What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jul 16 - 06:43 PM

Thunderstorms again today. No lightning strike, just a three-hour power outage.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jul 16 - 01:53 PM

Lightning must have struck very close to our house while we were away at our grand-daughter's birthday party yesterday. It tripped a bunch of circuit breakers and ground fault circuit interrupters, blew about a dozen light bulbs, and blew the fuse in one of my potter's wheels. Amazingly, nothing with integrated circuitry got blasted. Computer, TV, DVD player, and computer-controlled pottery kilns are all fine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jul 16 - 10:03 PM

It was cool and comfortable at the New Bedford Folk Festival today, but it looks like it'll rain there tomorrow. The two largest stages are indoors at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Zeiterion Theater, the others, except for the smallest one, are under tents. Attendance will probably be down, so most people should be able to get seats indoors or inside the tents. It may be tough for the vendors, though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jul 16 - 07:21 PM

it's a low ceiling of grey clouds overhead, and cool for this time of year

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 16 - 05:12 PM

...and the humidity is building right along with the heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jul 16 - 08:27 PM

Yes, some parts of the country are getting serious storm systems.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 08:44 PM

Downpours started at 7:15 PM, followed by lulls between downpours.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 04:41 PM

Damn good gelati in Lecce, however!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 04:05 PM

I've just got back from Puglia in Italy, staying in a beautiful town called Lecce. We had four days in a row with high humidity and temperatures of 35 to 36 degrees. Life had to be slow. When we got back to Gatwick last night it was raining, blowing a gale and 14 degrees. We thought we were going to die!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 16 - 01:41 PM

A US holiday weekend approaches, and will there be thunder and lightning as well as fireworks?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 09:25 PM

Today was warm and muggy. Yesterday was, too. At my YMCA, the HVAC system has been broken for a week. I do not like heated yoga, but that's what I've been doing because the building is hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 01:02 PM

A more perfect June day could no be dreamed of for another hundred years.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 12:40 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jun 16 - 03:13 PM

Cold and wet. SPRING weather! 11C right now and that sure as hell beats 30 to 35C and muggy. Oops... shouldna said that. I just checked the weather forecast. Summer cometh soon. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jun 16 - 07:08 PM

Embarrassingly ideal: blue sky sunshine by day, cool and dry at night. It will be lovely while it lasts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jun 16 - 07:52 PM

The cool nights we are having are such a boon and a blessing. It won't be long at all, as summer wears on, until even the nights are warm, humid, and stifling, and my apartment will require the refrigerated air going all night long in order to sleep comfortably. But for now, the windows are shut, the air conditioner is silent, the fan is off, and it's ever so much more peaceful at night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 16 - 05:27 PM

We had cloudbursts on Saturday at the Mystic Sea Music Festival, Other than that, the weather was excellent!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jun 16 - 01:24 PM

It's April in June, allowing for slightly warmer temperatures: one weather system after another, the wind changing direction, the humidity careening up and down like a roller coaster.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Jun 16 - 01:40 AM

We had proper rain over the weekend without the storms which battered the coast (a benefit of living a few hours inland) and local farmers are feeling more optimistic than they have done for quite some time.

So are the rest of us.

An Aussie poem - "Said Hanrahan".

Subject: RE: LYR ADD- A Song of the Weather Flanders&Swann
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 09:27 PM

turning this into a music thread!

video and lyrics - At the Drop of a Hat

Both:         January brings the snow,
        Makes your feet and fingers glow.
        
        February's ice and sleet,
        Freeze the toes right off your feet.
        
        Welcome, March, with wint'ry wind,
        Would thou wert not so unkind.
        
        April brings the sweet spring showers,
        On and on for hours and hours.
        
        Farmers fear unkindly May,
        Frost by night and hail by day.
        
        June just rains and never stops,
        Thirty days and spoils the crops.
        
        In July the sun is hot,
Flanders:         Is it shining?
Swann:         No it's not!
        
Both:         August, cold and dank and wet,
        Brings more rain than any yet.
        
        Bleak September's mist and mud,
        Is enough to chill the blood.
        
        Then October adds a gale,
        Wind and slush and rain and hail.
        
        Dark November brings the fog,
        Should not do it to a dog.
        
        Freezing wet December, then...
        Bloody January again!
        
        (January brings the snow),
        (Makes your feet and fingers glow!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 03:11 PM

"Farmer fear unkindly May, / Frost by night and hail by day;
June just rains and never stops, / Thirty days and spoils the crops." -- "Song of the Weather," Flanders & Swann

Early June is a roller-coaster here: rain one day, sun the next, thunderstorms predicted tomorrow...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Jun 16 - 02:33 AM

a caller to my local station remembered when a coastal council removed the sand dunes which stopped residents seeing the ocean & allowed building on the coast.

those who don't remember the past ...

pics of cleanup - check out the video 'Drone footage of Collaroy's coastal erosion, caused by waves up to eight metres high' & earlier pictures.

sandra (in rain-free sydney)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 10:11 PM

Wow, Sandra, what a wet mess! Stay safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 07:39 PM

The low pressure system that caused the damage has gone, maybe it's heading your way, kebereoxu, if so it will be less intensive by the time it arrives.

Check out the damage to coastal properties - backyards gone & a swimming pool on what's left of the beach

sandra (in drying out sydney)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jun 16 - 06:29 PM

rain, which we need.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jun 16 - 11:08 PM

the weekend has arrived & rain falls everywhere.

email I wrote yesterday -
Last night the heavens opened at 2.20am & as I was still listening to Niagara falling at 3, I got up - & the rain kept falling yesterday & is still falling today.

Yesterday I went to an 80th birthday lunch & carried my raincoat as it wasn't raining when I arrived, & had stopped by the time I left! Lucky me, folks who left at different times ran the gauntlet of heavy rain, & my driver had to avoid fallen branches in the carpark & on the road.

100s ordered to evacuate & 1000s call for help as wild weather intensifies check out the pics including lots of twitter pics

The rain covers most the the east coast of Australia & as always happens State Emergency Services have so far rescued 77 drivers who drove thru flood waters, contrary to official advice.

sandra (mid-day Sunday)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 08:09 PM

Over the past couple of weeks we have had our first two frosts of the year. Today is overcast, a few drops of rain fell earlier and the weekend forecast is for proper rain. As the drought has been biting hard here - Tamworth, north-western New South Wales - for a couple of years, this rain will be very welcome!

Apart from drought, and water restrictions (we aren't allowed to use town water outside for any purpose at all, no car washing, definitely no watering of gardens although some of us sneak a few occasional drops onto cherished potted plants) life here in the Small Smoke is great.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 07:54 PM

Beautiful day today--no snow or rain, not too hot or cold! Yay!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 12:42 PM

Where in Switzerland are you hiking, Joe Offer? Which canton? Supposed to be breathtaking to look at.

Somewhere, reading an English-language article, I stumbled across a story and embedded in it was a description of an Alpine sign:

Geh' hinauf in die Berge!
Deine Seele braucht es
und dein Körper auch.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 May 16 - 04:58 PM

In a day in early April about ten years ago I was in Perth, WA, and the temperature reached 36°. That was the hottest I'd ever been in. I beat it last year in Andalucia, southern Spain, when we had three days that reached 40°. The odd thing was that all four of those days were comfortable because the humidity was very low. We Cornish denizens are unaccustomed to such things. We did have 31° in Bude a few years ago. That's about as high as it ever gets, and even that's rare.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 May 16 - 03:58 PM

We're going hiking in Switzerland at the end of June, so my wife is trying to get me in shape. Sometimes, I'm convinced she's trying to kill me. We just got back at noon from the wooded ravine next to our property, and the temperature is 88°F (31°C). I got warm by the end of the hike, but not like I was going to die. So, maybe I'm getting in shape.

There has been good rainfall here this year after a four-year drought, but not a huge amount over the average. For some reason, the wildflowers are more profuse than I have ever seen them, and some varieties are much larger than what I usually see. The Mariposa lilies were the most spectacular ones this week, but there were maybe 25 other varieties we saw today. The Mariposa lilies were taller and had larger blossoms than I've seen before - and they were everywhere!

There is no rain forecast here for the next two weeks. I wonder if that means we've seen the last of rain until October. Here in the Sierra Foothills, we rarely have rain from June through September, although there are often afternoon thunderstorms in the mountains just east of us.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 May 16 - 01:10 PM

30C and 36H (feels like). Tomorrow, 13C with 20 kph wind. Glad I have a mini-split heat pump.

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:43 AM

here in Sydney we finally have autumn or maybe even winter after a very looooong summer.

Since Easter I've been sleeping under a fine woolen shawl & it is only in the past few weeks I've got my thin blankets out & finally got my down quilt out late last week. I also brought out fleecy & woolen stuff for daytime wear.

forecasts for this week in Sydney are up to 20C max, with nights 12-14 + rain. Latest temp recorded (7.10pm Tues) is 13.8C

sandra


National summary for April - (May figures will be released in the next few days, but it has been warmer than normal)
    Australia's April mean temperature second-warmest on record (2.00 °C above average)
    National April mean maximum temperatures second-warmest on record (2.38 °C above average)
    National April mean minimum temperatures third-warmest on record (1.61 °C above average)
    Many late-season high temperature records across the country
    Eighth-driest April on record for Australia (rainfall 67% below average)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:20 AM

I'm beginning to hate you! :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 May 16 - 06:07 AM

Well it's 11am, the sun's beating down from a cloudless Cornish sky and the gentle breeze is moderating the temperature to 17°C. 😎 I think we'll get 20 or 21 this afternoon. I'll be putting out my bedding plants. You're so lucky to have all that rain and that nice, cooling breeze! 😈

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 May 16 - 04:18 AM

It's even worse here today Steve, so you can gloat still more! :)
It's pitch black, lashing with torrential rain and a high wind.

My snotty sister rang from Scotland to smirk, as like you she's sunburnt and sitting in the garden doing the Times crossword. The cow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 May 16 - 09:12 PM

Ha, we Westcountry types love to indulge In a bit of schadenfreude when the south-east gets the brunt (and that includes you, Norfolk!), as all too often it's the other way round. We've had a super weekend in Cornwall, wall-to-wall sun on Sunday and Monday, temps in the low 20s. And more of the same tomorrow. I'm going brown!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 30 May 16 - 07:29 PM

Totally great warm weekend for bumming and reading in the shade and swimming a bit. Never saw so much weekend time with 100% chance of thunderstorm predicted and nothing but a minute or so of scattered raindrops once.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 30 May 16 - 07:09 PM

Spring. Summer. Spring. Summer. Until summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 May 16 - 12:00 PM

Very strong chilly wind here in Norfolk, and mizzly rain which could even be sleet. I'm so sorry for all the organisers of Bank Holiday events, and little families who must have been looking forward to their break. My lovely neighbour is off camping with her Brownies, poor soul.
And the blackbird is still sitting on her eggs hidden in the honeysuckle at the front door. I keep putting out best lean raw mince for her, and leftover catfood. She looks frozen stiff!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 16 - 11:35 AM

A lovely steady soaking rain. Nice change from unseasonably hot and dry. With everything growing like mad, the rain is welcome, and cools things down....it had been like summer a month early.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 May 16 - 05:56 PM

Hot enough for early summer, and us with a long holiday weekend coming up. In fact, it's Thursday and a lot of people are leaving town as though it were Friday -- the traffic reports are unsettling.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 17 May 16 - 08:19 PM

It's been a very pleasant, if somewhat cool, spring here in the mountains of North Georgia. [USA}

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 17 May 16 - 03:52 PM

oops, mistake- - need new specs! read launch year of boat as 1938 instead of 1933 -- - - G L is younger than the boat!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: vectis
Date: 16 May 16 - 10:32 PM

Summer has been unending this year. The night time temperatures are still in the high teens and it has been very dry since early January. The sea temperatures have only just dipped below 20. This is winter in New Zealand in an El Nino year.

I love the log burner in winter but it is far too hot to light it yet :-(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 16 May 16 - 05:56 AM

----just realised Gordon Lightfoot was born the same year as TS Queen Mary was launched!
Going to see him in GRCH on Wednesday -- - - journey back in time to my teens and student days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 15 May 16 - 08:29 PM

gorgeous day here ... not as warm as the previous spell but bright and sunny- -a great welcome back home to the Clyde for TS Queen Mary, which was towed and shepherded by tugs Vanguard and Buster all the way from Tilbury to the James Watt Dock at Greenock. (Well I'm not sure if Buster did the whole route - check the Friends of TS Queen Mary website or facebook page for correct info!)
Now the fundraising begins to refit her.......poor wee boatie. Hope they can get her steaming again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 16 - 05:41 PM

Dark gray clouds overhead, and a wind so stiff that the forecasters are broadcasting wind-chill factors again; the night will be cold. That's good -- it will keep the bugs at bay....

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 - - - -