What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 21 - 08:40 PM

In Buffalo NY it would only take an hour to go from zero to six foot high snow drifts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 02:57 PM

Depends on your car, no?

It is supposed to snowstorm tomorrow. But I am betting freezing rain. I have soup supplies...

Subject: RE: What's the conspiracy like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 07:22 AM

I "heard" that white supremists are going to paint Everything White today in protest. So far "they" are right.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 11:13 AM

Just snow. Lovely. No ice, no Sunday paper...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 11:19 AM

Its probably buried, look for an orange plastic sleeve.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 11:54 AM

It came today.
Still lovely, but I hear everything melting...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 04:41 PM

Western Massachusetts got ever so much snow.
It took a day and a half, pretty much, to finish falling.
At least it was no blizzard, no high winds --
just snow that would not quit falling.

I don't know how much.
In the parking lot, there was at least twelve inches
on top of my car.
The trouble was not on top of my car, but
behind the rear wheels, backing out of the space.
The lot had, thank heavens, been plowed --
it was just a question of getting out of the snowed-in space
and onto the plowed pavement. Needed to shovel first.
The snow was wetter, and heavier, than it looked.
Not heart-attack shovelling.

It's quite the winter wonderland here visually.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 07:56 AM

Scotland last night:

Coldest for 25 years in Braemar
Kilometre-wide fire in Benbecula and extreme fire hazard warning for the whole west coast of the country

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 09:41 AM

And there I was, under the delusion that the Western Isles were always wet in winter. Wildfire in February -- amazing.

Cold and grey in southwestern Ontario, with a bit of wind chill and yet more snow in the forecast. Utterly normal. Perfect for staying home with a book.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 10:45 AM

We also had a big wildfire, on Dartmoor. We've had a wet winter but the last week in the Westcountry has been bone dry with a strong (and vicious) east wind. The bracken and heather from last year is tinder-dry, so it doesn't take much to get it going, and gorse burns well too.

Braemar holds the record for the coldest recorded temperature in the U.K., -27.2C, achieved twice, once in 1895 and once in 1982. The reason for the very cold nights is that the location is in a frost pocket, which means it's surrounded by hills down which cold air from high up sinks into the valley where the village is. Scottish glens are often frost pocket candidates. There are several notable ones in England, at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, at Benson in Oxfordshire and at Shawbury in Shropshire. To get a really cold night in a frost pocket you need little or no wind, a clear night and, preferably, snow on the ground. It helps if there's a stagnating mass of cold air over the country, which occasionally happens in winter anticyclones centred over Scandinavia or Eastern Europe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 03:00 PM

In Eastern Ontario, it's sunny and cold, even for here, what with a high of -15C for the day (with a wind chill of -23) and a low after sun-up tomorrow of -22C. There is little snow cover, and that does not bode well for the forests in the late spring. Unless we get more snow, they'll be tinder dry in May. This lack of snow cover plays merry hob with the military training cycle (the impact areas will be too dry even for high explosive) and the farmers' preparations for planting (they will not be allowed to burn slash and plough it under).

Still, the bright sun warms the heart, if nothing else, and it will not set until close to 1730. I can smell cycling weather in the offing, so I am on my way to my local bike shop to get my gravel bike out of hawk after its annual overhaul.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 04:02 PM

in west cork it is wet 4 degrees mild

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 21 - 06:21 PM

Dreading another heavy snowfall in a few days' time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 03:06 AM

The Pentlands (the hills immediately south of Edinburgh) currently have a severe, danger-to-life avalanche warning. Never heard of that anywhere near here before.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 04:12 AM

On this day in 1961 there was a partial eclipse of the sun in the morning. It was Ash Wednesday and we were herded off to church for that service in which the priest smeared greasy muck on your forehead with his thumb. The sky was cloudy and we didn't see the eclipse. From inside the church we could see the sun coming out, but by the time the service had finished and we were released the eclipse was over. I've harboured bitterness about that for exactly 60 years. I'm thinking that it may have sown the early seeds of my atheism...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 06:43 AM

Heheh. Speaking of smearing ashes, get this from the Guardian website:

A Catholic priest in Ireland is providing takeaway ashes in plastic sauce containers so parishioners can honour Ash Wednesday despite coronavirus restrictions.

A Centra shop in Clonmany, county Donegal, has helped Fr Brian Brady to pack and distribute ashes in 200 containers usually used for dips and sauces.

Parishioners have snapped up the containers so they can administer their own ashes by placing them in the form of a cross on their foreheads tomorrow. The ritual signifies repentance and marks the first day of Lent, a six-week period of penitence before Easter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 08:59 AM

Sounds nippy in Texas. The oilmen seem to have conspired to freeze up the wind turbines.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:30 AM

I just had a look at the weather radar plot for southwestern Ontario, and Stratford is right spung in the middle of the leading end of a snow system stretching all the way to Pelee Island in Lake Erie.

This is why I paid Nick's Snowblowing a big hunk of change back in November. Best money I've spent in a long time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:42 PM

We had a tiny thaw today, with more than enough MUD.
never mind,
the snow and ice will return soon enough.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 11:31 PM

shall I mention what it's like in sunny summery Sydney -

forecast for Sydney

26C (= 78F) partly cloudy. Medium (50%) chance of showers. Winds southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h.

sandra

yesterday was very windy, & even little me (irony alert) was being buffeted about. It was a day to leave by our back door as we are on top of a hill with gusts rushing up the street & the front door closer can fail in heavy gusts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 06:01 AM

A few years ago I opened my car door in a good old Cornish gale, the wind caught the door and blew it violently wide open - and destroyed it. I had to do without the car for a week until a new door was fitted. Thank goodness for insurance. I was lent a rather unpleasant replacement car for a week (a little Chrysler something-or-other) but at least I could still get around!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 07:50 AM

Steve, I can relate. I was once blown flat on my face on South Street in Halifax when I was stupid enough to be out in a particularly violent nor’easter.

It’s a beautiful day in Stratford, Ontario: clear, blue sky, still air, snow-banks as high as an elephant’s eye. Me, I’m just thrilled that the municipal plow finally found my street, and wondering whether my neighbour will find his garbage bin before Easter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 02:23 PM

A great lot of the USA is currently under winter siege. Storm follows storm leaving little time for clean up and repair. Millions of people are without power in the coldest temperatures in decades. I think the forecast is for better conditions this weekend but in the meantime it is a misery.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 02:39 PM

8 degrees wind 27 mph

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 07:42 PM

Texas as well as Spain are frozen. Dips in the jet stream have something to do with global something or another.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 09:13 PM

Dips in the jet stream happen all the time. What's far more important Is any long-term latitudinal displacement of the jets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 04:27 PM

Here in Missouri we are north of the storm that clobbered the southern US from New Mexico to the east coast. Texas got the most news coverage - there was snow on the beach in Galveston, and one day it was warmer in Moscow than in Fort Worth.

People have no water (frozen pipes) and roads are impassable because of ice and accidents. People have no power and no heat, and deaths caused by carbon monoxide are occurring because they try to use a car or charcoal to get warm.

I learned yesterday that the same weather situation caused snow in Greece and Turkey.

Earlier this week it was very cold here, -4 F or -20 C. (Plus snow and wind, but not very much.) That's colder than it's been for a long time. We were asked to turn thermostats down, which we did, and the power companies tried something new - deliberate rolling blackouts where areas receive no power for 30 to 60 minutes. We had one of those. Maybe it helped, because we did not lose power in our region.

Now it's 30 out. Nice and comfy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 06:48 PM

The weather and its ramifications in Texas is headline news here. You're having it tough. Commiserations, y'all...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 07:28 PM

A brisk wind blowing today
made it a little nippy for
the line of people waiting for their
COVID-19 vaccinations at the weekend clinic hereabouts.


The line HAD to go out the door and into the parking lot,
so as to observe the protocol of
social distancing,
with a single file of people the required distance apart from each other.

The good news:
clear sunny skies with no precipitation;
and the clinic organizers
kept that line moving briskly:
indoors the operations stayed on schedule and efficient,
so that that line that went well out the door
was a line that moved inside in a matter of minutes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 07:47 PM

It's the first day of March
and I don't know about lions,
but there is a heck of a wind blowing,
and it isn't any sort of balmy spring breeze either.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 10:18 PM

That wind keeps blowing,
and it's below freezing.
Good time to stay indoors under the covers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 10:15 PM

Here comes the thaw and the MUD season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 10:22 PM

We're at the end of March
and it is behaving like April.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Mar 21 - 08:16 PM

no shortage of WIND here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 07:05 AM

Like answering a rhetorical question steve tries to correct my sarcasm which is fun while Keb externalizes the threat of weather like a force beyond her control, which it is, but when I think of space and Earth weather my reaction to it is far less stressful. Boston will get 8 more inches of snow this spring. Charge will build up outside our atmosphere and Earth will send up lightening to equalize the charge . Differences that are trying to equalize have a beauty of their own. Even being struck by lightning can be a beautiful thing.
Since I can't stop weather I might as well enjoy it. I like a good storm. All interfaces have a clash of power be it a beach, hot and cold or negative and positive.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 02:57 PM

Redefining your misinformation as "sarcasm" isn't exactly honest (and this is my first post to this thread for six weeks: you do let things simmer, don't you?)

Anyway, on the weather front we've been in excess of 23C today, almost but not quite a record high for the Westcountry in March, and 'twas Bude that achieved it...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:50 PM

We met our daughter and her partner for the first time since Christmas Day today, in a lovely park in Truro, where they live. We are not allowed to go into their house, so today's lovely weather gave us a great opportunity to reunite in the open air. We took a picnic and spent several pleasant hours in the balmy air: lovely sunshine and 20C. Most Brits will think I'm lying, as it was far colder in almost all of the rest of the country, but we had it warmer than anywhere else. A really nice day, but a long drive at 130 miles return...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 04:49 PM

Now we're at the beginning of April and it is behaving
like the beginning of March:
below freezing, frigid wind,
snow flurries ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 01:29 PM

. . . today, however,
it is a beautiful sunny Easter Sunday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Apr 21 - 09:23 PM

I read that as pheasant, in the context of picnic, and was temporarily jealous.

Getting really nice here in Charlottesville, still cold at night but days in the high 70's - low 80's, aah.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 07:08 PM

we've had a lot of rain here on the east coast recently, even wikipedia knows about the floods


Family hikes to safety after being trapped by floodwaters at Upper Lansdowne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 11:28 AM

A local farmer, where I'm staying, is concerned.
We have enjoyed dry sunny days in early April, and
the farmer said,
"April is our rainy month, and the crops could use the rain ... "

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 21 - 11:32 AM

My ol friend thunder passed over me yesterday for the first time this year. The roll and clap were comforting reminders of warm days ahead.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 21 - 03:27 PM

This first week of May
has a forecast for rain for
the better part of the week,
which should make the farmers happier at any rate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 May 21 - 10:02 PM

Rain is forecast here too, starting on Wednesday. The town has recovered from a flood in March - nothing major, although two bridges were closed due to approach roads being under water. We came home last week after four weeks away during which time we only had rain twice, both times at night.

Not only will it rain on Wednesday/Tuhrsday/maybe Friday, but it will cool down.

With a bit of luck it will soon be cold and wet enough to drive away the mice. There has been a plague for several months.....it's time the little buggers buggered off. Into the Oubliette, perhaps.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 21 - 09:41 PM

Only just today I saw, taking a brief drive,
how much the rivers have risen from the recent thaw
and the warming temperatures;
there was mild flooding in spots.
Where I am staying, there aren't places where rising waters have an impact,
I had to travel the next town over to see how high the water is.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 May 21 - 05:53 AM

Well round here rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease will hath all too short a date, as there's no sign of it yet and my brand new Weber barbie has yet to see the light of day...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 21 - 10:29 AM

It's pretty gray and gloomy just now,
but the green growing things are happy to have
the occasional rainshowers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 May 21 - 03:25 PM

Another storm system grinding its way across the continent.
Hope we have just enough time for the water level
to drop a little more
before the next lot of precipitation raises the rivers again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 May 21 - 04:28 PM

Nice enough last weekend, but probably too wet for a Saturday outing around Manchester tomorrow.