What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 May 22 - 09:48 PM

Thunderstorms again!
I didn't realize that the Berkshire mountain area had monsoons . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 22 - 05:53 PM

The epitome of a perfect day with blue skies and puffy white clouds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 22 - 03:49 PM

Later this coming week, there will be some cooling showers and the temperatures will be more moderate.
Right now, though, it is warmer than is usual for this month.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 May 22 - 04:33 PM

Unseasonably chilly here in Northern California. Thirty degrees hotter where my wife is visiting her son in Midland, Texas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 22 - 03:41 AM

winter draws on here - last few days & nights have been cooler.

I'm close to Sydney harbour (lotsa' building in the way so I can't see the water) & the temperature at Observatory hill which is also on the harbour is 11.9 which feels like 3.1, time 5.20pm Tuesday. To convert Celcius to F - double & add 30 for the approx temperature. 17 was forecast today & we did reach it around noon, but then it gradually got cooler. But I don't feel cold here in my apartment.

tonight is expected to be 8, & tomorrow 15, with winds. The western suburbs will be colder & are expecting 8 tonight & 14 tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 22 - 10:36 AM

latest temperature readings - 10.5 feels like 4.3 - shiver

sandra (12.30am Wed 1st June, time for bed)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 02:21 AM

It's absolutely chucking it down (very heavy rain) and the sky is dark and glowering. Thunderstorms are forecast. What a good job this didn't arrive during that bloomin' Jubilee!
My front garden is already a wee bit flooded.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 03:49 AM

I think it's been a bit of a mixed June here (N Norfolk, UK) so far. For the last couple of days:

Friday was gorgeous. A visiting brother and his wife took mum outside and they spent the later part of the afternoon chatting and enjoying the sunshine.
Saturday was a dull grey day.
Today, we have heavy rain forecast for all day. We've had some of this but it's stopped for now. I still expect more rain later.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 06:00 AM

Well, it's getting cool, as you would expect for winter. Currently - just on 8 p.m. - the official temperature at the airport (which we can see from our verandah) is 4.7 deg C, but the 'feels like' is 1.6.

Frost is forecast for this week, maybe a sprinkle of rain.

There is no such thing as bad weather, just unsuitable clothing. There is a reason I knit warm jumpers, or sweaters for our Canadian and American friends.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 08:17 AM

We're having the most ideal weather compared to the worst weather which would be fire, eruptions, floods and Richter 10 earthquakes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 08:45 AM

here in Sydney latest temperatures at 10.20pm Sunday night is 12.0 which feels like 7.5, & I'm not wearing all winter layers as I don't need them tonight, thin thermals, long sleeved t-shirt, fleece vest & fleece jacket + velvet skirt are enough!

I don't have or need a heater & my windows are locked open 6" or so. When it gets cooler I add a pair of fleecy track pants & replace the t-shirt with a woollen thermal shirt & maybe a shawl & I'm fine, tho no doubt people would look at me strangely if we had an emergency!

2 & a half hours later the temperature in Jennie's little bit of paradise, several hundred kilometers west of me, is 3.7 which feels like 0.8! But her house is sealed, insulated & heated, as it's built to the local winter climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 10:45 AM

We had a heavy thunderstorm over Friday night and it turned our heat into a sauna this weekend. We needed the rain; in the past I have uttered the wish that it "pace itself to once a week," but that in fact is too often. Every other week or every third week is good.

Meanwhile, one of my air conditioning units is blowing air, not cool air, and I'm waiting for the AC tech to arrive. It turns out my regular guy over the last 20 years died this spring. :-( I'm having to test the skills and honesty of a new company.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jun 22 - 04:59 PM

The weather cannot make up its mind this week.
All night it rained like mad.
The morning was cool, if damp.
The darned grey clouds remain overhead, however
the clouds are broken up into clumps and
there is clear dry blue sky in between the clouds,
and brilliant sunshine when the clouds don't cover the sun.
Very windy day as well.

It's one of those days when the prepared traveler
carries sunglasses AND an umbrella.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jun 22 - 12:14 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/us/yellowstone-national-park-closed-visitors-flooding-tuesday/index.html

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jun 22 - 09:42 PM

What the heck is going on in Yellowstone National Park?!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 02:29 AM

There's been a weather warning here for Friday -temperature reaching possibly 34 degrees Celsius!! My poor husband has to spend hours and hours cleaning, mopping and polishing floors and dragging numerous wheelie bins around at the two schools where he now cleans.
Although he's an African, his hayfever will be atrocious, and he has to choose between hardly able to breathe or doped up to the nines with Piriton. I feel sorry too for the poor binmen. I usually have several cans of Diet Coke in my fridge for them, (and the postman, any couriers etc) Ice-cold Coke seems to hit the spot for them!
As for me, I can stand any amount of heat (and humidity). I was perfectly happy in Ghana once with 40 degrees Celsius and 90% humidity. Didn't bother me at all!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 08:45 PM

Forecast for this weekend, approaching
the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere,
is for a last breath of late spring:
cool, clear, a little breezy,
an occasional chance of rain.

I for one welcome this with open arms.
Summer in this area, high summer,
is muggy and sweltering hot with too many blood-drinking bugs.

Too bad for the people who want to spend the weekend at the beach
and find that the water is just that little bit too cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 04:11 AM

Yesterday was too warm for my liking. The one good thing here in N Norfolk was there was quite a fresh breeze which helped a little. I didn't close the doors and windows I'd opened until about 9pm and we were still about 28-29C inside then.

Another change is forecast today. Rain later and max temp of 16C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 05:18 AM

I did the same Jon, I opened all the windows merely to freshen up the house a bit. But when I came indoors, every room was full of buzzing flies, bees, wasps and other delights. I whisked them all out with a tea-towel.
I've just come inside from sitting on The Bench this morning, because I felt some spots of rain. Good thing for the crops and gardens.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 08:03 PM

Today was beyond perfectly ideal weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 08:03 PM

Effing hot and one of two heat pump units has died completely. I have a portable unit set up in the area served by the old AC and am contemplating how to replace the dead one (truth be told - both are the same age and need replacing).

It's like August arrived in early June and it hasn't let up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 01:59 AM

When travelling in West Africa (many times, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia etc) all the hotels had air-conditioning in the bedrooms. Noisy things. I always turned them off, because your body needs to acclimatise to the hot temperature, and sleeping in a chilly room doesn't help at all.
But I suppose I'm weird, because no amount of heat bothers me.
It was the same getting off the plane. The cabin was usually quite chilly but coming down the stairs thing they wheeled up to the door, the heat hit one like a bomb. I always smiled with pleasure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 10:47 AM

Eliza/Senoufou, a teacher with whom I once studied,
from the Deep Southern US, startled everyone once when
she went on a group tour to India.
I forget what city the airport was in.
But the plane landed, the passengers started to step down
(an outdoor staircase, not one of those enclosed access things),
and when you left the plane the heat assaulted you physically.
And she was like, "Ah! I'm home! Lovely!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 03:40 PM

The summer heat and mugginess have arrived for a day or two.

Some people were grouchy hereabouts about the cool days and nights
that we endured before today.
I savored them fully, knowing they would not last.
We get a little coolness back later in the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 22 - 09:51 AM

First of July is forecast to be entirely too hot
unless you have a beach with chilly water to dip in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 04:12 PM

Hotter than July,
appropriately enough for the first of July.
Thunderstorms forecast for the weekend.
Hopefully Monday the Fourth will not rain, nor thunder, nor bolt with lightning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 06:50 PM

June was a fairly nondescript month, with few days of real warmth but, on the other hand, some good sunny days. Far too much wind at times. However, at just two inches in my back garden, yet another month drier than usual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jul 22 - 07:28 PM

Much of Sydney is under climate change flood water

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 06:15 AM

too right - NSW SES deals with 3,900 calls for help as wild weather, flooding hit Sydney
Sydney floods: residents brace for another day of devastating weather as NSW coast battered by rain

Some months back our Liberal (= right wing) Govt removed "paperwork" so developers can build on flood plains - cos we need lotsa' housing! Thousands more to live on flood plain on Sydney’s fringes if developments allowed to proceed

Too many flooodplains are currently covered with housing & with every flood, more land/houses are inundated.

My favourite pic from the March floods showed before & after views of a two-storey McDondalds with the golden arches outside on a pole taller than the building. Second pic shows most of the golden arches & a few tree tops peeking above a big brown river.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 06:59 AM

We're in the rainy season in SW Florida with storms almost every afternoon which are filling up the ponds and canals which means that gators are ranging far and wide. They're in the height of their mating season and their constant mating calls which emanate from the cypress preserve behind our property start as soon as the sun goes down and can make it hard to get to sleep some nights.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 08:21 AM

A glacial collapse in the Italien Alps has occured in the extreme heat of climate change.

Florida also has giant African snails that spread Menningitus.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jul 22 - 03:53 PM

Watch channel 5 for sports, weather, traffic and mass shootings.

no guns were harmed in making this post.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Jul 22 - 08:41 PM

It's damp here, it's raining - but not pouring rain, and it is welcome after a very dry June.

We're very glad we didn't move to the coast when we retired, as some coastal areas are having their third flood this year.....and these are not minor floods.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 22 - 04:06 PM

That volatile sort of summer weather.

Piercingly clear dry blue sky.
Big puffy clouds moving rapidly across the sky.

Some of the puffy clouds are pure white.

And some have been downright pregnant with rain,
which means the cloud is quite black
and there is a cloudburst.
Summer heat:   that's what this is about. Colorful,
as long as you don't have to walk through it outdoors.
Even though there is brilliant sunshine, I have got my umbrella
AND I know how to use it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jul 22 - 08:43 AM

3 to 4 inchs of rain in a couple hours.
My 3 pronged approach to prevent house flooding has worked.
Roof replaced with bigger gutters and spouts, basement window elimination and channeling dug at a back door.
If the water comes twice as fast or twice as much I am skeptical my fix will hold but we are high enough to not get ground water floods.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jul 22 - 03:17 PM

Supposedly we have a possibility of HAIL this afternoon.
The sky does look a little, er, temperamental.

I just saw a video on the Weather Channel where they said
that the rare incidence of stormy skies that appear
to be GREEN in color
is almost always about hail.

Good thing they didn't know about that back in the day when
The Wicked Witch of the West was given a green-skin makeup job
in The Wizard of Oz . . .
that movie shoot was legendary for its woes and tribulations
even without hail!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 09:23 AM

I saw the front yesterday that for 2 minutes looked like the immense spacecraft from Independence Day emerging from clouds. To the north, houses were ripped in half by falling trees in the dorachio straight line winds. It was far more entertaining than a mass shooting event.
The Supreme Court removing concealed carry laws has more than doubled the sales of hand guns in my county compared to last year already.
Climate change weather is welcome compared to stupid shooters and judges.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 08:09 PM

It's really really cold. Snow has been falling an hour away - we're in a valley which last saw snow in about 1984, but higher altitudes an hour away get the wet white stuff each year. The sun is being shy today, hiding behind some grey clouds; even if it was shining it would be deceptive because there's no warmth in it.

Ah well. July is, after all, our coldest month of the year, something to remember in the heat of January.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 09:16 PM

We have a 67 F night tonight in Wash DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 09:24 PM

Hell's Front Porch right now here in Texas. We're going to break some kind of heat record again this year. In 2011 there were 72 days over 100^o; in 1980 there were something like 42 in a row. This May was really hot, June was very hot, and every day in July so far has been over 100^o.

Time really crawls when it's so miserable out there. It creates a drought so you have to be very careful how you use water, but you have to use enough, like watering around the base of the house, to keep the foundation from cracking or making existing problems worse. The yard fries. Lots of mulch and a timed sprinkler in the vegetable garden, but the tomatoes don't set when it's this hot and there isn't much out there other than a couple of eggplants and a couple of peppers.

I have a shower on my back porch (a private area that faces the woods) and it is a nice thing to shower after dark out there, but mostly, it's just a misery.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 03:05 AM

I love the heat, any temperature is fine by me. But I do pity those who have to do physical work (the dustmen for example, pushing those heavy wheelie bins about).
And the prolonged drought is getting serious. Both my lawns look like the Sahara desert. And my shepherdess neighbour is worried about her sheep - their pasture is just dust, so she's having to buy extra fodder for them and erect shady shelters. The sheep have been sheared of course, but they still get very hot in this weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 06:31 AM

We've had warm, windy, dry weather for weeks, mostly sunny. We've had an eighth of an inch of rain in the last 17 days and that has followed six drier than average months in a row. We had 30.3C in my back garden the other day. The all-time record for Bude is 32.3C on two days in 1976. We have a heatwave coming after tomorrow. Humble by Texas standards but we're not geared up for it! The peak tourist season is coming and we are running low on water in the Westcountry. I'm just off to crunch my way over what used to be my lawn!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 07:01 AM

Lots of brown patches on our grass here in N Norfolk too. I'm surprised I've not seen the thing that shoots out huge jets of water out on the field but the sugar beet looks OK.

27C forecast for today and the last few days have been very warm. I'm keeping doors and some windows open until about 8:30pm and have a fan running in my room.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 08:30 PM

There was in fact no hail hereabouts
when that storm front blew through a day or two ago.

But a tree came down on a truck driving down the state route,
and killed the driver;
the route was blocked for hours, and traffic re-routed and detoured.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 01:25 PM

We have a red alert for heat on Monday and Tuesday. We're expecting all-time records to be broken.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 02:21 PM

My husband rang me this evening to say that his colleagues at the high school (where he cleans from 1pm until 8pm every day) were concerned about the high temperatures we're going to get on Monday and Tuesday next week. Apparently he sneered at them and said, "I yam a niggeur! I lurve zee heat!" They were seemingly rather shocked, but amused too.
I have to boast that I can take any amount of heat too (but then, I'm retired and merely sit on The Bench most of the time.)
In Accra, Ghana, my husband and I were exploring a large African market. It was about 40C, but neither of us minded. However, some sweat trickled down into my eyes and they were red. A Ghanaian lady selling secondhand bras (!!) asked me, "Why you crying lady, huh?" It did make me giggle, but I reassured her it was only sweat. Husband had to pipe up:"She's a Honky, she should be a nigga like us!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 02:50 PM

Portugal 115 F

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 07:01 PM

I live on the same latitude as Lisbon.
If London was just as far north but in Canada you would be cool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jul 22 - 07:19 PM

Here in Bude we had a pleasant 23C today, though the humidity was at 74%. The sun has blazed at UV8, as on many days recently, and the factor 30 on my thinning pate was very welcome. We've had several holidays in southern Spain in recent years, in Almería province, in Granada and in Córdoba, and we've had 40C a number of times. One day we went to the spaghetti western town in the Tabernas desert. The big difference from the UK on almost every occasion was that the humidity was in single numbers. That's easy to cope with, as long as you can find a coffee bar with big umbrellas up...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jul 22 - 08:02 AM

I recall the Paris heat wave that killed many. If a London has a heat wave similar to Paris it could be as dangerous.