What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:48 PM

We have over a foot of snow now and it's still snowing. Lincolnshire UK

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:56 PM

snow!   puuurrrrtttyyy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:01 PM

Just got an email from a friend who we go skiing with.

Wanting to book the holiday.

Made me laugh anyway.

Lots of snow here in my neck of The UK. But even more where I was over the weekend. Beer in front of a fire in the pub sounds good. Will get my coat / hat / drinking head on and off I go.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:12 PM

Not a cloud, nare a strip a wind, 5C... Just walked a mile and took the last bit of ice off the driveway. If I didn't have work, laundry and supper on the go, I would still be outside.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mandotim
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:35 PM

A foot or so of snow here at the southern tip of the Peak District. Still snowing, and the wind is causing drifts now.
Tim

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:44 AM

bout 5 inches in mid Essex... I am working from home today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:18 PM

Absolutely perfect and unusual for winter here..no wind, 47 degrees F, no rain. Lovely morning. Was pretty windy yesterday. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:43 PM

14 inches plus in Gainsborough

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:44 PM

That is snow of course!!!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:47 PM

We are expecting torrential rains today. Hell, even the geese will be walking.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:02 PM

14+ inches. Glad I live in Moncton... today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:10 PM

Just east of Peak District - the most snow I've seen here in 30 years.

Does anyone have any good cat recipes?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:13 PM

Fried cat, boiled cat, roast cat... what is your preference?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM

Re Cat Recipes

I would suggest stir fry. Treat as one would chicken.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:18 PM

Treat as one would chicken.

What d'you think I am? Some kind of pervert?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:25 PM

In north central Pennsylvania it's been quite a mix.

Yesterday: Lots of heavy rain and high winds (moved my 60 pound kayak, lots of trees down in the area, bird feeds are down, lawn furniture all over the place).

Today: Started with rain, then sleet, then snow and now it's sleetish....temperatures dropping...glad that we don't HAVE to be on the roads today. I imagine power will be out in some areas of the county before bedtime.

Michelle

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:01 PM

Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.

22 Degrees C at 9:00am.
Lots of rain yesterday. Overcast now.
Cool for this time of year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:26 PM

Cold as a step-mother's kiss...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:29 PM

Colder than a grave digger's arse..

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 09:36 PM

Blowing in the wind. Tied of shaky campers, me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM

I've heard "colder than a whore's heart" but never "a step-mother's kiss". Perhaps a "mother-in-law's kiss"?

8 with drizzle here but I saw crows massing at dawn. I have been waiting and watching for the migration... got my camcorder and camera at the ready. I wish I had been more on the ball a few years back. When I noticed it, they were directly over me and it was awesome but I stood and watched for at least five minutes before I even thought of a vid. By the time I was set up it was too far away to be impressive.

I watched a shorebird migration at dusk in PEI about thirty years ago. Remarkable how millions of birds wait their turn and join in, from north to south along the shore. As do the crows in similar fashion. Fascinating.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 07:32 PM

Big wet delays new Mad Max film

It's in a part of the country officially called a "Semi-arid area" - I've driven past the sign on the highway warning people attempting to enter that section of the highway!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 01:00 PM

Mike Harding summed it up perfectly in his monologue "Ackroyd's Funeral."

Some brass monkeys outside were singing carols, soprano.
You could hear them cursing and swearing,
As they wandered round lost, in the fog and the frost,
They couldn't find their bearings.




So many cats, so few recipes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 01:09 PM

I woulda thought you preferred em steamed.

The lawns are green and little yellow flowers are sprouting along my house foundation... silly buggers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mandotim
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 04:45 PM

I'm finding this hard to believe, even though I saw it myself. My neighbour's recording thermometer showed a lowest temperature last night of -24C. It was -16C when I set off for work this morning. This was in the southern end of the Peak District, in the Staffordshire Moorlands. I've never seen temperatures that low in the UK.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 04:15 AM

It's 9.05am here in beautiful Somerset, and it is -5 degrees. No snow at the moment, but there is a thick hoar frost covering everything. I don't remember a frost this thick even in Aberdeen last year. It's also colder than Aberdeen last year, although not by much. The sky is a uniform white and I can't tell if it's fog, cloud or if the sun hasn't made it over the top of the garage yet. It all looks very spooky.

Fog is everywhere, and our usual view of the Mendips is shrouded in fog. In fact, The forecast for today is 'fog'.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,kp
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 04:30 AM

Oh no
Its snowing again in Edinburgh this morning.
Just when we thought it had stopped and spent much of yesterday digging out cars!

And my walking boots have a hole in them...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:00 AM

Fog followed by gorgeous sun yesterday, today dense freezing fog. Okay the novelty of winter has now worn off. Some sun is forecast for the rest of the week - we are just thankful that it isn't windy to add to the chill.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:27 AM

Too much rain to mow the grass so I could drag the junk out to the foot path for special collection day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:48 AM

Don't know where you are, Patsy, but this sounds like our weather. It was beautifully sunny yesterday - still very cold but from the inside it looked warm, and it actually warmed up our enclosed south-facing front porch. Today it looks bleak and cold with, as you said, dense freezing fog, but thankfully not a breath of wind. Nearly 11am now, and still -4 degrees. BRRRR!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:46 AM

The drought has broken... and broken.. and now .. it's flooding in New South Wales..

and the rain's still pattering outside.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsay
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:10 AM

Hello Jenny this is in North Bristol and looking very bleak, where are you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:43 PM

Ah yes, Patsy, you're not all that far away. I'm in Cossington, near Bridgwater. It's been like this all day and now it's even colder - minus 6 degrees according to the weather on my computer. Tomorrow looks like more of the same.

Today we were in town, in Bridgwater, and the air was so cold it was making my teeth ache when I opened my mouth to say something.

Tomorrow I'm going to try and brave the cold for a while to take some macro shots with my camera of the ice crystals on the leaves. It's actually quite beautiful!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:32 PM

Saw some flowers trying to sprout yestreen..50.1 degrees at 4:30 p.m. No wind to speak of..no rain. Warmest place in state of Washington USA. Could not be better for a December day. I think we still have rhododendruns blooming in some places, especially the dark red ones. Pinks bloomed last month but are done now. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:43 PM

It's 29 balmy deg C in our beer garden this morning....that's 84.2 deg F for those not fortunate enough to be in Oz....and because we now live in the country well away from the coast the humidity is quite bearable. The view from the beer garden is birds, magpies, rosellas and galahs singing and sqwarking in the trees. We have a native reserve on the other side of our back fence and the birds provide us with endless entertainment.

It's not raining today for a change, but more is forecast tomorrow, and we are well away from floods but it could happen here - we had a flood in late July. But if the flood waters ever get to our house on the hill.......then the rest of Oz is really in deep shit.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:47 PM

Right then... what's a beer garden?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 09:58 PM

In answer to the thread title, the weather here is the shits. Cold as a well diggers arse and the snow is blowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 11:47 PM

Gnu, a beer garden is the back garden of a pub - most Ozzie pubs have an outside area where kids are allowed, some pubs have a beautifully landscaped beer garden, others are more rough and ready. But "beer garden" is the official term, some pubs even have a sign pointing out the whereabouts of theirs.

The back of our house is L-shaped, the previous owner had filled in the L with brick paving, roofed it over, and added a low lattice wall. It's a lovely spot to watch the birds in the reserve, on the hill, over the fence. Here's a view of ours.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 01:06 AM

Since I had no reason to be concerned, I didn't make a serious attempt to determine where this link originated; but it quite obviously

WAS WINDY SOMEWHERE

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 08:03 AM

Well, in the swampy bog hole I live in, it actually stopped raining and the sun came out for a couple of hours today, long enough to actually run the mower over part of the waist high grass... before it started raining again. Of course, it's not raining now, but the mower doesn't have headlights, and the neighbors might complain anyway about mowing in the dark ...

5 States are flooded over substantial parts, and in the parts that are not, we have swarms of locusts. 9 major river systems are flooded, looks like water will reach Lake Eyre again. Looks like we don't have many bushfires so far this year, would be a bloody miracle if water burned, I suppose....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 09:04 PM

Heaps of rain.
Some sun this morning.
Managed to do some washing.
Can almost see the grass growing.
26 degrees C
Sunshine Coast QLD

Must have been someone's idea of a joke calling it the Sunshine Coast.
Sure we have plenty of sun, but plenty of rain too!

Hope it's not still raining Friday evening for our 2 choirs Christmas concert.

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

Heavy, heavy...fog. HIGHLY unusual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 04:53 AM

JennyO, Bridgwater is not too far away 'as the crow flies' so I expect it is pretty much the same. Today a bit of a breeze is picking up too. Hopefully there won't be any heavy snow fall too close to Christmas. It can do what it likes after that.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 05:47 AM

JennieG that pic of the view from your back yard is beeeeyoutiful! enjoy your peace!

fredalina :-D

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 05:49 AM

cold grey surprise surprise

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:41 PM

Yesterday was the best of all for freezing fog and amazing pictures. Haven't got them off the camera yet, but I got some fantastic macro shots of leaves with ice crystals around them, icy spider webs everywhere, and more distant shots of the winter wonderland. The locals reckon they haven't seen anything like this, or experienced these low temperatures for 20 years or more. I don't think it got above -6 degrees.

I was really glad I braved the cold yesterday to get the pics, because today the sun came out, and although there was still a lot of white and frost everywhere all day, the amazing ice crystals on things had gone. It's a balmy -2 now :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:56 PM

Cold as a pump handle here in the Blue Ridge... Wind blows hard from the northwest and then get caught right upside this here mountain and then swirls and swirls...

Can't even leave the beer out in the barn 'cause it freezes... I put a few in a gunny sack and they froze??? Had to put 'um in the barn refrigerator to warm them up enough to no be froze...

That's cold, people...

B~

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 09:37 PM

It keeps flippin' changing!

- Shane

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 12:34 PM

We've had a fairly mild winter so far in Juneau. Snow, but no great amount. Cold but not much wind.

Today we are forecast up to a foot of snow. I like the prospect. Since my job doesn't entail having to go out in it I get to choose how much of it I brave.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 12:43 PM

It's changing...