What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:43 PM

Ah yes, Patsy, you're not all that far away. I'm in Cossington, near Bridgwater. It's been like this all day and now it's even colder - minus 6 degrees according to the weather on my computer. Tomorrow looks like more of the same.

Today we were in town, in Bridgwater, and the air was so cold it was making my teeth ache when I opened my mouth to say something.

Tomorrow I'm going to try and brave the cold for a while to take some macro shots with my camera of the ice crystals on the leaves. It's actually quite beautiful!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsay
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:10 AM

Hello Jenny this is in North Bristol and looking very bleak, where are you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:46 AM

The drought has broken... and broken.. and now .. it's flooding in New South Wales..

and the rain's still pattering outside.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:48 AM

Don't know where you are, Patsy, but this sounds like our weather. It was beautifully sunny yesterday - still very cold but from the inside it looked warm, and it actually warmed up our enclosed south-facing front porch. Today it looks bleak and cold with, as you said, dense freezing fog, but thankfully not a breath of wind. Nearly 11am now, and still -4 degrees. BRRRR!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:27 AM

Too much rain to mow the grass so I could drag the junk out to the foot path for special collection day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:00 AM

Fog followed by gorgeous sun yesterday, today dense freezing fog. Okay the novelty of winter has now worn off. Some sun is forecast for the rest of the week - we are just thankful that it isn't windy to add to the chill.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,kp
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 04:30 AM

Oh no
Its snowing again in Edinburgh this morning.
Just when we thought it had stopped and spent much of yesterday digging out cars!

And my walking boots have a hole in them...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 04:15 AM

It's 9.05am here in beautiful Somerset, and it is -5 degrees. No snow at the moment, but there is a thick hoar frost covering everything. I don't remember a frost this thick even in Aberdeen last year. It's also colder than Aberdeen last year, although not by much. The sky is a uniform white and I can't tell if it's fog, cloud or if the sun hasn't made it over the top of the garage yet. It all looks very spooky.

Fog is everywhere, and our usual view of the Mendips is shrouded in fog. In fact, The forecast for today is 'fog'.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mandotim
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 04:45 PM

I'm finding this hard to believe, even though I saw it myself. My neighbour's recording thermometer showed a lowest temperature last night of -24C. It was -16C when I set off for work this morning. This was in the southern end of the Peak District, in the Staffordshire Moorlands. I've never seen temperatures that low in the UK.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 01:09 PM

I woulda thought you preferred em steamed.

The lawns are green and little yellow flowers are sprouting along my house foundation... silly buggers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 01:00 PM

Mike Harding summed it up perfectly in his monologue "Ackroyd's Funeral."

Some brass monkeys outside were singing carols, soprano.
You could hear them cursing and swearing,
As they wandered round lost, in the fog and the frost,
They couldn't find their bearings.




So many cats, so few recipes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 07:32 PM

Big wet delays new Mad Max film

It's in a part of the country officially called a "Semi-arid area" - I've driven past the sign on the highway warning people attempting to enter that section of the highway!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM

I've heard "colder than a whore's heart" but never "a step-mother's kiss". Perhaps a "mother-in-law's kiss"?

8 with drizzle here but I saw crows massing at dawn. I have been waiting and watching for the migration... got my camcorder and camera at the ready. I wish I had been more on the ball a few years back. When I noticed it, they were directly over me and it was awesome but I stood and watched for at least five minutes before I even thought of a vid. By the time I was set up it was too far away to be impressive.

I watched a shorebird migration at dusk in PEI about thirty years ago. Remarkable how millions of birds wait their turn and join in, from north to south along the shore. As do the crows in similar fashion. Fascinating.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 09:36 PM

Blowing in the wind. Tied of shaky campers, me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:29 PM

Colder than a grave digger's arse..

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:26 PM

Cold as a step-mother's kiss...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:01 PM

Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.

22 Degrees C at 9:00am.
Lots of rain yesterday. Overcast now.
Cool for this time of year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:25 PM

In north central Pennsylvania it's been quite a mix.

Yesterday: Lots of heavy rain and high winds (moved my 60 pound kayak, lots of trees down in the area, bird feeds are down, lawn furniture all over the place).

Today: Started with rain, then sleet, then snow and now it's sleetish....temperatures dropping...glad that we don't HAVE to be on the roads today. I imagine power will be out in some areas of the county before bedtime.

Michelle

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:18 PM

Treat as one would chicken.

What d'you think I am? Some kind of pervert?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM

Re Cat Recipes

I would suggest stir fry. Treat as one would chicken.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:13 PM

Fried cat, boiled cat, roast cat... what is your preference?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Smokey.
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:10 PM

Just east of Peak District - the most snow I've seen here in 30 years.

Does anyone have any good cat recipes?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:02 PM

14+ inches. Glad I live in Moncton... today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:47 PM

We are expecting torrential rains today. Hell, even the geese will be walking.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:44 PM

That is snow of course!!!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:43 PM

14 inches plus in Gainsborough

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:18 PM

Absolutely perfect and unusual for winter here..no wind, 47 degrees F, no rain. Lovely morning. Was pretty windy yesterday. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:44 AM

bout 5 inches in mid Essex... I am working from home today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mandotim
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:35 PM

A foot or so of snow here at the southern tip of the Peak District. Still snowing, and the wind is causing drifts now.
Tim

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:12 PM

Not a cloud, nare a strip a wind, 5C... Just walked a mile and took the last bit of ice off the driveway. If I didn't have work, laundry and supper on the go, I would still be outside.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:01 PM

Just got an email from a friend who we go skiing with.

Wanting to book the holiday.

Made me laugh anyway.

Lots of snow here in my neck of The UK. But even more where I was over the weekend. Beer in front of a fire in the pub sounds good. Will get my coat / hat / drinking head on and off I go.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:56 PM

snow!   puuurrrrtttyyy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:48 PM

We have over a foot of snow now and it's still snowing. Lincolnshire UK

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:43 PM

500 sorry lead fingers

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:39 PM

It's still changing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 02:58 AM

There is about as much as on an iced Christmas cake this morning bitterly cold but with less of the biting winds of yesterday. But I am prepared with every bit of clothing I could pull on and surprise surprise no problems with buses, hoorah.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 12:29 PM

well I am in the most southern part of ireland, and we have just had 3 inches of snow, ITS SUFFIN COLD

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 08:19 AM

It is bitterly cold here, real brass monkey weather. Somehow I don't think even Santa could put up with doing a walkabout today. This is supposedly going to last for at least 2 weeks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 07:35 AM

It's late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.
Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.
But, being a practical leader, after several days, he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, 'Is the coming winter going to be cold?'
'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,' the meteorologist at the weather service responded.
So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.
A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?'
'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'it's going to be a very cold winter.'
The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?'
'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.'
'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.
The weatherman replied, 'The Indians are collecting a huge load of firewood'

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: curmudgeon
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 11:33 AM

Winter is icumen in,
    Lhude sing Goddamm,
    Raineth drop and staineth slop,
    And how the wind doth ramm!
    Sing: Goddamm.
    Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
    An ague hath my ham.
    Freezeth river, turneth liver,
    Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.
    Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
    So 'gainst the winter's balm.
    Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm,
    Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.

    - Ezra Pound, tune: trad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 08:27 AM

Dear Gnu: so much for Thanksgiving!...that above link leads to a handy up-to-date answer re. the thread's question "What's the weather like where you are?", and puts my fellow Catters - including your goodself - onto a free device they may wish to add onto their own site.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Nov 10 - 07:10 PM

Perfect night for the Santa Clause parade here... about 0C, no wind and a gentle snow. Cleansing. The air is fresh. Glad I don't have to stand in the cold listening to the kiddies whining and crying.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 27 Nov 10 - 05:17 PM

Oh......it's all pretty again!

-6 degrees and counting!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 06:58 PM

I'm where Donuel is, and I have 2 more days of a craft show to sit thru...PLEASE do not send us any bad weather till Monday, and preferably not for another week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 06:50 PM

Whacky About Verse... will you ever stop cluttering up my day? WTF did that link have to to with anything on this thread? Yes, it is friday night and I have had a few ales and this is an outburst that I would normally rue in the AM... but I doubt it this time. Seriously, stop it. You need help.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 05:06 PM

Free from Yahoo, here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 04:51 PM

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.... like we got a friggin choice... grrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 12:54 PM

Piss off Amos.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 12:54 PM

bitter cold here, no snow yet, mostly blue sky today but clouds started moving in late afternoon. will there be white int he morning?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 11:16 AM

Here in Somerset, near Bridgwater, we started off with a blue sunny day, then it went grey, and now it's snowing - quite steadily, but it hasn't settled yet. Current temp is zero C. Looks like we might be in for a winter like last years!