BS: Winter is here

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 22 - 09:15 PM

Winter isn't finished with us yet.
We had a heck of a blizzard the other day.
Not all that much snowfall to measure,
it's just that that wind was gusting to 40 miles per hour,
the snow was going sideways,
and the visibility was awful.

Now this week it is all supposed to thaw out AGAIN.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 22 - 08:13 AM

This Sunday it will be 25 degrees above 'normal' to 78 F in DC.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Mar 22 - 07:43 AM

Don't know if March came in like a lion,
but it certainly came in really cold.
Of course in a few days comes one of those freak thaw spikes.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 02 Mar 22 - 02:08 PM

Meanwhile, it another corner of Nouvelle Prusse, winter's grip is loosening. We have over 12 hours from morning twilight to evening twilight. In the early afternoon, it is already -4C and feels warm compared with the previous three months.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 01 Mar 22 - 01:13 PM

Hee hee Donuel, that would do nicely, thank you! I do like manure, very organic.
I now have primroses, early daffodils, snowdrops and violets out in my garden, which shows that winter isn't 'here' (as in the title of this thread) but 'on its way out'.
On top of this, the male wood pigeons have started their irritating and ceaseless cooing on the roof of my bungalow. ("My toe bleeds Betty!" on and on and on)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Mar 22 - 01:12 PM

On Shrove Tuesday, winter is clearly weakening in Perth County, Ontario, but it won’t leave without a struggle. The light is now strong enough that I need to wear over-the-specs dark goggles for driving — except when it’s snowing like mad. Which it did over the weekend, and will do some more tonight and tomorrow.

We keep the snow shovel handy well into May.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Mar 22 - 12:45 PM

I took advantage of the fine weather (I think Friday) to cut some grass too, Sen. When I stopped, I heard next door's mower running...

I didn't have much to do and have only done enough to bring things back under control but there were parts where I thought the petrol mower might struggle if I left things much longer. I've still got the grass inside our small veg plot to do. I usually use a small cordless mower for that (and the petrol mower is too big) but I fear the grass is already too long for that machine so the first cut in there might have to be with a strimmer.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Mar 22 - 12:21 PM

Senofou wins the early spring award!
Is a bag of manure OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 22 - 11:44 AM

And now the month of March is here,
when ANYTHING can happen (and sometimes does).

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Feb 22 - 02:31 AM

Well amazingly I'm going to mow both lawns today! The grass has grown very long due to the high rainfall this winter, and the weather forecast is 'dry, sunny and 8 degrees Celsius'. I hope my electric mower can cope with the long grass, which can block the rotary blades.
But it should all look lovely once I've finished.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Feb 22 - 09:46 PM

it was pretty as a picture postcard here, after the snow,
but I stayed indoors all day.
Tomorrow morning is soon enough
to get out there with the brush and the icebreaker,
and tackle my parked car in the parking lot.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 22 - 09:48 PM

And NOW there are winter storm advisories and warnings here,
with a snowstorm crunching this way.
We're supposed to be under these warnings,
in the Berkshire piece of the Appalachians,
for a solid twelve hours,
and there could be sleet along with the inches of snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Feb 22 - 03:41 PM

Losing its grip here!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 21 Feb 22 - 11:07 PM

Thaw today in Stratford, and a veritable chorus of songbirds in the hedge around my house. Chickadees and cardinals, mostly, and I think I saw a bunting the other day.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 22 - 08:56 PM

Indeed, winter WAS here, but if you don't like it,
wait a few minutes ...
or a few days ...
I hear songbirds in the wetlands behind the
residence where I am staying,
early in the morning.
Haven't heard those little songs all winter.

Nor does it seem coincidence
that I saw those v-formations of geese
going back, and forth, and back, and forth ...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Feb 22 - 12:28 PM

Its gonna be an early spring. I'm seeing Robins and Daffodils starting to appear.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 22 - 11:46 AM

Snow is falling with a vengeance here;
I would not call it a blizzard as it is not white-out nor strong winds.
But it's a substantial snowfall, and it is falling at a 45-degree angle.
For some reason I look out the window and
I keep seeing these Vees of geese flying overhead. At noon??

We had enough of a thaw here to clean up
the inevitable frozen snow and ice in the parking lots,
so now it's here-we-go-again.
The snow is going to be the dry powdery sort because
the temps are far enough below freezing.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 09:50 PM

I'm staying not far from the Hudson River Valley
in southern New England.
Just far enough north and west
to dodge the coastal weather.
Not to say that we didn't get any snow -- we certainly did --
but it was a light amount, and it was the dry cold powdery stuff
that brushes right off of your car in the parking lot.

Whereas on the coast they are buried under the snow
and there is a wind making for white-out conditions.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 11:01 AM

There is no other recording of Vivaldi's four seasons 'WINTER' as expressive, grandose, over the top and magnified in every way than this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oX88JhIPmg

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 07:10 PM

Well, the snowstorm is creeping up the Atlantic coast as we speak.
Right now the doppler radar shows snow in Delaware, New Jersey,
and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Saturday is pretty much a hunker-down-and-stay-indoors day
where I am staying,
although the location is far enough inland
that we may get less snow than they get on the coast.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 04:26 PM

We got freezing rain but it will be snow. But not like down East!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 22 - 10:07 PM

It's a bird ...
It's a plane ...
it's a
Bomb-Cyclone nor'easter, and
it's coming Friday night . . . !

(thinking of gnu)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Jan 22 - 11:57 PM

Our wind chills have been about 30 degrees below freezing for days. We also had a 14-inch snowstorm 3 days ago, none of which has melted. Taking my wife to work Monday was quite the adventure. Even state routes were not cleared. Some were still bad the next morning. Then this morning, I got stuck behind 3 different township trucks going 25 mph below the limit and throwing salt everywhere, even though all the roads were clean and dry. My wife said they must be expecting another storm and, sure enough, we got an additional 1/4 inch today. Thank god they laid all that salt.
Some of our southern states are also experiencing rare winter weather'
My wife saw a satirical weather warning that said if you live in the south stay at home. Do not go out for any reason for fear of dire consequence. If you live up north it's time to get your big coat out.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 22 - 12:16 PM

we are headed for subfreezing temperatures and
I am SO over this frigid weather.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: leeneia
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 01:42 PM

We had icy rain followed by 3 inches of snow. Since driving on ice is so dangeous, people stayed in in droves, and my street was silent. How lovely! At the bird feeder we were honored with the presence of a flock of tree sparrows, never seen at our feeder before, and that's since 1977.

It's melting now, and according to the garden columnist in the newspaper, that's a very good thing. Our December was very dry.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 05:56 AM

Its midnight in Hawaii right now with a full moon behind palm trees over a gentle surf.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Jan 22 - 12:13 AM

Looking at my last post... That was then.

Lost power for 3 days last week, a nasty storm expected tomorrow.

But it is still beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jan 22 - 10:58 PM

Ah, Charmion, I recognize that CET quote! To his memory.

We are well below freezing over here,
and there are predictions for heavy snow headed our way.
But as the weather was clear today,
I went to the nearest Barnes and Noble branch in order to
purchase some books to curl up and read during the 'snow day'.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 10:07 AM

No bad weather, Keb, only inadequate gear.

I’m wearing merino wool socks these days, 24/7, even in bed. I got them at Mark’s Work Wearhouse, a subsidiary of Canadian Tire (that wonderful source of everything needful), and they are Pepto-Bismol pink. I also have flannel-lined jeans for any outside jaunt at -10C or colder, and mukluks for when things get desperate. I haven’t needed the mukluks since leaving Ottawa, but they’re in the closet just in case.

The dog people of my neighbourhood are fun to watch. They dress both themselves and their dogs for the weather, and few things give me more of a giggle than the pair of greyhounds who live around the corner. Their human takes them out three times a day in matching jackets and shoes, coordinated with their collars and leads.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jan 22 - 06:22 PM

. . . in the Northern Hemisphere,
and it's cold cold c o o o l d

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 06:57 PM

Mornings with snow on branches outside my window are such a delight.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 10:10 AM

This winter will be a HOT MESSNESS DUE TO DISEASE.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 09:10 AM

Of course, when the day arrives that
a nor'easter storm separates all the trees from
the very last of their dying leaves,

my warmest winter coat is at the cleaners' ...

I'll make do with a water-repellent coat
and an extra layer underneath.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 10:51 AM

Sunshine AND snow!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Feb 20 - 03:28 PM

Going to be bitterly cold, I hear,
for Leap Year Day tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 20 - 05:25 PM

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/02/25/antarctica-snow-caps-melting-heat-wave-sater-pkg-vpx.cnn

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 20 - 07:07 AM

That is a particularly pretty drive

This morning I was looking at antarctica in summer from space.
It has what looks like half the ice it used to have and is totaly brown beneath South America

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Feb 20 - 04:25 PM

Today I found myself driving the highways around
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire mountains
(which are in line with the Appalachians),
in the west of the state,
near the state line with New York.

Obviously their winter has been colder than the winter season
where I live.
Around my hometown, it has been a rainy winter.
But in the central piece of Berkshire County,
there is frozen snow around the roads, ice underfoot.
Today is an uncommonly warm dry day, especially for Pittsfield in winter,
and it is MUD SEASON underfoot with
a blindingly blue sky overhead straight out of New Mexico's high mountain desert horizons.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 11:13 AM

Carambolage! Ay caramba!

the story says that the cause of all those motor vehicles
crashing into each other
was not the road surface,
but the white-out/zero-visibility conditions.
There was no storm happening at the time,
conditions were clear in the surrounding countryside;
but this one stretch of highway is notorious
for blowing snow and wind.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 12:16 PM

True enough about the sun,
which is a great relief
after December's darkness.

Today, though, it's all about the WIND
and strained flags on the flagpole
outside the post office.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 05:21 PM

"The sun spit..."
quote Funny Face

We're gaining 2 minutes of sun light per day.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 12:42 PM

The sky is spitting out little bits of sleet,
and the wind is up,
and the clouds are gray and low and coming lower.
Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 20 - 01:59 PM

We have had summer temperatures this week.
There has been no winter.
This is our winter of
disrepute.

The strangest conspiracy theory is that the coronavirus has mutated to infect elections.
In Iowa, the election results for Democrats is ERROR 404
The Republican results are a earthquake tsunami landslide for Trump,

615 - 2020 electoral college delegate votes for President - Trump
321 - for unknown.

Clearly elections are very ill.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Feb 20 - 07:08 AM

Hrothgar, you can have all our rain with pleasure! The fields in our village are still quite flooded and the farmer has been keeping his stock in the stockyard (producing tons of slurry!) The river Wensum is nearly over the banks, and our little village bridge is only about two inches above the waterline. Our garden is producing liberal amounts of moss.
At least it's not all that cold (about 10 degrees Celsius)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Hrothgar
Date: 03 Feb 20 - 06:02 AM

Can we have a little bit of your winter?

35 degrees Celius (95 in the old money) and 85% humidity here. Trying to build up to a storm, but not trying hard enough. We need the rain, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 06:59 PM

Still here.
Although it's Groundhog Day
and for some strange reason,
the forecasts said spring would come early.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 03:47 PM

My sister up in Scotland was on the phone this evening and said one day last week they had a 'hot' day (12 degrees Celsius!!) with sunshine, and she sat on her patio 'sunbathing'. Good Lord, no wonder she has hairy legs. That temperature would have me swathed in thick woollens and a warm scarf.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 03:38 PM

… the sun is still setting early.
It will be a relief when it's five o'clock in the evening
and not yet after dark, but that will be a bit of a wait.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 01:58 PM

The next storm is supposed to be one of those
wet and warm deals.
Maybe it won't be warm in Newfoundland, heaven help them,
but it's supposed to be a rainy balmy thing in southern New England.
With threats of flooding ... i HATE flooding ...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 07:10 AM

If you have any old V neck cashmere sweaters that you find worthy of retirement, use them as the most comefortable and warm undershirt in your life.