What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:23 PM

Well darlin, I've see 1.62m in less than 24h with high winds and I'll trade you any day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,*laura*
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:01 PM

Snowy. but pathetically. and it won't stick properly cos the ground is too wet. Bloody loser snow. If it snowed PROPERLY we could have time off college!
Damnit - why don't I live in Kent? Or Yorkshire?

Stupid Somerset Snow. pfff.

You know - the only snow I've ever seen - proper snow I mean, was in Leicester a few years ago. Six inches of dry powdery proper snow. Six inches! that's pathetic - some people get six feet!
And down here we're lucky to get six millemetres!

pff - thats all I'm saying. PFFF.

xLx

:-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:28 AM

We had 4" of snow last night, and it's just started snowing heavily again, what the heck the freezers are well stocked.
Giok

In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun or sky

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:59 PM

LOL gnu. There has been a lot of blasting in the neighbourhood over the past couple of weeks, but fortunately I still have relatively good bladder control.

Giok, I volunteered to kiss my own ass, the playing of pipes I will leave to others.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:56 PM

Metch... the big bump. Minds me of the time I was in Springhill, Nova Scotia so many years ago on a history field trip in High School. We went underground and an elderly miner was telling us that coal "bumps" and noises were regular and welcome.... it was when it grew silent that the miners got nervous.... of course, his voice trailed off and we were left to listen to absolutely nothing but our own fears and heartbeats. At that moment, I picked up a large lump of coal and flung it upside a large wooden coal bin. Beth Rothwell screamed, pissed her pants and ran back up the ramp, along with several others. I had to admit to the prank before the teacher would continue our trip and I spent a great deal of time writing "The Mining History of the Maritimes" as punishment. It was worth it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:32 PM

Beautiful! High of 78 degrees.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:25 PM

chili today but hot tamale

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:16 PM

Well I've been looking at lots of pretty pictures and diagrams of 'John the Fucker' and rather you than me, but it's still a DIY job when it come to kissing your arse goodbye, sorry.
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:14 PM

That should read Alberta was and inland "sea"

Right Giok, bit more difficult to do if you're under water or your house is down around your head. LOL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:12 PM

snow yesterday, snow today - predicted - snow tomorrow. Par for the course.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:55 PM

Not weather, but maybe I should explain, we have had a series of earthquakes off the west coast of the Island here for the past day or so, little ones, 4.5, 5.2 etc., a step up in the usual stuff, which is good in some ways, because it relieves the pressure where the plate dives down under the Island.

The bad part is all the quakes are at the north end of the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the south end is doing nothing and has been doing nothing for years and it is believed that our end is hung up and it is hung up right below where I live and so any change in activity comes up on my personal radar screen.

Snow!....I scoff at snow! But I tend to hang on a bit when I contemplate the BIG BUMP. The only thing that gives me a bit of comfort is that this Island was up, even when Alberta was an inland surrounded by dinosaurs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:49 PM

That's the sort of job you've got to do for yourself Metchosin.
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:18 PM

oooh, do they shrink when they get cold, gnu? Mandolins that is. LOL Out here they stay the same size all year round.

Hey, the weather might be great, but when the Plate that's hung up at our end, finally lets go, bring out the really big stuff and pipe me out while I kiss my ass goodbye.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:52 PM

Oops... MetchOsin... sorry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:51 PM

"... the Japanese plum and cherry in full bloom." The birds here are so hungry they are eating the apples still clung to my mother's apple tree.... FROZEN SOLID IN THE DAMN SNOWSTORM!!! Here's the world's tiniest mandolin, playing just for Metchsin. Can you hear it? No, of course not, because the snowplow is too loud! You're just lucky I can't throw that far Metch... of course, the snowballs would melt by the time they got that far. Hmmm, frozen apples?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:42 PM

We've just had the sunniest February here since they started keeping records about 100 years ago. Temperatures between 10C and 15C during the day and the Japanese plum and cherry in full bloom. Grey and a bit of drizzle on and off today, about 9C and the power went out for about an hour for no apparent reason but, other than the rumbling of the Juan de Fuca Plate, all seems to be well on the west coast of Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:12 PM

Its raining here in South Wales,UK.We have had no snow here yet!!!!!.

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

Hear that Kendall? It's your turn to walk the dog next, and maybe next again. Kendall? You in the cellar?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:03 PM

We've had a little bit of snow today. It seems to have stopped now and the snow plough's been round, as has our lovely neighhbour with his snow blower. The dog insisted on a walk in the snow this morning, but that's the only time I'm going out today!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:42 PM

Peeing with rain this afternoon - Roll on Summer !!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:39 PM

A lot more snow last night, but it's not very cold today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:34 PM

I'd like to 4X4 that SOB into the dry pave!!! On and on about it when he's likely never "been" anywhere yet. Sheep! Wouldn't be so bad if C103 had more than a half dozen LP's.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:21 PM

Hey Bri... Are you the C103 $10,000 fugitive?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:18 PM

Just started snowing

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:17 PM

Dentist, beer store, Sobey's, or Quik-mart?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:11 PM

I think you almost ran me over in that parking lot today, gnu!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:56 AM

Not bad now. It was clear at 07:30h with very little wind. When I went to my dentist at 08:30h it was snowing hard. When I left the dentist at 09:30h, the first thing I heard on the radio was a call for people to stay off the roads and I was thinking, "Good idea." I popped into the powerhouse along the way and picked up some Buddies. I had to drop 'er in cat-putt-cat (dat's Shaques dere Amos) to get back on the road. Near a white out on the causeway across the Peticodiac River. Then, I had to go to Sobey's for watermelon for Mum, just to brighten her day house-bound in the storm. Played in the near-empty parking lot and scared the crap out of a couple of Toyotas. Slid over to the local convenience store for smokes and a chat. Got home just in time to beat the snowplow. Now it's letting up. Expecting ice pellets (modern for sleet) and then rain. Sniff, fun's over. Now I've got two driveways to do.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 03:19 PM

very very windy in Long Beach WA USA. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 11:12 PM

Here in Vermont it is wet and rainy, on top of snow this is sometimes interesting. Hope my brother got home from dinner ok tonight, the back roads tend to turn into bobsled hills. I want snow!!!!!! (whine whine)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 08:32 AM

Its a lovely afternoon here in Wales,UK.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 08:14 AM

Ebbie... excellent ! Number 6... there's several of us and there's several more who seldom post. I can't recall names right off the top of my head because I haven't been around the neighbourhood for close to a year. If you're curious, start a thread. Hmmmm, I'm curious to see who's still around.... look for an Atlantic Canada thread.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 09:20 PM

The same thing happens here, Bill D. I have literally mowed in the rain. But mostly I just set the mower as low as it will go so that most of the time the lawns can go much longer than the scheduled time. Darn sure it's not going to kill the grass. In our cool, moist climate not much of anything dies.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 08:40 PM

I dunno, Ebbie...*grin*..it's been quite a wet couple of years here. We set some sort of record last year, and this one is not far behind.

Makes it interesting, as the grass grows faster, but the windows for mowing are smaller...and I have a BIG yard to mow!

Still, it beats the 2-3 years drought we had before that....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 08:17 PM

love it Ebbie!

Made me think of the lines from a poem I saw once with the lines

I love the rain in its every manoever
I have to love rain
I live in Vancouver

Similar weather here right now too.

My duaghter and I just had a soak in the hot tub in the rain. Usually its OK when its raining, but this evening its raining so hard it stings your face if you look skyward.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 07:36 PM

Bill D, I'm quite sure that you and I are not in the same geographic zone- what are you doing with that much rain?

Juneau, Alaska:

Today: Cloudy with rain and snow. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds light and variable. Chance of precip 80%.

Tonight: Periods of rain and snow. Low 34F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 80%.

Tomorrow: rain and snow in the morning changing to rain late. High 41F. Winds ESE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precip 80%.

Tomorrow night: Cloudy and windy with periods of rain. Low 38F. Winds SE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall may reach one inch.

I once wrote:

                Rain Country

In the winter it's raining; the clouds are dark and low
It's the normal condition - everybody wants it so
With snow-covered mountains, the valleys wet below
In Southeast Alaska we have more rain than snow

In Spring, the clouds are heavy with impending change
Fog and hail, brief sun and wind, we go all the range
There is no predicting, but always - or in the main-
In Southeast Alaska, in Spring there is rain

Ah but in the summer, the misty air's serene
Clothes damp-dry on the line, the grass is cool and green
But hang your coat by the fire lest you go out again
In Southeast Alaska, Summer brings rain.

In Autumn the storms return, dark clouds are in the sky
Wind strips leaves from all the trees and sends them flying high
Galoshes slosh and waters rush. A familiar refrain:
In Southeast Alaska, it's raining. Again.

We're a special kind of people who live here, don't you know
We've made our peace with weathe (with rain, not with snow)
So we take pride in saying- though it may cause some pain-
This is Southeast Alaska. Bring on the rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 07:17 PM

rain, followed by mist, followed by showers, followed by a few hours of cloudy...then more rain. I hate to think how deep the snow is gonna be when it finally gets real cold...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 06:25 PM

Read what Gnu posted, I'm a little more than an hours's drive south west.

Another NB'er here, very interesting!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 06:41 AM

Hot, steamy, wet..... oh.... Sorry, i am in the bath.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu2
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 06:32 AM

I just love southeastern New Brunswick, Canada weather. Here is the next 24h as issued by Environment Canada for the Moncton area....

Tonight .. Cloudy. Snow beginning near midnight changing to ice pellets mixed with freezing rain overnight. Snowfall amount 5 to 10 cm. Wind east 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 overnight. Temperature steady near minus 3.
Saturday .. Ice pellets mixed with freezing rain changing to rain in the morning and ending late in the day then cloudy and 60 percent chance of drizzle. Risk of a thundershower. Rainfall amount 5 mm. Fog patches. Wind east 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming southwest 20 late in the day. High 7.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 10:13 AM

well its been dry all day but gloom.That is Wales for you mind this time of year

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 09:43 PM

Its grey and cloudy and wet and cold. No ice yet but it cold enough already.

d

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,AKgrown
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 07:52 PM

Here in southernish Alaska it is...let me look out my window...cloudy VERY icy, and about 36 degrees farenheit. It's also getting dark at 3:50 AK time. Yee-haw!

AKswimmer

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 07:44 PM

In Alberta, we don't get weather. We get climate--twice a year. From October to May it's cold. From June to September it's warmer than cold.

Here, in winter, it's too cold to measure the temperature. Thermometers always freeze at forty below and stay there until late May.

Right now it's blowing like a bugle player on a parade square. And it's cold.

I will write again in May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: *Laura*
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 05:15 PM

Shanghaiceltic - 17c!!! Thats the kind of weather we get in summer when we're hoping for 24! the height of heat!

Cold and wet and dark and wet and windy and wet and rainy and wet.

Why did the english people send their convicts to australia? Why not leave them here and go to australia themselves!
Just think how the picture would be reversed! Ahhh.......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 10:41 AM

Sob...it's even greyer and more miserable...the day is dead...and it's my birthday...and nobody cares! (except my family who gave me some presents!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 05:13 AM

its dark,grey clouds and dry spells.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 12:13 PM

London...dark, rainy and really really bloody cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 12:00 PM

Grey, miserable and BLOODY cold!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:59 AM

You can tell winter is coming by the fistful of gray clouds that stubborn the sky until well after sunrise. Where I launch my kayak, the beach is cool from the night, not warm. The water is still swimmable, though. But the surf is higher than usual, and that is one reason I find out it is swimmable. Launching, trying to time the sets for minimum fuss going out, I make it past the line of the forming waves twenty minutes before sunrise, with only a couple of wet sloppy slaps from the sea for my trouble.

After an hour or two of paddling around visiting with the sea lions sleeping on the bouys and watching flights of cormorants wheel over the deeps, I paddle back in, the deep-water swell rising and falling beneath me like whale's breath. Closing in on the beach these swells become the surf, and timing them is impossible from the outside, because the patterns are less visible. I count the breakers and time myself, hoping for a keyhole that will give me a clean run through the surf. I start to paddle rapidly at just the moment, and am rising on the back of the wave I have chosen to come in. I am high on its back stroking and surfing at the same time, riding like a wave-master, the curling surf just under my prow. But as the break begins to unroll, the kayak swings, ignoring steering command, and is brought broadside to the curl, and rolls. I am tumbled into wet blackness, ducking to avoid the impact of the kayak or the paddle as evberything is carried away to the will of the insane water. Then I am standing and dragging my kayak in through the shallows, up on to the wet sand. The morning light is diffused and still largely gray even though sunrise was over an hour before. I am dripping from every corner and desperately in need of a hot shower, but not so cold that I cannot take care of business, putting things to rights and getting the kayak mounted to the car-top and strapped down.

All in all an interesting morning, and only 7:30 by the time I am in a hot shower at home, thinking about that scary moment just after I realized there was no more control, that my craft was rolling willy or nilly!

Thank god for civilization, hot water, dry clothes and a warm office!


A

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:48 AM

Raining!