What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 10:36 AM

Snow here in the mountains of North Georgia {USA}. 3-4 inches and still falling. A rare occurrence.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 02:55 PM

The nor'easter has a name now,
thanks to the Winter Terrorists of the mass media.

I can hear Gnu
weeping, wailing, and gnashing his teeth even now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 05:15 PM

Well, I don't know why I came here tonight
I got the feeling that something ain't right
I'm so scared in case I fall off the road,
And I'm wondering how I'll get totally snowed
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck on the beltway with you
Yes, I'm stuck on the beltway with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, and I'm all over the place
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck on 495 with you
Well, you started off with full tanks,
And you're proud that you snow tires all right
And your friends they all come crawling,
Hit you in the rear and say,
MOVE IT
Trying to make some sense of it all,
But I can see it makes no sense at all
Is it cool to pull off and sleep on the floor?
'Cause I don't think that I can take anymore
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
And you started off with some gas
And now the gauge is fallin fast as snow.
And your 'friends' they all come crawling,
Hit you in the rear and say,
Go **** *****
Yeah, I don't know why I came here tonight
I got the feeling that something ain't right
I'm so scared in case I drive into thin air,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down over there
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
Yes, I'm stuck in the middle with you
Stuck in the middle with you
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 05:23 PM

the forecast is saying three to six inches of precip.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 05:17 PM

This enormous cold front stretched from Texas through the south and curved north at the east coast. Friday morning I stared at my portion of this juggernaut. It was like a distant mountain chain with a mile wide front edge that had an evenly spaced waffle pattern extending horizon to horizon. It was the most interesting announcement of "winter begins here" that nature has ever shown me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 10 Dec 17 - 11:51 AM

Shepshed - Leicestershire - UK

Bloody awful - Snow all day - turning to sleet now

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Dec 17 - 08:31 PM

There has been a huge belt of snow right across the middle of England, Wales and Ireland, but here in Cornwall we were a mile or forty to the south of it. But last night we had one of those scary Cornish gales that we get about once a year. Our windows are all plastered in salt (we are half a mile from the sea at Widemouth Bay). They had to shut the Taw Bridge in Barnstaple to lorries, it was that bad. Bloody brexit...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 04:50 AM

Christmas card scenes of bright sunlight on snow here in east Lancashire.
Got home up the lane last night in the 4x4 after singing carols at Upper Denby in the afternoon.

Robin

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JHW
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 05:14 AM

minus 9 but beautiful clear sun this morning.
Thin coating of snow (by the Tees on the North Yorkshire/Durham border).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 12:03 PM

Now that all is soggy and wet,
we have a serious drop below freezing on the way.
Expletive deleted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 17 - 03:48 PM

It's too frigging cold, especially
with that WINTER WIND.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Dec 17 - 05:27 PM

Our local weather reporters ( meteorologists) get it right most the time but I don't think they really study meteorology

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Dec 17 - 11:36 PM

23F or -5C during the day, but little wind, so I won't complain. Oh, and snow, but just a few inches. I won't complain until I get plowed in tomorrow morning. At least I remembered to raise my car's windshield wipers in the snow salute.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Dec 17 - 02:05 PM

The sky has what I think of as a low ceiling --

grey, with a glare, and too thick a cloud layer
for the slightest bit of direct sunlight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Dec 17 - 01:52 PM

The northeastern US is headed for the deep [sub]freeze.

It's cold already and just going to get a lot colder.
At least today the sun is shining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Dec 17 - 03:46 PM

The Great Lakes region of the US is where my childhood was spent.
No longer live there. It's part of a snow belt.

Currently there are photos, videos, and soundbites online
about ice pancakes and ice balls in the water not far from Chicago.

Here near the Atlantic, am not aware that the ice is doing anything fancy.
It's just ... triumphing without any effort. It's that cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Dec 17 - 10:29 PM

I drove home from my son's home near Worcester, MA, to my home south of Providence, RI, tonight. The outside temp was 9 degrees F. when I got home at about 9:30 PM. I'm glad neither my car nor its heater died.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 17 - 03:27 PM

There goes the sun now,
and it's been too cold
even with the sun UP.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 29 Dec 17 - 03:45 PM

in low 50s in coastal SW WA USA. Moderate rain but fairly strong winds. Called dial a ride rather than walk my lazy self to work. I have a new jacket from lands end and again it is worthless in wind and rain. Walked two blocks to McDonalds last night in light rain and very light wind and got so cold. Took off jacket to get warmer. Put jacket back on to walk home...damp, very damp sleeves. I have sent several jackets back to lands end..stupid me for buying more but most of their stuff is quite good. they can not get jackets right but keep advertising them for serious weather and say they are waterproof. something happens with the sleeves...two blocks of walking today and wet cold sleeves hours later. Will have to return. Any recommendations for wind and rain and mild cold..strong wind, driving rain. I have a heavy yellow fisherman rain jacket..too heavy but i guess i will have to wear it. rubber does work here. And I personally do not worry at all about sweating. I am too dainty to sweat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Dec 17 - 07:35 PM

Snow. Started at 11 AM and is still coming down now. ((When is now? Easy. I live in Mudcat's time zone.) Luckily I'd taken my final 2017 donations to the post office yesterday and put three birthday cards for next week into the mailbox on the condo property earlier this morning. Also luckily I had not yet brought my laundry to the laundromat, so I've put that off until another day.

This snow is supposed to be light and fluffy and so far is not amounting to much.

Next project, for tomorrow: Writing snailmail thank-you notes.

And on Monday, I'm off to Mystic, CT, to practice a song with 5 friends to sing together at Mystic Seaport's Chantey Blast on Jan. 13 from I-5. It's a fundraiser for the seaport's Sea Music Festival, June 7-10. I hope to see some of you at both events!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jan 18 - 09:55 AM

The first week of the new year promises six straight days of lows in the high teens/low twenties (F) and highs not above 40?.

I suppose that's a normal forecast for Indiana or Ohio for this time of year, but I'm in Florida!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 02 Jan 18 - 03:08 AM

30 degrees Celsius, 80% humidity. We might build up to a storm in a couple of days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Jan 18 - 09:06 AM

but I'm in Florida!

Count your blessings. -16°F/-27°C here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 07:34 PM

Well, it's going to get hot. Forecast for today is 36 deg C, which is bearable.

However the next few days are going to get very hot with Sunday, Monday and Tuesday expecting 40-42 deg C. That's not just here, it's fairly widespread over quite a lot of Oz.

If I can survive that, it will be autumn in a few months.....yay!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 09:03 PM

That's dangerously cold Greg, its a brisk 7 here
40 degrees below zero with wind is my personal limit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 12:22 PM

Even powdery fluffy snow
is formidable
when there is over twelve inches of it
-- no, don't ask me how much --
piled up,
AND the temperature is dangerously below the freezing mark.
You could build igloos out of this I suspect.

Why does it have to be this cold cold cold!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 01:09 PM

Why? Because there is always cold weather *somewhere* in Winter, and various forces send the Jet Stream into unusual patterns for awhile. When I moved to Wash. DC in Feb.1977, there was snow on the ground in all 48 lower states, first time ever.

We are durned cold for the next 3 days, but it is supposed to get back up to almost 60°F for part of next week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 01:15 PM

Tomorrow (Sunday 7th Jan) in central eastern New South Wales, Oz it is supposed to get to 36 deg C (97 deg F) here on the coast, but 20 miles inland where I work it will be 45 deg C (113 deg F). Luckily I won't be working tomorrow.

I grew up in that town. I don't ever remember it getting much over 40 C/100 F. To get to 45C/113 F is just crazy.

And snow in Florida? That's crazy too. I've seen photos of a frozen fountain, and Niagara Falls frozen in mid fall.

Helen

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 10:50 AM

Massachusetts could be in for a thaw,
and I'm worried it could be too much too soon --
the last thing we need is flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jan 18 - 11:02 AM

Is it true what they said on the news,
that in parts of Australia
the asphalt on the highways
is literally melting in the heat ??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 04:35 PM

said it before, say it again:

DREICH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 11:24 PM

Hot. Hot, hot and more hot. Another heatwave this week.....I am well and truly over summer.

Roll on autumn.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 18 - 02:58 PM

The Winter Terrorists have been happy campers of late,
with one snowstorm after another.
We have been through the list of names through the letter R, next comes S.
The residents, not so happy.
Trees down, power lines down, power out.
Coastal homes flooded, some of them obliterated, evacuations.

We may get a few days to breathe before the East Coast
has another storm.
So it's cold enough for the snow and the snowmelt to
freeze overnight into black ice;
enough above freezing in the daytime to melt snow and ice a bit at a time.
Yesterday THE SUN CAME OUT for a few minutes before setting,
the rest of the day there were these roiling boiling grey-blue clouds
that gave no rain or snow but swept rapidly overhead.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 10:50 AM

Whine, whimper, bleat, moan, and any number of deletable expletives.
We don't need any more snow over here in the northeast US,
but the forecasters are agreed
that we're going to get it anyway.
And some households are just now getting electrical power restored
after as long as a week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 01:43 PM

in one word:
white.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 09:11 AM

It stopped snowing and the sun has come out.
The sun is welcome.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 18 - 11:50 AM

Catching our breath after too many blizzards.
Snow, snow, stay away . . .
we're still digging out from under the re-frozen snow from last time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Mar 18 - 06:27 PM

Donuel,
what kind of storm hit the DC area today?
Was it snow, freezing, or simply rain?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 01:14 PM

Pennsylvania is getting buried under falling snow,
and there is heavy snow in Baltimore as well,
so I wonder about Washington DC --
unless they are warm enough for rain.

The snow has yet to arrive in the Greater Boston area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 05:45 PM

We in & near DC had a lot of wet snow this morning. I got 5-6", but it slowed & pretty much quit after 1:00PM...It is above freezing, so a day or so and a lot will be gone.
It was NOT a good idea to be driving during rush hour, but we are in no serious trouble.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 07:38 PM

I gotta run up the genie. Make sure she's up for anything. Shouldn't be bad according to ECanada but I got seagulls up the ass here (again!). Seagulls can see way out to sea, see? And when seagulls see what they see coming in from the sea, the get away from the sea. Of course, it was garbage day today so... we'll know how much snow we're gonna get after it stops snowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 18 - 07:43 PM

Environment Canada zero. Seagulls 5. Man it's nasty outside. Seagulls can see way out to sea, see? EC just look at maps.

Gots ta put me big gums on ta walk 19 steps ta mudder's place and kick the white away from her door ta get 'er open, eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Mar 18 - 08:19 PM

By now I hope your big gums have taken you back the 19 steps to your place!
Seagulls can be great weather indicators.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 12:11 PM

Gnu?
Could you stick your head above the snow
long enough to tell us that
you and your mother are still alive?

I look at the current weather map
and I see Nova Scotia covered in snowstorm radar symbols.
That means close to New Brunswick and Gnu.

Winter and snowstorms
just will not let up
in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 09:19 PM

Gnu posted on Mudcat Cafe's Facebook page 1 hour ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 18 - 05:05 PM

gray, gray, gray.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Apr 18 - 10:04 AM

Not nearly enough above freezing, that's what it's like.
Need the long underwear and turtleneck sweaters all over again.
And it hasn't even started precipitating.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Apr 18 - 05:05 PM

snow ... snow ... what do we want with yet more snow ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 18 - 11:17 AM

The sun came out for a few hours. That's NEWS,
after the Patriot's Day Marathon was held in the rain and wind yesterday.
However, the Boston Red Sox postponed their Patriot's Day Game,
they'll reschedule it for May.

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

Here in Perth County, we're having Winter, Part Trois. First we had lots of snow in December and a bit of cold in January, then a protracted thaw in February. Then it snowed a bit more in March, and stopped and warmed up again. But then we got to participate in the Southern Ontario Ice Storm With Extra Wind, which has been succeeded by yet another bout of snow.

Good thing we haven't taken the snow tyres off the car yet. The robins are looking somewhat disconsolate, however.