BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 04:36 AM

Rather nipply here in SE New Brunswick, Canada, for the past week. But, we are about to have our second "swing", of which we usually get three or four. Daytime highs will be in the mid teens for the next five days, followed by a drenching rain and then it will turn cool again. This cycle repeats until it finally turns cold.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 10:23 PM

I've been told that when you get really old - the thermal undies catalogue are a real turn on.

At last something to look forward to!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: GUEST,crazy little woman
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 09:54 PM

Still as balmy as a day in Hawaii here. We have had over 160 trick-or-treaters, a record.

I can't assert that putting out pumpkins and colored lights to propitiate the Weather Demons helped bring about this beautiful weather, but it certainly hasn't hurt.

Ya'll should try it next year.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 08:32 PM

there was a nice song about Josephine baker by that geezer who wrote Year of the cat. Forgot his name. Al Stewart! It just came back.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:17 PM

Here in Maine all we've had, so far, is a sharp frost in the mornings. Two mornings running I've had to scrape the windscreen before taking Seamus to the beach. Today was actually quite pleasant.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: GUEST,crazy little woman
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 05:33 PM

Good grief, I've seen hail, but I've never heard of an accumulation such as that. My sympathy to the people of Ottery St. Mary.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Cats
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 03:42 AM

The village of Ottery St Mary, famous for the Tar Barrel Rolling, was cut off on Wednesday night when hail fell to a depth of over 2 feet on top of flash flooding. The hail was so intense that, in places, it drifted and one of the emergency vehicled got stuck in a 6 foot hail drift. Cars were washed away, houses flooded. Less than a mile awy they just had the odd shower!
'The Met Office recorded that between 8pm on Tuesday and 2am on Thursday 57.6mm of rain fell in the Ottery St Mary area. The average for the whole of October is 103.4mm. In places of Ottery St Mary the hail was up to two feet deep, said Mr Grommett. Temperatures were about 2C during the storm, but dropped to freezing at its most intense.' From the Western Morning News.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: GUEST,crazy little woman
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 10:22 PM

It was a beautiful 70 degrees F in Kansas City today. Ah, how lovely.

Tomorrow's high is predicted to be 69. Perfect for the trick-or-treaters. I better get the candy.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: GUEST,Phot at work
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 09:46 AM

No snow for me in Cambridgeshire, but PoD had about an inch on the car back home!

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 06:08 PM

went down to 1 here last night, has been 4 - 6 all day, 6 at the moment. The hails subsided this morning, we'll see what the weekend brings here on the Cornwall / Devon border.
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 05:36 PM

Yup. We got snow last night, here in the Monadnock region. There was almost a whole inch on the ground! It's been spitting snow on and off all day, but not amounting to anything.

I do remember being about 9 years old in Greeley, Colorado in about 1968, and trick-or-treating knee-deep in snow!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 04:55 PM

A web headline fairly late yesterday reports a "major blizzard" covering the northeastern US. (Mostly New England states, I think?)

There was mention of quite a few homes with power outages. I believe a saw a "40,000 homes without" for one local area.

A couple of major Interstate highways closed due to "many accidents."

One municipal official commented "We're salting the roads and it isn't even Halloween yet." (I guess he's saying it's unusually early in the year for a storm of this size.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 03:51 PM

My gawd, we just had another flurry.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: gnu
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 02:35 PM

Power outages in La Belle Province! Got an e from Beer that said the snowflakes were huge like spring snow... maybe winter is nearly over?

Windy and half the temp it was yesterday here in SE New Brunswick. The reason it was so warm on Monday (22C and sunny) was that it was the first day of deer season.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:24 PM

I don't know about that Bryn, but it's cold enough to freeze the bal-
Ah, I see now...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:15 PM

After our rain/sleet yeaterday, it froze last night to -6
(Centigrade), and it is today cold enough to gelate the appendages off a non-ferrous anthropoid.

I'll get me gloves . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 11:31 AM

We had a good half inch yesterday. It stuck around into the evening but has gone back into the water cycle as of this morning. We have been getting frost on the garage roof for well over a week now and the plants are in.

Last time I remember snow before Thanksgiving I was living in Orono, Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: topical tom
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 10:27 AM

Here in Quebec there was a snowstorm last night that left several inches on the ground. There is also a stiff wind blowing. The temperature is at this moment -1 c.Time to bring in the brass monkey! No, wait, that's only true on a sailing warship!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 09:57 AM

Have been out sledging with my grandaughter.
Bright sun, blue sky, snow, and the trees still in their autumn glory.
A combination of colours I have never seen before.
keith.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Mooh
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 07:52 AM

Rosie The Wonder Dog and Cosmo The Other Dog came in last night with snow on their backs, but there's none on the ground now. There are school closures today elsewhere in the province (Ontario) and some road hazards, but it looks okay here on the shore of Lake Huron.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: gnomad
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 07:23 AM

According to BBC the most recent snow to hit London in October (until yesterday, obviously) was back in 1934.

Nice here today, wind SW for the minute and sunny but it is just faking it; tonight it is going NE for a week, and that means properly cold by UK standards.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 05:14 AM

In London it was sleet and hailstones, at about 4.30pm. I even put socks on, it was that cold!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: My guru always said
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 03:54 AM

We got some in Surrey last night. Not a lot, but it was definitely snow!!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: kendall
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 07:27 PM

It's mild here but the wind is blowing a living judgment. Breaking off big limbs from our old Willow tree.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 06:51 PM

AMAZING! It has been such good weather here that Mick and I took Max, our Yorkshie Terrorist, for a lovely Autumn walk in Sherwood this afternoon.

Blessings
Rhiannon

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 06:00 PM

Mind you it is only October and still Autumn.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 05:57 PM

Can't remember the last time we had snow. Not for a couple of years. Been bright today here cold (around 7C) but very pleasant.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 01:54 PM

(Hardi has good taste, Susan ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 01:28 PM

Actually, it was about six inches.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 01:18 PM

(Hardi will like that Bill)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Llanfair
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 01:14 PM

No snow yet on the high ground here in Mid-Wales, though if it's in Chester and Stoke, it's only a matter of time.....

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:52 AM

"Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ream!
Sing: goddam

Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham,
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damn you sing: goddam

Goddamn, goddamn, 'tis why I am, goddam
So 'gainst the winter's balm.
Sing goddam, damn, sing goddam,
Sing goddamn, sing goddamn, damn

byEzra Pound

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: gnomad
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:47 AM

Cold now for a few days in N Yorkshire, windy too. Just came over the moors from Pickering and picked up 2" of snow on the car in about 18 miles, but no snow here in Whitby yet.

At sea level we seldom get much of a fall, but we get cut off for a while most winters as the roads out all have to traverse exposed higher ground.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:46 AM

The lovely Josephine Baker

XG

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: RangerSteve
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:45 AM

Snowing here in central New Jersey.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:43 AM

"possing down..." Sounds like something out of 'Allo 'Allo.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:38 AM

Pisitively possing down in Corby, Northants (England).

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:24 AM

'Banana Belt...

it conjures up some interesting images. .......slip sliding away..

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:23 AM

You mean this one?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:15 AM

Banana Belt... it conjures up some interesting images.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 10:58 AM

Damn that! :~)

You'll get yours, girlie!

:~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 10:52 AM

70s here in the Banana Belt of Colorado. Mind you, the nights are getting down near or below freezing.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 10:49 AM

My daughter texted me from college near Trenton - it is snowing in NJ!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 10:35 AM

It's only a wee bittie snow, it happens every winter for goodness sake.

XG

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 09:57 AM

In southeast Alaska we get snow much later than they do farther north. Anchorage, for instance, has had snow on the ground for a month or six weeks.

But- on the 24th of October we got 2"-4". Very pretty and my little dog rolled in it as though she couldn't contain herself.

It is almost all gone now on the level on which I live. On the slopes of the mountains the snowline is still low, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 09:43 AM

60sF here this week, but we had a couple of inches of snow around the 11th.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: maeve
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 09:39 AM

Same here, gnu. I'm grateful to have a few more swings before full snow; we still have wood to haul, bulbs to plant, and potted plants to heel in. More strong winds coming through today. Better go put the farm stand back on the ground. Brrrr

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 09:39 AM

Very cold in Aberdeen today. Looking out of the window at snow falling right now.

It was only weekend before last I was camping !
Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 09:35 AM

22C and sunny yesterday in Moncton, NB, Canada. 16C and rain and windy today. We will be back to the cold in a couple of days. We usually get these "swings" 3 or 4 times before the snow sets in.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Drawers On: It's Snowing!!
From: Mooh
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 09:17 AM

It's been wet here (Goderich Ontario) for more than a week, and to add insult to injury, there was hail yesterday as I was leaving for a nursing home gig and snow this morning as I was leaving to take the kid to school. None of it stayed on the ground except as water to weigh down the clumps of leaves plugging the storm drains.

The sun will likely come out today just as I start work. It figures.

Peace, Mooh.