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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 18 Sep 18 - 11:33 AM The little leftover shreds and tatters that remain of the hurricane-force system called Florence have arrived in the northeastern United State coastal area. I'm not laughing. This is too much to be amusing. To get to this public-access, rental-time computer, I had to get in my auto and take a little drive. well, I made it, soggy altogether. But the soggy is the least of it. The rain is torrential. It is coming down with such force as to limit visibility to fractions of a mile, and don't ask ME which fractions. And when that expletive-deleted pickup truck passed me in the passing lane, the side-splash over my front windshield effectively blinded my driver's vision for several seconds, which I am NOT used to, especially in motion. I'm kind of west of south-west of Boston. Now, north of Boston, there has just expired a TORNADO watch. Chantey Lass! Ahoy! Are you still above water? |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 10 Sep 18 - 08:00 PM Soggy, since you ask. Here in southern New England, the weatherperson says that we are benefiting from what is left of Tropical Storm Gordon: that's what is dumping rain on us. Thankfully there is not much wind. It's just awfully damp. I'm writing from near to Holyoke, Massachusetts, on the road again. This means I am further from the seacost than usual. I expect all of our New England Mudcatters are feeling the rain. Of course, the radar maps online indicate heavy rain also in New York and Pennsylvania from the same system. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 04 Sep 18 - 01:37 PM its 105 today in DC |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 04 Sep 18 - 01:36 PM I looked at our solar minimum yesterday and we only had two sunspots when 57 is a typical maximum. The Artic block (high pressure region) has rolled over to this hemisphere and El Nino is in full sway. All this adds up to a WICKED WINTER in east North America this coming year. Please pretend to be surprised when it happens. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 01 Sep 18 - 01:58 PM Weather like this, we have not seen since the onset of summer: in autumn it would be a balmy sunny day; for the Labor Day holiday, one rejoices in the low humidity. Which will be humid again within the week. Sigh. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 30 Aug 18 - 02:36 PM Thanks for telling us, Joe. Your part of the world has had a horrible summer season. We only need the rain here in order to break the humidity; it's like a sauna outdoors. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Aug 18 - 04:02 PM After 2 months of smoky skies and unbearable heat, we finally have blue skies and moderate temperatures in the California Gold Country. The fire spotter plane was overhead yesterday, so there must have been a fire someplace nearby. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 29 Aug 18 - 02:05 PM The humidity is cranked back up again in the Northeast US. Excessive Heat advisories in effect, and then those weather patterns of cloudbursts and drenching rains will cool things off ... some schools have begun for the year already, even before the long holiday weekend. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 25 Aug 18 - 07:12 AM I assure you that this Hawaiian storm story is just my unique way of warning and advising that one can not truly run away from nature. You can try but you just run away into nature. However I'd still run from fire if I were you. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 24 Aug 18 - 04:55 PM I do believe Donuel was quoting the Brothers Sherman, and one of their lyrics for Mary Poppins, a post or three back. Sounds like a lyric sung by Bert the chimney sweep early in the Disney film. Donuel, I hope you survive the Hawaii hurricane... |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Vashta Nerada Date: 24 Aug 18 - 11:17 AM In Hawaii, Hurricane Lane is meeting Kilauea this week. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/hurricane-lane-could-cause-white-out-landslides-with-kilauea-volcano.html "Other volcanoes have interacted with hurricanes and the results have been disastrous," said Tracy Gregg, an associate professor of geology at the University of Buffalo. "Kilauea is being polite, in comparison." |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 22 Aug 18 - 12:41 PM 1906 was the # of that last post. hmmm ah oh A great earth quake that happened before in San Francisco is going to happen again but not in San Francisco |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 22 Aug 18 - 12:30 PM Winds in the east, mist comin' in Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin. Can't put me finger on what lies in store, But I feel what's to happen all happened before. Only this time its coming far faster Than your average disater |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 20 Aug 18 - 01:49 PM Here's a thing beyond my understanding: the wind is out of the east, and east of us is the Atlantic Ocean, so it's a sea-breeze. I get that it is cooling. And ... it's also DRY. Not humid or sticky. However it works, it is welcome relief after the humidity and the rain-flooding. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 17 Aug 18 - 06:23 PM rain all over again ... |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 15 Aug 18 - 02:35 PM The lid came off of the sky today and something was seen that hasn't been seen for days and days: blue sky, puffy white clouds and bright direct sunshine. (Still muggy/sticky/humid though.) |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 14 Aug 18 - 01:20 PM "August: cold, and dank and wet -- Brings more rain than any yet." And so help me, this year it's true! Outside, it thinks it's April. The rain is POURING out of the gutters and drainpipes. No itsy-bitsy spider has a ghost of a chance of climbing up the water-spout at the moment. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 13 Aug 18 - 02:49 PM The sky still has a lid on it. Ceiling. However you describe it. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 12 Aug 18 - 03:18 PM Well, somebody has to post message number 1900. The sky here has got a lid on it. A lid of dark gray rainclouds. And the lid/ceiling is expected to stay on the sky hereabouts for the next four days or better. It doesn't rain ALL the time. It just hovers overhead and looks threatening. Where it DOES rain there are flash-flood warnings posted. And the humidity never lets up, not even overnight. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 10 Aug 18 - 06:30 PM Well, we have had a day or two to catch our collective breath here. The storm systems, however, are not done with us. The whole weekend could be rained out, as well as early next week. Temperatures may cool thereby, but no let-up with the muggy humidity. Now if we could only shove the rainstorms clear over to the United Kingdom ... |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 09 Aug 18 - 06:19 PM Something unusual is reported on Cape Cod. It wasn't the ocean surf doing a surge. It was the rain coming down in inches per hour. Regardless of the ocean, streets had to be closed due to flooding, and there were power outages. But I merely heard this over the car radio, as I don't live near the shore. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Bill D Date: 08 Aug 18 - 10:26 PM We (North of Wash DC) have had a lot of rain the last month... but the really heavy, long-lasting ones have been on either side and below & above my specific location. A few days it has rained all day... but not heavily... and I have seen really strong rains that lasted only 10 minutes or so. Perhaps the Rain Gods remember that they flooded MY basement 4-5 times the last few years and THEY are giving me a break. Now I've probably jinxed myself by commenting... watch this space. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 08 Aug 18 - 05:51 PM Massachusetts is not a monsoon zone. But we have an occasional monsoon day, and if ever there was one, this is it. We've already had drenching rains for the better part of an hour under thick dark clouds. Then the sun came out, and NOW it's pouring down rain with the sun shining. Must be a rainbow somewhere. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 07 Aug 18 - 01:29 PM Might as well be in Arizona as Massachusetts, hot as it is. Advisories, warnings, these extend OVERNIGHT as it will not cool off even when the sun goes down. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 05 Aug 18 - 07:07 PM And today, you would never know that we got any relief yesterday. Same old same old, high heat, high humidity, faraway blue sky looks as though it ought to be cooler 'way up there than it is 'way down here. Refrigerated-Air-Conditioning working overtime, day AND night. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 04 Aug 18 - 01:26 PM A big system of storms just came through here. The good news is that its movement was rapid. As it was, there has been flash flooding; had the storms moved more slowly, the flooding would have been deeper. No tornadoes where I actually live, although a tornado touched down a county or two to the west. Wonder if we can visualize the storms hurrying over to the UK? |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: ChanteyLass Date: 02 Aug 18 - 06:12 PM When I got into my car in the mid-afternoon, its outdoor temp reading said 100. It had been parked in full sun. After a few minutes of driving the reading had dropped to 97--plenty hot enough. It stayed at 97 as I continued to drive. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 02 Aug 18 - 03:53 PM We have a heat advisory warning in effect at the moment. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: MikeL2 Date: 02 Aug 18 - 10:33 AM Hi i have a separate shower with it's own electric heater. I have had it for some years now. Like Steve when I work in the garden or when it is especially hot I shower out side. We are fairly well private so it is no problem there.!!! At lest I thought we were until a neighbour came into the Pub and during the evening let on that they could see me from their house. This didn't bother me - many years in the Air Force and more in the Rugby club I am used to not being concerned about my nudity. Later in the evening I told him I was surprised they could see me. He said "well my wife found out that if they stand on the toilet seat in the bathroom we can just see you." This was a number of years ago. I don't do it now. PS. we have just heard that United Utilities who supply our water have decided to remove the hose pipe ban that was due to me on from Sunday 5th August. cheers Mike |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 01 Aug 18 - 08:26 AM Historic hottest ever recorded temperatures in multiple locations as high as 127 yesterday. I think I know why |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: JennieG Date: 01 Aug 18 - 03:16 AM Dry, very dry. Much of Oz is in its third year of very-below-average rainfall, some even longer. Long range forecasts are saying not much hope of rain before next February/March at least. Grass here is a thing of the past, farmers' stock is dying off, native animals - kangaroos etc. - are dropping where they stand. Not much we can do about it, except cope as best we can...... |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 29 Jul 18 - 02:19 PM Jeri called it correctly, on another thread, regarding weather in the NE United States, with the short-term rotation of thunderstorms and downpours, bringing in cooler drier air which is quickly replaced by hot muggy humidity, and back to the storms. Today is after-the-storm lower-humidity. Feels better. England is welcome to the rainy stuff. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Senoufou Date: 28 Jul 18 - 10:10 AM I was tempted to strip off Jim, and there were some requests, but I didn't. But I did dance The Floss! |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Jim Carroll Date: 28 Jul 18 - 08:15 AM "Danced in the front garden " Hope you were fully clothed (just because I wasn't there) Jim |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Senoufou Date: 28 Jul 18 - 04:30 AM 36 degrees here yesterday, THEN - violent thunderstorms in the evening and torrential RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN!!!!!!!! Oh thank goodness! Danced in the front garden and all the neighbours were doing the same. We were soaked through, and glad to be so! Still pouring down this morning. The wet earth smells gorgeous. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 28 Jul 18 - 02:31 AM Great weather for pre historic nemotoads, Some 300 species of ancient worms have re emerged from melted Arctic permafrost and have begun to eat and move again. The meek shall inherit the Earth. Hottest June ever recorded for the entire planet. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 27 Jul 18 - 07:41 PM From the radar maps online it looks as if Scotland finally got some precipitation. England as well? |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Senoufou Date: 24 Jul 18 - 05:16 PM Our local A&E is packed out with people who have collapsed in the street or had heart problems due to the intense heat. I keep sweeping up dead dragonflies, moths, bumble bees, wasps, bluebottle flies etc from the floor of our conservatory. It makes me very sad. Oh how we long to hear the patter of raindrops! |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 24 Jul 18 - 04:20 PM Mudcatter gnu has reported that things are tough for him. Wonder if the weather is bothering him as well... |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 22 Jul 18 - 08:57 PM No thunder. No lightning. Little fits and spits of rain. And a sky of highly threatening-looking clouds that promise more than they deliver. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Jon Freeman Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:36 AM I’d have to fill them up with a hosepipe as I’m running low and there doesn’t seem to be any rainwater forthcoming but here in North Norfolk, I can store about 2000L of water and sometimes ponder storing more (I could get at least 1000L container in behind the pigsties). I can (and do) do the veg plot, small greenhouses with that. The water is pumped via a marine fresh water pump/ solar panel setup and some micro irrigation bits. The grass round the back is all brown. At the front, we’ve lost a few things in pots that weren’t on that micro-irrigation set up but is otherwise OK. The last hosepipe ban here banned this too but did allow soaker hose. I did get some of this for the back bed that dries up very quickly but never got round to changing things over. I’m finding many days far to hot for me to do anything outside but have been enjoying evenings round the back (where Pip/mum, who loves the heat, and Furball join me) and try to get the odd job done. Washed all the stuff in the (not used at all last year) BBQ shed (an old pigsty) up last night, checked the stove and have a new kettle on order so evening cups of tea should be available soon. I suppose these pleasant evenings are one good side to this. It would be nice to have a BBQ out there but we’ve not worked out how to get Peter/dad down there and don’t want to exclude him from a meal. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Steve Shaw Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:27 AM We had some lovely cloud formations here yesterday, mainly in cirrus clouds, including some virgae which were windblown horizontally for miles. They're actually snow showers of tiny ice crystals which sublime as they fall into drier air below. We also had a stunning whole-sky sunset of scattered altocumulus clouds with a very strange rainbow in the east exactly at sunset. No rain or anything. I've got a photo and I need to look up what was going on there. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: MikeL2 Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:00 AM Hi Sen Here in leafy Cheshire we have been "advised" that the North West area will be prohibited from using the hose pipe from 5th August. I have two lawns that are rapidly burning up along with the plants and flowers. We have been using up water that we have been washing up with etc but according to my garden water gauge we have had hardly any rainfall since 12th May. Luckily We have not done any pots or hanging baskets because we were away in Wales up until the middle of may. My No 1 son has rigged up a siphon that my good lady can use to empty the bath water into an outside water butt. I prefer to shower and the siphon doesn't work on this. This is the worse I can remember and has certainly gone on longer than I remember. I do remember in 1976 we went up to South West Scotland and when we got there the rivers were dry and there were standpipes in the street. But as we arrived it started to rain. All I had to do was to get my wife to sing....lol Cheers Mike |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Senoufou Date: 22 Jul 18 - 03:15 AM Have you had a hosepipe ban yet Steve? I reckon it won't be long before we all have. We just use a small plastic bucket to put some water in our modest three tubs of flowers, and to refill the birdbaths and water trays for the wildlife. (We normally have a plethora of tubs and hanging baskets etc but for some reason didn't bother last Spring!) There have been some very weird cloud formations over our Wensum Valley location. I was praying they would result in thunderstorms and deluges of rain. No chance... And they're saying it will reach 33 degrees Celsius next week and still not a hope of any rain. Oh Lord! |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Jul 18 - 05:34 PM HOT. 109o (42.8 C). |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Steve Shaw Date: 21 Jul 18 - 08:45 AM First drop for three weeks, 7mm overnight, but that's all dried up already. Very warm and muggy today with strong sun and the forecast for next week is for extreme heat and humidity, and not much rain. At this rate the summer will outdo 1976, which was "nonesuch." |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 20 Jul 18 - 03:30 PM Too good to be true, that's how the weather is at the moment. Which means it won't last forever. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 17 Jul 18 - 09:26 PM A few pleasant sleeping nights forecast, with lower humidity, before it gets muggy and uncomfortable again; I'll take what I can get. |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 17 Jul 18 - 06:09 PM Same deluge here. Of the 79 moons of Jupiter there are a few with precipitation but not all are water/ |
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Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 17 Jul 18 - 02:22 PM I'm sorry, Senoufou/Eliza, it's disheartening and discouraging to feel so powerless over something so obvious to everybody. The rain is positively pouring down here. |
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