What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 21 - 11:37 AM

And it's the season that I think of as
The Moths' Last Gasp.
They are clustering around doorways of an evening,
trying to get not only to light but to warmer air,
as the evenings get closer and closer to freezing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 10:48 AM

on 25 Sept JennieG posted - Official storm season starts next week, on 1st October - and right on schedule, the first rainstorm of the season is forecast for Thursday/Friday.

Today (Thursday evening) the Bureau of Meteorology posted ... the storm season was "really kicking off" and urged residents to check the BOM's website for the latest weather warnings ... after a tornado ripped through NSW's Central West on Thursday afternoon, damaging properties and leaving a 30km trail of destruction.

Fortunately it was 400km from The Small Smoke where Jennie lives, & about 200 km from The Big Smoke where I live. Tomorrow the Small Smoke forecast is for Showers & Possible storm while The Big Smoke can expect a Shower or two & Possible storm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 09:05 PM

Sandra, we know the area where the tornado happened - it touched down at Peel, a tiny village outside Bathurst, that we have driven through on our way to/from Canberra. (we a choice of several routes we can take, that one is my favourite) It's not far from Wattle Flat/Sofala, the site of gold rushes in the 1800s.

There was also a tornado closer to home, in the Narrabri area a couple of hours west.

Rain is forecast for today and tomorrow. So far - 11 a.m. - it is warm and sunny. That will not last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 05:00 AM

I went out today in the sunshine, spent a lovely day with a friend, we ate lunch in her backyard. The sky darkened as I was travelling home & I was several steps from my door, after battling strong winds as my street is on the top of a hill with 2 skyscraper apartment blocks on the corner!, when the FIRST few drops touched me & by the time I'd climbed up the stairs, it was a downpour, but I was still dry!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 11:05 AM

Hurricane season here runs June 1 until November 30. The one that impacts many of us more is Tornado season, March 1 through June 30 and we here in North Texas live in Tornado Alley (scroll down to see the map). That super cold event we had in Texas earlier this year was in February (exacerbated by our broken power grid).

Winters here aren't warm like down at the coast or in Southern Arizona or California, and sometimes we feel the weather come straight through from Saskatchewan. I ended up here for a job, I wasn't attracted by the climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 12:14 AM

Hey ho, caters. I lost only one tree this hurricane season thus far. It was a twenty five foot pear tree. I still haven’t hauled it all off since I am busy with caring for dad who is now 98. I’ve spent eight years with him and five before that with mother caring for her with dad’s help. Hospice is now helping me but Sky King is still a brave B24 bomber pilot Anyway hurricane season isn’t over but it has been relatively merciful in north Florida. It was almost ninety today I think, but it’s in the sixties now at night.
Love, harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 08:32 PM

As to hurricanes,
the Northern Hemisphere hurricane season has now arrived at
V - is - for - Victor. (sigh)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 09:23 PM

It was an Indian summer 84 F today in DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 09:40 PM

Ever since the sun set it's been dark.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 07:51 AM

wet

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 08:07 AM

Big Al wins the succinct award.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 11:23 AM

Wet in Stratford, Ontario, too. I can feel moss growing on my north side, and mushrooms between my toes.

This summer was the wettest anyone around here can remember, and it produced (among other things) a stunning proliferation of mosses, lichens and fungi in gardens and parks. When I stroll around the neighbourhood, I check other people's lawns to see who has more toadstools per square metre than I do -- not many!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MudGuard
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 04:30 PM

Luckily, no weather at all here where I am.

Would be awful to have weather - in my living room ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Oct 21 - 09:53 PM

Raining, not that I mind much.
This time of year, if it rains, it doesn't get too terribly cold.
And it doesn't turn to snow either.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Oct 21 - 07:29 AM

We're into our twelfth day in a row of gentle sunshine, light winds and mid-sixties temperatures. It's lovely. Very unusual for October. Cornwall may well have had the best of it. I'm sitting in the sun with my shirt off (down, girls...). I think today could be the last of it this year. You never know!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Oct 21 - 07:36 AM

We can call it an Indian summer, but that's been more of an American thing until quite recently. A pleasant spell of weather starting tomorrow would be a St Luke's summer (the 18th is his feast day), so the current spell is too early for that. Similarly, a nice spell in mid-November would be a St Martin's summer. Even if we get that, the shirts will be staying on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 21 - 03:39 PM

It looks bad out there.
The picture window in front of me shows the storm system moving in:
the sky is going that odd quality it gets with incoming storms,
part obscuring clouds, part glaring if indirect daylight.
A wind is making the tree branches uneasy.

The storm is concentrated on the coast in this area;
my location is well inland, but the storm will graze us anyway,
while the coast has warnings of flash flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 07:29 PM

October has been incredibly mild this year. In my garden the average maximum has been well in excess of 16C ( let's say 62F), way above average. We've had just three days that dipped below average but not by much. Nothing approaching a frost and my garden would still be looking lovely but for the somewhat windy conditions in the last few days. It's been a bit wet for a day or two, however...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 08:02 PM

There is a rainstorm out there that is 1,000 miles wide.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 10:53 AM

Space weather is cold with hot spots from visible matter to black holes.
But does dark matter even have a temperature?
Temperature is a human construct and can be described in very different ways. As you can see, dark matter is like branchs that visible matter attaches itself to like leaves. I see dark matter more like a mold's mycellium. You can say I see a universe that is old and moldy. :^/

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 11:27 AM

It's temperature scales that are the human constructs. Temperature is a real thing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Nov 21 - 07:18 PM

Charmion and Dorothy Parshalls testify
to uncomfortable weather in Canada.

Not uncomfortable, yet, in my region.

Hopefully the Southern Hemisphere has more enjoyable weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 10:24 AM

Its a balmy 72 F today in DC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Nov 21 - 05:31 AM

I woke up this morning to a lot of snow out there. The wind was almost howling and the snow was heavy. We ended up with just five or six inches but it was beautiful.

This whole next week they're forecasting low temperatures and more snow. By the end of the week our ground should be well frozen. I hope so.

Southeastern Alaska doesn't get nearly as much wintry weather as the rest of Alaska- our all time low temperature at -22F (our highest was 90 degrees), because, although we are fairly far north, we are right on the coast. which tends to keep us pretty stable.

For those who don't know, Juneau, the capital of Alaska is about 45 miles long- and narrow. Very narrow. We follow the coastline. I like to tell people that we have about 200 miles of paved roads, if you include driveways.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Nov 21 - 05:53 AM

Right now its 32 F and we have a 6 hour long partial lunar eclipse since 1 AM. Part of Alaska has started its 64 days of darkness.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 06:55 PM

Flooded is what it is right now.

The Peel River which flows through town is flooded, two of the three bridges which cross it are closed. This makes for a certain amount of traffic congestion, as you can imagine.

We have had a crap ton of rain. Or a shit load, if you prefer.

We are high and dry here on the hill.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 23 Nov 21 - 09:43 PM

Ebbie lives in the area known as Southeast Alaska. I would call that Alaska's banana belt but I usually refer to Homer and Seward that way.

Anchorage is in the area known as Southcentral Alaska. We are substantially north of the panhandle. We are slightly further north than European cities such as Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, (but not Reykjavik).

Temperatures are typically moderate for the latitude. Right now they are in the single digits (4 deg Fahr or -15 deg Celsius). While this is not extreme for our location, it is enough to keep many folks inside their comfy houses. I've been dog walking every day and what is most noticeable over the bare temperature is the accompanying breeze. A slight steady breeze can make you 'feel' ten degrees colder than the simple degree figure.

The dog we're walking is an 8 month old Labradoodle, no fat on her, but she seems to be quite able to gambol frolic, fight and fetch in any temperature we've walked her in so far. There are dogs who do not like snow and cold, but Labs don't seem to be among 'em.

When the temps are low, snow adhesion is usually pretty good. If you hear a crunch under foot, chances are you won't be slipping. But, crossing or walking in streets where cars have compressed the frozen water to a sheen can be slick no matter what temperature. The good side of this is that thin layers of snow and ice can evaporate (the proper term is sublimate) and in a few days you've got asphalt under foot.

We are supposed to be in the freezer for another week and then the temperature might go up by 10 degrees F (5 deg C). It will make a difference. Last year we had a sudden meltdown and rain in December and that was far worse than the cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John P
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 11:16 AM

After a record dry summer, Seattle is now having record-breaking rain and flooding. The times they are a-changing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 11:01 AM

The lonely little truth
crouchs shivering
in the rain storm of lies.
Ponding water of lies
empties into tributaries
adding to the flood.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Nov 21 - 04:09 PM

Coolish and threatening rain, nothing dramatic. But my native Pacific Northwest is due for another "atmospheric river" to dump an awful lot of water in a hurry—10 to 20 inches in some areas.

In the 1960s we travelled through BC into the mountains and across to Alberta to visit family; camping along the way. I remember the stop in Hope, BC, where there was an interpretive display about a relatively recent landslide that had killed a number of people. It happens every so often up there, it happened earlier this year. Like the slide in the Stillaguamish River valley at Oso, Washington, a few years ago, this kind of rain makes living in mountainous areas where people sometimes scratch roads on the terrain and mine for minerals (up there - gold, silver, copper in particular), dig gravel, or log timber - all of these activities contributed to the danger that water exacerbates.

There is an illustration in the Washington Post article about it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 11:14 AM

Love these things: 1° at 11:11 today. 11% power, on the phone I glanced at.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 07:33 PM

Yesterday it was 1 D Fahr. without much wind. Today it was 7 D Fahr with a light wind that made it feel like 10 below. The dogs didn't seem to mind, even the ones without booties.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 08:30 AM

There is a nearby trace of snow but this Thursday will be 64 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 08:19 PM

What a startling burst of weather drama we had the other night.
The weather system was moving very fast indeed,
so it was here one moment and gone the next.
Still, what swept over us had rain changing to freezing rain,
with lightning and thunder,
and the lightning for a moment was practically ON TOP of us,
which made the thunder even worse.
No warning, other than the wind, before the storm arrived.

Dear friends of mine live near the Rocky Mountains
and they are parched for precipitation --
shame the storm could not have been re-routed in their direction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 05:47 PM

67F right now but snow by morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 06:42 AM

As I said the other day, we're still getting snow; right now we're in the middle of a winter storm warning which is expected to deliver us up to 8 inches on top of what we already have

I like it. I always feel guilty admitting that, because I'm aware that people who have to drive in it or work in it have a right to feel differently. I have the option of how much or how little I want to be in it.

Like robo said, snow that is crunchy and creaky tends not to be too slippery, so as long as I watch my step, walking is great.

Oskar, my dachshund, doesn't like snow while it's coming down but he likes in grub around in it when it's piled on the ground, pushes himself into it until little more than his tail is visible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Thompson
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 12:09 PM

Storm Barra is gradually crossing Ireland; on the east coast it's calm enough, though the sky is a weird purplish colour, but the RNLI (lifeboat) Facebook page has horrifying pictures of the roiling sea from the Fastnet Lighthouse off the southwest coast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 02:51 PM

I am in the middle of Storm Barra, my area is close to Fastnet Light.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 08:40 PM

A little dusting of snow. Melted quickly, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 09:09 PM

Its global warming I tells ya. It'll be 72 here Saturday.
I'm astartin ta wonder if Palmettos will grow here now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 09:53 PM

Went walking the dog today. Weather has warmed in Anchorage to above 20F and we have snow everywhere. Went on a trail system with a couple of labradors who like to play hard. We tried to keep them ahead of us to lessen the chance of getting knocked over. Got both my shins 'barked'. The dogs seem to be invulnerable to low temperatures and like charging into and through the powder before piling into each other and then wrestling with each other including going for the throat. It doesn't involve teeth nor damage but they get to a point where they are only aware of each other. Saved me the usual work of kicking a ball though.

There is enough new snow to keep the majority of the town looking fresh and shiny. Walking surfaces can vary based on temperature and being packed down by feet or car tires.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 09:57 PM

The threat of floods in our town has passed for now, but a neighbouring town (an hour down the road but that's 'neighbouring', in Oz) wasn't so lucky. They have had major flooding, two major floods in a week, so lots of cleaning-up to be done.

A few nights ago we were hit by one of the worst storms we have had for a while; strong wind, rain, hail, more rain, heavier rain.....we kept expecting a blackout but didn't have one, altough our internet went out for a time.

Forecast for the coming week is - getting warmer, heading towards the low-mid 30s C later in the week, but with the ever present threat of more storms.

On a positive note, wshing hung outside doesn't take very long to dry. Unless it's not actually raining at the time.......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 05:01 AM

Robomatic, in Anchorage almost 600 air miles from (5 hours by ferry and 800pllus by road after that) routinely has lower temps than we do in southeast; we haven't come close to zeroF yet- our temperatures typically hover around mid20s for a low- but it's supposed to get colder here next week.

In November we got almost 60 inches of snow- second to the most record in that month. I think the record must have been set in 2006, the year a meteorologist friend of mine died. Don did not like snow but when he died in his sleep on November 2, it was like he said: You like snow? Watch this....

It started snowing the next day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 08:56 AM

An precedented number of people have perished in a 250 mile long swath of EF3-EF4 and rare EF5 tornados over 6 states. There now is no such thing as a tornado season. Its all year long with temperature extremes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 07:05 AM

Where will tornados go next? Minnisota?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 02:58 PM

Ebbie:

That 20 degrees was a brief spell of "T-Shirt weather". It's been typically a bit colder. Today it may go up to plus 1 degree. Some of the walkers in the dog park use booties on their dogs. The Labradoodle we walk (90% Lab with a curled tail that waves like a starter's flag) does not wear anything and does not appear to want anything. She can't wait to get out on the hard snow path and wait for the ball to be kicked. She loves to jump over snow banks and scatter the loose flakes like so much desert dust. She runs out after other dogs and then turns and charges full speed at us and she brakes and slides as well as a goddamn Yankee (or a blessed Red Sox) into home.

Other dogs seen are quite varied. Great Danes, Viszlas, English Goldens, Rotweilers, Dobermans, Collies, even small dogs. Some of them are wearing cloth 'coats'. One very good good looking dog yesterday looked labrador like but was half retriever half pit bull. Bit right through the chuckit donut toy!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 11:24 AM

As it turns out Minnisota did get hit by a tornado yesterday.
First one in history in December.
They also got hit by hurricane force straight line winds called a dorachio.

Home buyers, please reread 3 little pigs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 21 - 09:46 AM

It was 55 overnight and may climb to 67 today. Yesterday was cloudless
but the only clouds in the sky were man made from contrails which remained for hours and refracted light as they diffused slowly in a comb like pattern. The only normally dissipating con trails were from a few jets. The entire sky remained overcast by the afternoon from mostly south to north travelling jets numbering about 20 from horizon to horizon.
Today is totally naturally cloudy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 21 - 09:54 PM

The last few days in Juneau have been chilly- temperatures have ranged from single digits to 20F or so. Right now, at 6pm, it's 23.

Starting tomorrow night, we're expecting more snow. Still have lots of snow on the ground but we can always use more. Of course, I don't have to work or drive in it....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Dec 21 - 04:10 PM

It's here! Puffy and deep and beautiful.