What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 04:14 PM

Allison, can you tell whether much was damaged at Sturbridge Village? Thank goodness your daughter- and you & Hunt- are safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 04:13 PM

Well, the tornado warnings certainly got our attention, but all we got was thunder-and-lightning (of a strength that certainly got our attention) and wee little hail pellets. My daughter lives closer to Springfield, MA (in Northampton, Kat!) and was sent home early on her first day of work because the city ordered all non-essential workers of all professions to seek shelter!
...she lives in a 3d floor walkup but managed to locate the basement (it's a new-to-her rental). Noho was spared, but several other towns were slammed.

There are some mighty impressive videos. My connection is wonky right now but lots are on youtube- or "google" springfield ma tornado and you can see it in action!

My heart is with all those affected.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 07:32 PM

I've been following the tornadoes in New England, on the weather channel. Thinking of all the folks I know back there, many Mudcatters, and some family. I hope all stay safe. The basement of the yurt sounds like a very good place to be, maeve.:-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 06:55 PM

We don't see them very often, gnu, but they do occasionally arrive in New England states as well as the Midwestern states.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 06:44 PM

Gee... are twisters like that common or rare?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 06:36 PM

Now thought to have been an EF-3 tornado cruising through Springfield, MA. Appears to have traveled a 17 mile wide, through Springfield with much building and tree damage. It ran straight into Sturbridge, but we haven't seen any reports regarding the damage there.

A second, possibly weaker tornado came through Chicopee, a bit northwest of Springfield, now moving just north of Springfield toward Wilberham. Major damage is being reported in several Massachusetts towns.

Here in Midcoast Maine we've had some severe thunderstorms with an estimated 11,000 lightning strikes and hail from 2 1/2" up to the size of a baseball. At the moment we have sunshine; after several strong storms including heavy rain, strong winds, hail, lightning and thunder. Birds swooped back to our feeders as the winds died down, and tree toads and peepers, restarted their evening chorus.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 04:58 PM

A multi-vortex tornado (thought to be EF-1) is now about 10 miles east of Springfield, Massachusetts, crossing the Connecticut River, over Rt. 91 on its way toward Sturbridge, Boston, New Hampshire, and Maine. It seems to be traveling at a velocity of 85 miles per hour.

There are reports of trees down and roofs (rooves for gnu)off. Traffic in the area is at rush hour levels.

Anyone in that general path please hunker down, take cover, be wise.

Maeve

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 02:13 PM

...followed now by a tornado watch. 30% chance, so if one shows up for afternoon tea we'll take shelter in the yurt or yurt basement rather than the camper.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 11:22 AM

Fierce thunderstorm, complete with quarter size hail thumping down on the camper roof and skylights.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 09:22 AM

For Saturday the 28th of May, we had a high of 51 F and a low of 27 F. Sunday was a high of 59 and another veggie-killing frost. The forecast for the next 7 days suggests the mid-to-upper 60s again.

Normal high in the sagebrush desert this time of year would be upper 70s, at least 25 degress warmer than it was Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 09:05 AM

its been between 99 and 95 for the last 3 days.

Its a lot cooler than the Indus river basin in Pakistan that was a hot 128 F.

Moscow last year was 14 degrees above normal.
They lost 40% of their grain harvest to heat.

You don't think that things are getting warmer lately do you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 01:11 AM

Hot. In Juneau, Alaska, 75 is hot.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: frogprince
Date: 31 May 11 - 09:57 PM

Pouring rain, thunder booming, warning of possible damaging wind. Beautiful earlier today other than kinda hot, upper 90's. We had a little adventure on Monday, though. Packed up the tent and went to go camping at a resort just southeast of Battle Creek. By the time we got there, things looked threatening enough that we took a lodge room instead of tenting. Just as well. We were in the indoor pool in mid afternoon when we got a tornado warning. Everyone got into the clubhouse johns, and we listened to a few minutes of nice loud roar.
No one hurt, and little or no damage to the clubhouse, but trees uprooted or snapped off all over the grounds including within a few feet of the clubhouse, tents ripped up, at least one camper turned over. Taped off areas with power lines down in a snarl. The weather on Monday was beautiful, but we had to find our way into the lodge and around in our room with a flashlight after dark.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 19 May 11 - 09:57 PM

Absolutely incredibly perfect..probably 70 degrees, light breeze and sunny. Very rare weather for this area. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 19 May 11 - 05:41 PM

Rain, rain, rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 May 11 - 05:28 PM

A month ago, snow. At the moment I am sweating after mowing lawns and swatting skeeters... 25C and humid. WTF did my forefathers land here?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Apr 11 - 03:12 PM

Slight change from 5 days ago. 22C, sun, no wind. I almost got a sunburn in a half hour (Irish eh.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 03:33 PM

Snow, wet snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain at the moment. But little wind so I like it. I can take any kinda weather, except heat and humidity, without wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 07:00 AM

This is my first spring in England, and I've been told that the weather is quite exceptional for this time of year - day after day of sun, increasingly warm temperatures, stretching on as far as one can see over Easter! I'm loving it, and my garden is loving it too!

However we'll get a dose of the cold when we spend Easter in Aberdeen - well, colder than it is here in Somerset anyway. There is so little rain around, that we have had to make arrangements with a neighbour to come in and water things while we are gone.

It's interesting - we had the snow and freezing fog in winter earlier than usual, and now spring has sprung with a vengeance with nary a sign of the occasional frost that usually plagues this place in April. Looks like summer will be early too. It almost feels like summer already with temps regularly reaching 20 degrees or higher!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 03:16 AM

By UK standards it was roasting yesterday and it seems to have been the longest spell of decent weather we have had in a while. It is forecast to be good over the Easter weekend so good for Easter Egg hunts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 11:56 PM

You're incorrect Mr. Day. It's proper spelled crapemrytle as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 04:13 PM

Lovely! Sunny, 10C, a bit windy. Tomorrow... 10-15cm of ice pellets and snow. Spring in The Maritimes eh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 12:55 AM

Partly sunny and 81 F today.

"Hallelujah, the great storm is over."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 04:51 PM

**pedant alert**

'crepe' myrtle.

**end pedant alert**

Alternating days of lovely Spring and nasty rain here in the general DC area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 04:30 PM

hg... if I knew ya better I'd have harsh words... >;-)

Just as I was getting ready to take Mum to the eye doc... savage wind, rain, snow, hail... she was distressed.

82F and spring blooms are waning... it just ani't FAIR I say!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 04:22 PM

82 and sunny in North Florida. The spring blooms are waning, with coral honeysuckle, jasmine and knockout roses holding steady. Crape myrtle will be coming into bloom next, the blueberries are ripening, and the figs are starting to grow just a tiny bit. I've picked romaine and bibb lettuce and tomatoes are ripening....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 17 Apr 11 - 04:16 PM

Beautiful spring day like we should have had in February. Yesterday was freezing and windy, like January, but today is sunny and breezy. Probably 50 degrees. Yesterday must have been in low 30s, or at least felt that way. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Apr 11 - 04:02 PM

That's some nasty stuff down south. Saw the damage on the TV. frightening. 37 dead. Stay safe Janie.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 07:36 PM

Gosh... I am lucky here in Moncton. It's good weather compared to youse, Take care eh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 06:57 PM

Dark and drear again in Calgary. Light snow. About nine inches here last weekend, a foot more added at my daughter's place bordering Kananaskis Park, she has to use the big diesel truck to get feed to the horses.

Over 450 cm base at the Fernie Ski area, B. C, on the mountain back of my younger son's place.

Spring might come sometime in May. If we're lucky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 05:51 PM

The storm that has been causing havoc throughout the south made for a tense morning and afternoon - the weather radio was blaring alert after alert as the squall line moved through - and a boring 10 minutes huddled in the hallway during a warning for a tornado that missed me by a good 6 miles. Eastern North Carolina is getting battered right now. Reports are still preliminary but sounds like there will be some significant damage here and there from Raleigh east.

It was really quite something. The fastest moving and most intense squall line I've experienced since moving to NC 26 years ago. I'm fine.   Got 1 3/4 inches of rain in one 15 minute period, and then the whole thing had moved on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 03:45 AM

Tonight began our Alaska Folk Festival. From midApril to the end of June is typically our driest, brightest weather. There have been years when people with their instruments gathered in parks and street corners and played and sang.

Not today, for sure. It started with snow and ended with drippy rain and chilly temperatures.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 09:08 PM

9 days ago... snowstorm... about 8". At the moment, thunderstorm.

I am pissed at Mum Nature. She need some good drugs to chill out man.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 16 Mar 11 - 01:50 AM

Spring is creeping in, and telling the cold, that its days are numbered...........till winter sulks for a few months, then gets even.

GfS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 09:50 AM

Mum can see out her front room window. The snow is down by about a metre.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 08:57 AM

Beautiful sunny and warm, hurray the thermals can come off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 09:23 AM

It was a crisp frost this morning but really pleasant with pretty sunshine. The sun is shining, everyone is smiling hope it stays like this for just a little bit longer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 09:37 PM

The geese were less pointy?

I can see grass, and the seasonal run-off streamlet in back is running off. It was still cold, but there were men out wearing shorts and T-shirts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 09:31 PM

Snow and ice around, but the river's breaking up. Saw about 1200 snow geese returning, and they pretty much indicate that spring is soon to arrive. If geese are too high up to see markings, you can tell the difference anyway because Canadian geese fly in V formations, and you can see a point to the V. Snow geese look like a boomerang or the top half of a letter O cut in two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 08:46 PM

1st day of daylight savings, and wonderful (a wee mite cool, but sunny) weather! Everyone was out (Sunday) chopping up fallen branches & filling bags & barrels for tomorrow's recycling collection. I will have several weeks to get caught up. I wish I had invested in a chipper 20 years ago.
Still, the early bloomers are showing their noses and if I work fast, I can get ahead of some of the weeds and ivy that is hard to even get to if I wait till May......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 08:36 PM

very windy and rainy this morning but now it is sunny sort of and windy. The wind blows so much here it blows the rainclouds away sometimes. I am very grateful that for the tsumani evacuation we had very reasonable weather..I walked 4 miles with a pack and even with raingear would have been drenched..a number of teens came to evacuation center wearing only shorts..hopefully they had other stuff in cars. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 02:53 PM

SPRING has SPRUNG! I was just outside and heard the first true sound of spring... a motorcycle!

Suppose to snow tonight tho...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bettynh
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 03:01 PM

Well, we're above freezing again at least. Time to make maple sugar around here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 01:21 PM

This winter, it seems like there's...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 01:02 PM

Take a wild guess. Gowan.

Glad I got the rooves shovelled off when I did. I put a couple of pics of Mum and me standing in our front room windows on Saturday on my Flickr page.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 11:36 AM

Maeve, my troubles pale alongside yours! Although this is a drafty old building with insufficient heat, I have four floors to roam around in, and as the manager, plenty of work to do.

Where the advantage is on your side, not on mine, is the bright world Spring will bring you. Chin up- it will come.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:41 AM

Snow snow snow snow snow. Wind. Ice. Snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:15 AM

The wind is a bit chilly here in Bristol now and grey clouds with a few spots of rain but the odd glimpse of sun. For the last day in February it's ok compared to last year's snow which seemed to go on and on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 01:07 AM

Oh, and KT, two people have told me that the news tonight said it will be like this the rest of the week. Sounds like December - or was it January? - all over again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: KT
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 12:02 AM

Those chilly winds are unceasing! Sounds like a freight train is tearing around the house!