What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 07:44 PM

Big thunder boomers rolling from west to east today,
but for some wierd reason,

they broke into bits, the storm systems,
and did not roll over my neck of the woods --
only skirted it to the north and the south.
Who knows ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 11:40 PM

I reported hail on June 19 and we had hail again today. I've lived all my life in RI and hail has been rare here. Most years we have none ot all. I don't ever remember it happening twice in the same season, and these two storms weren't far apart.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 19 - 05:32 PM

A break from the rain, at last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 04:03 PM

Hotter Than July, indeed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 04:04 PM

Donuel,
I understand why you can't speak up right now,
and I miss you anyway.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Jul 19 - 12:55 AM

Very warm here in the middle of RI and in Mystic, CT.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 19 - 01:28 PM

Plenty of complaints about today's weather.

It's that humidity, of course,
the closeness and the stifling air.

Thunderstorms are supposed to roll through again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 19 - 04:15 PM

Parts of the continental US
are having a deluge of biblical proportions --
poor Louisiana!!

Any Mudcatters caught in the currents out here?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jul 19 - 09:16 PM

This is weather for the comic relief in
Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate --

no, not Brush Up on your Shakespeare --

It's Too Darn Hot!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 02:05 PM

How did everybody survive the heat wave?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 05:22 PM

It's always a heat wave in July and August in Texas, and will continue through September.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 11:42 PM

How? Drank lots of water and sat in front of a fan!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 11:20 AM

This might sound a bit tame to you hot yanks, but this afternoon the shade temperature exceeded 30C in my garden. That's rare round here is that. The absolute record for Bude is only two degrees hotter than that. There's talk of the all-time UK record being beaten by Thursday. Watch this space!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 07:41 PM

Steve, it helped me to remember that the difference between Celsius degrees is greater than the difference between Fahrenheit degrees, so I entered those two temperatures into a converter. Of course I have no idea what the humidity was, either! However, when my home's indoor temp reaches 85F I am uncomfortable!

Stay hydrated!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 11:37 AM

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, had a tornado!

And if you know Cape Cod,
you know how much real estate development has happened there,
how many people have summer cottages and the like --
potential for astronomical sums of damages.
(I don't think anyone was killed though.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jul 19 - 02:05 PM

Cool nights for sleeping!
Won't last long at this time of year, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Jul 19 - 04:52 PM

Some friends and I hope to book a winter weekend in the motel after the roof that the tornado blew off is fixed or in a room that wasn't affected. News reports say that parts of it are still in use. However, construction noise can be a problem, too, for people who stay in the rooms where the roof is intact.
Our motivation for staying there is not to be at the scene of the disaster but to help the business which is family-owned, not part of a chain. This has to be hard on the finances, occurring during the high tourism season on the Cape. The owner said the roof was only about a year old. It's probably insured but there may be a deductible and loss of business may not be included.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Jul 19 - 02:43 PM

Further to Steve's mention of the hot weather in Bude (by the way, my late uncle & auntie lived there & I enjoyed visits - "Birdwatchers' Bude"
), we also had a heat wave here in Manchester and now have flooding rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 19 - 05:04 PM

The thunder and lightning I can take or leave,
but
we really need the rain coming down just now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Aug 19 - 02:32 PM

A lot of rain the last few days where I am and, just south, in Whaley Bridge, the damn is on the brink of bursting. Sadly, nearby Buxton has already suffered flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 19 - 07:33 PM

"The damn is on the brink of bursting."

Thank you, WV, for a much-needed laugh tonight.

Or, as a flustered award-winning songwriter said
live on television while accepting his award,
"Stank you very much."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 05:30 PM

That was a mistake, Keberoxu, but it's also true that some locals haven't been happy with it for a while.

And certainly doesn't bother me much but, before my 5 year, or so, gap on Mudcat, most here called me WAV.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 06:33 PM

WAV it is, then,
which is a better idea then addressing you
with the abbreviation for West Virginia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 06:52 PM

I've only visited LA and NY in the USA, and only know of West Virginia through John Denver - seems scenic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 19 - 08:08 AM

As long as the weather is decent for sleeping at night,
it's good weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Aug 19 - 07:42 PM

And tomorrow,
again with the cloudbursts and thunderstorms
AND stifling humidity. Roller-coaster weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 05:38 PM

Same roller-coaster going on outside,
with cloudbursts and rain and black threatening clouds
which break up
for humid muggy sunshine.

But I feared for this thread recently,
as it is
more than a thousand posts ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 06:41 AM

33 years ago today we moved from Loughton in Essex to Cornwall (best thing we ever did). Our move was blighted by two days of terrible weather caused by the leftovers of Hurricane Charley, which had formed near Florida the week before. The Cornish removal company, two men and the strongest woman I've ever seen in my life, loaded all our belongings, most of which was going into store, into the van in a blinding rainstorm (thankfully all was well when we finally retrieved our furniture four months later), then camped on the floor of our empty living room overnight, which we hadn't expected. I had to buy them all fish and chips. Charley wreaked havoc in Ireland that week via huge amounts of rainfall.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Raggytash
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 07:43 AM

Trying to cut the grass in the back "garden" 80 degrees plus not a cloud in the shy and not a breath of wind.

I've done about 3/4's of it, the rest will have to wait!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 08:43 AM

Beautiful day here too. Ten minutes ago I stripped off and turned the hosepipe on my overheated personage after a sweaty morning's gardening. (we enjoy a degree of seclusion). Lifeboat Day in Bude today. There will be shanties sung this afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 12:48 PM

Hi all! It’s 86f going up to 92f in Tallahassee. . We are preparing for Dorian whose path is coming in our direction around Labor Day. As many of you know I have been caring for my dad who turns 96 next month. This will be the fourth hurricane in fall in a row for us. The last two were the worst, of course. Dorian is now a category three. The gulf coast around Mexico Beach and inland was devastated last year.

I am weary of hurricanes. I have to keep dad cool and feed him, but he isn’t eating a lot anymore. ..... I started this thread eighteen years ago. We all have concerns about the weather, eh? All is well in my world, though. I play Bessie Smith’s BackwaterBlues on my Radio King parlour guitar and Little Gray Mockingbird by the late Dennis Dunne on autoharp.
Love, harpgirl.

PS I have been trying to arrange a lime jello match with Alison but she’s never on one continent long enough for us to meet up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 12:34 PM

Oh, Dorian, I hope Dorian comes and goes without harming you, your dad, or your property. Mother Nature can be a . . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 02:29 PM

Yes, harpgirl, and this is one of the Mudcat's longer threads now,
with no signs of stopping.

And the state-of-emergency declaration is official now
regarding Dorian -- do stay safe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 07:32 PM

Dorian sounds a bit like Hurricane Charley that I mentioned a few days ago. May the jet stream carry Dorian's remnants away from us. In the meantime, I hope that you escape the worst of Dorian.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 07:42 AM

Hurricane preparedness at ready.gov for folks in the path of Dorian. It looks like it might make land as a Category 4.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 08:55 PM

It's a relief to know that Mudcatter Donuel is back.
I missed him.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 19 - 07:10 PM

How are Mudcat members/families holding up
under Hurrican Dorian?
Hope none of them were in the Bahamas ... fatalities there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Sep 19 - 03:37 PM

... guess it isn't safe to come out yet,
or somebody would have updated this thread
about Dorian.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Sep 19 - 03:50 PM

Doesn't look like SWFL will be affected but it's moving slowly up the east coast of Florida with the eye around Stuart/Fort Pierce. Let's hope it stays offshore.
Oh, and according to one expert metorologist, President Donald Schlump, the folks in his beloved Alabama better watch out, at least the ones wearing the red ball caps, forget the rest.

CNN

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 11:08 AM

I was driving home from a music session in Pensacola last night, a trip which entails driving east on Interstate 10 for about ten miles. During that short stretch, I saw three or four convoys of utility trucks traveling westbound with their yellow warning lights flashing.

I was a bit confused at first since they were obviously emergency response teams from points west (Alabama, Mississippi, etc.) sent to help restore power post-Dorian, and Dorian was on the east coast. That meant either they or I was driving in the wrong direction!

Then I deduced that they had probably been pre-positioned outside the storm's anticipated impact zone (like in Tallahassee) and got sent home as unneeded when damage turned out to be less than feared.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Sep 19 - 02:53 PM

What is left of Hurricane Dorian
is in Long Island Sound at the moment.

Southern New England will feel its blasts and surges
for the next twenty-four hours at least.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Sep 19 - 03:03 PM

And how are all you folks in Alabama? Was Hurricane Dorian hard on you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Sep 19 - 11:33 PM

I'm in Florida, Joe, but just a few miles south of the Alabama border.

No real effects from Dorian here, but I've heard reports of amateurishly drawn black lines crossing Interstate 65, US-31, and US-84 in the Monroeville and Evergreen area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Sep 19 - 05:00 PM

Big blue-gray stormclouds visible out the window.
But if I go to the forecast website
and pull up the Doppler radar page,
it's an absolutely cloudless image. Beats me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 12:59 PM

Raining here in RI on my laundromat day, but I know how to keep my clean clothes dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 05:48 PM

shame the hurricane season isn't over,
it feels like we have had
enough hurricanes for one years, thanks very much ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Sep 19 - 01:02 PM

What's the weather like today?

Picture perfect, that's what.
Cloudless blue sky and sunshine,
with a gentle breeze
and dry air
(not the recent muggy humidity with high dew-points).

This is the sort of day that
if you could put it in a bottle,
you would stash the bottle someplace safe
and reach for it during those lousy foul-weather winter days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 10:28 AM

Its the season of color
Like Mums that please.
The mortality of our lives is
reflected in the falling leaves
like flying memories back to Earth
Bright summer turns to short days
and long dark nights
between sunset rays.
Every day has its seasons
from Spring to Winter.
There are many years
in the end days
for some of us
to play

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 08:17 PM

Nice, Donuel!
In much less poetic terms, here in Rhode Island the days are comfortable for outdoor activities and the nights are comfortable for sleeping! I'd be happy with weather like this all year, but I suppose plants could use more rain than we've been getting. In the small valley in which I dwell, few leaves have changed color yet. Things usual get bright about two weeks from now, but forecasters say that may be delayed slightly this year because temperatures have been so mild.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 08:50 PM

Mornings are my Spring full of growth and invention
From noon on, my Summer like afternoon is lost to a nap
My Autumn begins at dusk and ends by the family dinner fires
Winter brings the brass blasting pain from every bone breaking mishap

A day is a year, a year is a lifetime
and lifetime memories go by in a snap




We have a drought so the trees will will not turn bright this year