What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 May 16 - 07:00 PM

The wind, the "coolth", and a spot of rain are due back here. Good thing too, before conditions get forest-fire or brush-fire tinder-dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 13 May 16 - 07:17 PM

-- effan' Baltic today in the West of Scotland, after about a week of (for us) scorching sunshine, sandals, havin' tae water the gairden (almost unbelievable here!)
Our Copper Beech tree has now completely opened out its leaves -- a bit later than usual, normally 1st May.
Hope the cold wind diminishes tomorrow - - - -

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 May 16 - 09:15 PM

Most of a very nice warm day here. We made our usual visit with the FIL at his care facility, and took him out in a courtyard for some welcome fresh air. We did get some booming noises and heavy rain in the late afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 May 16 - 08:45 PM

Sun's out here, too! I haven't used the AC in my car yet. I put a reflective window shade in my car and crack the windows about an inch when I park, and I try to park under trees. I have used the car's fan, but not the AC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 May 16 - 02:50 PM

What I love about this time of year, is that the insects have yet to hatch out and run amok, because it's too cold at night; but the flora are budding and blossoming all about. It will end all too soon, when it gets warm enough for creepy crawly flying things.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 16 - 05:01 PM

How's your weather in this changeable month? I finally put away my long johns. Air conditioning needed for a parked car in the hot sun.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 16 - 02:11 PM

I hear the sun might come out for a change.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 May 16 - 09:31 PM

Wow, Donuel!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 May 16 - 06:59 PM

The weather here is raining another serial killer spewing death for 3 and wounding two. Coincidentally with the DC snipers who shot and killed people at the same intersection and grocery store. This time a federal cop that was stripped of all that he felt he had achieved went on a murder spree at locations in which we see movies and go to eat. Picking up some Zithromax at my drugstore I ran into the arrest scene of the killer and watched his car get towed away.

I was thinking of starting a new thread called Your daily local shooting but The Brits don't have this kind of problem that Americans do. Shootings here get as much coverage as the weather and often even more.

To me the shootings have become as common as the weather in conversation, injury and more often than weather, death.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 May 16 - 08:06 PM

I have a vague memory of something called the sun and hope to see it again someday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 May 16 - 09:49 PM

I scheduled a singaround and flower hike at my house April 9, but very few people showed up because it was threatening to rain. We worked around rainstorms, and saw lots of flowers without getting wet. I was hoping to schedule a makeup hike this Saturday, May 7, but it's supposed to rain all weekend. The flowers sure love it, though - there were more flowers in the wooded ravine next door, than I've seen in the 14 years I've lived here.
The mosquitoes love it, too. I just came back from a flower hike, and I'm itching all over. The flowers were pretty, though.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 16 - 03:24 PM

Gray, cold, and wet, and forecast to remain that way right up to Mother's Day Weekend. Well, at least it is above freezing, and things are growing, blossoming, budding, and putting forth leaves and shoots. Those things will rejoice in cool humid weather even though the gray skies are depressing to us bipeds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 16 - 07:03 PM

Yes, on the radio I was shocked to listen to accounts of violent weather across the continental US. It sounds apocalyptic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 16 - 07:02 PM

1 to 3 inch hail in DC area.

I've never seen so much hail.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 16 - 05:36 PM

The April showers are back -- whoops it's May

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 May 16 - 08:24 PM

I wouldn't mind learning to cook cicadas. (I think they're even kosher!) When I was last in VA (1970s) we had a massive crop of grasshoppers one year, and a friend of mine fried a batch for breakfast, but they were terribly tough.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 May 16 - 03:29 PM

Your part of Massachusetts, Joe F., sounds a great deal like my part. I'm just glad to put as much distance as possible between this ending winter, and the 2014-2015 winter, I need say no more, SHUDDER.

RE: relocating. Do stop and consider the cicadas. Another batch --"Brood V" -- is due to emerge with the next warm rainstorms, which raise the ground temperature where they are getting ready to come out of hibernating.   

"Brood V" is supposed to be concentrated mainly around southeastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania, with that sliver of West Virginia in the mix. In 2020, however, there is another big brood, forget which Roman numeral designation, due to come out; and that will occupy more of Virginia.

Currently there are numerous online articles updating the whole periodic watch for broods of cicadas, both the 13-year and the 17-year types; many of them have brightly colored maps of the lower 48 states, showing the geographical distribution of differently-timed emergences.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Apr 16 - 08:48 PM

Surely not winter here in Massachusetts -- there are leaves & blossoms on some of the trees -- and last week we had a couple of days in the 70s (F), so I got my annual haircut; but mostly it hovers in the 50s. This happens every spring: I keep being indignant that it is not 10 degrees warmer, right up into the 80s. Maybe I should move back to Virginia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Apr 16 - 10:52 PM

85F in DC suburbs early this week...barely in 50s today.... and rain...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 29 Apr 16 - 07:33 AM

Well we had the first swallows here last week and nearly four inches of snow this morning.
It was starting to settle at midnight whilst we were coming back from performing at the Topic at Bradford and was a complete blanket with some local roads closed when we woke up this morning.
It is melting now so we should be able to set off for Upton Festival soon!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Apr 16 - 05:08 PM

Looks good to me, Jack!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 08:42 PM

Via Twitter from Tim Peake the astronaut, above Edinburgh today:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg5VFZOXEAA4UEh.jpg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 08:15 PM

Snow, Maeve? Oh, my! (That's my polite way of saying "Horrors!") Well, even in RI we've had snow at least into May, but still, stay warm and dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 01:13 PM

Snow here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Apr 16 - 12:13 PM

The rain is here, with a vengeance.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Apr 16 - 05:04 PM

Bracing for another April Shower tomorrow. The rain is needed. That said, the day is supposed to be cold, gray, and dreary. Pull out the long underwear again...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 09:13 PM

The weekend weather for the New England Folk Festival in Mansfield, MA, was great! Today has been glorious, too, in RI. I hadn't heard the Boston Marathon results nor what went on at Fenway Park, so I'll be tuning into the 11 PM news. I'm not much of a sports fan, but it's still good to know. Tomorrow should be cooler.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 01:12 PM

Upset victory in the men's marathon, and the weather could not be more ideal, at least for us spectators. The women's winner says she likes it this way actually, as her muscles don't contract to battle a cold morning start.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 03:21 PM

Well, tomorrow is the Patriot's Day Marathon, and the sun will be out, the air will be warm to the bystanders and hot to the poor runners, and the trees will be bare! The flowering trees and shrubs have got blossoms on them, but the trees, most of them, have not even got little green leaves yet: buds, at most.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 16 - 01:23 PM

Glad you're recovered, frogprince. That sounded really scary.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 16 - 08:32 PM

MUCH nicer day here !

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Apr 16 - 06:35 PM

Hope things are better in Michigan now. It's picture pretty just before Sunset: blue sky with puffy cloudlets like flocks of sheep ambling in one direction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 02:39 PM

Yikes! Been there, done that, and in no hurry to do it again. My sympathies.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 02:34 PM

Yowsa; we set out about 11am for the care facility where the FIL now resides. A few scattered flakes were falling. About 2/3 of the way there, we drove into it. A couple of minutes after that, we drove slowly unto the ramp from Michigan 24 to I75, zigzagged all over the ramp, and crept on hardly believing we hadn't gone off the ramp. I went right back off the ramp to head back north, and enjoyed 30 miles of driving as nasty as I've ever seen in my life. NO traction, crud freezing on the wipers, stretching to see through what spots stayed halfway clear. A pickup pulls across short in front of us, I'm scared to brake and scared not to, he makes it before we hit, and my heart gradually slides back down from the throat. We made it home unscathed. It's been an hour or so. and I've settled back to feeling fairly normal. April ????

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 03:02 PM

....and now there is blue sky sunshine again, with neither rain nor frozen pellets. And that wind blowing and ringing the changes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 02:41 PM

Not sure if I'm looking at small hail or sleet. It's surprisingly warm for frozen stuff to be falling out of the sky. Probably change in a matter of minutes, with that spring wind blowing the clouds about. We had direct sunshine just minutes ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 10:08 PM

Here in the supposedly sweet sunny south, high winds coming for Saturday (been windy all week) and low of 25F Saturday night. The hydrangeas are fully leafed and setting flower bud, the solomon's seal is up and the earliest day lilies are sending up flower scapes, and the azaleas are in full bloom. Fruit trees either blooming or already starting to set tiny fruit. Strawberries in the fields.

I'm not sure covering will be enough to protect stuff at that low a temperature, plus, if the wind doesn't die late day, will be very hard to keep covers on and hydrangea branches from breaking under cover whipped by wind.

An occasional light frost is not unusual the first part of April, but 25?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 09:25 PM

Same here, of course!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 07:09 PM

rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Llanfair
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 01:42 PM

April showers,rain, sleet, hail, thunder, wind, bright sunshine.

All part of a Welsh spring, and all the above happened this afternoon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 12:28 PM

They're talking about the coming weekend and more snow. Enough, already.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 05:54 PM

Blinding blue sky sunshine reflected off of the inches of new white snow today. It's bitterly cold, especially at night. Now we are being promised a visit from a storm system which will warm up everything, and bring thundershowers and temperatures well above freezing.

A lady from the German-speaking part of Switzerland once passed on to me a couplet-verse:

Im April
Thut das Wetter was es will!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 01:26 PM

This time I think the road crews, God bless 'em, were caught napping. In previous storms, those truck drivers have done yeoman's work, plowing, sanding, salting, treating the road surfaces. But this week their timing was off. They were just that little bit behind the arrival of the snow and ice. And so the driving conditions suffered, especially those Monday rush-hour timespans. The trucks were out there, to be sure, but they got there too late, and they were scrambling to catch up with the snow and ice, instead of being prepared for it. The crashes and spin-outs were not major, most of them, but there were such quantities of them!

It did nothing to help drivers' morale when one car had a rotten TREE, for heaven's sake, crash on the roof and kill both occupants.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 10:44 PM

Wind woke me at 3AM. North wind. Roof and walls creaking. Woke up to
-24WC and the wind didn't die down until dark. Hit -5C today with sun. Cold again tonight but no wind. In a few days, rain and 16C. Such is spring (and late fall) here in Merrytimes Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 09:59 PM

More about Sunday: yes, it snowed. Then the sun did come out. Then snow, sunshine, snow, sunshine, etc. Today, Monday, snow fell then stopped in time for me to go to yoga. It was an easy drive. Snow hadn't accumulated on pavement. By the end of the class, snow had started falling again--thick flakes. I skipped the fitness circuit to come right home, also skipping the stop at the market I'd planned. I live about 2 miles from the Y. The short drive was horrible. Untreated roads; cars sliding everywhere. Thank goodness for anti-lock brakes and front-wheel drive. I've never seen the skid signal appear on the control panel so frequently. At 7 PM I took shower, got into my PJs, then heard the plow in the condo parking lot. I threw on my coat and hat, brushed the snow off my car, and moved it so the plow could do a good job clearing my corner of the lot. I am so done with winter, but Mother Nature may not be.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 03:20 PM

Ess-Word, with a vengeance. People have forgotten how to drive in the stuff, and the rush-hour traffic is a battlefield.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:40 AM

Turns out the winter storm DID get a name: she's Ursula, as in the Little Mermaid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:37 AM

68 F and partly cloudy in the DC beltway. Got to mow the yard full of of violets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:32 AM

It's 'Ash-Felt' here in the Backwoods of Lincolnshire, Gnu.
Damn stoopid Backwoodspersons, eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:36 PM

Half rain, half big white flakey things fallung, melting as they hit the asphalt (or ash-fault, as many locals tend to say).