What's the weather like where you are?

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.