What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 07:28 PM

A brisk wind blowing today
made it a little nippy for
the line of people waiting for their
COVID-19 vaccinations at the weekend clinic hereabouts.


The line HAD to go out the door and into the parking lot,
so as to observe the protocol of
social distancing,
with a single file of people the required distance apart from each other.

The good news:
clear sunny skies with no precipitation;
and the clinic organizers
kept that line moving briskly:
indoors the operations stayed on schedule and efficient,
so that that line that went well out the door
was a line that moved inside in a matter of minutes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 06:48 PM

The weather and its ramifications in Texas is headline news here. You're having it tough. Commiserations, y'all...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 04:27 PM

Here in Missouri we are north of the storm that clobbered the southern US from New Mexico to the east coast. Texas got the most news coverage - there was snow on the beach in Galveston, and one day it was warmer in Moscow than in Fort Worth.

People have no water (frozen pipes) and roads are impassable because of ice and accidents. People have no power and no heat, and deaths caused by carbon monoxide are occurring because they try to use a car or charcoal to get warm.

I learned yesterday that the same weather situation caused snow in Greece and Turkey.

Earlier this week it was very cold here, -4 F or -20 C. (Plus snow and wind, but not very much.) That's colder than it's been for a long time. We were asked to turn thermostats down, which we did, and the power companies tried something new - deliberate rolling blackouts where areas receive no power for 30 to 60 minutes. We had one of those. Maybe it helped, because we did not lose power in our region.

Now it's 30 out. Nice and comfy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 09:13 PM

Dips in the jet stream happen all the time. What's far more important Is any long-term latitudinal displacement of the jets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 07:42 PM

Texas as well as Spain are frozen. Dips in the jet stream have something to do with global something or another.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 02:39 PM

8 degrees wind 27 mph

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 02:23 PM

A great lot of the USA is currently under winter siege. Storm follows storm leaving little time for clean up and repair. Millions of people are without power in the coldest temperatures in decades. I think the forecast is for better conditions this weekend but in the meantime it is a misery.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 07:50 AM

Steve, I can relate. I was once blown flat on my face on South Street in Halifax when I was stupid enough to be out in a particularly violent nor’easter.

It’s a beautiful day in Stratford, Ontario: clear, blue sky, still air, snow-banks as high as an elephant’s eye. Me, I’m just thrilled that the municipal plow finally found my street, and wondering whether my neighbour will find his garbage bin before Easter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 06:01 AM

A few years ago I opened my car door in a good old Cornish gale, the wind caught the door and blew it violently wide open - and destroyed it. I had to do without the car for a week until a new door was fitted. Thank goodness for insurance. I was lent a rather unpleasant replacement car for a week (a little Chrysler something-or-other) but at least I could still get around!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 11:31 PM

shall I mention what it's like in sunny summery Sydney -

forecast for Sydney

26C (= 78F) partly cloudy. Medium (50%) chance of showers. Winds southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h.

sandra

yesterday was very windy, & even little me (irony alert) was being buffeted about. It was a day to leave by our back door as we are on top of a hill with gusts rushing up the street & the front door closer can fail in heavy gusts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:42 PM

We had a tiny thaw today, with more than enough MUD.
never mind,
the snow and ice will return soon enough.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:30 AM

I just had a look at the weather radar plot for southwestern Ontario, and Stratford is right spung in the middle of the leading end of a snow system stretching all the way to Pelee Island in Lake Erie.

This is why I paid Nick's Snowblowing a big hunk of change back in November. Best money I've spent in a long time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 08:59 AM

Sounds nippy in Texas. The oilmen seem to have conspired to freeze up the wind turbines.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 06:43 AM

Heheh. Speaking of smearing ashes, get this from the Guardian website:

A Catholic priest in Ireland is providing takeaway ashes in plastic sauce containers so parishioners can honour Ash Wednesday despite coronavirus restrictions.

A Centra shop in Clonmany, county Donegal, has helped Fr Brian Brady to pack and distribute ashes in 200 containers usually used for dips and sauces.

Parishioners have snapped up the containers so they can administer their own ashes by placing them in the form of a cross on their foreheads tomorrow. The ritual signifies repentance and marks the first day of Lent, a six-week period of penitence before Easter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 04:12 AM

On this day in 1961 there was a partial eclipse of the sun in the morning. It was Ash Wednesday and we were herded off to church for that service in which the priest smeared greasy muck on your forehead with his thumb. The sky was cloudy and we didn't see the eclipse. From inside the church we could see the sun coming out, but by the time the service had finished and we were released the eclipse was over. I've harboured bitterness about that for exactly 60 years. I'm thinking that it may have sown the early seeds of my atheism...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 03:06 AM

The Pentlands (the hills immediately south of Edinburgh) currently have a severe, danger-to-life avalanche warning. Never heard of that anywhere near here before.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 21 - 06:21 PM

Dreading another heavy snowfall in a few days' time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 04:02 PM

in west cork it is wet 4 degrees mild

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 03:00 PM

In Eastern Ontario, it's sunny and cold, even for here, what with a high of -15C for the day (with a wind chill of -23) and a low after sun-up tomorrow of -22C. There is little snow cover, and that does not bode well for the forests in the late spring. Unless we get more snow, they'll be tinder dry in May. This lack of snow cover plays merry hob with the military training cycle (the impact areas will be too dry even for high explosive) and the farmers' preparations for planting (they will not be allowed to burn slash and plough it under).

Still, the bright sun warms the heart, if nothing else, and it will not set until close to 1730. I can smell cycling weather in the offing, so I am on my way to my local bike shop to get my gravel bike out of hawk after its annual overhaul.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 10:45 AM

We also had a big wildfire, on Dartmoor. We've had a wet winter but the last week in the Westcountry has been bone dry with a strong (and vicious) east wind. The bracken and heather from last year is tinder-dry, so it doesn't take much to get it going, and gorse burns well too.

Braemar holds the record for the coldest recorded temperature in the U.K., -27.2C, achieved twice, once in 1895 and once in 1982. The reason for the very cold nights is that the location is in a frost pocket, which means it's surrounded by hills down which cold air from high up sinks into the valley where the village is. Scottish glens are often frost pocket candidates. There are several notable ones in England, at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, at Benson in Oxfordshire and at Shawbury in Shropshire. To get a really cold night in a frost pocket you need little or no wind, a clear night and, preferably, snow on the ground. It helps if there's a stagnating mass of cold air over the country, which occasionally happens in winter anticyclones centred over Scandinavia or Eastern Europe.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 09:41 AM

And there I was, under the delusion that the Western Isles were always wet in winter. Wildfire in February -- amazing.

Cold and grey in southwestern Ontario, with a bit of wind chill and yet more snow in the forecast. Utterly normal. Perfect for staying home with a book.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 07:56 AM

Scotland last night:

Coldest for 25 years in Braemar
Kilometre-wide fire in Benbecula and extreme fire hazard warning for the whole west coast of the country

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 04:41 PM

Western Massachusetts got ever so much snow.
It took a day and a half, pretty much, to finish falling.
At least it was no blizzard, no high winds --
just snow that would not quit falling.

I don't know how much.
In the parking lot, there was at least twelve inches
on top of my car.
The trouble was not on top of my car, but
behind the rear wheels, backing out of the space.
The lot had, thank heavens, been plowed --
it was just a question of getting out of the snowed-in space
and onto the plowed pavement. Needed to shovel first.
The snow was wetter, and heavier, than it looked.
Not heart-attack shovelling.

It's quite the winter wonderland here visually.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 11:54 AM

It came today.
Still lovely, but I hear everything melting...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 11:19 AM

Its probably buried, look for an orange plastic sleeve.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 11:13 AM

Just snow. Lovely. No ice, no Sunday paper...

Subject: RE: What's the conspiracy like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 07:22 AM

I "heard" that white supremists are going to paint Everything White today in protest. So far "they" are right.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 02:57 PM

Depends on your car, no?

It is supposed to snowstorm tomorrow. But I am betting freezing rain. I have soup supplies...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 21 - 08:40 PM

In Buffalo NY it would only take an hour to go from zero to six foot high snow drifts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 21 - 02:07 PM

Snowing, that's what it's like.
The sort that falls gently and blankets everything.
Not, thanks be, a blizzard, not this time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 09:48 PM

Mrrzy, If its covered in the weather forecast its weather whether its a solar storm, gamma ray burst or tsunamis a half mile high.
They all have one thing in common.
They come in waves
like gravity
or electrons.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 07:51 PM

I don't live in southern Colorado,
but a close friend does, and they have gone for months
in drought conditions.

A few days ago they FINALLY got some snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 09:43 PM

Mrrzy, I think the insurance companies
refer to the things on your list
as
"acts of God" or something ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 21 - 09:39 AM

dust in the wind

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 04:08 PM

Lightning coming and going where Earth meets space

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 04:30 PM

It did not hit 65 but was niiiiice.

I have a question: I think of weather as a term for, specifically, *atmospheric* phenomena. However, lately, I am seeing other planetary phenomena included. Are earthquakes weather? Tsunamis? Forest fires?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 09:53 AM

Gonna be 65F today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 20 - 02:45 PM

Thoroughly depressing, that's what it's like:
gray, no sunshine, rainy, raw.
And if it goes below freezing
when the approaching storm gets here,
then we have ice to deal with,
Oh Joy, Oh Rapture.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Dec 20 - 05:53 PM

above freezing, however chilly and raw

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 08:58 AM

But relax https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/why-are-we-having-so-many-earthquakes-has-naturally-occurring-earthquake-activity-been?qt-news_science

Floods are more likely

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Dec 20 - 10:59 PM

Big weather is on the move.
Hawaii, South America, the Carribean, and Indonesia is on the move.
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/116472/World-Earthquake-Report-for-Wednesday-16-December-2020.html

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Dec 20 - 09:29 PM

A white Christmas in the mountains of North Georgia; a couple of inches last night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 03:51 PM

Stormy, only it's a rainy, windy, too-warm-for-Christmas storm,
with a threat of localized flooding,
not just from the downpour, but also from thawing snow and ice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 20 - 12:47 PM

It's winter, all right, but
we're going through one of those
mild-for-winter,
warm-enough-to-melt some ice,
overcast, raw humid chilly periods.
The evenings are even going to be mild this week,
and the forecast for Christmas Day is grey, warm, and wet,
of all things.
The extended forecast for the week of New Year's, however,
is clear and at-or-below-freezing, a different sort of winter weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 08:07 PM

It is raining. The rain is predicted to increase during the day (currently just after noon) and into tomorrow; our forecast is for lots and lots of rain with possible flooding.

It has also cooled down, which considering the heatwave a few weeks ago is quite a pleasant change.

Santa may have to bring his umbrella when he visits Oz this year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 02:17 PM

It's probably not good, because it's global warming, but I just stepped out in bare feet to shake out a dust mop, and the porch floor was warm underfoot. In December, it should be somewhere between 40 and 20 out.

The sky is blue and clear, and the DH hopes to photograph Saturn and Jupiter tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 02:48 PM

We were supposed to be practically hip-deep in snow by now but it warmed up and light rain is penetrating the snow we do have.

However, the ravens like it. They are swooping in the air currents, sometimes right past my window.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 10:01 PM

you all right, Mary?

kitties jumped on your computer keyboard?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 09:51 PM

On Washington USA coast. Very windy but little rain. Prob in f kitties F

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 11:19 AM

Charlottesville is not quite under the Noreaster descending upon the megalopolis. We have ice falling. It's gonna be nasty.

But meanwhile it is a grand winter's day. Hot drinks, soup, space heaters. Love having such luxuries. Thinking of those that don't.