What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 06:35 PM

Jeri... The fishnets didn't work so well.

You didn`t use salt codÉ

Grrrr... keyboard is messed up againÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 07:13 PM

The previous snow storm that buried the eastern half of the US a week or so ago pretty much missed us in Wichita KS US, with only a couple of inches here. Winds during that snowfall were high (~40 mph while it was coming down) so our accumulation then was "6 inches wide" on the sides of obstructions. Roads aligned with the wind direction didn't even need plowing, although crosswise ones had "nothing to feet" of drifts.

After about a week of "there's another one coming but it probably will miss us" we've had an overnight 5 or 6 inches (visual estimate in my neighborhood) and the predictions have suddenly changed to "6 to 12 inches" locally and up to "feet" nearby toward the east and southeast.

Temps during the past week have been a little lower than normal, but "zoomed up to 40F" (4.4C) yesterday afternoon. This afternoon the high temp was about 0F (-18C) but the wind is again (intermittently) strong, and reported current wind chill at -20F (-29C).

I can see through the small hole where the snow isn't plastered on the front window that the trash/recycling pickup has been on schedule (and that the driver didn't get down to shut the lid on one of the carts like he usually does); but I'll have to go out the back and walk around to shovel the two foot drift blocking the front door before we'll be able to get out normally. Weather maps on TV now show two additional bands of (what we call here) "heavy snow" approaching, so I think I'll wait until they pass before reassessing the situation. If the wind changes direction it may all blow away, and we don't have anyplace we need to go for the next few days.

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 07:21 PM

There are many similarities between JiKs weather in Wichita, where I used to live, and the DC suburbs where I am now. We don't usually get major snows. We had one very wet, cold day on Sat., but some chilly but sunny days since...and a week or two more of decent clear days predicted! It won't be 'warm', but no nastiness in sight.

I sure hope it eases for everyone else... whether they need heat or cool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 08:26 PM

The biggest difference between my part of Kansas and most of the east coast is that in six years spent in Boston I only heard thunder ONCE.

(It definitely frightened the local neighbors, many of whom didn't know what it was. The "media" had to explain - extensively.)

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 10:20 PM

Indeed~! We had thunder the other day, and it was a bit like being home in Kansas... that plus WIND... today we had wind warnings on my weather program until noon, and what we got would be considered 'average' days in Wichita, which at one time was on of the top 10 windy cities. (well, that was 40 years ago :>) I don't know about these days.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 03:30 PM

Wasn't aware you were from Kansas, Bill. Just by chance, did you ever meet Dorothy?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 04:09 PM

Dorothy? No... but I could introduce you to a couple of wicked witches....and several yappy little dogs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 03:23 PM

Next person that asks, "Enough snow for ya yet?" gets a shovel upside the head and then up...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Feb 11 - 02:57 PM

5C, sunny and breezey! In mid February! My windows are open... fresh air! I can hear the drip, drip, drip of the snow melting.... die you bastards, DIE!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bob Landry
Date: 17 Feb 11 - 10:24 PM

Maiulny clear skiers and -21 celcius (pushing-10 farenheit). Tolerable!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 11:12 AM

The weather is definitely getting warmer here. I think the Groundhogs were right this time!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 11:41 AM

3 days of sunny & balmy..... It's still Feb! Watch out!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 12:54 PM

it is snowing big fat blobs

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 01:08 PM

Snow, mixed precip, freezing rain, and now rain... which will reverse order near dusk.

Which actually isn't a bad thing on accounta I had my roof shovelled off and I had to make a ramp up to the front door and clear clear a metre of snow from the front door... that crystalized stuff that's hard to stick a shovel blade into.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Feb 11 - 05:34 PM

Just rain

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Goose Gander
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 02:52 PM

In between rain storms, a new one's moving in right now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 07:34 PM

Vicious winds buffeted this locality all last night...moderating today as the day went on. A lot of small stuff came down from the trees, along with a bit of blowing snow.

The Groundhog has locked his front door and won't answer the doorbell.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 02:59 PM

In Juneau, Alaska we just got out of a winter storm warning situation that brought us about a foot of snow but the temperature is just at freezing so it probably won't last long. Very pretty though.

We've had a mild winter, except for when it wasn't. A couple of times it was brutal- high winds, low temperatures and slicing snow. This time it started out that way but the winds died and it became lovely.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maire-aine
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 10:49 AM

We (SE Michigan) got about 10" of snow (drifts to twice that) overnight. Just finished digging out my driveway/sidewalk. Frogprince, how much did you get?

Maryanne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 12:34 PM

Bright, sunny, and cold out there. A nice day to look at the scenery. The Groundhog expresses cautious optimism about the approach of Spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 07:31 PM

77°F here last Thurs...35° and preparing for snow tonight, and predicted down to 18°F tomorrow night.

sheesh! What an... interesting... Winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 10:34 PM

78 was the high today, lovely weather all week.

This morning the first daffodil bloomed!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 09:31 AM

Hey Art... make sure ya keep yer roof clear a snow eh!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:31 AM

I was in Salisbury over the weekend and it was quite dry with glimpses of sun but chilly. Back here in Bristol the temperatures are starting to climb to double figures but dull damp grey. It has been a weird Winter rather than interesting, plummeting to cold temperatures and then 13-15 degrees in the early hours and then plummeting again. My Isle of Wight friend has reported the same kind of temperature changes on the Island, one minute shivering and the next breaking out in a sweat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 02:09 PM

Snowing again. 35cm and 90kph gusts.

That pic two posts ago... the lads were shovelling out the soil stacks, laundry vents and exhaust fan vents so they'll be at it again on Monday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 02:38 PM

Predicted to be the coldest day this season in the sagebrush desert.

Tonight may get down to 0^o F and tomorrow just 23^o F high.

We had a freak cold spell in early November with one day of 5^o F low and 28^o F high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 09:58 AM

Cool pic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 02:28 AM

had snow for a few days..got 10-12 inches..
power is out and phones are intermittant at best.
i have been away from home for several
days...I had several gigs...
babgysitting 2 year old grandson
playing at 2 birthday parties and
helping to shear sheep...
i am not looking forward to
being back home with no electric,and no pnone.
with no power, the pump is also out, so no water either.
with no wood stove, there will be no heat
i heat with propane, but the heater requires
electricity ... so life will be miserable
without power...

back when i used to live in a cabin with a wood stove,
gravity flow water, and wood burning water heater,
power outages did not bother me...the only fear
was spoiled food when the fridge and freezer were
without power...but i could still cook, bathe, and keep warm without
needing electricity....

not so any more in my motor home....

the highway was closed due to multiple jack-knifed big rigs

and the dirt road into my place may not be cleared yet,
although the high way and the county road have rbeen plowed,
so i hear. since the fire 3 years ago there are still standing
dead trees, and many were toppled by the weight of the snow.

this was the cause of some of the downed power and phone lines.
i will try to return home tomorrow when the temps get above
freezing...i do not want to try to drive the steep mountain
roads when it is below freezing.

..will send update when I make my way back home...
i am about 20 miles away now at my daughter and son-in-law's house.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 09:49 PM

In Juneau Alaska we're back in the bitter stuff. High winds- 84 mph has been the highest clocked so far, I think - but it has been mighty gusty the last two or three days. Temperature around 10F today- with the wind chill you might say it is cool. This drafty old building is chilling now- it took awhile to permeate the walls, I guess.   This is forecast to last until Tuesday morning - earlier they had said *Monday* morning, so who knows.

My little Chinese Crested Hairless dog is wearing 1 and 1/2 sweaters, a coat and a 'robe' pinned around his neck. He looks like Yul Brynner swooping around in The King and I.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 11:18 PM

Whereas here in north central North Carolina, spring has sprung - early and dry. Some fairly wild temperature fluctuations, but all mild compared to many other places. High tomorrow 80F, high Tuesday is predicted to be 55F. That sort of thing has been the pattern for the past few weeks. Has been a weird winter. Colder average temps and more frozen precipitation, but much lower precipitation over-all, and no periods of what for us is extreme cold. And now a much warmer and drier February than is typical, in spite of significant fluctuation in temps.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: KT
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 12:02 AM

Those chilly winds are unceasing! Sounds like a freight train is tearing around the house!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 01:07 AM

Oh, and KT, two people have told me that the news tonight said it will be like this the rest of the week. Sounds like December - or was it January? - all over again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:15 AM

The wind is a bit chilly here in Bristol now and grey clouds with a few spots of rain but the odd glimpse of sun. For the last day in February it's ok compared to last year's snow which seemed to go on and on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:41 AM

Snow snow snow snow snow. Wind. Ice. Snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 11:36 AM

Maeve, my troubles pale alongside yours! Although this is a drafty old building with insufficient heat, I have four floors to roam around in, and as the manager, plenty of work to do.

Where the advantage is on your side, not on mine, is the bright world Spring will bring you. Chin up- it will come.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 01:02 PM

Take a wild guess. Gowan.

Glad I got the rooves shovelled off when I did. I put a couple of pics of Mum and me standing in our front room windows on Saturday on my Flickr page.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 01:21 PM

This winter, it seems like there's...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bettynh
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 03:01 PM

Well, we're above freezing again at least. Time to make maple sugar around here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 02:53 PM

SPRING has SPRUNG! I was just outside and heard the first true sound of spring... a motorcycle!

Suppose to snow tonight tho...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 08:36 PM

very windy and rainy this morning but now it is sunny sort of and windy. The wind blows so much here it blows the rainclouds away sometimes. I am very grateful that for the tsumani evacuation we had very reasonable weather..I walked 4 miles with a pack and even with raingear would have been drenched..a number of teens came to evacuation center wearing only shorts..hopefully they had other stuff in cars. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 08:46 PM

1st day of daylight savings, and wonderful (a wee mite cool, but sunny) weather! Everyone was out (Sunday) chopping up fallen branches & filling bags & barrels for tomorrow's recycling collection. I will have several weeks to get caught up. I wish I had invested in a chipper 20 years ago.
Still, the early bloomers are showing their noses and if I work fast, I can get ahead of some of the weeds and ivy that is hard to even get to if I wait till May......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 09:31 PM

Snow and ice around, but the river's breaking up. Saw about 1200 snow geese returning, and they pretty much indicate that spring is soon to arrive. If geese are too high up to see markings, you can tell the difference anyway because Canadian geese fly in V formations, and you can see a point to the V. Snow geese look like a boomerang or the top half of a letter O cut in two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 09:37 PM

The geese were less pointy?

I can see grass, and the seasonal run-off streamlet in back is running off. It was still cold, but there were men out wearing shorts and T-shirts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 09:23 AM

It was a crisp frost this morning but really pleasant with pretty sunshine. The sun is shining, everyone is smiling hope it stays like this for just a little bit longer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 08:57 AM

Beautiful sunny and warm, hurray the thermals can come off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 09:50 AM

Mum can see out her front room window. The snow is down by about a metre.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 16 Mar 11 - 01:50 AM

Spring is creeping in, and telling the cold, that its days are numbered...........till winter sulks for a few months, then gets even.

GfS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 09:08 PM

9 days ago... snowstorm... about 8". At the moment, thunderstorm.

I am pissed at Mum Nature. She need some good drugs to chill out man.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 03:45 AM

Tonight began our Alaska Folk Festival. From midApril to the end of June is typically our driest, brightest weather. There have been years when people with their instruments gathered in parks and street corners and played and sang.

Not today, for sure. It started with snow and ended with drippy rain and chilly temperatures.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 05:51 PM

The storm that has been causing havoc throughout the south made for a tense morning and afternoon - the weather radio was blaring alert after alert as the squall line moved through - and a boring 10 minutes huddled in the hallway during a warning for a tornado that missed me by a good 6 miles. Eastern North Carolina is getting battered right now. Reports are still preliminary but sounds like there will be some significant damage here and there from Raleigh east.

It was really quite something. The fastest moving and most intense squall line I've experienced since moving to NC 26 years ago. I'm fine.   Got 1 3/4 inches of rain in one 15 minute period, and then the whole thing had moved on.