BS: How's your weather ?

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 03:44 PM

I have just come into the warmth after walking my old dog along the shores of Lough Neagh on a biting cold evening-5. A Moon ringed with an icy circle and the ghosts of Viking ships on the water. A warm cup of Tea and I am in Heaven. Dan the dreamer.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 12:02 PM

Yes, very cold in hull today.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Allan C.
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 10:30 AM

As predicted, we had some weather yesterday and things are looking quite good for more today. The long-range forecast for parts of Virginia and West Virginia include the possibility of a wee bit of snow on Christmas. If this should happen, it will be the very first white Christmas I will have experienced in my lifetime. I didn't even have one while I lived in Montana. My definition of "white Christmas" is one on which there is actual percipitation on that day. I have had a few Christmases that featured snow left over from previous days, but I think it just isn't the same somehow.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 10:11 AM

Wow. Snow ? Must be a cold day in Hull.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 08:34 AM

Snowing.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 09:30 AM

Tolerable weather in New Jersey. We are supposed to start haveing winter weather starting tomorrow. I don't mind the warm weather. I've only had to turn the heat on a few times in the last few months.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Fortunato
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 09:21 AM

Oops. I mean return the favor of course. Come visit! chance

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Fortunato
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 09:20 AM

You really must the favor and come see us here in Maryland. Give my best to your family there for the holidays.

Chance

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 09:15 AM

Hallo Fortunato!

Hope you and yours have a lovely christmas too. 55 degrees sounds lovely! My friend is coming over from Baltimore for chrimbo, she's gonna have a shock!

Best wishes!

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Fortunato
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 08:57 AM

Ella! Merry Christmas! Fortunato here. Sorry you're chilly. Personally I think our hemisphere is too damn far from the sun and something ought to be done about it. Presently here in sunny Maryland it's going up to 55 degrees Farenheit, which is adequate but I much prefer 79 and Hawaiian Shirts. If it gets much colder I'll have to resort to underwear (hee, hee) I hope Santa brings you a balmy day. Cheers.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 08:19 AM

bloody freezing, but dry and really cold wind, Grey skys

I think I have SAD...

Sigh....

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 11:30 PM

Sydney Oz - it's quite warm and sunny but storms forecast later(it's 3.30pm). In spring-early summer (and again in late summer-early autumn) we get warm very humid days with late storms....and some of those storms are real doozies, often with hail. Clears overnight then next day it starts all over again.....
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 01:13 PM

A friend just got back from Colorado. Said the temps were in the 50s. No snow.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 09:38 AM

Abnormally warm here in Virginia. I don't like it! Normally I'm not a cold weather person but it feels like something's wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 06:21 AM

Desdemona... ooops. 50 to 100mm... Canuck, eh ? Though the brandy sounds like a good idea anyway. Already have a dusting of the glistening pristine white crap.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 10:50 PM

Mmario, will you grant that day and dark are not evenly divided right now? We're getting a little more than 6 hours of daylight currently- and much of that isn't full daylight. But you're right- we get it all back next summer.

Today, for the first time in the couple of weeks since I'm back in town a bitter wind is blowing. It's right off the icefields and not tempered at all by the snow on the ground. Not a good day to go wandering.

Joe O, in mid-November I drove through the Sacramento Valley and the Siskiyous from and to the Oregon Willamette Valley. Had several hours of fog in the Sacramento area but otherwise we had wonderful driving conditions- dry freeway, open expansive hills, bright colors in the mountains. Gorgeous. And I fell in love all over again with Dunsmuir. Someday I must go spend some time there...

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: mmm1a
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 10:35 PM

Gnu Thank You for the information. I never thought about looking online for it. My Father died when I was 5 yrs old so I know very little about Him when He was growing up Thank You so much, this means alot to me. mmm

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 06:00 PM

50 to 100?! Inches or feet? Or in those quantities we may talking about leagues or fathoms or some such thing.

I blame myself. Have you got a St. Bernard and a cask of brandy at the ready, just in case?

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 05:27 PM

Desdemona... it's your fault. I just checked the forecast and guess what ? Flurries in the morning, changing to snow, 50 to 100 accumulation and windy. Anyway, thanks for trying.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Llanfair
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 05:14 PM

Big Daddy.......We could have used some of that dry heat last year, it rained almost every day!!! We're used to the rain here, but not flooded roads!!!!

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 04:41 PM

I'm trying, I'm trying....but....it seems to be...slipping away from me.....

Sorry---it's just raining now; what did I tell you about waiting a few minutes?

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 04:21 PM

DougR... that should suit my snowbird, golf nut uncle who winters there from BC.

Desdemona... can you hang onto that crap until it peters out rather than letting it come north to the Maritimes ? Thanks.

Still sunny but cooling here. I knew the new moon would bring a change. It's all downhill now, but the snow makes money change hands, so I'll just put a few more spuds in the stew and watch it snow.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 04:15 PM

funny thing - it gets dark about every twenty-four hours. Then it gets light again.

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From: GUEST,Ina
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 04:08 PM

We have a Winter Wonderland right now and with a bit of luck a White Christmas in a few days!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: DougR
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 03:58 PM

Cloudy skies with a temperature of 57 degrees in Phoenix, Arizona at 2pm today.

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From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 02:51 PM

Llanfair, could I swap some Florida sunshine for some of your lovely Welsh weather? Cold and frosty, misty hills and bare trees black against the sky...sigh...no wonder you're all poets and bards!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Janie
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 02:37 PM

Here in Zone 7 on the Northeast Piedmont of NC it has been unseasonably mild--all season. No hard frost yet. Yarrow and calendula actually still blooming, and horror of horrors I still have aphids on the few leaves the drought has left on my roses. The groundhogs have munched my fall garden down to little nubbins, and Catspaw49, if I could catch the suckers I would gladly boil them for 2 weeks after skinning them alive (the skins make really good drum heads for small drums.)

Speaking of groundhogs--my grandmother used to tell this one on her brother Ray. When they were young children in eastern Kentucky the extended family always ate Sunday dinner at their house. Times were hard, and one Sunday their mom fixed a couple of groundhogs. She knew Uncle Clyde would not KNOWINGLY eat groundhog so told the kids before company arrived that if they wanted seconds to say "Please pass the meat" instead of groundhog. When Ray was ready for seconds he remembered he was not supposed to call it groundhog but couldn't remember what to call it. He finally asked his Uncle Clyde to "Pass the Body, please."

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 12:35 PM

It's been in the 60's and sunny apart from about 2 days in the 40s and raining...I wish it would finally decide to be winter!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 12:30 PM

..."and if you don't like the weather in New England, wait a few minutes".

It definitely qualifies as a bleak midwinter day here---freezing cold with sleet & snow mixed together---yuck. It does "look" a litle more like Christmas, but that small cosmetic advantage is outweighed by the nasty inconvenience of actually having to go outside and drive through it!

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 12:14 PM

Here in the Sacramento area in Northern California, it has been chilly and wet, with a few nippy days of magnificent sunshine. My sweetie lives 40 minutes northwest of me, near Auburn. She's at an elevation of 2,300 feet (750 meters?), so her air is colder and her skies clearer. She has had frost a couple of times. She's on a ridge that looks all the way across the Sacramento Valley to the Coastal Range. This time of year, she's line up just fright to see sunsets at their very best - and I saw two spectacular sunsets from her house this last week.

I see an interesting entry for the Thread Name Game here. When I looked at the Forum Menu, the first thread was "How's Your Weather?" and the second was "In the Bleak Midwinter."

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Llanfair
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 11:54 AM

Cold and frosty in Wales. The hills are all misty and the bare trees are black against the sky.

The forecasters are talking about snow at the weekend.

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,Dan K.
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 11:35 AM

Okay skarp, I'll let it slide. Have a good next year and here's to few or no volcanic eruptions.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,skarpi Iceland
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 11:26 AM

HAlló all, dan K I think you won´t have a volcano eruption, that is only gonna get it worse don´t you think ? We have one very very big volcano that we are waiting for to plast , but we hope that it wont be until in longest future.So grin don´t blame us I think there are other facture to blame sush as what comes from the cars and ship´s and so on. All the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 06:40 AM

mmmla... it's a bustling transportation / distribution / retail / high tech city of about 80,000 with two adjoining communities, Dieppe and Riverview, of about 20,000 each. The outlying rural areas are fairly well populated. We are 1 1/2 h from Saint John, Fredericton, Miramichi, and the Nova Scotia border. The population base for retail is large and you could shop for a week and not see half of it. There is some light industrial, so the air is clean. We are twenty minutes from beautiful beaches on the Northumberland Straight... the warmest waters north of the Carolinas.

Moncton was a railway and military town. They are gone, but our motto is Resurgo, and, while the rest of the country is in a recession, Moncton just keeps chugging. There are buildings going up all over the place. Everywhere you look, there's an apartment building going up and people waiting to rent... I just can't imagine where in hell they're all coming from. A good deal of the growth was spurred by the call centre business which located here because about 40 percent of our population is bilingual.

I won't drone on... you can visit Moncton's website or Tourism NB and learn a lot more than I could ever tell you.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 04:52 PM

Hot and humid here on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Can't wait to fly to Michigan next Friday. No snow to speak of there, but much cooler temperatures. Hope for snow while there. Back to Florida January 3rd. Hopefully it will have cooled here somewhat by then. Actually had a couple of frosts down here last January. Hope to be back in Michigan (living there again) by 2004. Or Tennessee. Not cut out for "Margaritaville" on a permanent basis.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 04:42 PM

skarpi it's all your stinking volcanoes that you refuse to do anything about. I blame Iceland.

dan K.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 03:10 PM

skarpi in Iceland
Looks like I better book my Red Christmas quick, before the Gulf stream changes its mind.

The way I always state it is - we're mortgaging the future by spending the inheritance. Fossil fuels laid down over millions of eons and we burn them in barely hundreds. Trouble is we're filling the dustbins. Come to think of it we're living in one.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 03:08 PM

I live in New England, and thus far the weather's been pretty bizarre---very warm for this time of year for most of November & December, then turning ever-so-briefly cold & snowing 6" before warming right back up again. It's hardly surprising that just about everyone I know is sick with SOMETHING, myself included, alas!

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From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 03:01 PM

Canadian Scientists have discovered the chemical formulae for snow = Wh1 Te Sh1 T

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From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 02:51 PM

Last week, I mowed my lawn one day and it snowed the next. Wierd to see new grass clippings mixed in with snow. Such is life in Derby, CT (D'Arrby to you...)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: mmm1a
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 12:28 PM

Sorry bit of a thread creep here Gnu I just saw that you are from Moncton . My father was born there and I always wondered what it is like? As for the weather here it is warmer then usually , we usually have some snow by now but I'm not complaining at all I could do with out cold weather. ok it can snow on Christmas eve and day but then it can go back to warm weather. lol mmm ( in Indiana )

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From: Biskit
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 11:35 AM

THE SKY IS FALLLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!!!AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..............! Colder'n a well diggers fanny here in Tucson, Az. says here we'll have a HIGH in the upper 40's GEEZUS! It's been cold/rainy all week I wish you California guys would just keep your weather systems to yourself! BRRRrrrrr!!!! ~Biskit~

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 10:51 AM

Scientists in the Fifties were predicting global warming and, despite the fact that there were many more naysayers then, temperatures have been steadily increasing.

As kat says, go out and plant some trees.

When Lou died she wanted trees planted in her memory and most family members planted one. When we scattered her ashes in the mountains I bought 48 bristlecone pine seedlings from the forestry service and we planted them at the same time. That was over ten years ago. I went back there a couple of weeks ago and over half of the pines were thriving.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: alison
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 08:19 AM

well it is pleasantly warm in Sydney about 20C..... when it should be absolutely stinking hot by now ....mid to high 30s (I think that goes up to about 110F for you US people *grin*)... summer hasn't really hit yet.. and spring was cold......

mind you.. it makes it feel more like Christmas to me when it isn't so hot

this weather is just weird!!

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnomad
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 07:48 AM

Just been for a noon-time walk, sun low but it is December, just enough cloud to show how blue the sky is. Easterly breeze at the end of Whitby west pier ruffling hair, but I've been colder in June, and very little sea running at all.

Harbour full of bird life, gulls, shags, ducks and more than 2 dozen swans, idyllic.

Of course tomorrow will be mist so thick you can hardly see your feet as they slip on the frost, you can't beat a bit of variety.

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 06:11 AM

My position on fighting global warming is clear... I'm a s*** disturber. It's healthy for the discussion to have at least one anti. I agree that we should attempt to minimize our impact.

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From: heric
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 01:23 AM

My all time favorite headline was in the Vancouver Sun nearly twenty years ago, how time flies:

GLOBAL WARMING GOOD FOR CANADA

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From: WyoWoman
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 01:11 AM

Scarily warm. The peach and apple trees are budding, which will mean a catastrophe for the orchards if we don't get a cold snap soon to close the buds back up.

I don't think it's chicken-little stuff, Gnu. I think we need to start paying attention--fast. The body of evidence is getting pretty darned convincing. Read the new book "Eco-Economoy" Developing an Economy for the EArth," by Lester R. Brown. Brown founded Worldwatch Institute in the 1970s and has now formed the Earth Policy Institute to try to spread the word about the necessity of changing our energy and water-wasting habits a.s.a.p. and developing a new economic approach that figures the cost to the environment into the price of goods and services. He's a MacArthur fellow and an exceedingly well-respected thinker about agriculture, the economy and related issues. He lines out a pretty convincing argument.

It's not fun to contemplate what the various environmental depredations add up to, and it's certainly easier to hit the "denial" button and call people alarmists when they try to draw attention to the issues, as kat has done, but ultimately it's our children and their children who are going to pay the price for our unwillingness to make some fundamental changes right now.

think I'll go plant a tree or two ...

ww

Subject: RE: BS: How's your weather ?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Dec 01 - 07:15 PM

Sorry gnu. Eastern West Virginia, USA.

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From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Dec 01 - 06:01 PM

Beautiful, white, billowing snow everywhere you look in Juneau, Alaska, US. Today the sky is bright blue but we've more snow forecast. Mid-20F temperatures.