What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 06:53 PM

'23-'24 winter is likely to be a severe polar vortex bringing colder than average temps.
US-CANADA-EUROPE

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 07:00 AM

The eclipse looks like we are on the horns of a dilemma.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 07:18 AM

Its a beautiful tangerine pre-dawn skyline but cool in the forties. Time to bring in the Huge sword fern and crown palm tree.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:34 PM

Optimistically we can ignore the risk of dystopia and tell each other its going to work out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:16 AM

With 5 billion dead that would leave a population of 3 billion, the same as when I was a kid. Wholesale genocide of WWII had only just stopped. Perhaps 3 billion people were too many. One million could not support a global civilization so what number of humans would be stable? Billionaire tribal chiefs would have lost their status and power. Farming communities might make a go of it depending on raiding party threats and climate. As for Jesus, he was a no-show.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 07:14 AM

As we fly through the tipping points of global warming There are a hundred million or more evangelicals, Q anon and Trumpists who actually want end times because that's when Jesus will return.
The rest of us are doing our part by bringing bags to the store or charging an electric car from coal power plants.

Fires, floods, and heat killed people in the hundreds and now in the tens of thousands. Usually, when something really bad happens we band together and get things done. So the question is, how bad will things have to be before we all join to confront a problem like climate?

Millions died from a pandemic that has nothing to do with the weather but a single close person seems to have more impact than millions of strangers.
Perhaps millions lost to climate isn't enough to mobilize the world.
Is a billion enough ? If a billion of only the poorest people died they may hardly be missed. Five billion people would probably have the desired impact but what could be done by then?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 23 - 10:05 AM

By: Jimmy Buffett
1973
I once knew a poet
Who lived before his time
He and his dog Spooner
Would listen while he'd rhyme
Words to make ya happy
Words to make you cry
Then one day the poet suddenly did die
But he left behind a closet
Filled with verse and rhyme
And through some strange transaction
One was printed in the Times
And everybody's searchin'
For the king of undergound
Well they found him down in Florida
With a tombstone for a crown
Everybody knows a line
From his book that cost four ninety-nine
I wonder if he knows he's doin'
Quite this fine
'Cause his books are all best sellers
And his poems were turned to song
Had his brother on a talk show
Though they never got along
And now he's called immortal
Yes he's even taught in school
They say he used his talents
A most proficient tool
But he left all of his royalties
To Spooner his ol' hound
Growin' old on steak and bacon
In a doghouse ten feet 'round
And everybody wonders
Did he really lose his mind
No he was just a poet who lived before his time
He was just a poet who lived before his time

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 09:41 AM

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
My thoughts aren't too clear but don't run away
My girlfriend's a bore, my job is too dutiful
Hell, nobody's perfect, would you like to play?
I feel together today
Well, now that's just the start of a well-deserved overdue binge
Meanwhile, back in the city certain people are starting to cringe
His lawyers are calling his parents
His girlfriend doesn't know what to think
His partners are studying their options
He's just singing and ordering drinks

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear, life's so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitful
No place like home when you're this far away
I don't care what they say
He's goin' back to New York pack it up and let everyone know (back to New York)
It was something that he should have done such a long time ago
Still, time to start a new life in the palm trees
Ah, Billy Clyde wasn't insane
And if it doesn't work out, there'll never be any doubt
That the pleasure was worth all the pain

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear, life's so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitful
No place like home when you're this far away
Time for to play
I need time for to play
Time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriter: Jimmy Buffett

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 07:35 PM

It's crickets all night until the first hard freeze.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 04:23 AM

I don't know how many records, weatherwise, that have been set in Juneau, Alaska, this year but I'm sure there are a few. We've had rain- even HARD rain, which is very atypical for us- but we've had more sunny days in the last couple of months than I can remember. At the moment it is a bit hazy but we haven't had more than a sprinkle of rain for days. Temperatures top out at about 65F. Great for walking dogs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 08:59 PM

It looks like it’s going to be a bit cooler here for the next few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 06:05 PM

... and it just started again! Not hard, but I wonder if the Native Americans had an anti-rain dance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 04:44 PM

It was whatever passed for Ophelia here in Maryland, but it rained non-stop for 24 hours.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 23 - 04:45 PM

A breath of winter: we avoided snow, but the cold is bitter tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 03:30 PM

6.2" snow yesterday. Above average for the date. And it's powdering down a bit as I write this.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 08:42 AM

After our first snowfall, which melted quickly,
temperatures are into the 50's for a few more days
before they plunge back to the 40's.
One has to wear layers and adjust throughout the day/evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Nov 23 - 05:50 AM

We're bracing for a major Atlantic storm, named Storm Ciarán, overnight tonight. Cornwall seems to be in the firing line, along with other coastal areas of southern England and south Wales. Gulp.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Nov 23 - 05:37 AM

95% of the leaves fell in two days. The trees are bare with a few still holding on. This is about a month earlier than some past years.
They must know something.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 23 - 04:20 PM

It's 79F in DC, cool on Monday

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Oct 23 - 03:57 PM

Temperatures are plummeting so fast that
my car tires are feeling a change in tire pressure,
and the dashboard warning light has come on
maintaining that pressure is too low.
AGAIN.
We just got it recalibrated last week ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 23 - 06:39 PM

No snow here in southern New England,
but temperatures will soon plummet
and next week there will be nights down to freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 07:47 PM

Gonna snow. 0.1 inches, but sn*w.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:27 PM

Yes, and more 70s (Fahrenheit) to come in the next few days,
before yet another storm system cools things down again.
We'll see what Halloween is like
for the trick-or-treaters outdoors in the evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 10:18 AM

Well, first frost warning last night, 70's (temp, not decade) expected today...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:53 AM

I went with better safe than sorry so I went with snow tires and some more insulation just in case. Last year we had no snow at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:39 AM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Thompson
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 04:07 AM

My washing's outside getting a nice rinse.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 03:51 AM

Well I don't know what you mean by "severe polar vortex." The biggest threat of severe cold in North America and Europe comes with a weaker stratospheric polar vortex. Incursions of warmer air from further south can disrupt the vortex and send large masses of arctic air plunging south to give very cold weather. If the vortex is strong it will maintain its circular flow around the pole and keep the cold arctic air confined, giving us mild winters. As I've said before, beware of rambling popular science articles. Not sure how far ahead these sudden stratospheric warming events, giving us very cold weather, can confidently be predicted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 03:34 AM

Well, last Friday, when the road to our village was closed off due to works by Openreach and Anglian Water, we all had to take a long detour through Fustyweed and Elsing, which involved negotiating huge puddles and floods. It was a nightmare, because large, wide vehicles were taking this 'rat run' too and the little country lanes are winding. One edged round a bend only to meet head-on a cattle-feed truck or an oil tanker. We finally arrived at our bungalow in what Norfolk people call 'a roit stairt'!
But yesterday (Sunday) the sun shone, there was only a tiny breeze and NO RAIN!!! Hooray!!! And all the roads had dried off, plus no more Fustyweed - our village road was open again. Phew!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 02:15 AM

As-a-and……..3,000! ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 23 - 05:28 PM

ALmost three thousand posts!

The Northeast US has a lot of rain, and I wish
we could send it to Texas, where they need rain and cool weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 03:42 AM

I see from the forecast that a nasty storm called 'Babet' is heading for the UK. Very strong winds and torrential rain. Gulp!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Oct 23 - 06:43 AM

NOAA says the polar vortex should make things wetter but not significantly colder.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 06:53 PM

'23-'24 winter is likely to be a severe polar vortex bringing colder than average temps.
US-CANADA-EUROPE

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 07:00 AM

The eclipse looks like we are on the horns of a dilemma.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 08:59 PM

It looks like it’s going to be a bit cooler here for the next few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 12:10 PM

We'll be looking at the sky today (with carefully chosen safety glasses) for the annular solar eclipse. We get about 80% coverage in this part of North Texas and the weather is cooperating. It peaks in about an hour.

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2023/where-when

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 09:23 AM

Rain was forecast for last weekend, and
rain is forecast for this weekend.
At least it isn't snow or ice . . . yet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 23 - 07:40 PM

Drying out here after the last bout of Berkshire County rain.
No more overheated sunny days, autumn is settling in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 07:18 AM

Its a beautiful tangerine pre-dawn skyline but cool in the forties. Time to bring in the Huge sword fern and crown palm tree.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 07:00 PM

Massachusetts had an odd experience during the last storm system.
On Saturday, the northern East Coast had heavy rains,
including the westernmost county, Berkshire county.
But to the east,
Boston got virtually no rain at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 11:40 AM

The Texas State Meteorologist was just interviewed about upcoming weather, and it seems that there is a robust El Niño forming that will give late October through March more rain that is usual. Let's hope it is spread out enough to soak in and to fill the reservoirs, not fall so fast that it washes away down our rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf doesn't need repeated gushes of topsoil.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 09:08 AM

We're set for an Indian summer here too, sunshiny days until at least the early part of next week with temperatures in the mid-seventies in American money. Strictly speaking there should have been the first frost first, but we have to ignore that ruling here in Cornwall as our first frost is typically well into November or even as late as January. A warm spell around 18 October is sometimes called St Luke's summer, and, if around 11 November, St Martin's summer, after the respective feast days of those saints. But Indian summer cuts it for any nice weather after the equinox. Quiet weather in mid-October with a hint of air frost gives us our best autumn colours, not too frequent an occurrence round here these days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 08:36 AM

I guess New York is still drying out.
It will help that temperatures are warmer this week,
what we call Indian Summer in North America.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 05:24 PM

Nice weather here. Mild, bright, benign. I see you've had a little drop of rain in New York...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 10:06 AM

Rain all day again.
I'm all for cooling down, but the wet is a bit much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 11:46 AM

We've just had the most gorgeous double rainbow of the year. I'm cheered up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 11:29 AM

We're in the hottest September on record, following the hottest August on record. Today's high is forecast at 95, and the 10-day outlook has every day in the mid-90s. Don't be surprised if October is also a record-breaker.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 10:43 AM

Well so much for Storm Agnes. Down yer in Cornwall we were promised severe gales gusting to 70 mph, possible floods, trees down, the works. Yellow warning, wind and rain. It was dry, breezy and bright this morning and I had a nice trot round Bude Canal. The wind picked up to about force 7, definitely not a gale, and it rained quite hard for ten minutes at quarter past three. And now, at 3.40, the sun is beaming out and it's warm and breezy. Very nice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 06:05 PM

... and it just started again! Not hard, but I wonder if the Native Americans had an anti-rain dance.