What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Sep 16 - 09:37 PM

Here in RI, I can't say it's hot. It's more accurate to say it is very warm and stiflingly humid. How humid? Last night my smoke alarm blared twice. There was no smoke (thank goodness). I think the humidity was like fog inside and outside my home and the smoke detector assumed that the fog was smoke. If so, it may happen again tonight, and if it does I will check again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 10 Sep 16 - 05:30 AM

Thanks very much for your update, harpgirl. You're doing well by your father... and taking care of yourself. I'm glad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 03:00 PM

Ditto the others, harpgirl. Glad you got through it okay. I've been at others things and just got back here to check in.

As for here, Moncton, NB.ca, had my windows open all night and had TWO blankets on top of me. 8C and a breeze when I rose this AM. I am loving it. The temps will creep back up (mid 20s daytime and mid teens nighttime), but, on Thursday, the full moon, it's forecast to be showers and 16C. I love fall best of all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 05:11 PM

Hope ChanteyLass nearby is more comfortable now. In my town, the humidity is greatly relieved today, and one no longer feels that one will suffocate when leaving a refrigerated-air-conditioned indoor environment. It is a welcome change. On the other hand, so was it a relief to get a good soaking rain on Saturday morning, because the area is drought-stricken, humidity or no humidity.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 10:58 PM

Yes, today was just perfect! Also, I, too, have been grateful for rain and hope for more, especially the slow, gentle kind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: billybob
Date: 13 Sep 16 - 06:04 AM

Very hot and humid here on the East coast of the UK, very unusual, forcast 30 degrees C !Might go for a walk on the beach there may be a sea breeze.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 13 Sep 16 - 08:05 PM

hot hot hot!!!

Record breaking heat, woken by thunderstorm and hammering rain, changed to sunny and sucking up the moisture, then another storm, and back to sun, now it is one in the morning and I have the fan on and a headache.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 10:18 AM

Ottawa had its last full day of summer yesterday, with bright sunshin and a high of 28 C. During the evening, banks of cloud rolled in and today it's grey and dreary, forecast high of 18 C with periods of drizzle. With the equinox less than a week away, it's time to put away the cut-off jeans and dig out the flannel.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 11:08 AM

Today is 95 in DC. This is not the last record breaking heat for the year but it should be the last 95 degree day until next spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 02:32 PM

Spring started as usual, pleasant, frogs peeping in the ditch and pond. Then, drought; day after day hot and dry, no peepers. Finally, pouring rain, hub deep to a ferris wheel. In time, it stopped and normality set in. I ended up having to teach the little frogs to swim.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 03:19 PM

I was going home to Bude from Manchester yesterday afternoon and I'd pulled into Gloucester services on the M5 where there's a fabulous farm shop. I couldn't get out of my car for twenty minutes due to a viciously spectacular though short-lived thunderstorm. Such events usually mark the end of fine spells, but today has been glorious in north Cornwall with non-stop sun and 25⁰C. Just down the road in Camborne they had a 40mm deluge yesterday in a short time, making it the wettest place in Britain. Gravesend had 34.4⁰C yesterday, a hundred-year UK record for September. I think somewhere in East Anglia may have touched 32⁰ today. Weird weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 15 Sep 16 - 08:46 PM

Hot day here on the south coast of England, again - now a tremendous thunderstorm, I am eating ice lollies with the fan on and the lightening flashes all different colours. Its almost 2am but there's no chance of getting to sleep for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Sep 16 - 09:10 AM

Not a drop of rain in Bude for three days. It's a fine but windy day today with a daytime temperature colder than almost every overnight minimum in September so far. We do quite well in north Cornwall with these good, brisk northwesterlies!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Sep 16 - 11:20 AM

The pigeons have no necks. Rain ending this afternoon then cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Amount 5 to 10 mm. Wind southwest 20 km/h becoming north 20 this afternoon. High 15. (It's noon and only 12C.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Sep 16 - 05:37 PM

We were waiting at a bus stop today in a European city with a namesake in New York State. The bus was late and the bus stop had only half a roof. During a ten-minute deluge, there was nearly a riot at the bus stop as people less weather-savvy than me (I'd seen it coming!) tried to muscle us out of the way in their desperate efforts to stay dry. Manfully, I stood our ground. The whole city was in chaos with roads flooded everywhere. When the bus finally reached its destination, 25 miles away, we came upon weather that was hot and sunny and there had been no rain there at all. We stood on the roof of Santa Chiara church and had a wonderful view of an amazing baroque town that had been completely rebuilt after a devastating earthquake at the end of the 17th century.

I later discovered that, apart from a little strip near Barcelona, we were in the only place in Europe that had had such unsettled weather. If you can't guess where we are, I'll tell you on Monday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Sep 16 - 09:34 PM

Cool enough tonight for me to switch from summer PJs (really cotton t-shirt and long lightweight cotton PJ pants to winter PJs (really sweatshirt and sweatpants). I'm not turning on the heat yet!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 08:58 PM

Well we're home. We were in Siracusa in Sicily, where, in a single week, the weather turned from the sublime (Mediterranean sun with thirty degrees) to the unbelievable (thundery rain that lasted for hour after hour, mostly during the night, thankfully, that left the city inundated).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 09:37 AM

No need for heat yet in DC

If you are in Port au Prince brace for over a METER of rain.

Southern California has earthquake warnings, to the north fire and on the east coast a hurricane watch.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Oct 16 - 08:31 PM

When my flight left Providence, Rhode Island yesterday, it wasn't all that cold really; must have been in the '60s Fahrenheit. The problem was the wind. After the rainstorms moved out, the wind pushed in. The kind of wind that says, Summer is SO OVER. Dry, cold, biting, withering wind. I needed several layers, including the winter parka with the hood up, to get from my parked car to the airport terminal.

This morning I wake up in Paradise Valley, part of greater Phoenix, Arizona, where they tell me it is no longer so hot as it had been all summer. Now that it is no longer summer here, they actually get through an entire day without breaking 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and the nighttime temperatures drop down to almost 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

In my rental car, however, I still pack my winter parka -- to wear indoors, when the refrigerated air is especially, erm, refrigerated. Especially if I am sitting still at a computer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 16 - 10:51 PM

its cold, In fact were all home with colds.
So I'm definitely posting too much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 16 - 10:41 PM

Almost time to head north and east, leaving Arizona for home. Good thing I packed summer clothes, they were needed here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Oct 16 - 02:04 AM

We had an early snowfall in Juneau, Alaska, even beating both Anchorage and Fairbanks, which are much farther north. On October 16 our little but long town got from 3 to 9 inches of the white stuff. I'm glad. I hope we have a snowy winter for a change.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Oct 16 - 08:49 PM

After some seasonally cool days, we've had three days of almost-summer warmth. Gradually the cool air will return, starting tomorrow, and by the weekend things will probably be normal for this time of year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 16 - 07:49 PM

Ebbie, I hope YOU get all the snow, unlike the recent winter when Massachusetts got eight feet plus!

Chantey Lass, you spoke true; just arrived at the Providence airport, and it is more mild outside than the day I left.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Oct 16 - 08:58 PM

And today,it was slightly warm and felt warmer because of humidity which eventually became rain. Normally I would go to a chantey sing in Bristol, RI, on the third Friday of warmish months, but it's held around a campfire. The planners promised if it rained we would move indoors because this is the last one until spring, but I couldn't picture myself walking through rough, wet, unlit fields to get to the historic farmhouse or back to my car. I could see lightning in the distance and I heard flash flood warnings, so I turned my car around and drove home through Providence's commuter traffic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Oct 16 - 03:40 PM

Ah, that wind is back, as we all knew it would be: biting, withering, and cold. We had a nice break from it, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Oct 16 - 02:37 PM

aaggh, that wind...expletives deleted....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Oct 16 - 02:49 PM

I'm afraid that wind will blow all the leaves off the trees before they finish changing colors. That's what happened last year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 09:25 PM

Temp's predicted to drop to freezing, but not below, tonight! But I saw and heard black-capped chickadees in the bushes outside my living room windows this afternoon. What cheerful birds, and they can spend the winter here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 16 - 04:50 PM

oooo, yuck, that's what. At least here the temps are enough above freezing that the precip is liquid. Between Albany, NY and Chicopee, MA, on the Thruway/Pike, driving speeds are reduced thanks to the falling SNOW. That cursed s-word.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Oct 16 - 02:34 PM

More of the same. Yuck and yuck again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Oct 16 - 03:04 PM

I don't know how much farther south I am from keberoxu, but while Friday here was rainy and cold, both Saturday and Sunday were nice enough for me to walk to a local breakfast place in jeans and a flannel shirt, making them two of my favorite days of the year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 16 - 02:18 AM

In Juneau, Alaska today, we are forecast to have one more bright, dry day, closing October's record-breaking month. The weather in Juneau is typically cool, even nippy (we are at latitude 58) pretty much year 'round with lots of rain, right at 100 inches of it, on top of another 100 inches or so of winter time snow. These last couple of years have not been normal - last winter the ground didn't freeze to any depth. And now, just like many other places in the world, we're having record-breaking temperatures.

I'm hoping for a snowy winter this year- we're far enough north - and with mountains all around - that warmth traveling to us from the south may react to the Pacific Ocean outside our door and give us snow instead of rain. Fingers crossed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Oct 16 - 04:43 PM

The sun is back, at least.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Nov 16 - 02:29 PM

For people in my blue state of Massachusetts -- some of us are blue in more ways than one -- today is like an unexpected gift.
Although it is November and past Election Day, we are having October weather: warm, clear, and dry, with this cloudless blue sky overhead.

It is possible for people who have been curled up indoors to come out today, and pretend that November hasn't even happened yet. And all that comes with November.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Nov 16 - 07:55 PM

It was lovely at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, today, too--warmer than usual at this time of year, though there was a good breeze near the river. The demonstration squad must have appreciated the weather even more than I did.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Nov 16 - 08:19 PM

Last night was the first time this season I slept with the fan on.

Sunday I washed my quilt cover & packed away my 80% down quilt as I've not used it for a week. If we get a cool snap I'll bring out my thin blanket or my even thinner wool shawl.

Warm & very warm days, some with humidity, tho none last night!

We are heading into the normal hot humid Sydney summer, but this weekend I'll be 250km out west where nights are still cold (memo to self pack clothes for summer days & cool nights)

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 14 Nov 16 - 12:12 PM

Dreadful here in the mountains of North Georgia. No rain for weeks and the smoke from not too distant forest fires is unhealthy and unpleasant. It's even worse in nearby North Carolina.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Nov 16 - 06:50 PM

My French teacher taught me a memorable turn of phrase:

"Il pleut comme une vache qui pisse."

Which is what it is doing today, pissing down rain.
Certainly needed, though. There are as many leaves on the ground as there are remaining on the trees; and the drier the weather, the more the dried-up leaves contribute to dust and dander and everything. It was time for things to be safely damped down. At least it is warm enough, for some reason, not to have frost or freezes making things wintry tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 02:11 AM

I'd never seen that phrase but my early high school French kicked in from a distance part of my memory & I read it. It's an excellent way of describing wet weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 11:30 AM

And after yesterday's thorough soaking, puffy pale-grey clouds are moving rapidly across the sky, and an occasional hole in the clouds allows a well-scrubbed clear blue sky to peak through.

Of course, now that the sun is on the verge of coming out, it will shine on trees that are mostly bare, which was not the case even one week ago.

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

I drove through last night's rain, up 95 and 495 to the Worcester, MA, area and home again. It was not fun, but the earth must have been a lot happier than I was. It was good to see the sun today, but the earth really does need more rain. We experienced drought conditions in '77 which ended with the Blizzard of '78 in February of that year. I hope this drought ends without a blizzard or floods!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 16 - 02:06 PM

Hear there's a snowstorm grinding its way across the North American continent?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Nov 16 - 08:22 PM

Who's having a white Thanksgiving?

Here's hoping I WON'T....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Nov 16 - 11:58 PM

I'm hoping my son and his family won't! They live near Worcester, MA, and we are supposed to meet with other family members in Newport, RI, to celebrate. I want them to have a safe round-trip drive.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 24 Nov 16 - 09:00 AM

It's snowing in Ottawa. Again. Faugh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Nov 16 - 10:02 PM

Lot of cold hearts in Ottawa. If they sign the TPP, can foreign countries sue us if it snows?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 16 - 01:01 PM

The Scots, I hear, call it "dreich." At least it is well above freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 16 - 02:09 PM

I have been getting ready for the first "big snowstorm that wasn't" of the season. Even had a big article in the trashpaper about it. The weather terrorists laced into this one full bore. Twits. I expect, at present, some light snow and then light rain. Anyway, got gas for the car and quip, got the snow clothes ready, got the shovels ready... all the necessities. I figure it'll be just a matter of weeks before we actually get a real storm so why not? After all, I am a Boy Sprout. Always Prepared.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 16 - 06:06 PM

On top of weather stuff, was that change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time. Suddenly it was dark an hour earlier at night: instant depression, if you ask me. And right next to THAT election.