What's the weather like where you are?

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.