What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Oct 16 - 02:34 PM

More of the same. Yuck and yuck again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 16 - 04:50 PM

oooo, yuck, that's what. At least here the temps are enough above freezing that the precip is liquid. Between Albany, NY and Chicopee, MA, on the Thruway/Pike, driving speeds are reduced thanks to the falling SNOW. That cursed s-word.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 09:25 PM

Temp's predicted to drop to freezing, but not below, tonight! But I saw and heard black-capped chickadees in the bushes outside my living room windows this afternoon. What cheerful birds, and they can spend the winter here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Oct 16 - 02:49 PM

I'm afraid that wind will blow all the leaves off the trees before they finish changing colors. That's what happened last year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Oct 16 - 02:37 PM

aaggh, that wind...expletives deleted....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Oct 16 - 03:40 PM

Ah, that wind is back, as we all knew it would be: biting, withering, and cold. We had a nice break from it, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Oct 16 - 08:58 PM

And today,it was slightly warm and felt warmer because of humidity which eventually became rain. Normally I would go to a chantey sing in Bristol, RI, on the third Friday of warmish months, but it's held around a campfire. The planners promised if it rained we would move indoors because this is the last one until spring, but I couldn't picture myself walking through rough, wet, unlit fields to get to the historic farmhouse or back to my car. I could see lightning in the distance and I heard flash flood warnings, so I turned my car around and drove home through Providence's commuter traffic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 16 - 07:49 PM

Ebbie, I hope YOU get all the snow, unlike the recent winter when Massachusetts got eight feet plus!

Chantey Lass, you spoke true; just arrived at the Providence airport, and it is more mild outside than the day I left.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Oct 16 - 08:49 PM

After some seasonally cool days, we've had three days of almost-summer warmth. Gradually the cool air will return, starting tomorrow, and by the weekend things will probably be normal for this time of year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Oct 16 - 02:04 AM

We had an early snowfall in Juneau, Alaska, even beating both Anchorage and Fairbanks, which are much farther north. On October 16 our little but long town got from 3 to 9 inches of the white stuff. I'm glad. I hope we have a snowy winter for a change.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 16 - 10:41 PM

Almost time to head north and east, leaving Arizona for home. Good thing I packed summer clothes, they were needed here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 16 - 10:51 PM

its cold, In fact were all home with colds.
So I'm definitely posting too much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Oct 16 - 08:31 PM

When my flight left Providence, Rhode Island yesterday, it wasn't all that cold really; must have been in the '60s Fahrenheit. The problem was the wind. After the rainstorms moved out, the wind pushed in. The kind of wind that says, Summer is SO OVER. Dry, cold, biting, withering wind. I needed several layers, including the winter parka with the hood up, to get from my parked car to the airport terminal.

This morning I wake up in Paradise Valley, part of greater Phoenix, Arizona, where they tell me it is no longer so hot as it had been all summer. Now that it is no longer summer here, they actually get through an entire day without breaking 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and the nighttime temperatures drop down to almost 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

In my rental car, however, I still pack my winter parka -- to wear indoors, when the refrigerated air is especially, erm, refrigerated. Especially if I am sitting still at a computer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 09:37 AM

No need for heat yet in DC

If you are in Port au Prince brace for over a METER of rain.

Southern California has earthquake warnings, to the north fire and on the east coast a hurricane watch.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 08:58 PM

Well we're home. We were in Siracusa in Sicily, where, in a single week, the weather turned from the sublime (Mediterranean sun with thirty degrees) to the unbelievable (thundery rain that lasted for hour after hour, mostly during the night, thankfully, that left the city inundated).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Sep 16 - 09:34 PM

Cool enough tonight for me to switch from summer PJs (really cotton t-shirt and long lightweight cotton PJ pants to winter PJs (really sweatshirt and sweatpants). I'm not turning on the heat yet!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Sep 16 - 05:37 PM

We were waiting at a bus stop today in a European city with a namesake in New York State. The bus was late and the bus stop had only half a roof. During a ten-minute deluge, there was nearly a riot at the bus stop as people less weather-savvy than me (I'd seen it coming!) tried to muscle us out of the way in their desperate efforts to stay dry. Manfully, I stood our ground. The whole city was in chaos with roads flooded everywhere. When the bus finally reached its destination, 25 miles away, we came upon weather that was hot and sunny and there had been no rain there at all. We stood on the roof of Santa Chiara church and had a wonderful view of an amazing baroque town that had been completely rebuilt after a devastating earthquake at the end of the 17th century.

I later discovered that, apart from a little strip near Barcelona, we were in the only place in Europe that had had such unsettled weather. If you can't guess where we are, I'll tell you on Monday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Sep 16 - 11:20 AM

The pigeons have no necks. Rain ending this afternoon then cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Amount 5 to 10 mm. Wind southwest 20 km/h becoming north 20 this afternoon. High 15. (It's noon and only 12C.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Sep 16 - 09:10 AM

Not a drop of rain in Bude for three days. It's a fine but windy day today with a daytime temperature colder than almost every overnight minimum in September so far. We do quite well in north Cornwall with these good, brisk northwesterlies!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 15 Sep 16 - 08:46 PM

Hot day here on the south coast of England, again - now a tremendous thunderstorm, I am eating ice lollies with the fan on and the lightening flashes all different colours. Its almost 2am but there's no chance of getting to sleep for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 03:19 PM

I was going home to Bude from Manchester yesterday afternoon and I'd pulled into Gloucester services on the M5 where there's a fabulous farm shop. I couldn't get out of my car for twenty minutes due to a viciously spectacular though short-lived thunderstorm. Such events usually mark the end of fine spells, but today has been glorious in north Cornwall with non-stop sun and 25⁰C. Just down the road in Camborne they had a 40mm deluge yesterday in a short time, making it the wettest place in Britain. Gravesend had 34.4⁰C yesterday, a hundred-year UK record for September. I think somewhere in East Anglia may have touched 32⁰ today. Weird weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 02:32 PM

Spring started as usual, pleasant, frogs peeping in the ditch and pond. Then, drought; day after day hot and dry, no peepers. Finally, pouring rain, hub deep to a ferris wheel. In time, it stopped and normality set in. I ended up having to teach the little frogs to swim.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 11:08 AM

Today is 95 in DC. This is not the last record breaking heat for the year but it should be the last 95 degree day until next spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 14 Sep 16 - 10:18 AM

Ottawa had its last full day of summer yesterday, with bright sunshin and a high of 28 C. During the evening, banks of cloud rolled in and today it's grey and dreary, forecast high of 18 C with periods of drizzle. With the equinox less than a week away, it's time to put away the cut-off jeans and dig out the flannel.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 13 Sep 16 - 08:05 PM

hot hot hot!!!

Record breaking heat, woken by thunderstorm and hammering rain, changed to sunny and sucking up the moisture, then another storm, and back to sun, now it is one in the morning and I have the fan on and a headache.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: billybob
Date: 13 Sep 16 - 06:04 AM

Very hot and humid here on the East coast of the UK, very unusual, forcast 30 degrees C !Might go for a walk on the beach there may be a sea breeze.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 10:58 PM

Yes, today was just perfect! Also, I, too, have been grateful for rain and hope for more, especially the slow, gentle kind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 05:11 PM

Hope ChanteyLass nearby is more comfortable now. In my town, the humidity is greatly relieved today, and one no longer feels that one will suffocate when leaving a refrigerated-air-conditioned indoor environment. It is a welcome change. On the other hand, so was it a relief to get a good soaking rain on Saturday morning, because the area is drought-stricken, humidity or no humidity.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 16 - 03:00 PM

Ditto the others, harpgirl. Glad you got through it okay. I've been at others things and just got back here to check in.

As for here, Moncton, NB.ca, had my windows open all night and had TWO blankets on top of me. 8C and a breeze when I rose this AM. I am loving it. The temps will creep back up (mid 20s daytime and mid teens nighttime), but, on Thursday, the full moon, it's forecast to be showers and 16C. I love fall best of all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 10 Sep 16 - 05:30 AM

Thanks very much for your update, harpgirl. You're doing well by your father... and taking care of yourself. I'm glad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Sep 16 - 09:37 PM

Here in RI, I can't say it's hot. It's more accurate to say it is very warm and stiflingly humid. How humid? Last night my smoke alarm blared twice. There was no smoke (thank goodness). I think the humidity was like fog inside and outside my home and the smoke detector assumed that the fog was smoke. If so, it may happen again tonight, and if it does I will check again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Sep 16 - 07:52 PM

I wondered about that slip, harpgirl!
I'm glad you and your dad made it through, but it sounds like it's been a rough go.
Hmm, Voldemort. I have two friends in Stuart, FL, who intensely dislike that governor. I'll have to ask if they've heard that nickname for him.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Sep 16 - 12:34 PM

haha freudian slip: love/live

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Sep 16 - 12:29 PM

thanks for your concern, Maeve. Neither my dad's duplex nor my home were damaged but my street looks like a bowling ball went down it mowing down trees. The power lines are buried in my subdivision but on the street into it, lines were down for several days. Our power went out on Thursday night at 11 and came back at dad's on Sunday at 5:30pm. I cooked on a camp stove on the patio and put the food we could save into coolers to keep. On Saturday night I borrowed a generator from my awesome neighbors and ran it Sunday so dad would have a light, a TV, and a fan. The first two days weren't too bad but it got hot on Sunday and it was uncomfortable.

The damage in Tallahassee was pretty extensive. I don't know if it was worse than Kate but the trees are all thirty yers older so they are bigger when they come down. At least five homes on my street at the front entrance had damage to the roofs.

I am still cleaning up debris in my own yard and have at least three more hours to work. I have twenty five or so trees on my little lot and they make a big mess.

Most people have power restored but Barry Sager, Dr. Sound has a hole in his condo roof and no power yet, today. He woke up at three am, walked into his living room, stepped back and his ceiling collapsed. He had to junk his keyboard and a few other living room items. Poor Barry.

About 9k still without power. We had crews from all over the south and lots of controversy because Gov. Voldemort (Rick Scott) criticized the mayor Andrew Gillum for the time it took to get power restored. It was two weeks during Kate so this was a whole lot faster. Everyone thinks Voldemort is an idiot, liar, thief, criminal, etc. At least among my friends!

The oldsters in the big buildings at Westminster had little power from the generators and no air conditioning so they suffered a lot. The food was boxed and Westminster didn't do anything to check on the independents who after all, rent homes from them. That is why I don't want dad in the nursing home section and I am trying to keep him in his independent living duplex.

The stores were all closed and had to throw out all the perishable food in their coolers. On the bright side, all our refrigerators are cleaned out!

I hope this is my last Florida hurricane, I can tell you that. When dad dies I will be free to love wherever I want. Taking suggestions!

And I have a babysitter for dad today and I am going kayaking!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Sep 16 - 10:12 AM

Sitting in me garden on the north Cornwall coast under a cloudless sky, 20⁰C with a nice breeze. Yesterday we had 26⁰C with high humidity but a little cold front overnight has seen to that. Going for a walk on the cliffs in a minute!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 07 Sep 16 - 07:41 PM

On the South coast of England the weather is rather warm. There has been enough rain to keep the garden looking good, the apples are growing larger, but cosmetically damaged as what rain we do have is heavy. Light refreshing showers seem to have gone elsewhere

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Sep 16 - 07:04 PM

Hope harpgirl and her loved ones are all right.
Hermine was a bit of a damp squib up North.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Sep 16 - 11:45 PM

Well, right now it's quite nice. Winter is on its way out......wasn't the worst winter ever, although it had its cool moments......we have had rain which was badly needed, so farmers are smiling. (except for those whose crops have been washed out because of too much rain) Storage dams are filling, and all looks to be well set for the coming summer.

However, the downside of the rain has been the prospect of a bad bushfire season, with the growth from the rain becoming fire fuel as it dries out with summer's heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Sep 16 - 06:47 PM

Thanks from me, too, Janie, for the update on harpgirl. Enjoy September!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 07:38 PM

Oi, keberoxu, I thought TMI meant "temperature mugginess index" before I looked it up. I'll have you know that I have at least two showers every day!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 07:28 PM

Thank you, Janie.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 06:55 PM

Had hoped for a little more rain inland from Hermine than I got, but welcome what I did get, and glad the storm exited NC as quickly as it did and without widespread damage east of the I-95 corridor.

The last 3 days have been fabulous here in my little corner of the southern part of heaven. (NC northeast/north central Piedmont.) Daytime temps in the upper 70s F on Saturday, and mid 80s yesterday and today. Sunny skies with pretty, puffy clouds and low humidity. Very nice break from the high temps and high humidity we had been experiencing. A nice start to September, which is probably my favorite month climate wise in these parts. Gonna get hot for a few days again starting tomorrow but I think the humidity will stay in check.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 06:49 PM

TMI, Mister Shaw, TMI...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 06:35 PM

Harpy came through more or less OK, Maeve, according to her Facebook posts. Power back on now. No damage to house.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 05:58 PM

25⁰C in Truro this afternoon, no sun, misty, almost 100% humidity. Jaysus, I haven't used deodorant for 25 years but I may have to start again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 04:06 PM

37C today here in Playa San Juan near to Alicante, Spain !!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 12:13 PM

Hermine stops by tonight for an extended visit; right now the sun is brightly shining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 05 Sep 16 - 09:52 AM

Calling harpgirl... How goes the water battle?
Maeve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Sep 16 - 04:46 PM

And here comes Hermine...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like in DC
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 08:54 PM

Until this week we had 53 days over 90 F. Humid days.

Last year was hottest year ever recorded until

this year which is again the hottest global year ever recorded.