What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 12:42 PM

Where in Switzerland are you hiking, Joe Offer? Which canton? Supposed to be breathtaking to look at.

Somewhere, reading an English-language article, I stumbled across a story and embedded in it was a description of an Alpine sign:

Geh' hinauf in die Berge!
Deine Seele braucht es
und dein Körper auch.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 07:54 PM

Beautiful day today--no snow or rain, not too hot or cold! Yay!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 08:09 PM

Over the past couple of weeks we have had our first two frosts of the year. Today is overcast, a few drops of rain fell earlier and the weekend forecast is for proper rain. As the drought has been biting hard here - Tamworth, north-western New South Wales - for a couple of years, this rain will be very welcome!

Apart from drought, and water restrictions (we aren't allowed to use town water outside for any purpose at all, no car washing, definitely no watering of gardens although some of us sneak a few occasional drops onto cherished potted plants) life here in the Small Smoke is great.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jun 16 - 11:08 PM

the weekend has arrived & rain falls everywhere.

email I wrote yesterday -
Last night the heavens opened at 2.20am & as I was still listening to Niagara falling at 3, I got up - & the rain kept falling yesterday & is still falling today.

Yesterday I went to an 80th birthday lunch & carried my raincoat as it wasn't raining when I arrived, & had stopped by the time I left! Lucky me, folks who left at different times ran the gauntlet of heavy rain, & my driver had to avoid fallen branches in the carpark & on the road.

100s ordered to evacuate & 1000s call for help as wild weather intensifies check out the pics including lots of twitter pics

The rain covers most the the east coast of Australia & as always happens State Emergency Services have so far rescued 77 drivers who drove thru flood waters, contrary to official advice.

sandra (mid-day Sunday)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 06:29 PM

rain, which we need.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 07:39 PM

The low pressure system that caused the damage has gone, maybe it's heading your way, kebereoxu, if so it will be less intensive by the time it arrives.

Check out the damage to coastal properties - backyards gone & a swimming pool on what's left of the beach

sandra (in drying out sydney)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 10:11 PM

Wow, Sandra, what a wet mess! Stay safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 02:33 AM

a caller to my local station remembered when a coastal council removed the sand dunes which stopped residents seeing the ocean & allowed building on the coast.

those who don't remember the past ...

pics of cleanup - check out the video 'Drone footage of Collaroy's coastal erosion, caused by waves up to eight metres high' & earlier pictures.

sandra (in rain-free sydney)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 03:11 PM

"Farmer fear unkindly May, / Frost by night and hail by day;
June just rains and never stops, / Thirty days and spoils the crops." -- "Song of the Weather," Flanders & Swann

Early June is a roller-coaster here: rain one day, sun the next, thunderstorms predicted tomorrow...

Subject: RE: LYR ADD- A Song of the Weather Flanders&Swann
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 09:27 PM

turning this into a music thread!

video and lyrics - At the Drop of a Hat

Both:         January brings the snow,
        Makes your feet and fingers glow.
        
        February's ice and sleet,
        Freeze the toes right off your feet.
        
        Welcome, March, with wint'ry wind,
        Would thou wert not so unkind.
        
        April brings the sweet spring showers,
        On and on for hours and hours.
        
        Farmers fear unkindly May,
        Frost by night and hail by day.
        
        June just rains and never stops,
        Thirty days and spoils the crops.
        
        In July the sun is hot,
Flanders:         Is it shining?
Swann:         No it's not!
        
Both:         August, cold and dank and wet,
        Brings more rain than any yet.
        
        Bleak September's mist and mud,
        Is enough to chill the blood.
        
        Then October adds a gale,
        Wind and slush and rain and hail.
        
        Dark November brings the fog,
        Should not do it to a dog.
        
        Freezing wet December, then...
        Bloody January again!
        
        (January brings the snow),
        (Makes your feet and fingers glow!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Jun 16 - 01:40 AM

We had proper rain over the weekend without the storms which battered the coast (a benefit of living a few hours inland) and local farmers are feeling more optimistic than they have done for quite some time.

So are the rest of us.

An Aussie poem - "Said Hanrahan".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jun 16 - 01:24 PM

It's April in June, allowing for slightly warmer temperatures: one weather system after another, the wind changing direction, the humidity careening up and down like a roller coaster.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 16 - 05:27 PM

We had cloudbursts on Saturday at the Mystic Sea Music Festival, Other than that, the weather was excellent!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jun 16 - 07:52 PM

The cool nights we are having are such a boon and a blessing. It won't be long at all, as summer wears on, until even the nights are warm, humid, and stifling, and my apartment will require the refrigerated air going all night long in order to sleep comfortably. But for now, the windows are shut, the air conditioner is silent, the fan is off, and it's ever so much more peaceful at night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jun 16 - 07:08 PM

Embarrassingly ideal: blue sky sunshine by day, cool and dry at night. It will be lovely while it lasts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jun 16 - 03:13 PM

Cold and wet. SPRING weather! 11C right now and that sure as hell beats 30 to 35C and muggy. Oops... shouldna said that. I just checked the weather forecast. Summer cometh soon. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 12:40 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 01:02 PM

A more perfect June day could no be dreamed of for another hundred years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 09:25 PM

Today was warm and muggy. Yesterday was, too. At my YMCA, the HVAC system has been broken for a week. I do not like heated yoga, but that's what I've been doing because the building is hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 01:41 PM

A US holiday weekend approaches, and will there be thunder and lightning as well as fireworks?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 04:05 PM

I've just got back from Puglia in Italy, staying in a beautiful town called Lecce. We had four days in a row with high humidity and temperatures of 35 to 36 degrees. Life had to be slow. When we got back to Gatwick last night it was raining, blowing a gale and 14 degrees. We thought we were going to die!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 04:41 PM

Damn good gelati in Lecce, however!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 08:44 PM

Downpours started at 7:15 PM, followed by lulls between downpours.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jul 16 - 08:27 PM

Yes, some parts of the country are getting serious storm systems.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 16 - 05:12 PM

...and the humidity is building right along with the heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jul 16 - 07:21 PM

it's a low ceiling of grey clouds overhead, and cool for this time of year

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jul 16 - 10:03 PM

It was cool and comfortable at the New Bedford Folk Festival today, but it looks like it'll rain there tomorrow. The two largest stages are indoors at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Zeiterion Theater, the others, except for the smallest one, are under tents. Attendance will probably be down, so most people should be able to get seats indoors or inside the tents. It may be tough for the vendors, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jul 16 - 01:53 PM

Lightning must have struck very close to our house while we were away at our grand-daughter's birthday party yesterday. It tripped a bunch of circuit breakers and ground fault circuit interrupters, blew about a dozen light bulbs, and blew the fuse in one of my potter's wheels. Amazingly, nothing with integrated circuitry got blasted. Computer, TV, DVD player, and computer-controlled pottery kilns are all fine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jul 16 - 06:43 PM

Thunderstorms again today. No lightning strike, just a three-hour power outage.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 11 Jul 16 - 12:32 PM

We moved here to South Zeal, on the edge of Dartmoor,Devon, UK, in September last year (2015). Since then, hardly a day has passed without any rain ;- in fact, from the end of september last year until around february the rain was with us on a daily basis,after which we got flooded out, and are still having repairs done ,courtesy of the National Farmers Union insurance company.But we STILL love living here, despite the weather !!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 16 - 07:50 PM

here come the heat and humidity....supposed to be unbearable by the end of the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jul 16 - 09:35 AM

Bubblyratf:

Welcome to lovely Devon
Where it rains six days out of seven.


Here it's going to be 82F today, clear and sunny, low around 55F tonight. And pretty much the same for the rest of the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 02:10 PM

Blue sky sunshine, high humidity.
And next week, the Republican Party convention. Long ways from here, but you know people will be cranky about it, even this far away.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rara Avis
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 04:13 PM

15 Jul 16 04:11 PM

Here in southern New Jersey it's mostly sunny, and 91F although humidity makes it feel like 98F. Hoping fool cooler weather tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 05:12 PM

I am in Rijeka, in Croatia at the top end of the Adriatic. We've got the "bura", the cold north wind off the Alps that the north of Dalmatia sometimes gets, but not usually this cold and this windy at this time of year. It's warmer in Edinburgh, and rather disappointing after Budapest where the 30C+ heat had most of the younger Hungarian women sashaying down the street in very brief hotpants or what looked like French knickers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 07:19 PM

Yesterday morning was the coldest morning of the year so far, minus 3.8 deg C with a heavy frost. It was very pretty and white, but it was very cold too!

I truly can't imagine what it would like to live in a climate which gets several feet of snow each winter. I feel the cold, but I don't mind winter - you can always add another layer or two but in summer there are limits as to what can be removed, in public at least - however compared to some parts of the world our winters are quite mild.

Positively benign, in fact.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Jul 16 - 02:44 AM

in summer there are limits as to what can be removed, in public at least

The Hungarians appear to be working on that.

Where is JennieG? South end of NZ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 16 - 11:43 AM

JennieG... "I truly can't imagine what it would like to live in a climate which gets several feet of snow each winter."

I can. It would be a change for the better.

Moncton, NB.ca has been in the high 20s with Humidex in the high 30s but we have had enough of a breeze most days that allowed Mum to sit in the shade. Takes me as long as six beers to mow both lawns - two front and two back lawns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Jul 16 - 06:30 PM

Still very warm and muggy here. I still feel like I'm in the tropics. There was a breeze, today, which helped. It also helped that the air conditioning at the Y has been repaired. Some people love hot yoga. I'm not one of them!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:28 PM

three beers for the front lawn, and three beers for the back lawn?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:49 PM

Flying home tomorrow from Rijeka (high 20s, muggy, one flash of lightning last night) to Scotland where tomorrow's forecast is temperatures about 30, muggy, then nationwide thunderstorms and flash floods.

Weather isn't much of a motive for travel any more, is it?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 05:37 PM

No, Jack, not NZ......even though I'm one-quarter Kiwi.

We live in Tamworth, north-western New South Wales, Oz. Far enough inland that we miss out on coastal humidity, but not so far outback that it's unrelentingly hot.

Today's forecast: 100% chance of rain (and very welcome it will be too, we're still recovering from drought) and 21 deg C, a warm temperature for winter. Our long term July average maximum temperature is 16.3 deg C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 07:40 PM

AAAArrrrrggggh!!

Turn it off - stop it -

the South of England - or at least my bit of it was like an oven this afternoon.

This morning there was a lovely cool breeze, but it gradually faded away and stopped, and we sizzled.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 08:21 PM

Finally the humidity has broken and temp is dropping!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JHW
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 06:53 PM

Tues 19th, Yorkshire, England
2 scoops Ice cream, Litre chilled non concentrate Orange in box, Ice cream milk shake, 2x 500ml chilled bottles water

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 07:19 PM

And now, as Donald Trump gets ready for his speech, New England anticipates a storm system with lightning, thunder, and hail.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Jul 16 - 12:07 AM

Pouring. Thunder, lightning. Wind strong enough to slam a bedroom door shut. Drove home from a chantey sing hoping not to hydroplane. Will the humidity subside?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jul 16 - 03:22 PM

a couple more rounds of storms due within the next seven or so days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 30 Jul 16 - 01:27 PM

I am in a pub that has just shown the Sky forecast, with speech-recognized captions. There is a system blowing in from the Atlantic that will lead to an outbreak of Rangers in north-west England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jul 16 - 01:47 PM

Here in the Sierra Foothills of California, it's very hot. 92 degrees F. (33 C.). It has been up to 100 much of the week (38 C.)
Rain? Not until October.
Fire? There was a big one about ten miles away earlier in the month. It's likely our fire season isn't over.
-Joe-