BS: Winter is here

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Mar 16 - 10:55 PM

We had snow flurries today but not enough to interfere with plans.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ragdall
Date: 05 Mar 16 - 07:31 AM

Over here on the left side of Canada it was +12 C today.   Crocus are blooming. Tulips are up but no flower buds in sight yet. Bluebirds have been arriving from the south. Wet snow is predicted for Wednesday, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 02:50 PM

Miraculously, no flooding here, in spite of the general melting. The marshlands and backwaters no longer have ice over them, which took forever to thaw. And that species of frog that starts peeping in the "mud season" is out in the open air, peeping at the top of its little lungs.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:07 PM

High of 7 Celsius today in Ottawa, and I'm putting the mukluks away. Not the light-weight Italian sort-of-fashionable boots, though; I've seen snow on the apple blossom more than once in this town.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 12:02 PM

Well, it's 72F here at the moment (0703) and the sky is clear. A bit of wind, but not too much. There is a high surf alert, so I won't be taking my longboard out.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 01:09 PM

I'm wondering how long I should wait before getting the lawn mower out and ready to go.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 09:34 PM

The people who plow the condo lot removed the stakes they had set out for the winter. I hope they know what they're doing!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Dec 16 - 04:17 PM

"Meteorological winter," for some reason, that's what the network broadcasts say on the first of December. If it doesn't feel like winter today, then it will do soon enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Dec 16 - 02:30 AM

Here in Juneau, Alaska, we had a bit of snow mid-October and even less in November. The temperatures have ranged from low 30s to mid40s.

And now we finally have a warning that late this week we're getting really cold weather, forecasting 7 F for a high and zeroF for lows. It will allegedly hit us this Sunday. I'm flying out of here on Monday just in time to beat the cold weather to my destination. Might have lots of snow by the time I return.

I hope so. A really snowy winter would be nice- hasn't happened in a number of years. The last one I remember vividly was 2006.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 02 Dec 16 - 07:11 AM

My husband is dancing for joy because he heard they're giving short odds on us having a White Christmas. I've just beaten him over the head with a stout cudgel.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Dec 16 - 03:35 PM

Be careful for what you wish, Ebbie....

Here in southeastern New England, it is
The Last Hurrah Of Those Pesky Little Moths.

You know the moths I mean...it hasn't been cold enough to, erm, dissuade them. So the moths are clustered around the doors to my apartment building. They are up against the glass panes, morning and night, and fluttering about in the parking lot. It's their last hurrah, or their last gasp, or something.

ChantyLass is right, the warmth so late in the year is unusual, and it has kept the moths going....but not for long.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Raggytash
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 01:44 PM

When we arrived in our spot on the Connemara, County Galway on the 16th November there was snow on the tops of the Twelve Bens mountain range. Stunningly beautiful viewed from a warm car in the glens!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 06:55 PM

That wind is back. grrrrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 12:19 AM

Meanwhile, we are on Day Three of a five day heatwave.

Dunno about moths, but last night we were overrun by little black bugs......

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 04:00 AM

Are you in Australia Jennie? And what temperature is it at the moment? (I'm just looking up flights and getting my suitcase packed! :) )

I absolutely hate the winter, and I hate it more as the years go by. I'm definitely a hot weather kind of person.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 05:52 AM

Yes, Eliza......in Tamworth, which is in north-western New South Wales. Temperature right now as we speak, 9.30 P.M. Sunday night, is 28 deg C, the "feels like" is 25 deg C.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: skarpi
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 09:12 AM

at one place in Iceland at 4 :30 there was 16+ in December and 8+ around the country , and our Glaciers are melding fast ...

this is so wrong , here should be winter with snow and frost .

now we have like springtime ...

who is playing with the weather system´s ...urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 09:31 AM

Oh Jennie, 28 degrees at night! Oh sheer bliss! I can take even 40 degrees and high humidity, but the cold just finishes me off, especially with a sharp wind.

I think what I hate most about winter is the lack of daylight. I dislike drawing the curtains at 4pm, I feel as if I'm in an underground tunnel.

We often say that if we won the Lottery (not easy,as we don't even do it!) we'd spend the winter months in Australia and stay in UK for the summer. Africa is a bit too dodgy healthwise (malaria etc)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 03:15 PM

No, Eliza......28 degrees at night is not "sheer bliss". It is quite unpleasant, much too hot for beneficial sleep so we wake up feeling as tired as if we hadn't gone to bed at all. Doctors have issued warnings about the dangers of hot weather, because heat kills more people than cold.

We still have to survive today (forecast 39 deg) and tomorrow (forecast 36 deg) and it should be cooler after that. It will have been a very long draining five days when the heatwave ends.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 03:37 PM

I'm sorry Jennie if the heat bothers you. I do realise not everyone likes being hot, especially at night.I suppose I'm quite lucky as I come into my own when in Africa, for example. It must be awful if you can't get proper sleep and feel tired.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 07:09 AM

Today reached 40 deg and we just didn't go outside. Supposedly tomorrow will be the last day of this heatwave, it has been quite nasty.

This evening also brought violent storms to our town with trees down, blackouts, damage to buildings - one commercial building in the centre of town had its roof blown off. Summer thunderstorms can be quite vicious in Australia, storm season starts in October and runs through to April......but we did get some badly needed rain out of this one.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 04:01 PM

Gosh, those storms sound terrifying Jennie. But at least the rain prevents any forest fires starting.
I remember being in Ontario in 1967 during the summer, and the electrical storms were ferocious, unlike anything I'd experienced in UK. Ghana too - when the humidity reaches a certain level the skies open and the place goes dark as night. Then the thunder crashes. Rain in W Africa is like a vertical water cannon!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 05:47 PM

Not quite, Eliza......rain helps with fires, certainly, but many are started by lightning. Yesterday's storm was apparently responsible for a few; a comment on a local facebook page was about a fire starting by a lightning strike on the side of the road as the writer was driving by. If we could just have the rain without the storms it would be much better!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Dec 16 - 03:43 AM

I'm revising my dream of wintering in Australia if we win the Lottery! I think I might prefer southern Spain, with all the other old wrinkly ex-pat Brits, playing Bingo and eating fish and chips.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 16 - 01:40 PM

In the northeastern US, the weather is about to turn, as Tattie Bogle would say, "baltic." A frigid wind is moving cold air and snow this way. At least it will put paid to the little moths, which are STILL stuck to the glass panes on the apartment building door this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Dec 16 - 05:02 PM

....die, moths, die....whatever eats you has flown away south already....

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Dec 16 - 04:29 AM

We have winter floods warnings in effect for Northern California today. No rain yet, but it's only 1:30 AM.
-Joe Nightowl-

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Dec 16 - 07:59 AM

Much to my husband's dejection, the weather gurus are now saying we're going to have the warmest Christmas for many a year. No snow, not even a smidgeon. Whoopeeeeeee!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 09:18 AM

If winter was not here before, it is here now. Completely white outside, except where it is plowed, salted, and sanded. But then ANOTHER storm system is supposed to move in with WARM air....

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 02:06 PM

....and the fine white powder from early this morning has been succeeded by slush, as the temperature rises.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Dec 16 - 12:14 PM

...winter will be back, never fear.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Dec 16 - 09:34 PM

Stiff wind blew off the river at Mystic Seaport this afternoon!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Dec 16 - 11:53 AM

Ice followed by snow and bitter cold blew in Dec 17th. The Highway Patrol had over 3000 calls, there were more than 1500 accidents and six fatalities. Kansas City had 170 accidents.

It was a good day to stay home, but we crept to a concert in our trusty Subaru anyway. Small attendance but wonderful singing.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Dec 16 - 10:52 AM

Oops. Kansas City had 70 accidents, not 170.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Dec 16 - 01:56 PM

The winter solstice approaches, at which point everyone (to the north) will be in agreement that it is winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 03:40 AM

We're due fierce gales here on Friday, especially in Scotland. Predicted 90mph up there. Hope my sister and her girls will be OK. The storm is called Barbara, which is my sister's name. She's always causing trouble, her.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 12:27 PM

Here's the solstice.

And the other thing I notice this week is the static electricity. I have to ground myself before I touch a wall switch, or fill the fuel tank on the auto.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 16 - 12:21 PM

...and at last the moths are...somewhere else. Anywhere else but trying to get into the building. Presumably well cocooned, wherever they are.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 16 - 04:34 PM

Happy belated winter solstice to Skarpi, and hope he enjoyed it in good health.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 16 - 03:02 PM

....and the sun is shining brightly.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 16 - 11:11 AM

Winter will return in a day or two. For Christmas, we received a breathing spell of weather too warm for ice, and that IS nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 17 - 06:33 PM

Skarpi, bless him, is up and about, because he posted to a different thread last week.

The Greater metro Boston area has dodged a heavy snowstorm or two thus far -- although a recent storm swept past and was awfully close for comfort.

Put new windshield wiper blades on the auto and got the fluids topped up -- can't be too well prepared.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jan 17 - 04:22 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 17 - 12:30 PM

....is here with a vengeance. it's blizzard / Nor'easter time. How is winter treating you?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 17 - 02:39 PM

I can hear the snowplows outside. Earning their keep, they are! Don't know what inches per hour it is, but this is definitely no weather for driving, unless you drive a snowplow or a salt and sand truck. Or a tow truck, come to that....yes, the tow truck people must make a killing during a storm like this one. Boston is well and truly snowed in. I hear that Cape Cod is even worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Jan 17 - 07:23 PM

8 inches here so far, and the end's not in sight!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 17 - 12:04 PM

The Boston area has done its usual yeoman's job of tackling road surfaces. The snow is powder, the sky is clear and dry, and OOOH is it ever cold.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 01:15 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ragdall
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 10:52 PM

After weeks of very cold weather (-25 C to -30C), we are now experiencing a potentially deadly warming to just above/below freezing. Motorists have been warned to stay off the highways as freezing rain is making driving very dangerous.

I stocked up on food a few days ago and plan to stay mainly indoors until we return to our proper winter weather.

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jan 17 - 07:15 PM

Freezing rain here as well, oddly enough. Crunchy underfoot. Will it freeze worse, or thaw? Could swing either way....tricky stuff.