What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Apr 18 - 12:56 PM

It's not truly Spring until we have seven full days without a trace of snow -- not sticking on the ground, not flakes in the air.

Monday I drove home from a wonderful weekend in Brunswick, Bath, and Bristol, Maine. It was gray, damp, and cold all weekend and I saw flakes in the air mid-day.

I drove home to Nottingham, New Hampshire via I-95 on Monday. What an incredibly TEDIOUS drive! Wind, rain, fog... Sleet as I was passing through Yarmouth, remnants of early morning snow in the grass and rock crevices around Biddeford.

The temperature kept rising, degree by degree, from 34°F in Harpswell to 39°F when I got home. Snow on the side of the road after I crossed Rte. 125 in Lee, NH and I turned into a white driveway. A very slippery hard white sludge was outside my car door as I debarked and covered the deck.

Just tired of it. A year ago it was 83°F. I'm not seeing any leaf buds on trees and damned little greening up of grass.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 03:59 PM

A good soaking of spring rain in southern New England.
People are trimming their lawns for the first time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Apr 18 - 02:08 PM

Great black-gray clouds overhead, one has to keep the umbrella handy.
But the wind has stopped blowing,
the temperature is rising,
and for the first time in lo these many months
the trees have new green leaves.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 May 18 - 02:15 PM

The only thing that doesn't look enough like
the first day of May,
is the bare trees. It's been cold and wintry for so long
that the trees are JUST NOW budding with new green leaves,
many remain bare.

But after several straight days of spring rains
and cloudy skies,
today the sun comes out
and EVERYTHING perks up. It's pretty as a picture.

The blossoming shrubs and trees, like the forsythia and dogwood,
still have blossoms on them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 May 18 - 11:04 PM

Suddenly, it's summer--at least it was today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 18 - 01:57 PM

Yes, I reckon that all the heaps of frozen dirty snow have melted and evaporated hereabouts, by now.
Northern New England may be another matter,
but even there the ski resorts have closed for the season.

JennieG, how's the weather in Oz?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 May 18 - 08:41 PM

And today, humidity! My body needs time to adjust.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:40 PM

Had a few beautiful days in the mountains of North Georgia {USA}, but today it's cloudy and humid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:51 PM

What's the weather like where I am?
Lovely!
Of course, I'm in Northern California, in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.
Wildflowers are good this year, too.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:57 PM

And the frogs, Joe?
Are they still making noise?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 May 18 - 11:38 PM

Autumn has finally arrived so right now it's pleasant in the sun, much cooler in the shade with that chilly little breeze blowing. This morning the temperature here dropped to 3.3 deg C, I don't know what that is in F but I can tell you it's not quite warm.

Trees are changing, leaves are turning. Summer started early and went on for (it seemed) much longer than usual; it's been very dry, so plants are dying everywhere. The drought is biting hard.

But - it will rain eventually! Until then "we'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 18 - 04:22 PM

Just hoping we stay with the current season for a little while.
It does seem as though the seasons with the solstices
are eating into the seasons with the equinoxes,
from both sides.

For today, it is the season of the current equinox, and pleasant.
I'm just scared that
solstice weather will barge in
and flatten the joys of the present season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 May 18 - 01:04 PM

Had frost yesterday morn. Yuppies are uppity. Never seen frost this 'late'! I ask, "Where are they from?" Do they not understand the lunar cycle?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 May 18 - 05:16 AM

gnu,
no, I didn't realise the lunar cycle could affect the likelihood of frost.
What's the theory?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 May 18 - 10:55 AM

Cool overcast day today,
and I'm just so thankful that
it isn't what it was four weeks ago -- snow and ice...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 May 18 - 01:49 PM

FreddyHeadey... T'ain't no theory. Ya don't plant until after the full moon in June round these here parts. Now, the moons are late this year so ya gotta watch the sky and the tree buds carefully. Yer best bet is watching fruit tree buds... maples and such, not so much. Twas -2C here this AM but the wind kept the frost down. Most farmers (in the backwoods) will plant around May 26, three days ahead of the next full moon but that is still a situation to watch carefully. Some crops can stand a slight frost... others, not so much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 May 18 - 09:52 PM

A litle farther south than gnu's home, we in Rhode Island say not to plant until after the last full moon in May, but many people ignore that.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 May 18 - 03:39 PM

The sun came out today!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 18 - 04:41 PM

What are mammatus clouds? I've heard of cumulonimbus clouds, but never mammatus clouds.

Thankfully the tornado watch is well to the west of us.

We're still expecting severe thunderstorms and maybe hail. Sigh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 May 18 - 10:26 PM

Downpour, thunder, and lightning here earlier. Had my flashlight handy but didn't need it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 18 - 08:51 PM

10 inches of rain this week will result in big floods tomorrow.
Railroad tracks in our area have no earth under the rails for 10 or more feet, its washed out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 18 May 18 - 05:30 AM

It's a fine day for weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 May 18 - 01:13 PM

Green and humid, which is weird for eastern Massachusetts in May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 May 18 - 09:07 PM

Humidity. Luckily the temps aren't too high yet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 May 18 - 03:04 PM

Rain, rain, you need not go away,
it isn't the rain that bothers everybody at the moment,
it's the pollen and the allergies.
Complaints and lamenting everywhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 May 18 - 01:29 PM

The season of tropical storms is off to a windy start.
People are looking back at last year's Hurricane Maria
and ruefully observing that initial casualty reports were inaccurate.
Amongst other things.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 18 - 02:57 PM

Day two of pickaxing some more flood control ditches around the house.

Storms of 6 to ten inches of rain in this day of climate change is more than engineers expected 40 year ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jun 18 - 02:20 PM

Glad to hear that Mrrzy doesn't have a flooded home even though floods are in the vicinity.

Staying for a few weeks in Arizona, where the only floods are flash floods. It is very dry indeed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 03:54 PM

After the harsh past winter in southern New England,
visiting central Arizona is such a shock
as to feel like being on a different planet.

What's it like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 06:44 PM

Today was warm, but not hot.
Last night we had a sudden downpour.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 18 - 05:35 PM

Just drove south from Phoenix to Tucson, Arizona.
There are many more saguaro cactus here.
Air pollution worse than usual:
dry as it is,
the air has a haze to it.

Phoenix is so terribly FLAT FLAT FLAT
regardless of the outcroppings of hills and mountains about it.
Tucson is another animal:
ridges, arroyos, ditches, steep rises.
It looks like permanent folds in a wrinkled crust of the earth.
Kind of fantastic to the eye.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 12:44 PM

I told them we could have frost until late June this year. They called me crazy. Frost *again* tonight. Blueberry, grape, and other, farmers are hanging their heads. There are still apple blossoms on Mum's tree... even the birds won't eat those ones. My wild strawberries seem reasonably well.

Full Strawberry Moon isn't until the 28th. I told them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jun 18 - 03:56 PM

One week at a southern Arizona resort, starting now.
This part of the country has summer monsoon.
However this is the dry part of the summer.
The monsoon approaches but it has yet to arrive.
And even though it is dry as a bleached bone out here,
preparations at the resort
are in place for monsoon.

There are racks of umbrellas at every function building,
so one can walk from event to event
without getting soaked by the cloudbursts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 18 - 12:56 PM

There is much murmuring and muttering about monsoons
here in southern Arizona.
The monsoon may begin about the time I re-pack
for the return flight home to New England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 14 Jun 18 - 04:48 PM

Hector the hemi-hurricane has just been through S Scotland: didn't seem as bad as predicted, but plenty of leaves and branches down, and a few whole big trees!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jun 18 - 06:07 PM

Guess who's coming to dinner in southeastern Arizona?

Monsoon!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 18 - 02:07 PM

Monsoon is here, all right, and everything smells good in nature.
Of course, some unfortunate people
require a truckload of sandbags, I saw that on the evening news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 01:29 PM

When my return flight takes me back to the Northeast US on Wednesday,
the flight will probably have to fly through
a nasty storm system parked over the US's midsection.
Better buy some Dramamine.
Then maybe I can sleep through it.
(Dramamine hits me like a ton of bricks.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 05:29 PM

Keb it sounds like you find nasty storms thrilling and exhillerating
Its an index 105 F here

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 08:49 PM

As the feds have warned us for some time, it was hothothot today -- but with dry air & a steady breeze, so it was not at all unpleasant.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 18 - 08:02 PM

The plane takes me East tomorrow.
Why does Arizona feel like home to me?
I don't want to back.

Oh, the weather.
Hot, dry, and clear.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 18 - 07:25 PM

Surprised to find springlike temperatures
stepping off my return flight to Providence, Rhode Island.
After all, there's a solstice this week.

But then, it's over one hundred degrees F. in Arizona, where I started this morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Jun 18 - 12:10 AM

Warning: this post is tthread drift!

It amuses me that the Theodore Francis Green Airport airport is really in Warwick although the pilot announces that the plane is/has landed in Providence. Right now there's a possibility it will be renamed Rhode Island International Airport.

Now back to the weather reports!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jun 18 - 08:38 AM

The nights, at the very least, are still cool and refreshing
in southeastern New England,
but that, alas, will not last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jun 18 - 12:37 PM

Back to rain and humidity,
and warmth rather than high heat.
All the green growing things
are greening and leafing out to the max.

And the BUGS are out and about.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 24 Jun 18 - 06:52 PM

What is so rare as a nice weekend un June, for then if ever comes perfect weather. The weatherman got it twisted this weekend, which was Ham radio Field Day. We were told to expect brief t'storms yesterday but all we got was mild weather with morning fog today, clearing by 8 AM running up to the mid 80's f with mild humidity this afternoon in Central NJ. Loving it! With any luck, we'll do as well next weekend. Saturday we plan to put up a new radio mast and antenna at the local Red Cross and Sunday is the NYC Triathlon. No time to complain, just making the best of what we get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jun 18 - 05:44 PM

11C, rain, windy. Told ya. I am LOVIN' it! But, it will get hot... full moon on the 28.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 18 - 12:34 PM

Last night we had what I suspect will be
our last cool, even chilly, night for some time.

Currently, a new weather system is bringing to southern New England
not only heat, but greater HUMIDITY
and there go the pleasant conditions for sleeping.
The Fourth of July, which I think is a week from today,
will probably be the proverbial "hotter than" --
and muggy to boot.

It was sweet whilst it lasted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 27 Jun 18 - 05:43 PM

100 degrees F.

Was 101 yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jun 18 - 02:44 PM

Last night was overcast, and fixing to rain,
so I did not see the Strawberry Full Moon.

Did anybody else see the Strawberry Full Moon?