What's the weather like where you are?

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.