What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 10:08 AM

We did not get much more snow but it is bloody effing cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 07:15 PM

Well here are my unofficial numbers for December from three miles outside Bude on the north Cornwall coast.

Rain, 82mm, well below the average of 102mm.

Average max, just shy of 11C (52F), around a degree above average. Just one night of frost, when the temperature went down to -1.5C just briefly. My geraniums are still flowering in places. The average is five nights of frost.

I don't have a sunshine recorder, but my subjective record indicates a dull month. There was one severe Atlantic storm at the start of the month, which was devastating up north but which didn't do much damage in Cornwall.

Typical of recent winters and nothing like the ones of my yoof...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 04:30 PM

Happily, although Berkshire County received snow,
only a little snow fell, and what is more,
it is the dry powdery stuff
which comes off one's parked car at the touch of a brush.
No freezing or scraping or heaving of
what one Weather Channel luminary describes as "white mud".

And it certainly is cold and dark outside. Brrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 10:19 AM

Home! Power on. Rain sleet snow expected tonight, in that order. Pourvu que ça dure! dit maman Létitia, avec son accent corse...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 04:12 AM

Today's paper kind of explained Juneau's snow situation. It is not so much that we are in record-breaking status but that we haven't had warmer, thawing weather between storms. So we have November's snow still on the ground, covered by a few feet of newer white stuff. It has stayed cold.

This week it is forecast to remain cold -zero is tonight's forecast- but starting next week rain is on the menu. I love snow; I despise wet stuff raining INTO snow.

Oh, wait. I just checked. the forecast for next week has returned to snow. Forget the rain. Ah.
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 10:41 AM

Actually 500,000. I am not alone.

I *have* camped. Definitely prefer a hotel room. No mini bar no room service but cable, heat, lights.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 08:14 AM

You're probably more of a mini bar, room service person than a camping person. You were one of 80,000 without power.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 06:52 PM

Found a hotel room, spent most of the day hanging out in the lobby watching them tell everybody else No room at the inn... But I am hearing of neighborhoods getting power back, so, progress...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 04:38 PM

Local news 4 did report the pooping on the highwway story from 4 AM on. Yep some people are still stuck. I speculate the Senator and Govenor threw caution to the wind and went.
We used to make fun of Atlanta drivers during Snowmageddon.
Its not so funny anymore. Many truck drivers shared what food they had.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 11:35 AM

Anchorage has been comparatively lucky. Mat-Su, the district directly north of us where many folks commute, still has strong winds. More than one trailer truck have been knocked over in winds that have gone as high as 90 mph. Many small parked aircraft (and when you park small aircraft you also tie down the wings and tails) have flipped, and some roofs have been unzippled.

For two days we walked my friends' exceptional Labwithsomedoodle in strong winds with windchill well below zero F. Yesterday it was 0 degrees in very little wind. She has no fat on her, is only 9 months old, and gives no sign of noticing that it's anything but balmy out. We're pretty sure she'll start feeling too warm when it gets up to 20.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 09:25 AM

Among the thousands stranded on the highway are Govenor Northam and Senator Tim Kaine. Their tweets are evidence of their peril. Temperatures will get above freezing for a couple hours on Thursday.

What would Ted Cruz do?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 08:46 AM

The Giant grocery store actually looks like the ones in the movie 'Contagion'
- empty due to no transportation in the snow and lack of staff.

The empty shelves brings out the hunter in us. For some reason they still had tons of Nathan's frozen hot dogs in a blanket throughout the store for $14.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 08:24 AM

Still no power. Looking for a hotel with a generator...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 08:16 AM

Bill should have warned Virginia that the roads would freeze up. It did... and a 50 mile stretch of the main artery of I-95 is stopped for about 20 hours now stranding thousands in the cold teens overnight.
Do bears shit in the woods? People do it on the highway.
A few rescues by ATV have taken place for medical emergencies.
They need a Dunkirk rescue by monster trucks if only there was room for them to get by the bumper to bumper tangled mess. Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 07:33 AM

Weather report tonight hints that you are not quite finished with the cold weather, robomatic. The wind in southcentral is fierce. Stay warm.

In southeast Alaska, it is cold and still windy. Tomorrow's high is forecast to be 0 degrees. That's the HIGH, folks.

On the plus side, you might not believe how fast a dog can relieve himself thrice a day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 09:29 PM

We had a Blue Norther blow through on January 1 that dropped the temperature by 50^o in one day, from 70 to 21. Brrrrr! I had plants in the greenhouse so set up the heat plug - a device that if the temperature drops to 37^o or below it allows the power to run through it (so I have a heater plugged into it and in the "on" position.)

Before that it was very warm for most of December. Unseasonably so.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 08:52 PM

Yeah the power went back out right after my last post. Still off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 06:49 PM

We just got through 48 hours of high winds out of the north, changing +10 degF to windchill -10 degF. North of town a trailer truck was blown over. My house cooled below what my furnace could maintain. This morning the wind was gone but the actual temperature was -7 degF. Warmed up to 1 whole degree now.

BTW, this is nothing compared to what conditions can go to in Fairbanks, points North, and the bush villages. I had a landlady from McGrath once who could tell me what it's like at -80 degF.

We have the occasional moose pass through, we do not expect bears because they should all be hibernating long since. On the plus side, no bugs, you can leave your frozen foods in the trunk if you're too lazy to truck them into the kitchen all at once, and it's pretty.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 06:31 PM

A couple of areas south of us got 11-15".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 06:29 PM

Had 4-5" of snow this morning...first serious snow since 2016. I shoveled and cleaned the car, because bottom layer was wet, and the upper layer was soft... and it's gonna freeze tonight. Ice on the ground OR on the car is no fun.
Many, many traffic problems from here South..trucks jacknifed.. etc..
I am warm, well fed and tired.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 05:15 PM

Today in Juneau, it is gusty out there. And cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 01:46 PM

We just got alotta snow (for us... About 6-8" between midnight and noon) and it will get bloody cold (for us, teens°F about -10°C) tonight. But the power is back on already after only about 5 hours and there are still about a half-million without power in the surrounding counties, so, good for my city, doing great work. My kid got me a bunch of those UPS [uninterruptible power supply?] things so I was able to charge my phone, my vape pens, and the other thing same kid got me that you can charge stuff from... And I own a lot of those blankets-with-sleeves things. Outside is much, much beauty, seen from my cocoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 04:34 PM

In Juneau, Alaska, at noon, it is 28 degrees and gusty. We are in a winter storm warning, with up to 18 inches more of new snow forecast. We live in a pretty world.

Elsewhere in Alaska (Kodiak, for instance, which is farther north than we are) yesterday the thermometer hit 66 degrees. I suspect that 'normal' no longer has a meaning.

Subject: RE: Is there weather where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 06:03 AM

New Years day will be 70 in DC with ominous thunderstorms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 08:19 AM

Yesterday was 66 with sunshine in DC. It tied a record.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 04:57 PM

Christmas Day is but a distant memory here in the land of Oz, the post-christmas sales would have started a few hours ago & I'll be contacting my ISP sometime soon (they close on Christmas day!) as for some reason I failed to connect to my email server yesterday afternoon which is when I found out they close Christmas Day! But as they have an Australian call centre, unlike many other companies, & I was able to get on to the WWW, I didn't mind. I just wonder how many emails are lined up waiting for me. If there are none, I'll be very sad ...

Today's forecast fro Sydney - Partly cloudy. Medium (60%) chance of showers, most likely during this afternoon and evening. The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning and early afternoon. Winds southerly 25 to 35 km/h. (ps only 1-5mm of rain is expected)

Summer is cyclone season at the top of our Island continent but the latest warning had been downgraded. Cyclones occur around the tropical north between beginning of November & end of April.

sandra (brekkie time, sunday morning)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 02:00 PM

We are about to set out on a 90Km trip to my sister-in-law's four-season cottage in the wilds of the Lanark Highlands. We have diligently consulted the condition reports on the provincial and municipal highway sites: all seems bare and clear, despite the previous 24 hours of ice pellets, freezing rain, snow, crap, and other unhelpful manifestations of the North American climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 12:59 AM

It's a white Christmas after all in southern Berkshire County,
where I am staying this year;
we had snow the night before Christmas Eve,
just enough white powder to make everything look like a picture postcard.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Dec 21 - 08:51 AM

The sun is beginning to return.
Every winter blade of grass is asleep; waiting till spring to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Dec 21 - 04:10 PM

It's here! Puffy and deep and beautiful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 21 - 09:54 PM

The last few days in Juneau have been chilly- temperatures have ranged from single digits to 20F or so. Right now, at 6pm, it's 23.

Starting tomorrow night, we're expecting more snow. Still have lots of snow on the ground but we can always use more. Of course, I don't have to work or drive in it....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 21 - 09:46 AM

It was 55 overnight and may climb to 67 today. Yesterday was cloudless
but the only clouds in the sky were man made from contrails which remained for hours and refracted light as they diffused slowly in a comb like pattern. The only normally dissipating con trails were from a few jets. The entire sky remained overcast by the afternoon from mostly south to north travelling jets numbering about 20 from horizon to horizon.
Today is totally naturally cloudy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 11:24 AM

As it turns out Minnisota did get hit by a tornado yesterday.
First one in history in December.
They also got hit by hurricane force straight line winds called a dorachio.

Home buyers, please reread 3 little pigs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 02:58 PM

Ebbie:

That 20 degrees was a brief spell of "T-Shirt weather". It's been typically a bit colder. Today it may go up to plus 1 degree. Some of the walkers in the dog park use booties on their dogs. The Labradoodle we walk (90% Lab with a curled tail that waves like a starter's flag) does not wear anything and does not appear to want anything. She can't wait to get out on the hard snow path and wait for the ball to be kicked. She loves to jump over snow banks and scatter the loose flakes like so much desert dust. She runs out after other dogs and then turns and charges full speed at us and she brakes and slides as well as a goddamn Yankee (or a blessed Red Sox) into home.

Other dogs seen are quite varied. Great Danes, Viszlas, English Goldens, Rotweilers, Dobermans, Collies, even small dogs. Some of them are wearing cloth 'coats'. One very good good looking dog yesterday looked labrador like but was half retriever half pit bull. Bit right through the chuckit donut toy!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 07:05 AM

Where will tornados go next? Minnisota?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 08:56 AM

An precedented number of people have perished in a 250 mile long swath of EF3-EF4 and rare EF5 tornados over 6 states. There now is no such thing as a tornado season. Its all year long with temperature extremes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 05:01 AM

Robomatic, in Anchorage almost 600 air miles from (5 hours by ferry and 800pllus by road after that) routinely has lower temps than we do in southeast; we haven't come close to zeroF yet- our temperatures typically hover around mid20s for a low- but it's supposed to get colder here next week.

In November we got almost 60 inches of snow- second to the most record in that month. I think the record must have been set in 2006, the year a meteorologist friend of mine died. Don did not like snow but when he died in his sleep on November 2, it was like he said: You like snow? Watch this....

It started snowing the next day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 09:57 PM

The threat of floods in our town has passed for now, but a neighbouring town (an hour down the road but that's 'neighbouring', in Oz) wasn't so lucky. They have had major flooding, two major floods in a week, so lots of cleaning-up to be done.

A few nights ago we were hit by one of the worst storms we have had for a while; strong wind, rain, hail, more rain, heavier rain.....we kept expecting a blackout but didn't have one, altough our internet went out for a time.

Forecast for the coming week is - getting warmer, heading towards the low-mid 30s C later in the week, but with the ever present threat of more storms.

On a positive note, wshing hung outside doesn't take very long to dry. Unless it's not actually raining at the time.......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 09:53 PM

Went walking the dog today. Weather has warmed in Anchorage to above 20F and we have snow everywhere. Went on a trail system with a couple of labradors who like to play hard. We tried to keep them ahead of us to lessen the chance of getting knocked over. Got both my shins 'barked'. The dogs seem to be invulnerable to low temperatures and like charging into and through the powder before piling into each other and then wrestling with each other including going for the throat. It doesn't involve teeth nor damage but they get to a point where they are only aware of each other. Saved me the usual work of kicking a ball though.

There is enough new snow to keep the majority of the town looking fresh and shiny. Walking surfaces can vary based on temperature and being packed down by feet or car tires.

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

Its global warming I tells ya. It'll be 72 here Saturday.
I'm astartin ta wonder if Palmettos will grow here now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 08:40 PM

A little dusting of snow. Melted quickly, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 02:51 PM

I am in the middle of Storm Barra, my area is close to Fastnet Light.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Thompson
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 12:09 PM

Storm Barra is gradually crossing Ireland; on the east coast it's calm enough, though the sky is a weird purplish colour, but the RNLI (lifeboat) Facebook page has horrifying pictures of the roiling sea from the Fastnet Lighthouse off the southwest coast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 06:42 AM

As I said the other day, we're still getting snow; right now we're in the middle of a winter storm warning which is expected to deliver us up to 8 inches on top of what we already have

I like it. I always feel guilty admitting that, because I'm aware that people who have to drive in it or work in it have a right to feel differently. I have the option of how much or how little I want to be in it.

Like robo said, snow that is crunchy and creaky tends not to be too slippery, so as long as I watch my step, walking is great.

Oskar, my dachshund, doesn't like snow while it's coming down but he likes in grub around in it when it's piled on the ground, pushes himself into it until little more than his tail is visible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 05:47 PM

67F right now but snow by morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 08:19 PM

What a startling burst of weather drama we had the other night.
The weather system was moving very fast indeed,
so it was here one moment and gone the next.
Still, what swept over us had rain changing to freezing rain,
with lightning and thunder,
and the lightning for a moment was practically ON TOP of us,
which made the thunder even worse.
No warning, other than the wind, before the storm arrived.

Dear friends of mine live near the Rocky Mountains
and they are parched for precipitation --
shame the storm could not have been re-routed in their direction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 08:30 AM

There is a nearby trace of snow but this Thursday will be 64 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 07:33 PM

Yesterday it was 1 D Fahr. without much wind. Today it was 7 D Fahr with a light wind that made it feel like 10 below. The dogs didn't seem to mind, even the ones without booties.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 11:14 AM

Love these things: 1° at 11:11 today. 11% power, on the phone I glanced at.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Nov 21 - 04:09 PM

Coolish and threatening rain, nothing dramatic. But my native Pacific Northwest is due for another "atmospheric river" to dump an awful lot of water in a hurry—10 to 20 inches in some areas.

In the 1960s we travelled through BC into the mountains and across to Alberta to visit family; camping along the way. I remember the stop in Hope, BC, where there was an interpretive display about a relatively recent landslide that had killed a number of people. It happens every so often up there, it happened earlier this year. Like the slide in the Stillaguamish River valley at Oso, Washington, a few years ago, this kind of rain makes living in mountainous areas where people sometimes scratch roads on the terrain and mine for minerals (up there - gold, silver, copper in particular), dig gravel, or log timber - all of these activities contributed to the danger that water exacerbates.

There is an illustration in the Washington Post article about it.