What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Raggytash
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 07:43 AM

Trying to cut the grass in the back "garden" 80 degrees plus not a cloud in the shy and not a breath of wind.

I've done about 3/4's of it, the rest will have to wait!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 06:41 AM

33 years ago today we moved from Loughton in Essex to Cornwall (best thing we ever did). Our move was blighted by two days of terrible weather caused by the leftovers of Hurricane Charley, which had formed near Florida the week before. The Cornish removal company, two men and the strongest woman I've ever seen in my life, loaded all our belongings, most of which was going into store, into the van in a blinding rainstorm (thankfully all was well when we finally retrieved our furniture four months later), then camped on the floor of our empty living room overnight, which we hadn't expected. I had to buy them all fish and chips. Charley wreaked havoc in Ireland that week via huge amounts of rainfall.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 05:38 PM

Same roller-coaster going on outside,
with cloudbursts and rain and black threatening clouds
which break up
for humid muggy sunshine.

But I feared for this thread recently,
as it is
more than a thousand posts ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Aug 19 - 07:42 PM

And tomorrow,
again with the cloudbursts and thunderstorms
AND stifling humidity. Roller-coaster weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 19 - 08:08 AM

As long as the weather is decent for sleeping at night,
it's good weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 06:52 PM

I've only visited LA and NY in the USA, and only know of West Virginia through John Denver - seems scenic.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 06:33 PM

WAV it is, then,
which is a better idea then addressing you
with the abbreviation for West Virginia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 05:30 PM

That was a mistake, Keberoxu, but it's also true that some locals haven't been happy with it for a while.

And certainly doesn't bother me much but, before my 5 year, or so, gap on Mudcat, most here called me WAV.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 19 - 07:33 PM

"The damn is on the brink of bursting."

Thank you, WV, for a much-needed laugh tonight.

Or, as a flustered award-winning songwriter said
live on television while accepting his award,
"Stank you very much."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Aug 19 - 02:32 PM

A lot of rain the last few days where I am and, just south, in Whaley Bridge, the damn is on the brink of bursting. Sadly, nearby Buxton has already suffered flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 19 - 05:04 PM

The thunder and lightning I can take or leave,
but
we really need the rain coming down just now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Jul 19 - 02:43 PM

Further to Steve's mention of the hot weather in Bude (by the way, my late uncle & auntie lived there & I enjoyed visits - "Birdwatchers' Bude"
), we also had a heat wave here in Manchester and now have flooding rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Jul 19 - 04:52 PM

Some friends and I hope to book a winter weekend in the motel after the roof that the tornado blew off is fixed or in a room that wasn't affected. News reports say that parts of it are still in use. However, construction noise can be a problem, too, for people who stay in the rooms where the roof is intact.
Our motivation for staying there is not to be at the scene of the disaster but to help the business which is family-owned, not part of a chain. This has to be hard on the finances, occurring during the high tourism season on the Cape. The owner said the roof was only about a year old. It's probably insured but there may be a deductible and loss of business may not be included.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jul 19 - 02:05 PM

Cool nights for sleeping!
Won't last long at this time of year, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 11:37 AM

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, had a tornado!

And if you know Cape Cod,
you know how much real estate development has happened there,
how many people have summer cottages and the like --
potential for astronomical sums of damages.
(I don't think anyone was killed though.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 07:41 PM

Steve, it helped me to remember that the difference between Celsius degrees is greater than the difference between Fahrenheit degrees, so I entered those two temperatures into a converter. Of course I have no idea what the humidity was, either! However, when my home's indoor temp reaches 85F I am uncomfortable!

Stay hydrated!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jul 19 - 11:20 AM

This might sound a bit tame to you hot yanks, but this afternoon the shade temperature exceeded 30C in my garden. That's rare round here is that. The absolute record for Bude is only two degrees hotter than that. There's talk of the all-time UK record being beaten by Thursday. Watch this space!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 11:42 PM

How? Drank lots of water and sat in front of a fan!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 05:22 PM

It's always a heat wave in July and August in Texas, and will continue through September.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 02:05 PM

How did everybody survive the heat wave?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jul 19 - 09:16 PM

This is weather for the comic relief in
Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate --

no, not Brush Up on your Shakespeare --

It's Too Darn Hot!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 19 - 04:15 PM

Parts of the continental US
are having a deluge of biblical proportions --
poor Louisiana!!

Any Mudcatters caught in the currents out here?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 19 - 01:28 PM

Plenty of complaints about today's weather.

It's that humidity, of course,
the closeness and the stifling air.

Thunderstorms are supposed to roll through again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Jul 19 - 12:55 AM

Very warm here in the middle of RI and in Mystic, CT.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 04:04 PM

Donuel,
I understand why you can't speak up right now,
and I miss you anyway.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 04:03 PM

Hotter Than July, indeed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 19 - 05:32 PM

A break from the rain, at last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 11:40 PM

I reported hail on June 19 and we had hail again today. I've lived all my life in RI and hail has been rare here. Most years we have none ot all. I don't ever remember it happening twice in the same season, and these two storms weren't far apart.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 07:44 PM

Big thunder boomers rolling from west to east today,
but for some wierd reason,

they broke into bits, the storm systems,
and did not roll over my neck of the woods --
only skirted it to the north and the south.
Who knows ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 19 - 08:09 PM

Finally the nights are warm enough
that it's time to
remove, and launder,
the woolen blanket, until the seasons change again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 05:25 PM

Hailstorm just went through my part of Rhode Island. It came from the north and lasted about 5 minutes. then the sun came out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Jun 19 - 03:02 PM

On the longest day of the year, lovely here in Manchester, England, UN.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 19 - 01:43 PM

All around us afternoons storms and rain... and the weather report keeps saying "lots of rain possible", but it is amazing how much of it keeps going north or south of us.
Sure, we get rain.. occasionally a lot of it. But there seems to be a 'zone' just north of Wash DC that dodges a large % of serious weather...

Now watch... I will have jinxed us by saying that....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jun 19 - 03:07 PM

wet.
wet.
WET.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Jun 19 - 05:14 AM

Thanks, CL - I think the Lancashire coast in general is great for seaside walks but, frankly, the way the tides are, not so good for swimming...perhaps that is why my late nan (who loved the water) and granddad took the coach from Manchester to Torquay every year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 07:47 PM

Brown indeed. I like your poem and photos.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 09:28 AM

Last year, I went out to Lytham Green (to add photos to my below poem) which, due to such a long dry spell, was more like Lytham Brown; this year "rain, rain, and more rain" (Keberoxu) and not much tennis or cricket being played; "Lytham and St. Anne's"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 12:25 PM

rain, rain, and more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jun 19 - 05:40 PM

Regarding the breaking news:
It has to be precarious at best
to land a helicopter in pouring rain
on a high-rise rooftop ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jun 19 - 12:20 PM

Pollen all over my parked car, and thick,
so that I just about have to use the windscreen wipers
to see out.

And if you wash it off,
it's just gonna pile up again within twenty-four hours,
if you have to park the car outdoors as I do.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 19 - 12:42 PM

Where I live the weather is tolerable.

But in other parts of the United States
the weather is freakish.

I mean, the rain! The floods! The levees!
The film and still photos in the news media ...
it's awful.

Anybody live near the flooded regions?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 May 19 - 09:55 PM

Here comes more rain.
At least the river level went down in between.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 19 - 05:58 PM

Last night we had a lovely last frost.
Less allergens and less bugs today,
and a delightful cool breeze under a sunny sky.

In high summer,
I will look back longingly on a day like this one.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 May 19 - 08:14 AM

We have evolved to read nature in a silent language more expansive than than anyhing you could voice to a friend a friend.
We just don't spend the time to read nature as we did in ancient times. We just google it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 19 - 06:44 PM

The oddest things can feel reassuring to me.

For weeks I have been observing the consequences of the spring thaw.
The main road crosses, by bridge, the Upper Charles River,
and many low, marshy areas.
Some of the road's lowest spots are flood-prone.
And so I have watched the rising water level.
The riverbanks disappeared as the river got so high
that it merged with the wetlands and marshes on either side of its banks,

and it all looked like a great shallow lake with
vegetation of every size and shape sticking out of the water.

Today I rejoiced to see two things.
First, all that vegetation standing there
has got a ring of mud around it, right above the water's surface.

Second, little islands have appeared where there was only water before,
and the little islands coincide exactly with
the location of the riverbanks.

That means the water level, praise heaven,
is going down instead of up,
and with every lowering of the water level
it is less likely to flood the roads.

Who ever would have thought
that the sight of strategically placed mud
would come as such a relief.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 19 - 05:26 PM

Mudcatter Harpgirl, who started this thread,
posted the other day as a guest -- to a different thread anyhow.
Every time I see her member name,
I think of this thread.

The weather? rain, rain,   and more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Apr 19 - 02:13 PM

Still nervously observing the broad shallow lake,
far too close to the level of the road and the bridge,
where the Upper Charles River and its banks ought to be.
Maybe this nice warm sunshine
will evaporate some of that spring thaw
and the water level will go down where it won't
threaten to flood streets and roads.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Apr 19 - 09:41 PM

It's raining, it's pouring,
And I feel like snoring.

But it's not even 10 PM,

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Apr 19 - 02:07 PM

Look out the window,
and you see a sight fit for a picture post card.
The sky is THAT shade of blue that, when you see it, you wonder
if the photo has been retouched
because the blue is so intense and clear, the definition of pastel blue.

And the grass is green
and the forsythia is yellow,
and the magnolia blooms
have yet to fall off the tree branches. It's gorgeous.

Now, if only the water level would ease back down.
The spring thaw is in full force.
In my area we have some curled-up lengths of the Upper Charles River
and when I drive over the bridge, on Main Street,

I see the river over its banks and
covering the surrounding marshes,
like a great shallow lake.
God forbid it rises any higher!

If it rises any higher,
the road with my bridge
will flood in several low places,
and one nearby town
will turn into an isthmus, nearly inaccessible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 01:45 PM

Am I in the northeastern United States,
or in the Four Corners region?

Spring is a rather different experience in those two areas
of the same continent.

What is going on outside the window
as I enter data at this public computer station at the library branch,
looks like spring in the Four Corners

-- the Four Corners, for those of you who don't know this expression,
is a cross-shaped formation of state lines in the lower Forty-Eight.
The four states in question are
Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Spring there is not a rainy season.
Spring can mean moisture, insofar as the warmth of the season
results in melting snowpack on mountain peaks,
with the consequence of rising rivers and flash floods.
But the seasonal spring wind in the Four Corners,
in my experience,
is a warm and witheringly dry wind
which loosens up all the dried-up growth that turns into
that unforgettable sight,
The Tumbleweed.

At the moment I am looking at weather for tumbleweeds:
the sky is the driest possible blue, of piercing clarity
and not the remotest sign of humidity.
The wind is dangerous, in fact
power lines have come down in the last twenty four hours
and some people are still without utilities in their residences.

... and have I mentioned dust?
Which region has more dust in it?