What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 19 - 08:56 AM

Back in January 2001 the freezing wind stung my face as I carried our one year old from the car to the shops. Today I lay back and watch one lonely vulture pivot in cloudless sky. It is warm and mild as the sun makes the branches of tall trees glow golden orange. There is a sadness and sinister sense in this winter heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 19 - 08:50 PM

It may be mild around Alphabet City
but around Boston it is below freezing,
and we are being warned about
icy spots on the roads for tomorrow's commute.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:04 PM

To sum up the last three days, rain, fog, and crazy wind chill.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 03:09 PM

Yesterday: snow flurries. Today: below freezing temperatures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 05:03 PM

brrrrr,    brrrrrrr,   and moreover,
brrrrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 01:19 PM

The calm before the storm. Getting out my snow boots.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 08:12 PM

And here comes the snoooooooow ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 10:25 PM

Snow flurries predicted for early Saturday morning. Real snow is expected Sunday. possible ice-covered power wires causing power failure. Time for bread and milk!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Jan 19 - 06:08 AM

Hot......dangerously hot. Last night was the hottest ever recorded in parts of Australia, 35.9 deg in western N.S.W. Heat records are falling as we speak, and mutterings about "when is it too hot to safely work outside" are filling up news stories. This is the hottest weather for over 80 years, not a record we wish to set; we (indeed much of Australia) are suffering a run of daytime temps of over 40 deg.

It seems that night time temps are warming up at a greater rate than daytime temps, and that has health implications. People whose job requires them to be alert during the day are suffering from lack of restful sleep - and that is not good for society.

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

The US winter storm currently grinding its way from west to east
has been named Harper by the Weather Terrorists, as our Gnu calls them.

Who has dug out from under the snow yet?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 11:04 AM

Harper isn't finished yet.
I'm thinking of Gnu and his Mom in New Brunswick.

In the meantime,
some people are measuring snowfall,
and in other places
they are measuring ICE.

I hate ice storms. I cannot express how much I hate ice storms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 06:45 PM

It's so cold that you can feel the chill indoors and out,
no matter how well your heating works. At least, the storm is past.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:39 PM

Well, I got the garage door 'unfrozen' and working again. Wall-to-wall ice. Highways are passable again.

More rain coming after -17C tonight and then it will freeze again. Sigh.

Moncton, NB.ca.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:34 PM

Good grief, gnu. That sounds dire.
Keep your feet under you!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 02:54 PM

Somebody somewhere has been doing rain dances.
It's the end of January, and we have spring weather instead,
well above freezing, and rain pouring down in inches.

Hope New Brunswick got some thawing, as well, friend Gnu.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 04:09 PM

Pissing rain again on the top of the new snow. She's runnin' like ducks, eh? (Newf saying.)

I tire of the Global Swarming. SALT is my defense... lots of salt... lots.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 19 - 11:35 AM

The rain came down, the sun came out,
there was some melting and it was possible
to plow and clear and treat with salt,
and get the road surfaces dry.

Now there is this frigid air mass slouching towards the East.
Like the rough beast in Yeats's "Second Coming" poem.
At least we got the roads clear before it gets here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Jan 19 - 03:29 PM

We got some very bad news this afternoon. Neighbour-across-the-road is in his seventies, but still does a bit of lorry-driving now and then.

He had to deliver a huge wooden prefabricated building to some place in Wales. He succeeded in spite of the snow and icy conditions over there, and the enormous low-loader was to be left in Wales.

A chap picked him up in his small truck to bring him back to Norfolk but the vehicle skidded on the compacted snow and ice, overturned and our neighbour broke his neck.

He was taken by Air Ambulance to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and they operated immediately to relieve pressure on his spinal chord.
His wife says he can feel his legs and his hands are moving a bit. She's going with her son to visit him tomorrow.

The problem is that we don't seem to cope very well with snow here in UK. Other more snowy lands deal with it so much more effectively.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 11:57 AM

The polar vortex we have now was over Siberia last winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 12:17 PM

We are at the 11 year solar minimum this year.
If the sun had a heart beat it would be at rest now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 02:17 PM

Baltic in Argyll!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 02:42 PM

This afternoon there is a warning
about a line of snow squalls blowing through --
it would be over quickly,
but when the squalls hit there is blizzard visibility,
and you know what that means.
I'd better get my driving overwith for the day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 03:32 PM

Here in the Sierra Foothills of California, it's 61 degrees F (16 Celsius), and partly cloudy. We've had a reasonable amount of rain the last 6 weeks, and things are greening up nicely. Our first flowers came out last week - paperwhite narcissus, growing in profusion. I imagine our fruit trees will blossom soon. We'll get some snow before the end of April, but our weather will generally be mild and in the 50s and 60s in the day and 30s and 40s at night.
If you don't live in California, I'm sorry about your weather.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 06:10 PM

You can be sorry for us then, Joe!

Here in north-western N.S.W. it's been a very hot January. Daytime maximum temps are 5.4 deg C above average compared to long term January figures, and overnight minimum temps are 4.4 deg C higher too. This does not bode well for the future.

As well as the long term effects we are fed up with heat. No one is sleeping as well as we should, and days are very draining too. This morning.....10 a.m., as we speak.....is quite smokey, we can smell smoke in the air from fires. We can't see the hills on the other side of the valley because of smoke haze, usually we have a wonderful view for a very long way.

I think I will stay inside today, and drink coffee, and play music, and sew.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 06:21 PM

We are experiencing short days, about 7-1/2 hours daylight, but enjoying increasing light at a rate of 5 minutes a day, and the human organism notices this, if only unconsciously. So there is a chipperness in the air.
Considering the very cold temperatures being experienced throughout the American 'Lower 48' we had chilly but unremarkable weather two weeks ago, to about zero deg F (-12 deg C) which is not news for Alaska. But then we had a warm up to exactly a couple of degrees above freezing, and now we have dangerous conditions of rain mixed with snow falling on ice. So the danger is that we will be falling, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 19 - 12:30 AM

here in sunny Sydney it's not normally as hot as where JennieG lives 400knm to the west. She is normally living in a furnace & I'm living in a sauna, but we both have high temperatures & low humidity at the moment.

Today in the Big Smoke, next to the Harbour it's 38 with 24% humidity at 4pm, & only 32 with 29% humidity in the Small Smoke.

I'm not aware of Sydney's current low humidity, cos it feels like the 80% we had overnight when I was sooo pleased that I'd had my 12" fan fixed yesterday, because had a good blast of very cool air all night.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 19 - 11:57 AM

Two months ago I posted that the rivers near where I live
had risen, before freezing, over their banks.

It's still like that.
The one local route between towns, that I drive on every day,
has some low-lying stretches that cross the
upper part of the Charles River, the twisty turny part
with wetlands and marshes all around.

It gives me a turn to see
how high the ice -- the river level, I mean --
is over the banks and creeping up to the level of the road itself.
Are we in for another year where the river floods the road?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 02:29 PM

A gentle partial thaw is indicated for this week.

It COULD flood but I hope it won't --
better if it helps the river go back down
and uncover the riverbank again,
and the water level
not be so distractingly high and near the level of the route.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 03:09 PM

It was only 6C here today, but gorgeous bright sunshine and no chilly wind. Birds singing like anything, and some Spring bulbs showing a few green tips in the garden.
Hope it's not a false alarm. Last year we had thick snow in March and our village was cut off.
I even managed to sit on my much-loved bench in front of the house for a bit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 03:13 PM

Forgot to add that our neighbour who broke his neck after having skidded in the snow in Wales is still far away in Stoke Mandeville hospital, Buckinghamshire. His poor wife and son are driving all that way to visit him every few days. We fervently hope he won't suffer life-changing, permanent disability.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 10:00 PM

Senoufou, I hope not!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 04 Feb 19 - 03:48 AM

My sister rang to say it had been minus 9 up in her part of Scotland.
The poor girl is having a swanky new bathroom installed and the plumber had to drain down the system and flush out the entire central heating set-up.
This meant she's had no water or heating for a couple of days. At least she has a log fire in her sitting room.
I love Scotland, but it can be bitterly cold in the Carse of Gowrie in winter.
Unlike me, sister has rather hairy legs (she never shaves them) and I'm beginning to think it might be just as well! :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Feb 19 - 02:15 PM

Polar vortex? What polar vortex?
What am I doing with all this long underwear around?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 19 - 05:09 PM

Its not just 65 F, its 65 F degrees warmer than last week

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Feb 19 - 07:10 PM

Max in College Station PA
is probably among those
being confronted by a winter storm system right now.
Tomorrow it gets further north and east,
into New England.
Heavy snow and a possibility of ice ... stay safe, everybody.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 10:39 PM

I don't know how much snow fell, yet.
It was no blizzard, thankfully, as there was not the wind
that goes with a blizzard.
It was just heavy wet slick snow
that fell fast and hard.
Visibility much reduced.

Thankfully, in this part of Massachusetts,
drivers know how to drive properly when it's like this.

It started close to 2 pm when school was letting out and workers
were headed home early,
so traffic was heavy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Feb 19 - 12:11 AM

Today is very nasty because of dust being blown in from the west. The ongoing drought has stripped the land of much ground cover and the topsoil is being blown out to sea.

Our normally expansive view across the valley had dwindled to our neighbour's house across the road, with nothing beyond - just a fog of brown dust. I am staying inside; the lurgy still hasn't diminished and I am coughing like a champion, dust would make it much worse.

At least it hasn't reached the forecast maximum temp of 37 deg C, so we can be thankful for small mercies. 33.7 tops so far.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 04:04 PM

Under blue-sky sunshine,
I am anxiously watching
the river near town, and the marshes and wetlands around the river.
If the present mild weather does not get too mild,
then the resulting slight thaw
will help bring down the water levels
without flooding. It is a near thing.
You don't have to stop the car, or pull over to the side of the road,
in order to look out the car window as you drive across the bridge
and see how high the water is,
and how close to the level
of the bridge and the road.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 06:03 PM

Weather has been good so far this winter. It's been rather mild and without big snowstorms. I wonder what Mom Nature and Old Man Winter are plotting. I fear they are up to something sinister. I fear March.

My driveaway is bare pavement and it's mid February. I can see over
the snowbanks when I pull out of my driveaway. Something is going to happen. I can just feel it. I'm trepidatious.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 12:28 PM

We've had lots of daffodils this year in Applegate, California (2300 foot elevation), and the rhododendron is about to bloom - but we've had snow three times in the last week. Most of it came today, maybe three inches. It's beautiful here in the pines.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 08:25 PM

Max probably got snow again,
and it is headed this way. Again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 09:51 PM

The weather here in Zipolite, Mexico is hot enough that you want a bottle of water along when bumming on the beach. (It's a rough job, but someone has to do it.)

Subject: RE: What's a Super Duper Jupiter full moon?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 12:00 PM

I was browsing NOAA and learned about some new weather satellites that are dedicated to AK,CA and HA when my touch screen opened a site (unseen link) that listed preliminary reports. Going deeper I saw an item called a possible Super Duper Jupiter moon this March due to an unusual alignment. I was immediately reminded of an obscure article from the ESA that an object seen only in infrared may be causing havoc in the orbital mechanics of some of the smaller moons around the gas giants. Ganymede and Titan do not seem to be involved. (stick a pin in this)


I know that small rogue black holes exist and would have an infrared signature like any black hole. Only confirmation of gravitational lensing of an object obviously outside our solar system in the vector of Jupiter as seen from Earth this March will confirm a super massive unseen object and if it is approaching us or not.

But for now this is not a forecast but merely speculation.
Wouldn't it be exciting if a small black hole starts flinging moons and planets around?   May we live in interesting times.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 19 Feb 19 - 12:02 AM

Still dark

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 20 Feb 19 - 04:01 AM

Warm and sticky. If the cyclone headed this way gets here, the extreme weather warning cuts in.

We are expecting 100 mm of rain or thereabouts on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday (that's each day) - after the driest January for years and what, up to now, has been the driest February for years (but next week will fix that!).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 11:07 AM

It's been raining for days here in the mountains of North Georgia.{USA}. The birds are using what used to be my lawn as a bird bath.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 11:28 AM

Well, for once, eastern Massachusetts
did not get the very worst
of the most recent winter storm.
Oh, we got a little of everything --
freezing rain, snow, ice --

but not too much, AND the storm system
brought warmer temperatures
which will clear out much of what is frozen.

Other places got hit by that storm
a good deal worse than my area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 06:47 PM

Just saw some weather radar map video,
and wow --
Phoenix, Arizona is getting clobbered with precipitation.
And they're in the bleeping desert.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 19 - 07:01 PM

The perturbations continue for moons beyond Jupiter. While a small black hole does not seem like a usual suspect, a naked singularity moving at a 1/4 SOL is now suspected.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 05:03 PM

We have winter wind headed our way,
storm-force wind,
which is right down there with ice-storms
amongst my nemeseeses.