BS: SummerHere-DayBeforeYesterday

Subject: BS: Summer here today
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 04:38 AM

In Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada it will will be summer at 21:00h ADT.

Aren't you glad you got up this morning?

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 05:01 AM

Hi, gnu -

On this side of the pond it will be summer at 11.59 GMT.

Regards, Bryn

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 05:31 AM

It's been summer here in the UK since May 1st.

Missed it last year, I was in the bath.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: maeve
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 06:17 AM

Yes, I am glad, gnu. But then I'm always glad to wake up to a new day.

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: bobad
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 07:39 AM

"Aren't you glad you got up this morning?"

Sure beats the alternative.

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: theleveller
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 07:48 AM

"On this side of the pond it will be summer at 11.59 GMT."

Damn, missed it. May as well go back to bed.

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 09:41 AM

It's supposed to cool down to 90F/32C here today. I guess I'm ready for summer. More boring blue skies and sub-10% humidity, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 09:42 AM

Hmmm, I thought it was tomorrow, the solstice, shows you what I know!

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: Def Shepard
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 11:17 AM

Hate to be a party pooper, but the solstice falls on the 21st June this year :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 11:41 AM

nope...here's the chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: PoppaGator
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 12:07 PM

When I lived up north, and was enrolled in school, summer was by far the most desireable season of the year: nice warm sunny weather, and no school!

Now that I'm a working adult in subtropical south Lousiana, summer is something to be endured. It's no longer a three-month-long vacation for one thing, but that's true for pretty much all grownups worldwide. The worst aspect is that, in our part of the world, the blisteringly hot and humid summer is pretty tough to take, not nearly so pleasant as our beautiful (but much-too-short) spring and autumn, or even as our relatively mild but highly erratic winters, with their radically up-and-down temperatures.

Worst of all, hurricane season starts on June 1 (although the bad hurricanes never occur until late summer, August and September).

And, oh yeah, summer weather down here doesn't end with the equinox. Highs in the 80s and 90s, with overnight lows in the 70s and even sometimes 80s*, usually continue well into October. Many people, especially newcomers to the area, manage to survive July and even August by anticipating relief from the heat sometime in the near future. But when the torrid conditions continue on and on into September, it just gets to be too much for some folks. Tempers fray and much unpleasantness ensues, until that first cold front finally blows in sometime around when the shopping malls start flogging Christmas merchandise (i..e., just before Halloween).

*Fahrenheit. I'd do the conversion if I knew how; I'd know how if I really had to...

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 12:21 PM

It's easy when ya know how.

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 01:50 PM

I have been converted... I used to live and work in Imperial... but, in Engineering at Uni, I learned both Imperial and fucking logical and practical measures.

And, it's spelt "litres", Rapaire.

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: topical tom
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 08:16 PM

In my neck of the woods Summer arrived at 8 P.M.Let the celebrations begin(in my case, a glass of Jim Beam)!
Wait! What season is it again?

Subject: RE: BS: Summer here today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Jun 08 - 02:35 AM

Well, here we have a typical British midsummer.. it's raining.

Good job too, my plant pots were starting to look a bit droopy.

Another 6 or 7 weeks of summer and then Autumn starts. Which explains a lot about August Bank Holiday.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Summer Here-Yesterday
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Jun 08 - 10:29 AM

Here in the Midwest, we are pragmatic and have little patience with that astronomical stuff.

It's summer when:

school's out for the year
it's hot
you can eat tomatoes you grew yourself
beautiful white cumulus clouds jet up to the stratosphere
swimming pools are open
cicadas buzz
beer tastes good.

PoppaGator, I symphathize with your summers. Try sitting on the porch in the evening with friends while sipping creme de menthe with an ice cube in it.

Subject: RE: BS: SummerHere-DayBeforeYesterday
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 08:23 PM

Scary times in the Gulf States, as a previous post spells out.

Not so scary to the north.

Subject: RE: BS: SummerHere-DayBeforeYesterday
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 06:39 PM

tomorrow the solstice will be the day before yesterday....

Subject: RE: BS: SummerHere-DayBeforeYesterday
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 Jun 17 - 06:55 PM

It is indeed, at last, short-pants weather in Boston. But in Arizona, where my brother & sister-in-law live, the thing has been overdone.