BS: Is it snowing where you live?

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 17 May 11 - 02:21 PM

The rain has let up but it's still cold. I expect that will change soon with tonight's full moon. Of course, we could still have frost in the next 31 days (3 days after the full moon in June is the rule of green thumb here).

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 May 11 - 02:07 PM

It's been unseasonably cool here in northwest Florida. Morning lows below 50°F (10°C) and highs below 80°F (26°C). We're usually at lows around 70° and highs above 90° by now. This is more like our early April weather than mid-May.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Jeri
Date: 17 May 11 - 12:43 PM

There's a metal ring on the western end of my house. I never could figure out what it was for, but I think maybe it's for an anchor. The grass is happy, although it's the sort of "happy" that humans would be arrested for once the fire trucks and ambulances leave. The mosquitoes are plotting world domination (as if they don't already have it).

The lilacs are biding their time, but I can see progress.

...but it's COLD here!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 May 11 - 12:28 PM

Gnu, we just had three days--THREE as in at least 72 hours of rain. It did NOT let up once.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 May 11 - 09:51 PM

Don't leave out them N'Anglanders up North. Word is they been gettin' some pretty serious local floods.

They just don't seem to need to talk 'about it to them outsiders, I guess. Too many Presbys I guess?

Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Alberta Canucky all reporting big fires.

Connecticut(?), Minnesota, & I think parts of Michigan getting local floods from all the water Canada's pissin down the stream.

East Okie, SE Texas, Louisianna etc down south got Tornados & floods.

And that's just the ones I can remember from the past week or two.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 11 - 08:12 PM

Yeees b'y. Them whats here is in serious a gettin water logged. It ain't like on the Missy Pissy or yer Assiniboine but the rain just won't let up.

I hope all works out well fer the folks down south in The States and fer the folks out in the Canuck West. Nasty stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 May 11 - 07:39 PM

Prob'ly takin' it home to get the fam'ly li'l uns.

I've heard that even ducks can't swim 'fore they're hatched.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 11 - 03:32 PM

I just saw three ducks goin up the street carryin a canoe.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 16 May 11 - 03:08 PM

Open Mike! That is terrific!

Here in Montreal we felt like the rain was almost snow this morning but not cold enough (45F). I am thankful!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: open mike
Date: 16 May 11 - 06:40 AM

yes, as a matter of fact, it did snow here today..in northern calif. foothills...and it hailed, too. I had a dozen tomato plants that i put in containers. I loaded them into the back of the truck...to be protected from hail and frost inside the camper shell..now i have a mobile garden...i planto leave them in the truck until this storm is over...

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 May 11 - 12:59 AM

No snow in my area recently.

Last Monday afternoon it hit 100F (38C) in town, about 30F above the "seasonal norm." The following Thursday morning it was 33 F (0.6C) - almost 30F below normal. A few towns about 100 miles (160 km?) west (still in the state) were below freezing for a couple of nights with "light rain" - probably frozen pellets rather than droplets, but for the most part no place remotely close to the south and/or west has had enough precipitation of any kind to beat down the threat (and some places the actuality) of the range fires.

Our friends in the Texas Panhandle (about 180 miles away) say they are watering their cows with a teasoon (3 spoons per cow per day?) due to the 6 months of drought. But 160 miles straight east of them they've had some minor flooding, with only a half dozen of those annoying tornados.

Locally, the weather has been "unremarkable" but I'm wearing out the switch on the thermostat flipping it between heating a bit at night and cooling a little in the afternoon. (We're too old to stand those wide swings.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 May 11 - 12:07 AM

In RI, it's just rain. Don't know if I should be surly or grateful. Grateful that it's not snow, surly that the forecast says we will get rain for several days. Hoping my basement doesn't flood!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Janie
Date: 15 May 11 - 11:10 PM

Geeze! And here I am, feeling guilty because the tomatoes should have been planted 2 weeks ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 May 11 - 07:34 PM

Yesterday, I invited the Sacramento Song Circle to sing at my house in the Sierra Foothills of California, and we had a delightful wildflower hike before we sang. It wasn't warm, but it was very comfortable. This morning, May 15, I woke up to two inches of snow. That's the first time I've seen it snow in May in California.

It was all gone by 2 PM.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 03:46 PM

A few flakes this morning. Ground remains frozen solid. Spring possible near end of month.
(Alberta, Canada).

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 09:29 AM

Snow is a distant memory for us thankfully. March and April in South West UK can be such a strange couple of months it can either snow or severe hail storms with lambs having to be dug out or it can be a warm sunny lazing on the grass day and it has been like that now for a couple of days. But we won't hold our breath this could be THE summer as happened two years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 08:34 AM

Last night I walked out of the supermarket at about 6PM into a blizzard. To myself, I thought, I said "That is not snow." A lady next to me replied "It's OK dear. It's not snow." in a tone that suggested she thought I might go postal.
It lasted just long enough to ruin my day.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 May 10 - 03:55 PM

Snow in Buffalo for Mother's Day. Too bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 09 May 10 - 05:34 PM

Lads.... don't mean much to peeps who don't know where you are. It's a long thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 May 10 - 05:34 PM

Yeah, last night. Just a wee bit of the horrid stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: bobad
Date: 09 May 10 - 05:23 PM

We were up at 3 AM with our dog who was entertaining us with a bad case of vomiting and at times the snow and wind were creating white out conditions.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 May 10 - 04:42 PM

Snowed here today, bobad. Joy.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 09 May 10 - 05:33 AM

I heard from a buddy that they may get snow in Scotland in the next few days.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 08 May 10 - 10:46 PM

It has snowed here several times this week. Mashed down some of the tulips, but mostly melted off today.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: maire-aine
Date: 08 May 10 - 10:31 PM

Yup. Upper Michigan got snow, and it's supposed to get down to 35F (1.7C) overnight.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: bobad
Date: 08 May 10 - 10:26 PM

The weather forecast for tonight and tomorrow, Ottawa region:

Tonight
    A few rain showers changing to flurries after midnight. Wind becoming northwest 40 km/h gusting to 60 this evening then diminishing to 20 after midnight. Low zero.
   
Sunday
    Cloudy with sunny periods and 30 percent chance of flurries early in the morning. Clearing in the morning. Wind northwest 30 km/h. High 7. UV index 6 or high.
   
Sunday night
    Clear. Low minus 2 with frost.

WTF????

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 12:28 PM

We had a very deep, wet spring snowfall a few days ago, then it warmed up into the 50's and 60's, and today it is supposed to be close to 70 degrees.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: maeve
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 07:14 AM

Also in midcoast Maine.

m

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 06:12 AM

Yup. Flurries in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 01:19 PM

We've had more snow this year than I've ever seen here in the California Sierra Foothills. Here it's the last day of March, and it snowed an inch or two last night.
And it's c-o-o-o-l-d!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 11:00 AM

In your Easter bonnet
With all the snow upon it....

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 10:59 AM

Gonna have rain/snow mixture for the next seven days, and me having to work in the yard!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 10:10 AM

It's snowing over here in Donegal where Maggie and I are on a short holiday. We remembered our instruments, but nobody told us to bring skis or snowshoes. Actually the snow is mainly confined to the hills , but combined with high winds there've been some transport problems. Things are improving now

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Arnie
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 04:59 AM

I'm surprised that no-one from Scotland has posted on this thread recently, so I'll do it on behalf of our northern neighbours. BBC news report last night showed horrendous snowy conditions in parts of Scotland with the deep snow, freezing temperatures and blizzards usually associated with the depths of winter. Today's news reports that a school bus has slid off a bridge in Lanarkshire due to the weather conditions and a number of children have been injured. I also see that parts of Eire and N. Ireland have got heavy snow as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 02:20 PM

Snowing here again, typical wet spring snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 01:55 PM

UNREAL! My power bill for Feb 18 to Mar 18 is $273.23. And, I had all of the windows in the house cranked open for an hour or so in late afternoon on at least a dozen days. In a "normal winter, I'd expect $400 to $425. This warm winter has been a win-win for me.

And even the snow piled on the lawns is gone. Out like a lamb, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Mar 10 - 11:31 AM

Yesterday afternoon it was 64. Went to a flute concert, didn't even need a jacket. Now it's snowing heavily and a forlorn robin is hopping about my bird feeder.

I'm glad I filled the heated bird-waterer yesterday.

Ah, the Midwest climate. [Can a mad assemblage of unlikely events rightly be called a climate?]

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 19 Mar 10 - 11:56 AM

Time for spring snow now.... last night it came down thick and wet and blanketing everything and covering all the south facing spots that had started to melt.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 19 Mar 10 - 08:29 AM

Well, the last bit of snow on our East Lancashire garden melted yeterday, just over three months since that piece of earth saw daylight! T
here was still the odd bit in gullies near the pennine way as I crossed over the M62 to Yorkshire last night to do some baby-sitting duty, but I don't know if that has been there continually.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 05:09 PM

It's raining today, and fast washing away the last of our 54" on snow...there's small patches where it was piled highest in shady areas, but we are almost free !

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 01:28 PM

Prices will drop, but not by a lot I don't think. Once the major retailers have a price on sommat, they don't drop it much for at least the time it takes to pay for carrying the inventory over the past year. Of course, Maple Slurpup is a special case. It's not like spuds and peas and apples and... that can be fairly well predicted as to supply.

That said, I buy my Slurpup direct from a Sugar Woods about 6km away. I bring my own bottles and pay cash. I could tap my maple out back, but standing at the stove is not an option due to my Satanic nerve. It hurts like the devil.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 12:59 PM

Oh, good! I love maple syrup! And right now it is $10 for a small flask bottle.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 12:46 PM

EC said yesterday tha, across Canada, this is the warmest and driest winter in 63 years.

I had lunch sitting in a lawn chair on the patio next to the garage... dressed in a sweatshirt.

The Maple Slurpup season is expected to be long and fruitful.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Mar 10 - 11:48 AM

Well, we have some snow but its heart isn't in it.

Yesterday it dusted the earth. This morning we have maybe 1 and a half inches out there. Froze fairly hard last night; when I came home at midnight it was getting very slick.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Mar 10 - 10:33 AM

Yesterday... sun. little wind, 8C... it's already almost 10C at 11:30AM. Weird!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 12:46 PM

Nope. That flurry yesterday was shortlived.

Yesterday I took the three dogs (I am housesitting) up the mountain slopes where snow still lingers. They, being Cairn Terriers, were mightily pleased.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 01:58 PM

The weatherforeblasters had Mum scared all day yesterday. Snow expected to start in the eve, at times heavy, windy... 10 to 12".

We got 1/4" of slush and no wind. It's about 5C now.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 01:41 PM

Yes! Big, widely scattered snowflakes, painting a white overlay on the green grass. The first falling snow I have seen since January, I believe.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 04:33 PM

Yes, damn it! It's snowing here. Again. Aargh.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 10:29 PM

On the Anchorage news the other night they said they are experiencing April weather. Well, Anchorage is north and west of us about 600 miles and we in Juneau are experiencing March weather. After being sunny for several weeks it has turned rainy the last couple of days; the grass is greening and the rhubarb is up.