BS: Is it snowing where you live?

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 12:13 AM

Oh and I claim that as 200!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 07:21 AM

Been mixed but mostly drizzley here for a few days and gonna be for the next five except Xmas... sunny and 0C.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 08:15 AM

West Clare is getting a bit at frost at night and there's some hail/sleet/snow freezing onto the roads and staying put on the hills.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: mg
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 03:03 PM

Coast of Washington USA is lovely and warm right now. We had a week of hurricanes and a week of freezing cold. Usually it is just 40 degrees and windy and rainy this time of year.   just went out to see if any rhododendrons are blooming but are not. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:14 AM

Not any more......but who knows ??

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:20 AM

Snowing here again now, and east of us, the governor of South Dakota has already activated the State Emergency Center as the snow storms coming up from the southern Rockies head to the plains.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:27 AM

On the up side, the lemon tree in my bay window is blooming, and the scent of the flowers is sweet throughout the house.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Genie
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 11:08 AM

I'm in San Diego, so, no, it's not snowing now and isn't expected to for the next few years.
It is unusually chilly this year, though (temps as low as 50º daytime and high 30s at night.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,Ebbie, away from home, house/dog sitting
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 04:57 PM

Genie, mind that you don't contact Amos's chortles!

In Juneau, Alaska, it is snowing heavily at the moment but supposed to garner only another 3 to 5 inches. Unless it stops soon we're going well beyond that.

At 'home' I don't have a view but up on the hill here at my friends' house where I'm watching their old and rickety dogs the view is fantastic. An animated Christmas card. Below my window the trees, the roofs, the yards and the car tops are loaded. The very air is white

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Genie
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 05:38 PM

I prolly won't see Amos this trip, since we don't do the Balboa Park or Rose Creek Cottage jam at Christmas time. But even though I'm up in Rancho Bernardo and not at my mom's old home a stone's throw from Amos's house, I can prolly hear his chortling at y'all who are having to wade through thigh-deep snowdrifts/

But hey, San Diegans don't even know how to handle rain, much less snow! *g*

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,Ebbie, away from home, house/dog sitting
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 05:58 PM

This is true. And I remember one time when it drizzled all day, San Diegans reacted as though Mother Nature had betrayed them.   This was NOT what they had moved to California for. :)

By the way, that word was meant to be 'contract', not contact. 'Tis a disease, it is. *g*

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 02:25 AM

Don't mention snow... If it wasn't for snow I'd be in Prague now.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 07:12 PM

We have not had snow - someone must have got ours by mistake.

Here we are, Christmas Day - a lot of people have had real trouble travelling to where they wanted to be for the holidays, and all we have had is a few scrapings of windscreens due to the low temperatures.

The South Coast of England is fairly mild in winter, usually, so the cold is different, and it seems to have done little else but rain for two months now.

It could be worse I supose, but I did feel just a little jelous of all those with snow to play with.

Anne Croucher

In Dorset, England

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,Ebbie, away from home, house/dog sitting
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 10:07 PM

Unless something breaks overnight, weatherwise, we're going to be in pain. We have quite a bit of snow on the ground- maybe 8 or 9 inches - and then today it started raining. Of course, with the ground frozen there's nowhere for the water to go. Talk about sloppy.

However, we were told the temperatures were rising so no worries. BUT- instead- it is freezing and very slippery tonight. If it doesn't warm by morning no one is going anywhere much.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 07:09 AM

Yes... no... yes... no......

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 04:25 PM

Remarkably, we had a white xmas here in Fort Worth and North Texas. WesleyS moved away too soon. What a lost opportunity!

I actually dug out some sand and rock salt to sprinkle so guests arriving late in the evening didn't kill themselves walking to the door, and so they could get their vehicle up the driveway. It isn't super steep, but one must slow to a stop to turn in, leaving no momentum to get up the icy surface without some help.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: maire-aine
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 08:54 PM

Around Detroit MI, it has been raining all day. It was coming down in buckets when I went to church this morning, but it's just light rain now. It's still around 40F, but could freeze overnight.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 12:33 AM

It was yesterday. It's 27°F here, about 70 miles north of Dallas.

Subject: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Genie
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 02:10 PM

It's now turning to our normal winter rain, but here in Portland (West) I got back from sunny San Diego yesterday just a couple hours before the roofs and trees and streets got covered with at least a couple inches of snow.    My neighbors' little boy (3 y o) was in hog heaven making a snowman and learning how to toss little snowballs at mom and dad.   I had been home long enough to have the heat back up to about 70º and be able to watch the lovely white flakes from the cosy interior of my house, with my kitty cat snuggled up beside me.   (She snuggles a lot when I've been away for a while!)

Portland doesn't handle snow well -- we don't get enough of it, often enough to warrant the investment in top-notch snow-removal equipment -- and there were traffic jams, fender benders, abandoned cars, and even some buses stranded.   But it soon warmed up to the mid-30ºs or higher, so now we just have some slush left.

Oh, well, it was pretty while it lasted.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 02:44 PM

It did yesterday... 4" forecast... yeah... right! About 10". And drifting. But it's not snowing now. It's too COLD to snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 03:07 PM

Unbelievably, yes! Another 2-3 inches on top of what was leftover from the snow of 3-4 weeks ago. At this rate, I shall have to quit calling this the Banana Belt of Colorado! It is really pretty but it takes ages for them to get to the side streets for clearing and sanding and most people don't seem to know how to drive in it. Rog said the roads were terrible this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 03:19 PM

Nope, not at the moment. When yesterday's dense fog burned off it revealed a brilliant day, which continues today. It is bright and blue - and windy. We are under a wind advisory until tomorrow morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 03:29 PM

Full moon tomorrow. Wish I could be up Kent County on the snow for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 08:42 PM

Exmouth, Devon, UK. Just doen't happen. On the few times it has in the past 25 years its never stayed overnight. You can see it on the hills across the estuary, or go up a mile or so to the common, but down by the sea it's rarer than Rocking Horse Shit. I'm glad about this....kids less so.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 30 Dec 09 - 10:45 PM

I think so. Picture out front window.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: rangeroger
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 01:53 AM

Yes.
From the Panhandle of North Idaho.
rr

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 09:28 AM

got about an inch last night....expecting rain later, so it will go.

I still wouldn't want to be a policeman or medic tonight..

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Becca72
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 02:17 PM

Started here a short while ago. This is just the appetizer, though. Supposed to get a helluva storm over the weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 02 Jan 10 - 07:13 PM

Looks like more snow is heading to home base of mudcat.

The record cold temperatures around the Great Lakes and Dakotas made national news today.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 12:07 PM

philadelphia area experiencing artic wind not worth going out not snowing as of now...12:00 noon

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,biff
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 12:08 PM

previous biff that is

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 12:25 PM

We didn't get hit like the east US or NS, but man it was windy last night. Got about 20cm (8") of heavy wet snow. A fair amount of peeps in Moncton lost power for about 12 hours. Another 20cm or so on the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 01:24 PM

Yes, it snowed, and snowed, and snowed!

20 inches is quite enough for one weekend.

Charley Noble, hunkered down in midcoast Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 02:58 PM

20... well, you needn`t send the rest here since you gotta clear it anyway.... keep the crap.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 04:49 PM

Here's a link to my Face Book page where I've posted 9 images of what it looked like here in my neighborhood this morning in Maine: Click here for Snow!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 05:04 PM

Beautiful homes!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 05:16 PM

Gnu-

Yes, but a lot of snow shoveling!

Not all the homes around here are captain mansions but there are a dozen or so within 10 minutes of where we live.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 06:18 PM

Yes, but a lot of snow shoveling!..... Ahhhh, not in those pics. They must have been taken after a wee dusting a while ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnomad
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 06:35 PM

Yeah, been snowing off and on for a fortnight, and heavy falls predicted for the next 3-4 days as well. We get cut off for a few hours at a time most years, but not so far this winter, however we seldom get sustained snowing like this so it is unusual conditions all round.

Being at sea level snow seldom lies here in Whitby for more than a few hours (it's the surrounding moors that cop it, cutting us off) but this lot has never cleared properly since the first falls. It is right down to the harbourside too, almost unheard of.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 06:39 PM

Do you have proper snow clearing equipment fot this... my question mark does not work on this keyboard.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 07:13 PM

I love your house, Charley. BTW, what kind of tree is that in the yard? Elm?

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 07:32 PM

Beautiful house, Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 08:53 PM

"Our house" is the first picture (link above) is a 4-unit apartment building that we bought 10 years ago. The trees in front are maple and aggressively attack the house and the surrounding power lines but they are here to stay. The house itself was built in 1870 as a single family house but around World War 2, according to the newspapers we found stuffed in a wall petition, it was divided into four apartments. We've done quite a lot of renovation, converting storage space into living space. Now we need to see what we can do to better insulate this gift that keeps giving to the oil company. We're scheduling an infrared scan next Wednesday!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 12:19 AM

Not right now, but this December, besides bringing a fair amount of snow, has been a lot colder than normal.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 10:19 AM

Not today! Until later... sigh...

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: black walnut
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 10:41 AM

Yes! Enough snow to shovel, finally! Hooray!
~b.w. in Toronto

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 10:49 AM

You know what they say - it's too cold for snow!

Roll on the spring!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: gnomad
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 10:51 AM

Another Met Office warning since my last, warnings now extend to Thursday including "significant accumulations, especially over hills" with tonight coldest, but heaviest falls tomorrow night.

Snow clearing will be a slow business as each new layer is packing into its predecessor, and our local authorities just aren't equipped or manned to cope. With temperatures just hovering around freezing there is enough melt-then-refreeze activity to make everything glassy and if the wind picks up and goes north-easterly as predicted this is going to be unpleasant. Very glad not to be going to sea any time soon.

I'll try to link to a couple of photos I grabbed from a webcam just before Christmas, Flickr, in case anyone would like to see the rare spectacle of Whitby fish quay with snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 01:06 PM

Still not a flake seen on this part of the South coast of England.

There is a light coating of frost on the cars and North facing surfaces - sometimes it doesn't melt all day, but not a bit of snow.

We have some bright clear days, we have some heavy overcast ones where the lights are on all day - but someone else is getting the snow.

Anne Croucher

Subject: RE: BS: Is it snowing where you live?
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 01:31 PM

Yesterday was bright, brilliant and warm--a classic San Diego day; we strolled the shoreline at La Jolla and watched the kayakers bob in the high swells, the pelicans zoom about, and the trippers in many languages ooh and ahh.


Life is good.


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