BS: October Weather

Subject: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:23 AM

Whats the weather like where you live?

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:32 AM

Are you REALLY this desperate for human "contact?"

Consult a weather report - here is a good one http://www.ecmwf.int/

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:34 AM

No.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,John from Hull
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:35 AM

It is raining.john

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: mmm1a
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:40 AM

Its on the chilly side. No snow yet (thank goodness), days are still sunny but the nites are getting colder. Anyone else notice the leaves don't seem to have the color change that they usually have? Maybe its just this area , but there isn't the bright colors of fall. WE are going to have our anual fall celebration next week and I hope the weather warms up a little bit. Alot of the activities are at night ,
parade next monday, it can be freezing watching it , let alone walking in it. I'll have 2 kids in the parade this year , my son is marching with the middle school band and my daughter is riding on the girl scout float..This year my son is not as excited about marching. He plays the trombone and not only does it get a little heavy but the metal gets down right cold . :) Any ideas on how to keep a trombone warm ? I'm sure he would apppreciate any tips.

                      mmm

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:51 AM

Sunny and 60

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 10:01 AM

gargy!

hows your weather?

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 10:02 AM

cold and wet

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 10:03 AM

We are heading for summer - how do I know? - we've had our first bushfires! The weather is getting warmer - I'm starting to avoid the sun, & have had the fan going again. The humidity hasn't arrived yet (thank you weather gods). My beautiful Hoya has started to flower. The shops are filling with Christmas stuff. Students are sitting their final exams (our school year ends in Dec).

Looks like it will be another nasty fire season around here as a large part of the state has been Drought-declared for months. Not only is the bush dry, but arsonists are out, too. Houses were burnt out on Sydney's southern outskirts last week, in a fire probably caused accidently by workers repairing water pipes. However the fires to the north that killed one man & destroyed more houses were probably deliberately lit.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 10:04 AM

ditto & dull- overcast gloomy- depressing- hard luck on kids, it being half term hols.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: CarolC
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 10:52 AM

It's chilly with a clear, sunny sky here in Shepherdstown, West Virginia (USA). It was cold and wet at the Getaway in Darlington, Maryland (USA) Friday and Saturday. We're packing my stuff for the move to Columbus, Georgia (USA) right now. I anticipate that it will be sunny and warm (70 to 80 degrees, F) when we get to Georgia. If we're lucky, we won't have to use the air conditioner any more this year.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:09 AM

Are you REALLY this desperate

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:10 AM

No.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,Gargoyle
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:13 AM

GUEST,.gargoyle

Are you REALLY human?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:20 AM

I think gargoyle has finally flipped!

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:25 AM

yes,i'm human

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: jeffp
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 12:14 PM

mmm1a: the best solution I found when I was playing trombone in the marching band was to hold the mouthpiece in my hand when I wasn't actually playing. Our band wore white cotton gloves in uniform, so holding the cold instrument wasn't a problem (don't go there, Spaw!). If the band doesn't wear gloves, you might try rigging up a leather cover over the tubing and slide where the hands hold them. Some soft buckskin laced on would do nicely.

jeffp

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 12:20 PM

The report from Nottingham, New Hampshire is that it's finally turned seasonably cold (and us without firewood yet). Had our first frost early last week. The trees are just starting to turn colors -- still lots of green. Foliage probably won't be that great this year because of this summer's drought -- colors will be "dusty" looking. Still have deep purple petunias blooming on the deck, but the still blooming nasturtiums got zapped by the frost.

Oh, and it's windy.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,Gargoyle
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 07:40 PM

GUEST,.gargoyle Are you REALLY Gargoyle?


Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,curmudgeon
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 07:51 PM

The weather here is unseasonably cold. There's S in the forecast for Wed. The weather has gone berserk ever since Inauguration Day (Nature abhors a vacuum) We went through five cords of wood last year; not because of extreme cold, but persistant lower temperatures through May. This year is looking no better. It's not usually this cold till mid November.

it's fucking cruel for there to be bright sun, green and red leaves and a temperature of 12 degrees above freezing!

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: RangerSteve
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:28 PM

Cemtral New Jersey, Delaware Valley-cool, but not bad during the day, and sunny. We still need rain. Tonight it's supposed to go into the 30's.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:50 PM

Octobers growing thin,
Novembers coming home,
You'll be thinking of the seasons
And the sad things that you've seen.
You'll hear that old wind walking,
Hear him whisper high and thin,
You'll swear he's out there singing of your sorrows.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:54 PM

Forgot to mention the above verse is from "Turning Towards The Morning" by Gordon Bok. Great song.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 10:03 PM

Down here in Floribama we've actually had a couple of days with no rain. First it was Tropical Storm Hanna, then Tropical Storm Isidore, then Hurricane Lili. None of them came close, but between them and a frontal system or two the rain had been non-stop for over a month. It's good to see the sun again. And the temperatures have dropped enough to turn off the air conditioner. Hopefully it'll stay off until mid-June.

And, mmm1a, I'm sure your son is a great kid, but you should probably try to get him some counselling for this trombone thing. There's gotta be something wrong with anyone who would want to play an instrument that has spit-valve. And, then, to freeze his lips off marching in freezing weather? Definite sign of masochistic tendencies. Get help before it's too late.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 10:10 PM

A tad chilly here in the mountains of Wes Ginny, Bob.

But, heck, like this every year around this time of year.

I walked thru the woods to visit a neighbor tonight witrh a back pack full of beer and with a flashlight in hand and was mighty glad to get there and even gladder they were home.

Burrrrrrrr....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: mmm1a
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:52 PM

Thanks for the tip jeffp. I'll see about gloves and the other I am sure He will appreciate it.
ummmm Bee dubya I think its too late for counseling lol anyway things like this He gets from his dad lol all the good stuff He gets from me :)
       mmm

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 05:33 AM

I've enjoyed the several threads we've had on weather over the past year and a half. But it's probably because I am a bit of a weather nut, er, enthusiast. I was raised, and still reside, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. My old man started taking me hunting and fishing when I was nine and he taught me what he had learned about weather forecasting from gramps. Gramps and Gramma were raised in the bog country of Kent County where being able to forecast weather, both short and long term, was a part of survival.... if you planted too early or too late, your seed was wasted. If you went trout fishing on a southwest wind, you wasted a day better spent weeding. If you got drunk with the lads down the river, stormy weather could sock in for days.... he learned that from Gramma.

Anyway, overnights are around zeroC and days are between 5 and 15C. I was up Kent County last week and there was a Blue Arse Fly hatch on a warm rain with a warm south wind. Visibility was two hundred metres and the little buggers are only the size of a match head. This was followed within hours by a Ladybug hatch, which voraciously feed on the flies and then migrate south. I had at least three hundred Ladybug's on the front of my hunter's orange vest at one time.

We'll have two more warm south rains for the remaining hatches of moths and butterflies and other such creatures. These hatches will feed the larger birds (that don't migrate, like grouse) during the period where the leaves of ground cover and poplar trees and the like are not fit to eat but the seeds and nuts are not yet ready for consumption. As well, carnivorous migratory birds and bats are feeding on these hatches in order to fatten up for the long flight south, which will begin by soaring high on the thermals created when the last warm south wind rises and pulls in cold air from the north. When these guys leave, it's time to barn the sheep at least an hour before dark every day and keep a shotgun by the door. I'd better stop before I get toooo out of control with my jawin.

Human contact ? Unfortunately, yes. When I'm up in Kent County these days, I have to put up with the fact that a new neighbour moved in two years ago and he's far too close at 1.5k. Used to be, my nearest neighbour was about 5k away.... gettin too crowded for me. People talk too much.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Mr Happy
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 05:46 AM

gnu,

what a tremendously picturesque way of describing things. r u a writer?

if not u should be. your word picture's like the beginning of a novel.

superb!

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 08:10 AM

Raining and 57 today.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: weepiper
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 02:27 PM

It's MISERABLE in Scotland - about 6 degrees Centigrade, chucking it down with rain and 50 mph winds. There is some serious flooding in the Border area and there's a severe weather warning out for North-East area tonight - gales and floods expected.

Brrrrrrr

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 02:36 PM

Cold, gray and miserable here today. Supposed to snow, but hasn't yet. I hate!! winter.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: mg
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 04:09 PM

hope this is not a duplicate:

here is a web cam
click here

anyway, 58.6 and very nice and sunny.   I missed my bus this morning and had a nice walk on the beach instead.

mg

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Hrothgar
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 04:26 AM

37 degrees Celsius (99 in old money) yesterday.

A dust storm came through last night that reduced visibility to under a mile in places. The dust stretched from Mt Isa in North Queensland to Wollongong, south of Sydney - around 1500 miles. I haven't seen anything like it for nearly 20 years.

This should all build up to a good thunderstorm about Sunday. God knows we need it - most of Queensland (500,000 square miles) has been declared as drought stricken and large parts of the rest of Australia are the same.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: bernil
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 05:03 AM

In Östersund, Sweden it's 0 degrees Celcius (the freezing point); that should be 32 in Fahrenheit. We've got snow, 1 dm, that should be almost 4 inches if that's the unit of measurement you use... (there is a great converter on the net!) But one birch behind my house is still full of green leaves and the rowans (mountain ashes?) are full of rowanberries so there's a lot of colours despite the snow - quite beautiful! And the air feels still more fresh and clean when we've got snow, so I'm content but afraid that the snow will dissappear again as it's a bit too early for real winter.   

Berit

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 06:31 AM

We had a lovely snowfall yesterday- not the earliest on record for the region (southwest New Hampshire, USA) but it's been a long while. Thick flakes falling among red, yellow, and still-green leaves. Here we got about 5 inches! I live in what the weather reporters like to call "the higher elevations"- the snow lingers on and it's cold and ICY this morning! About 27 degrees F! The thaw is supposed to come this weekend.
In the words of Lou and Peter Berryman, "I don't mind the winter 'cept it's so long!" I could do with a bit more autumn! The fall foliage has just gone on and on and on this year!

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Fingerbuster
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 06:50 AM

If anyone living in a hot country would like to
do a house swap during our U.K winter feel free to contact
me.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Peg
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 07:44 AM

hey Fingerbuster; we've had VERY mild winters in Boston the last several years! (No snow whatsoever last year and only 3-4 days below 30 degrees). Unfortunately, it's being said we may get our missing snow this year. Yesterday morning was a mix of snow and rain; yucky! It made for bad roads and lots of accidents during rush hour. Then the sun came out in the afternoon and it was a picturesque autumn day. This week, temps in the 50s during the day and 30s at night. I have no heating oil and I guess I'd better rectify that. I'm only bothered when I am sitting around at night. The cats cluster on the bed. In the morning, here I sit comfortable at the computer eating breakfast wearing wool socks and a fleece pullover. Gosh, it's nice being a hearty lass. I hope to get caught up on my hiking this week. I was born on October 23rd and so this season is in my blood and I look forward to it every year...Despite the drought we do have some nice crisp reds in New England! I was out in the Berkshires two weekends ago and the colors were doing well. I was in England all last week and it rained! I did get to see apples on the trees in the Glastonbury orchards and that was magical...I took what I hope are good photographs on my vintage Pentax...the fields at the base of the Tor are mostly privately owned for grazing dairy cows and sheep. The old apple trees still bear gorgeous apples. I did not eat any; now I wonder why. But it was such a gift to SEE them!

In any case, I am always looking for ways to spend more time in the UK; is January good for you? ;)

Peg

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 08:12 AM

Yeah, it #$%&# SNOWED yesterday -- leaves not even finished turning colors yet, most of them still green. And of course, ON the trees where they caught the heavy gloppy stuff which caused no end of problems -- including yesterday morning's power failure, so I never got around to posting this yesterday. (By the way, Animaterra, here in Nottingham we only got about 2-3 inches.)

It's not even Hallowe'en yet, fer-pete's-sake!!!!

And when you consider our last snow was May 18th . . . and summer was too bloody hot and dry. (We've been losing the weather lottery this year.)

The sun came out before noon and melted it all where I was working (5 miles from home), but as I drove home there was more and more snow and our neighbors' yards were still white.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 08:23 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Fingerbuster
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 08:32 AM

*Peg* and all musos, always a welcome at our humble abode.

Nic :-)

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,53-Glenda, at work
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 08:38 AM

Cool rain today. What happened to "October's Bright Blue Weather" ?
I remember learning a poem with that title in 3rd grade, but can't remember it now, but I can still see in my minds eye those gorgeous days of my childhood. Can't complain about the rain, tho'. South Carolina is in need of rain, as we also have been experiencing drought for several years.

g

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 09:28 AM

Hi Glenda dear I miss you when you're at work.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Fingerbuster
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 05:06 PM

It's raining in Manchester, how unusual.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 06:11 PM

October is my favorite month of the year.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Fingerbuster
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 07:02 PM

I have had enough of this northwest weather, i'm off to Launceston
in the morning, Gubby tells me it is 7 degrees warmer down there.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 09:18 PM

...snow in the New Hampshire forecast for all of next week...
(I love October, too- all of it!)

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,Bill
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 09:41 PM

Hi fingerbuster if the weather is that bad stay home and check your E-mails see you soon Bill

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Oversoul
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 09:45 PM

I spent the afternoon in my canoe on the St. Joseph River. Heading South towards Indiana, from just above the Niles (MI.) dam; I ventured upstream a couple of miles. The weather was overcast and in the low "40's", in other words, ideal. No jet-skis, no bass-boats, no bull-shit. Canoes are the moral equivalent of violas, ya with me?

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,Big John
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 10:05 PM

Weather in Dublin - Normal. (Wet Wet WET). "Played" my piano at home all afternoon. Went to traditional Irish music session tonight, played my guitar, sang some ballads. Met a man from Milwalkee there and I sang "What makes Milwalkee famous" (Jerry Lee Louis aong). Now what's this about the weather?

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Fingerbuster
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 05:13 AM

Well Well Well, it's raining in Manchester.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 09:51 AM

raining in Myrtle Beach.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 10:02 AM

The sun is starting to come out.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: CarolC
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 01:15 PM

Surprisingly, it's been cool (mostly in the 50s and 60s F) and cloudy since we arrived here in Georgia on Tuesday. We saw a Coyote standing by the side of the highway somewhere in the northern part of Georgia. That was pretty cool.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,toribw who should be working
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 02:53 PM

In a word, wet and dark. I'm in San Antonio, Texas, USA and the weather has been unusually rainy all year with serious flooding in July. Weather's so crummy here the South Texas Celtic Festival in Corpus Christi that lots of us were scheduled to play had to be called off this weekend.

Fingerbuster, I don't know exactly what you meant by a hot country, but a light up the fireplace, put on every piece of down-filled clothing you can find and stock up on food & drink because it may be too cold to leave the house kind of day here is about 40 degrees. We do seem to get a 20-something degree overnight temp at least once a year, though.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Troll
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 02:28 AM

It's raining here in Tokyo (still!) and the temp is in the 50's but the wind off Tokyo Bay cuts like a rusty knife. It tears its way through your clothing . I live a few hundred meters from the seawall on reclaimed land and work literally 50 meters from the Bay itself. There are no trees or buildings to break the wind and it's a 10 minute bike ride to the train station morning and night.
I can'i WAIT to get back to Florida!

troll

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: gnu
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 05:05 PM

Greetings from MOncton again, unfortunately. Just got back from Kent County... been gone since Tuesday. (Thanks Mr. Happy for your generous comments.) Changed out the cell for the twelve, loaded a two-four and a forty aboard and poionted er north. Moonlit, frosty nights and frosty frosties combined for some impromtu Irish ballads and war songs delivered to a captive audience, that is, the birds can't leave their roosts at 03:30h - come to think of it, the deer, moose, coyotes, etc, ain't got nowhere else to go neither. By the way, NOT ONE of them complained about my Hran playin... silly sods at the pub are fulla shite.

Yup, The Kent County Trio put on some good tunes, told some hellish stories, and ate some of the best Kent County Chicken ever tasted. Ya can't beat a pan of fried Birch and Spruce for finger food (that's Ruffed and Spruce Grouse for you educated lot). For those of you who don't know The Trio, it's a mixed Acadian French and Irish group.... there's Me, Moi and Jimmy Suis. Never was a finer bunch a fellahs. We get along famously. Oh, we have our differences sometimes, but we sort them out.

Saw it all: rain, shine, hail, snow, wind, calm, and moonlight so's you could see two hundred metres down the road... even further if Alfred hadn't smacked me twixt the lookers (Alfred as in Alfred Lamb's Palm Breeze Amber Rum). But, I had to pack it in today cause we got a warm south rain and wind comin in. Only good huntin for the next few days is deer huntin and I don't do that. Of course, if I was attacked, well... there'd be lots of finger food for the three of us.

Hope your weather is fine.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Alice
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 05:23 PM

Live web video camera of weather here.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Gareth
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 07:38 PM

In old South Wales, Wet and exceedingly windy - but thee good point is exception winds shut the Severn Bridges - England Isolated !!!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: rangeroger
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:10 PM

Here in North Idaho, the weather has been absolutely gorgeous this past month. Beautiful sunny days and the foliage on the trees is breathtaking. The past three nights,however, have been somewhat chilly. 15F ( -10C ).

I really enjoy this time of year also,and this Fall is a real corker. But we really need some rain and I know the snow will be here soon.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,shonagh
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 09:14 AM

Flooding in the North east of scotland! Not too nice, it might mean i'll get a few days off school tho! Been really bad weather for my holidays, gales, rain, flooding and even a wee bit of snow!

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 10:35 AM

It is very, very windy, though it is much worse in Wales and South England, I just heard on the radio that at least 5 people have been killed in the south of England this morning, including a 22 year old woman that was crushed to death, when a tree was blown onto her car. Many parts of Wales are now without electricity, as the lines have been blown down in the gales, many roads and bridges are now closed.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Crane Driver
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 12:08 PM

Yeah, lovely. Power just back on. Wind dying down now, but we had a recorded gust of 96 mph at Mumbles Head, just round the coast from me, this morning. Nice. Just going to check the roof.

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: 53
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 12:22 PM

Sunny and cool here.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 03:23 AM

Well, I came home (Ascot)last night from visiting my father in Birmingham (UK)to find our last beech tree which survived 1987 the gales is down, pulled out from the roots. Totalled my greenhouse, garden shed and contents and a length of fence (ours and 2 neighbours) fortunately no damage to houses but the rockery we put in in the spring is gone, too, it is now vertical. Off to contact insurance company and tree surgeons.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Trevor
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 04:13 AM

How about that. I was stranded up at Squilver yesterday with trees down on every road out. This morning, in time for work, they're all cleared up. We've lost a couple of slates but no significant damage, although it was pretty scary, as I'm sure that 'catters who know Squilver can imagine.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Llanfair
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 04:36 AM

We seem to be ok, the town is in the "Banwy gorge" and gets some shelter. My sister's static caravan and car were damaged by falling branches in Caernarfon.
I'm going to the coast now, beachcombing!!
Every cloud...............!!!!
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 05:24 AM

In case Gareth's comment about isolating England when the weather closes the bridges causes any confusion, (I'll add to it!)
From England into S.Wales there are two toll bridges across the river Severn. On both bridges the toll (£4-20 for cars) is paid to get into Wales. There is no charge for going into England !

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 05:27 AM

As for the weather, one can do no worse than quote Flanders & Swann: (The Months; in DT)
Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood.

Then October adds a gale
Wind and slush and rain and hail.

Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog.

Still as accurate as ever! Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: mmm1a
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 10:22 PM

Just to let you know, tonite was the parade and my son wearing gloves' did't freeze nor did my daughter who was on the girl scout float. Both said they were fine not cold at all. Unfortunately those of us who were watching could't say that, we froze our freaking butts off. Maybe next year I'll march in the parade just to keep warm.
And to make it even better Halloween is suppose to be even colder with rain and possible snow. Oh Joy.:(
                               mmm

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,Bill
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 04:45 PM

Hi Fingerbuster have the bad weather driven you underground-we haven't heard from you in the last few days. keep talking
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: RangerSteve
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 06:42 PM

Late afternoon on Tuesday, rain, sleet and snow in New Jersey.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Alice
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 06:49 PM

Turning cold, windy, and snowy here. You can see it on the web camera I linked.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Peg
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 09:23 AM

It has been in the 30s at night here all week, 40-50 days. I have no heat in my apartment either! I got some oil delivered this week but there is an electrical problem which the oil company says an electrician needs to fix. My landlord is not moving to do anything about it so far...I am thinking of just getting someone other than his electrician in to do the work and just deducting it from the rent. Slumlords suck.

brrr...

Glad I have all these old cashmere sweaters!

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 09:58 PM

We had one hell of storm come through - killed a couple in our town when a tree fell on them.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 02:06 AM

No fair! What is this? This is Alaska, even though it is southeast Alaska- and we don't have any snow at all. Just fog. Thick fog. Not many planes have made it in or out of town this whole last week. I read tonight that 41,000 pounds of mail for Juneau is being held at Sitka waiting for a window to get through into town.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Hrothgar
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 04:35 AM

Just back from Western Queensland. Temperatures generally 33 - 37 Celsius during the day, minimum about 16 C at night.

For about 200 miles from the coast, the grass is dry, but still has some food value for stock. For the next 200 miles, it's dried out and has no food value, but gives something to chew. After that, there's no grass at all.

Only a lucky few have wheat crops, and there are very few summer crops being planted (usually cotton and/or sorghum).

Glad I live on the coast - it's just stinking hot and humid.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: gnu
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 05:13 AM

Hrothgar.... that's the kind of post that just amazes me. Today we are suppose to get rain and them 100mm of snow, temps around zero. Such contrast !

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 06:16 AM

I know it's not October anymore but- six inches of snow and a two-hour school delay! Hooray!
(remind me of how much I love snow next April... or May... last year's last snowfall was May 18!)

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: curmudgeon
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:37 AM

Its pouring cold rain here in NH with snow not too far to the north. This has been a two season year,winter and summer; no mud season, no spring, no fall.

And as thsi awful weather began on Inauguratiob Day, today's misery is Nature's wrath on the people of this state who allowed their votes to be bought.

H'rrumph!

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: leprechaun
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:02 PM

October in Oregon was sunny this year, nearly every day. Toward the end of the month the nights were colder, but there was very little frost. The leaves are falling late. 53 is right. October is the best month.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: gnu
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 03:00 PM

Well, last Friday night, it snowed up country. Never seen a foot of snow on November 1 in my life ! Brakes froze up overnight on the truck from running in puddles and then building up slush from the snow. Howwwwwever, forecast is 8C Saturday and 12C Sunday and Monday. Which means my predictions are coming true, once again - one more warm south rain. Then it'll freeze solid. I just hope that, when I am up country next week, the white butterflies are back where they usually hatch. I discovered them about twenty years ago and I've seen them in the same spot about five times since. It's amazing... in the middle of the woods, there's a spot where they hatch and then migrate. Thousands and thousands in a patch about 5m in diameter. Looks like a moving patch of snow. When they take off, at dusk, it's a site.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: leprechaun
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 11:18 AM

I've heard about that! The Global Colding Effect.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 11:49 PM

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Janie
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 08:46 AM

Love it!

Cool, clear days and nights. (Zone 7 USA)

Carolina Blue Skies.

Golden Orb spiders and their beautiful, dew-drenched webs.

Hard and satisfying work dividing plants, planting seeds and bulbs, getting the garden ready for winter.

Apple pies, cakes, sauces and butter.

The GETAWAY!!!!!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 10:42 AM

turning colder here in upstate NY - oddly enough last night no frost - but there *WAS* ice on my windshield -

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 12:43 PM

The last four days have been an anomoly here in southeast Alaska. There's a high pressure ridge out there sending our normal rain northwest to Anchorage (couldn't happen to a nicer town) while we have blue skies and balmy air. Temperature has been in the 60s.

In the mornings fog rises above the sea that separates us from an island across the way, outlining our ocean front. I love living here.

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: RangerSteve
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 07:44 PM

We're supposed to get frost tonight, so I expect to be eating plenty of fried green tomatoes, since I don't expect them to ripen anymore.

I noticed the leaves on some trees starting to turn red.

I turned the heat on in my house yesterday for the first time this fall.

Steve (central New Jersey, Delaware Valley)

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 08:31 AM

Last week I had the AC on. Tonight... -3C.

gnuatwork

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 11:17 AM

Hey, Leo, we had frost last night in my part of NY, but the oddest thing was my drive home from work yesterday. I started in bright sunshine &, within minutes, drove into pitch-black skies & *HAIL*!!! Another few minutes saw a gorgeous rainbow following me home. Boy, was it pretty w/ a backdrop of mountains! A half-hour later, I saw a 2nd rainbow. Pretty country here!

best,

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: LilyFestre
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:54 PM

24 degrees Fahrenheit on my front porch this morning!!!! Now where did I put my mittens??!?!?!?!?

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: October Weather
From: Padre
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 08:44 PM

A beautiful fall day in the Alleghany Highlands - temp 60-65, incredibly blue skies with only a few wispy clouds high above.
"God's in His heaven, all's right with the world."

Padre