BS: How's your weather ?

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 04:54 PM

Mafting (adj) means hot, and often humid. Also 'mafted' as in 'I'm bloody mafted'.

You'll be telling me next that you don't know that 'siling down' means raining heavily!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Firecat
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 04:10 PM

Les, what's "mafting"??. And I'm from Doncaster!

By the way, the weather's been OK today here.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 02:04 PM

Bloody mafting in Hull today.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: songs2play
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 04:50 AM

(Wigan-UK) The sun is trying to make it's way through, at last the rain has stopped for a while.

I thought we were having it bad, but it pales into insignificance compared to the weather they are having in Prague.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 02:12 AM

Right nice and Ah didn hav ta think twice

Than Ye

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 05:39 AM

Here is an indication of how wet a summer we have had in north east Ireland, for the first time in the past one hundred years our local Cricket team haven`t played a single game on their wet and sodden ground. Nothing come closest to this summer as the wettest on record. Ard Mhacha

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: John O'L
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 08:25 PM

All Winter it's been hot & dry here, and yesterday arvo it changed. Now it's freezing cold, wet, windy and miserable. (As it should be here in August.)
Be careful what you wish for.

Glenn

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Biskit
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 05:50 PM

It's 100 degrees in Tucson, Arizona, we're in the middle of our Monsoon season and already have 2 inches above normal rain. However the weather guy says that the drought is not over yet.....DROUGHT! we live in a DESERT! and all the grass plantin' golf course buildin' you ever do isn't going to change that!HRRRUMPH! er um,... 'scuse me that jus' kinda bubbled out there... hasn't rained for a couple of days now but this is the first break we've had since the middle of July so that's a beautiful thing. sometimes I feel like I'm gonna have to grow some gills this time of year!The aftermath of the monsoons sure make for some spectacular sunsets! Peace, ~Biskit~

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 05:38 PM

I bitched all summer about the heat--now I'm freezing! High today was 62F! Surely it won't stay this cool for all of August.........

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: bernil
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 05:29 PM

As for ain't in my weather report above... I have no idea why I used it now! I've known it since I was a child, as I started to listen very intense at pop music when I was 10-11 years old. But I've never used it in any "official" context before and didn't really know how "bad" it was! But there's a meaning with everything. And I think the meaning with this was to give Mary (and perhaps someone else?) a big smile! ;-)

As for the weather, it's been very warm and sultry and I long sooooo much for a thunderstorm and a lot of rain!!!

Berit

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: harpgirl
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 11:39 AM

...well, it just popped out and since I unconsciously plagarized it from "Paradise" I thought I better shut up! But it seemed appropriate. It is a humid, acrid, pungent smell....hg

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 08:19 AM

Well, I guess the Canuck spirit is going to shine through once again, albeit a tad slow as far as the railroads are concerned.... 187 cars so far and the two big railroad companies are working hard to scare up another 200 as the donations from the Maritimes continue to grow.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Genie
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 12:30 AM

Dry, dry, dry here in Oregon. Pretty hot, to boot. S'posed to get back into the 90s several days this week. Half the state's on fire, it seems.

So much for it "raining all the time" here in Western Oregon. Seems like this summer drought is getting to be routine.

All the plants in my garden would've died by now if it werent' for garden hoses.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 12:03 AM

We've managed to weather it.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: John O'L
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 10:24 PM

Mary in Kentucky, when I was little our teacher took us all outside into the schoolyard with a spade and we all dug a hole and buried "got" (written on a piece of paper).
To this day, I sometimes re-write an entire passage to avoid using "got"

You ain't gonna believe this, but after all my whinging about how hot and dry it's been, as I write this, it's snowing outside. Madness.

Glenn
Oh. It's stopped.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Robin2
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 09:03 PM

Harpgirl, When the air smells of snakes, is it an acrid, pungent smell? When you said that, I felt I could smell exactly what you were talking about!

RAIN RAIN AND MORE RAIN today! Everyone was standing outside to watch!

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 12:52 PM

"The air smells like snakes"? I know what a hotbed ofs mice smells like but snakes?

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: harpgirl
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 11:59 AM

This has been a very good summer for north florida pineywoods folks! There has been a great deal of rain and the drought of the past several years has been broken.

The temperatures have stayed in the low nineties instead of days and days of over one hundred. (We'eve only had a few of those so far this summer).

We haven't had any hurricanes thus far and none last year!

My fig crop was the best it's ever been and my grass is finally growing.

I still want to turn my front yard into a meadow but the homeowner's associateion won't let me!!!

The thunder showers have kept my raggedy-ass pond full and the tadpoles are plentiful...crepe mrytles, caladiums, pentas, and lantana are abundant! Dragonflies hover over the pond and the air smells like snakes! mmmmmmmmm...hg

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 07:52 AM

I'm still smiling over Berit saying "ain't." We exchanged PM's, and I know she won't mind my talking about this here. Perhaps others will learn something too!

Berit speaks such good English, it's hard to tell she's not a native speaker. But I know she often mentions looking up obscure words in her dictionary.

The use of the word "ain't" is something that traditionally uneducated people use. When I was a child my teachers would often jokingly require us to pay money if they caught us using the word. Think of it like this... if Catspaw were talking to his son's teacher, he wouldn't dare use the word, but if he were talking to Paw or the Reg boys he would most assuredly use it in order to be understood.

It's used a lot in pop songs and movies, but is still considered inapproprite in educated talk or writing (except for empahsis.)

In keeping with the weather theme here, It Ain't Gonna Rain No More (3 instances of bad grammar...ain't, gonna, double negative...but I love it for emphasis.)

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 07:16 AM

Max 23 Celsius (about 73 F), min 11 C (52 F). A real bastard, these winters.

Second driest July on record. Winter is always dry here, but this is getting beyond a joke!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: John O'L
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 03:19 AM

Still hot. Still dry. Still Winter.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Kaleea
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 01:14 AM

Let's see . . .it's August, & I'm in the so called "Midwest" of the USA, so, that must mean, uh, well, . . .IT'S HOT!

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck had a chainsaw? (see Dec. 01, above)

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Robin2
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:24 PM

My little corner of KY has seen 1/2 inch of rain since June 10th, and lots of days pushing 100 degrees...the grass has died, and the sassafras and pin oaks are showing a lot of stress. How goes others in KY?

I have been POURING the water on the garden every week to save my new plantings of roses and bamboo and KY natives...good thing we live next to a river, and water consumption is not a problem here.

Just a note...a friend of mine has grown a fig tree here for several years, this year it is bearing fruit for the first time...global warming anyone?

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 08:22 PM

Did Berit say "ain't"? Love it!!!!!

Berit, you sound like one of the "good ole boys," kinda like me. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 01:08 PM

glen2Glenn, the fires are still raging in southern Oregon; it has now passed the 1933 Tillamook Burn (which I grew up hearing about) in size. The current fire is down close to the California border; so far as I know, the redwoods in Calif. are not in danger.

bernil, I'm with you! I much prefer the cool, moist, sweet air of southeast Alaska to the over-processed stick-your-head-in-the-sofa-cushion breathing stuff they have in so many places this time of year 'in the lower 48'.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Firecat
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 12:55 PM

Well, at least it's not raining in Doncaster now!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: John O'L
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:08 AM

songs2pay
Should be stinking hot in Sydney in November.
Humid too.
Glenn

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:00 AM

It's a nice day today. the sun is shining and it's not too hot and it's not too cold.......it hasn't rained yet either!!!

I can't believe there is an entire thread about the weather.....and I keep contributing to it!!!!!

cat

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 07:19 AM

Hotter than heck here in New Brunswick, Canada and I don't mean the weather. We've got farm after farm lining up to donate hay to send to the drought stricken Prarie Provinces but the SOB federal politicians in Ottawa can only find fifteen rail cars for transort (while donating millions and millions of relief dollars for overseas). Our weather this summer has been a great growing season and we have enough hay to get "the west" through this but the feds are moving so slow that many western farmers have already had to sell off their livestock at bankrupting prices.

Re the weather... we're holding high 20's to low 30's with drenching rains at least every week to ten days. A perfect summer so far.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: songs2play
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 04:37 AM

Still chuckin' it down in Wigan, and bloke next door is building an ark.

Looking forward to Novemeber, as me and the wife are off to Sydney for a couple of weeks. Hope weather is nice there then glen2Glenn.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: bernil
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 04:07 AM

Things ain't normal here in the middle of Sweden and I ain't normal either... We've had warm weather all summer except from a few days with the more common cold winds from the fjelds. As for me I don't like it and don't function when it's warm so I've had problems... But I guess most people have been very happy! When I say (too) warm I mean everything over 70 degrees! And someone here talked about 100 degrees!

When I say I have problems I have to admit they are not as big now as they've been as I've bought a car with AC - it has changed my life a lot and I'm also glad my flat is quite cold!

Berit in Sweden

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: John O'L
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 12:41 AM

Here in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, it's warm and dry when it should be freezing cold and wet.
Most of Australia is actually in a pretty serious drought right now. The bushfire season is just around the corner too.
How're the fires in the USA now? Haven't heard anything on the news about them lately. Are they out, or have the local news outlets just decided they've lost saleability?
Glenn

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 06:12 PM

Well even London had to go one better and decided it was time to have some flash flooding!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: pavane
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 05:35 PM

It has been a bit damp(!) in London this week. Thunderstorms etc. Unusually, Wales has been drier.

(Wales usually gets about 3 times the amount of rain compared to London, because we intercept it on the way in from the Atlantic.)

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Deda
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 02:55 PM

Colorado is DRY, DRY, DRY. We've had a little more rain and a couple of thunderstorms in the last few weeks, which has been great, and the fires are pretty much out -- but the drought is still very bad. For those of you who get tired of looking at rain, Colorado has an average of 300 days of bright sunshine a year. Generally, it's a fabulous climate. But we're suffering this year, after four years of below-average snowpack, so all our reservoirs are low anyway. Crops are dead or dying, watering is restricted all over the eastern half of the state, and probably the west too. There's nothing I would love more than the sound and sight and feel of a good, hours-long, hammering rain.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:27 PM

Just when it gets to feel like something besides a steambath, here comes today's brief afternoon thundershower to give tomorrow's sunny, 90 degree morning a little more moisture to play with. Can you say "perspiration"?

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: artbrooks
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 11:36 AM

Monsoon season has begun in New Mexico. The wilderness and near-wilderness areas that have been closed because of fire danger are all open again. Temperatures are down about 15 degrees (F), to mid-80s days and low 60s nights. Maybe I can save my little patch of grass in the back yard!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 10:30 AM

Raining. For the last four days. Before that, we had an unprecedented-for-August seven days of brilliantly blue and bright skies with temperatures in the 70s. Gone back to a more normal 55. Southeast Alaska is in the midst of a temperate rain forest...

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Firecat
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 10:03 AM

Just looked out of the window. It's raining and cloudy. The one word description would be YUK!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: RolyH
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 10:03 AM

In Suffolk - Floods,serpents,bolts from the sky and a plague of frogs

Meanwhile tomorrows chart shows.........

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,Janie (at work)
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 10:01 AM

Mary,

Geenfields! Perfect. I had forgotten all about that song. Janie

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 09:57 AM

Wet and humid will probably get more thunder storms later today!

Cat

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 08:54 AM

How 'bout Greenfields?

Once there were green fields Kissed by the sun...Green fields are gone now Parched by the sun...

Here in central Kentucky we've had super days for the last four days...80's daytime, 60' at night, humidity around 75%. (It was 100 degrees, 95% humidity last weekend!) At my house we've had 3 severe thunderstorms in the last two weeks. Twice the electricity was knocked out. We also had widespread hail damage last month.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,Janie (at work)
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 08:31 AM

I am soooo jealous of all the postings that mention moisture in the forecast. Here in the Northeast Piedmont of North Carolina, we are in the midst of a very serious drought. These past few days have been beautiful, cool for this time of year (mid 80's,) low humidity, absolutely Carolina Blue skies---but the water rationing has tightened to the point that only gray water may be used to water outside plants. I am shutting down my small commercial cut flower growing operation 3 months early. Even some of my day lilies and peonies are dead or dying.

Anybody know a song about drought and dying fields?

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: songs2play
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 08:12 AM

It's chucking it down in Wigan.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,nobby
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 08:11 AM

I have plenty of weather. Does anyone want some of as I have more than I need.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 08:08 AM

Sunny, today high around 80. Pleasantly cool for this time of year in Wes Ginny. 57 degrees right now. All ready been out doing a little work in the gardens...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: smallpiper
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 06:36 AM

cats and dogs

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 06:35 AM

raining.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 04:07 PM

Up here in the Scottish highlands it is 21:00 hrs., there is snow on the ground, and it's about -5 centigrade.
Failte.....Jock
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas da da da de da da de da