What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Apr 24 - 05:18 PM

Sleet and high winds ... no fun.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 24 - 02:31 PM

A New England Nor'easter of a storm is headed our way.
THe rain has just started now;
by THursday it could turn to wet heavy snow. Sigh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Mar 24 - 06:45 PM

Easter Sunday is March going out like a lamb,
with light winds and lots of bright sunshine.

But the first week of April is a roller-coaster forecast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Mar 24 - 04:00 PM

The recent storm produced cold rain, not snow.
Although it's too cold to feel like April,
winter is starting to thaw out
(and the ground is turning to mud underfoot).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Mar 24 - 02:55 PM

Yesterday was the 60 th anniversary of the Good Frida Earthquake
. One of my old dance instructors was on the military base working in a large print shop when it started. For over four minutes he was dodging massive print machines which had tore loose from the concrete floor and were acting like elephants trying to squash a mouse, him being the rodent.

We had a small reminder three years ago with a significant ground rumbler but nothing major since. Now the days are noticeably longer and warmer and we have avout a foot or two of warming softening snow to lose, which will probably occur pretty fast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Mar 24 - 09:06 AM

What a terrible thing. I used to do cruise ship rehabs in Dundalk harbor up from Port Everglades and remember the feeling of elation I had on Friday evenings when crossing Key Bridge on my way to visit family and friends in the DMV area, with Charm City all lit up in the north. Fortunately, but not for some, it happened at 1:30 A.M. rather than at a more heavily trafficked moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Mar 24 - 07:11 AM

There is a bridge under troubled waters in Baltimore. THERE ARE 2 SURVIVORS. The rest have been in 40 degree water for four hours which is not survivable. The containership hit the bridge and has some of the bridge pushing the bow deep into the water. About a mile of bridge is underwater.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Mar 24 - 07:44 PM

I wish it felt like spring.
It has been raining all day, and the rain has turned to slush;
it is more the end of winter than the beginning of spring.
Mud notwithstanding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Mar 24 - 05:56 PM

For the last 3 days all the cherry and magnolia blossoms are at peak but tonight's heavy rain will probably put an end to all the white flowers.
There are the very rare pink cherry blossoms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 24 - 07:03 PM

Of course, now that we have had the equinox,
we get snow and a biting sharp cold wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Mar 24 - 06:56 PM

The same night I noticed summer was moving on, wind gusts came into my bedroom so I looked in the cupboard for my first blanket (aka 2 fine woollen shawls sewn together to make a double bed covering) but also brought out my shawl from India which covers a bit over half my bed & slept under both of them. I've been cosy the last couple of nights, tho I threw off the second one last night. It's a bit cooler this morning, but it will be a lovely warm day with a chance of rain

sandra, Friday 10am

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Mar 24 - 12:41 PM

Not switching out of my winter sheets yet...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 09:01 PM

It's finally raining! Yippee!!

We had good rain in spring then someone turned the tap off a bit too tightly, so summer was very dry. A little sprinkle here and there, but nothing to get too excited about.....so we didn't.

Then this morning we woke up to light rain, gradually getting heavier and heavier, and it hasn't stopped. Thunder, lightning - the whole nine yards.

And more rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 05:51 PM

yesterday was the first day I noticed summer is moving on. I went out to buy some groceries on a pleasant Sunday afternoon wearing a short sleeved dress & the breeze was a tad nippy. Only a tad, the temperature was 20C (70F) but breezes whoosh about my street of mainly 4-storey apartment blocks, as the middle of our street is on the top of a hill with a skyscraper on each side. Winds can howl up the road towards us

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 05:01 PM

Our springlike burst of weather is past,
and this week we go back to typical March weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 24 - 11:32 AM

Snow, ice, and wind -- mostly wind, since it has stopped snowing.
And tomorrow it's supposed to zoom up an additional 20 degrees F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 03:52 PM

2 more inches of snow this morning, which is funny, 'cuz I don't remember ordering any.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Mar 24 - 05:38 PM

Pre dawn skies were an unusual deep chrome yellow from DC to NYC.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Mar 24 - 02:13 PM

So my winter parka is at the cleaners' over the weekend.
And Monday is forecast to stay around freezing,
so I will have to layer up
until I can get to the cleaners' that day to pay for the cleaning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Mar 24 - 10:52 AM

It's warm enough that I had to get out my lightweight coat
for the first time since winter began.
The winter parka is just too heavy for these high temperatures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 24 - 12:28 PM

We are forecast to receive an inch to an inch and a half of rain today.

Too bad we can't re-route the rain to the Texas panhandle region,
where wildfires are not yet under control.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 24 - 09:40 AM

DC has been 20 to 25 degrees above 'normal' all winter. It reached 32 degrees (freezing) only 25 times by morning.

In OZ 30,000 are evacuated due to brush fires again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Feb 24 - 07:06 AM

shit

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Feb 24 - 11:05 PM

Here in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California, we are in the season known as "fake Summer." The temperature has almost reached 70 degrees F the last few days. The fruit trees and daffodils are in glorious bloom. The last windstorm cleared all the dead needles off the towering Ponderosa Pines.

Today is Tuesday. A blizzard is predicted for Thursday. And some wonder why the Donner Party had a tough time in this area this time of year in 1846-47.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 27 Feb 24 - 09:07 PM

Ahhhh, the banner headlines .... This may or may not appear elsewhere, but let's at it:

MaJoC's Surprise-Factor Law

The reaction to snow is inversely proportional to its frequency:

* If there's two feet of snow at JFK, they push it aside and carry on.

* If there's two inches of snow at Heathrow, all flights are cancelled.

* If there's two flakes of snow on the doorstep of the tabloids, banner headlines proclaim IT'S AN ICE AGE.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 Feb 24 - 07:24 PM

One of the mildest winters ever here in SE Scotland : we have had all of one inch of snow so far, which was gone by lunchtime! Granddaughter bitterly disappointed as she had a new sledge for Christmas.
And ever since November, there have been banner headlines telling us when it’s going to come, but 3 months on and it’s still not here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Feb 24 - 06:08 PM

ANd now for unseasonably warm weather,
which translates to MUD season hereabouts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 24 - 10:34 AM

A few little snow flurries are lazily drifting through the air.
It's below freezing, and feels dangerously cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 04:35 PM

Now that we've been through another cold snap,
everything is supposed to warm up, and the ground will thaw and turn to mud.
This is about two months earlier than that is supposed to happen.
For sure, it won't last, but will pass like everything else.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 07:29 AM

Hee hee Donuel, my husband would agree with you, as he can't swim.
Luckily, we've just got home and decided to risk the flooded route into the village. Hooray! Anglian Water have dealt with the blocked road drain and the water has subsided. We got through without any risk to the car. I no longer feel trapped in the village.
But the bloomin' rain is still chucking it down. Grrrr!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 06:07 AM

The extremes of climate change extend to upper-level winds.
The jet stream broke all records and was going over 800 mph.
Flights are arriving 45 minutes early.
Winter heat here has broken records for 7 out of 10 years.
Welcome to Runaway Effects.
Pilots are facing skies never seen before.

Captain Senofou, having a rubber raft might come in handy.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 03:54 AM

We've had so much bloomin' rain here in Norfolk that many of the roads are under inches of water. But our village has the river Wensum flowing through it, and now it's burst its banks and seriously flooded the road out of the village. Fortunately our bungalow is on a road which is never flooded. Husband found an 'escape route' via Fustyweed to get us safely out on to the main road to Fakenham, and we were daft enough to pay the excellent team of Kurdish folk at Langor Bridge to wash our car and vacuum the inside. But (of course!) on the way back, we had to pass through loads of big puddles, and now our car is mucky again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Feb 24 - 06:15 AM

Temps here are 25 degrees above historic normals. Of course normals aren't normal anymore. The daffodil sprouts are 8 inches high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Feb 24 - 09:15 PM

we've just had a ginormous summer lightning-&-thunderstorm. I await the Weather Bureau's 1pm Monday update to see how much rain we got in Sydney

sandra
1.15pm

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Feb 24 - 05:56 AM

hot, sunny & humid ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 24 - 06:31 PM

A snow squall swept through the area today. Not that much fell,
but it was a spectacular sight while it came down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 07:46 PM

A couple weeks ago a weather front in the morning resembled a 2,000 foot high Tsunami with white breakers at the top about to sweep over the land.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 04:35 PM

Blow, blow, thou winter wind . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 07:18 PM

Having dodged the snowstorm, we are now below freezing
and there is a bitterly cold wind blowing.
It is supposed to stay this way for a while.
I'll be relieved when the temperatures become more moderate
and the wind dies down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Feb 24 - 01:27 PM

The snowstorm stayed far enough to the south that
only southernmost New England got the heavy snow.
The rest of us got a mere dusting of snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Feb 24 - 07:44 PM

The storm that brought rain to Texas is poised to
bring snow to the New England area in a few days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Feb 24 - 06:53 PM

Cold at n8ght but nice in the dsy, now

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 24 - 05:14 PM

Bracing for an early thaw, some danger of flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Feb 24 - 08:32 PM

In the southwestern New England area,
they are reporting that this past month was
one of the "mildest" January months on record.
This in spite of two modest snowstorms.

We might get some snow this month, and then again . . ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 24 - 02:40 PM

Much of January has been overcast here in North Texas. The mood follows the gloom, so today's bright warm blue sky is a welcome burst of energy. Time to start getting the garden ready for some of the crops that do well in the cooler months - potatoes, onions, and asparagus. Working in the sunshine helps health and mood even more than just seeing it through an open door.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Jan 24 - 02:58 PM

Why summers are getting more humid and how that can be dangerous

I went to bed at midnight with a fan blowing cool air on me at 85% humidity & woke at 6 to 98% - 45 mins later it has fallen to only 95%. We're expecting a warm day of 27C (mid 80sF) tho in the past few weeks we've had days in the mid 30s, over 100F.

Since time immemorial When I got home from work or whatever, I always change into a housedress - but twice this week I've dropped sodden clothes into the hamper & had a shower. By the time I go to bed in this kind of weather, I often feel like I could benefit from another one!

In recent days skin cancer experts were warning people to cover up &/or keep out of the sun as record crowds flocked to beaches!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 24 - 10:00 PM

On Monday it was 7 and our kid slipped doing volunteer work and broke his kneecap. Today was 72 and I sprained/tore the ligaments in my fingering hand opening a window with one finger for the cat .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 24 - 07:11 PM

So, just in time for the rain to have thawed both snow and ice,
we have a Sunday forecast for a major snowstorm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 24 - 07:02 PM

I've just been warned to be careful walking back to my residence;
under the rain puddles on the sidewalk, there is ice.
I've been advised to stay on the snow-covered grass . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 24 Jan 24 - 05:27 PM

You want warmer weather, keb? Come over to Oz for our two days of major heatwaves. LOL

Newcastle NSW usually misses most of the really hot weather because we get the coastal breezes but the forecast is for two days of 40 to 41 deg Celsius (approx 104 to 106 deg Fahrenheit) today and tomorrow. Luckily a cool wind is predicted for tomorrow afternoon.

This all follows a few weeks of unusually high humidity, even at night. I'm over it.

Tomorrow is Invasion Day, aka Survival Day, known by the English colonisers as Australia Day. A public holiday where a huge number of people are expected to flock to the beach or other water areas and subsequently get heatstroke. Not me. I'm staying indoors with the block-out blinds drawn, sipping my strawberry flavoured, home made iced tea spritzer.