What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 09:12 AM

I just bought a two year old Troy Bilt 26 inch 7 hp with electric start for $550.00.
I'll repair the old 11 hp 30 inch Troy Bilt and sell it for about the same price.
This could be the last snow storm of the season but I don't want to take that chance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 01:48 PM

"This could be the last snow storm of the season but I don't want to take that chance."

You live in Maine, right? >;-)

Here... VERY strange. A snowsquall, followed by sleet, turning to rain soon and the temp going up to 8C. On another thread, 999 saw flocks of Canada Geese in southern Quebec. It's MARCH!

Strange not to be shovelling. And, I am NOT complaining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 12 - 02:42 PM

T, W, Th... 19,22,20C??? It's March! Where am I? Calleeforneeah?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 02:56 AM

It's a little early for it - our annual bright, clear weather usually runs from about mid-April to the end of June - but spring appears to have arrived in Juneau, Alaska. Berries are budding, plants of various sorts are up two inches, very little snow left, temperatures in the mid-30sF; I've seen ravens with mouthfuls of dried grasses. Light snow still falls overnight but is gone before noon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 02:29 PM

We have songbirds here that never... usually don't... arrive before May. The apple growers are scared out of their wits. Apples are big business here and losing blooms to frost could be devastating... buds are forming. Of course, there are other fruit trees in the same danger.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 02:38 PM

We're concerned about the fruit trees as well, gnu. Also, the maple syrup season is pretty well a bust.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 04:11 PM

24C here in the shade in my back yard. Unreal. maeve... I pray your fruit trees don't blossum too soon. Forecast here is back to reasonable temps by Saturday but will that be too little too late? This is a very serious situation.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 10:03 PM

Here in RI, we had a record high of 73 yesterday. The Newport mansion tours are starting two weeks earlier than usual. My son's family planted some seeds--not a lot, just in case--during the weekend, ignoring the "wait 'til the last full moon in May" wisdom. I'm waiting to see if the farmstand near their house opens early. Every year the sign says, "Reopens in April." Then at the beginning of April they post the opening date, usually a weekend in the middle of the month. I hope this year they open at the beginning of April or sooner.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 10:33 PM

3km walk in a tee shirt at 7pm. UNreal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 10:49 PM

85 degrees in Michigan on March 20th ????
It's due to drop back to something like normal again for awhile, but the last few days have been delightful but weird. As some have mentioned though, hope the plants and crops aren't all screwed up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 09:56 AM

It is very warm in Bristol this afternoon too warm to be inside.
The weather has been a bit odd since last October with very few really cold days and the pattern seems to be continuing. Daffodils intended for shops have been reported in flower way too early and no good to sell which has been a bit of a blow especially with Mother's Day last weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 11:17 AM

It's a bit late for daffodils, Patsy. If they're not ready for 1 March, they're not much use.

Phil

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 01:16 PM

Old Man Winter must be off on a bender. The snowbanks are gone. My thermometer is reading 26C in the shade and it's only 2PM. I had to close my windows a little while ago. I expect there will be flooding in some river valleys.

maeve... are your fruit trees budding?

I noticed in Sobeys this AM that only two bottles of Maple Slurpup were on the shelves. Usually, there would be close to 100 (various sizes). I wonder if Quebec maples will be affected. La Belle Province produces 4 times the amount that all other jurisdictions combined produce. That would hit a lot of Quebec(ers) hard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 09:33 PM

Sunny with a high of 25 east of Toronto today. Perfect dog walking weather. For mid-June.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 03:07 AM

OK...we are making up for all your summer weather. After a very dry and not so warm but markedly nonwindy winter, we have had weeks of snow showers, hail, rain, just cold weather. Some daffodils out but spring very delayed. Rhododendruns all turned to brown mush. Very odd how little wind we had though..usually nonstop. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 03:34 PM

Light snow today in Calgary, more tomorrow, but the Spring Bull Sale is bringing good prices.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 03:44 PM

28C in the shade on my thermometer. About 32H. I am not pleased. Two years ago, we had NO spring and it was HOT from early May to late October. Not hot like Texas and the like, but too hot for this little black duck.

It's supposed to get back to more normal weather tomorrow, but even that fprecast weather is not normal for March in NB, CAN.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 09:24 PM

Very slight overcast, 59F at present, you can see the mountains 120 miles away across the Snake River plain. Supposed to be 70F on Saturday and partly cloudy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 10:41 PM

Got into the 80sF here in RI today. A friend of mine in Merrimack, New Hampshire, posted on Facebook that temps there got into the 80s, too. I have managed not to use my air conditioner for the last three summers, but I may use it this year. My heating bills this winter were low, but my electric bill this summer may be high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 11:13 PM

Way too warm all winter. Did we have winter?

Tomorrow, highs in the mid 80's F, has been ranging from the mid 70's to the low 80's for the better part of the last 2 weeks. Night temps in the mid 50's. Bloom times for trees and shrubs anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks early.

Messing with our many local farmers who count on spring farmers markets. Stuff like asparagus is 3 weeks early and will be finished before some local farmers markets open for the season.

We have not had, all winter long, a succesion of hard frosts and cold weather sufficient to either kill off or render completely dormant some common insect pests.

Also, while we are not in a drought phase, it certainly has not been a wet winter or early spring, and ground water reserves are not being adequately recharged so far to sufficiently replenish ground water reserves.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Mar 12 - 03:47 PM

Bright warm sunshine and smell of pig sh*t.   Apparently the fertiliser of choice around this part of Essex.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Mar 12 - 04:53 PM

Warmest March on record here...(MD-DC)

Sure hope Summer is not a similar amount above normal... we will bake!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:45 AM

Way too early for high winds and fire danger, but Colorado has both this week: CLICK. We need more snow in the high country and rain elsewhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:55 AM

We also have high winds and Red Flag fire warnings in Maine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ole Juul
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 09:12 PM

Here in Coalmont BC, the snow is starting to disappear and we just got the first crocuses poking through. Still burning a lot of wood though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 09:42 PM

It was snowing on the canary in my maple tree yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:16 PM

Seasonal temperatures returned. Parts of RI were supposed to have freezing temps last season, a concern for plants which had already blossomed, especially for fruit trees in orchards. I have managed to miss all the weather reports today, so I don't know if the temps really got that low.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 09:16 AM

The West of Ireland is having it's summer early this year. It's lovely, no sign of rain (the usual haze the eastern winds bring though) and nearing 20C but there's always the worry we are indeed using up our good weather allowance for the year early on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 11:56 AM

One week ago today in Southern Maine it was 80° - today we got a dusting of snow!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 03:53 PM

Had slight fluffies today. Windy and cold. Had my AC on in the truck not long ago... I like to run it on the first hot day with the windows open as I find starting it up the first few times with the windows up can give one a cold. I expect we'll have a heat wave after the full moon on the 5th.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 05:00 PM

RI had temps in the 80's for a few days about a week ago, but last night it got close to freezing and temperatures are expected to be seasonal for a few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bettynh
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 06:31 PM

Here in southern NH we had the 80F degree weather with heavy winds and no rain for 3 weeks (and no snow melt of course), with brush fires all over. After a good rain it's now seasonal, but that means 20F tonight, and my apple tree is blooming. A heavy freeze will kill this year's apple crop, peach crop, and perhaps cherry crop. Even if everything else this season goes well, farmers around here will be in trouble. My cherry tree bloomed during the heat and drought and the petals just turned brown and hung on, never falling as they usually do. Does that mean the cherries didn't fertilize?? The tree is too big for me to harvest any but the lowest fruit, but it'll mean tough times for the catbirds this year. Lilacs are mid-bloom. I have no idea what a hard freeze will do to them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 07:08 PM

Oh dear! Bettynh... that sounds absolutely dreadful! Seems to be the norm on the northeastern seaboard of America this year. Frightening, really. Everything seems a month early but that cold weather sneaks back in for a bit and messes things up. Good luck.

If you are really worried, you could place a lawn sprinkler near/under the tree. Of course, how many nights might you need to do that?... especially if you pay for water usage.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 02:46 PM

Even I am starting to dislike this... my furnace has been thumping for several days. Again today, 9C, rain and wind. It's crappy. But the full moon was Monday so I expect a change very soon. Of course, in a week or two, I'll be complaining about the heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bettynh
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 03:12 PM

Yup, Gnu, since my last post we've had about a foot of rain, solving the fire problem, and temperatures that seesaw from 55F to 90F. Currently, we're in harmony with the mother country, with New English weather of 55F and rain on and off for the past 5 days. The season is nevertheless advanced, with strawberry picking starting Saturday, about a week early. Roses are in full bloom or going by, something that usually happens for Fathers' Day (June 17). Hay crops must be ready to cut, but the farmers don't have a clear shot at 3 days of fair weather for about another week (by then it'll be 90 again, I suppose).

The freeze I worried so about apparently wasn't so bad as feared. The local orchard is celebrating it's 165th anniversary this month (in the same family) so I guess they knew where the trees should go. I do have a decent fruitset on the cherry tree, but the apple has gone biennial with only a few this year after a heavy crop last year (that got snowed on last Halloween).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Jun 12 - 07:21 PM

We have had rain for all or most of the last several days, including a torrential downpour late Monday afternoon. Today the sun poked out briefly before rain resumed.

It's a good thing I keep two clean plastic trash bags in my car. Today was laundromat day, so when I took my clothes out of the dryer I put my laundry bag in one plastic bag, fill it with my clean, dry clothes, then slide the other bag down over everything to cover the opening in the inner bags. I wish it wouldn't rain on laundromat days, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 08:33 AM

A flock of blackbirds arrived several days ago. This AM, bluejays. Full moon soon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 11:14 AM

This time of year is usually blistering hot, humid and dry here. The past two weeks have yielded plenty of rain but not too much, moderate temps, and right now it is only about 72F with highs expected only in the very low 80's.

Looks like BWL may get a hurricane early in the coming week!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 12:34 PM

Yes, Janie, we are getting ready for a visit from Isaac. Current "most likely storm path" prediction has the eye of the thing going over my house. But that path has been moving around a bit over the last few days, so it's way too early to know anything for certain. It's probably going to hit within 100 miles of here regardless, so we'll see some nastiness in any event. I'm hoping it goes to the east so we'll be on the less intense western side*.

We're not planning on evacuating for this one unless it's predicted to be Category 3 or above, and that's not looking to be the case. Ivan and Dennis cleared out most of the trees within striking distance of the house back in 2004 & 2005, and I figure that if the ones that are still standing didn't get knocked down then, Isaac's probably not going to do it. So I'm not much worried about getting crushed by a falling tree. But I do have plenty of gas and oil for the chainsaws just in case.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 01:43 PM

NHC isn't saying it's gonna pack a punch but EC is... 155kph near landfall on Tuesday and carrying 120kph well on shore.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 08:57 PM

You have weathered more than a few of these, BWL, and are a sensible man (well, in some senses;>) Keep yer head down after you get the hatches battened down. Will be thinking of you with concern as the storm approaches, for what it may be worth.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 11:46 AM

Yes, indeed. I hope all goes well, BWL.

Gee... blackbirds and bluejays and a full moon soon and 11C overnight to 26 day. I was gettin spoiled. It's almost 30 now (35H) so it'll be warm by supper time. I am expecting another good show by the hummingbirds in the heat and this eve.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 12:38 PM

Well, the most likely storm path has been being pushed gradually to the west. Currently, the bullseye is on Gulfport, Mississippi. That's 150 miles from here, and that's far enough away that I can put the Tums back in the medicine cabinet. From that far away, we'll get wind gusts in the 40 MPH range, and rain's pretty much a 100% certainty, but it looks like I won't be needing to board up the windows.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 06:24 PM

The weather here in RI (and nearby CT, where I spent yesterday in Mystic) has been ideal for a few days. I hope all hurricanes stay away from here--or any place where people live. Stay safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 11:24 PM

Since I started this thread I thought I'd check in.....warm,sunshiny,windy,and the moon is now bright. The hot air coming out of Tampa has pushed Isaac farther away from Tallahassee and I may not have to worry about the thirty five trees within thirty feet of my house....hope everyone is well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 02:04 PM

Checking in again. The wind is still up and we are getting sprinkles with a lot of clouds. The air smells like mildew in the mildew capital of the south. Expecting more of the same but glad for the hot air in Tampa pushing the storm to the Mississippi where water is desperately needed.....love, harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: polaitaly
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 01:12 PM

"What's the weather like where you are?(Italy)"
hot
hot,hot,hot
hot, humid, and hot
mostly hot.

paola

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 11:32 PM

Harpy and BWL, I know the Isaac passed well west of you, but are you high and dry enough?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 01:50 PM

Small spuds to our friends down south, I know, but I sweated in a tee yesterday and i am cold in a sweatshirt today. 10C overnight. Feels like fall.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 03:19 PM

What's the weather in London, Terry?