What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 16 - 08:32 PM

MUCH nicer day here !

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 16 - 01:23 PM

Glad you're recovered, frogprince. That sounded really scary.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 03:21 PM

Well, tomorrow is the Patriot's Day Marathon, and the sun will be out, the air will be warm to the bystanders and hot to the poor runners, and the trees will be bare! The flowering trees and shrubs have got blossoms on them, but the trees, most of them, have not even got little green leaves yet: buds, at most.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 01:12 PM

Upset victory in the men's marathon, and the weather could not be more ideal, at least for us spectators. The women's winner says she likes it this way actually, as her muscles don't contract to battle a cold morning start.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 09:13 PM

The weekend weather for the New England Folk Festival in Mansfield, MA, was great! Today has been glorious, too, in RI. I hadn't heard the Boston Marathon results nor what went on at Fenway Park, so I'll be tuning into the 11 PM news. I'm not much of a sports fan, but it's still good to know. Tomorrow should be cooler.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Apr 16 - 05:04 PM

Bracing for another April Shower tomorrow. The rain is needed. That said, the day is supposed to be cold, gray, and dreary. Pull out the long underwear again...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 12:13 PM

The rain is here, with a vengeance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 01:13 PM

Snow here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 08:15 PM

Snow, Maeve? Oh, my! (That's my polite way of saying "Horrors!") Well, even in RI we've had snow at least into May, but still, stay warm and dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 08:42 PM

Via Twitter from Tim Peake the astronaut, above Edinburgh today:

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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Apr 16 - 05:08 PM

Looks good to me, Jack!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 29 Apr 16 - 07:33 AM

Well we had the first swallows here last week and nearly four inches of snow this morning.
It was starting to settle at midnight whilst we were coming back from performing at the Topic at Bradford and was a complete blanket with some local roads closed when we woke up this morning.
It is melting now so we should be able to set off for Upton Festival soon!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Apr 16 - 10:52 PM

85F in DC suburbs early this week...barely in 50s today.... and rain...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Apr 16 - 08:48 PM

Surely not winter here in Massachusetts -- there are leaves & blossoms on some of the trees -- and last week we had a couple of days in the 70s (F), so I got my annual haircut; but mostly it hovers in the 50s. This happens every spring: I keep being indignant that it is not 10 degrees warmer, right up into the 80s. Maybe I should move back to Virginia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 May 16 - 03:29 PM

Your part of Massachusetts, Joe F., sounds a great deal like my part. I'm just glad to put as much distance as possible between this ending winter, and the 2014-2015 winter, I need say no more, SHUDDER.

RE: relocating. Do stop and consider the cicadas. Another batch --"Brood V" -- is due to emerge with the next warm rainstorms, which raise the ground temperature where they are getting ready to come out of hibernating.   

"Brood V" is supposed to be concentrated mainly around southeastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania, with that sliver of West Virginia in the mix. In 2020, however, there is another big brood, forget which Roman numeral designation, due to come out; and that will occupy more of Virginia.

Currently there are numerous online articles updating the whole periodic watch for broods of cicadas, both the 13-year and the 17-year types; many of them have brightly colored maps of the lower 48 states, showing the geographical distribution of differently-timed emergences.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 May 16 - 08:24 PM

I wouldn't mind learning to cook cicadas. (I think they're even kosher!) When I was last in VA (1970s) we had a massive crop of grasshoppers one year, and a friend of mine fried a batch for breakfast, but they were terribly tough.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 16 - 05:36 PM

The April showers are back -- whoops it's May

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 16 - 07:02 PM

1 to 3 inch hail in DC area.

I've never seen so much hail.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 16 - 07:03 PM

Yes, on the radio I was shocked to listen to accounts of violent weather across the continental US. It sounds apocalyptic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 16 - 03:24 PM

Gray, cold, and wet, and forecast to remain that way right up to Mother's Day Weekend. Well, at least it is above freezing, and things are growing, blossoming, budding, and putting forth leaves and shoots. Those things will rejoice in cool humid weather even though the gray skies are depressing to us bipeds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 May 16 - 09:49 PM

I scheduled a singaround and flower hike at my house April 9, but very few people showed up because it was threatening to rain. We worked around rainstorms, and saw lots of flowers without getting wet. I was hoping to schedule a makeup hike this Saturday, May 7, but it's supposed to rain all weekend. The flowers sure love it, though - there were more flowers in the wooded ravine next door, than I've seen in the 14 years I've lived here.
The mosquitoes love it, too. I just came back from a flower hike, and I'm itching all over. The flowers were pretty, though.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 May 16 - 08:06 PM

I have a vague memory of something called the sun and hope to see it again someday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 May 16 - 06:59 PM

The weather here is raining another serial killer spewing death for 3 and wounding two. Coincidentally with the DC snipers who shot and killed people at the same intersection and grocery store. This time a federal cop that was stripped of all that he felt he had achieved went on a murder spree at locations in which we see movies and go to eat. Picking up some Zithromax at my drugstore I ran into the arrest scene of the killer and watched his car get towed away.

I was thinking of starting a new thread called Your daily local shooting but The Brits don't have this kind of problem that Americans do. Shootings here get as much coverage as the weather and often even more.

To me the shootings have become as common as the weather in conversation, injury and more often than weather, death.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 May 16 - 09:31 PM

Wow, Donuel!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 16 - 02:11 PM

I hear the sun might come out for a change.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 16 - 05:01 PM

How's your weather in this changeable month? I finally put away my long johns. Air conditioning needed for a parked car in the hot sun.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 May 16 - 02:50 PM

What I love about this time of year, is that the insects have yet to hatch out and run amok, because it's too cold at night; but the flora are budding and blossoming all about. It will end all too soon, when it gets warm enough for creepy crawly flying things.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 May 16 - 08:45 PM

Sun's out here, too! I haven't used the AC in my car yet. I put a reflective window shade in my car and crack the windows about an inch when I park, and I try to park under trees. I have used the car's fan, but not the AC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 May 16 - 09:15 PM

Most of a very nice warm day here. We made our usual visit with the FIL at his care facility, and took him out in a courtyard for some welcome fresh air. We did get some booming noises and heavy rain in the late afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 13 May 16 - 07:17 PM

-- effan' Baltic today in the West of Scotland, after about a week of (for us) scorching sunshine, sandals, havin' tae water the gairden (almost unbelievable here!)
Our Copper Beech tree has now completely opened out its leaves -- a bit later than usual, normally 1st May.
Hope the cold wind diminishes tomorrow - - - -

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 May 16 - 07:00 PM

The wind, the "coolth", and a spot of rain are due back here. Good thing too, before conditions get forest-fire or brush-fire tinder-dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 16 - 05:41 PM

Dark gray clouds overhead, and a wind so stiff that the forecasters are broadcasting wind-chill factors again; the night will be cold. That's good -- it will keep the bugs at bay....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 15 May 16 - 08:29 PM

gorgeous day here ... not as warm as the previous spell but bright and sunny- -a great welcome back home to the Clyde for TS Queen Mary, which was towed and shepherded by tugs Vanguard and Buster all the way from Tilbury to the James Watt Dock at Greenock. (Well I'm not sure if Buster did the whole route - check the Friends of TS Queen Mary website or facebook page for correct info!)
Now the fundraising begins to refit her.......poor wee boatie. Hope they can get her steaming again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 16 May 16 - 05:56 AM

----just realised Gordon Lightfoot was born the same year as TS Queen Mary was launched!
Going to see him in GRCH on Wednesday -- - - journey back in time to my teens and student days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: vectis
Date: 16 May 16 - 10:32 PM

Summer has been unending this year. The night time temperatures are still in the high teens and it has been very dry since early January. The sea temperatures have only just dipped below 20. This is winter in New Zealand in an El Nino year.

I love the log burner in winter but it is far too hot to light it yet :-(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 17 May 16 - 03:52 PM

oops, mistake- - need new specs! read launch year of boat as 1938 instead of 1933 -- - - G L is younger than the boat!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 17 May 16 - 08:19 PM

It's been a very pleasant, if somewhat cool, spring here in the mountains of North Georgia. [USA}

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 May 16 - 05:56 PM

Hot enough for early summer, and us with a long holiday weekend coming up. In fact, it's Thursday and a lot of people are leaving town as though it were Friday -- the traffic reports are unsettling.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 16 - 11:35 AM

A lovely steady soaking rain. Nice change from unseasonably hot and dry. With everything growing like mad, the rain is welcome, and cools things down....it had been like summer a month early.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 May 16 - 12:00 PM

Very strong chilly wind here in Norfolk, and mizzly rain which could even be sleet. I'm so sorry for all the organisers of Bank Holiday events, and little families who must have been looking forward to their break. My lovely neighbour is off camping with her Brownies, poor soul.
And the blackbird is still sitting on her eggs hidden in the honeysuckle at the front door. I keep putting out best lean raw mince for her, and leftover catfood. She looks frozen stiff!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 30 May 16 - 07:09 PM

Spring. Summer. Spring. Summer. Until summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 30 May 16 - 07:29 PM

Totally great warm weekend for bumming and reading in the shade and swimming a bit. Never saw so much weekend time with 100% chance of thunderstorm predicted and nothing but a minute or so of scattered raindrops once.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 May 16 - 09:12 PM

Ha, we Westcountry types love to indulge In a bit of schadenfreude when the south-east gets the brunt (and that includes you, Norfolk!), as all too often it's the other way round. We've had a super weekend in Cornwall, wall-to-wall sun on Sunday and Monday, temps in the low 20s. And more of the same tomorrow. I'm going brown!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 May 16 - 04:18 AM

It's even worse here today Steve, so you can gloat still more! :)
It's pitch black, lashing with torrential rain and a high wind.

My snotty sister rang from Scotland to smirk, as like you she's sunburnt and sitting in the garden doing the Times crossword. The cow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:07 AM

Well it's 11am, the sun's beating down from a cloudless Cornish sky and the gentle breeze is moderating the temperature to 17°C. 😎 I think we'll get 20 or 21 this afternoon. I'll be putting out my bedding plants. You're so lucky to have all that rain and that nice, cooling breeze! 😈

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:20 AM

I'm beginning to hate you! :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:43 AM

here in Sydney we finally have autumn or maybe even winter after a very looooong summer.

Since Easter I've been sleeping under a fine woolen shawl & it is only in the past few weeks I've got my thin blankets out & finally got my down quilt out late last week. I also brought out fleecy & woolen stuff for daytime wear.

forecasts for this week in Sydney are up to 20C max, with nights 12-14 + rain. Latest temp recorded (7.10pm Tues) is 13.8C

sandra


National summary for April - (May figures will be released in the next few days, but it has been warmer than normal)
    Australia's April mean temperature second-warmest on record (2.00 °C above average)
    National April mean maximum temperatures second-warmest on record (2.38 °C above average)
    National April mean minimum temperatures third-warmest on record (1.61 °C above average)
    Many late-season high temperature records across the country
    Eighth-driest April on record for Australia (rainfall 67% below average)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 May 16 - 01:10 PM

30C and 36H (feels like). Tomorrow, 13C with 20 kph wind. Glad I have a mini-split heat pump.

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 May 16 - 03:58 PM

We're going hiking in Switzerland at the end of June, so my wife is trying to get me in shape. Sometimes, I'm convinced she's trying to kill me. We just got back at noon from the wooded ravine next to our property, and the temperature is 88°F (31°C). I got warm by the end of the hike, but not like I was going to die. So, maybe I'm getting in shape.

There has been good rainfall here this year after a four-year drought, but not a huge amount over the average. For some reason, the wildflowers are more profuse than I have ever seen them, and some varieties are much larger than what I usually see. The Mariposa lilies were the most spectacular ones this week, but there were maybe 25 other varieties we saw today. The Mariposa lilies were taller and had larger blossoms than I've seen before - and they were everywhere!

There is no rain forecast here for the next two weeks. I wonder if that means we've seen the last of rain until October. Here in the Sierra Foothills, we rarely have rain from June through September, although there are often afternoon thunderstorms in the mountains just east of us.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 May 16 - 04:58 PM

In a day in early April about ten years ago I was in Perth, WA, and the temperature reached 36°. That was the hottest I'd ever been in. I beat it last year in Andalucia, southern Spain, when we had three days that reached 40°. The odd thing was that all four of those days were comfortable because the humidity was very low. We Cornish denizens are unaccustomed to such things. We did have 31° in Bude a few years ago. That's about as high as it ever gets, and even that's rare.