What's the weather like where you are?

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.