What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 09:17 PM

And indeed the wind arrived. Howling, rattling the windows, pushing against doors and making them hard to open. There were power failures in Rhode Island, but my home was not affected.
Now calm has returned to this corner of the planet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 09:22 PM

All-time UK winter high at Kew Gardens, 21.2c, which is a tad over 70F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 19 - 02:13 PM

... and now the SNOW returns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Feb 19 - 04:42 PM

Ah, yes, snow! It's supposed to be gentle, light, and fluffy, but the forecast looks like it'll go on for hours.
Without the wind, today felt much warmer than yesterday even though temps have been about the same.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Feb 19 - 05:47 PM

The forecast was correct about the snow being light and fluffy. Still, dealing with it while recovering from shoulder surgery and having one arm in a sling is . . . interesting. My technique is to have my good arm do the work and the bad one act as a guide. In all things I consider the bad arm the passenger and the good arm the driver.
And more snow is supposed to be on the way, arriving on Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 19 - 10:59 AM

ChanteyLass, did you get dumped on?
Up in Massachusetts it isn't too awful,
but Sunday is supposed to be heavier.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Mar 19 - 09:17 PM

The snow in Rhode Island wasn't as bad as I expected. We probably got the predicted amount of snow, but it wasn't too heavy. I was able to clean my car off without needing to take a break. When I was done, my bad arm was tired but not aching.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Mar 19 - 10:26 AM

I ought to care how many inches of snow fell last night.
I find that I don't.

It's easier to just brush and scrape it off the darned parked car in the lot,
and then get the heck outta there
so the lot can be plowed. Which I managed to do.

It's the heavy sticky kind of snow
which the Weather Channel's Jim Cantore calls
"white mud."

What a lovely visual scene it is, here, if you are so fortunate
that you don't have to get out and
move about in the stuff.
You can't tell, by looking out the window,
that it's the heavy wet type of snow.

All the bare trees are adorned with white as though
they had been covered in cotton wool,
it's pretty enough for a picture.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Mar 19 - 08:20 PM

I got by with a little help from my friends.

I went out and pushed some snow off my car, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of it. Then I went inside for a break. When I came out, someone had finished removing the snow and even cleared about a foot of snow behind it. No neighbors were outside, so I don't know who did that.

I backed the car up until the wheels started spinning. I couldn't go forward or back. Unfortunately, I was now blocking a neighbor's car. My appointment for therapy on my broken shoulder was less than a half-hour later, so from my car I called and said I couldn't make it.

The plow came and saw my predicament. The driver plowed around me, and the neighbor whose car I'd blocked easily removed the clumps of snow the plow had left in front of my tires. I drove back into my usual parking spot, called out a thank you to my neighbor, and went inside.

Before it got dark I went back outside and sprinkled Ice Melt from my front door to my car door. The condo fees are supposed to cover that, but it hadn't been done. Maybe the workers were going to come back to do it when the temperature dropped, but they usually do a poor job. Now I have peace of mind instead of wanting to give them a piece of my mind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 04 Mar 19 - 08:31 PM

don't hate Me please. Not a cloud in the sky. Flowers blooming. Probably 60 degrees. Could not be better.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 19 - 09:36 AM

Nothing to hate, mg.
We will have the weather you're having,
just not at the same time you're having it,
and vice versa.

Good on you, ChanteyLass, and I know what you mean about condos and sidewalks and condo parking spaces.
Whoever pushed the rest of the snow off of your car,
must have watched you doing it
and noticed that you had to favor one arm as you did so.

'Tis the season up here for what I call
parking-lot icebergs -- you know,
what's left when the plowed snow is shoved to the margins.
One of those things cost me a new (actually used) car door recently.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 19 - 05:32 PM

Maple slurpup gonna flow! >:-D

Many up in northern NB.ca are having to shovel out their lines... big snow up there this winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 12:10 PM

In this windy and raw cold,
this is a dreadful time and place to be amongst the homeless.
Today, with its bright sunshine,
is a good day to be indoors
near a window that lets in the sun.
You could actually get pleasantly overheated there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 01:46 PM

Could you move to someplace not so cold
?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 06:13 PM

Yes, cold! Bit windy this afternoon, too, when I had to be out and about.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 19 - 06:08 PM

The storms just keep on coming!
At least it isn't freezing cold now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 12:00 PM

Don't slip and fall, ChanteyLass!
It's slushy and messy underfoot,
what with heavy wet snow and temps just above freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 07:28 PM

Heheheh! This afternoon I returned to the scene of the crime, the cinema where I'd broken my shoulder in the parking lot, to see another Bolshoi Ballet broadcast. It wasn't slippery but might have been earlier before the snow turned to rain. As I walked toward the building, a man called out, "It's closed. There's a power failure." This is the second time that's happened in the 2018-2019 season!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 19 - 07:19 PM

There's some disastrous weather around
-- but thankfully not where I live ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 19 - 12:10 PM

How are you Mudcatters in the US heartland?
I hear the most dire reports of
hellacious weather descending upon your area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 19 - 08:19 PM

its 74 but at night it goes down to 68.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Mar 19 - 03:19 PM

The wind is back. With teeth in it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Mar 19 - 03:35 PM

At the end of October,
the question was posted to this thread
if a weather event had traumatized me in my life.

I wasn't prepared for the question, so I blew it off.

In fact, the tradition of talking about the weather
in my experience is a sort of double-speak,
and I guess I am as guilty of this as anybody.

A retired Dominican friar, whom I used to encounter in the elevator
(he and I lived on different floors of the same apartment complex),
used to greet everyone he met, including me,
with a current update on weather conditions.
This social response had become a habit, second nature, with him.

Which is a commentary of sorts about communal living.
In St. Dominic's Order of Preachers, much is made about community life.
It is only a retired friar, perhaps in delicate health,
who is excused from living in a priory or some such
with any number of fellow friars.

I never suspected that Father such-and-so had been traumatized
by a weather event in his life.
I just thought he was stating his neutrality,
like Switzerland,
in the world of pro- and con- social interactions.

In like manner,
my posts to this thread have kept it visible
whilst other BS threads catch fire, smoke the place up, and crash.

This is not to speak of
the place that vigilance has in my life.
Is all vigilance based on fear? So be it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Mar 19 - 07:27 PM

Thats a good reason. There is always an undercurrent that pushes us.
All I know is that extreme severe weather has only been a near disaster in my life but not for my brother. He lost everything except his family. When a threat comes near I am excited with vigilence but having never been harmed by wind fire and flood I celebrate our good luck.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 29 Mar 19 - 08:00 AM

Seeing as i am in girona spain it is exceptionally nice

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Mar 19 - 08:04 PM

Spring rain. What a concept.
Not snow. Not sleet. Not freezing rain.
Not an ice storm. Not a blizzard.

Just ... spring rain. It's been a LONG time coming.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Mar 19 - 06:07 PM

Some Northerners are still talking about ice.

The only ice left hereabouts
is where the standing water is,
the marshes and wetlands along with
ponds, lakes, and the like.
Especially in the shade.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 02:34 PM

It's April Fool's Day
and the wind is really gusty today.
Doesn't look like winter.
Doesn't feel like summer.
must be spring ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 05:18 PM

Rennes les chateaux.absolutely perfect. Almost too warm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 01:45 PM

Am I in the northeastern United States,
or in the Four Corners region?

Spring is a rather different experience in those two areas
of the same continent.

What is going on outside the window
as I enter data at this public computer station at the library branch,
looks like spring in the Four Corners

-- the Four Corners, for those of you who don't know this expression,
is a cross-shaped formation of state lines in the lower Forty-Eight.
The four states in question are
Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Spring there is not a rainy season.
Spring can mean moisture, insofar as the warmth of the season
results in melting snowpack on mountain peaks,
with the consequence of rising rivers and flash floods.
But the seasonal spring wind in the Four Corners,
in my experience,
is a warm and witheringly dry wind
which loosens up all the dried-up growth that turns into
that unforgettable sight,
The Tumbleweed.

At the moment I am looking at weather for tumbleweeds:
the sky is the driest possible blue, of piercing clarity
and not the remotest sign of humidity.
The wind is dangerous, in fact
power lines have come down in the last twenty four hours
and some people are still without utilities in their residences.

... and have I mentioned dust?
Which region has more dust in it?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Apr 19 - 02:07 PM

Look out the window,
and you see a sight fit for a picture post card.
The sky is THAT shade of blue that, when you see it, you wonder
if the photo has been retouched
because the blue is so intense and clear, the definition of pastel blue.

And the grass is green
and the forsythia is yellow,
and the magnolia blooms
have yet to fall off the tree branches. It's gorgeous.

Now, if only the water level would ease back down.
The spring thaw is in full force.
In my area we have some curled-up lengths of the Upper Charles River
and when I drive over the bridge, on Main Street,

I see the river over its banks and
covering the surrounding marshes,
like a great shallow lake.
God forbid it rises any higher!

If it rises any higher,
the road with my bridge
will flood in several low places,
and one nearby town
will turn into an isthmus, nearly inaccessible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Apr 19 - 09:41 PM

It's raining, it's pouring,
And I feel like snoring.

But it's not even 10 PM,

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Apr 19 - 02:13 PM

Still nervously observing the broad shallow lake,
far too close to the level of the road and the bridge,
where the Upper Charles River and its banks ought to be.
Maybe this nice warm sunshine
will evaporate some of that spring thaw
and the water level will go down where it won't
threaten to flood streets and roads.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 19 - 05:26 PM

Mudcatter Harpgirl, who started this thread,
posted the other day as a guest -- to a different thread anyhow.
Every time I see her member name,
I think of this thread.

The weather? rain, rain,   and more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 19 - 06:44 PM

The oddest things can feel reassuring to me.

For weeks I have been observing the consequences of the spring thaw.
The main road crosses, by bridge, the Upper Charles River,
and many low, marshy areas.
Some of the road's lowest spots are flood-prone.
And so I have watched the rising water level.
The riverbanks disappeared as the river got so high
that it merged with the wetlands and marshes on either side of its banks,

and it all looked like a great shallow lake with
vegetation of every size and shape sticking out of the water.

Today I rejoiced to see two things.
First, all that vegetation standing there
has got a ring of mud around it, right above the water's surface.

Second, little islands have appeared where there was only water before,
and the little islands coincide exactly with
the location of the riverbanks.

That means the water level, praise heaven,
is going down instead of up,
and with every lowering of the water level
it is less likely to flood the roads.

Who ever would have thought
that the sight of strategically placed mud
would come as such a relief.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 May 19 - 08:14 AM

We have evolved to read nature in a silent language more expansive than than anyhing you could voice to a friend a friend.
We just don't spend the time to read nature as we did in ancient times. We just google it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 19 - 05:58 PM

Last night we had a lovely last frost.
Less allergens and less bugs today,
and a delightful cool breeze under a sunny sky.

In high summer,
I will look back longingly on a day like this one.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 May 19 - 09:55 PM

Here comes more rain.
At least the river level went down in between.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 19 - 12:42 PM

Where I live the weather is tolerable.

But in other parts of the United States
the weather is freakish.

I mean, the rain! The floods! The levees!
The film and still photos in the news media ...
it's awful.

Anybody live near the flooded regions?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jun 19 - 12:20 PM

Pollen all over my parked car, and thick,
so that I just about have to use the windscreen wipers
to see out.

And if you wash it off,
it's just gonna pile up again within twenty-four hours,
if you have to park the car outdoors as I do.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jun 19 - 05:40 PM

Regarding the breaking news:
It has to be precarious at best
to land a helicopter in pouring rain
on a high-rise rooftop ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 12:25 PM

rain, rain, and more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 09:28 AM

Last year, I went out to Lytham Green (to add photos to my below poem) which, due to such a long dry spell, was more like Lytham Brown; this year "rain, rain, and more rain" (Keberoxu) and not much tennis or cricket being played; "Lytham and St. Anne's"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 07:47 PM

Brown indeed. I like your poem and photos.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Jun 19 - 05:14 AM

Thanks, CL - I think the Lancashire coast in general is great for seaside walks but, frankly, the way the tides are, not so good for swimming...perhaps that is why my late nan (who loved the water) and granddad took the coach from Manchester to Torquay every year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jun 19 - 03:07 PM

wet.
wet.
WET.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 19 - 01:43 PM

All around us afternoons storms and rain... and the weather report keeps saying "lots of rain possible", but it is amazing how much of it keeps going north or south of us.
Sure, we get rain.. occasionally a lot of it. But there seems to be a 'zone' just north of Wash DC that dodges a large % of serious weather...

Now watch... I will have jinxed us by saying that....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Jun 19 - 03:02 PM

On the longest day of the year, lovely here in Manchester, England, UN.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 05:25 PM

Hailstorm just went through my part of Rhode Island. It came from the north and lasted about 5 minutes. then the sun came out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 19 - 08:09 PM

Finally the nights are warm enough
that it's time to
remove, and launder,
the woolen blanket, until the seasons change again.