What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Oct 17 - 06:34 PM

My town was fortunate. What my town endured was just another storm, although longer and heavier than usual. Little damage.

Other places in eastern Massachusetts,
and around New England in general,
were very hard hit indeed.
Some areas are still without power / heat / and so on.

Tonight is official Halloween;
but in some cities and towns, everything is so badly upset
that the children's trick-or-treat night
has been postponed for several days
while the local authorities and the citizens
try to get a little closer returned to normal.

But here, the weather is ideal:
no rain whatever,
the day was sunny,
and the night is cool but not frigid.
No wind to speak of.

So there are small flocks and troops of people,
some in costume, some are adult chaperones in street clothes,
trudging along the residential-street sidewalks,
making spectacles of themselves,
and doing the rounds of homes to collect sweets.

I haven't seen any glow-in-the-dark costumes yet as I drive by.
There was one spectacular carnivorous Jurassic-Park style dinosaur,
with this humungous papier-mache head that was
sitting ON TOP of the head of the person in the outfit.
Whoever was in there, was looking out through the upper chest.
Big ole tail dragging on the ground too.

Some small children as superheroes with shiny capes that they swish about.

Not a few living-dead zombie types.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Oct 17 - 07:28 PM

All's well here. My lights flickered briefly. My stove clock needed resetting but my bedroom clock was okay. However, there are a lot of power outages. Many schools, including the ones in my town, were closed today; others have already announced they'll be closed again tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 08:47 PM

Pouring here now with high wind and street flooding warnings in effect and weather forecasters telling us to keep flashlights nearby.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 17 - 09:39 AM

Thankfully,
it had stopped raining by the time my plane arrived
on the East Coast.
Good to be home.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 17 - 12:40 PM

Getting ready to leave too-hot Phoenix, Arizona
and fly back tomorrow to the northeast US.
Which I understand has posted
FLASH-FLOOD WARNINGS.
Yikes!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Oct 17 - 09:44 PM

Now that the sun has set in Phoenix, Arizona,
the temperature has finally dropped below
100 degrees Fahrenheit,
and that IS good news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 23 Oct 17 - 07:15 PM

i hesitate to mention we have a cloudless blue sky, temp prob around 65F, absolutely gorgeous day. finishing up cranberry harvest here and and got great pictures. of course we had 4 inches of rain this weekend...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 17 - 05:07 PM

I got wind that Southern California is prone to fire storms over the world series week. Tomorrow Anaheim is 104 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Oct 17 - 08:22 PM

October in the California Sierra Foothills is fire weather, and the world feels like it could burst into flame at any moment. And then the first rainstorm came the other night, and everything looks fresh and pretty again. I think we've survived through another fire season.

Wildfires are the price of living in paradise. We've made it through another year.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Oct 17 - 06:36 PM

It's been horrible here today. A force 8/9 all day with driving rain and drizzle. They called it, risibly, "Storm Brian." I think I'm getting SAD.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 17 - 06:17 PM

Here the mountains are prominent on the horizon.
The sky is so hazy and smoggy today
that you can barely see the mountains at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Oct 17 - 06:08 PM

I was in Prestwich on Monday, Mike, and saw that amazing dark morning sky and orange sun. Then in the early afternoon the sky cleared in a fresh wind and the rest of the day was fine and warm. We were up from Cornwall for three days to see Mother, staying at Bury Premier Inn. I completely forgot to put any kind of jacket in the car so all I had was shorts and shirts. Thankfully, the weather was unusually warm!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 17 - 05:47 PM

Hot here. And yet it WAS that much hotter in September (Arizona).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 10:40 PM

Woo Hoo this year is only the SECOND hottest year in recorded history.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 10:26 PM

Since flying three time zones west and a little bit south,
the weather here is beastly hot.
I don't even want to open the one bag of luggage,
as my warm coat got squeezed in at the top --
don't even want to look at the coat.

But it will be needed going back home in a week's time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 02:42 PM

"I am in the middle off a hurricane, ophelia, but i am ok, its worse further east in cork city"
She went over us here in Clare like a rather damp fart (compared to other storms we've had) Dick though those further North in Galway got it bad, particularly Galway
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MikeL2
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 02:41 PM

Hi

We have been waiting to see what the tail end of Hurricane Ophelia has for us.

Like Dave we experienced brown skies and infrequent shots of a very red sun. The atmosphere was heavy.

Here in the North West of England we did not any wind all morning and in the afternoon I was able to mow my lawn. The the wind started and increased gradually all afternoon and now 7.30 pm we have a full gale. The strange thing is that we have not had any rain.

I have seen the news of Ireland North Wales ( Just got back on Saturday). My feelings go out to them and hope this passes very quickly. I understand Scotland is being buffeted by strong winds but as yet no serious damage done.

MikeL2

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Iains
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 02:19 PM

It was blowing a hoolie on the Sheepshead. Power out, trees down.
158km/hr gust off Fastnet. Bit of a wild day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 01:58 PM

I am in the middle off a hurricane, ophelia, but i am ok, its worse further east in cork city

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 11:45 AM

Very weird here earlier today - Yellow sky with occasional glimpses of a red sun. Like something from 'Dune'!

DtG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Oct 17 - 11:33 AM

Summer is well and truly over.
Frost tonight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 17 - 10:13 AM

Its 81 degrees in New York City but they have the Rockefeller outside ice rink up and going.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Oct 17 - 08:07 PM

We might get frost tonight. Kill off some insects here and there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Oct 17 - 02:59 PM

Cooling off, and not before time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 17 - 06:26 PM

They turned off the humidity, finally.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 01:19 PM

it's steamy here, like a sauna.
Which would have sense in central Texas,
but in eastern Massachusetts - ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 17 - 04:37 PM

What's left of Hurricane Nate has brought rain up north.
Just as well.
It's time for rain and wind, because early autumn has been dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Oct 17 - 01:48 PM

If all goes as predicted, Hurricane Nate is going to strike us a rather weak glancing blow. Looks like they're expecting landfall in the Biloxi, Mississippi area, and we're about 150 miles east of there. We'll probably get a few inches of rain and 30-35 MPH winds with some higher gusts. Enough to merit securing blowables and preparing for the possibility of a few hours with no power, but no need to board the windows up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 17 - 10:30 AM

We have another hurricane barreling into the Gulf of Mexico. Nate formed down by the Yucatan Peninsula and headed north. Windy.

Heckuva hurricane season this time round.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Oct 17 - 02:13 PM

It's really pretty out the window
of the public library branch:
clear blue sky
and puffy white clouds.

Most of the trees still have leaves on them,
although the leaves are starting to turn colors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 17 - 11:33 AM

Still no heat in the rental apartment.
Nights under the Oh-My-God-This-Thing-Is-Heavy quilt.

Daytime is nice and temperate though, no problems.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Oct 17 - 09:30 PM

So far, have not turned on the heat, but I am bundled up.
I forgot to add that yesterday, on my way home from Mystic, I saw a rainbow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Sep 17 - 09:54 PM

Cool and rainy, but it was a wonderful, albeit damp, day at the Mystic River Oyster Festival at Mystic Seaport. I ate some oysters, but I really went for almost 4 hours of songs by three members of the seaport's chantey staff.

Every year I try to keep the heat off the until October, but I don't think I've ever managed that. If I can hold off until midnight, this will be my year!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 17 - 02:27 PM

Solidly autumn, although it may warm up in a few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Sep 17 - 08:29 PM

I'm home. We've just spent a week in Madeira. Funchal is a lovely, human-scale city. The gardens are gorgeous and the civic pride is obvious. The weather was lovely all week, nothing above thirty and nothing below twenty, all sun, no rain. Madeira is beautiful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Sep 17 - 11:13 AM

. . . now going dry and cool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Sep 17 - 10:50 AM

Talking of hurricanes, with all the commotion in the Caribbean, did you notice Cuba this time around? Havana did not get the worst of it, Cuba was hardest hit in outlying areas, but the capitol was flooded enough that Habanerans (?) were photographed out in the street with only their chests and upper bodies visible, wading through the floodwater.

The story said, not so many deaths in Cuba, but enormous trauma for the survivors, just dazed with shock.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 07:57 PM

After a few days that felt like fall, I'm back in a sauna. Hot and humid!
That's a fact, or my perception. I'm not complaining. It's hard to complain when I think about what weather, earthquakes, and forest fires have done to others.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 06:32 PM

I'm in a beautiful place that enjoys beautiful weather all year round, no frost, no snow, no real droughts. Alas, I have to go home now. More on this later.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 05:16 PM

This year has found a heckuva way to remedy a number of droughts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 01:17 PM

We need an update from harpgirl!

Fog this morning, which was odd. All burned off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 17 - 02:16 PM

And today, as the leaves slowly change color,
we are back to summer heat and humidity,
with a blinding glaring blue sky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 10:42 AM

That Scots word "dreich" comes to mind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 01:07 PM

Nice soaking rain, at the moment, with no wind to speak of.

That, alas, will change.

What was a hurricane is now more like a nor'easter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Sep 17 - 05:32 PM

We will find out. In the meantime I keep hoping to see some posts from 'Catters in and near the destruction caused by Harvey and Irma.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 17 - 03:06 PM

What the heck is that weather system crunching across the Dakotas?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 03:19 PM

The humidity that remains in motion, that used to be Irma the storm, is due in southern New England in the second half of this week. Most of the force has been spent to the south, all we are supposed to get is a little sticky muggy episode.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 12:30 PM

How splendid to hear from the person who started this thread.

How are you and yours post-Irma?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Sep 17 - 12:10 AM

Love back to you, Harpgirl. I hope you and yours come safely through this storm. Let us hear from you.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Sep 17 - 11:07 PM

Hi all you cats. harpy checking in on the thread I started many years ago. As you all know we are about to get Big Irma spreading havoc over the entire state. The Europeon model has it going up the state slightly west fom previous models. The next forecast is 11tonight.   Have been tying down my iron patio furniture, lashing it to the fence. I have a big tarp ready for any holes in my roof. I moved the kayaks up against the back fence, moved the compost barrell to the corner near the fence and have cleared the yard of most missle like projectile objects. I have camp cooking equipment , water, propane and such to go to dad's tonight. I have been caring for him since mom died five years ago. He will be 94 next week..i stay with him and he lives three miles from my house in a big gexpensive retirement community called Westminster Oaks and has for ten years. I am his caregiver so he doesn't go in to the nursing home care.

I am on the west side of the path, with the eye probably 75 miles east of me. The west side is better with no tornadoes spawning as a rule.

Florida is a large parking lot with millions going north. No gas in south Florida and many people including my brother and his family staying in Stuart, my cousin staying in Miami because of her oxygen tank, and my niece about to have a c section next Friday. They all live with my brother in Stuart and he hopes she doesn't give birth early. So her new husband, six year old autistic son, my brother and his wife are together in Stuart.

I am not too worried, just taking it all in and remaining. Calm It is pleasantly cool in Tallahassee and I am on the front porch and soon to go back to dad's fir the night.

This is the worst soirm in history I'm afraid, but probably my tenth or twelfth in Florida. I am tired of hurricanes, I can tell you that. I hope everyone in Florida survives and I love you all. Keep making music. We need it. Love, harpy