to turn into a police station. Evelyn rammed the Caravan. The student saw a cop in a parking lot. She squealed in, honking. “She kept ramming into me,” says the student. Eight times, she thinks, maybe more. “Half my body went numb.”

Had Evelyn not crashed into a concrete pylon, she might have committed murder. And if she’d done that, she might be as infamous as Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old Kenosha killer whose original defense attorney declared that Rittenhouse had fired the first shot of the “Second American Revolution.” Instead Evelyn is just a woman who went too far—or, from the point of view of QAnon, not far enough. That she might have spiraled into some different sort of chaos had Trump and Q not been there to feed her delusion shouldn’t make us feel safe. Because Trump is there, and he sees shadows too.

There are no turning points when the world is spinning out of control, so the Trump interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that aired August 31—displaced by the time you read this by a dozen more distractions and disasters—did not so much mark a new low as erase altogether the meaning of pre-Trump terms such as “new low.” Now there is only the abyss. We’re all in it together, and Trump is down here too. Which is why it’s worth pausing, as we rush toward November and the certain violence that will follow any outcome, to consider Trump’s words to Ingraham.

“Biden,” he says, slumped in a chair, “Biden is, I don’t even like to mention Biden”—(fact check: he does)—“because he’s not controlling anything.” This is Trump boilerplate—he’s been calling Biden a puppet since at least last fall.


Ingraham attempts to normalize. The media of which Trump approves doesn’t just parrot his words, it launders them. Ingraham asks who’s “pulling the strings.” She proposes “Obama’s people,” which is triple-ply: simultaneously a plausible suggestion of continuity; a racist dog whistle; and a bone for QAnon, followers of which know that “Obama’s people” means “pedophiliac cannibals.” It’s the kind of yes, and message that’d usually elicit a smirk from Trump, an insult comic at heart.

Not this time. He tilts forward, his hands uncharacteristically clasped between his knees, and breaks eye contact, glancing away. His voice gathers texture. “People that you’ve never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows, people—”

“Dark shadows,” says Ingraham. “What is that?” It’s not a question, it’s a redirect.

“No,” Trump says, as if he knows how he sounds. “People that you haven’t heard of,” he repeats. In the past when Trump spoke of Biden’s puppeteers, he wanted you to think you knew whom he meant. “Reasonable” Republicans understood it was Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer—just as many Democrats say Mitch McConnell controls Trump. Racists heard him calling out AOC and the Squad, impertinent women of color. And the deeper read was George Soros, maybe the Rothschilds.

But something different is happening with Ingraham. He’s not insinuating that she knows whom he’s talking about—he’s insisting she doesn’t. It’s none of the usual suspects. Nobody and everybody, nameless and everywhere. When he glances away it’s as if only he can see them, an intimate moment not between Trump and Ingraham, but between Trump and his own mind. We’re witnessing a man cross a lin

Not one of transgression—to him, such borders mean nothing—but of belief. “There are people that are on the streets,” he says. “There are people that are controlling the streets.” The “invisible enemy” he’s spoken of before, the one QAnon calls Hillary Clinton or James Comey or John Podesta. But this foe has no name.

He speaks of an airplane “in a certain city,” one full of “thugs” in “dark uniforms.” Indistinguishable; like a virus. This happened, he says, then: “They’re on a plane.” Present tense. “This is all happening.” Right now. It has the dream logic of a nursery rhyme. On the streets, in the air, dark shadows everywhere.

What Trump is describing is no more nor less exotic than the popular evangelical concept of spiritual war, the conflict thought to be raging always, around us and within, between believers and “principalities” and “powers,” according to Ephesians, or demons, in the contemporary vernacular. QAnon has translated the concept from King James into Trumpish, but Trump is no more reading Q “drops” than undead John-John, JFK Jr., is writing them. For once there’s nothing contrived about Trump’s answer. He’s not saying what he thinks MAGA wants to hear. Dark shadows is in fact the wrong answer, as Ingraham tries to signal. But he can’t hear her.

IF YOU LOVE TRUMP, YOU’RE RECEIVING THE SIGNAL. IF YOU FEAR HIM, FEAR HE’LL NEVER REALLY BE GONE, YOU’RE HEARING IT TOO.

Trump used to flirt with and feed morsels to evangelicalism’s spiritual warriors and the rabbit-holers of Q. That’s when they were distinct constituencies, the Christians and the crazies. Lately they’ve been merging, the theology of Q infecting evangelicalism, the organization of the Christian right incarnating Q’s digital power. Together they’re his base; his hope; and now, maybe, his identity. He’s no longer a con artist. Now he’s his own mark, like an email scammer who clicks on his own malware. He isn’t selling a dream, he’s dreaming it. The difference between him and his believers is that he has the power to make the dream real, for them, for him, for us. To summon into being the “American carnage” he nightmared at his inauguration, the cities he said were desolate now set ablaze; the killers in the street recast as heroes, with paramilitary backup; fear a daily given; the plague risen up from legend to fill the land with ghosts. This was his dream. Now we are all nightmaring it together.

When press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked to explain Trump’s defense of QAnon, she insisted neither she nor the president knew a thing about it. But at the close of the interview, apropos of nothing, she said, “There’s a lot of children in this country who have died on the streets of Democrat cities. We’re focused on capturing criminals.” What was she talking about? Maybe she meant gun violence in Chicago, a favorite Trump topic, or the blond girls he describes falling prey to human “animals.” But I heard Q. I heard #SaveTheChildren. Was she signaling, I wondered? A very Q question.

I thought of a Q podcast, Praying Medic, to which I’d started listening. “This information is real, distractions are necessary,” says the Medic, explaining the need for Q’s cryptic constructions. So real it demands the poetry of myth, not the dull prose of politics. “Double meanings,” like loop-the-loops, kairos—sacred time—disguised as chronos, “ticktock,” as QAnon says. Consider the third of November, a date seemingly promised by Q in October 2017 to deliver indictments against the cabal, around which “public riots” (versus the private kind?) would be organized in an attempt to prevent their arrests. November 3, 2017, came and went sans perp walk or broken windows.

But who knows which November 3 Q meant, asks the Medic. I see the answer before he says it—there are riots now, and November is coming! Ticktock. I thought of Rittenhouse’s first shot, and his lawyer’s “Second American Revolution,” and the plastic bag his supporters claimed was a Molotov cocktail; and of Michael Reinoehl, the Portland protester who said his kill shot “felt like the beginning of a war.” I thought of “retribution,” Trump’s term for the police killing of Reinoehl. “That’s the way it has to be,” he explained. Tit-tat, ticktock. I thought of Michael R. Caputo, the Trump aide who on Facebook warned of Bidenaut hit squads and called for supporters to stock ammunition and also spoke of shadows: “Shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.”And of Trump, always Trump. Masked, pawing at the window of his airtight limousine outside Walter Reed, driven by Secret Service agents in pale gowns. Unmasked, on the White House portico, breathing disease, visibly gasping. He tells us he feels better than he has in 20 years. The drugs, I thought, the steroids. But what if it’s true? What if he is growing stronger? Not electorally—more unbound? Walking deeper into his own shadow, drawing us after?

I shook it off; insane. But what about McEnany? I started listening to another Q podcast, this one a debunking, QAnon Anonymous. Its hosts also heard echoes in McEnany’s words. It was on this podcast that I learned of the woman I’m calling Evelyn. When I called one of the hosts, an artist named Julian Feeld, to ask how he’d found her, he said a listener had seen the attack in the local Waco news.

The report mentioned nothing about QAnon. But the listener wondered if there was more. Feeld didn’t wonder, he knew. He knew because he’s been listening even longer. In his voice I hear what sounds like pleasure, a kind of frightened delight in piecing together the puzzle of QAnon’s shattered mind. The Praying Medic sounds like this too, a mix of amiable and urgent that’s at odds with the history of conspiracy-mongering. Neither man grabs you by the lapels, demanding you listen. They don’t have to. So many of us already are. If you love Trump, you’re receiving the signal. If you fear him, fear he’ll never really be gone now no matter the outcome, that he’s a chronic condition or maybe a terminal one, then you’re hearing it to

“Blood makes noise,” declares a speaker at a #SaveTheChildren rally in Los Angeles that Feeld attended and recorded, a gathering of the unexpected: white hipsters, Black men, Latin x women, mothers concerned for their children. The speaker says the blood of the children is spilled by the cabal into the earth, where it’s soaked up by the roots of trees—she doesn’t need to mention Thomas Jefferson, the tree of liberty, for patriots to hear the echo—which then grow fruit, which “we” eat. “Their blood is now inside us!” she crows, as if this is a victory. The crowd cheers. “And we cry out with”—can you hear it?—“the voice of the children!”

This is the nightmare: We are the children and the cannibals. The victims and the killers, the innocence and the revenge. Do I need to say that none of this is true? Yes. We are none of us innocent, none of us martyrs. Such words are for faith, and democracy is a practice. Each of our real martyrs are defiled by claims of drinking the blood of infants and pedophilia, people like MLK, Obama, RHG...

Never mind the friends of Trump like Epstein.
Nevermind the Qman behind the right wing think tank curtain.
If this was a Horror movie you would change the channel, but its real.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 11:30 AM

Spoke too soon. 70s again today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 12:58 PM

The Art of the Lie
Chapter One.

The lie is an ancient art and knows no boundry or horizon. Some of its modern subsidaries are the virus, the malware, the con, the simplist crime and the largest world coup imaginable.
Like erosion it is simply a matter of numbers and time. You have already had the passing thought that you are immune but you are not.
It has been said the devil's greatest trick is making you believe he doesn't exist.

Of course your participation in the lie, whatever that may be, is the verb to the lie's noun. You have probably asked why has the greatest liar had such 'huge' success. However you answered the question, I am sure was to your satisfaction but you are probably wrong. ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 01:14 PM

From ancient Rome to the current Internet age, this sweeping history of ideas explores how different epochs wrestled with the issue of truth and lies. From the ancient Greeks and Romans to the modern era, how have people determined what is true? How have those with power and influence sought to control the narrative? Are we living in a post-truth era, or is that notion simply the latest attempt to control the narrative?
The relationship between truth and power is the key theme. Moving through major historical periods, I will focuses on notable people and events, from well-known leaders like Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler to lesser-known individuals like Procopius and Savonarola. There are distinct parallels in history to current events. Julius Caesar's publication of his Gallic Wars and Civil Wars was an early exercise in political spin not unlike what we see today. During the English Civil War and the Enlightenment, pamphleteering coupled with the new power of the printing press challenged the status quo, as online and social media does in our time. And "fake news" was already being used by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in nineteenth-century Europe and by the "yellow journalism" of American newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer near the turn of the twentieth century.The author concludes optimistically, noting that we are debating and discussing truth more fiercely today than in any previous era. The determination to arrive at the truth, despite the manipulations of the powerful, bodes well for the future of democracy. Now there is Facebook. There are psychoneurological factors all people need to understandand to fight the cancer of our minds and souls.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 01:17 PM

Chapter 2
upon request

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 02:58 PM

Erm.
I don't see what some of the posts before this one
have to do with a thread about current weather.
Anyhow.

Here the weather is deceptive,
as it is too mild for the season:
well above freezing with calm winds and bright sunshine.

I just got back my most reliable winter coat from the cleaners,
and I'm taking extra good care with that coat,
because in a few days the weather will become more seasonal,
and that coat will be very much needed.

Also looking into the purchase of a pair of footwear from the brand
Icebug.

Anybody else heard of / tried out a pair of Icebugs?
Some of them have SPIKES in them to get traction
on icy pavements.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 07:47 AM

I stash important ideas here where it doesn't matter.
Besides the weather now covers mass fires, pandemic numbers and earthquakes. The spread of civilization ending big lies should certainly be considered an emerging threat although it is man made.

Big lies have a lifetime of almost 2 generations. If you heard of the hollow Earth theory, it came from the 3rd Reich. They believed that a race of giants lived 18,000 ft underground. It was part of their supernatural theology they used to help people denounce religion and follow a Germany first faith steepe in ancient lore and 'history'.
They actually burroed deep into the earth and installed a cable car to access the giants. The hollow Earth advocates clung to this fiction with the help of a supposed diary entry at the North Pole unil the early 1970s.
So will trumpism sputter along for another hundred years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 02:33 PM

Where I am, we are in between snowstorms,
with the worse of the two still to come.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 03:41 PM

Donuel, your first essay is well crafted. Scary but well crafted. Suggestion: Start a separate thread so that those who wish to will read it. Posting it on a weather thread is an intrusion, an annoyance, guaranteeing it won't be read and it will be resented.

The weather here is mild, although it snowed lightly all day yesterday. Today it is blue skies and crisp air. However, snow is forecast for all next week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 11:19 AM

Charlottesville is not quite under the Noreaster descending upon the megalopolis. We have ice falling. It's gonna be nasty.

But meanwhile it is a grand winter's day. Hot drinks, soup, space heaters. Love having such luxuries. Thinking of those that don't.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 09:51 PM

On Washington USA coast. Very windy but little rain. Prob in f kitties F

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 10:01 PM

you all right, Mary?

kitties jumped on your computer keyboard?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 02:48 PM

We were supposed to be practically hip-deep in snow by now but it warmed up and light rain is penetrating the snow we do have.

However, the ravens like it. They are swooping in the air currents, sometimes right past my window.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 02:17 PM

It's probably not good, because it's global warming, but I just stepped out in bare feet to shake out a dust mop, and the porch floor was warm underfoot. In December, it should be somewhere between 40 and 20 out.

The sky is blue and clear, and the DH hopes to photograph Saturn and Jupiter tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 08:07 PM

It is raining. The rain is predicted to increase during the day (currently just after noon) and into tomorrow; our forecast is for lots and lots of rain with possible flooding.

It has also cooled down, which considering the heatwave a few weeks ago is quite a pleasant change.

Santa may have to bring his umbrella when he visits Oz this year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 20 - 12:47 PM

It's winter, all right, but
we're going through one of those
mild-for-winter,
warm-enough-to-melt some ice,
overcast, raw humid chilly periods.
The evenings are even going to be mild this week,
and the forecast for Christmas Day is grey, warm, and wet,
of all things.
The extended forecast for the week of New Year's, however,
is clear and at-or-below-freezing, a different sort of winter weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 03:51 PM

Stormy, only it's a rainy, windy, too-warm-for-Christmas storm,
with a threat of localized flooding,
not just from the downpour, but also from thawing snow and ice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Dec 20 - 09:29 PM

A white Christmas in the mountains of North Georgia; a couple of inches last night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Dec 20 - 10:59 PM

Big weather is on the move.
Hawaii, South America, the Carribean, and Indonesia is on the move.
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/116472/World-Earthquake-Report-for-Wednesday-16-December-2020.html

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 08:58 AM

But relax https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/why-are-we-having-so-many-earthquakes-has-naturally-occurring-earthquake-activity-been?qt-news_science

Floods are more likely

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Dec 20 - 05:53 PM

above freezing, however chilly and raw

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 20 - 02:45 PM

Thoroughly depressing, that's what it's like:
gray, no sunshine, rainy, raw.
And if it goes below freezing
when the approaching storm gets here,
then we have ice to deal with,
Oh Joy, Oh Rapture.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 09:53 AM

Gonna be 65F today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 04:30 PM

It did not hit 65 but was niiiiice.

I have a question: I think of weather as a term for, specifically, *atmospheric* phenomena. However, lately, I am seeing other planetary phenomena included. Are earthquakes weather? Tsunamis? Forest fires?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 04:08 PM

Lightning coming and going where Earth meets space

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 21 - 09:39 AM

dust in the wind

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 09:43 PM

Mrrzy, I think the insurance companies
refer to the things on your list
as
"acts of God" or something ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 07:51 PM

I don't live in southern Colorado,
but a close friend does, and they have gone for months
in drought conditions.

A few days ago they FINALLY got some snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 09:48 PM

Mrrzy, If its covered in the weather forecast its weather whether its a solar storm, gamma ray burst or tsunamis a half mile high.
They all have one thing in common.
They come in waves
like gravity
or electrons.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 21 - 02:07 PM

Snowing, that's what it's like.
The sort that falls gently and blankets everything.
Not, thanks be, a blizzard, not this time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 21 - 08:40 PM

In Buffalo NY it would only take an hour to go from zero to six foot high snow drifts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 02:57 PM

Depends on your car, no?

It is supposed to snowstorm tomorrow. But I am betting freezing rain. I have soup supplies...

Subject: RE: What's the conspiracy like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 07:22 AM

I "heard" that white supremists are going to paint Everything White today in protest. So far "they" are right.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 11:13 AM

Just snow. Lovely. No ice, no Sunday paper...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 11:19 AM

Its probably buried, look for an orange plastic sleeve.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 11:54 AM

It came today.
Still lovely, but I hear everything melting...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 04:41 PM

Western Massachusetts got ever so much snow.
It took a day and a half, pretty much, to finish falling.
At least it was no blizzard, no high winds --
just snow that would not quit falling.

I don't know how much.
In the parking lot, there was at least twelve inches
on top of my car.
The trouble was not on top of my car, but
behind the rear wheels, backing out of the space.
The lot had, thank heavens, been plowed --
it was just a question of getting out of the snowed-in space
and onto the plowed pavement. Needed to shovel first.
The snow was wetter, and heavier, than it looked.
Not heart-attack shovelling.

It's quite the winter wonderland here visually.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 07:56 AM

Scotland last night:

Coldest for 25 years in Braemar
Kilometre-wide fire in Benbecula and extreme fire hazard warning for the whole west coast of the country

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 09:41 AM

And there I was, under the delusion that the Western Isles were always wet in winter. Wildfire in February -- amazing.

Cold and grey in southwestern Ontario, with a bit of wind chill and yet more snow in the forecast. Utterly normal. Perfect for staying home with a book.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 10:45 AM

We also had a big wildfire, on Dartmoor. We've had a wet winter but the last week in the Westcountry has been bone dry with a strong (and vicious) east wind. The bracken and heather from last year is tinder-dry, so it doesn't take much to get it going, and gorse burns well too.

Braemar holds the record for the coldest recorded temperature in the U.K., -27.2C, achieved twice, once in 1895 and once in 1982. The reason for the very cold nights is that the location is in a frost pocket, which means it's surrounded by hills down which cold air from high up sinks into the valley where the village is. Scottish glens are often frost pocket candidates. There are several notable ones in England, at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, at Benson in Oxfordshire and at Shawbury in Shropshire. To get a really cold night in a frost pocket you need little or no wind, a clear night and, preferably, snow on the ground. It helps if there's a stagnating mass of cold air over the country, which occasionally happens in winter anticyclones centred over Scandinavia or Eastern Europe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 03:00 PM

In Eastern Ontario, it's sunny and cold, even for here, what with a high of -15C for the day (with a wind chill of -23) and a low after sun-up tomorrow of -22C. There is little snow cover, and that does not bode well for the forests in the late spring. Unless we get more snow, they'll be tinder dry in May. This lack of snow cover plays merry hob with the military training cycle (the impact areas will be too dry even for high explosive) and the farmers' preparations for planting (they will not be allowed to burn slash and plough it under).

Still, the bright sun warms the heart, if nothing else, and it will not set until close to 1730. I can smell cycling weather in the offing, so I am on my way to my local bike shop to get my gravel bike out of hawk after its annual overhaul.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 04:02 PM

in west cork it is wet 4 degrees mild

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 21 - 06:21 PM

Dreading another heavy snowfall in a few days' time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 03:06 AM

The Pentlands (the hills immediately south of Edinburgh) currently have a severe, danger-to-life avalanche warning. Never heard of that anywhere near here before.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 04:12 AM

On this day in 1961 there was a partial eclipse of the sun in the morning. It was Ash Wednesday and we were herded off to church for that service in which the priest smeared greasy muck on your forehead with his thumb. The sky was cloudy and we didn't see the eclipse. From inside the church we could see the sun coming out, but by the time the service had finished and we were released the eclipse was over. I've harboured bitterness about that for exactly 60 years. I'm thinking that it may have sown the early seeds of my atheism...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 06:43 AM

Heheh. Speaking of smearing ashes, get this from the Guardian website:

A Catholic priest in Ireland is providing takeaway ashes in plastic sauce containers so parishioners can honour Ash Wednesday despite coronavirus restrictions.

A Centra shop in Clonmany, county Donegal, has helped Fr Brian Brady to pack and distribute ashes in 200 containers usually used for dips and sauces.

Parishioners have snapped up the containers so they can administer their own ashes by placing them in the form of a cross on their foreheads tomorrow. The ritual signifies repentance and marks the first day of Lent, a six-week period of penitence before Easter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 08:59 AM

Sounds nippy in Texas. The oilmen seem to have conspired to freeze up the wind turbines.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:30 AM

I just had a look at the weather radar plot for southwestern Ontario, and Stratford is right spung in the middle of the leading end of a snow system stretching all the way to Pelee Island in Lake Erie.

This is why I paid Nick's Snowblowing a big hunk of change back in November. Best money I've spent in a long time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:42 PM

We had a tiny thaw today, with more than enough MUD.
never mind,
the snow and ice will return soon enough.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 11:31 PM

shall I mention what it's like in sunny summery Sydney -

forecast for Sydney

26C (= 78F) partly cloudy. Medium (50%) chance of showers. Winds southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h.

sandra

yesterday was very windy, & even little me (irony alert) was being buffeted about. It was a day to leave by our back door as we are on top of a hill with gusts rushing up the street & the front door closer can fail in heavy gusts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 06:01 AM

A few years ago I opened my car door in a good old Cornish gale, the wind caught the door and blew it violently wide open - and destroyed it. I had to do without the car for a week until a new door was fitted. Thank goodness for insurance. I was lent a rather unpleasant replacement car for a week (a little Chrysler something-or-other) but at least I could still get around!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 07:50 AM

Steve, I can relate. I was once blown flat on my face on South Street in Halifax when I was stupid enough to be out in a particularly violent nor’easter.

It’s a beautiful day in Stratford, Ontario: clear, blue sky, still air, snow-banks as high as an elephant’s eye. Me, I’m just thrilled that the municipal plow finally found my street, and wondering whether my neighbour will find his garbage bin before Easter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 02:23 PM

A great lot of the USA is currently under winter siege. Storm follows storm leaving little time for clean up and repair. Millions of people are without power in the coldest temperatures in decades. I think the forecast is for better conditions this weekend but in the meantime it is a misery.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 02:39 PM

8 degrees wind 27 mph

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 07:42 PM

Texas as well as Spain are frozen. Dips in the jet stream have something to do with global something or another.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 09:13 PM

Dips in the jet stream happen all the time. What's far more important Is any long-term latitudinal displacement of the jets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 04:27 PM

Here in Missouri we are north of the storm that clobbered the southern US from New Mexico to the east coast. Texas got the most news coverage - there was snow on the beach in Galveston, and one day it was warmer in Moscow than in Fort Worth.

People have no water (frozen pipes) and roads are impassable because of ice and accidents. People have no power and no heat, and deaths caused by carbon monoxide are occurring because they try to use a car or charcoal to get warm.

I learned yesterday that the same weather situation caused snow in Greece and Turkey.

Earlier this week it was very cold here, -4 F or -20 C. (Plus snow and wind, but not very much.) That's colder than it's been for a long time. We were asked to turn thermostats down, which we did, and the power companies tried something new - deliberate rolling blackouts where areas receive no power for 30 to 60 minutes. We had one of those. Maybe it helped, because we did not lose power in our region.

Now it's 30 out. Nice and comfy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 06:48 PM

The weather and its ramifications in Texas is headline news here. You're having it tough. Commiserations, y'all...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 07:28 PM

A brisk wind blowing today
made it a little nippy for
the line of people waiting for their
COVID-19 vaccinations at the weekend clinic hereabouts.


The line HAD to go out the door and into the parking lot,
so as to observe the protocol of
social distancing,
with a single file of people the required distance apart from each other.

The good news:
clear sunny skies with no precipitation;
and the clinic organizers
kept that line moving briskly:
indoors the operations stayed on schedule and efficient,
so that that line that went well out the door
was a line that moved inside in a matter of minutes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 07:47 PM

It's the first day of March
and I don't know about lions,
but there is a heck of a wind blowing,
and it isn't any sort of balmy spring breeze either.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 10:18 PM

That wind keeps blowing,
and it's below freezing.
Good time to stay indoors under the covers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 10:15 PM

Here comes the thaw and the MUD season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 10:22 PM

We're at the end of March
and it is behaving like April.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Mar 21 - 08:16 PM

no shortage of WIND here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 07:05 AM

Like answering a rhetorical question steve tries to correct my sarcasm which is fun while Keb externalizes the threat of weather like a force beyond her control, which it is, but when I think of space and Earth weather my reaction to it is far less stressful. Boston will get 8 more inches of snow this spring. Charge will build up outside our atmosphere and Earth will send up lightening to equalize the charge . Differences that are trying to equalize have a beauty of their own. Even being struck by lightning can be a beautiful thing.
Since I can't stop weather I might as well enjoy it. I like a good storm. All interfaces have a clash of power be it a beach, hot and cold or negative and positive.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 02:57 PM

Redefining your misinformation as "sarcasm" isn't exactly honest (and this is my first post to this thread for six weeks: you do let things simmer, don't you?)

Anyway, on the weather front we've been in excess of 23C today, almost but not quite a record high for the Westcountry in March, and 'twas Bude that achieved it...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:50 PM

We met our daughter and her partner for the first time since Christmas Day today, in a lovely park in Truro, where they live. We are not allowed to go into their house, so today's lovely weather gave us a great opportunity to reunite in the open air. We took a picnic and spent several pleasant hours in the balmy air: lovely sunshine and 20C. Most Brits will think I'm lying, as it was far colder in almost all of the rest of the country, but we had it warmer than anywhere else. A really nice day, but a long drive at 130 miles return...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 04:49 PM

Now we're at the beginning of April and it is behaving
like the beginning of March:
below freezing, frigid wind,
snow flurries ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 01:29 PM

. . . today, however,
it is a beautiful sunny Easter Sunday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Apr 21 - 09:23 PM

I read that as pheasant, in the context of picnic, and was temporarily jealous.

Getting really nice here in Charlottesville, still cold at night but days in the high 70's - low 80's, aah.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 07:08 PM

we've had a lot of rain here on the east coast recently, even wikipedia knows about the floods


Family hikes to safety after being trapped by floodwaters at Upper Lansdowne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 11:28 AM

A local farmer, where I'm staying, is concerned.
We have enjoyed dry sunny days in early April, and
the farmer said,
"April is our rainy month, and the crops could use the rain ... "

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 21 - 11:32 AM

My ol friend thunder passed over me yesterday for the first time this year. The roll and clap were comforting reminders of warm days ahead.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 21 - 03:27 PM

This first week of May
has a forecast for rain for
the better part of the week,
which should make the farmers happier at any rate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 May 21 - 10:02 PM

Rain is forecast here too, starting on Wednesday. The town has recovered from a flood in March - nothing major, although two bridges were closed due to approach roads being under water. We came home last week after four weeks away during which time we only had rain twice, both times at night.

Not only will it rain on Wednesday/Tuhrsday/maybe Friday, but it will cool down.

With a bit of luck it will soon be cold and wet enough to drive away the mice. There has been a plague for several months.....it's time the little buggers buggered off. Into the Oubliette, perhaps.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 21 - 09:41 PM

Only just today I saw, taking a brief drive,
how much the rivers have risen from the recent thaw
and the warming temperatures;
there was mild flooding in spots.
Where I am staying, there aren't places where rising waters have an impact,
I had to travel the next town over to see how high the water is.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 May 21 - 05:53 AM

Well round here rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease will hath all too short a date, as there's no sign of it yet and my brand new Weber barbie has yet to see the light of day...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 21 - 10:29 AM

It's pretty gray and gloomy just now,
but the green growing things are happy to have
the occasional rainshowers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 May 21 - 03:25 PM

Another storm system grinding its way across the continent.
Hope we have just enough time for the water level
to drop a little more
before the next lot of precipitation raises the rivers again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 May 21 - 04:28 PM

Nice enough last weekend, but probably too wet for a Saturday outing around Manchester tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 May 21 - 03:12 PM

How goes it, JennieG, with the mice in Oz?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 May 21 - 01:46 PM

Lot of rain in Manchester since my above 7/5/21 post, but cleared up today and made an outing to Wythenshawe Park in the south of Manchester...tomorrow, back to rain apparently.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 May 21 - 11:24 PM

It's pretty darned fickle at the moment.
Where I am staying,
they switched to refrigerated air conditioning
in light of a recent hot spell.
Just in time for the weather to change
and now we would be better off
if we could turn the heat back on,
but the boilers/engines have been switched off ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 30 May 21 - 06:32 AM

“Heatwave” on the way, er, well 21 degrees, .....if we’re lucky, but then this is Scotland!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 May 21 - 07:46 AM

21 degrees!!, & here I am in autumn-y Sydney putting my 85% down quilt on my bed for the first time this year. Thin blanket & woolen shawl have been enough in the past few weeks, but it getting colder.

Forecast was 18 today but we only got to 16 (feels like 12 due to the wind.)

It was 14 (feels like 11 cos of the wind) around 3.30 this afternoon when I went out, warmly wrapped, to buy the paper & a few groceries. I walked past a teenager in a mini skirt, striding along on very white legs. I can't say they were blue with the cold, but they probably weren't so obviously pale earlier in the day! April & May are the times when some folks still dress for summer ...

We're expecting 9 tonight in my part of Sydney near the harbour, & 19 tomorrow. Sydney's western suburbs are expecting between 3 & 5 tonight, & all expect 19 tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 21 - 07:47 AM

cloudy with a chance of solar particles

In DC area its high forties to 50's and rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 02:19 PM

Hope that’s Fahrenheit, Donuel! I was in degrees Centigrade.
Nice enough to have a wee solo session in our garden this afternoon! Hope the neighbours didn’t mind, but we have a high hedge which should absorb a lot of the sound!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 02:46 PM

old habits die hard

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Jun 21 - 09:45 PM

The mice are still around, still causing problems. Fortunately we have seen no signs of mice, dead or alive, for a few weeks; Bianca the Elderly Geriatric Cat caught one as it emerged from under the dishwasher, we disposed of it in case it had been poisoned and haven't seen any since. There are no new signs of mouse shit either, so we are hopeful that they have moved on from here to elsewhere.

The people who know such things tell us that we need a spell of cold wet weather to get rid of them, so fingers crossed that next week's forecast cold wet weather - even possible snow, no less! - may help with that.

Meanwhile, there are sad news stories about native animals, fish and birds and domestic pets being poisoned by eating straight rodent bait or dead rodents who have been baited. I don't know the answer to that - do we let the mice run free to ruin crops, cause health problems, even cause fires by chewing through cables if by doing so we save other creatures? Or do we leave the mice to bankrupt farmers because their infested crops are useless and can't be sold?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Jun 21 - 10:50 PM

Poor galahs.......

I like galahs, they are such clowns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 04 Jun 21 - 02:06 AM

I hope less favourable conditions for the mice come soon JeanieG. Between floods and mice, parts of Australia have had very rough times! My brother (Sunshine Coast region, QLD) has escaped most of this although he did have a couple of days stuck at home as the creek by his house turned into what he called a "raging torrent" in one bout of heavy rain - a minor thing really.

Weather for me (North Norfolk, UK) has been mixed. Mum and I had one teatime meal outside as early as March. April produced a nice spell too but much of May was wet and, at times, with cold and strong winds. June, so far, has had the makings of a pleasant summer...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 09:14 PM

Over 36,600 posts to this entire thread.


Muggy and hot.
The kind of weather that drives people to ... swim.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Jun 21 - 03:16 AM

And now it's really really cold......hasn't gone above single figures C all day, the "feels like" hasn't even reached 5deg C.....it's snowing not too far away. This town is in a broad valley so I doubt we will see the wet white stuff here, but hills not far away will.

The people who get paid to know such stuff tell us that this will be the coldest weather for several years. I believe them.

It's really nice weather for staying inside.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 11:03 AM

Today it is postcard picture perfect,
with trees fully leafed out,
brilliant green beneath a clear blue sky.

I saw a bear in the parking lot (!) this week,
so the animals are out and hungry
(the bear comes around to raid the dustbins for edible scraps).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 06:06 PM

After tommorrow ideal days will have to wait till autumn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 01:10 AM

perfect summer day. warm breeze and sunshine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 21 - 01:06 AM

Hear comes the humidity muggies
AND the mosquitoes.
Oh well, it was nice before the mosquitoes showed up ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 06:17 PM

It will reach the 40's F tonight. Grey all day today with showers.

More than ANY other issue discussed here that will kill more people and life itself is the issue of declining fresh water supplies. We are easily distracted by small issues like pandemics, nukes and guns but its water that will have the most important voice in the ultimate survival upheaval.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 11:41 PM

Hot, with tons of mosquitoes. They got a real head start with the wettest May we've had in quite a while. The tomatoes are happy, though, if I can keep the water level right - enough, but not too much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jun 21 - 05:35 AM

Take cover Rap! Idaho will be 105 !!! by monday and beyond

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jun 21 - 09:41 AM

There is a cancer that is preventable with a lotion.
It is sunscreen.
Get some and use it daily.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 21 - 03:45 PM

Today, Donuel is a case in point:
High humidity and gray clouds dominating the sky overhead.
And as I don't have to tell you,
the damaging light rays which contribute to said cancer
take no notice of those gray clouds.

The place would feel better with some rain,
but the rain is elsewhere, not here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 21 - 03:45 PM

So I am a grey cloud one must ignore.
When did I injure you so severely keboroxu.
96 today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 21 - 04:54 PM

Actually you do not seem spooked by normal weather anymore which is good. What is too bad is that we are entering an era of no more normal weather ??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 21 - 12:31 PM

Last summer showed 100 degrees at the artic circle in Siberia so I am not surprised Canada hit 121.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 12:30 AM

Yesterday morning was the coldest morning of the year so far. The actual temperature was -4.7 C but the "feels like" was -8.3C. That's fairly chilly.

I'll let you translate into F, should you need.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 03:30 PM

It's one of those afternoons.

The cloudburst ten minutes ago brought the thunder,
and the rain was heavy and the skies dark.

Five minutes ago I looked out the window,
as the storm sounds had gone quiet,
and saw brilliant sunshine and shadow on the grass and trees.

The thunder is still thundering as I speak.
I ought to go hunt for a rainbow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 04:47 PM

So many of us do not want to be homeward
bound this summer despite the labor shortages and spotty expensive transportation.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 05:42 PM

A bit north of where I am, chances of sighting Nessie have increased due to Loch Ness water-levels being at their lowest for several years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jul 21 - 10:41 AM

Rupurt Murdoch is starting up a new global anti climate crises WEATHER CHANNEL. 134 F is the new 90.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 03:11 PM

This thread is now into its fiftieth page
of fifty posts per page.

And I carry my umbrella everywhere in case,
as Charmion likes to put it,
the rain comes down in 'stair rods'.
It did that yesterday, out of nowhere, just poured down rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 08:32 PM

There is a very cold wind blowing, and it may rain. Should that happen any rain which dares to fall will probably be blown sideways, and not reach the ground.

We - Himself, Bianca the geriatric white cat, and I - are staying inside today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 09:33 PM

This summer marks the tipping point of the Amazon basin that now is producing more carbon via burning than it sequesters.
Is it wierd that we are going to let the world burn? Yes.
From my perspective on people it is normal to let it happen in this post tipping point era.
If we were serious about putting a hold on climate crises we would need newly created forests the size of THREE Texas'.
Machines to power tech to bury carbon would be too big and require more power than would be effective.
So we are on a one way ride not because of pessimism but inaction.

Instead of a war in stinking desert Sudan it would be life saving to have a world war against the Amazon arsons and Bonisaro. Thats not going to happen so the new normal will be more extremes.

All the best solutions are behind us. However the next best solution is to start today. Will we? Nope, we are going to let the world burn and have wars over the quickly shrinking fresh water out west and move away from all the new flood zones.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 12:55 PM

Our reservoirs in the west are about 2/3 empty, some only have 14% left.The ground water is so stressed that any more pumping will result in a great subsidence. We will probably risk it.

If California stopped growing almonds they would have enough water to double other crops.
We have many possible solutions but money rules the day, not tommorrow's catastrophe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 03:01 PM

flash floods until 11PM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 06:29 PM

I don't know why the rain
can't leave the eastern US
and go west of the Rocky Mountains
where everything is burning ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 10:08 PM

We might have a touch of sunshine tomorrow,
in between rain storm systems ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 10:56 AM

The lawn, where I am staying, is regularly mown and treated,
no weeds allowed, all that.

We have had so much rain that there are
MUSHROOMS springing up on the lawn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 02:49 PM

Its hazy from the million acres burning out west 2,000 miles away.
Small world huh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 04:41 PM

134 F is the new 90??????????????????????

56C is the new 32C.........................what??????????????????????

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 04:54 PM

Death Valley set a new high temp of 134. FOX weather 'would' report a dry 134 feels like 90.

I am either very serious or making a cartoon and rarely both/
I don't blame anyone the confusion that can arise.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 10:24 PM

From Anchorage: Today when out and about my friends with the dog I walk told me about Siberia burning. Apparently we can smell it here and it is obstructing our views of the mountains, which were so clear only a week ago. I didn't see mention of it made on U.S. news this evening, but the Guardian has it.

We had two warm days which I wrote about in the "Dogs in Cars" thread. Now we've got cooler weather and rain. That is probably washing some of the Siberian ash out of the air, but we'll see.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 03:38 PM

Two weeks ago I was late for longsword practice due to flooding after heavy rain here on the south coast of England.
This week it was so hot that my fingers skidded off the buttons of the melodeon - today I have two fans going and the thermometer in the bathroom has run out of numbers and gone blank.
I am using a long spouted watering can and not going inside the greenhouse - those courgettes look rather dangerous so I am adding fertiliser to the water and standing well back.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 04:48 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/everything-is-on-fire-siberia-hit-by-unprecedented-burning

Half the world is ablaze amid a seeming news backout.
No wonder the smoke in the air of NYC and DC is wicked.

Instead of making new forests the size of 3 Texas we have lost four.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 05:03 PM

The Artic fires of last year that continued to burn underground all winter and are now erupting above ground are being called Zombie fires.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-20/siberia-huge-fires-yakutia/100305994

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 08:41 AM

But around here its low humidity and 65 F in the morning.
word to wise; avoid chinese subways and the Artic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 10:39 AM

North Texas is entering a heat advisory starting this evening and running for at least a week, with temperatures in the "triple digits." (Over 37^oC for those on the other side of the pond.)

On Friday I had my heat pump air conditioner repaired; it is 19 years old and the outdoors fan's sealed packed bearings were dried up (apparently it isn't something you can lubricate with a squirt o 3-in-1 oil). Good timing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 11:23 PM

Am on the East Coast of the US, and it is hazy and smells of smoke, from the West Coast fires what, 6500k away?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jul 21 - 06:19 PM

My location is near some green rolling mountains and hills,
and although this was a bright sunny day,
those hills had mist and fog around them,
and it took all day for the fog to burn away there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 27 Jul 21 - 08:12 AM

Just looked up the Northern California wildfire, and to put it in perspective for us in the UK, it is covering an area 20% larger than the area within the M25 around London.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 21 - 08:43 PM

Rumncoke,
if those courgettes in the greenhouse look 'dangerous'
then why are you giving them fertilizer --
will they revolt if you don't ??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 21 - 10:06 PM

rain, rain, and more rain

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Aug 21 - 04:48 PM

Today the sun came out !

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Aug 21 - 09:56 PM

Anchorage, Alaska: We've had a pretty optimal Summer so far. Temperature currently in the low to upper 60s (=15-20 degrees C) It was closer to the higher figure a couple of days ago and felt like a heat wave. We are due for rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pattyClink
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 12:00 AM

Northeast New Mexico: clear and sunny, high 90, low 70s. Hazy from the western fires, where a friend is working the Dixie fire in California Sierra Nevada, which has been burning since July 13.

Was supposed to be halfway to the northern great plains by now, but a big heat dome is making Kansas as high as 102 degrees for a few more days. So, weirdly, hiding out in the southwest til the midwest cools off. And the SW is strangely humid and fairly buggy.   Who knew?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 03:26 AM

A nice sunny winter day, but with a cool little breeze that didn't around......it went through. The past couple of mornings have been frosty and foggy, with more of the same tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 09:24 AM

The last couple weeks in upstate NY and Mass it has been cold enough to need a jacket. Heat is on the way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 11:07 AM

... and here comes the heat, all right.
A big heat wave with the extreme thunderstorms
triggered by the heat, is the forecast
for New York today,
and the system will grind its way east
into the New England region soon enough.
Thunderstorms overnight
and temperatures too hot and humid overnight
for comfortable sleeping, without refrigerated air.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your air conditioners.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 04:56 PM

Looks like the weather is ging down the tubes

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Aug 21 - 05:41 AM

I see that the European temperature record has been broken at Siracusa in Sicily, provisionally 48.8C. We spent a week there in 2016, just over the bridge in Ortigia. Siracusa town is a workaday, dusty old place, but at the top of the town there's a stunning archeological park with both Greek and Roman amphitheatres, and much else. On one day there there was a deluge of biblical proportions...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 01:23 PM

The HEAT is upon us and we can barely take it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 07:07 PM

"Taking heat" is, more often than not, a function of the relative humidity. Here in Bude, when we get temperatures in the upper 20s Celsius (it rarely gets hotter than that here), the RH is routinely around 60-70% or higher, and it gets pretty unbearable at times. A good sea breeze often helps. We were in Perth in Western Australia in a temperature of 36C, but the humidity was in the teens and we were fine. We've been to Andalucía a few times in August, enduring temperatures of 40C (Córdoba is the hottest city in Europe), with humidity in single numbers or teens, and it's easy to take as long as you can keep out of the hot sun. I find bars with ample umbrellas to be the ideal resort, though the coffee is much better in Italy. The cold beer, though, is just as good. Cruz Campo is great, but Alhambra, if you can get it, is even better.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 10:27 PM

Its official, 2021 is the hottest year in recorded history
and beyond.
Also the UN issued a strongly worded letter regarding manmade climate change.

Today Donald Trump tried to play golf on his empty golf course. He felt
something fall off his face and found in the sunburned grass that it was part of his ultra thick makeup that had melted in the NJ heat.
After a quick glue job and color spray he resumed his golf indoors with a McDonalds takeout order.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 03:42 AM

Well there are still four and a half months to go, so it can't be official. What I have heard as official is that, globally, July was the hottest month ever recorded.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Aug 21 - 07:47 PM

More roller-coaster stuff here,
going from one extreme to the next --   

although the humidity is reliably high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Aug 21 - 03:05 PM

The east will have two weeks of rain
while the west is in a drought
the fires will burn and cause great pain
or we'll drown without a doubt.
Who will survivors choose to blame?
Its ourselves it is about.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 10:58 AM

What's it like?
It's so humid that
all last night,
the humidity sensor in my bathroom here at the clinic
kept the exhaust fan going non-stop.

I could have slept through it, regardless,
if I had actually been sleepy and not merely depressed.
Ah well.
Then you get up the next day
and do it all over again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 01:45 PM

This week if you are not depressed you are crazy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 21 - 08:23 AM

What many climate scientists ignore is the likelyhood of a cascade event that will advance global warming 100 times faster than current estimates.
THE REASON WHY IS OUT OF SIGHT AND OUT OF MIND. - 25% OF THE Northern hemisphere is permafrost. That permafrost is and has melted! The now rotting organic matter of carbon is being released by microbes.
Permafrost is not just a thin layer, it can be deeper than 50 feet and does not refreeze even over the winter. It will not matter to our kids if this obsevation is ignored or critisized. Were not talking about great great grand children anymore, this is going to be quicker beyond anything we can do. All we can do is buy time since the carbon release will exceed all oil deposit release, forest fires, and man made control of carbon release. Sorry guys game over even if some of the percentage numbers are not spot on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Aug 21 - 12:38 PM

The rain is on its way here.
The shade on the window is up,
and every outside surface remains dry,
although the cloud cover is already in place
and there are these ominous gusts of wind.

When the rain starts coming down,
I reckon I will pull down the window shade,
as the rain will fall so loudly
that one can hear it without seeing it.

In the meanwhile,
the exhaust fan in the bathroom grinds away all night
because the switch is connected to a humidity sensor.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Aug 21 - 08:04 PM

That hurricane/tropical storm warning early this week
was much ado about not very much, after all.

The humidity is still with us, though.
I calculate that the bathroom ceiling exhaust fan,
operated by a humidity sensor,
ran for five days and nights non-stop.
Only recently it returned to intermittent on and off,
as it is still very humid here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 08:14 PM

In the Northern Hemisphere,
there is a lot of cursing and gasping about the heat.

Of course the antipodes are another story . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 09:54 PM

sorry. perfect where i live. no air conditioner. no fan. wearing fuzzy fleece.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Aug 21 - 12:10 AM

The excess humidity in the air here is probably pushed ahead of Hurricane Ida, though it is hundreds of miles to the SE. Each day has topped out near 100 for the last week or so.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 09:12 AM

Back down to the 80's

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 10:08 PM

At sunset, I looked -- hard -- for a rainbow,
because there had been a real downpour,
and then the sun had come out.

Too bad. Saw some lovely peachy pink clouds though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 10:18 PM

It is quite pleasant late winter weather. Nights are still cool - down to single figures in C degrees (we haven't done F degrees since the early 1970s and the world hasn't stopped spinning as a result) with an occasional light frost. There is usually, however, a gap between the actual temperature recorded at the official weather station - the airport, which is 10 kms outside town - and what it really feels like in other parts of town; it feels cooler, sometimes several degrees cooler.

We may have a shower or two at the weekend, which would be nice.

Spring flowers are starting to bloom, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 07:35 AM

A very rare rainbow Fire rainbow

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 09:45 AM

It's about to get really wet for a lot of the mid-Atlantic Mudcatters. Tropical Storm or weather event Ida is still packing some soggy clout and she's on her way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 02:06 PM

Yeah...Maryland/DC right in the path. I'm doing 3rd level of patching leaks in my basement windows. I also found an old submersible pump that still works and put it in the window well that has often failed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 09:00 PM

thanks for posting the link to APPOD, Donuel I'd forgotten about it& sent the link to as friend with 2 very inquisitive grandsons. Teacher friend, lawyer daughter, scientist grandsons?????

ps. back to topic - official first day of spring & in sunny Sydney we are expecting 24 (approx 78F)- Sunny, Light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the evening then becoming light in the late evening & at 10.50am Wednesday it was 20.8 (approx 72F)

this is the time of year some folk get out their thin summer gear & pretend they are not a tad cold! And others wear heavy stuff & pretend they are not a tad warm!

Of course, some folk have internal temperature gauges (thyroid in my case until it was removed) that are not set at "normal".

sandra (11.00am Sydney)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 21 - 02:12 AM

There was alot of damage from tornados but the floods are not terrible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 08:21 PM

Well we had a very nondescript August. After the 11th it's hardly rained at all, and my grass is going brown. But August was pretty cloudy, often windy and not that warm. We had some nice days towards the end of the month, but then it turned grim yet dry again. But September has girded its loins. Yesterday we had sun and 23.5 C (74F). Today we had sun and 24.0C (75F). Both those days were warmer than any day in the whole of August!

It's last hurrah barbie season...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 21 - 09:27 AM

In the land of the annoyed when the Earth and life was destroyed
in novel new ways as it has been for billions of years,
Homo Sapiens marked their 'end' in a pyramid myriad of alerts.
There were digital attack alerts, domestic terrorist alerts and climate
fire flood and tsunami alerts even Hawaii flirted with nuclear alerts.
What I will miss in advance, are mysteries and histories left unknown,
not just human mysteries but of whales wondering about the space
between our fingers and the dark of the deep.
Secrets of all life that time will forever keep.
Mutations won't drive evolution into a rapidly changing world now gone
as much as our exogenetic genes from our past that turn back on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 21 - 11:09 AM

The bean counters in the town of Wusa have warned for twemty years that their main intersection needed a stop light but someone had to die before the town would approve the expense.
Now that millions have died at this intersection we are finally at the stage of deciding for the next ten years what kind of stop light is needed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 05 Sep 21 - 11:11 AM

Seasonal

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 06:10 AM

We've had some bright weather this summer in Juneau, Alaska, but it is often quite wet. Our temperatures have mostly topped out in the upper 50s-lower 60s this year.

This week- and for the foreseeable future - it's misty and cool, quite nice really. I much prefer this weather to a glaring sun that hurts my eyes and my head and makes my skin prickle. Back when I was treated for lupus I was given orders to stay out of sunshine and for more than 20 years I did just that. I've been in remission for many years and don't plan on ever having an active case again so I do just what feels good to me. I think I must be in the right part of the world.

To me, 67F is just about perfect. Hitting 70 is getting a touch overwarm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 09:58 AM

The sun is blazing down from a cloudless sky. There's no breeze to speak of and it's 25C (77F). The humidity is about 80%. An hour ago I spent half an hour sawing up some scrappy old logs for my fire pit. I got into such a lather that I turned the garden hose on myself. There was no-one around I hasten to add. Not typical Cornwall September weather! We don't get those balmy Mediterranean evenings unfortunately (hence the fire pit, which at least has the compensation of driving the mozzies away). So we'll be sitting outside 'til bedtime again. I'm just off to check if I have something chilling in the fridge.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 11:32 AM

Same here Steve. Same temperature and blazing sun from a cloudless sky. (But not the humidity, thank goodness)
Neighbour-across-the-road came to trim back the two honeysuckles at our front door, and (as she hilariously put it) "Oi s'll trim yer bush 'n orl", meaning the large shrub she calls the 'diarrhoeia' (Spirea). She's the same age as me (!) but toiled away with a stepladder, shears, secateurs and shovel. She was soaked in sweat and I kept begging her to stop. Her face was bright red. But Norfolk people born to the land never give in. They keep a-troshin'.
I was exhausted just watching! (Husband was toiling away too at the school where he cleans, in mask and visor)
It is indeed unusual weather for September, but I like it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 21 - 11:01 AM

shrubbery


The suffocating humidity turned off like a light switch on Labor day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Sep 21 - 06:15 PM

The sun is out, however it feels like autumn.
The breeze certainly helps,
as it confounds the expletive-deleted mosquitoes,
which were everywhere as long as the humidity was high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 14 Sep 21 - 09:12 AM

It's the tail-end of summer in Stratford, Ontario, which means alternating doses of rain, steamy heat, and brisk cool weather that makes one wonder if all trees intend to dump their leaves next week or the week after.

In summer, rain usually comes in the form of the Perth County Particular, a thunderstorm of remarkable vim and vigour due to squall lines blowing east from Lake Huron. We had one of those last night, with donner and blitzen from suppertime to long after I went to bed. Today is grey and humid with promise of another storm. I should collect the downed tree branches from last night before another load lands on the lawn.

I have yet to see a south-bound skein of geese, however, and the municipal swans are still on the river, so we have plenty of warm days -- and the thunderstorms that come with them -- to look forward to.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 14 Sep 21 - 05:39 PM

In Ottawa, the geese are gathering in flocks on the Rideau as they fatten up as if they are planning on migrating.

Mother Nature has planned a sound and light show for you around midnight, apparently.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Sep 21 - 06:12 AM

The paths of hurricanes/cyclones

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 21 - 03:41 PM

Changeable. Storm systems blowing rapidly from west to east,
dumping rain, then the sky clearing and the sun coming out.
And the wind can be a dry, withering one.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Sep 21 - 10:13 PM

Now that classes have started I am ok with it not being hot...

Today, first long pants, first long-sleeved shirt, but no socks yet!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Sep 21 - 11:32 PM

Don, it looks like SE Asia is screwed as far as the weather goes.

We've dropped about 15^o since early in the week, and it looks like it will stay in the mid-80s for the forseeable weather future. No rain, and we could use some.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 25 Sep 21 - 06:33 PM

We've had the snow line creeping down the mountains and finally yesterday we had irregular snowfall. From over 13" in the east part of town to about a quarter inch in my part. And then rain and a slushy street situation. But Anchorage did not have its first official snow day, despite the schools being closed, because the offical determination is made at the international airport and they didn't get a measurable amount.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 25 Sep 21 - 10:22 PM

Early spring here. A pleasant day although the breeze is a little chilly, particularly in the shade, as there are clouds floating around.

Official stor season starts next week, on 1st October - and right on schedule, the first rainstorm of the season is forecast for Thursday/Friday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Sep 21 - 10:04 PM

Now that we're past an equinox again,
it's doubtful that the temperature extremes will resume soon,
but one never knows.
It's that time of the year --
happens twice a year --
when you might not have heat at night
and so you pile on the blankets, comforters, and quilts
so as not to be chilly in your sleep.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 21 - 11:37 AM

And it's the season that I think of as
The Moths' Last Gasp.
They are clustering around doorways of an evening,
trying to get not only to light but to warmer air,
as the evenings get closer and closer to freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 10:48 AM

on 25 Sept JennieG posted - Official storm season starts next week, on 1st October - and right on schedule, the first rainstorm of the season is forecast for Thursday/Friday.

Today (Thursday evening) the Bureau of Meteorology posted ... the storm season was "really kicking off" and urged residents to check the BOM's website for the latest weather warnings ... after a tornado ripped through NSW's Central West on Thursday afternoon, damaging properties and leaving a 30km trail of destruction.

Fortunately it was 400km from The Small Smoke where Jennie lives, & about 200 km from The Big Smoke where I live. Tomorrow the Small Smoke forecast is for Showers & Possible storm while The Big Smoke can expect a Shower or two & Possible storm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 09:05 PM

Sandra, we know the area where the tornado happened - it touched down at Peel, a tiny village outside Bathurst, that we have driven through on our way to/from Canberra. (we a choice of several routes we can take, that one is my favourite) It's not far from Wattle Flat/Sofala, the site of gold rushes in the 1800s.

There was also a tornado closer to home, in the Narrabri area a couple of hours west.

Rain is forecast for today and tomorrow. So far - 11 a.m. - it is warm and sunny. That will not last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 05:00 AM

I went out today in the sunshine, spent a lovely day with a friend, we ate lunch in her backyard. The sky darkened as I was travelling home & I was several steps from my door, after battling strong winds as my street is on the top of a hill with 2 skyscraper apartment blocks on the corner!, when the FIRST few drops touched me & by the time I'd climbed up the stairs, it was a downpour, but I was still dry!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 11:05 AM

Hurricane season here runs June 1 until November 30. The one that impacts many of us more is Tornado season, March 1 through June 30 and we here in North Texas live in Tornado Alley (scroll down to see the map). That super cold event we had in Texas earlier this year was in February (exacerbated by our broken power grid).

Winters here aren't warm like down at the coast or in Southern Arizona or California, and sometimes we feel the weather come straight through from Saskatchewan. I ended up here for a job, I wasn't attracted by the climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 12:14 AM

Hey ho, caters. I lost only one tree this hurricane season thus far. It was a twenty five foot pear tree. I still haven’t hauled it all off since I am busy with caring for dad who is now 98. I’ve spent eight years with him and five before that with mother caring for her with dad’s help. Hospice is now helping me but Sky King is still a brave B24 bomber pilot Anyway hurricane season isn’t over but it has been relatively merciful in north Florida. It was almost ninety today I think, but it’s in the sixties now at night.
Love, harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 08:32 PM

As to hurricanes,
the Northern Hemisphere hurricane season has now arrived at
V - is - for - Victor. (sigh)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 09:23 PM

It was an Indian summer 84 F today in DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 09:40 PM

Ever since the sun set it's been dark.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 07:51 AM

wet

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 08:07 AM

Big Al wins the succinct award.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 11:23 AM

Wet in Stratford, Ontario, too. I can feel moss growing on my north side, and mushrooms between my toes.

This summer was the wettest anyone around here can remember, and it produced (among other things) a stunning proliferation of mosses, lichens and fungi in gardens and parks. When I stroll around the neighbourhood, I check other people's lawns to see who has more toadstools per square metre than I do -- not many!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MudGuard
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 04:30 PM

Luckily, no weather at all here where I am.

Would be awful to have weather - in my living room ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Oct 21 - 09:53 PM

Raining, not that I mind much.
This time of year, if it rains, it doesn't get too terribly cold.
And it doesn't turn to snow either.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Oct 21 - 07:29 AM

We're into our twelfth day in a row of gentle sunshine, light winds and mid-sixties temperatures. It's lovely. Very unusual for October. Cornwall may well have had the best of it. I'm sitting in the sun with my shirt off (down, girls...). I think today could be the last of it this year. You never know!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Oct 21 - 07:36 AM

We can call it an Indian summer, but that's been more of an American thing until quite recently. A pleasant spell of weather starting tomorrow would be a St Luke's summer (the 18th is his feast day), so the current spell is too early for that. Similarly, a nice spell in mid-November would be a St Martin's summer. Even if we get that, the shirts will be staying on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 21 - 03:39 PM

It looks bad out there.
The picture window in front of me shows the storm system moving in:
the sky is going that odd quality it gets with incoming storms,
part obscuring clouds, part glaring if indirect daylight.
A wind is making the tree branches uneasy.

The storm is concentrated on the coast in this area;
my location is well inland, but the storm will graze us anyway,
while the coast has warnings of flash flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 07:29 PM

October has been incredibly mild this year. In my garden the average maximum has been well in excess of 16C ( let's say 62F), way above average. We've had just three days that dipped below average but not by much. Nothing approaching a frost and my garden would still be looking lovely but for the somewhat windy conditions in the last few days. It's been a bit wet for a day or two, however...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 08:02 PM

There is a rainstorm out there that is 1,000 miles wide.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 10:53 AM

Space weather is cold with hot spots from visible matter to black holes.
But does dark matter even have a temperature?
Temperature is a human construct and can be described in very different ways. As you can see, dark matter is like branchs that visible matter attaches itself to like leaves. I see dark matter more like a mold's mycellium. You can say I see a universe that is old and moldy. :^/

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 11:27 AM

It's temperature scales that are the human constructs. Temperature is a real thing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Nov 21 - 07:18 PM

Charmion and Dorothy Parshalls testify
to uncomfortable weather in Canada.

Not uncomfortable, yet, in my region.

Hopefully the Southern Hemisphere has more enjoyable weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 10:24 AM

Its a balmy 72 F today in DC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Nov 21 - 05:31 AM

I woke up this morning to a lot of snow out there. The wind was almost howling and the snow was heavy. We ended up with just five or six inches but it was beautiful.

This whole next week they're forecasting low temperatures and more snow. By the end of the week our ground should be well frozen. I hope so.

Southeastern Alaska doesn't get nearly as much wintry weather as the rest of Alaska- our all time low temperature at -22F (our highest was 90 degrees), because, although we are fairly far north, we are right on the coast. which tends to keep us pretty stable.

For those who don't know, Juneau, the capital of Alaska is about 45 miles long- and narrow. Very narrow. We follow the coastline. I like to tell people that we have about 200 miles of paved roads, if you include driveways.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Nov 21 - 05:53 AM

Right now its 32 F and we have a 6 hour long partial lunar eclipse since 1 AM. Part of Alaska has started its 64 days of darkness.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 06:55 PM

Flooded is what it is right now.

The Peel River which flows through town is flooded, two of the three bridges which cross it are closed. This makes for a certain amount of traffic congestion, as you can imagine.

We have had a crap ton of rain. Or a shit load, if you prefer.

We are high and dry here on the hill.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 23 Nov 21 - 09:43 PM

Ebbie lives in the area known as Southeast Alaska. I would call that Alaska's banana belt but I usually refer to Homer and Seward that way.

Anchorage is in the area known as Southcentral Alaska. We are substantially north of the panhandle. We are slightly further north than European cities such as Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, (but not Reykjavik).

Temperatures are typically moderate for the latitude. Right now they are in the single digits (4 deg Fahr or -15 deg Celsius). While this is not extreme for our location, it is enough to keep many folks inside their comfy houses. I've been dog walking every day and what is most noticeable over the bare temperature is the accompanying breeze. A slight steady breeze can make you 'feel' ten degrees colder than the simple degree figure.

The dog we're walking is an 8 month old Labradoodle, no fat on her, but she seems to be quite able to gambol frolic, fight and fetch in any temperature we've walked her in so far. There are dogs who do not like snow and cold, but Labs don't seem to be among 'em.

When the temps are low, snow adhesion is usually pretty good. If you hear a crunch under foot, chances are you won't be slipping. But, crossing or walking in streets where cars have compressed the frozen water to a sheen can be slick no matter what temperature. The good side of this is that thin layers of snow and ice can evaporate (the proper term is sublimate) and in a few days you've got asphalt under foot.

We are supposed to be in the freezer for another week and then the temperature might go up by 10 degrees F (5 deg C). It will make a difference. Last year we had a sudden meltdown and rain in December and that was far worse than the cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John P
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 11:16 AM

After a record dry summer, Seattle is now having record-breaking rain and flooding. The times they are a-changing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 11:01 AM

The lonely little truth
crouchs shivering
in the rain storm of lies.
Ponding water of lies
empties into tributaries
adding to the flood.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Nov 21 - 04:09 PM

Coolish and threatening rain, nothing dramatic. But my native Pacific Northwest is due for another "atmospheric river" to dump an awful lot of water in a hurry—10 to 20 inches in some areas.

In the 1960s we travelled through BC into the mountains and across to Alberta to visit family; camping along the way. I remember the stop in Hope, BC, where there was an interpretive display about a relatively recent landslide that had killed a number of people. It happens every so often up there, it happened earlier this year. Like the slide in the Stillaguamish River valley at Oso, Washington, a few years ago, this kind of rain makes living in mountainous areas where people sometimes scratch roads on the terrain and mine for minerals (up there - gold, silver, copper in particular), dig gravel, or log timber - all of these activities contributed to the danger that water exacerbates.

There is an illustration in the Washington Post article about it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 11:14 AM

Love these things: 1° at 11:11 today. 11% power, on the phone I glanced at.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 07:33 PM

Yesterday it was 1 D Fahr. without much wind. Today it was 7 D Fahr with a light wind that made it feel like 10 below. The dogs didn't seem to mind, even the ones without booties.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 08:30 AM

There is a nearby trace of snow but this Thursday will be 64 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 08:19 PM

What a startling burst of weather drama we had the other night.
The weather system was moving very fast indeed,
so it was here one moment and gone the next.
Still, what swept over us had rain changing to freezing rain,
with lightning and thunder,
and the lightning for a moment was practically ON TOP of us,
which made the thunder even worse.
No warning, other than the wind, before the storm arrived.

Dear friends of mine live near the Rocky Mountains
and they are parched for precipitation --
shame the storm could not have been re-routed in their direction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 05:47 PM

67F right now but snow by morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 06:42 AM

As I said the other day, we're still getting snow; right now we're in the middle of a winter storm warning which is expected to deliver us up to 8 inches on top of what we already have

I like it. I always feel guilty admitting that, because I'm aware that people who have to drive in it or work in it have a right to feel differently. I have the option of how much or how little I want to be in it.

Like robo said, snow that is crunchy and creaky tends not to be too slippery, so as long as I watch my step, walking is great.

Oskar, my dachshund, doesn't like snow while it's coming down but he likes in grub around in it when it's piled on the ground, pushes himself into it until little more than his tail is visible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Thompson
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 12:09 PM

Storm Barra is gradually crossing Ireland; on the east coast it's calm enough, though the sky is a weird purplish colour, but the RNLI (lifeboat) Facebook page has horrifying pictures of the roiling sea from the Fastnet Lighthouse off the southwest coast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 02:51 PM

I am in the middle of Storm Barra, my area is close to Fastnet Light.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 08:40 PM

A little dusting of snow. Melted quickly, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 09:09 PM

Its global warming I tells ya. It'll be 72 here Saturday.
I'm astartin ta wonder if Palmettos will grow here now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 09:53 PM

Went walking the dog today. Weather has warmed in Anchorage to above 20F and we have snow everywhere. Went on a trail system with a couple of labradors who like to play hard. We tried to keep them ahead of us to lessen the chance of getting knocked over. Got both my shins 'barked'. The dogs seem to be invulnerable to low temperatures and like charging into and through the powder before piling into each other and then wrestling with each other including going for the throat. It doesn't involve teeth nor damage but they get to a point where they are only aware of each other. Saved me the usual work of kicking a ball though.

There is enough new snow to keep the majority of the town looking fresh and shiny. Walking surfaces can vary based on temperature and being packed down by feet or car tires.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 09:57 PM

The threat of floods in our town has passed for now, but a neighbouring town (an hour down the road but that's 'neighbouring', in Oz) wasn't so lucky. They have had major flooding, two major floods in a week, so lots of cleaning-up to be done.

A few nights ago we were hit by one of the worst storms we have had for a while; strong wind, rain, hail, more rain, heavier rain.....we kept expecting a blackout but didn't have one, altough our internet went out for a time.

Forecast for the coming week is - getting warmer, heading towards the low-mid 30s C later in the week, but with the ever present threat of more storms.

On a positive note, wshing hung outside doesn't take very long to dry. Unless it's not actually raining at the time.......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 05:01 AM

Robomatic, in Anchorage almost 600 air miles from (5 hours by ferry and 800pllus by road after that) routinely has lower temps than we do in southeast; we haven't come close to zeroF yet- our temperatures typically hover around mid20s for a low- but it's supposed to get colder here next week.

In November we got almost 60 inches of snow- second to the most record in that month. I think the record must have been set in 2006, the year a meteorologist friend of mine died. Don did not like snow but when he died in his sleep on November 2, it was like he said: You like snow? Watch this....

It started snowing the next day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 08:56 AM

An precedented number of people have perished in a 250 mile long swath of EF3-EF4 and rare EF5 tornados over 6 states. There now is no such thing as a tornado season. Its all year long with temperature extremes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 07:05 AM

Where will tornados go next? Minnisota?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 02:58 PM

Ebbie:

That 20 degrees was a brief spell of "T-Shirt weather". It's been typically a bit colder. Today it may go up to plus 1 degree. Some of the walkers in the dog park use booties on their dogs. The Labradoodle we walk (90% Lab with a curled tail that waves like a starter's flag) does not wear anything and does not appear to want anything. She can't wait to get out on the hard snow path and wait for the ball to be kicked. She loves to jump over snow banks and scatter the loose flakes like so much desert dust. She runs out after other dogs and then turns and charges full speed at us and she brakes and slides as well as a goddamn Yankee (or a blessed Red Sox) into home.

Other dogs seen are quite varied. Great Danes, Viszlas, English Goldens, Rotweilers, Dobermans, Collies, even small dogs. Some of them are wearing cloth 'coats'. One very good good looking dog yesterday looked labrador like but was half retriever half pit bull. Bit right through the chuckit donut toy!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 11:24 AM

As it turns out Minnisota did get hit by a tornado yesterday.
First one in history in December.
They also got hit by hurricane force straight line winds called a dorachio.

Home buyers, please reread 3 little pigs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 21 - 09:46 AM

It was 55 overnight and may climb to 67 today. Yesterday was cloudless
but the only clouds in the sky were man made from contrails which remained for hours and refracted light as they diffused slowly in a comb like pattern. The only normally dissipating con trails were from a few jets. The entire sky remained overcast by the afternoon from mostly south to north travelling jets numbering about 20 from horizon to horizon.
Today is totally naturally cloudy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 21 - 09:54 PM

The last few days in Juneau have been chilly- temperatures have ranged from single digits to 20F or so. Right now, at 6pm, it's 23.

Starting tomorrow night, we're expecting more snow. Still have lots of snow on the ground but we can always use more. Of course, I don't have to work or drive in it....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Dec 21 - 04:10 PM

It's here! Puffy and deep and beautiful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Dec 21 - 08:51 AM

The sun is beginning to return.
Every winter blade of grass is asleep; waiting till spring to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 12:59 AM

It's a white Christmas after all in southern Berkshire County,
where I am staying this year;
we had snow the night before Christmas Eve,
just enough white powder to make everything look like a picture postcard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 02:00 PM

We are about to set out on a 90Km trip to my sister-in-law's four-season cottage in the wilds of the Lanark Highlands. We have diligently consulted the condition reports on the provincial and municipal highway sites: all seems bare and clear, despite the previous 24 hours of ice pellets, freezing rain, snow, crap, and other unhelpful manifestations of the North American climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 04:57 PM

Christmas Day is but a distant memory here in the land of Oz, the post-christmas sales would have started a few hours ago & I'll be contacting my ISP sometime soon (they close on Christmas day!) as for some reason I failed to connect to my email server yesterday afternoon which is when I found out they close Christmas Day! But as they have an Australian call centre, unlike many other companies, & I was able to get on to the WWW, I didn't mind. I just wonder how many emails are lined up waiting for me. If there are none, I'll be very sad ...

Today's forecast fro Sydney - Partly cloudy. Medium (60%) chance of showers, most likely during this afternoon and evening. The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning and early afternoon. Winds southerly 25 to 35 km/h. (ps only 1-5mm of rain is expected)

Summer is cyclone season at the top of our Island continent but the latest warning had been downgraded. Cyclones occur around the tropical north between beginning of November & end of April.

sandra (brekkie time, sunday morning)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 08:19 AM

Yesterday was 66 with sunshine in DC. It tied a record.

Subject: RE: Is there weather where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 06:03 AM

New Years day will be 70 in DC with ominous thunderstorms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 04:34 PM

In Juneau, Alaska, at noon, it is 28 degrees and gusty. We are in a winter storm warning, with up to 18 inches more of new snow forecast. We live in a pretty world.

Elsewhere in Alaska (Kodiak, for instance, which is farther north than we are) yesterday the thermometer hit 66 degrees. I suspect that 'normal' no longer has a meaning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 01:46 PM

We just got alotta snow (for us... About 6-8" between midnight and noon) and it will get bloody cold (for us, teens°F about -10°C) tonight. But the power is back on already after only about 5 hours and there are still about a half-million without power in the surrounding counties, so, good for my city, doing great work. My kid got me a bunch of those UPS [uninterruptible power supply?] things so I was able to charge my phone, my vape pens, and the other thing same kid got me that you can charge stuff from... And I own a lot of those blankets-with-sleeves things. Outside is much, much beauty, seen from my cocoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 05:15 PM

Today in Juneau, it is gusty out there. And cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 06:29 PM

Had 4-5" of snow this morning...first serious snow since 2016. I shoveled and cleaned the car, because bottom layer was wet, and the upper layer was soft... and it's gonna freeze tonight. Ice on the ground OR on the car is no fun.
Many, many traffic problems from here South..trucks jacknifed.. etc..
I am warm, well fed and tired.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 06:31 PM

A couple of areas south of us got 11-15".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 06:49 PM

We just got through 48 hours of high winds out of the north, changing +10 degF to windchill -10 degF. North of town a trailer truck was blown over. My house cooled below what my furnace could maintain. This morning the wind was gone but the actual temperature was -7 degF. Warmed up to 1 whole degree now.

BTW, this is nothing compared to what conditions can go to in Fairbanks, points North, and the bush villages. I had a landlady from McGrath once who could tell me what it's like at -80 degF.

We have the occasional moose pass through, we do not expect bears because they should all be hibernating long since. On the plus side, no bugs, you can leave your frozen foods in the trunk if you're too lazy to truck them into the kitchen all at once, and it's pretty.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 08:52 PM

Yeah the power went back out right after my last post. Still off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 09:29 PM

We had a Blue Norther blow through on January 1 that dropped the temperature by 50^o in one day, from 70 to 21. Brrrrr! I had plants in the greenhouse so set up the heat plug - a device that if the temperature drops to 37^o or below it allows the power to run through it (so I have a heater plugged into it and in the "on" position.)

Before that it was very warm for most of December. Unseasonably so.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 07:33 AM

Weather report tonight hints that you are not quite finished with the cold weather, robomatic. The wind in southcentral is fierce. Stay warm.

In southeast Alaska, it is cold and still windy. Tomorrow's high is forecast to be 0 degrees. That's the HIGH, folks.

On the plus side, you might not believe how fast a dog can relieve himself thrice a day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 08:16 AM

Bill should have warned Virginia that the roads would freeze up. It did... and a 50 mile stretch of the main artery of I-95 is stopped for about 20 hours now stranding thousands in the cold teens overnight.
Do bears shit in the woods? People do it on the highway.
A few rescues by ATV have taken place for medical emergencies.
They need a Dunkirk rescue by monster trucks if only there was room for them to get by the bumper to bumper tangled mess. Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 08:24 AM

Still no power. Looking for a hotel with a generator...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 08:46 AM

The Giant grocery store actually looks like the ones in the movie 'Contagion'
- empty due to no transportation in the snow and lack of staff.

The empty shelves brings out the hunter in us. For some reason they still had tons of Nathan's frozen hot dogs in a blanket throughout the store for $14.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 09:25 AM

Among the thousands stranded on the highway are Govenor Northam and Senator Tim Kaine. Their tweets are evidence of their peril. Temperatures will get above freezing for a couple hours on Thursday.

What would Ted Cruz do?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 11:35 AM

Anchorage has been comparatively lucky. Mat-Su, the district directly north of us where many folks commute, still has strong winds. More than one trailer truck have been knocked over in winds that have gone as high as 90 mph. Many small parked aircraft (and when you park small aircraft you also tie down the wings and tails) have flipped, and some roofs have been unzippled.

For two days we walked my friends' exceptional Labwithsomedoodle in strong winds with windchill well below zero F. Yesterday it was 0 degrees in very little wind. She has no fat on her, is only 9 months old, and gives no sign of noticing that it's anything but balmy out. We're pretty sure she'll start feeling too warm when it gets up to 20.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 04:38 PM

Local news 4 did report the pooping on the highwway story from 4 AM on. Yep some people are still stuck. I speculate the Senator and Govenor threw caution to the wind and went.
We used to make fun of Atlanta drivers during Snowmageddon.
Its not so funny anymore. Many truck drivers shared what food they had.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 06:52 PM

Found a hotel room, spent most of the day hanging out in the lobby watching them tell everybody else No room at the inn... But I am hearing of neighborhoods getting power back, so, progress...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 08:14 AM

You're probably more of a mini bar, room service person than a camping person. You were one of 80,000 without power.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 10:41 AM

Actually 500,000. I am not alone.

I *have* camped. Definitely prefer a hotel room. No mini bar no room service but cable, heat, lights.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 04:12 AM

Today's paper kind of explained Juneau's snow situation. It is not so much that we are in record-breaking status but that we haven't had warmer, thawing weather between storms. So we have November's snow still on the ground, covered by a few feet of newer white stuff. It has stayed cold.

This week it is forecast to remain cold -zero is tonight's forecast- but starting next week rain is on the menu. I love snow; I despise wet stuff raining INTO snow.

Oh, wait. I just checked. the forecast for next week has returned to snow. Forget the rain. Ah.
'

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 10:19 AM

Home! Power on. Rain sleet snow expected tonight, in that order. Pourvu que ça dure! dit maman Létitia, avec son accent corse...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 04:30 PM

Happily, although Berkshire County received snow,
only a little snow fell, and what is more,
it is the dry powdery stuff
which comes off one's parked car at the touch of a brush.
No freezing or scraping or heaving of
what one Weather Channel luminary describes as "white mud".

And it certainly is cold and dark outside. Brrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 07:15 PM

Well here are my unofficial numbers for December from three miles outside Bude on the north Cornwall coast.

Rain, 82mm, well below the average of 102mm.

Average max, just shy of 11C (52F), around a degree above average. Just one night of frost, when the temperature went down to -1.5C just briefly. My geraniums are still flowering in places. The average is five nights of frost.

I don't have a sunshine recorder, but my subjective record indicates a dull month. There was one severe Atlantic storm at the start of the month, which was devastating up north but which didn't do much damage in Cornwall.

Typical of recent winters and nothing like the ones of my yoof...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 10:08 AM

We did not get much more snow but it is bloody effing cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 10:39 PM

Here in the Emerald city (aka the Harbour City) in the Land of Oz we are expecting 27 (84F) Cloudy. Medium (50%) chance of showers, becoming less likely in the afternoon. The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning and early afternoon. Winds south to southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h becoming light in the late evening. Latest reading is 26 at 2.30pm Sunday, a pleasant summer day with similar temperatures & similar chances of rain for the rest of the week. We've had a few big, heavy overnight storms in the past week.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 09:29 AM

We had early morning ice rainbows :^)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 12:13 PM

Over 400 weather stations globally broke their records for highest temperatures last year. Ten national records were broken, the "winner" being Furnace Creek in Death Valley, which recorded the highest ever reliably-recorded temperature on earth. Siracusa in Sicily demolished the all-time European record in July with 48.8C. I spent a week there in 2015! !

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 01:58 PM

Whoa. With more than three feet of packed snow on the ground, already, today's forecast is for another 20 inches. Worse: RAIN is forecast, beginning tonight. That one is BAD.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 12:34 PM

The ice storm went Saturday night throughout Sunday to sundown pretty much.
Today there is sun and it is possible to free the car in the outdoor parking lot from its casing of ice.
In fact, one had better do so now.
Tonight AND tomorrow the temperature will plunge well below freezing
and anything that has re-frozen will stay frozen for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 08:32 PM

yep its in the teens through Tuesday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 05:18 PM

Everything had just enough time to start thawing,
the parking lots looking like shallow ponds,
and NOW the temperatures plunge --
it will all freeze overnight. grrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 11:53 AM

I had forgotten, if I ever really knew,
what frozen mud is like.
My car was parked on it.
I managed to drive the car off the frozen mud.
Better than sheer ice, I suppose.
Now my car is parked on plowed parking-lot asphalt,
and of course icicles on
all the parked cars, including mine, since the sun is out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 12:03 PM

The tires of my car freeze to the garage floor at this time of year. I always give the accelerator a bit of a shove to break loose on start-up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 06:03 PM

I was abroad in Ottawa late this afternoon. The slush had refrozen and had taken on a polish it does not usually have. Footing was very tricky.

And that, boys and girls, is why Charmion moved to Stratford.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Feb 22 - 11:15 AM

Yep.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 10:03 PM

The skies have been so gray and dreary
that I didn't wear sunshades,
and I wear sunshades almost religiously.
Even when it is overcast there can be a glare to those cloud covers.
But lately it is just really dark.

Hope it lightens up soon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 08:41 PM

Thawing, thawing (the sun came out),
and after several obscenely warm days,
BANG the temperature is going to drop below freezing again. Sheesh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 02:00 PM

And here comes the next cold snap.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 22 - 10:14 PM

Wherever you are on the globe,
the seasons are changing.
Here the lawn was mowed for the first time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 May 22 - 03:56 PM

We're in the 90s all week, hot even for North Texas. New Mexico is burning. Life in the SW isn't entirely pleasant this spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 May 22 - 07:16 PM

Opened the windows here, it gorgeous. No bugs either.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 May 22 - 08:35 PM

In many languages time and weather are the same word.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 22 - 06:02 PM

Thundershowers over here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 May 22 - 06:28 PM

Rain, rain, rain,
and then we're supposed to have an uncommonly warm day this weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 May 22 - 12:25 PM

Elsewhere Charmion remarked on this past weekend's storms.
They were very picturesque here as well, no damage though.

The beauty of it is that the passing-by of the storms
cooled everything down,
and today the sun shines,
and it feels the way May is meant to feel,
not hotter than July the way it felt on Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 May 22 - 09:48 PM

Thunderstorms again!
I didn't realize that the Berkshire mountain area had monsoons . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 22 - 05:53 PM

The epitome of a perfect day with blue skies and puffy white clouds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 22 - 03:49 PM

Later this coming week, there will be some cooling showers and the temperatures will be more moderate.
Right now, though, it is warmer than is usual for this month.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 May 22 - 04:33 PM

Unseasonably chilly here in Northern California. Thirty degrees hotter where my wife is visiting her son in Midland, Texas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 22 - 03:41 AM

winter draws on here - last few days & nights have been cooler.

I'm close to Sydney harbour (lotsa' building in the way so I can't see the water) & the temperature at Observatory hill which is also on the harbour is 11.9 which feels like 3.1, time 5.20pm Tuesday. To convert Celcius to F - double & add 30 for the approx temperature. 17 was forecast today & we did reach it around noon, but then it gradually got cooler. But I don't feel cold here in my apartment.

tonight is expected to be 8, & tomorrow 15, with winds. The western suburbs will be colder & are expecting 8 tonight & 14 tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 22 - 10:36 AM

latest temperature readings - 10.5 feels like 4.3 - shiver

sandra (12.30am Wed 1st June, time for bed)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 02:21 AM

It's absolutely chucking it down (very heavy rain) and the sky is dark and glowering. Thunderstorms are forecast. What a good job this didn't arrive during that bloomin' Jubilee!
My front garden is already a wee bit flooded.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 03:49 AM

I think it's been a bit of a mixed June here (N Norfolk, UK) so far. For the last couple of days:

Friday was gorgeous. A visiting brother and his wife took mum outside and they spent the later part of the afternoon chatting and enjoying the sunshine.
Saturday was a dull grey day.
Today, we have heavy rain forecast for all day. We've had some of this but it's stopped for now. I still expect more rain later.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 06:00 AM

Well, it's getting cool, as you would expect for winter. Currently - just on 8 p.m. - the official temperature at the airport (which we can see from our verandah) is 4.7 deg C, but the 'feels like' is 1.6.

Frost is forecast for this week, maybe a sprinkle of rain.

There is no such thing as bad weather, just unsuitable clothing. There is a reason I knit warm jumpers, or sweaters for our Canadian and American friends.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 08:17 AM

We're having the most ideal weather compared to the worst weather which would be fire, eruptions, floods and Richter 10 earthquakes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 08:45 AM

here in Sydney latest temperatures at 10.20pm Sunday night is 12.0 which feels like 7.5, & I'm not wearing all winter layers as I don't need them tonight, thin thermals, long sleeved t-shirt, fleece vest & fleece jacket + velvet skirt are enough!

I don't have or need a heater & my windows are locked open 6" or so. When it gets cooler I add a pair of fleecy track pants & replace the t-shirt with a woollen thermal shirt & maybe a shawl & I'm fine, tho no doubt people would look at me strangely if we had an emergency!

2 & a half hours later the temperature in Jennie's little bit of paradise, several hundred kilometers west of me, is 3.7 which feels like 0.8! But her house is sealed, insulated & heated, as it's built to the local winter climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 10:45 AM

We had a heavy thunderstorm over Friday night and it turned our heat into a sauna this weekend. We needed the rain; in the past I have uttered the wish that it "pace itself to once a week," but that in fact is too often. Every other week or every third week is good.

Meanwhile, one of my air conditioning units is blowing air, not cool air, and I'm waiting for the AC tech to arrive. It turns out my regular guy over the last 20 years died this spring. :-( I'm having to test the skills and honesty of a new company.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jun 22 - 04:59 PM

The weather cannot make up its mind this week.
All night it rained like mad.
The morning was cool, if damp.
The darned grey clouds remain overhead, however
the clouds are broken up into clumps and
there is clear dry blue sky in between the clouds,
and brilliant sunshine when the clouds don't cover the sun.
Very windy day as well.

It's one of those days when the prepared traveler
carries sunglasses AND an umbrella.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jun 22 - 12:14 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/us/yellowstone-national-park-closed-visitors-flooding-tuesday/index.html

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jun 22 - 09:42 PM

What the heck is going on in Yellowstone National Park?!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 02:29 AM

There's been a weather warning here for Friday -temperature reaching possibly 34 degrees Celsius!! My poor husband has to spend hours and hours cleaning, mopping and polishing floors and dragging numerous wheelie bins around at the two schools where he now cleans.
Although he's an African, his hayfever will be atrocious, and he has to choose between hardly able to breathe or doped up to the nines with Piriton. I feel sorry too for the poor binmen. I usually have several cans of Diet Coke in my fridge for them, (and the postman, any couriers etc) Ice-cold Coke seems to hit the spot for them!
As for me, I can stand any amount of heat (and humidity). I was perfectly happy in Ghana once with 40 degrees Celsius and 90% humidity. Didn't bother me at all!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 08:45 PM

Forecast for this weekend, approaching
the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere,
is for a last breath of late spring:
cool, clear, a little breezy,
an occasional chance of rain.

I for one welcome this with open arms.
Summer in this area, high summer,
is muggy and sweltering hot with too many blood-drinking bugs.

Too bad for the people who want to spend the weekend at the beach
and find that the water is just that little bit too cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 04:11 AM

Yesterday was too warm for my liking. The one good thing here in N Norfolk was there was quite a fresh breeze which helped a little. I didn't close the doors and windows I'd opened until about 9pm and we were still about 28-29C inside then.

Another change is forecast today. Rain later and max temp of 16C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 05:18 AM

I did the same Jon, I opened all the windows merely to freshen up the house a bit. But when I came indoors, every room was full of buzzing flies, bees, wasps and other delights. I whisked them all out with a tea-towel.
I've just come inside from sitting on The Bench this morning, because I felt some spots of rain. Good thing for the crops and gardens.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 08:03 PM

Today was beyond perfectly ideal weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 08:03 PM

Effing hot and one of two heat pump units has died completely. I have a portable unit set up in the area served by the old AC and am contemplating how to replace the dead one (truth be told - both are the same age and need replacing).

It's like August arrived in early June and it hasn't let up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 01:59 AM

When travelling in West Africa (many times, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia etc) all the hotels had air-conditioning in the bedrooms. Noisy things. I always turned them off, because your body needs to acclimatise to the hot temperature, and sleeping in a chilly room doesn't help at all.
But I suppose I'm weird, because no amount of heat bothers me.
It was the same getting off the plane. The cabin was usually quite chilly but coming down the stairs thing they wheeled up to the door, the heat hit one like a bomb. I always smiled with pleasure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 10:47 AM

Eliza/Senoufou, a teacher with whom I once studied,
from the Deep Southern US, startled everyone once when
she went on a group tour to India.
I forget what city the airport was in.
But the plane landed, the passengers started to step down
(an outdoor staircase, not one of those enclosed access things),
and when you left the plane the heat assaulted you physically.
And she was like, "Ah! I'm home! Lovely!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 03:40 PM

The summer heat and mugginess have arrived for a day or two.

Some people were grouchy hereabouts about the cool days and nights
that we endured before today.
I savored them fully, knowing they would not last.
We get a little coolness back later in the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 22 - 09:51 AM

First of July is forecast to be entirely too hot
unless you have a beach with chilly water to dip in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 04:12 PM

Hotter than July,
appropriately enough for the first of July.
Thunderstorms forecast for the weekend.
Hopefully Monday the Fourth will not rain, nor thunder, nor bolt with lightning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 06:50 PM

June was a fairly nondescript month, with few days of real warmth but, on the other hand, some good sunny days. Far too much wind at times. However, at just two inches in my back garden, yet another month drier than usual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jul 22 - 07:28 PM

Much of Sydney is under climate change flood water

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 06:15 AM

too right - NSW SES deals with 3,900 calls for help as wild weather, flooding hit Sydney
Sydney floods: residents brace for another day of devastating weather as NSW coast battered by rain

Some months back our Liberal (= right wing) Govt removed "paperwork" so developers can build on flood plains - cos we need lotsa' housing! Thousands more to live on flood plain on Sydney’s fringes if developments allowed to proceed

Too many flooodplains are currently covered with housing & with every flood, more land/houses are inundated.

My favourite pic from the March floods showed before & after views of a two-storey McDondalds with the golden arches outside on a pole taller than the building. Second pic shows most of the golden arches & a few tree tops peeking above a big brown river.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 06:59 AM

We're in the rainy season in SW Florida with storms almost every afternoon which are filling up the ponds and canals which means that gators are ranging far and wide. They're in the height of their mating season and their constant mating calls which emanate from the cypress preserve behind our property start as soon as the sun goes down and can make it hard to get to sleep some nights.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 08:21 AM

A glacial collapse in the Italien Alps has occured in the extreme heat of climate change.

Florida also has giant African snails that spread Menningitus.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jul 22 - 03:53 PM

Watch channel 5 for sports, weather, traffic and mass shootings.

no guns were harmed in making this post.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Jul 22 - 08:41 PM

It's damp here, it's raining - but not pouring rain, and it is welcome after a very dry June.

We're very glad we didn't move to the coast when we retired, as some coastal areas are having their third flood this year.....and these are not minor floods.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 22 - 04:06 PM

That volatile sort of summer weather.

Piercingly clear dry blue sky.
Big puffy clouds moving rapidly across the sky.

Some of the puffy clouds are pure white.

And some have been downright pregnant with rain,
which means the cloud is quite black
and there is a cloudburst.
Summer heat:   that's what this is about. Colorful,
as long as you don't have to walk through it outdoors.
Even though there is brilliant sunshine, I have got my umbrella
AND I know how to use it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jul 22 - 08:43 AM

3 to 4 inchs of rain in a couple hours.
My 3 pronged approach to prevent house flooding has worked.
Roof replaced with bigger gutters and spouts, basement window elimination and channeling dug at a back door.
If the water comes twice as fast or twice as much I am skeptical my fix will hold but we are high enough to not get ground water floods.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jul 22 - 03:17 PM

Supposedly we have a possibility of HAIL this afternoon.
The sky does look a little, er, temperamental.

I just saw a video on the Weather Channel where they said
that the rare incidence of stormy skies that appear
to be GREEN in color
is almost always about hail.

Good thing they didn't know about that back in the day when
The Wicked Witch of the West was given a green-skin makeup job
in The Wizard of Oz . . .
that movie shoot was legendary for its woes and tribulations
even without hail!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 09:23 AM

I saw the front yesterday that for 2 minutes looked like the immense spacecraft from Independence Day emerging from clouds. To the north, houses were ripped in half by falling trees in the dorachio straight line winds. It was far more entertaining than a mass shooting event.
The Supreme Court removing concealed carry laws has more than doubled the sales of hand guns in my county compared to last year already.
Climate change weather is welcome compared to stupid shooters and judges.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 08:09 PM

It's really really cold. Snow has been falling an hour away - we're in a valley which last saw snow in about 1984, but higher altitudes an hour away get the wet white stuff each year. The sun is being shy today, hiding behind some grey clouds; even if it was shining it would be deceptive because there's no warmth in it.

Ah well. July is, after all, our coldest month of the year, something to remember in the heat of January.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 09:16 PM

We have a 67 F night tonight in Wash DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 09:24 PM

Hell's Front Porch right now here in Texas. We're going to break some kind of heat record again this year. In 2011 there were 72 days over 100^o; in 1980 there were something like 42 in a row. This May was really hot, June was very hot, and every day in July so far has been over 100^o.

Time really crawls when it's so miserable out there. It creates a drought so you have to be very careful how you use water, but you have to use enough, like watering around the base of the house, to keep the foundation from cracking or making existing problems worse. The yard fries. Lots of mulch and a timed sprinkler in the vegetable garden, but the tomatoes don't set when it's this hot and there isn't much out there other than a couple of eggplants and a couple of peppers.

I have a shower on my back porch (a private area that faces the woods) and it is a nice thing to shower after dark out there, but mostly, it's just a misery.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 03:05 AM

I love the heat, any temperature is fine by me. But I do pity those who have to do physical work (the dustmen for example, pushing those heavy wheelie bins about).
And the prolonged drought is getting serious. Both my lawns look like the Sahara desert. And my shepherdess neighbour is worried about her sheep - their pasture is just dust, so she's having to buy extra fodder for them and erect shady shelters. The sheep have been sheared of course, but they still get very hot in this weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 06:31 AM

We've had warm, windy, dry weather for weeks, mostly sunny. We've had an eighth of an inch of rain in the last 17 days and that has followed six drier than average months in a row. We had 30.3C in my back garden the other day. The all-time record for Bude is 32.3C on two days in 1976. We have a heatwave coming after tomorrow. Humble by Texas standards but we're not geared up for it! The peak tourist season is coming and we are running low on water in the Westcountry. I'm just off to crunch my way over what used to be my lawn!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 07:01 AM

Lots of brown patches on our grass here in N Norfolk too. I'm surprised I've not seen the thing that shoots out huge jets of water out on the field but the sugar beet looks OK.

27C forecast for today and the last few days have been very warm. I'm keeping doors and some windows open until about 8:30pm and have a fan running in my room.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 08:30 PM

There was in fact no hail hereabouts
when that storm front blew through a day or two ago.

But a tree came down on a truck driving down the state route,
and killed the driver;
the route was blocked for hours, and traffic re-routed and detoured.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 01:25 PM

We have a red alert for heat on Monday and Tuesday. We're expecting all-time records to be broken.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 02:21 PM

My husband rang me this evening to say that his colleagues at the high school (where he cleans from 1pm until 8pm every day) were concerned about the high temperatures we're going to get on Monday and Tuesday next week. Apparently he sneered at them and said, "I yam a niggeur! I lurve zee heat!" They were seemingly rather shocked, but amused too.
I have to boast that I can take any amount of heat too (but then, I'm retired and merely sit on The Bench most of the time.)
In Accra, Ghana, my husband and I were exploring a large African market. It was about 40C, but neither of us minded. However, some sweat trickled down into my eyes and they were red. A Ghanaian lady selling secondhand bras (!!) asked me, "Why you crying lady, huh?" It did make me giggle, but I reassured her it was only sweat. Husband had to pipe up:"She's a Honky, she should be a nigga like us!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 02:50 PM

Portugal 115 F

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 07:01 PM

I live on the same latitude as Lisbon.
If London was just as far north but in Canada you would be cool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 07:19 PM

Here in Bude we had a pleasant 23C today, though the humidity was at 74%. The sun has blazed at UV8, as on many days recently, and the factor 30 on my thinning pate was very welcome. We've had several holidays in southern Spain in recent years, in Almería province, in Granada and in Córdoba, and we've had 40C a number of times. One day we went to the spaghetti western town in the Tabernas desert. The big difference from the UK on almost every occasion was that the humidity was in single numbers. That's easy to cope with, as long as you can find a coffee bar with big umbrellas up...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jul 22 - 08:02 AM

I recall the Paris heat wave that killed many. If a London has a heat wave similar to Paris it could be as dangerous.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Jul 22 - 08:26 AM

20 c in west cork ireland

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jul 22 - 08:30 PM

27C in Bude today. Getting humid by evening, but we sat outside until almost midnight. The real heat is supposed to kick in tomorrow. It'll be big watering of garden followed by pink Prosecco followed by salmon arrabbiata...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jul 22 - 05:20 AM

This morning the temperature has shot up from an overnight low of 12.6C to 26C by 10.15. The Widemouth Bay Doctor* (aka the sea breeze) normally kicks in from the west during late morning to knock the temperature rise on the head, but there's a stiff E. breeze this morning that should fight it off. At this rate the Bude all-time record high of 32.3C could be busted, if not today, tomorrow.

*with apologies to the Fremantle Doctor...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 22 - 03:29 PM

This week the highs in this part of Texas are predicted to be up to about 42.7 C (I converted it for you - good thing the Internet has a lot of apps for that). That's 109^oF.

Stay quietly indoors, only go out in the early morning or after dark, unless you're a glutton for punishment and want to stand in the heat for a few minutes at midday to see what it really feels like. Stay hydrated.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stanron
Date: 17 Jul 22 - 05:51 PM

When it gets too hot I do the wet shirt thing. Soak it in warm water, wring it out and put it on. Don't use cold water. The shock can be almost painful. One go can last up to four or five hours. Probably less in Texas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jul 22 - 07:05 PM

Well we made 30.5C today, 87F in old money, but tomorrow will be hotter. The sun beamed down at UV 8, but I managed to pick my broad bean crop, shell them, blanch them and get them in the freezer, four kilos of shelled beans. I'm bloody knackered but I do have a killing tan...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 07:03 AM

At noon today it's 31.9C in my garden. My sensor is in the shade and it transmits to an indoor unit. I got a 32.0C in August 1995. The all-time Bude record is 32.3C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 07:13 AM

At 12.10 it's 32.5C. The Bude all-time record has (unofficially) fallen!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 08:33 AM

With the small increase of temperature the atmosphere can hold 4 times the water which is bad news for floods. Also drought conditions can/have worsened which is bad news for wild fires.

In the US over the last 5 years the disaster costs have increased 10 billion dollars year after year. There will come a time when insurance money and/or tax money can no longer maintain current relief response.

This morning we are at 75 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 09:19 AM

It's 36C (96.8F) here in my village in Norfolk. The sun is very strong. I feel so sorry for all the workers, teachers and even the schoolchildren. My husband has just rung me. He's held up in his car on the way to his afternoon/evening cleaning job due to roadworks and a diversion. Imagine sweeping floors and cleaning toilets, plus towing heavy wheelie bins around in this heat! Luckily his hay fever is over and he's quite alright in the heat.
I do hope people have made provision for all their animals. Rabbits in hutches, dogs chained to a kennel etc.
Early this morning my shepherdess neighbour erected a huge canopy to shelter her sheep from the hot sun, and has ensured they have plenty of water in several troughs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 11:28 AM

"With the small increase of temperature the atmosphere can hold 4 times the water..."

Huh?

It's been hovering at 35.8C for over an hour (it's 4.25 as I post this). That's three and a half degrees C higher than Bude's previous all-time record high. That's a scary statistic: usually, records are broken by skinny little fractions of a degree...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 12:44 PM

We made exactly 36 degrees by 5 PM. Going down now!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 06:01 PM

Hope some of you Brits saw Bude mentioned at the end of the ten o'clock news. My reading of 36.0C was corroborated!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 12:38 AM

I got up half an hour ago (at 5am) to the sound of rain!! RAIN!!! All our gardens here were like the Sahara desert, with lawns turning to dust. Now a good downpour is in progress. I actually opened my front door and stood outside in the rain just to enjoy it all the more. (I'm fully dressed of course). The smell of the wet earth is so lovely.
The forecast is for intermittent rain all day today. Hooray!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 01:01 AM

Well thats not a dry heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 01:51 AM

Scratch a cynic and there is a disappointed idealist underneath.
Were pretty good individually but selfish ignorant leaders will be elected or rule over groups of selfish ignorant people.
Nature is going to ultimately win and our species will justifiably lose.
You may as well look at the coming cummulative compounding catastrophes as entertainment at this point. There will be much to amuse you.
The cooperative hope we hoped for will happen but probably on another planet or moon. Earth has grown weary of us. It looks to me like we will go out in a spirit of hopeful rebellion.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 04:32 AM

Well we got a brief shower yesterday morning then the sun beamed out for the rest of the day and we got 29C. In a typical summer of the past that would have been our hottest day. Yesterday, 34 recording stations beat the UK temperature record, and the hottest spot beat it by 1.6 degrees C. That was Coningsby at 40.3C.

We've had less than a quarter of an inch of rain here in Bude since late June, and we've had a lot of hot, sunny, windy weather that has parched everything. It doesn't feel much like our Cornwall climate. There's hardly any rain in our forecast for the foreseeable future.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 08:22 AM

I will do some spot watering with a wheel barrow today.
The hose won't reach.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jul 22 - 08:33 AM

Here comes some more rain and thunderstorms, and
I will have to drive on the turnpike. Carefully.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jul 22 - 01:27 PM

Another severe thunderstorm watch in effect where I'm staying.
Wish I could pass it on to Stilly,
since it is forecast to bring cooler temperatures in its wake.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 28 Jul 22 - 07:45 PM

We were on holiday in Suffolk and Cambs during last week’s hot spell. Reached the max on Tuesday 19th when it was 41c in Peterborough. Thought it might be a bit cooler by the coast, so drove to Hunstanton on the Norfolk coast, but it was still 39c there.
On Sunday 17th we had got caught up on the M14 in a gigantic traffic jam, thanks to an accident further up. It took over an hour to move about 2 miles. I was in the front passenger seat with car window down: it was 37c then, so II got a well fried left arm!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 22 - 05:42 AM

While we have some heat, with heat-related thunderstorms,
thankfully the nights are cool and somewhat dry.
It makes a world of difference for sleeping.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Aug 22 - 06:44 AM

We had 12mm of rain in July (under half an inch), our average being 71mm (just under three inches). Every month this year so far has had below-average rainfall. I haven't totted up my numbers yet, but the average maximum temperature for July was well over 3C above the average. We had three days above 30C, which is a vanishingly rare event here, including our record-destroying 36C on the 18th. I can't record sunshine hours but I give each day a score out of five, five being a day with almost, or completely, unbroken sunshine. I have still to total up those numbers too, but it's been a pretty sunny month. The month fizzled out with two days of murk, drizzle and mugginess. Sun's out again today!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Aug 22 - 06:54 PM

Well I've done my numbers, all collected from my garden. I'm pleased that they generally tally very well with the numbers at the Bude meteorological station, three miles away, bearing in mind that the Bude one is coastal at sea level (just about) and that mine is half a mile inland, much more sheltered and is 120 feet above sea level (safe from the worst tsunami that the Bristol Channel can throw at us!)

Our average maximum for July was over four degrees Celsius above the 30-year average, 23.4C as opposed to 19.3C.

The bulk of the UK has had the driest July ever recorded (records go back to the 1830s). We've also had the highest-ever recorded temperatures, with 46 recording stations beating the UK record that was set only three years ago. The UK beat its record by 1.6C and Bude beat its own record (set in 1976) by 3.7C and the all-time Cornwall record by 2.1C (smashing the Devon record to boot).

Every county needs its resident meteorological geek... ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 10:14 AM

11 inches (27.94 cm) of rain fell overnight in southern Illinois.
Deadly flash floods are expected. Hundreds are still missing in Kentucky.

The US has a fair bill pending regarding global warming but the exponential cost of increased disasters does not seem to be taken into account.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 11:31 AM

For the next month or more it will continue to be the smoking lands around Mt. Doom in Mordor.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 12:27 PM

We might get a dribble overnight tonight, but after that it's dry and sunny for the foreseeable future and heating up again. Cornwall is bone dry. Yellow grass everywhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 02:37 PM

I'm waiting for a rerun in the UK of something I heard of decades ago, seen in (I *think*) California, and reported on the wireless over here:

* A bright green lawn, with a notice on it saying WET PAINT;

* A bright green dog, who clearly hadn't read the notice before rolling on said lawn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 05:27 PM

Things in DC are very very lush. It is not a brown August. We just had a Sunderstorm of thunder, sunshine and wind that lowered temperatures by 20 degrees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 05:51 PM

We are getting very worried in the southern half of England. We've been dry for months, and hot and almost bone-dry for six weeks. The forecast is for no rain for the foreseeable future and the weather map shows a huge blocking anticyclone just starting to build in. By the middle of next week we are back in the low or mid-30s as continental Europe heats up again and we get a bit of their hot air. We just don't get summers like this.

A few days ago we got 4mm of rain overnight. Since then it's been sunny and windy, a great recipe for drying us out even more.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Aug 22 - 02:25 AM

There was a serious field fire yesterday at Belaugh (pronounced bee-lah). It's not far from my village, and the smell of smoke was very strong. Everyone hurriedly shut all their windows. Sirens were screaming as many fire-tenders arrived. Fortunately they put the thing out quite quickly. The farmer had already harvested his crop, but all the straw went up in flames. Rain! Rain! We need RAIN!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 09:07 AM

The heat has broken here,
although rain is still hard to come by.
The forecast muttered something about
the possibility of hail,
but I will believe that when I see it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 09:26 AM

Sorry, I should have spelt that Bylaugh (pronounced 'beeler')
It's 30C here at the moment, and I feel so sorry for all the workers. Various couriers have visited this street today to deliver things, and they all looked half-dead. I always rush out with a freezing cold can of Diet Coke, but once swallowed, how do they survive later?
And the poor wildlife. My bird-bath water evaporates after an hour or two. It's getting very serious, this heatwave and lack of any rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 01:55 PM

The dog days of summer is named after the constellation Canis major since it's overhead right now in the northern hemisphere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 05:01 PM

It's not overhead. The dog days start with the heliacal rising of Sirius (i.e., when it rises in the east just before the Sun). Canis Major is nowhere near the elliptic. The dog days run from early July to around the second week in August. I explained this a couple of weeks ago. I can't remember which thread now. Unlike you, I looked it up first.

The temperature here reached 32.2°C here today. We've been here for 35 years and today was the second-hottest in all that time. The hottest (and hottest ever recorded for Devon and Cornwall) was a mere three weeks ago when we reached 36.0°C. In the last month we've had five days above 30°, which is ridiculously unprecedented round here.

Sounds feeble compared to Maggie's reports, I know!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 06:33 PM

Ecliptic, dammit, not elliptic! Grr. Its path through the heavens keeps it well to the south of the Sun's path (the ecliptic), therefore closer to the southern horizon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 06:36 PM

you spelled damn it wrong :*/

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 06:46 PM

No I didn't, and if you ever criticise my spelling you'll simply get my antennae waggling in your direction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 07:55 PM

It's raining it's raining it's RAINING!!

A soft, gentle, steady rain, the sort that soaks everything.
And there's a glowing pink sunset at the same time.
Wish I could send this to Stilly in Fort Worth, Texas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Aug 22 - 07:35 AM

Its a nice cool almost crisp morning in the 60s.

Just kidding Steve. First and foremost I am about defending freedom of expression and art. Spell with abandon, a love of life and joie d'vivre but its better to live that way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Aug 22 - 05:50 PM

Checking your facts and being careful with your spelling go a long way towards setting you free.

We made 33.6°C in Bude today. Had it not been for July 18, that would have slaughtered Bude's all-time record by 1.3°. Instead, it fell 2.4° short of the new July 18 record. We could get even closer tomorrow...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 07:24 AM

"Wish I could send this to Stilly in Fort Worth, Texas"

I looked for you in DFW but you must have been in Love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 02:05 PM

After a heat wave that had Berkshire Mountain natives gasping like fish,
there has resumed the sort of weather for which
the Tri-State (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut) denizens
come to spend the summer:
clear dry days with a breeze to keep flying insects at bay,
bright sunshine that isn't too hot,
and cool -- sometimes, downright chilly -- summer evenings
at mountain-valley (sometimes mountainside) altitude.

It's the weekend, so the landscape outdoor workers are out,
like so many worker bees,
mowing the grassy lawns and verges like there's no tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 06:35 PM

We got to 34.2°C today, the second-hottest day ever recorded for Bude, and a full 2°C hotter than the 1976 record. Beaten only by July 18, four weeks ago, in a separate heatwave...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 10:15 AM

I suggest we shop for rain barrels and water testing.
The Yanzee is at historic lows. The Colorado river has stopped flowing before the sea, India has little snow pack for their rivers. Germany has rivers so low shipping traffic is being limited. The Hoover dam water intakes are now above the historic low water levels.
The global effect is dire already.

If we don't hit our target to reduce warming we will lose the same amount of water as current annual usage by evaporation and other causes.

The future of global warming is now here ahead of time.
Avoid the shortage crises and take remedial action now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 01:31 AM

The long-range forecast promised us rain here in the East of UK. Yesterday we had thunder rolling on and on to the west, but nary a drop of rain. However, later, sitting on The Bench in my front garden, I felt a drop of rain. After two minutes of a few more stingy drops, everything stopped and the sun came out. It's teasing us.
But later I went over to Lenwade (next village) to play bingo and they actually had puddles (!!) in the streets. Not fair!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 02:49 AM

We had a rain shower that lasted all of 30 seconds on Monday and another like that yesterday lunchtime. One of the thunderstorms did come our way later in the day and we had a couple of hours of fairly heavy rain before it started to ease off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 03:14 AM

Two hours of heavy rain John! Excellent. As I type this, it's raining quite steadily here now, and there are puddles in the road outside my bungalow. Whoopee! Actually, doesn't having to do without something for ages make one thrilled when it eventually arrives? I think many people were suffering from Appreciation Deficit Disorder.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 04:06 AM

It's gone all normal and dreary now, though we still haven't had the rain to put things on a normal footing. The day before yesterday we had a spectacular but brief thunderstorm that yielded 9mm in ten minutes. That's three-quarters of July's rainfall in ten minutes! The mozzies are biting well...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 10:00 AM

The weather folks are gleefully predicting this is the last of the triple-digit days for a while and supposedly a moderate chance of rain every day for the next week. Hopefully some of that will land here; my lawn is straw and my house is ready to crack open from the dry foundation. We had about 2.5 months of most days over 100^o days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 03:48 PM

Thunder rolling around lovely, leafy Stratford right now, even as I peck away at this iPad, indicates that another Lake Effect storm cell has rolled in across the landscape.

It’s been a dry summer, so this is a Good Thing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Aug 22 - 04:17 PM

Heavy rain earlier, now the rain is a light soaking rain.
We're not Texas, however, we need the rain ourselves, so this too is a Good Thing.
Gotta do something about my umbrella, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 10:40 AM

In parts of the Land of Oz we're having a late cold snap & snow!
In pictures: Late winter snow blast surprises eastern Australia A late-winter blast of cold has seen significant snowfall in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

It was thanks to a large cold front crossing over the south-east, bringing cold air, thunderstorms, gusty winds, hail and plenty of snow.

The snap has seen pictures from amateur and professional photographers alike brave the cold in search of the perfect shot (read on)

more pics! & a video

but not in my part - nearest snow was over 120km to the west

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 10:52 AM

more pics

I've only once seen snow, way back in the 90s when I visited a friend who had moved to Cooma in the Snowy Mountains, 120km south of our national capital, Canberra. I wasn't warmly enough dressed so my friend lent me a jacket, inner Sydney residents who don't visit the ski fields don't need heavy snow country clothes! It was a winter wonderland & I had fun.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Aug 22 - 03:11 AM

The drought here has been dire, but last night there were flashes of lightning, and towards dawn torrential rain fell like Niagara Falls. The noise was terrific, and I expect there will be flash floods in places. The ground was so hard and dry that it can't absorb all this water too easily.
I intended to drive over to Fakenham this morning to get my grocery shopping in (Bank Holiday this weekend) but I'm not driving thirteen miles through thunder, lightning and cataracts of surface water. I've also forgotten which button makes the windscreen wipers work. Gulp.
Just shows you: 'Be careful what you wish for as you just might get it' eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 22 - 01:43 PM

Idaho is getting 99-100 F week of Indian summer tropical weather.
Even Canada is hot.
DC is cool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 10:03 AM

It's warm and muggy today, still no rain in sight. The average daily maximum here for August was 24.5°C, which is five degrees above the long-term average. We had 27mm of rain which is just about a third of average and it's been a very sunny month. That's on top of the driest July on record and lots of days over 30°C. It sounds timid in comparison with areas such as parts of the southern US, but we simply are not geared up for it here. Few houses have aircon, for example, and it's by no means universal in public buildings.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 11:24 AM

After a summer from hell it has finally cooled into the 90-degree-range (yes, that is cooler). And rain - we've had it off and on for the last week and a half. It's very welcome, though a lot more is needed to address the ongoing drought in these parts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 07:11 PM

Days are still warm in this part of the Northern Hemisphere,
but the nights are cool to downright cold now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 22 - 05:17 PM

Dry, if nothing else -- dry and windy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pattyClink
Date: 02 Sep 22 - 07:09 PM

Splendid. I can strongly recommend Labor Day week on the shores of Lake Superior. It can get a bit windy, but, this week, simply splendid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 22 - 08:25 AM

Rain, rain, and more rain.
Holiday plans may suffer for many people (Labor Day),
but everybody says we really need the rain now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 02:13 AM

At around 2am last night I was awakened by the sound of absolutely torrential rain. It was bucketing down, terrific noise. We've had such a long drought, and I was worried that the concrete-hard earth wouldn't be able to absorb the deluge, and we'd have flooding.
I got up as usual at 5am for my morning cup of tea, and had a look outside. No floods thank goodness,and the water has filtered down nicely. I bet the river Wensum has risen. This sometimes floods the road out of this village. Hope not! But many of the village children have purchased paddle-boards recently, and they may come in useful now!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 06:50 AM

3 years ago I saw my first and only vertical rainbow. The foot of the column of color as where we were. I haven't seen one of these.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 07:51 PM

I hope that people who say we need the rain are satisfied,
as the rain just does not let up over here.
Nights are cool. Now if the house where I stay only had heat . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 08:33 PM

It's the hottest today that I can remember in the 20 years I have lived in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California - 111 degrees Fahrenheit, about 44 degrees Celsius.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Sep 22 - 11:59 AM

Its time to report record state temperatures.
Exxon loves this href="https://www.infoplease.com/math-science/weather/record-lowest-temperatures-by-state">https://www.infoplease.com/math-science/weather/record-lowest-temperatures-by-state

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 01:27 PM

Damp all day, but there was sunshine in the first part of the day.
Now the thunderclouds are overhead,
and we are in for thunderstorms any minute now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 07:04 PM

Yes, we had us a thunder-filled downpour,
and there will be more rain tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Sep 22 - 02:33 PM

Autumnal. Nice enough with the sun shining at the moment,
but directly the sun goes down, the night will be a chilly one.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Sep 22 - 12:58 AM

It's flooding! The river which flows through the centre of town is well up, two of the three crossings are cut. The region had a heap ton of heavy rain last night, and there is still more to come downstream.

Apart from that, it's a nice sunny spring day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Sep 22 - 02:30 AM

Yesterday I felt rather tired, so I told myself that today I'd be a good girl and mow both lawns (which have shot up due to recent rain.) As my lawnmower is an electric one, the ground has to be dry for me to do it safely.
But during last night I awoke to hear heavy rain and this morning the ground is sodden. "Oh dear, what a shame, never mind!" I shall just have to potter around indoors, then sit on The Bench if the rain stays away and watch the grass growing yet more.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 07:35 AM

Hazy and cool. More and more the weather reports are blaming the haze on the fires out west.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 07:05 AM

Forecast to be the last Indian-summery day of the season,
the temperatures are all downhill from here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 09:53 AM

The last 90 F day for many a moon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 06:49 PM

Thunderstorms and raining "comme une vache qui pisse."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Sep 22 - 12:18 AM

More heavy rain last night, more floods......

Having grown up in this town and knowing about its propensity for the occasional flood before moving back after many years away, there is a reason we bought a house on a hill. If our house ever goes under, the rest of Oz is in deep shi.....trouble.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 22 - 07:44 AM

Ready or not, autumn is here,
and the maples are turning golden and red.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Sep 22 - 10:34 AM

Our house and garden are on raised ground a good few feet above the surrounding farmland and there are no watercourses nearby. The two entrances to the house both have several steps up before you get inside. They had good sense 130 years ago! We simply can't flood whatever happens. Also, we're 120 feet above sea level with the sea less than half a mile away, so we're safe from even the worst tsunamis too!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Sep 22 - 11:51 AM

I'll be shocked if we get any more warm weather.
Sunny, yes, but not warm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Sep 22 - 12:04 PM

I set the thermostat to 69F. 25.5 C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 07:07 AM

Gillynor is going to get very wet in 48 hours from Hurrican Ian.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 07:37 AM

Fresh water

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 08:30 AM

We're a little bit south of the NOAA warning cone at this time but as we learned with Irma these things can change suddenly. At the very least we'll likely get some heavy rains and wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 22 - 08:00 AM

Sadly, the storm jogged slightly to the south of the projected cone and hit gillymor's area directly, trapping many in a storm surge flood at high tide.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Oct 22 - 06:59 AM

No more Indian Summer, St. Martin's Summer,
or whatever name you call it --
it's autumn, plain and simple,
with frosty nights now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Oct 22 - 04:28 AM

Rain, rain, and more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Oct 22 - 08:49 AM

Fog: not pea-soup fog, but fog for all that.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 06:18 AM

+6C, showers, 50km wind

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 08:47 PM

Good to hear from Mooh!

Expecting rain next few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 11:21 PM

here in the Land of Oz, we're heading into summer & we've had lots more wet weather this year. Some areas are facing their 3rd floods this year.

Strong Antarctic polar vortex adds to south-east Australian rainfall and flood risk, BOM says

shift in the wind direction across Sydney is behind the city's record wet year

Bureau of Meteorology flags potential low off east coast as rain and storms continue

too much info!

Rain is forecast for greater Sydney every day this week.

My little bit of Sydney, near the CBD & the harbour is not in danger of flooding, but I always carry my raincoat.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 05:25 AM

We rarely get the heavy downpours (nor the cheaper hail-damaged cars) of Sydney but grey and overcast here in Manchester, England, for the next few days - the great indoors (although my late auntie told me that in her younger days she and her friend would often head-out to walk in the rain).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Oct 22 - 11:17 AM

Rain, which will bring down many of the autumn leaves still on the trees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Oct 22 - 06:21 PM

Uncommonly warm and humid --
dangerous, if you are trying to avoid getting overheated and thus being
vulnerable to chills.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Nov 22 - 06:22 PM

The past thirty-six hours have run the gamut.
Last night was uncommonly warm and muggy, thanks to
the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole migrating north.
Today started out warm and cloudy;
the temperature has plummeted during the day,
and the next few nights promise very cold temperatures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Nov 22 - 08:26 PM

We are having an exceptionally mild autumn. Best of both worlds today as it had dried up and the sun peeped out. We had 18°C yesterday and 17° today, both exceptional. Mrs Steve and I took our folding electric Bromptons for a spin along the Tarka Trail in north Devon, setting off from East The Water, and we had lunch, sitting outside, at the wonderful Fremington Quay café, which has stunning views across the Taw/Torridge estuary to Braunton Burrows and Baggy Point. It was a lovely day out, the low light was gorgeous and we felt exhilarated enough to go home and scoff spag bol from on our laps as we watched Strictly. One of the days of the year, and at the end for me of yet another spell of ill-health with cellulitis, which, for once, I'd managed to shake off in under a week, thanks to my doc's rapid intervention. And it would have been my mum's 94th birthday today so we raised a glass to her. Not, unfortunately, with her favourite tipple, which was Baileys. On that alone, she and I could not agree!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Nov 22 - 12:25 PM

The sun has got his hat on,
hip hip hip hooray,
the sun has got his hat on
And he's coming out today.

Sun is right in my eyes, through the window, as I type this.

This is something to celebrate
after two days and two nights of
the remnants of Nicole, with pouring rain and lowering clouds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Nov 22 - 01:38 PM

Another sunshiny day with 17.5°C on my (reasonably accurate) thermometer. We were out on the Bromptons again. The weather is exceptional, even making the news. By now, we could expect 10° and chilly nights, but we're getting mid-May (but without the long days) instead and there's no frost in sight. All my summer bedding is still in full bloom. It'll certainly make this winter seem shorter, but there is, of course, a worry behind it all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 10:55 AM

Our first snow, which quickly changed to rain
-- NOT freezing rain, thank goodness.
It's the wet slushy stuff, but it's white enough to be called snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 12:02 PM

What we do best in Blighty. Biblical rainfall in the middle of a hosepipe ban.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 08:58 AM

The NYS Thruway is closed as 4 feet of snow is in Buffalo headed for Toronto. Drifting makes it 6 feet deep. There is no mention of biblical snow but it is one hell of a storm with lightning shattering the silence.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 09:31 AM

I believe the meteorologists call it "thundersnow", Donuel,
and on the Weather Channel they rejoice in it.
We civilians, not so much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 09:40 AM

I have been in serious blizzards in Buffalo. Its an all hands on deck scenario.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Nov 22 - 06:31 PM

Coldest day/night yet in this oncoming autumn/winter in the Northern Hemisphere. And a biting wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 04:15 AM

Thanks to my very kind sister who sent me the money, I ordered heating oil and it arrived this morning. There was a frost on Monday, so I need to keep the pipes in the loft from freezing, and the house is nice and cosy now.
I feel so sorry for people who can't afford to heat their homes. And the Winter Fuel Payment of £500 still hasn't arrived. The Government letter said 'If it hasn't arrived by January, contact us'. January?? Silly fools. I bet they're all sitting around in their cosy mansions drinking champagne!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 04:42 AM

We've had six inches of rain in November so far. More to come, and no sign of an end to our hosepipe ban!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 10:43 AM

I can still remember a (newspaper?) picture from the days when water was so short that we had standpipes in the streets: a standpipe poking out of floodwaters. It may or may not have featured on the front page of Private Eye.

.... but at least said floodwaters were caused by rain, not Thames Water mains-pipe leakage. England at its best.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 11:36 AM

That wouldn't have been 1976, would it? The year of the legendary hot summer and drought, followed by an extremely wet September (just as the Labour government had appointed a Minister for Drought...)

I was piqued into looking up the statistics for that summer and I've just discovered that the 36.0° we had in Bude on July 18 this year was hotter than any temperature recorded in 1976!

Apologies if I've aged you too much... Mrs Steve and I were teaching in the East End in 1976, and there were quite a few afternoon school closures that summer because of the heat. The hottest spell of all was from late June into the first half of July. I fondly remember many a long balmy evening supping lager outside the Angel in Rotherhithe...

We got married at the end of that year, just before Christmas, on one of the wettest, gloomiest, darkest days imaginable, and I had a dreadful cold. As we're still together I suppose you could have said then that the only way was up!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 12:03 PM

Just remembered that the future Mrs Steve and I spent the whole of August that year in the north of Scotland. It was just as hot up there. On one infamous day we climbed, at my behest, The Saddle, a mountain almost as high as Snowdon, from the youth hostel at Ratagan, which meant starting out from sea level. Apart from boots, I was wearing swim shorts only and she was in a bikini. As we sweltered our way to the summit, she glared at me and declared that she hated me with every ounce of heat in her body...

We did spend many a grand evening in the Kintail Lodge Hotel. Ah, the memories...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Nov 22 - 06:37 PM

Buffalo DID get a huge amount of snow.
But you wouldn't know it from just across the border from New York State, somewhat to the south as well as east;
it's dry as a bone over here.
And a clear dry blue sky as well,
until it gets dark FAR TOO EARLY.
Sorry about the shouting,
but the dark evenings are a real bummer sometimes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 10:23 AM

It's just so dark/
Of late the days have been cloudy and
we are not getting enough sun.
It's dispiriting up here in the North.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Nov 22 - 12:24 PM

Rain, rain, and more rain. Wind, as well.

Is it time to think about this thread
being too big to load,
as with other BS threads? It's getting pretty long . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Dec 22 - 10:44 AM

Here in western Massachusetts,
the weather can't decide if we're having a heavy rainstorm
or a blizzard.
We seem to be right on the freezing line, temperature-wise.
Anyway, it's coming down thick and fast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Dec 22 - 10:56 AM

I found two remarkable maps on a French weather site today. One was of the current cold blob over Scandinavia - it coincides almost exactly with the national borders of Sweden. The other is of the British Isles - there is a wedge of air around freezing point stretching from Northern Ireland and Argyll across to the Firth of Forth, with ALL the rest of Britain at least 5 deg C colder. It isn't often we get to snigger at so many people in the UK.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Dec 22 - 06:43 PM

They're calling the approaching winter storm
a bomb cyclone.
And they are still uncertain just where the thing will land.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 01:21 AM

We're glad the 'Troll from Trondheim' has abated, and it was 13C here in Norfolk yesterday. Nice bright sunshine, and we didn't even need to put the heating on, as the house faces south and stays quite pleasantly warm for most of the day. All the icy, slippery pavements are now slip-free, but sadly our lawns are now in full view and are badly overgrown! However, one can't mow a lawn in December...can one?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 05:08 AM

You can mow the lawn with the mower on a high setting. You need to have had at least a couple of dry days, preferably with a drying breeze, to do it in the afternoon and to avoid at all costs doing it if there's any prospect of frost. I'm still waiting...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 01:59 PM

Because so many people were so impacted by the week-long really hard freeze in February 2021 there are quite a few who are in fear of the storm that is supposed to make it super cold on Thursday and Friday. We'll actually have several sub freezing nights, but the days will warm above freezing. Fingers crossed the power stays on this time, but if not, for such a short period of time if I had to keep everyone warm I'd set up the camping pads and sleeping bag in a different (larger) room than the closet and still let the dogs have a place nearby. And actually, setting up a tent in the house, with a tarp or couple of blankets over the top for insulation would also work. Except I don't have a tent these days. I suppose I could build a furniture fort with a tarp or blankets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 22 - 05:00 PM

The morning temperature of 43^o was the high for the day. It's down to 15^o now (mid-afternoon).

I'm cat sitting for a friend so have to go out in it a couple of times a day, and I'm having to get my three dogs out to take care of business when they hit the door and don't want to go. It is taking bribes to get some cooperation. One of them is wearing a post-surgery cone so can't fit through the dog door and the sliding door is almost frozen in place, so I'm taking her out into the front yard. Eventually she'll figure out we're not going out for a walk and start peeing when we go out. Today has been an adventure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 22 - 08:12 PM

There were blue skies and sun all day. But it WAS 2°F at noon. No snow, however. Christmas is forecasted for 38°F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 03:18 AM

may i wish all american mudcatters safety in next few days very bad weather

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MudGuard
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 07:44 AM

Still no weather at all where I am (in my living room).

Outside (Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, Earth), the weather is: 283K, overcast, dry.

(the weather outside is misbehaving, the forecast was very windy/stormy, and loads of rain)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 04:14 PM

In Stratford, Ontario, we’re in the middle of a blizzard.

It’s a nuisance, but quite normal for late December in Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 07:12 PM

The weather was rainy until the sun went down;
then it changed to snow, which is easy to walk in and pretty to look at.

People hereabouts are most worried about high winds,
more about the winds than about the precipitation.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 22 - 10:00 AM

My porch thermometer said this morning that we had 0 degrees F.
New Years is predicted to be 60F.

   My fuel bill is expected to be scary.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 24 Dec 22 - 12:42 PM

Eastern Canada's Christmas blizzard continues. The cops got tired of cars hurtling into each other in the white-out and closed Highway 401 west of London yesterday afternoon, and at midnight all non-emergency vehicles were ordered off all roads in Perth County.

Today's Toronto Star featured front-page coverage of travel misery, including more than 100 vehicles involved in collisions on a particularly busy stretch of the 401, and eight loaded VIA Rail passenger trains stuck on the tracks between Montreal and Toronto. A tree blown over in the high wind fell on the Toronto-bound train from Ottawa, marooning it in the countryside near Cobourg for more than 18 hours.

If the storm doesn't let up, music at church this Christmas will consist of unaccompanied singing. The organist lives in London, and somehow I don't think St. James's Anglican is quite ready for guitars.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 06:36 PM

we had a raw, chilly day today.
The next few days, however, leading up to New Year's Eve,
are supposed to be unseasonably warm,
leading to snow melt. And if that isn't enough,
rain is forecast for the first week of January.
At this rate the snow will be history soon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 29 Dec 22 - 07:00 AM

> At this rate the snow will be history soon.

Unless it inspires someone, in which case it may become literature. According to legend, an unusually snowy Christmas in Charles Dickens's childhood fed into A Christmas Carol, which contributed greatly to the false folk memory that Christmas "ought to be" snowy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 07:32 AM

On this first day of the year the sunrise is coral pink. On Wed. the temp will be 68 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 07:23 PM

There's been what's been described as an extreme weather event in central and southern Europe. Over the two or three days of the New Year, temperature records for heat have been smashed at hundreds of weather stations. Many Central European countries that we normally regard as frozen wastes in January have been pushing 20°C, and one station in northern Spain has recorded 25°. In their own wintry way, these figures are just as spectacular as the unprecedented extremes of last summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 23 - 09:54 AM

Likewise,
southern New England, in North America,
is having record-breaking warmth today,
along with mist, fog, and some rain.
That means "mud season" here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 23 - 08:23 PM

Bless Californians with luck. A storm will release and great landslide in a couple of days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jan 23 - 05:14 PM

We've had the warmest year on record in the UK, going back to when reliable records began in 1884. A two-week cold snap in December failed to spoil the party. The ten warmest years have all occurred since 2002.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jan 23 - 06:29 PM

our hot summer has become a cooler rainy summer, at last for the next few days! I normally sleep under the sheet with the fan on but didn't need it the last 2 nights, & even needed go into th cupboard to find my thinnest blanket = a fine woollen shawl.

Rain has stopped & I need to go out shopping soon, so will take my raincoat.

Rain has started again, I'll wear my raincoat ...

today's forecast is 25C (80F)

sandra in (cooler wetter) Sydney

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 10:36 PM

California is facing the worst floods in 50 years. The landslides continue.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jan 23 - 06:54 PM

The weather is usually better when the sun comes out.
There are exceptions, usually involving hot weather.
But where I am right now, it's freezing cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 06:55 PM

And after another warm spell,
another plunge into the deep freeze.
In the dark of winter, up here in the North.
I just long to see a little more light, cold or no cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 06:28 AM

Plum trees and forsythia are blooming in DC. Its been 40's to 60's this winter. Only a few cherry trees have been fooled by the warmth.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 11:33 AM

There are many different varieties of flowering Prunus trees and they flower at different times, quite a few in mid- to late winter. They're not easy to fool.

The jet stream is having a meridional winter, so it's blowing alternately warm and cold here. When it's mild it's wet. At the moment we have a northerly burst, but it probably won't last. We have a lazy wind (it goes straight through you instead of going round you).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 07:22 PM

To put an unnecessary fine point on it, The plum trees here have bloomed exactly 15 days early and were never said to have been fooled.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 07:28 PM

Earlier than what?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 23 - 06:28 PM

Cold and dark.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jan 23 - 07:50 PM

typical summer - hot or rather warm days, rainy days, humid days, hot or cooler nights ...

I've never been as wet as I was yesterday - heavy rain & wind as I walked several hundred metres (6" longer than yards) from the bus stop to the Folk Festival pulling my trolley. My Akubra normally shelters my glasses & keeps my face dry - it mainly did, but the rain leaked thru & my forehead & hair were wet! My rain jacket stops above my knees & my mauve Indian hippy dress was soaked, it was obvious I was wearing a black petticoat (also soaked) & of course my sandals were wet & muddy .... quack, quack, squelch, squelch.

Naturally the showground was muddy but the music was wonderful & conversations with friends were fantastic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 23 - 08:00 PM

Don't complain too much, Sandra (I know you don't...). When it gets like that here it can stay muddy and miserable for weeks, even in summer. In 2006 I was in Perth, WA, and the weather was generally pretty good. But one day we has a good old Cornish wet and windy blow, with a temperature of 13°C. Misery! The very next day the sun blazed out dawn to dusk and the temperature reached 36°C, and by midday there wasn't a puddle in sight. We absolutely never get that here...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 23 - 06:32 PM

Here we have a good six inches of snow on the ground,
with snow and ice predicted tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 04:31 PM

Sleet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 08:36 PM

Well, it's going to be a hot one. Forecast temp here is for 38 deg C (that's about 100 deg for those of you who still think in old money) so, Australia Day or not, we are staying home and staying inside.

There may be a storm later, after the heat builds up. Some rain would be useful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 09:03 AM

> metres (6" longer than yards)

A metre is 39.37 inches, which is a yard plus 10% VAT. A meter is what you put your shilling in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 04:50 PM

3"- 6" - near enough ...

I've got a 1961 shilling, Australian of course, it sits with a few foreign coins I was given in change over the years. Dunno where the shilling came from. It has a Merino ram's head on it cos Australia rode on the sheep's back from 1871 to the 1960s. I wonder if the change to decimal currency in 1966 had anything to do with that!

But I don't have a meter to put it in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 23 - 11:19 PM

Last week the blower was in use to move the rays of sunshine off of the dry pavement. This week the rain is making all of that sunshine rather sodden. #Silliness

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 05:06 PM

we've has some really hot & humid days (typical Sydney summer) with rain (typical Sydney summer) in the past few weeks.

During several nasty days I was reading 2 books - both mysteries - one set in Hawaii in 1890s in hot/humid times - US visitor hated it & could barely cope, the other in Italy, August 1960s, when the local detective had to battle similar weather.

I was hoping my next read would be set in winter while I struggled thru hot humid days & nights - tho with an electric fan blowing cool air on me at home, & scurrying between air conditioned trains, buses & buildings, & other air conditioned trains, buses & buildings I was much better off than those fictional characters. I hate humid weather as much as they did!

Sydney has longest spell of days below 30C in 140 years (11 January)
Sydney averages 15 days above 30C per year. The run of sub-30C days is set to continue into mid-January      (& it did)
As most of southern Australia sweats under a prolonged heatwave, Sydney is on the verge of recording its longest spell of days below 30 degrees Celsius in 140 years.
While the weather has definitely at least resembled a version of summer since the pre-Christmas record cold spell, Tuesday's maximum of 26.6 degrees at Observatory Hill marked the 323rd consecutive day under 30C, already the longest stretch in three decades.

The article refers to the offical Sydney CBD weather station on the Harbour, as always Sydney's western suburbs had many days of temperatures over 30. (30C = 84F)

sandra (in sunny Sydney, 9am on Wed 1st February, 22C = 72, forecast for 27 = 81)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 06:33 PM

I don't know how cold it really is,
but it's TOO cold. (Southern New England)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Feb 23 - 12:55 PM

Well, we have got above freezing, and I hope we stay there for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 23 - 07:54 PM

Thats weird Sandra
I figured with global warming I wouldn't need snow tires this winter. I was right.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Feb 23 - 10:05 AM

30°C is 86°F, Sandra (damn nitpicker I am!)

We're having the first typical Brit winter for many years. A bit of this, a bit of that, sometimes wet, sometimes dry, sometimes warm, sometimes cold, and a lot more night frosts than we've had for years. It's very nice and sunny just now with 10°C and frosty nights. We went for a stroll by the sea and we could feel the warmth of the strengthening sun for the first time this year. The vitamin D will have to all come from food for another month.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Feb 23 - 12:36 AM

It's a bit warmish....daytime temps reaching the mid 30s C (I don't know what that is for those of you who still think in old money, you would have to look it up) but nothing we can't handle. Until Christmas the weather was fairly mild, but I'm not complaining about a late start to summer's heat for once.

Storms forecast for the next day or two or three, par for the course for this time of year. Our storm season runs from October to April.

Rain is not bad, providing there is not a surfeit. Storms - not so much so, as they cause damage.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Feb 23 - 06:28 PM

Too warm for winter, again.
A premature "mud season."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 23 - 06:17 PM

I tell you,
somebody is softening us up on purpose
with this warm weather so as to
jolt us with more winter weather before it's all over . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 10:05 AM

The weather can't make up its mind, hereabouts.
It may snow before the week is out,
but now it is warm enough for rain instead of snow.
This even though we're in the Northern Hemisphere
and should be a solidly winter month.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 11:13 AM

Could be a winter storm.
May have to miss chorus rehearsal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 11:35 AM

We've had just half an inch of rain in February so far, and it looks like that will be it for the month as yet another high pressure builds in. We had just a third of an inch in the second half of January. In more normal times we'd expect about six times as much rain as we've had since mid-Jan. The south-west of England (where I am) and East Anglia are still officially in drought, and there are are fears of big trouble if we have a summer like we had last year. We still have a hosepipe ban in Cornwall that started last August, the first in 27 years (and the last one was short-lived).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 12:12 PM

Our reservoirs in Devon and Cornwall are at 65% of their capacities, and at least one major reservoir is at just over 40%. That's almost unprecedented in modern times (we've increased capacity considerably since the severe drought years of 1975-76). This time last year we were at 88%. Winter is when our water storage is replenished, but this year the replenishment is faltering severely. In typical years, spring is our driest season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 12:56 PM

Its 80 F here on Thursday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pattyClink
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 02:31 PM

Violent winds near Albuquerque all day, gusting to 80 mph. Watching hundreds of bushes turned to tumbleweeds, flying by my windows.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 03:12 PM

Yes, pattyClink,
February is definitely a peak month
for tumbleweeds in New Mexico. I remember it well.
Especially when you are driving down the freeway
and the tumbleweeds collide with your moving vehicle . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pattyClink
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 06:43 PM

I did stay parked and inside all day. But after 2 electrical things failed to work, ventured outside to discover my heavy 30-amp power cord had been blown out of its receptacle. Yikes!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Feb 23 - 08:56 AM

Last night brought about two inches of
the worst kind of snow there is,
the kind that is half-frozen, heavy with ice.
Just finished scraping it off of my parked car.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 23 - 02:37 PM

The first daffodil bloomed today. I'm not used to a snowless winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 02 Mar 23 - 12:34 PM

When an ice storm is predicted, I spray my car windows with Windex (or similar) so the ice can't stick as well. And once the ice is off, the windows are sparkly clean.

I would tell you how wonderful this winter has been in Missouri, how the tulips are coming up and the birds are singing, but you'd hate me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 23 - 05:35 PM

More snow in the forecast, and darn it all,
we don't need any MORE snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Mar 23 - 03:57 PM

That was a lot of fuss over nothing much --
about four inches of slush, easily treated.
Here they were saying we could expect a foot of snow . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Mar 23 - 09:19 AM

The sun is out, which helps no end.
About half a foot of snow everywhere. Blinding to look at.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Mar 23 - 08:29 AM

The climate change snow in Californis is a disaster

All the land is soaked (all the land is soaked)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)
I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk)
On a winter's day (on a winter's day)
I'd be safe and warm (I'd be safe and warm)
If I was in D.C.. (if I was in D.C.)
California's screamin' (California's screamin')
On such a winter's day
Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees (got down on my knees)
And I pretend to pray (I pretend to pray)
You know the preacher has lost his faith (preacher has lost his faith)
He knows were gonna go (knows were gonna go)
California's scream' (California's screamin')
On such a winter's day
All the hills are snow (all the hills are snow)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)
I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk)
On a winter's day (on a winter's day)
If I only told her (if I only told her)
We can't leave today (We can't leave today)
Global Warming's changin' (Global warming's changin')
On such a winter's day (Climate change is winning')
On such a winter's day (Climate change is here')
On such a winter's day

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 12 Mar 23 - 09:26 AM

In the last week or two (during a recent Catnap), I was delighted to hear my favourite weather forecast: a yellow snow warning. The forecasters on the telly were most careful to step around it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 23 - 10:29 AM

Shades of dear old Frank Zappa:

Watch out where the huskies go, and . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 23 - 07:35 AM

Frank Zappa, of 'My dick is a monster' fame?
Alphonso's famous pancakes?
Frank Zappa is still ahead our time.

Over here a yellow snow alert would turn into a 10 minute diversion of the news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 23 - 07:46 AM

I wonder how the California floods will affect their fire season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 08:35 AM

My part of western Massachusetts has over twelve inches of snow on the ground now,
and we are all digging out from under.
At least the snow has stopped falling,
although there is a wind causing snowdrifts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 08:40 AM

No more blowing or falling snow,
we will be digging out for some time --
some areas of western Massachusetts got more than two feet of snow this week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 23 - 09:05 AM

On this last day of winter it is 29 (-2) but next weekend it will be 70.
Peru and Ecuador have suffered a deadly Earthquake.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 04:01 PM

Well, it is certainly spring weather, the sunny sort,
with the frozen snow melting rapidly.

I have a nasty premonition of spring windstorms, but not today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 04:19 PM

Its Spring, Its time to come out, gay or not.

The official UN global warming report came out.
With high scientific certainty, you are toast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Mar 23 - 06:27 PM

There was fog up in the mountain passes
that the MassPike runs through,
where there is still snow and ice around.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 11:09 AM

Texas had a little rain on the edge of a weather front but the big activity to the east was when it grew and moved through rural Mississippi as a tornado on the ground for an hour-long scouring of the rural landscape. At last count 26 dead and many missing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 11:22 AM

Thirty miles of continuous total destruction from massive tornados is highly unusual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 31 Mar 23 - 11:46 PM

It was a bad day for tornadoes today. One hit Little Rock, Arkansas. Our local weather map looked safe, but eastern and central Missouri not so good with CAPEs in the 4000's. (medium high)

We had a big storm last night, and today skies were blue with an unusual high of 78 going to 32 in a few hours from now. Clearly, huge air masses with huge temperature and pressure differences are on the move.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 12:39 AM

leeneia, what city are you in/near?

The snow and rain hitting California will help refill the aquifers. Texas hasn't had that kind of rain (the Edwards Aquifer is still in dire need of water). It is hit or miss around the country, for places that got the moisture.

It has been a moist but not overly-wet spring in North Texas. I expect it to be Hot As Hell sooner than anyone likes it here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 07:10 PM

The storm that brought tornadoes a day or two ago
is headed for my area,
we have watches up concerning the winds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 07:18 PM

Right now its a windy thunderstorm and the lights are flickering.
It is a bright and stormy night at this hour.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 09:51 PM

It’s raining in Perth County, Ontario.

This is normal.

Unfortunately, it has been snowing and raining consistently for more than a month now, and wet basements are the rule.

Fortunately, Canadian Tire has wet-dry vacuums on special. What a coincidence!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 04 Apr 23 - 02:01 AM

Friday before last we had 60 mph winds with faster gusts throughout Ohio. No tornado activity was reported but my wife and I saw several instances of down trees that had been twisted off rather than knocked over. Hundreds of thousands without power, over 100,000 in my county, nearly a third of the population. I was without power for over three days. we live in the country, literally in the middle of a large corn field, We have gas heat but an elcectric thermostat and well water supplied by an electric pump so we were without both. We had lanterns for light and would have toughed out the 40 degree tempd but how do live without water. After the first night we checked into a hotel. We've been back to normal for 6 days now but they are calling for another such storm two days from now. Fingers are crossed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 23 - 07:05 PM

The weather where I am is early spring weather at the moment.
A cool wind keeps things on the cool side;
there has been a little rain;
and we have had really sunny dry cool days.

The forecast is talking about a wave of unusually warm weather.
Myself, I wish we could have some spring,
and not go from winter straight into summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 09 Apr 23 - 05:39 PM

This time of year used to be referred to as "cabin fever' season. Our days are longer and we're gaining about 5 minutes of sunlight to our days per day.

Yesterday after showering I went out to brush a fresh 1-1/2" of snow off the car, then drive out to Starbucks. Today the temperature dropped to 16°F and for dog walking we drove up to one of the trailheads where it was 10°F. The dog loved it and plowed through the trailside snow depth like it was diaphonous ferns. There were many people who drove up there to ski the trails and enjoy the views of town and mountains for Easter. This is the time of year the ravens head back to the nearby mountains to start their nests and domestic chick raisng. Their place is taken by seabirds and Canada geese but it is a bit too early for them. I thought I saw some trees with buds but we're a couple of weeks from leafing out. Nevertheless there are many devoted gardeners who are chomping at the bit to get outside, but no official outdoor gardening until Memorial Day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Apr 23 - 06:26 PM

We have early spring weather this Easter Sunday,
with a chilly wind modifying the strong direct sunshine.

But by the end of next week, it is supposed to be 80 degrees F.!
I hope this summery weather will be followed by some more spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Apr 23 - 08:03 PM

Vermont still has got snow on the ground, although not much.
Also the trees are not as green up north
as they are to the south in Massachusetts.
We are in for some rain this week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 23 - 09:23 AM

Spring has returned, after careening through several days like summer.
Rain today, which is much needed. Blessedly cool air.
Nearly all the trees have some new green on their branches.
And the songbirds and evening peepers are loud outside.
Bugs, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Apr 23 - 03:12 PM

Its dusty dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 23 - 10:48 AM

A perfect day for mowing the grass, which is happening outside.
The smell of freshly cut grass always tells me spring is fully here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 May 23 - 01:42 PM

Glorious, thank you.
If it never got warmer than this, I would be happy.
The lilac buds are just about ready to burst open.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 May 23 - 06:43 PM

Alberta has declared a state of emergency after wildfires spread across the western Canadian province, driving nearly 25,000 people from their homes. Faced with more than 100 wildfires, Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith called the situation "unprecedented". This reminds me of Oz.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 May 23 - 06:34 PM

Another ideal spring day, if a little warm for spring;
low humidity, clear skies, and a warm breeze to keep the bugs away.
The weather is spoiling us with these wonderful days.
Nights are still cool, also.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 May 23 - 05:59 PM

Brrrrrr!!
We're having an early-April day in mid-May.
And tonight there is a frost warning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 23 - 08:13 AM

Your 30s were our 50s
Ideal is the ideal descriptor.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: haiqu
Date: 21 May 23 - 06:50 AM

It's 8:49pm on a Sunday here in country New South Wales. The aircon is set to 25C and I'm wearing a thick jacket and a woolen beanie and have a doubled-up blanket across my kness and I'm still bloody-well freezing. I hate winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 23 - 09:02 AM

Smoke from Canada wildfires causing hazy, reddish glow ...

FOX 5 DC
https://www.fox5dc.com › news › smoke-from-canada-w...
May 10, 2023 — Smoke from wildfires in western Canada are causing a hazy, reddish glow to appear in the sky across the Washington, D.C. region Wednesday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 May 23 - 08:37 AM

Now smoke from eastern Canada fires is making New England hazy.
60,000 Canadians were evacuated. The Arctic is warming faster than predicted. I bet the perma frost melting is the cause. Parts of Canada will be 86 F this week.
17 Hurricanes are expected this year despite an El Nino.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 03:32 AM

The weather? Here in Juneau, Alaska, this month of May has been memorable. Downpours of rain for five minutes then tapering off into normal rain then a downpour again, multiple times a day. If we aren't breaking records I would be very surprised.

It is also chilly with highs in the mid40s and lows of mid30s. This is May, for pete's sake. We should be having temps that range from 40 to about 60. (Who is Pete?)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 05:21 AM

Glad you asked, Ebbie - “For Pete's sake” originated as a substitute for “for Christ's (or God's) sake,” and other similar expressions as using a shortened form of the disciple St. Peter's name instead was considered less offensive.

Here in the Land of Oz we are heading into winter, so it's getting cooler. But Sydney's winter is different to Alaska's winter.

I live on the edge of the CBD, close to the Harbour (can't see it cos buildings are in the way) & have my windows locked open about 6" & don't have heating. I just put on more layers, naturally those who live west of the harbour have heating, some even have properly sealed homes!!

Average June temperatures in Sydney CBD are 18C high/10C low, averages further west - Parramatta 18/8 (25km from CBD), Penrith 18/7 (60km), Katoomba (in the Blue Mountains where some areas get snow) 10/4 (100km)

For those accustomed to F. temperatures, double & add 30 to get an idea of C. temperatures, for an accurate figure Google is your friend!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 12:09 PM

In the coming named Hurricanes this season there is a Nigel and a Don.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 05:49 PM

Sandra in Sydney, I didn't know that! I'll bet my parents didn't know they were referring to St. Peter. ha

Incidentally, who was/is Sam Hill? That's one my dad used: What the Sam Hill??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 06:22 PM

wikipedia -
Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?").

oh no! Wikipedia is wrong - CantonDaily Ledger sez. Where did the expression Sam Hill come from?
(Sam Hill was a Michigan surveyor in the 1800s who “allegedly used such foul language that his name became a euphemism for swear words,” according to Wikipedia, so it has to be true. Another source says it's a euphemism for “hell.”)

this is fun! A google search on Sam Hill rings up lots of interesting stuff, a veritable rabbit hole ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 02:29 AM

Well, May was chilly here in the north west. The average minimum temperature for May was 2.4 deg C (the F folk will have to work the conversion out), making it the coldest May for over 100 years. Can be read about here.

It was also one of the dryest, only 0.2 mm over the whole month, equaling a record which has stood since 1998.

Not a record we wish to break.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 03:57 AM

JennieG, I remember some of the summer seasons you folks have had over the years. I dearly hope you never have such fire seasons again.

Sandra in Sydney, that's a fascinating bit of info about Sam Hill. I guess that's one way to go down in history. Kind of like what may happen when the tRump, aka as t'Ass, is out of the picture- a braggerly cheating, amoral traitor may well achieve the eponymous distinction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 05:39 PM

Oh, Ebbie....we probably will. Australia's climate has cycles of flood and fire; we have had floods over the past couple of years, and are heading back into dryness again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 06:11 PM

Here in Bude we've had 21 days of wall-to-wall sun, with just a tiny glitch three weeks ago with a cloudy day with a tenth of an inch of rain. Otherwise bone-dry. It won't rain and the sun will beam out for at least the next week. I remember the "nonesuch" summer of 1976, when you could plan your barbecues weeks in advance knowing that it would be hot and rainless. That's not the British way! I can't remember a spell of weather like this one. The only downside is that the thermometer still plunges into single numbers/the forties every night. By day we're getting 21-24C which is lovely for sitting around outdoors. But the garden work calls...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jun 23 - 06:42 PM

It's very cold for the first week of June.
Moreover,
on June 2nd it was really hot, scorching, then we had torrential rains
and everything cooled way down.
So the weather here in southern New England cannot make up its mind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jun 23 - 06:48 PM

Three more days of cloudless skies. We're getting 24°-26° with low humidity. Bude is always favoured when the wind is in the east, as it has been for weeks, as the air passes over a couple of hundred miles of warmed-up land before it reaches us. I can't remember a spell as sunny for as long as this one. I'm running out of barbecue gas...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 05:35 AM

Code Red today in DC because of the smoke from 240 Canadian wildfires. I can smell the smoke. STILL NO RAIN.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 07:05 AM

The sun is not bright but is an intense tangerine disk.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 12:26 PM

The air reminds me of the days after Mt St Helens erupted but then it was actual micro rock that was falling from the sky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 23 - 12:25 PM

Baseball has ground to a halt in the northeast due to the smoke.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jun 23 - 04:30 PM

I keep my thermostat set pretty high and use ceiling fans during hot weather. After running a few short errands (careful to avoid getting overheated) I'm back home where the house feels good—25 degrees cooler than outside. The thermostat is set at 80^o.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 23 - 05:01 PM

TRIPLE DIGITS in Texas but marathons are canceled in the North East due to smoke.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 23 - 12:29 PM

For the first time, our weather report included high CO2/low oxygen levels. The Code Red warnings include damage to organs for everyone.

Texas drivers are adapting to the heat by driving with oven mitts on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 23 - 12:37 PM

CVS drug stores sell canned oxygen. The last time I saw that was in the movie Space Balls.

If this is what a few forest fires can do, imagine what an asteroid impact could do.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 23 - 08:01 AM

dangerous asteroids

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jun 23 - 02:20 PM

Less smoky today, but what I blew out of my nose was mud, and I wore a mask yesterday.

I was in Boston earlier, yesterday. No smoke. Came back to Virginia, wow, put the mask I wore for the indoor stuff back on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 07:46 PM

The weather here is capricious.
At least we have none of the wildfire smoke this time.
It has alternated rain with bright sunshine all day, the Fourth of July.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 04:26 PM

It's too darn hot,
and the dewpoint is too darn high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 07 Jul 23 - 10:41 AM

The record for high temperatures has been broken three times in England, on three successive days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jul 23 - 06:51 AM

Now that permafrost has reached fermentation temperatures, the runaway greenhouse effect has exceeded all the projected maximum global temperature increases. Our most aggressive remedies can only slow the process and buy time. If we stopped all human CO2 release we would be in a temperature rising event for hundreds if not thousands of years.
It is worth the sacrifice to buy time, but we are talking about mankind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jul 23 - 09:55 AM

Threat of flash flooding from the thunderstorms and rains.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 09 Jul 23 - 07:10 PM

We are having maybe our third day of Summer today ( sunny and warm ) in Anchorage. We've had cooler than usual, cloudier than usual, rainier than usual, weather since June. no complaints, really, it'll be good for the gardens but I need a new roof.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 Jul 23 - 03:23 AM

The weather forecast for Norfolk UK always says 'rain and possibly thunderstorms', but not a drop falls in our small valley on the Wensum.
My husband is in Africa at the moment, and it's the rainy season there. He says the pathways are a sea of mud, but the rain is cooling down the fierce temperatures. (His mother died two weeks ago, and poor man he's had to take three flights to get there and sort out the funeral and burial. The grave has needed bricking over to stop the torrential rain from eroding it.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 23 - 08:08 AM

Condolences, for sure, to your husband, Senoufou. How sad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Jul 23 - 01:54 PM

today, up to 36°C outside, inside ONLY 26°C ...

I am melting ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 23 - 07:44 AM

The Texas power grid held up during the heat wave because of solar power plants - to their credit. Air conditioning, an American invention, is a power-hungry beast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jul 23 - 01:32 PM

Heat Alerts have new rules. There is such a thing as heat coma. We used to have heat exhaustion but heat is more severe now. Third degree burns of the feet are now possible in AZ.
The friendly skies have become more violent with airline turbulence.
Climate change has no new normal. It will become progressively worse.
Other kinds of turbulence include migration, political and agricultural.
Enter AI with the ability to coordinate all global weather data to avoid microbursts and see weather down to an individual runway. So far Jet Blue is using AI.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jul 23 - 08:15 PM

Sunshine and mosquitoes, that's what it's like.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Jul 23 - 02:34 AM

Husband is home now after the funeral of his mum in Africa. (Thank you so much for your condolences Keberoxu) His suitcases are full of soggy clothes stained dark red from the African mud. (During their rainy season the roads and pathways are seas of reddish mud).
I'd hoped that our weather here in Norfolk would brighten up, but no - it's now gloomy and rainy. He must have brought his weather with him on the three flights from Abidjan!
(I was hoping he'd set to and cut our lawns and do a bit of heavy gardening, but he can't in the rain can he? I'll just have to get on with all that mucky laundry and hang it up in the conservatory!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 23 - 06:44 PM

This week has been 100% fatal to all the coral around the Florida Keys.
The ocean reached 100 degrees F and killed all the organisms quickly forgoing the usual bleaching which sometimes recovers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jul 23 - 03:41 PM

Parts of the Caribbean seawater is 100F+.
-conjecture-
This bodes for stronger slower storms since the jet stream slows in response to the hotter climate.
Maybe Hurricanes will become quaint and we will just call them super storms with 20 inches of rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 23 - 08:10 AM

Today's weather is the answer to our prayers.
The temperature has cooled down to an early autumn level,
and the humidity has dropped as well.
We still have early morning fog to burn off,
and the mosquitoes still ask to be slapped to death.
But these are minor complaints
after the high heat and humidity of all of July.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Aug 23 - 06:54 PM

We've had the worst July I can ever remember. Twice the average annual rainfall , cool throughout, quite windy and bereft of sun. And today, first of August, we've had as much rain in one day as we had in the whole of July 2022.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 10:54 AM

This is, for a change, the ideal summer day:
blue sky, puffy white clouds, warm temperatures, dry air,
and just enough breeze to keep the mosquitoes at bay.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 11:15 AM

Sorry Texas, DC has had 50 and 60 F morning temperatures all week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Aug 23 - 06:33 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 08:28 AM

A soaking rain, without the thunder and lightning for a change.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 10:27 AM

We used to have snow birds that escaped the cold in the winter.
Now we have flambeau birds escaping the heat in the summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 08 Aug 23 - 07:34 AM

Flambeau or flambé :-) ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 06:23 PM

What's it like?
It's most unusual for August, I can say that.
The temperatures and humidity are uncommonly low,
and in August both are usually rather high.
Although we do have rain now and again,
there is rain forecast for tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Aug 23 - 12:17 AM

Hot hot hot. Triple digits every day for the last couple of weeks, usually coming in around 110^o by late afternoon.

Dreadful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Aug 23 - 10:11 PM

This, being southeast Alaska, is a cool region; temperatures rarely go above75F or below zeroF. We do get a lot of rain, however, more than 2 inches in a 24 hour period is noteworthy. We simply don't get many extremes of any kind.
This summer has been a strange one. Spring months, from mid-April to early July are typically our driest, sunniest months. But this year, May was an exceptionally rainy month and then our atmosphere dried out and we have had a LOT of SUN since. True, we still have rainy days, even some rainy weeks, but sometimes the sun is so blindingly bright I keep thinking that I'm going to have to break down and get sunglasses. Frankly, I prefer misty, silvery days.

Right now we're in the middle of wind and rain. Supposed to continue until Sunday. I love it. Not so, my dachsie. He doesn't like rain - or snow- falling on his back.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Aug 23 - 07:55 PM

It actually felt like summer today, sunny and warm.
Unusual for this summer in this location.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 23 - 05:14 PM

Death Valley is going to flood. CA is bracing for Hurricane Hillary.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 23 - 07:57 PM

Got on board a westbound 737
Didn't think before deciding what to do
Ooh, that talk of opportunities
TV breaks and movies
Rang true, sure rang true

[Pre-Chorus]
Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before

[Chorus]
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours

[Verse 2]
Out of work, I'm out of my head
I'm out of self respect, I'm out of bread
I'm under-loved, I'm underfed
I wanna go home

[Chorus]
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 23 - 08:05 PM

LIFE THREATENING AND CATASTROPHIC FLOODING FOR S. CA.
national weather service.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Aug 23 - 01:27 PM

Thinking of the Mudcatters out California/Nevada/Arizona way.
(any Mudcatters in Mexico?)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 23 - 04:49 PM

Arizona is still dry but Texas is due for a 'sprinkle' next weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 23 - 10:50 AM

A rainstorm swirling around and around means that
we see alternating sunshine and rain today.
Keep the umbrella handy,
but leave the layers off --
it's warm like a sauna.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 04:54 PM

Today, we have the weather that everybody else wants.
The sky is blue, the sun is shining,
it's warm but not blazing hot, it's reasonably dry,
and a nice brisk breeze is keeping the mosquitoes away.
It's just lovely -- not hot and humid the way August usually is.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 07:35 PM

It's crickets all night until the first hard freeze.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 04:23 AM

I don't know how many records, weatherwise, that have been set in Juneau, Alaska, this year but I'm sure there are a few. We've had rain- even HARD rain, which is very atypical for us- but we've had more sunny days in the last couple of months than I can remember. At the moment it is a bit hazy but we haven't had more than a sprinkle of rain for days. Temperatures top out at about 65F. Great for walking dogs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 06:37 PM

It's remarkably changeable.
This morning it was raining and thundering.
This afternoon it turned clear and sunny.
Now there are non-rainy clouds rolling in at sunset.
You have to be ready for anything at any moment around here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 09:41 AM

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
My thoughts aren't too clear but don't run away
My girlfriend's a bore, my job is too dutiful
Hell, nobody's perfect, would you like to play?
I feel together today
Well, now that's just the start of a well-deserved overdue binge
Meanwhile, back in the city certain people are starting to cringe
His lawyers are calling his parents
His girlfriend doesn't know what to think
His partners are studying their options
He's just singing and ordering drinks

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear, life's so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitful
No place like home when you're this far away
I don't care what they say
He's goin' back to New York pack it up and let everyone know (back to New York)
It was something that he should have done such a long time ago
Still, time to start a new life in the palm trees
Ah, Billy Clyde wasn't insane
And if it doesn't work out, there'll never be any doubt
That the pleasure was worth all the pain

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear, life's so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitful
No place like home when you're this far away
Time for to play
I need time for to play
Time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriter: Jimmy Buffett

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Sep 23 - 07:03 PM

If the forecast is to be believed,
we are headed for hot humid weather,
the opposite of what we had for most of August.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 23 - 10:08 PM

More hot. On top of hot. Same ol' same ol'.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 23 - 10:05 AM

By: Jimmy Buffett
1973
I once knew a poet
Who lived before his time
He and his dog Spooner
Would listen while he'd rhyme
Words to make ya happy
Words to make you cry
Then one day the poet suddenly did die
But he left behind a closet
Filled with verse and rhyme
And through some strange transaction
One was printed in the Times
And everybody's searchin'
For the king of undergound
Well they found him down in Florida
With a tombstone for a crown
Everybody knows a line
From his book that cost four ninety-nine
I wonder if he knows he's doin'
Quite this fine
'Cause his books are all best sellers
And his poems were turned to song
Had his brother on a talk show
Though they never got along
And now he's called immortal
Yes he's even taught in school
They say he used his talents
A most proficient tool
But he left all of his royalties
To Spooner his ol' hound
Growin' old on steak and bacon
In a doghouse ten feet 'round
And everybody wonders
Did he really lose his mind
No he was just a poet who lived before his time
He was just a poet who lived before his time

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 04:49 PM

Forecast of thunderstorms with hail and stiff winds. Gee thanks . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 04:32 PM

And now we are anxiously watching Hurricane Lee,
headed into the North Atlantic Ocean
and coming close to the maritime states.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 11:19 AM

Still don't know what Hurricane Lee is going to do.

IN the meantime, conditions are cool enough that
the walk between buildings is no longer Mosquito Alley,
which is a welcome relief.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 07:14 AM

As we fly through the tipping points of global warming There are a hundred million or more evangelicals, Q anon and Trumpists who actually want end times because that's when Jesus will return.
The rest of us are doing our part by bringing bags to the store or charging an electric car from coal power plants.

Fires, floods, and heat killed people in the hundreds and now in the tens of thousands. Usually, when something really bad happens we band together and get things done. So the question is, how bad will things have to be before we all join to confront a problem like climate?

Millions died from a pandemic that has nothing to do with the weather but a single close person seems to have more impact than millions of strangers.
Perhaps millions lost to climate isn't enough to mobilize the world.
Is a billion enough ? If a billion of only the poorest people died they may hardly be missed. Five billion people would probably have the desired impact but what could be done by then?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:16 AM

With 5 billion dead that would leave a population of 3 billion, the same as when I was a kid. Wholesale genocide of WWII had only just stopped. Perhaps 3 billion people were too many. One million could not support a global civilization so what number of humans would be stable? Billionaire tribal chiefs would have lost their status and power. Farming communities might make a go of it depending on raiding party threats and climate. As for Jesus, he was a no-show.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:23 AM

This thread is supposed to be about weather, not a platform for ranting about future climate catastrophes, etc. Anyway, it's persisting down here and it's washing out our Bude WW2 memorial weekend, sadly.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:34 PM

Optimistically we can ignore the risk of dystopia and tell each other its going to work out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:56 PM

Do read the thread title. You have multiple opportunities to rant about your upcoming dystopia on this forum, but this particular thread is about the WEATHER where we all are. It's a very nice idea for a thread, so kindly try to not undermine it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Sep 23 - 06:38 PM

We're watching a tropical storm named Ophelia, just in time for
the autumnal equinox (Northern Hemisphere)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 03:09 PM

Raining, I don't know whether or not Ophelia is responsible,
but definitely raining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 04:44 PM

It was whatever passed for Ophelia here in Maryland, but it rained non-stop for 24 hours.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 06:05 PM

... and it just started again! Not hard, but I wonder if the Native Americans had an anti-rain dance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 10:43 AM

Well so much for Storm Agnes. Down yer in Cornwall we were promised severe gales gusting to 70 mph, possible floods, trees down, the works. Yellow warning, wind and rain. It was dry, breezy and bright this morning and I had a nice trot round Bude Canal. The wind picked up to about force 7, definitely not a gale, and it rained quite hard for ten minutes at quarter past three. And now, at 3.40, the sun is beaming out and it's warm and breezy. Very nice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 11:29 AM

We're in the hottest September on record, following the hottest August on record. Today's high is forecast at 95, and the 10-day outlook has every day in the mid-90s. Don't be surprised if October is also a record-breaker.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 11:46 AM

We've just had the most gorgeous double rainbow of the year. I'm cheered up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 10:06 AM

Rain all day again.
I'm all for cooling down, but the wet is a bit much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 05:24 PM

Nice weather here. Mild, bright, benign. I see you've had a little drop of rain in New York...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 08:36 AM

I guess New York is still drying out.
It will help that temperatures are warmer this week,
what we call Indian Summer in North America.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 09:08 AM

We're set for an Indian summer here too, sunshiny days until at least the early part of next week with temperatures in the mid-seventies in American money. Strictly speaking there should have been the first frost first, but we have to ignore that ruling here in Cornwall as our first frost is typically well into November or even as late as January. A warm spell around 18 October is sometimes called St Luke's summer, and, if around 11 November, St Martin's summer, after the respective feast days of those saints. But Indian summer cuts it for any nice weather after the equinox. Quiet weather in mid-October with a hint of air frost gives us our best autumn colours, not too frequent an occurrence round here these days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 11:40 AM

The Texas State Meteorologist was just interviewed about upcoming weather, and it seems that there is a robust El Niño forming that will give late October through March more rain that is usual. Let's hope it is spread out enough to soak in and to fill the reservoirs, not fall so fast that it washes away down our rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf doesn't need repeated gushes of topsoil.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 07:00 PM

Massachusetts had an odd experience during the last storm system.
On Saturday, the northern East Coast had heavy rains,
including the westernmost county, Berkshire county.
But to the east,
Boston got virtually no rain at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 07:18 AM

Its a beautiful tangerine pre-dawn skyline but cool in the forties. Time to bring in the Huge sword fern and crown palm tree.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 23 - 07:40 PM

Drying out here after the last bout of Berkshire County rain.
No more overheated sunny days, autumn is settling in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 09:23 AM

Rain was forecast for last weekend, and
rain is forecast for this weekend.
At least it isn't snow or ice . . . yet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 12:10 PM

We'll be looking at the sky today (with carefully chosen safety glasses) for the annular solar eclipse. We get about 80% coverage in this part of North Texas and the weather is cooperating. It peaks in about an hour.

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2023/where-when

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 08:59 PM

It looks like it’s going to be a bit cooler here for the next few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 07:00 AM

The eclipse looks like we are on the horns of a dilemma.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 06:53 PM

'23-'24 winter is likely to be a severe polar vortex bringing colder than average temps.
US-CANADA-EUROPE

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Oct 23 - 06:43 AM

NOAA says the polar vortex should make things wetter but not significantly colder.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 03:42 AM

I see from the forecast that a nasty storm called 'Babet' is heading for the UK. Very strong winds and torrential rain. Gulp!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 23 - 05:28 PM

ALmost three thousand posts!

The Northeast US has a lot of rain, and I wish
we could send it to Texas, where they need rain and cool weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 02:15 AM

As-a-and……..3,000! ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 03:34 AM

Well, last Friday, when the road to our village was closed off due to works by Openreach and Anglian Water, we all had to take a long detour through Fustyweed and Elsing, which involved negotiating huge puddles and floods. It was a nightmare, because large, wide vehicles were taking this 'rat run' too and the little country lanes are winding. One edged round a bend only to meet head-on a cattle-feed truck or an oil tanker. We finally arrived at our bungalow in what Norfolk people call 'a roit stairt'!
But yesterday (Sunday) the sun shone, there was only a tiny breeze and NO RAIN!!! Hooray!!! And all the roads had dried off, plus no more Fustyweed - our village road was open again. Phew!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 03:51 AM

Well I don't know what you mean by "severe polar vortex." The biggest threat of severe cold in North America and Europe comes with a weaker stratospheric polar vortex. Incursions of warmer air from further south can disrupt the vortex and send large masses of arctic air plunging south to give very cold weather. If the vortex is strong it will maintain its circular flow around the pole and keep the cold arctic air confined, giving us mild winters. As I've said before, beware of rambling popular science articles. Not sure how far ahead these sudden stratospheric warming events, giving us very cold weather, can confidently be predicted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Thompson
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 04:07 AM

My washing's outside getting a nice rinse.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:39 AM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:53 AM

I went with better safe than sorry so I went with snow tires and some more insulation just in case. Last year we had no snow at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 10:18 AM

Well, first frost warning last night, 70's (temp, not decade) expected today...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:27 PM

Yes, and more 70s (Fahrenheit) to come in the next few days,
before yet another storm system cools things down again.
We'll see what Halloween is like
for the trick-or-treaters outdoors in the evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 07:47 PM

Gonna snow. 0.1 inches, but sn*w.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 23 - 06:39 PM

No snow here in southern New England,
but temperatures will soon plummet
and next week there will be nights down to freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Oct 23 - 03:57 PM

Temperatures are plummeting so fast that
my car tires are feeling a change in tire pressure,
and the dashboard warning light has come on
maintaining that pressure is too low.
AGAIN.
We just got it recalibrated last week ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 23 - 04:20 PM

It's 79F in DC, cool on Monday

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Nov 23 - 05:37 AM

95% of the leaves fell in two days. The trees are bare with a few still holding on. This is about a month earlier than some past years.
They must know something.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Nov 23 - 05:50 AM

We're bracing for a major Atlantic storm, named Storm Ciarán, overnight tonight. Cornwall seems to be in the firing line, along with other coastal areas of southern England and south Wales. Gulp.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 08:42 AM

After our first snowfall, which melted quickly,
temperatures are into the 50's for a few more days
before they plunge back to the 40's.
One has to wear layers and adjust throughout the day/evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 03:30 PM

6.2" snow yesterday. Above average for the date. And it's powdering down a bit as I write this.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 23 - 04:45 PM

A breath of winter: we avoided snow, but the cold is bitter tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 04:44 PM

It was whatever passed for Ophelia here in Maryland, but it rained non-stop for 24 hours.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 06:05 PM

... and it just started again! Not hard, but I wonder if the Native Americans had an anti-rain dance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 08:59 PM

It looks like it’s going to be a bit cooler here for the next few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 04:23 AM

I don't know how many records, weatherwise, that have been set in Juneau, Alaska, this year but I'm sure there are a few. We've had rain- even HARD rain, which is very atypical for us- but we've had more sunny days in the last couple of months than I can remember. At the moment it is a bit hazy but we haven't had more than a sprinkle of rain for days. Temperatures top out at about 65F. Great for walking dogs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 07:35 PM

It's crickets all night until the first hard freeze.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 09:41 AM

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
My thoughts aren't too clear but don't run away
My girlfriend's a bore, my job is too dutiful
Hell, nobody's perfect, would you like to play?
I feel together today
Well, now that's just the start of a well-deserved overdue binge
Meanwhile, back in the city certain people are starting to cringe
His lawyers are calling his parents
His girlfriend doesn't know what to think
His partners are studying their options
He's just singing and ordering drinks

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear, life's so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitful
No place like home when you're this far away
I don't care what they say
He's goin' back to New York pack it up and let everyone know (back to New York)
It was something that he should have done such a long time ago
Still, time to start a new life in the palm trees
Ah, Billy Clyde wasn't insane
And if it doesn't work out, there'll never be any doubt
That the pleasure was worth all the pain

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear, life's so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitful
No place like home when you're this far away
Time for to play
I need time for to play
Time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriter: Jimmy Buffett

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 23 - 10:05 AM

By: Jimmy Buffett
1973
I once knew a poet
Who lived before his time
He and his dog Spooner
Would listen while he'd rhyme
Words to make ya happy
Words to make you cry
Then one day the poet suddenly did die
But he left behind a closet
Filled with verse and rhyme
And through some strange transaction
One was printed in the Times
And everybody's searchin'
For the king of undergound
Well they found him down in Florida
With a tombstone for a crown
Everybody knows a line
From his book that cost four ninety-nine
I wonder if he knows he's doin'
Quite this fine
'Cause his books are all best sellers
And his poems were turned to song
Had his brother on a talk show
Though they never got along
And now he's called immortal
Yes he's even taught in school
They say he used his talents
A most proficient tool
But he left all of his royalties
To Spooner his ol' hound
Growin' old on steak and bacon
In a doghouse ten feet 'round
And everybody wonders
Did he really lose his mind
No he was just a poet who lived before his time
He was just a poet who lived before his time

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 07:14 AM

As we fly through the tipping points of global warming There are a hundred million or more evangelicals, Q anon and Trumpists who actually want end times because that's when Jesus will return.
The rest of us are doing our part by bringing bags to the store or charging an electric car from coal power plants.

Fires, floods, and heat killed people in the hundreds and now in the tens of thousands. Usually, when something really bad happens we band together and get things done. So the question is, how bad will things have to be before we all join to confront a problem like climate?

Millions died from a pandemic that has nothing to do with the weather but a single close person seems to have more impact than millions of strangers.
Perhaps millions lost to climate isn't enough to mobilize the world.
Is a billion enough ? If a billion of only the poorest people died they may hardly be missed. Five billion people would probably have the desired impact but what could be done by then?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:16 AM

With 5 billion dead that would leave a population of 3 billion, the same as when I was a kid. Wholesale genocide of WWII had only just stopped. Perhaps 3 billion people were too many. One million could not support a global civilization so what number of humans would be stable? Billionaire tribal chiefs would have lost their status and power. Farming communities might make a go of it depending on raiding party threats and climate. As for Jesus, he was a no-show.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:34 PM

Optimistically we can ignore the risk of dystopia and tell each other its going to work out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 07:18 AM

Its a beautiful tangerine pre-dawn skyline but cool in the forties. Time to bring in the Huge sword fern and crown palm tree.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 07:00 AM

The eclipse looks like we are on the horns of a dilemma.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 06:53 PM

'23-'24 winter is likely to be a severe polar vortex bringing colder than average temps.
US-CANADA-EUROPE

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Oct 23 - 06:43 AM

NOAA says the polar vortex should make things wetter but not significantly colder.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 23 - 10:08 PM

More hot. On top of hot. Same ol' same ol'.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 11:29 AM

We're in the hottest September on record, following the hottest August on record. Today's high is forecast at 95, and the 10-day outlook has every day in the mid-90s. Don't be surprised if October is also a record-breaker.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 11:40 AM

The Texas State Meteorologist was just interviewed about upcoming weather, and it seems that there is a robust El Niño forming that will give late October through March more rain that is usual. Let's hope it is spread out enough to soak in and to fill the reservoirs, not fall so fast that it washes away down our rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf doesn't need repeated gushes of topsoil.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 12:10 PM

We'll be looking at the sky today (with carefully chosen safety glasses) for the annular solar eclipse. We get about 80% coverage in this part of North Texas and the weather is cooperating. It peaks in about an hour.

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2023/where-when

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:23 AM

This thread is supposed to be about weather, not a platform for ranting about future climate catastrophes, etc. Anyway, it's persisting down here and it's washing out our Bude WW2 memorial weekend, sadly.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:56 PM

Do read the thread title. You have multiple opportunities to rant about your upcoming dystopia on this forum, but this particular thread is about the WEATHER where we all are. It's a very nice idea for a thread, so kindly try to not undermine it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 10:43 AM

Well so much for Storm Agnes. Down yer in Cornwall we were promised severe gales gusting to 70 mph, possible floods, trees down, the works. Yellow warning, wind and rain. It was dry, breezy and bright this morning and I had a nice trot round Bude Canal. The wind picked up to about force 7, definitely not a gale, and it rained quite hard for ten minutes at quarter past three. And now, at 3.40, the sun is beaming out and it's warm and breezy. Very nice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 11:46 AM

We've just had the most gorgeous double rainbow of the year. I'm cheered up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 05:24 PM

Nice weather here. Mild, bright, benign. I see you've had a little drop of rain in New York...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 09:08 AM

We're set for an Indian summer here too, sunshiny days until at least the early part of next week with temperatures in the mid-seventies in American money. Strictly speaking there should have been the first frost first, but we have to ignore that ruling here in Cornwall as our first frost is typically well into November or even as late as January. A warm spell around 18 October is sometimes called St Luke's summer, and, if around 11 November, St Martin's summer, after the respective feast days of those saints. But Indian summer cuts it for any nice weather after the equinox. Quiet weather in mid-October with a hint of air frost gives us our best autumn colours, not too frequent an occurrence round here these days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 04:54 PM

Today, we have the weather that everybody else wants.
The sky is blue, the sun is shining,
it's warm but not blazing hot, it's reasonably dry,
and a nice brisk breeze is keeping the mosquitoes away.
It's just lovely -- not hot and humid the way August usually is.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 06:37 PM

It's remarkably changeable.
This morning it was raining and thundering.
This afternoon it turned clear and sunny.
Now there are non-rainy clouds rolling in at sunset.
You have to be ready for anything at any moment around here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Sep 23 - 07:03 PM

If the forecast is to be believed,
we are headed for hot humid weather,
the opposite of what we had for most of August.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 04:49 PM

Forecast of thunderstorms with hail and stiff winds. Gee thanks . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 04:32 PM

And now we are anxiously watching Hurricane Lee,
headed into the North Atlantic Ocean
and coming close to the maritime states.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 11:19 AM

Still don't know what Hurricane Lee is going to do.

IN the meantime, conditions are cool enough that
the walk between buildings is no longer Mosquito Alley,
which is a welcome relief.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Sep 23 - 06:38 PM

We're watching a tropical storm named Ophelia, just in time for
the autumnal equinox (Northern Hemisphere)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 03:09 PM

Raining, I don't know whether or not Ophelia is responsible,
but definitely raining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 10:06 AM

Rain all day again.
I'm all for cooling down, but the wet is a bit much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 08:36 AM

I guess New York is still drying out.
It will help that temperatures are warmer this week,
what we call Indian Summer in North America.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 07:00 PM

Massachusetts had an odd experience during the last storm system.
On Saturday, the northern East Coast had heavy rains,
including the westernmost county, Berkshire county.
But to the east,
Boston got virtually no rain at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 23 - 07:40 PM

Drying out here after the last bout of Berkshire County rain.
No more overheated sunny days, autumn is settling in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 09:23 AM

Rain was forecast for last weekend, and
rain is forecast for this weekend.
At least it isn't snow or ice . . . yet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 23 - 05:28 PM

ALmost three thousand posts!

The Northeast US has a lot of rain, and I wish
we could send it to Texas, where they need rain and cool weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 03:42 AM

I see from the forecast that a nasty storm called 'Babet' is heading for the UK. Very strong winds and torrential rain. Gulp!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 10:18 AM

Well, first frost warning last night, 70's (temp, not decade) expected today...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 03:30 PM

6.2" snow yesterday. Above average for the date. And it's powdering down a bit as I write this.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:53 AM

I went with better safe than sorry so I went with snow tires and some more insulation just in case. Last year we had no snow at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 23 - 04:20 PM

It's 79F in DC, cool on Monday

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Nov 23 - 05:37 AM

95% of the leaves fell in two days. The trees are bare with a few still holding on. This is about a month earlier than some past years.
They must know something.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 07:47 PM

Gonna snow. 0.1 inches, but sn*w.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Thompson
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 04:07 AM

My washing's outside getting a nice rinse.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 02:15 AM

As-a-and……..3,000! ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:39 AM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 03:51 AM

Well I don't know what you mean by "severe polar vortex." The biggest threat of severe cold in North America and Europe comes with a weaker stratospheric polar vortex. Incursions of warmer air from further south can disrupt the vortex and send large masses of arctic air plunging south to give very cold weather. If the vortex is strong it will maintain its circular flow around the pole and keep the cold arctic air confined, giving us mild winters. As I've said before, beware of rambling popular science articles. Not sure how far ahead these sudden stratospheric warming events, giving us very cold weather, can confidently be predicted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Nov 23 - 05:50 AM

We're bracing for a major Atlantic storm, named Storm Ciarán, overnight tonight. Cornwall seems to be in the firing line, along with other coastal areas of southern England and south Wales. Gulp.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:27 PM

Yes, and more 70s (Fahrenheit) to come in the next few days,
before yet another storm system cools things down again.
We'll see what Halloween is like
for the trick-or-treaters outdoors in the evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 23 - 06:39 PM

No snow here in southern New England,
but temperatures will soon plummet
and next week there will be nights down to freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Oct 23 - 03:57 PM

Temperatures are plummeting so fast that
my car tires are feeling a change in tire pressure,
and the dashboard warning light has come on
maintaining that pressure is too low.
AGAIN.
We just got it recalibrated last week ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 08:42 AM

After our first snowfall, which melted quickly,
temperatures are into the 50's for a few more days
before they plunge back to the 40's.
One has to wear layers and adjust throughout the day/evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 23 - 04:45 PM

A breath of winter: we avoided snow, but the cold is bitter tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 03:34 AM

Well, last Friday, when the road to our village was closed off due to works by Openreach and Anglian Water, we all had to take a long detour through Fustyweed and Elsing, which involved negotiating huge puddles and floods. It was a nightmare, because large, wide vehicles were taking this 'rat run' too and the little country lanes are winding. One edged round a bend only to meet head-on a cattle-feed truck or an oil tanker. We finally arrived at our bungalow in what Norfolk people call 'a roit stairt'!
But yesterday (Sunday) the sun shone, there was only a tiny breeze and NO RAIN!!! Hooray!!! And all the roads had dried off, plus no more Fustyweed - our village road was open again. Phew!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Nov 23 - 06:14 PM

The oak trees are hanging on to their leaves, but
a stiff wind has been blowing the leaves off for two days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Nov 23 - 05:02 PM

The winter wind is here, with sub-freezing wind chills.
I've been dreading its arrival.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 23 - 08:36 AM

The waves at the shore sound
like slow breathing of the Earth.
The scent of the sea hints of fish
but the land near freezing is sleeping.

The trees and green have closed their eyes
The sky is becoming a rainbow of shades of grey
Winter grows cold while the sun is brief and old
Cuddling for warmth we're awake while half the world sleeps

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Nov 23 - 12:47 PM

It's sub-freezing cold over here. At least the sun is shining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 29 Nov 23 - 04:56 PM

It’s snowing. Still.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 29 Nov 23 - 08:01 PM

Storm season here, as it is every spring/summer.

We had really good rain in November after a few dry months. The month was set to go out with a bang, storms, thunder, lightning, heavy rain, hail....the lot. What happened yesterday was a lot of sound and fury and very very little rain; in fact, the precipitation which fell could be counted in drops, never mind in mls or inches.

Meanwhile, down on the south coast they have had so much rain that it's flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Nov 23 - 10:41 AM

Storms are approaching, but hopefully
warm enough to be rain rather than sleet or snow.
The precipitation won't get here before tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 23 - 02:08 PM

It's so dreary.
Ought to be grateful that it's too warm to freeze;
the freezing will happen later this week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Dec 23 - 04:51 PM

Cold and snowing at long last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 07:13 PM

It's getting ready to rain, and snow, and snow some more.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 17 Dec 23 - 06:12 AM

It's rather horrible, to be honest.

Of late it has been very hot.....to be expected, as it's summer. However a large bushfire a couple of ours' west of here has sent smoke drifting across our way, we are starting to feel as though we are choking. It's after 10 p.m., not too hot at present, but the ever-present smoke can leave as far as we're concerned.

Never mind. Rain is forecast for Tuesday or Wednesday onward which may help put out some of the fires, at least.

Meanwhile up in Far North Queensland - yes, they do capitalise it; they're a different breed up there - a cyclone has brought torrential rain and flooding.

A fairly typical summer in Australia, in fact.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 23 - 07:27 AM

a couple of days back I woke at 4am & couldn't get back to sleep - so sent an email to a friend & checked the latest weather readings - 22.4C = 72F, feels like 27.2 = 81F, with 98% humidity. Sydney (aka The Big Smoke) gets humid in summer, unlike The Small Smoke where Jennie lives, she just gets dry heat.

FNQ gets heat + humidity & cyclones Emergency flood alerts issued for parts of Far North Queensland in the wake of ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper — as it happened

Sydney's forecast for Sunday was 35C = 95F, but we (aka the harbour area) only reached 28C = 82F, tho western Sydney is always higher. Strangely enough western Sydney (55km = 35 miles west) was about the same as coastal Sydney - One Of Life's Little Mysteries

sandra in sydney, 11.25pm Sunday night - with fan on

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 01:32 PM

It's dreary and overcast here,
and in a day or two
it drops below freezing but hopefully for only one day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Dec 23 - 03:08 PM

It's brilliant clear and icy cold here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 23 - 07:10 AM

YESTERDAY THE AIRPORT WAS QUIET but the sun was loud.
It's the shortest daytime of the year today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Dec 23 - 04:58 PM

And the longest daytime here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 10:13 AM

Merry Christmas
(what made me type Marry Christmas?)
on this bright sunny day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 09:53 AM

The reason we have seasons is probably the result of a giant asteroid impact that tilted the Earth. Which one is not yet known but there are clues in magma that aligned with that era's magnetic field. My bet is on the one that blasted the moon into a close orbit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 09:25 AM

Bright sunshine for the New Year's Day. (albeit chilly)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jan 24 - 06:00 AM

The three months up to the end of 2023 have been exceptionally wet here in Cornwall. In that time I've recorded just shy of 20 inches of rainfall in my garden. The 1991-2020 average for Bude for those three months is c.12 inches. It's also been depressingly sunless and very windy. We've had just two frosts in all that time, both in November, and there's been nothing even approaching a frost in December. The new year has started in the same vein, with gales both yesterday and this morning, three-quarters of an inch yesterday and persisting down again this morning. I've just sent off for an ark construction manual. My house is on slightly elevated ground above the surrounding farmland and there's no water-course anywhere near. Highly recommended!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 24 - 07:16 AM

I slept through a small earthquake just under 3.0 last night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 04 Jan 24 - 01:52 PM

Our village has been flooded by the incessant rain during the past few weeks. The river Wensum burst its banks last night, and now the only road out of the village is under about a foot of water. Our village 'chief' has raised the issue with the local Council and help may be at hand. Luckily, one can navigate the road in a car (maybe an amphibious one?). Luckily, our bungalow is up a sloping road and we have no flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 24 - 03:08 PM

We anticipate the first snowstorm of the year this weekend.
I hope it doesn't make a mess of the roads.
People around me, however, are impatient for snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jan 24 - 04:39 PM

we have a lot of wild weather in the Land of Oz, here's one example of someone who deserved a Darwin award from the north coast, a long way from Sydney.

For years now we've had campaigns with graphic photos telling drivers not to drive thru flooded areas ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Jan 24 - 06:13 PM

Well, Eliza, it hasn't stopped raining here since New Year's Day, on top of all the rain we've had up to Christmas. Our lane keeps flooding and the farmer has left mud all over the place to boot. After today it's supposed to dry out a bit for a week or two. Fingers crossed!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 05 Jan 24 - 04:09 AM

It's grim isn't it Steve? I feel sorry for the poor farmers. Here, the fields are completely under water, and our village farmer has had to move all his cattle. There was a lovely flock of seagulls floating on his 'lake' a couple of days ago!
But the weather forecast yesterday indicated there might be a fall in temperature very soon, which will bring ... SNOW! Gaaaaagh!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 24 - 02:02 PM

Looking wintry, finally. Right about freezing, grey and raining. Should turn to ice, then snow. But I have no need to leave the house. I plan...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jan 24 - 03:57 PM

THe Weather Service is getting into the act again,
giving the winter storms names.

THe one on the east coast is Ember,
and to the west, Finn is right behind it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 24 - 08:38 AM

Wake up, everybody . . .

Southwestern New England here, and we have about four inches of snow.
It's still falling, but lightly.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 03:04 PM

Total of six inches, but now we have
a high wind advisory which will contribute, I fear,
to low visibility when driving.

THe snow is pretty in the sunshine, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 06:00 PM

Here come some flash floods.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 06:26 PM

It's stopped raining but it's turned nippy. A bit brass monkey. Positively parky. A lazy wind (goes through you instead of round you). Three minutes at a bus stop and you're dead.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jan 24 - 11:38 AM

Tonight, high winds may bring down power lines,
and rain may induce flooding as the snow melts.
Not boring, anyway . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 24 - 11:48 AM

From the New York Times and probably many other sources, 2023 was officially the hottest year on record (of this modern era when such measurements are being taken.)

Month after month global temperatures didn’t just break records, they surpassed them by far. This year could be even warmer.

The numbers are in, and scientists can now confirm what month after month of extraordinary heat worldwide began signaling long ago. Last year was Earth’s warmest by far in a century and a half.

Global temperatures started blowing past records midyear and didn’t stop. First, June was the planet’s warmest June on record. Then, July was the warmest July. And so on, all the way through December.

Averaged across last year, temperatures worldwide were 1.48 degrees Celsius, or 2.66 Fahrenheit, higher than they were in the second half of the 19th century, the European Union climate monitor announced on Tuesday. That is warmer by a sizable margin than 2016, the previous hottest year.

To climate scientists, it comes as no surprise that unabated emissions of greenhouse gases caused global warming to reach new highs. What researchers are still trying to understand is whether 2023 foretells many more years in which heat records are not merely broken, but smashed. In other words, they are asking whether the numbers are a sign that the planet’s warming is accelerating.

Meanwhile, here in the neighborhood it has been very windy. The leading edge of the storm blowing across the US this week, bringing much colder temperatures by the weekend (even in the south it will be well below freezing).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 11 Jan 24 - 08:58 AM

The month-by-month temperature graphs I saw on the TV worried me more than somewhat: from May onward, 2023's temperatures were *way* higher than the previous records. It looks like we've already passed a tipping point, and the average isn't yet 1.5degC above pre-industrial levels.

Does anybody have the technical drawings for an ark handy?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 07:17 AM

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/seafaring-timeline/#vars!date=44328%20BC-08-06_10:50:57!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jan 24 - 10:59 AM

We have snow falling today.
Because the temperatures are below freezing,
the snow is the dry light powdery sort.
it looks very pretty on the bare tree branches and trunks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Jan 24 - 02:23 PM

Snow! Finally!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 24 - 06:52 PM

The models that combined El Ninyo with a polar vortex were correct.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 07:39 AM

Changing seasons have their own taste and aroma.
Winter begins with cinnamon and grows bitter with the cold.
Spring is sweet and barbecues return.
Summer is tender with vegetables and fruit.
Autumn smells like cider and warm freshly baked bread.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 08:48 AM

warm & humid, plus rain (tho not at the moment!)- it's heading towards 1 am, & we've had some heavy rainstorms this evening.

Thursday's forecast sez more of the same, tho not much rain!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 11:18 PM

It was 20f last night in north Florida. The wonky jet stream from global warming blasted that frigid air all the way down to us. I lost all my in ground plants but the fruit trees are dormant right now so no loss.
and everything grows back here in Florida, anyway eventually. My precious plants are overnighting in my living room. So sad about gnu….

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 24 - 02:44 PM

Snowing again! Lightly, though, which is good news --
we've had enough precipitation that
there is a risk of flooding, which we don't need.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jan 24 - 02:24 PM

It is colder than the proverbial witch's you-know-what.
Simply brutal.
And the roads are treacherous with snowdrifts from
the high chilly winds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 21 Jan 24 - 04:51 PM

Storm force winds throughout the UK, with a side dish of rain that's blown so hard that it feels like hail. Curiously, despite the recent flooding of local farmland, our local reservoir looks half-empty .... only the English can manage to produce a drought in the middle of a monsoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 24 - 07:00 PM

Warming up, which is welcome news.
Freezing rain and snow, not so good news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 24 Jan 24 - 05:27 PM

You want warmer weather, keb? Come over to Oz for our two days of major heatwaves. LOL

Newcastle NSW usually misses most of the really hot weather because we get the coastal breezes but the forecast is for two days of 40 to 41 deg Celsius (approx 104 to 106 deg Fahrenheit) today and tomorrow. Luckily a cool wind is predicted for tomorrow afternoon.

This all follows a few weeks of unusually high humidity, even at night. I'm over it.

Tomorrow is Invasion Day, aka Survival Day, known by the English colonisers as Australia Day. A public holiday where a huge number of people are expected to flock to the beach or other water areas and subsequently get heatstroke. Not me. I'm staying indoors with the block-out blinds drawn, sipping my strawberry flavoured, home made iced tea spritzer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 24 - 07:02 PM

I've just been warned to be careful walking back to my residence;
under the rain puddles on the sidewalk, there is ice.
I've been advised to stay on the snow-covered grass . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 24 - 07:11 PM

So, just in time for the rain to have thawed both snow and ice,
we have a Sunday forecast for a major snowstorm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 24 - 10:00 PM

On Monday it was 7 and our kid slipped doing volunteer work and broke his kneecap. Today was 72 and I sprained/tore the ligaments in my fingering hand opening a window with one finger for the cat .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Jan 24 - 02:58 PM

Why summers are getting more humid and how that can be dangerous

I went to bed at midnight with a fan blowing cool air on me at 85% humidity & woke at 6 to 98% - 45 mins later it has fallen to only 95%. We're expecting a warm day of 27C (mid 80sF) tho in the past few weeks we've had days in the mid 30s, over 100F.

Since time immemorial When I got home from work or whatever, I always change into a housedress - but twice this week I've dropped sodden clothes into the hamper & had a shower. By the time I go to bed in this kind of weather, I often feel like I could benefit from another one!

In recent days skin cancer experts were warning people to cover up &/or keep out of the sun as record crowds flocked to beaches!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 24 - 02:40 PM

Much of January has been overcast here in North Texas. The mood follows the gloom, so today's bright warm blue sky is a welcome burst of energy. Time to start getting the garden ready for some of the crops that do well in the cooler months - potatoes, onions, and asparagus. Working in the sunshine helps health and mood even more than just seeing it through an open door.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Feb 24 - 08:32 PM

In the southwestern New England area,
they are reporting that this past month was
one of the "mildest" January months on record.
This in spite of two modest snowstorms.

We might get some snow this month, and then again . . ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 24 - 05:14 PM

Bracing for an early thaw, some danger of flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Feb 24 - 06:53 PM

Cold at n8ght but nice in the dsy, now

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Feb 24 - 07:44 PM

The storm that brought rain to Texas is poised to
bring snow to the New England area in a few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Feb 24 - 01:27 PM

The snowstorm stayed far enough to the south that
only southernmost New England got the heavy snow.
The rest of us got a mere dusting of snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 07:18 PM

Having dodged the snowstorm, we are now below freezing
and there is a bitterly cold wind blowing.
It is supposed to stay this way for a while.
I'll be relieved when the temperatures become more moderate
and the wind dies down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 04:35 PM

Blow, blow, thou winter wind . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 07:46 PM

A couple weeks ago a weather front in the morning resembled a 2,000 foot high Tsunami with white breakers at the top about to sweep over the land.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 24 - 06:31 PM

A snow squall swept through the area today. Not that much fell,
but it was a spectacular sight while it came down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Feb 24 - 05:56 AM

hot, sunny & humid ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Feb 24 - 09:15 PM

we've just had a ginormous summer lightning-&-thunderstorm. I await the Weather Bureau's 1pm Monday update to see how much rain we got in Sydney

sandra
1.15pm

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Feb 24 - 06:15 AM

Temps here are 25 degrees above historic normals. Of course normals aren't normal anymore. The daffodil sprouts are 8 inches high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 03:54 AM

We've had so much bloomin' rain here in Norfolk that many of the roads are under inches of water. But our village has the river Wensum flowing through it, and now it's burst its banks and seriously flooded the road out of the village. Fortunately our bungalow is on a road which is never flooded. Husband found an 'escape route' via Fustyweed to get us safely out on to the main road to Fakenham, and we were daft enough to pay the excellent team of Kurdish folk at Langor Bridge to wash our car and vacuum the inside. But (of course!) on the way back, we had to pass through loads of big puddles, and now our car is mucky again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 06:07 AM

The extremes of climate change extend to upper-level winds.
The jet stream broke all records and was going over 800 mph.
Flights are arriving 45 minutes early.
Winter heat here has broken records for 7 out of 10 years.
Welcome to Runaway Effects.
Pilots are facing skies never seen before.

Captain Senofou, having a rubber raft might come in handy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 07:29 AM

Hee hee Donuel, my husband would agree with you, as he can't swim.
Luckily, we've just got home and decided to risk the flooded route into the village. Hooray! Anglian Water have dealt with the blocked road drain and the water has subsided. We got through without any risk to the car. I no longer feel trapped in the village.
But the bloomin' rain is still chucking it down. Grrrr!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 04:35 PM

Now that we've been through another cold snap,
everything is supposed to warm up, and the ground will thaw and turn to mud.
This is about two months earlier than that is supposed to happen.
For sure, it won't last, but will pass like everything else.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 24 - 10:34 AM

A few little snow flurries are lazily drifting through the air.
It's below freezing, and feels dangerously cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Feb 24 - 06:08 PM

ANd now for unseasonably warm weather,
which translates to MUD season hereabouts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 Feb 24 - 07:24 PM

One of the mildest winters ever here in SE Scotland : we have had all of one inch of snow so far, which was gone by lunchtime! Granddaughter bitterly disappointed as she had a new sledge for Christmas.
And ever since November, there have been banner headlines telling us when it’s going to come, but 3 months on and it’s still not here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 27 Feb 24 - 09:07 PM

Ahhhh, the banner headlines .... This may or may not appear elsewhere, but let's at it:

MaJoC's Surprise-Factor Law

The reaction to snow is inversely proportional to its frequency:

* If there's two feet of snow at JFK, they push it aside and carry on.

* If there's two inches of snow at Heathrow, all flights are cancelled.

* If there's two flakes of snow on the doorstep of the tabloids, banner headlines proclaim IT'S AN ICE AGE.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Feb 24 - 11:05 PM

Here in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California, we are in the season known as "fake Summer." The temperature has almost reached 70 degrees F the last few days. The fruit trees and daffodils are in glorious bloom. The last windstorm cleared all the dead needles off the towering Ponderosa Pines.

Today is Tuesday. A blizzard is predicted for Thursday. And some wonder why the Donner Party had a tough time in this area this time of year in 1846-47.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Feb 24 - 07:06 AM

shit

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 24 - 09:40 AM

DC has been 20 to 25 degrees above 'normal' all winter. It reached 32 degrees (freezing) only 25 times by morning.

In OZ 30,000 are evacuated due to brush fires again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 24 - 12:28 PM

We are forecast to receive an inch to an inch and a half of rain today.

Too bad we can't re-route the rain to the Texas panhandle region,
where wildfires are not yet under control.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Mar 24 - 10:52 AM

It's warm enough that I had to get out my lightweight coat
for the first time since winter began.
The winter parka is just too heavy for these high temperatures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Mar 24 - 02:13 PM

So my winter parka is at the cleaners' over the weekend.
And Monday is forecast to stay around freezing,
so I will have to layer up
until I can get to the cleaners' that day to pay for the cleaning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Mar 24 - 05:38 PM

Pre dawn skies were an unusual deep chrome yellow from DC to NYC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 03:52 PM

2 more inches of snow this morning, which is funny, 'cuz I don't remember ordering any.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 24 - 11:32 AM

Snow, ice, and wind -- mostly wind, since it has stopped snowing.
And tomorrow it's supposed to zoom up an additional 20 degrees F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 05:01 PM

Our springlike burst of weather is past,
and this week we go back to typical March weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 05:51 PM

yesterday was the first day I noticed summer is moving on. I went out to buy some groceries on a pleasant Sunday afternoon wearing a short sleeved dress & the breeze was a tad nippy. Only a tad, the temperature was 20C (70F) but breezes whoosh about my street of mainly 4-storey apartment blocks, as the middle of our street is on the top of a hill with a skyscraper on each side. Winds can howl up the road towards us

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 09:01 PM

It's finally raining! Yippee!!

We had good rain in spring then someone turned the tap off a bit too tightly, so summer was very dry. A little sprinkle here and there, but nothing to get too excited about.....so we didn't.

Then this morning we woke up to light rain, gradually getting heavier and heavier, and it hasn't stopped. Thunder, lightning - the whole nine yards.

And more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Mar 24 - 12:41 PM

Not switching out of my winter sheets yet...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Mar 24 - 06:56 PM

The same night I noticed summer was moving on, wind gusts came into my bedroom so I looked in the cupboard for my first blanket (aka 2 fine woollen shawls sewn together to make a double bed covering) but also brought out my shawl from India which covers a bit over half my bed & slept under both of them. I've been cosy the last couple of nights, tho I threw off the second one last night. It's a bit cooler this morning, but it will be a lovely warm day with a chance of rain

sandra, Friday 10am

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 24 - 07:03 PM

Of course, now that we have had the equinox,
we get snow and a biting sharp cold wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Mar 24 - 05:56 PM

For the last 3 days all the cherry and magnolia blossoms are at peak but tonight's heavy rain will probably put an end to all the white flowers.
There are the very rare pink cherry blossoms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Mar 24 - 07:44 PM

I wish it felt like spring.
It has been raining all day, and the rain has turned to slush;
it is more the end of winter than the beginning of spring.
Mud notwithstanding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Mar 24 - 07:11 AM

There is a bridge under troubled waters in Baltimore. THERE ARE 2 SURVIVORS. The rest have been in 40 degree water for four hours which is not survivable. The containership hit the bridge and has some of the bridge pushing the bow deep into the water. About a mile of bridge is underwater.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Mar 24 - 09:06 AM

What a terrible thing. I used to do cruise ship rehabs in Dundalk harbor up from Port Everglades and remember the feeling of elation I had on Friday evenings when crossing Key Bridge on my way to visit family and friends in the DMV area, with Charm City all lit up in the north. Fortunately, but not for some, it happened at 1:30 A.M. rather than at a more heavily trafficked moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Mar 24 - 02:55 PM

Yesterday was the 60 th anniversary of the Good Frida Earthquake
. One of my old dance instructors was on the military base working in a large print shop when it started. For over four minutes he was dodging massive print machines which had tore loose from the concrete floor and were acting like elephants trying to squash a mouse, him being the rodent.

We had a small reminder three years ago with a significant ground rumbler but nothing major since. Now the days are noticeably longer and warmer and we have avout a foot or two of warming softening snow to lose, which will probably occur pretty fast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Mar 24 - 04:00 PM

The recent storm produced cold rain, not snow.
Although it's too cold to feel like April,
winter is starting to thaw out
(and the ground is turning to mud underfoot).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Mar 24 - 06:45 PM

Easter Sunday is March going out like a lamb,
with light winds and lots of bright sunshine.

But the first week of April is a roller-coaster forecast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 24 - 02:31 PM

A New England Nor'easter of a storm is headed our way.
THe rain has just started now;
by THursday it could turn to wet heavy snow. Sigh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Apr 24 - 05:18 PM

Sleet and high winds ... no fun.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 11:38 AM

I didn't feel the 4.8 earthquake but my wife did.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 11:43 AM

Yesterday I recalled the crack sound of our last earthquake but today I adjusted my subwoofer but felt nothing weird.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 02:49 PM

We heard about the Mag 4.8 on the TV news. We looked at one another, and both wondered aloud whether 40 Wall Street was affected.

But I digress.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 03:51 PM

I managed to overlook the earthquake --
it seems I was driving my car on the open road when it happened.
Didn't feel a thing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 06:10 PM

wet!! Wider Sydney & many other areas have had lots of rain - records are broken, people are evacuated -
Evacuation and extreme weather warnings issued after heavy rain falls across parts of Sydney and the Illawarra ... The torrential falls are part of a broader rain event soaking eastern Australia, and has triggered more than 50 flood watches and warnings from southern Queensland to the NSW south coast.

Bellambi Point, north of Wollongong, has received 190 millimetres of rains since 9am yesterday — with 35mm falling in the half hour to 6:10am...

After years of moaning that I really must buy a full length rain coat, a few weeks ago I finally bought it & did not get a soaked skirt yesterday! I think my rain jacket needs to go to my local charity shop asap so someone can use it!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 03:35 AM

meanwhile south of Sydney - A couple have had a lucky escape after the Wollongong granny flat they were staying in was washed away

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Apr 24 - 09:21 AM

The three inches of snow and ice from last week are altogether gone,
with mud in their place ==
but at least we have blue puffy-cloud skies and sunshine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 24 - 06:43 PM

Spring rain is the order of the day,
and the earthworms are sprawling on the pavements,
always a sure sign not just of the moisture but of the warmer temps as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Apr 24 - 03:16 AM

rain

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Apr 24 - 02:54 PM

Today the weather cannot make up its mind.
First the sun comes out,
then clouds roll in and it rains,
and back and forth.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Apr 24 - 02:05 AM

windy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 24 - 07:08 AM

The bird chorus begins around 5:30 when there is only a hint of light on the horizon. The sun is way south at sundown. It is not too late to plant seeds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Apr 24 - 02:50 AM

sunny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Apr 24 - 09:29 PM

At last we have some relief from spring rain
(to say nothing of last week's mid-country tornadoes)
and there is spring sunshine
with new leaves coming out on the trees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Apr 24 - 02:28 AM

dry

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 24 - 06:30 AM

The US had 120 tornados in four days.
Even China had some devastating tornados this weekend.
It's 6:30 AM and is 70 F here. It could hit 90 F today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Apr 24 - 07:01 PM

& here in the Land of Oz we are cooling down, we have the usual end-of-season mix of folk in skimpy summer gear & folk wearing jackets! but we're heading for a "10 day soaking" & maybe coastal floods. Looks like I might need to temporarily retire my sandals & get out my socks & walking shoes! My raincoat is always around.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bugsy
Date: 30 Apr 24 - 06:33 AM

We've just had our first day's rain (with the exception of a few drops on the newspaper a few weeks ago) since last October.
Here we are almost at the end of Autumn and the temps are still in the high 20's C.

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 30 Apr 24 - 07:29 AM

> the usual end-of-season mix of folk in skimpy summer
> gear & folk wearing jackets

Reminds me of the time I was cycling to work, and saw a lassie (a young mother, I *think*) wearing a heavy padded anorak and shorts. Eventual conclusion: the shorts suggested it had been sunny the previous day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Apr 24 - 08:06 AM

end of season is the same the world over!

I headed out to buy the paper today & got drenched coming back, but my raincoat & big brolly kept most of me dry! My sandals have been sitting next to the hot water boiler & are probably dry by now, I must retrieve them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 Apr 24 - 10:17 AM

very enjoyable weather

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 04 May 24 - 12:26 AM

Three states near me, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa, suffered the worst tornado outbreak in history last Friday, one week ago. 63 tornadoes occurred, although all of those I have heard of have been rather small - EF 3's. One 4, I believe. Not that an EF3 isn't dangerous.

Most of the damage occurred to small towns with working-class houses which were simply smashed to smithereens. Pick-up trucks were tossed about. I believe there were no deaths, wonderfully enough.

Where I live there were thunderstorms and one tornado watch, but most of Missouri was spared. We had a simply beautiful day today, and the DH and I went out when the sun had weakened (5 pm) and planted tomatoes and herbs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 May 24 - 02:04 PM

Leeneia, I believe Missouri is one of the states up for
a brood of periodic cicadas this summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 24 - 11:32 AM

We have spring rain, so more mud as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 24 - 12:06 PM

The spring has been wet here. That happened last year, then we had the hottest summer on record. I fear we may be in for a repeat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 24 - 03:49 PM

Today it is every bit as the poet Heinrich Heine wrote of
"der wunderschoenen Monat Mai."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 May 24 - 02:35 PM

... and today is more like a day in June,
sunny enough to be hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 May 24 - 07:23 PM

It's darned near perfect:
sunny and clear,
with a breeze to keep the gnats away,
and not so warm as to be uncomfortably hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 24 - 06:40 PM

Finally we are getting rain.
This after several days straight of yellow-green pollen covering everything and
flaring up everyone's allergies.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 07 Jun 24 - 12:10 AM

South Germany has just had widespread flooding and Washington State is getting inundated by atmospheric rivers. No reports here?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jun 24 - 01:21 PM

A cool spell is underway, won't last long.
OF course the heat is turned off now.
At night my bedroom goes down to 63 degrees F., which for me is cool.
I slept last night with my clothes on under the covers with an extra blanket.

Soon it will be warm again,
and the refrigerated air will be welcome, but not right now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Jun 24 - 06:37 AM

Two straight days of rain have filled the bordering cypress strand with water, sparking a thunderous amphibian chorus with counterpoint provided by the chirping of young gators.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 10:48 AM

Getting ready for a hot spell, hot enough for late July, and this is only mid-June.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 11:25 AM

Hot. And for now, still quite humid. Ugg.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 11:59 AM

cold! Sydney CBD temperature at 1.30am Monday morning & I'm close to Sydney CBD & the official temperature is 9.2C (= 48F) feels like 2.7 (= 36F)

I don't have a heater (I put on more clothes!) & keep my windows locked open 6" (I like fresh air) & well covered but am still cold.

thermal leggings, & thick track pants, long sleeve thermal t-shirt & long sleeved cotton t-shirt, fleece waistcoat, & this New Zealand merino & possum cardigan (very cosy) with a thick pure wool cardigan my mum knitted in 1988 above that! I also have a jacket draped over my legs.

I'm sure if I had a heater blazing away I could be swanning about in thin summer gear like a friend I remember from years back! Anyway, my electricity bill was much lower then hers then ... & still is below the average 1-person household.

sandra (heading off to bed)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bugsy
Date: 18 Jun 24 - 04:17 AM

19C and sunny with a couple of showers.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 20 Jun 24 - 06:41 AM

12:30pm.36C here in Kastela,down the Adriatic coast.

Here till September.

Cheers

David

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 20 Jun 24 - 08:54 AM

Forecast high of 32°C in Perth County, Ontario, with high probability of loud, violent thunderstorms. What’s life without a little drama?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 20 Jun 24 - 09:38 AM

About 200 Km north of Charmion's rural town, we in Ottawa have a forecast of 31°C. People who put store in "Humidex" calculations say it will feel like 41°C in the early afternoon. Chalk it up to the urban heat island effect.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 20 Jun 24 - 10:09 AM

Steamy and hot in SW FL, high of 90, 88% humidity and a good chance of afternoon showers. The rainy season may be upon us.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jun 24 - 03:10 PM

The heat wave is bringing thundershowers now;
last night we had a dense cloudburst, but it was gone shortly.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jun 24 - 09:32 AM

I just posted this on Facebook... I take the current close-to-100F weather with these memories in mind.

In July of 1954, my mother & I got on a train in 111F in Wichita, KS to go visit her brother in San Diego. We spent a nice week or so in balmy 78F, then went home and got off to 109F... ooof! I have delivered newspapers in 102+.
The record in Wichita was 113 that year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 24 - 11:35 AM

Enjoying a spell of mild (cooler) weather after the recent heat wave.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 24 - 09:18 AM

Raining, and cool even for June.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jul 24 - 05:09 PM

Enjoying moderate and dry summer weather, nice while it lasts,
but of course it won't last -- the thunderstorms will return.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 04 Jul 24 - 10:20 AM

Beautiful!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jul 24 - 03:58 PM

Cloudbursts:
rain really hard, then suddenly stops, then starts again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jul 24 - 06:27 PM

The cloudbursts today were something else.
Sheets of rain for ten minutes,
and then poof, all over, and the sun came back out.
Didn't cool things down, though,
it was as hot and sticky as ever.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jul 24 - 03:39 PM

The remnants of Hurricane Beryl missed my area, but
they scooted to the north, to Vermont,
where catastrophic flooding took place
(think, inches of mud filling homes).

Anyone else affected by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Beryl?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jul 24 - 07:17 PM

More of those hit-or-miss cloudbursts forming
with the higher-than-usual heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Jul 24 - 06:53 AM

Well, it's freakin' cold. Today's temperature only just scraped into double figures - that's Celsius double figures - and the 'feels like' barely made it to four degrees.

More of the same tomorrow.

Ah well, it is winter after all, and the third week of July is historically the coldest week of the whole year in Oz.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 21 Jul 24 - 06:08 AM

Normally it's sweltering in mid-July around here. (Ohio, USA) But this summer it's more likely to be 70s at high noon dropping to high 50s at night, great sleeping weather. These temps or more like September than July, but quite pleasant.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jul 24 - 07:42 PM

It's ever so muggy around here. More clouds than rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jul 24 - 07:20 PM

Well, we still have the month of August ahead of us, which usually means
hot muggy weather.
At the moment, though, the weather is mild for the summer,
not too hot and the humidity is tolerable, it's pleasant outside.
Probably too good to last, though.
There are to be thunderstorms coming mid-week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 29 Jul 24 - 02:50 PM

Hot and steamy in Perth County, Ontario, with thunderstorms in the forecast for tomorrow or the day after.

That's no surprise, however. In these parts, hardly a week goes by without a couple of storm cells blowing east from the lakes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 30 Jul 24 - 01:52 PM

And now it's raining stair-rods in Stratford. The cloud cover is so dense I have to turn the lights on in the kitchen to wash the dishes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Jul 24 - 09:01 PM

here on the eastern side of the land of Oz we're going thru a cold snap! Thermometers show low temperatures, but the "feels like" factor means it's colder!

I live in a wind tunnel street where winds rush up the hill, past the 2 skyscrapers at the start of my street & howl along. Our front door does not always close! Sometimes pulling it shut is a fierce battle between me & the wind, but I make sure I win.

2 days ago I went out around 4pm into the wind, wearing my thick down jacket normally only worm when I head south to festivals in winter, underneath I was wearing 2 (Sydney) thermal wool skivvies & my thick Scottish-made jumper, the temperature was 12.7C feels like 4.7 (54F feels like 40F)

Those who live in snowy climates might think that's summer, but here in the Harbour City it's cold! I live a 10 min stroll from the Harbour, but can't see it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 31 Jul 24 - 04:31 PM

Sandra, your 12.7°C is a very damp 12.7°C, and I bet you feel it in your bones. I spent a few winters in Nova Scotia, and I remember the misery. Halifax in November was downright purgatorial.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jul 24 - 06:22 PM

I was buying groceries & had trouble getting the correct note out of my wallet event tho I'd been in the supermarket for a while! My hands were still frozen (Harbour City version of frozen!)

sandra

latest temperature reading 8am, 20 mins ago - 9.2C feels like 4.0

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Aug 24 - 01:08 PM

it's hot, hot, and hot ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 08:15 AM

Finally, a steady, soaking rain,
not like the violent cloudbursts of the previous week.
This rain will benefit the farmers hereabouts,
who have been lamenting the lack of rain for their crops.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Aug 24 - 03:24 PM

What's left of Hurricane Debby has crept up the Mid-Atlantic seaboard and is bringing a steady soaking rain to my part of Massachusetts.
There are flood warnings out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Aug 24 - 02:45 PM

Now that the big storm last night has cleared out to sea,
we have brilliant blue-sky sunshine with puffy white clouds,
and lowered humidity -- could not be more lovely.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 11:39 AM

Unusually cool temperatures for August, of all months.
The days are pleasant, and
the nights are downright chilly, most unusual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Aug 24 - 02:50 PM

Heavy rains and chilly nights now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 19 Aug 24 - 12:29 PM

keberoxu, We're having the same thing here in Ohio, USA. It's 12:24 in the afternoon and it's only 66 degrees F, I believe that's 19 C. That's nearly 20 degrees below normal. It's quite blustery as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Aug 24 - 01:00 PM

The heat from Texas hasn't leaked out to warm you two? I wish! We've been under heat advisories for a while, though these days aren't as hot as they were for the last couple of years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Aug 24 - 02:20 AM

SRS, I think some of your politicians brought that heat with them when they emerged from the Netherworld.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 23 Aug 24 - 03:35 PM

The monsoon is in full swing here in SWFL. It's raining so hard right now that the gutters can't keep up with the down pour. I had to walk through a waterfall to get in my building and the parts of me outside of my rain jacket are soaked.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Aug 24 - 02:27 AM

sunny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 24 Aug 24 - 05:28 AM

It's the start of the August Bank Holiday weekend, so, following longstanding tradition, the skies are positively relieving themselves. We *may* get sun on Monday, but the Met Office has been wrong before; all these expensive computers they use permit them to get it wrong at much greater precision.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 24 Aug 24 - 12:52 PM

--- Correction: after an intermittently-Biblical deluge, the sun's come out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 25 Aug 24 - 05:40 AM

The weather here? Were a t-shirt but thake a warm sweater and rainproof overcoaty - just in case

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Aug 24 - 01:31 PM

rain

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 24 - 02:15 PM

We have sun, and I'm surprised at the coolness of the weather.
THis is the Labor Day weekend in the US
and normally it is still hot summer temperatures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 24 - 03:06 PM

Finally cooling into the mid-90s this week in North Texas. Rain forecast over the holiday itself - fine with me! I grew up in the Pacific NW where school always used to start right around Labor Day. Down here in Texas it starts mid-August, though in some hot years they've delayed it a couple of weeks so they didn't have to spend so much money on the air conditioning in all of those schools. (Texas doesn't waste spend money on air conditioning in prisons either. There are lots of court cases to do with cruel and unusual punishment because of illness and deaths in prisons due to the heat.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 02 Sep 24 - 01:18 PM

We're in the time of year of great fluctuation. Two days ago it was 92F and today it might not get to 70.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 24 - 03:06 PM

Sunny and dry, seasonally warm with a cooling breeze.

Hope Stilly's region continues to get much-needed rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Sep 24 - 11:50 AM

We have some rain headed our way, but it will pass very quickly;
next week we are due to have some hot summery weather again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 24 - 04:23 PM

A last taste of Indian Summer is forecast for the weekend.
Other parts of the country (US) are remarkably hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Sep 24 - 08:40 AM

Still in the Indian Summer phase, with a cooldown forecast in a few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Sep 24 - 04:45 PM

very sunny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Sep 24 - 06:05 PM

Our last hot sunny day today.
Tomorrow, although the sun will be out,
it is forecast to be cooler, more like autumn.
The leaves are falling already,

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 24 - 03:34 PM

Chilly nights!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 24 - 11:38 AM

Cooling down slowly,
and the maple trees are changing color.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 24 - 09:46 AM

Leaves are falling thick and fast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Oct 24 - 09:50 AM

rain, i had to be out clearing drains road outside like a river

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 07 Oct 24 - 01:04 PM

Two days of sunlight, after too much rain. The setting sun lit up one of the trees on our green just now, and it was gloriously golden; for once, and just for a moment, I could comprehend some of what non-colour-deficient people delight in when the leaves turn autumnal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 24 - 07:22 PM

The nights are getting cold, although still far above freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Oct 24 - 09:45 AM

It's raining and seasonably cold now. We need the rain, although it lowers the spirits.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Thompson
Date: 13 Oct 24 - 12:30 PM

Jaysus, it's brassy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 24 - 01:52 PM

Soon it will be chilly and the trees will be bare,
but not now:
now we have glorious autumn color and the sun-warmed air is delightful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 24 - 01:00 PM

We are having a very late "indian summer" with temperatures above 70 degrees, and lots of sunshine in a cloudless blue sky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 21 Oct 24 - 04:42 PM

WINDY

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 24 - 06:14 PM

THe seasonably chilly temperatures, especially at night,
are due to resume tomorrow.
The leaves are half on, half off, the local trees.
It won't be long until the trees are bare.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Oct 24 - 07:04 PM

October 25 and we're still in the high-80s, low-90s every day. About six weeks since our last rain. Supposedly it will rain on Halloween - looking forward to it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 24 - 12:10 PM

It will freeze and hit 80 F this week in the DC area.
The trees are a riot of full color.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Oct 24 - 01:01 AM

The mornings are low 20s. Tops out about 40. We are due for a couple days of snow before Halloween.
The black Lab I play with most days before lunch doesn't know what cold is. She doesn't know the difference between uphill and downhill. She looks straight into my eyes and waits for me to kick the Chuck-it ball. I try to kick it high off the ground because she loves to jump nose up after it like a seal after a fish. The Chuck-it ball is 9" across and has grooes sewn into it specially for a dog to be able to get their teeth onto. Nooka gets her purchase on the ball and will come after me and get a little head action into a return toss to me. That is my best chance to kick it over or around her. Otherwise she will block my groundball like an expert goalie. Her owner is concerned that she has started rolling on the ground, but I have not seen her roll IN anything, so I think she is expressing happiness at simply being there. It is obvious that she is a happy dog

As I type this I have National Public Radio on. Earlier in the Summer, The Moth Radio Hour had a session for Alaskans, and some of the participants are being broadcast right now, and they are good and- mostly- funny.

A friend told me that we're going to get 7" of snow which did not cheer me up very much. But her dog will be ecstatic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Nov 24 - 12:50 PM

The seasonal autumn temperatures have returned,
although we have a red flag warning because of danger of fires,
as there has been no rain and everything is very dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Nov 24 - 07:26 PM

Gorgeous, close to 80. So wrong. The world should be weeping.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Nov 24 - 01:17 PM

It's a late autumn day:
cold, clear sky with puffy white clouds,
and a wind blowing the dead oak leaves around.