What's the weather like where you are?

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"