What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 05:41 PM

Frosty and very sunny..lots of icy roads here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 05:49 PM

First snow in a while. Just a skiff and it's only about -5 at 7PM. Warm as a bug in a rug for days. No ice on the pave. One day closer to spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 09:38 PM

Snowed last night here in RI, then mixed with rain early this morning, making the snow on the car heavy and hard to remove. Luckily it was only a few inches deep.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 06:53 AM

On the weekend, -40WC. Presently, +13C and 60 gusting to 90kph.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 11:53 AM

Juneau, Alaska: Freezing rain yesterday and this morning, on its way to rising temperatures.

But odd weather. For about 10 days, up until four days ago, it rained, the billowy snow all disappeared and the temperatures got to the low 40sF.

Bears out of den were sighted- scary for all, because there is nothing for them to eat, except for humans' garbage. With the segue to snow and cold weather I imagine they heaved big sighs and returned to their dens.

A man with his snow machine fell through the ice in the lake in front of our biggest local glacier last weekend and just barely made it out alive- sprawled full length he made his way through the breaking ice until he reached firmer surfaces. His snowmobile remains submerged.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 05:00 PM

In Sydney, it's been so changeable. we've recently had meltingly hot weather (45.8 = 114f) followed by WILD winds, massive storms and days of soaking rain. we're lucky, in other parts of the country there have been raging bushfires followed by flooding.

this week we had a few pleasant sunny days, I woke up this morning to a brown/grey sky, and wild winds sweeping through the garden. trees bending this way and that, the sound of the wind in the
weeping lilly pillies is like waves crashing on sand.

and now for a cup of tea :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 07:31 PM

Well, we had snow on Monday, freezing rain on Tuesday and unbelievably thick fog on Wednesday. No snow left this morning. The wind is howling through the trees and the dryer vent is flapping to beat the band...almost enough to tip me over the edge. Glad the wind is drying up the mud, though.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 08:31 PM

Last week here was extremely cold with temps well below freezing. There was some light powdery snow one day--Tuesday, I think. This week has been much milder but with a lot of wind and rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 09:20 PM

Yesterday was 70 F but tommorrow is 24 with an inch of snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 09:33 PM

Sleet and ice and freezing rain and cold temps in the high teens and mid 20's(for here, anywho) Friday, late warm-up to almost normal temps for the rest of the weekend, normal on Monday and Tuesday, then 2 days in the 60's and 70's (F), yesterday the wind commenced to blow, thunderstorms and the wind howling, thunderstorms or no (was very glad it is winter with the leaves off the trees). Temps started dropping some this afternoon as the wind began to significantly ebb, and now we are in for a chilly but not unseasonable weekend. Was planning on driving up to Mom's in WV for an overnight this weekend, but three days snow and low temps forecast for the northern half of the journey. Latitude and altitude both in play.

On the otherhand, the winds have scoured out the atmosphere and now it is is a chilly night with an unusually clear sky. Orion right overhead just now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:18 PM

I am glad it turned COLD again. The guy that shingled my roof a couple of years ago will get to my repairs asap.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 03:54 PM

Cold again here, too, but at least it is sunny.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:35 PM

Am I missing something, but if you don't say where you are, it doesn't mean much to me.

Subject: RE: weather you like where you are? or not
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:41 PM

Hwere do you live andrew? hhh do you have a basement? Are you alone?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:19 AM

It has turned cold in Sydney, the doona is on the bed. We've just had the coolest February weekend in 19 years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 08:37 AM

It's so fuckin' cold here in southern Quebec that we no longer have weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:39 PM

In case anyone doesn't know my general location, I'm in Nottingham, New Hampshire USA -- about halfway between the New Hampshire/Maine seacoast and the mountains. Southern New Hampshire. Half hour from Portsmouth, but with slightly different weather (inland and uphill).

I moved here to come to a "warm climate"...since I was born in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (ayuh, I'm a Yooper) and grew up in Milwaukee. If you can put up with a Great Lakes winter, just about anything else is moderate. Coastal New Hampshire and coastal southern Maine sure is compared to Wisconsin.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 08:17 PM

Halifax NS, Canada- Everything was green yesterday, it snowed overnight and this morning, then it turned to rain, and still is raining - The weather can't make up its mind this year, if it is actually winter or not.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 09:15 PM

Sorry, andrew e. I'm in Rhode Island.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 13 - 08:43 AM

I have said Moncton, NB, CAN so many times in the past dozen years that I tend to assume almost everyone here is in the know. Technically... sorry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bobad
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 10:50 PM

Why it was so cold here today I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 09:35 AM

It was so cold yesterday that I saw a hitchhiker holding up a picture of his thumb!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 07:19 PM

We have a blizzard going on right now in Rhode Island and most of New England. Some people have already lost power. I'm good for now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 04:44 PM

61 degrees and sunny in the mountains of North Georgia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:43 AM

It's raining in Sydney. Thunderstorms, heavy soaking saturating constant rain. The cat has come in, wet, and the skies are just pouring bucketloads of rain.

Flood warnings in NSW, two flood related deaths already, and sheets of rain pouring across the state.

And, thinking of rain..

My Country

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ...

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

******

©Dorothea MacKellar

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:53 AM

This song really needs to be belted out by a big baritone, in a strong declamatory style. But in the meantime, this gives you an idea of the song (and of how wet it is here)

Hey Rain by Bill Scott

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:14 PM

from the local paper: Mini tornadoes hit hundreds of homes across Sydney and the Illawarra region overnight, there is flooding across NSW. One resident of north Sydney's Kirribilli described seeing a "funnel cloud" that struck just after midnight, bringing down trees in the Willoughby Street area, damaging cars and ripping off the roof of the Kirribilli Sailing Club. The wind "sounded like a freight train," and the cloud was between 50-100m wide.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Feb 13 - 06:32 AM

Woke up this morning, even though my back door was closed and locked, the wind had driven water under the door and onto the floor in my living room. Rain got into my neighbour's roof, and broke through her ceiling pouring into her house.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 24 Feb 13 - 02:04 PM

Oh, no! Stay safe--and dry!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 09:53 AM

Here in the mountains of North Georgia there's just enough snow today to make it beautiful. We moved here recently from New Hampshire to be near our kids. Thought I'd never see snow again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 12:08 AM

It's Wednesday night, and it's raining in RI. It may turn into snow. Whatever it is, it's supposed to last into Friday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 08:21 AM

it's just after midnight on Friday & very humid, temperature is 22.6Celcius

I HATE HUMIDITY! The little fan is blowing air on me & I feel a bit cooler, but as soon as I turn it off to go to bed ...

at least I have the bigger fan on my bedside table ...

We have 71% humidity at the moment here near Sydney harbour (did I say I hate humidity???) but the poor buggers in Sydney's west & south west are several degrees cooler but have 80-96% humidity - lucky me!

forecast is for 19 Celcius overnight rising to 26 in the day for the rest of Friday.

sandra (getting ready to log-off & turn of the living room fan)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 11:50 AM

Yesterday it snowed for hours: sometimes heavily. Today- almost no remnants.
33°F-36°F will do that. We dodged the bullet. 20 miles away, they were building snowmen.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 05:36 PM

Well - it is Spring here on the South coast of England.

There is blossom on the trees, the spring bulbs are all in flower, the air is mild - and it is so misty you can't see the end of the street and it is pouring down with rain.

Oh yes Spring in England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Mar 13 - 11:33 AM

The part of RI where I live dodged the bullet, too. We had mostly rain with only a thin coating of wet snow Friday morning. Some other parts of the state got more, but I think most areas were in the 3-inch zone with a few parts getting slightly more. If it had all been snow, we would have been in much worse shape. And while there were strong winds, I haven't heard anything about power outages. I guess from Hurricane Sandy until now, the damage to power lines had already been done. The trees had already fallen and the lines had already been repaired.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 09 Mar 13 - 11:44 AM

Sunny and 60 degrees in the mountains of North Georgia (USA). The daffodils are looking good.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: terrier
Date: 10 Mar 13 - 09:13 AM

I just love weather. Here in North Wales,UK, as usual, it's...undecided!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Mar 13 - 10:03 AM

10 mins ago it was 23.1C with 68% humidity in my neck of th woods - almost 1am on Monday morning.

Monday forecast is it will fall 3 degrees overnight & get up to 27. The rest of the week will be around 28 most day, which of course means high humidity.

We have some nasty hot weather heading our way from the south & south west of the country.

sandra (getting pissed off with this never-ending hot humid weather!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 07:04 AM

Snow, proper snow, in Eastern England! Not what we expect in mid-March!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 08:02 AM

And it's bloody freezing here in Staffordshire, with light snow that isn't settling as yet. Razor-blade wind though...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: billybob
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 09:26 AM

snow here in Frinton on sea, and a bitter east wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Mar 13 - 08:51 AM

It's raining in Ottawa, grey and generally mizerubble. Environment Canada's crystal ball says the temperature will drop below freezing again soon, bringing a bit of sun and probably rather a lot of glare ice but welcome all the same, for the sake of the maple syrup season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Mar 13 - 10:20 PM

It's raining here in Rhode Island, too, and it's windy, but it is not supposed to turn to snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 12 Mar 13 - 10:34 PM

Nice.

It's currently (1.30pm) 25 deg C with a light breeze blowing from the south west. Other parts of Oz are still having unseasonably hot and humid weather but here in the north west of New South Wales summer is winding down. Trees are beginning to show signs of the coming autumn with fading colours, and the vine - could be an ornamental grape - covering a corner of the fence round a local football ground is already red and bronze! Nights are much cooler than just a few weeks ago so sleeping is easier.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 11:02 AM

This time of year, the US can have an extreme spread in themperatures...

NATIONAL TEMPERATURE EXTREMES

HIGH THU...100 AT THERMAL CA AND OCOTILLO WELLS CA

LOW THU...13 BELOW ZERO AT 2 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF STAMBAUGH MI AND WAKEFIELD MI

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 11:58 AM

Here in Juneau in southeastern Alaska, after a month or so of springlike weather, we are under a winter storm advisory for snow and blowing snow. It was to have arrived at 4:00 this morning and to last until 7:00 tonight- well, it *is* snowing but grass is still poking through so not much has accumulated.

On the other hand, the snow is fine and persistent. We'll see what happens by tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 06:26 PM

They have now lifted the weather advisory. It's still a little gusty but the accumulated snow measures perhaps 2 1/2 inches. So now- on to Spring?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 09:56 PM

i hope so, Ebbie! In Rhode Island, it is very cold and windy with possible snow flurries overnight but no accumulation expected.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 11:03 PM

In coastal SOuthern Caqlifornia the sea-mist rises early in the morning and crawls down the streets, hangs from trees and flowers, and makes everything look ghostly and intimate like a lover's sleeping breath. The trees look like explosions of fog and the streets only crawl if there is any traffic at all.

By nine AM, the mists have been banished by the sturdy persuasions of a rising sun, the skies clear away to a pristine blue dotted with white fluff, and the city bustles to life. The temperature climbs from 55 degrees F at sunrise to 75 degrees in short order, over-coats and sweaters are tossed into the back seats of cars, dogs come out to romp and mark their turf on the grassy fields and canyon paths, and the world is blessed with a golden, benevolent warmth that lasts until sundown.

Then the mists start to move in again, wisping through the dark streets and across the busy highways as people head for home after a day of busy productive work, one assumes. No guarantees, of course. The weather does not care whether you've been productive or not.

The clouds roll in, mist again covers the valleys, and night falls in peace on a comfortable land. Occasionally Orion, a few planets, and the inconstant moon peer through the mist to reassure the world that space has not gone awry. Only the foolish and naive are reassured, but the gesture is always appreciated.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 11:04 PM

ANd ONE K!