BS: Winter is here

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 07:26 PM

will it freeze? will it rain? maybe both?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 02:45 PM

Winter is here somewhere, but at the moment it feels like spring. Again.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 12:21 PM

...the winter of our discontent...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 17 - 04:47 PM

Snow and wind! And maybe downed power lines...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: robomatic
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 11:42 AM

We had snow on Christmas weekend. Then we had snow on New Year's weekend. We had a week of below zero weather (degrees Fahrenheit). Then we had a creeping blizzard that was supposed to land elsewhere.
Daylight has just increased to above seven hours! Gaining 4 minutes a day right about now.
BUT. Temperatures are supposed to shift to the 30s (degrees Fahrenheit). And we may get rain! We've already had one building collapse, an inflatable sports center. Rain landing in heavily snowed-over flat roofs will not be good. There's a porch I've gotta attend to immediately.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 02:43 PM

Rapparee could say that again.

And Gnu could say that again...and again...and again...

Not so bad here, yet. My condolences to the two of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 02:44 PM

It's picture pretty at the moment, the kind of snowfall where the snowflakes are small and visibility is still decent.
So we went from nor'easters to Alberta Clippers.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Feb 17 - 01:56 PM

....and here comes another storm system, with us right on the freezing line. So we'll get a short thaw and then it will all get cold again. Look out for freezing rain and black ice.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 17 - 10:01 AM

Snow! With bells on.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Feb 17 - 10:29 AM

Inflatable sports centre collapsed? That must have been a big let-down for the athletes!


I'll get me coat...😳

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Feb 17 - 11:30 AM

Oh gawd Steve, you're terrible :)

We're glad to get into February. The days are visibly lengthening,and we draw the curtains at 5pm,not 4pm.

Saw some hazel catkins and pussy willow, plus a whole woodland full of lovely snowdrops, dainty British ones, not those giant foreign things. (I sound like Farage!)

This thread should now be called 'Spring is nearly here.'

             'February fill-dyke
          Be it black or be it white.'

(ie Precipitation, either in the form of snow or rain, will be sufficient to fill ditches.)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 17 - 12:54 PM

AND another nor'easter forecast, in which snow is to fall at a rate of two inches or more per hour.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Feb 17 - 01:07 PM

Last night DC was 72 ,this morning it was 61.
Yep it'll snow tomorrow but I doubt if I get a chance to shovel.
Durn it ;^)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Feb 17 - 10:06 AM

Snow! snow! and more snow!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Feb 17 - 12:25 PM

One degree Celcius. One degree. Sleet. A bit of snow threatened.
So much for early signs of Spring!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Feb 17 - 03:46 PM

It has been 72 by day and 61 at night in DC. Flies and daffodil sprouts have emerged.

Now its below freezing

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Feb 17 - 04:52 PM

That wind is making for blizzard conditions here with zero visibility. The poor snowplow drivers, they plow the road and the snow blows right back over it.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 17 - 05:28 PM

It's supposed to be down to the 20sF tonight, and back to about 60 on Sat.. (and I live near Donuel)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Feb 17 - 08:29 PM

After hours of hearing we had a blizzard warning, the storm was finally declared a blizzard. It was finally stopped.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 Feb 17 - 06:36 AM

I feel really sorry for all of you who are having blizzards and heavy snow. Snow ploughs are a rare sight here in the East of England. We occasionally have gritting lorries working during the night. Scotland is a different matter of course.

I bought a nice bunch of daffodils in the supermarket yesterday. They really lift the spirits when they open in their vase on the mantelpiece. Sigh... At least Valentine's Day is near, and I might get some chocolates and a lovely card, which will cheer me up no end!
Oh and Pancake Day on 28th Feb. I do so love pancakes! :)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Feb 17 - 11:23 AM

"The wind was rough
And cold & blough.
She kept her hands
Inside her mough..
When waiting for the plough,
And being tough and trying not to cough.


I suppose that's enough of that...☺

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 Feb 17 - 11:39 AM

Hahaha Bill! I expect she lived in a certain town in Berkshire?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 18 - 01:25 PM

In the US, on TV, the Weather Channel
has a live-and-in-progress deal going on.
It isn't Happy New Year, either: it's

FROZEN AMERICA.

At least we are well in between those Named Storms.
Just got over Winter Storm Frankie;
the next is to be named Grayson.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jan 18 - 04:58 PM

tell me about it. I saw a White Walker downtown this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 18 - 03:37 PM

I wish they could talk about the impending blizzard
without using compound expressions like
bomb plus cyclone . . .

How goes it for our mudcatters
in the southeastern US?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jan 18 - 05:19 PM

South Central has been below freezing for several days, but today we broke through the ice and into the low 40s. The storm that will drop frozen particulates on the east coast doesn't reach this far west. I have heard from a couple of Florida friends that it's darned chilly.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 18 - 08:28 PM

Bee dubya ell?
Amos?

You still alive?
Grayson lowers the boom tomorrow morning up here.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 10:20 AM

Re: winter storm, southeastern New England in the US.

Tomorrow is today. Winter Storm Grayson is on top of us.
There was just time, early this morning, to get in the car,
take a short drive for last-minute errands, drive back,
park carefully, and get ready to hunker down for the day.
Early morning, the snow was lightly coming down.

Now we are socked in.
The wind is making the snowfall look horizontal.
The snow is coming down fast.
Visibility is many times worse.

And we only have, what, seven or eight hours to go . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 05:16 PM

At this time yesterday,
Winter Storm Grayson had been here for hours,
and was taking its sweet time moving out.

The snow has stopped coming down,
only the wind remains and
yesterday's snow is either under your car tires
or in your face,
on account of the wind.

It's too cold and windy to be outside.
Just ask my poor car. It's out there and can't come in.
The engine runs, heroically enough,
but the alignment shudders at freeway speeds.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 06:03 PM

I managed to get to the supermarket & back by battling traffic with my shopping cart. The exterior temperature is 4.6 deg F; the interior temperature is 69.3. The difference is proximately due to my landlord's leaving a check for the driver of the oil truck. Bless them, and everybody else up the supply chain.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 18 - 04:34 PM

At these temperatures the snow is the loudest of the season with squeaks groans and crunching underfoot.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 01:37 PM

Cloudless blue sky, brilliant bright sunshine,
blinding white powdery snow (more than enough)
and subfreezing bitter cold (even more).

Temperatures above the freezing mark are to return
in the next seven days.
Which will make for at least two concerns that I can think of:
flooding,
and "frost heaves", by whatever name you call them -- ach, the road surfaces are going to CAVE.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 03:42 PM

hoping the thaw does not trigger flooding.
at least the air doesn't make your face ache
like it did yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jan 18 - 01:13 PM

Gnu?

Gnu - u -   u -   uuuu...

are you alive over there in New Brunswick?

all there is to report down here
is brrrrr, brrrr,    brrrrrr.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jan 18 - 01:36 PM

A forecast model suggests
that the Jetstream is going to go diagonal across the lower 48
so that the Western US is cold
and the Eastern US warms up...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 05:27 PM

"the snow has indignantly refused to budge"

Indignant? More like gloating, I shouldn't wonder.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 06:57 PM

Stratford, Ontario, is a winter f***ing wonderland.

Especially the icy parking lot I must traverse on my way to the Y for my aqua-fit class.

Why aqua-fit, and not, say, cross-country skiing?

Because, some thirty years ago, I slipped and fell in another icy parking lot far, far away and smashed my ankle. Then, four years later, I did something similar on an icy street and smashed my other ankle. Now I have wonky feet with extra arthritis.

F***ing winter.

I’d emigrate, but I’d miss the seasons ...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 07:07 PM

Charmion,
I recall your post, elsewhere,
saying that the aqua-fit class at the Y
did not make your foot hurt.

Has that changed?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 06:26 AM

There was me thinking that this was a Game of Thrones thread.

Some people are too rooted in reality for their own good :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 07:27 AM

Looks like a galactic storm

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 07:57 AM

Keberoxu — my wonky feet hurt at least a bit all the time now; I even wake up with a dull ache in the ankles. Aqua-fit is about the only thing I do that does not make them worse.

By Christmas, I will have accepted and adjusted to winter, but Advent is the season of “Oh, no! Not again! Why me?”

I shall soon stop whining. I promise.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 07:26 PM

We have had one of the warmest Fall seasons I've experienced in Alaska. Where I live, Anchorage, should have been frozen up over a month ago. Instead we had periods of above freezing temperatures with lots of rain. If the rain had been snow probably would've been well over two feet of the stuff. Less than a week ago the snow started to stick and now it's well below freezing with about two-three inches of the white stuff. Latest entry to Winter I've seen up here.

Most of us think it's climate change but maybe disagree on the root causes.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 19 - 01:27 PM

All I want for Xms is my im peach ment

This is the winter of his im peach ment

How much is that eletion in the window?

City sidewalks, slippry sidewalks whaaaa

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty
Will I be rich
Here's what she said to me
It's fucked up, my dear
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to fear
Que será, será
What will be, will be
When I grew up and fell in love
I asked my sweetheart, what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows
Day after day
Here's what my sweetheart said
I'm for Trump, my dear
Whatever will be, will be
The future is great again
Que será, será
What will be, will be
Now I have children of my…

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 19 - 03:49 PM

A new Christmas song

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 10:13 AM

I hear there is a south 'Western' stormin in by Xmas. It's named 'Rebel without a Claus' staring Clint Noreastwood

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 03:00 PM

Southwestern Ontario is easing gently into winter, after a really nasty Remembrance Day. The sky is blue today and most of the snow has melted again. The squirrels are out of bed and fossicking around in the snow, looking for my expensive tulip bulbs, I bet.

But it's plenty cold once the sun goes down.

Tonight the Stratford Concert Choir sings Handel's "Messiah" in a mid-Victorian church that happens to be the largest indoor space in town that is not the Festival Theatre or a hockey arena. The draft from the transept door, which blasts across the orchestra and the front rows of the choir, would freeze the balls off a brass monkey. Most members of the Soprano and Alto sections augment their performance outfits (long black gown, strand of pearls) with sweaters and skiing underwear, but the memo seems not to have reached the orchestra. Last night at the dress rehearsal, the fourth desk violin and viola were obviously shuddering. The men, of course, do just fine in their dinner jackets. Damn them.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 19 - 07:35 PM

I don't wanna go home.
I LIKE December in Phoenix, Arizona.
Now August in Phoenix, Arizona is hot enough for Hades,
and I leave that to the residents who moved here from India --
I understand that there's a nice little immigrant community from India, and if they like that kind of heat, they can have it.

But December in Phoenix is, not hot, but pleasant.
The plane goes back Tuesday and I don't wanna go home. At all.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 09 Dec 19 - 09:35 AM

The sky in Stratford is gun-metal grey and it's raining. Today's forecast high is about 8C. I can't believe this is the second week of Advent in Ontario.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 11:09 AM

Winter is still 10 days away from today by the calender.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 04:46 PM

The calendar is European. The weather we get around here is Canadian, it is definitely winter weather, and it starts in November at the latest.