What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 May 21 - 03:12 PM

How goes it, JennieG, with the mice in Oz?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 May 21 - 01:46 PM

Lot of rain in Manchester since my above 7/5/21 post, but cleared up today and made an outing to Wythenshawe Park in the south of Manchester...tomorrow, back to rain apparently.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 May 21 - 11:24 PM

It's pretty darned fickle at the moment.
Where I am staying,
they switched to refrigerated air conditioning
in light of a recent hot spell.
Just in time for the weather to change
and now we would be better off
if we could turn the heat back on,
but the boilers/engines have been switched off ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 30 May 21 - 06:32 AM

“Heatwave” on the way, er, well 21 degrees, .....if we’re lucky, but then this is Scotland!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 May 21 - 07:46 AM

21 degrees!!, & here I am in autumn-y Sydney putting my 85% down quilt on my bed for the first time this year. Thin blanket & woolen shawl have been enough in the past few weeks, but it getting colder.

Forecast was 18 today but we only got to 16 (feels like 12 due to the wind.)

It was 14 (feels like 11 cos of the wind) around 3.30 this afternoon when I went out, warmly wrapped, to buy the paper & a few groceries. I walked past a teenager in a mini skirt, striding along on very white legs. I can't say they were blue with the cold, but they probably weren't so obviously pale earlier in the day! April & May are the times when some folks still dress for summer ...

We're expecting 9 tonight in my part of Sydney near the harbour, & 19 tomorrow. Sydney's western suburbs are expecting between 3 & 5 tonight, & all expect 19 tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 21 - 07:47 AM

cloudy with a chance of solar particles

In DC area its high forties to 50's and rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 02:19 PM

Hope that’s Fahrenheit, Donuel! I was in degrees Centigrade.
Nice enough to have a wee solo session in our garden this afternoon! Hope the neighbours didn’t mind, but we have a high hedge which should absorb a lot of the sound!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 02:46 PM

old habits die hard

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Jun 21 - 09:45 PM

The mice are still around, still causing problems. Fortunately we have seen no signs of mice, dead or alive, for a few weeks; Bianca the Elderly Geriatric Cat caught one as it emerged from under the dishwasher, we disposed of it in case it had been poisoned and haven't seen any since. There are no new signs of mouse shit either, so we are hopeful that they have moved on from here to elsewhere.

The people who know such things tell us that we need a spell of cold wet weather to get rid of them, so fingers crossed that next week's forecast cold wet weather - even possible snow, no less! - may help with that.

Meanwhile, there are sad news stories about native animals, fish and birds and domestic pets being poisoned by eating straight rodent bait or dead rodents who have been baited. I don't know the answer to that - do we let the mice run free to ruin crops, cause health problems, even cause fires by chewing through cables if by doing so we save other creatures? Or do we leave the mice to bankrupt farmers because their infested crops are useless and can't be sold?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Jun 21 - 10:50 PM

Poor galahs.......

I like galahs, they are such clowns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 04 Jun 21 - 02:06 AM

I hope less favourable conditions for the mice come soon JeanieG. Between floods and mice, parts of Australia have had very rough times! My brother (Sunshine Coast region, QLD) has escaped most of this although he did have a couple of days stuck at home as the creek by his house turned into what he called a "raging torrent" in one bout of heavy rain - a minor thing really.

Weather for me (North Norfolk, UK) has been mixed. Mum and I had one teatime meal outside as early as March. April produced a nice spell too but much of May was wet and, at times, with cold and strong winds. June, so far, has had the makings of a pleasant summer...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 09:14 PM

Over 36,600 posts to this entire thread.


Muggy and hot.
The kind of weather that drives people to ... swim.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Jun 21 - 03:16 AM

And now it's really really cold......hasn't gone above single figures C all day, the "feels like" hasn't even reached 5deg C.....it's snowing not too far away. This town is in a broad valley so I doubt we will see the wet white stuff here, but hills not far away will.

The people who get paid to know such stuff tell us that this will be the coldest weather for several years. I believe them.

It's really nice weather for staying inside.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 11:03 AM

Today it is postcard picture perfect,
with trees fully leafed out,
brilliant green beneath a clear blue sky.

I saw a bear in the parking lot (!) this week,
so the animals are out and hungry
(the bear comes around to raid the dustbins for edible scraps).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 06:06 PM

After tommorrow ideal days will have to wait till autumn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 01:10 AM

perfect summer day. warm breeze and sunshine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 21 - 01:06 AM

Hear comes the humidity muggies
AND the mosquitoes.
Oh well, it was nice before the mosquitoes showed up ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 06:17 PM

It will reach the 40's F tonight. Grey all day today with showers.

More than ANY other issue discussed here that will kill more people and life itself is the issue of declining fresh water supplies. We are easily distracted by small issues like pandemics, nukes and guns but its water that will have the most important voice in the ultimate survival upheaval.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 11:41 PM

Hot, with tons of mosquitoes. They got a real head start with the wettest May we've had in quite a while. The tomatoes are happy, though, if I can keep the water level right - enough, but not too much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jun 21 - 05:35 AM

Take cover Rap! Idaho will be 105 !!! by monday and beyond

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jun 21 - 09:41 AM

There is a cancer that is preventable with a lotion.
It is sunscreen.
Get some and use it daily.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 21 - 03:45 PM

Today, Donuel is a case in point:
High humidity and gray clouds dominating the sky overhead.
And as I don't have to tell you,
the damaging light rays which contribute to said cancer
take no notice of those gray clouds.

The place would feel better with some rain,
but the rain is elsewhere, not here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 21 - 03:45 PM

So I am a grey cloud one must ignore.
When did I injure you so severely keboroxu.
96 today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 21 - 04:54 PM

Actually you do not seem spooked by normal weather anymore which is good. What is too bad is that we are entering an era of no more normal weather ??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 21 - 12:31 PM

Last summer showed 100 degrees at the artic circle in Siberia so I am not surprised Canada hit 121.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 12:30 AM

Yesterday morning was the coldest morning of the year so far. The actual temperature was -4.7 C but the "feels like" was -8.3C. That's fairly chilly.

I'll let you translate into F, should you need.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 03:30 PM

It's one of those afternoons.

The cloudburst ten minutes ago brought the thunder,
and the rain was heavy and the skies dark.

Five minutes ago I looked out the window,
as the storm sounds had gone quiet,
and saw brilliant sunshine and shadow on the grass and trees.

The thunder is still thundering as I speak.
I ought to go hunt for a rainbow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 04:47 PM

So many of us do not want to be homeward
bound this summer despite the labor shortages and spotty expensive transportation.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 05:42 PM

A bit north of where I am, chances of sighting Nessie have increased due to Loch Ness water-levels being at their lowest for several years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jul 21 - 10:41 AM

Rupurt Murdoch is starting up a new global anti climate crises WEATHER CHANNEL. 134 F is the new 90.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 03:11 PM

This thread is now into its fiftieth page
of fifty posts per page.

And I carry my umbrella everywhere in case,
as Charmion likes to put it,
the rain comes down in 'stair rods'.
It did that yesterday, out of nowhere, just poured down rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 08:32 PM

There is a very cold wind blowing, and it may rain. Should that happen any rain which dares to fall will probably be blown sideways, and not reach the ground.

We - Himself, Bianca the geriatric white cat, and I - are staying inside today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 09:33 PM

This summer marks the tipping point of the Amazon basin that now is producing more carbon via burning than it sequesters.
Is it wierd that we are going to let the world burn? Yes.
From my perspective on people it is normal to let it happen in this post tipping point era.
If we were serious about putting a hold on climate crises we would need newly created forests the size of THREE Texas'.
Machines to power tech to bury carbon would be too big and require more power than would be effective.
So we are on a one way ride not because of pessimism but inaction.

Instead of a war in stinking desert Sudan it would be life saving to have a world war against the Amazon arsons and Bonisaro. Thats not going to happen so the new normal will be more extremes.

All the best solutions are behind us. However the next best solution is to start today. Will we? Nope, we are going to let the world burn and have wars over the quickly shrinking fresh water out west and move away from all the new flood zones.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 12:55 PM

Our reservoirs in the west are about 2/3 empty, some only have 14% left.The ground water is so stressed that any more pumping will result in a great subsidence. We will probably risk it.

If California stopped growing almonds they would have enough water to double other crops.
We have many possible solutions but money rules the day, not tommorrow's catastrophe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 03:01 PM

flash floods until 11PM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 06:29 PM

I don't know why the rain
can't leave the eastern US
and go west of the Rocky Mountains
where everything is burning ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 10:08 PM

We might have a touch of sunshine tomorrow,
in between rain storm systems ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 10:56 AM

The lawn, where I am staying, is regularly mown and treated,
no weeds allowed, all that.

We have had so much rain that there are
MUSHROOMS springing up on the lawn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 02:49 PM

Its hazy from the million acres burning out west 2,000 miles away.
Small world huh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 04:41 PM

134 F is the new 90??????????????????????

56C is the new 32C.........................what??????????????????????

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 04:54 PM

Death Valley set a new high temp of 134. FOX weather 'would' report a dry 134 feels like 90.

I am either very serious or making a cartoon and rarely both/
I don't blame anyone the confusion that can arise.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 10:24 PM

From Anchorage: Today when out and about my friends with the dog I walk told me about Siberia burning. Apparently we can smell it here and it is obstructing our views of the mountains, which were so clear only a week ago. I didn't see mention of it made on U.S. news this evening, but the Guardian has it.

We had two warm days which I wrote about in the "Dogs in Cars" thread. Now we've got cooler weather and rain. That is probably washing some of the Siberian ash out of the air, but we'll see.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 03:38 PM

Two weeks ago I was late for longsword practice due to flooding after heavy rain here on the south coast of England.
This week it was so hot that my fingers skidded off the buttons of the melodeon - today I have two fans going and the thermometer in the bathroom has run out of numbers and gone blank.
I am using a long spouted watering can and not going inside the greenhouse - those courgettes look rather dangerous so I am adding fertiliser to the water and standing well back.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 04:48 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/everything-is-on-fire-siberia-hit-by-unprecedented-burning

Half the world is ablaze amid a seeming news backout.
No wonder the smoke in the air of NYC and DC is wicked.

Instead of making new forests the size of 3 Texas we have lost four.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 05:03 PM

The Artic fires of last year that continued to burn underground all winter and are now erupting above ground are being called Zombie fires.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-20/siberia-huge-fires-yakutia/100305994

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 08:41 AM

But around here its low humidity and 65 F in the morning.
word to wise; avoid chinese subways and the Artic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 10:39 AM

North Texas is entering a heat advisory starting this evening and running for at least a week, with temperatures in the "triple digits." (Over 37^oC for those on the other side of the pond.)

On Friday I had my heat pump air conditioner repaired; it is 19 years old and the outdoors fan's sealed packed bearings were dried up (apparently it isn't something you can lubricate with a squirt o 3-in-1 oil). Good timing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 11:23 PM

Am on the East Coast of the US, and it is hazy and smells of smoke, from the West Coast fires what, 6500k away?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jul 21 - 06:19 PM

My location is near some green rolling mountains and hills,
and although this was a bright sunny day,
those hills had mist and fog around them,
and it took all day for the fog to burn away there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 27 Jul 21 - 08:12 AM

Just looked up the Northern California wildfire, and to put it in perspective for us in the UK, it is covering an area 20% larger than the area within the M25 around London.