BS: Winter is here

Subject: BS: Winter is here
From: pdq
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 06:41 PM

Well, it has been in the 70s for weeks, but it was 32 degrees F a few minutes ago, about 3:30 in the afternoon, Pacific time. Light snow.

It's heading east so Colorado will be receiving their first snows soon.

Too cold to work outside, at least that's my excuse.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 06:46 PM

We received our first snow a couple weeks ago. Where have you guys been?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: pdq
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 06:56 PM

Raking leaves.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 07:08 PM

Well, I have been here. Cool for the next two days and then 12C with sun and no wind for a few days.

No thunderstorms of note all summer. No hurricanes. I haven't been up country so I cannot predict our winter for the upcoming seasons. But, I'll take a stab from my limited obsevations of the sky here in the city (hard to read the sky when the city lights are in yer face) and my reading of the moon phases and the bird migrations so far... fucked if I know.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 09:48 PM

We had snow on Wednesday in RI. Yesterday was gloomy. Today was gloriously sunny though still cold and windy.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 10:33 PM

Gee... snow and stuff all over youse... youse should move north to New Bruswick... until Christmas er so. Then, I would say ya wanna head home.

On a similar note, earlier today, I took some linen and (old, "fat") clothes to the lady here that started a collection for our southern neighbours, many displaced. She got a LOT of stuff over the past days but had no way to get it there. In steps a local SMALL trucking company and these donations are on the way. Warms my heart to see her and her likes step up to do what they can to help others.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Janie
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 12:33 AM

You've got me thinking about what defines winter, PDQ.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 02:31 AM

OH NO!!..It's global cooling!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: bobad
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 07:28 AM

Uh, no...........hemispheric cooling.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 07:50 AM

I wonder if you can clear your drive of loose snow with one of those things for blowing dry leaves.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: pdq
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 08:02 AM

Winter starts when you need to put fresh anti-freeze in yer car so it don't freeze-up.

Summer starts when you can turn off the heater's thermostat and not feel cold at night.

That's how I look at it.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 01:16 PM

After having had a soggy miserable summer in the UK the only noticable thing has been the clocks going back. Rain, rain and more rain just darker.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 01:32 PM

BAl... "I wonder if you can clear your drive of loose snow with one of those things for blowing dry leaves."

Yes, you can if you have a gas blower. And a length of fuse.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: mg
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 11:18 PM

Very cold here.. 20s last night..unusual for this early in season. starry nights though. Reminds me I need boots with good tread.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ragdall
Date: 11 Nov 12 - 03:52 AM

Winter will not begin until the third week of December. We in the Great White North just happen to have very cold, white Autumns.

It was just above zero F here last night.
+1°F (-17°C) is predicted tonight, warming to 21°F (-6°C), with snow, on Sunday afternoon.

This evening I dug out the two electric cables for plugging in our car block heaters and strung them along under the carport ceiling, ready for use.   

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 11 Nov 12 - 06:28 PM

rags... you may well be right for all of NA. I am thinking that we will have two more warm spells before freezeup here. Just a hunch... and over 40 years of being here and watching the weather. 51/49 odds, I figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Nov 12 - 07:26 PM

Down to -20C in Calgary last night. About 0 F.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Janie
Date: 11 Nov 12 - 10:41 PM

For the third year in a row, it is mid November and we still haven't had a killing frost. The USDA revision of climate zones (last year?) moved us from zone 7a to 7b, but for at least the past ten years, have been able to grow zone 8 plants reliably, and a few zone 9 plants with sufficient mulch and winter protection.

Roses are still blooming. We have had some chilly days and nights, but the leaves are still on my hydrangeas, the ferns are still green, my white, fragrant ginger lily which bloomed the first time this year is still blooming, I am still grazing on the occasional vine ripe cherry tomato, and even managed to harvest enough basil today to make pesto. Not to suggest the plants are thriving and that I did not have to pick over the leaves significantly. Also spent a good part of the day blowing and raking leaves (will be at that chore until mid January, regardless of weather.) My yard is quite "weedy." Still have errant white clover, wild asters and hawkweed blooming. Used to be my sense of winter began well before the winter soltice. In the process of redefining what constitutes winter for me in my own particular habitat.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 01:38 PM

Thought I'd missed my window of opportunity to finish flower garden chores. We had the first frost on the windshield, then next day snow last week. Snow melted pretty much before the end of that day.

Today I have a bit of tidying of the holding bed to do.

I'd brought a small chive plant into the house to winter over, but Rufus decided it was not only delicious but a great toy. So I set it out on the deck so I'd tip it into the holding bed when I could. Then the soil in the pot didn't exactly freeze, but it stiffened considerably. Brought it back inside temporarily to thaw out.

Today is in the 60s (F) so I'll get it safely into the holding bed. There's contents of another pot to be gotten into the holding bed, too, and some seeds to be scattered out back.

It's supposed to get progressively cooler as the week goes on.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 04:52 PM

19 here today. Had to don a t-shirt and a mesh peaked hat. The crows are massing and create a racket early AM and PM. The crow knows.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 01:09 PM

Birdwatchers have descended on our village in Norfolk UK to see a Great White Egret. The poor thing is way out of its region and it's too cold for it. I saw it as it flew over our house. Maybe it will be able to get some fish from the many lakes around here. I looked it up just now on the Birding Update site. In huge red letters were the words '105 SHAGS IN NORTH NORFOLK!' ........!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Feb 16 - 01:36 PM

Active threads about storms we do have, but an active thread for winter in between the storms? Makes as much sense to pick up an older thread about winter.

The frigid bitter cold comes to southern New England today. The sky is brilliant cloudless blue, the dry withering freezing cold kind of blue sky. Very pretty to look at through the window, inside a warm dry room. Going out in it, though? The radio weatherman actually said, Bring your pet animals inside, it's too cold for them to spend the night out there. Don't hear THAT on the radio every day.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Feb 16 - 03:22 PM

It was down to about 5F last night here in suburban MD... the local weather shows said similar things about animals.
(So far, none of them have admonished us to "Bring in your brass monkeys".)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 13 Feb 16 - 09:16 PM

Temperatures have been in the high 80's & low 90's this past week (in Southern, California) TOO HOT FOR ME AND THIS IS ONLY FEB.
So uncomfortable & still too warm at night to sleep very well.
Have to run AC in the car during the day while driving & in the house too! Maybe some people would like this weather but geez, I can't stand it and this is only mid-Feb. Temps have been breaking all records for this time of year here. Should only be about 66 or 68 degrees at this time of year sO 0 t ssi timess 8 de

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 13 Feb 16 - 09:35 PM

Oops, previous message got messed up at the end sentence. My hand accidently hit some keys and got sent.
So, just in ending wanted to say that the temperatures here are 20 + over what is normal for this time of year.
93 degrees is just way too hot and very uncomfortable!!!
Having to run your AC in the car & house is terrible but can't stand the heat otherwise!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Feb 16 - 10:52 PM

I was on the Gulf coast of Florida most of this week, and it was chilly - 10 degrees cooler than the temps at home in the Northern California Sierra Foothills. Now I'm home, and the temperatures are still nice.

We've had snow twice so far this year, and we're hoping for more. Some years, we have no snow, and we had snow five times one season. And one year, we had our last snowfall on May 15. I'm hoping for a good snow year this year, but it's nice to see some flowers in bloom already.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Feb 16 - 11:15 PM

It was in the 70s here in North Texas today. I fear another odd year if we don't have some winter this year. It's hard on the vegetable garden, for various reasons.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 03:27 PM

It's a roller-coaster. Sub-freezing for the next 24 hours. Then a new weather system cranks in and we get a sudden thaw, and a rainstorm. Temperatures increase to well above freezing. Gotta be ready for anything hereabouts.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 04:04 PM

Maine (Linn) is at -11F. I (NB.ca) am at -18C but the windchill is nasty. -32WC. I had to go out to get a turnip for a stew. Proper planning prevents piss poor performance but I didn't think of that yesterday. Come Tuesday... 10C and rain. I'll take rain, even if it will make a slippery mess, over snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 04:06 PM

BTW, I heard Blue Jays today singing that spring song. I suppose it's one way to generate some heat in this cold weather. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 04:19 PM

Did I say messy? This just in...

4:06 PM AST Sunday 14 February 2016
Special weather statement in effect for:

Moncton and Southeast New Brunswick
A low pressure system will develop over the southern United States and reach New England Tuesday. This system will likely affect the Maritimes on Tuesday and Wednesday with a good possibility of some snow at first and then significant amounts of rain. Freezing rain is also quite possible especially over northern New Brunswick. These bursts of precipitation will be accompanied by rapid warming associated with a warm front driven by strong southerly winds.

Old Man Winter must have that there Old Timer's eh?

I don't mind it but the people that depend on part of their living making Maple Slurpup must be shaking in their mukluks!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: bubblyrat
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 06:05 AM

Here in England, on Dartmoor National Park, the weather has been ATROCIOUS ! We moved into our new (but old !) house on September 30th, and since then it has rained EVERY DAY up until today , which is frosty and SUNNY ! However, last Saturday we were flooded out by a torrent of muddy water , and had to rely on neighbours who came round with mops,buckets,old newspapers,pumps , teenaged children,etc.etc. to bail us out.Luckily ,there is a good community spirit here in Devonshire,where the only sound is often the clippety-clop of horses' hooves ; no "bikers", no aircraft overhead,very few cars, no motorways nearby, just peace and quiet and smoke curling lazily from the chimneys of every house, all of which have names and not numbers .Magic !!

Subject: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 02:34 PM

And now comes winter storm Olympia...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 08:38 PM

We got more snow this afternoon continuing into this evening. It's supposed to switch to rain tonight. When I parked my car, I forgot to raise the windshield wipers into the snow salute. If we don't have rain by bedtime, I'll go out and raise them.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 02:06 AM

Here in southeastern Alaska - roughly level with Scotland (latitude 58) - our temperatures have been in the mid40sF for weeks, dipping at night into the upper 30s. Sweater/sweatshirt weather. Tonight is forecast to be colder; we could get a frost tonight. Usually at this time of the year our ground is rock hard- it hasn't frozen this winter.

'Tis passing weird.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 12:49 PM

Gnu called it. Rapid warming and strong southerly winds. Now comes an April thaw in mid February. Flooding could make some roads impassable.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 02:32 PM

Yup. -32C wind chill yesterday and 10C right now. Got all my windows open. Gotta love The Merrytimes.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 02:45 PM

Oops... Maritime Canada. And, *my* thermo meter shows 13C. We must be gonna get smacked like last year. NO snow on the ground on 01.28. A whole winter of snow within 6 weeks of that. At least two storms per week of a foot or more.

With the rain tonight adding to the snowmelt, keberoxu is right... there will be flooding. I am on high(er) ground but I have relatives and friends who may have a rough time tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: michaelr
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 03:25 PM

Summer is here. Shit, it was 88 yesterday. Unheard of for NorCal in February.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 16 - 12:33 PM

Watch out for that false sense of security, here....above freezing temps, clear skies, calm breezes, and much of the snow and ice melted. Winter isn't over yet, just giving us a chance to breathe before we get snowed on again.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Feb 16 - 12:39 PM

My lawn is clear of snow, and "greening up". I see some crocus shoots edging up. The last two days were unseasonably warm.

Maybe the groundpig was right, predicting an early spring. But, more winter surprises coulx evolve over the next couple of weeks?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Feb 16 - 12:41 PM

The rhodie at my door will be blooming soon- the buds are swollen.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Rumncoke
Date: 18 Feb 16 - 11:49 AM

It is not raining today - for a change.

The Christmas tree (picea glauca conica) is looking very sad. I'm not sure if it had drowned with all the rain or starved to death as the rain washed all the nutrients from the soil in its pot. I brought it inside the conservatory for its own protection and it is still clinging to life by the twig tips.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Feb 16 - 11:35 AM

The weather in Missouri is absolutely lovely, but I wish it weren't. It's not supposed to be 70 in February.

bubblyrat, you have my sympathy because of the flooding. Let's hope it doesn't happen again. Devon sounds delightful.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Feb 16 - 12:24 PM

Rumncoke,

Pull the soil off of the base of the tree - even though it is in a pot, it may be too deep. Clear the soil away until you can see the root flare - or the trunk flare - that part is supposed to be exposed, but lots of nurseries add extra dirt to pots before they sell plants. You'll be surprised how much that one move can make a tree happier.

We have a chance of showers for a few days (it hasn't rained much this month) and supposedly winter temperatures will return next week, but the forecast doesn't show any nights at or below freezing and highs in the 60s aren't typical February temperatures.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 16 - 01:07 PM

It's only the first of March. Winter isn't over yet. Probably packing another sucker punch even as we speak. I just got my car inspected during the oil change, to make sure that at least the car wouldn't surprise me.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 16 - 10:17 AM

Going up to 9C with rain and moderate wind today. 200km north of me it's 25-35cm of snow. Thank goodness it's stayed cold enough for the World Pond Hockey Championship in Plaster Rock, NB.ca

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/world-pond-hockey-championships-attracts-the-great-and-small/

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: olddude
Date: 02 Mar 16 - 11:57 AM

Spring sprung and fall fell, winter is here and it's colder than

Usual

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 03 Mar 16 - 07:54 AM

Minus 29 Celsius right now in Ottawa, with a forecast high of minus 9, but the crystal-gazers at Environment Canada are backing an early thaw -- they say this might be the last of the cold weather for this winter. It snowed all day yesterday. I'm not putting the mukluks away quite yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Mar 16 - 02:58 PM

Now the forecasts are talking of early May temperatures next week, and it is only early March.