What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 07:58 PM

...hmmm well, let's see......the land of flowers is very hot and sultry... the salt air has ninety eight percent humidity and it is ninety five...we've had a lot of rain finally and the fires are mostly out...now it's sinkholes cropping up...

flowers are wonderful this year...I have coreopsis daisies, pentas, caladiums, basil, mexican heather, hydrangea...the air smells like ripe fig trees ...we had fifteen inches of rain last month and five so far this month...rain brings out the scorpions,

I am off the porch from a late afternoon music session, driven in by mosquitoes, which I hear are carrying west nile virus to crows in the next county...lots of cicadas in the still wet air....it's great to be alive....hope everyone is having a nice day...harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:10 PM

Well, the weather was nice and seems OK again now. My parents went to see an outdoor production on Hamlet in Felbrigg (local National Trust Place and I believe, a lovely setting - I've yet to walk through the grounds). There was a flash and a bang and although the players at first tried to carry on, it was abandoned.

Garden here is great - enjoying new potatoes and brocolli at the moment. My favourite flower at the moment is the foxglove that decided to take root here. The roses, particularly one I believe is called "Rambling Rector" are looking splendid...

Jon

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:29 PM

Here in southeast Alaska we're in the middle of summer. Meaning it has cooled off again- down to the middle 50s, from the upper 60s- and the rains have been back since July 4th. Doesn't sound much like backyard barbecue weather, does it.

However, the flowers are in full, brilliant bloom and the grass is lush and green. The lilacs have just finished, astilbe and columbine are thriving, phlox in all its many colors is taller and brighter than I've ever seen it, on every hillside and dale, foxglove is blooming and stands about 4 feet tall now, on its way to 7 or 8 feet, petunias and pansies are in riotous color, nasturtium are budding and bachelor button is past its prime, day lilies are gorgeous yellow, scenting the air with their grapey, lemony, vanilla-y smell, the asiatic lilies are coming on; in the flower beds I have calendula,impatiens and geraniums.

Salmon are spawning and the eagles and sea gulls are in hog heaven; we are aware that if you don't want to meet bears it's not a good idea to go into the woods right now, especially next to a spawning stream.

Summertime- and the livin' is easy.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Benjamin
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:35 PM

It's been rather sunny. I've been tan this whole summer from working outside by the water. I've heard it was suppose to rain today. So far it's been sunny. I'm starting to wonder why I had to cut the grass yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MarkS
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:55 PM

Cooler than usual for this time of year in Pennsylvania, but thankfully no rain for the past week. My tomatos are finally growing and the zucchini is coming along great - but no joy with the peas this year. Lets hope for some slightly warmer weather for August == Mark

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 09:12 PM

South Portland Maine, temp 76 degrees, humidity, 50%. Perfect.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 09:35 PM

Orillia, Ontario, Canada - a sunny, breezy, gorgeous day, with small cumulus clouds. Could hardly be better.

- LH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 09:47 PM

Prescott, Arizona: mid-80s, mostly sunny, we had our first rain of the summer monsoon season today. The afternoon wind is blowing through the cottonwoods. The columbines have been up for a few weeks now, but most of the other wildflowers are over.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 10:40 PM

Bardstown Kentucky - the last four days have been gorgeous. low 80's F in the daytime, down to 55 F last night. This is unusual for July. Last Tuesday was awful. Even though it only got up to 94 or so, the humidity was about the same, would catch your breath and fog your glasses just to walk outside. I can come upstairs and visit Mudcat when it cools off, but I'll have to stay downstairs if it gets hot again.

My perennial garden is in full bloom. Garden phlox (from my grandmother's garden) is blooming, along with the Black-Eyed Susans. Coreopsis are still blooming too. My gardenia bush in a pot on the patio had its first bloom this week!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 10:45 PM

The past two days here in Tupelo, MS have been heavenly. Our oppressive heat / humidity has taken a vacation, and today actually gave a little hint of autumn.

So our weather is wonderful!

khandu

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 10:47 PM

Here in Virgin-eye-ay, it is as beautiful as it ever gets! Low to no humidity, warm and temperate, and sunny with a nice breeze. I only wish we were playing some outside gig this weekend. I imagine that this will not hold out for my groups next outside public performance. I can only hope and pray!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 11:58 PM

From the High Plains of eastern Wyoming, US--Hotter than the Hubs of Hell. Last two weeks it has been over 100F nearly every day. Hasn't even cooled off much at night. Maybe down to 80. The two days it did not reach 100, we had Gale Force winds and 4" of rain each day.......(caused flash flooding but not too bad). Now it's hot again and VERY humid because of the rain.

At least the rain helped the fire danger; going to be another bad fire summer in the West, I'm afraid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:32 AM

Phoenix, Arizona-105 to 116 degrees. Very, very hot. I envy artbrooks who lives less than 100 miles away.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: fox4zero
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:45 AM

Block Island, RhodeIsland: clear, dry, sunny, mid-70's today and mid-sixties tonight. About the highest average winds in the U.S. and today was no exception. Glorious weather for our Bastille Day party this evening! Larry Parish

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 09:56 AM

Sort of damp and grey at the moment.Last week we had temperatures well into the 80s and children were dropping with heat stroke at school but it didn't last long!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:21 PM

The last few days have been perfect here. Temperatures in the mid seventies to low eighties. Low humidity. Gentle breeze. A few clouds in an otherwise clear blue sky. I wish it could be like this all summer long.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:42 PM

There were some exotic places visited along this line. Now back down to the ordinary, Lurgan Co Armagh,Ireland, Temp low 60`s now dropping to mid 50`s 6.30pm, no extremes, Winter and Summer I can walk my dog. I remember paying a a visit to my US cousins and suffering in the low 100`s in West Virginia. I was also informed that in Winter you were also inhibited by heavy snow. Yes the locals may moan about our extra ration of rain but I will take this anytime in preference to most US climates. Where ever you are enjoy the rest of the day. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 01:48 PM

I'm in West Virginia. It's gorgeous here right now. However, it is pretty common for the heat and humidity to be opressive. Snow isn't a big problem in this part of the state, but it can be in the higher elevations of the more mountainous parts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 05:00 PM

Carol, I forgot to add your state is beautiful and all of the people I met, I remember we drove from Charleston to Logan County and not a feuding Hatfield or McCoy to be seen.Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 05:15 PM

(*smile*) Ard Mhacha, you are very gracious.

(We make West Virginia jokes here, too.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 05:20 PM

Well yesterday in London we had a mini tornado making it's way up the Thames, but regrettably, it stopped before it hit that Godawful Millennium Dome.... shame... It did bring with it a fairly ferocious thunder storm though... and some torrential rain. Today has been a bit Vivaldi - four seasons. Very hot and sunny this morning, cloudy and breezy at lunch time, a few spots of rain this afternoon, and chilly with no wind but great grey clouds this evening....

Happy St Swithuns' Day. Another 40 more like this to come!!

LTS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:09 PM

Central west New Jersey, in the Delaware Valley - about 80 degrees at the most with low humidity. Down to 50 at night. This morning on my way to work I had to turn on the heat in my car. The tomatoes are starting to produce fruit, and the squash is blossoming. Groundhogs ate my beans, but they are trying to come back.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:38 PM

"Don't mind the weather, if the wind don't blow"

very pretty here right now north of Wash DC

guess our local, sometimes poster, SongBob is doing ok, too he doesn't need to sing this now

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:54 PM

From the west coast of Vancouver Island, a cool wind came up from Washington State a couple of days ago bringing the temperature down to the low 20s and threatening a sprinkle of rain. Lowered the fire hazard in the bush and gave me the impetus this afternoon, to stack in the shed, the bales of sweet smelling hay that have been sitting in the driveway for the past week.

I itch and as usual I'll ache tomporrow, but I am thankful for the pleasure of the aroma and the connection to the earth and seasons the job provides.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:02 PM

ahhh...LTS...you have a delightfully wacky sense of humor!!! .... but there is no such thing as "chilly with no wind"....*wink*

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dorrie
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:11 PM

its stopped being summer already in hull they say its nevre dull in hull but they're wrong

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 02:00 AM

Ah Harpgirl, you have a point. Were that it were so though.... I'd have more of it!

There were some photos of our tiny tornado in the papers, surprised no-one else mentioned it.... it travelled down the river and got to within 2 miles of my place.... it got so dark I had to put the lights on and the street lamps came on!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 03:02 AM

Sunny,but not hot here, its 8AM on the east coast of England.I think Dorrie is right, summer has ended here.john

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 08:18 AM

Even the eighty year old folks I have asked have never seen summer weather like we've had this year this in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. So far this summer, we've only had about a half dozen days of 30C and above. The rest of it has been 10 to 15C overnight and 20 to 25C daytime, RH around 50 to 80%, and little rain. Don't expect it will last much past the new moon, though.

The New Brunswick shore of the Northumberland straight is a big tourist draw because of the warm waters and beautiful beaches but I've seen a lot of them walking around with jackets and long pants and disgusted looks on their faces.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 05:19 PM

Nashville, TN - mid to high 80s the last couple of days, very pleasant evenings. It's supposed to get hotter this week, though. ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,emily b
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 06:30 PM

I'm here in Houston and it's been hot, mid-90's and quite humid. Many mosquitos after our big flood last month. Summer is nowhere near over. It'll be like this through Sept. at least. Right now I'm in the middle of a thunderstorm that is no doubt lowering the temp a bit but the a/c will continue to run for a few months. The crepe myrtle is beautiful, I found a lone, late magnolia on Saturday that I buried my nose in for that wonderful scent.

I'm a city girl who doesn't grow things except rosemary and bouganvilla which is also beautiful. All the perfect weather elsewhere sounds too good to be true but I know it is true. I'm escaping to Maine in a few days so maybe Kendall's perfect weather will hold for me. I'll have to put out another thread about music up there.

Please, everyone up north, flap your arms collectively and send a cold front this way. We would be forever grateful.

All the best,

Emily

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Atomic.T
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 11:20 PM

Rain and more rain at the moment in the winter of New Zealand bush...but ...that's why we live here

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Angie
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 10:23 AM

Pretty mingin here in devon, never mind I'll be in Scotland next week and no doubt it will be sunny.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: English Jon
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 11:40 AM

Pissing down like a bastard.

EJ

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Louisa
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 11:53 AM

Dark and gloomy and raining! Horrible. The summer better come back soon

Louisa

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Cheydi
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 11:54 AM

There are many scientific terms, but I think 'crap' sums it up nicely.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: English Jon
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 12:01 PM

Currently we have a bit of an occluded front, as we say in East London.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 02:11 AM

Sydney, Oz - just glorious. About 18 degrees Celsius and it's mid winter; almost sunbaking weather.
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DancingMom
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 07:13 PM

Raining kitties and puppies at the moment, but we were getting desperate for rain in VA. Muggy, humid. It's supposed to COOL OFF when it rains! But I picked the first tomato off my vines today. It's a beaut. Doing lots of herbs this year, and I have pink and blue morning glories running up and down my fence, and burgundy hollyhocks. And it's all starting to come back year after year. AND my teenager enjoys weeding! Cool, huh? Sharon

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gervase
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 07:22 PM

The weather? More like bloody climate. And so very English - pissing down and pissing off the cat, who doesn't appreciate rain. He's starting to take it out on the furniture and my feet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:00 AM

Just starting to cool off a bit (down to about 90 and its 11PM here) in middle Kansas from 105 degrees this afternoon. Humidity also high. Can't even hope for rain very hard because you get severe thunderstorm warnings and possible tornados with it. I'd rather have snow up to my butt anytime than this kind of heat. Come on, December.

Lin (kvetch, kvetch, kvetch...)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pattyClink
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:37 PM

Okay, so it's hot as blue blazes! It's bright and humid and sweaty and the UV index is at 'warning' level. I am going to leave a frozen bottle of water in my car while I go walking at lunch, knowing it will be liquid before the first lap is over. It's Hot. But the tomatoes and peaches are trying to apologize.

And we'll bring the subject up again again in February, you girls and boys of the North Counteree!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:52 PM

Well, just as I posted above. New moon tomorrow and the next three days are forecast to be in the high twenties C. I expect the next few weeks will be low to mid 30's, but hopefully that won't go on too much after the next full moon. All depends on the cloud cover. Could be two weeks or six weeks of hot weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 09:22 PM

HOT

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 11:50 PM

It isn't. The weather here has gone on strike, because it's sick of everyone talking about it. We have no weather anymore. It's a real problem. People don't know what to say to each other, and they are getting really crabby and tense. Things are going downhill around here fast, so I think I will just stay indoors for awhile...

- LH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gypsy
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 10:39 PM

Well, we are at the height of summer. Which means: fog with delusions of granduer (trying to be wet) to grey. When tourists ask when the fog will burn off, i look at my watch and reply: October! :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 11:12 PM

I like it hot. Some don't. But I do like the nights to be cool.... Every window it is safe to open at night, is open creating enough draught to make the door bang, but not enough to cool me down. Which is why I'm posting here at 4.15am GMT. Just off for a semi naked wander in the garden I think.....

LTS

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Melani
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 12:14 AM

San Francisco Bay Area--low clouds and fog in the morning, clearing to near the coast by midday, highs in the 60's near the coast to the 90's in the warmest inland areas, lows tonight in the 50's...the other day the radio announcer said, "And the weather today--oh, you already know it." We are remarkably consistent.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 12:19 AM

STILL HOT!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 12:23 AM

HOT!! (100F/38+?C) Tonight, severe thunderstorms and rain with lightning, and still hot. At least the rain will help with the fires. I too, prefer "too hot" to "too cold." I seem to always be able to cool off, but never get warm, esp at temps below 0 F/-32 C. Shudddddddeeeerrr. Please cover my feet.

Why is it that cold looks colder in Centigrade, and hot looks hotter in Farenheit? Shouldn't there be a "real relative" scale, (grin)?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Shields Folk
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 03:47 AM

AND NOW THE SHIPPING FORECAST ISSUED BY THE MET.OFFICE AT 0505 ON TUESDAY 31 JULY 2001

THERE ARE WARNINGS OF GALES IN FINISTERRE

THE GENERAL SYNOPSIS AT 0100 SHALLOW LOW TYNE 1017 MOVING RATHER QUICKLY EASTSOUTHEAST AND FILLING. ATLANTIC LOW MOVING STEADILY NORTHEAST EXPECTED 150 MILES WEST OF SOUTH BAILEY 1014 BY 0100 TOMORROW. NEW LOW EXPECTED SOUTHEAST FINISTERRE 1012 BY SAME TIME

THE AREA FORECASTS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

VIKING NORTH UTSIRE SOUTH UTSIRE NORTHEAST FORTIES WEST OR NORTHWEST 4 OR 5. SHOWERS. GOOD

SOUTHWEST FORTIES CROMARTY FORTH VARIABLE, MAINLY NORTHWESTERLY, 3. ISOLATED SHOWERS. GOOD

TYNE NORTHERLY 3 OR 4 BECOMING VARIABLE 3. MAINLY FAIR. GOOD

DOGGER CYCLONIC BECOMING NORTHERLY 3 OR 4, THEN VARIABLE 2 LATER. RAIN AT FIRST. MODERATE OR GOOD

FISHER NORTHWESTERLY 4 OR 5. SHOWERS. GOOD

GERMAN BIGHT VARIABLE 3 BECOMING NORTHWESTERLY 4, OCCASIONALLY 5. RAIN THEN SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD

HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT WESTERLY VEERING NORTHEASTERLY 3, OCCASIONALLY 4. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD

PORTLAND PLYMOUTH WESTERLY BECOMING VARIABLE THEN EASTERLY, 3. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD

BISCAY NORTH OR NORTHEAST 3 OR 4, INCREASING 5 IN WEST. THUNDERY SHOWERS IN FAR SOUTH. MODERATE OR GOOD, BUT OCCASIONALLY POOR IN FAR SOUTH

SOUTH FINISTERRE NORTHEASTERLY 6 OR 7, OCCASIONALLY GALE 8, BECOMING CYCLONIC 5 LATER IN FAR SOUTHEAST. THUNDERY SHOWERS. MODERATE OCCASIONALLY POOR

NORTH FINISTERRE NORTH OR NORTHEAST 4 OR 5. FAIR. MODERATE OCCASIONALLY POOR

SOLE NORTHWESTERLY VEERING NORTHEASTERLY 3. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD

LUNDY FASTNET WESTERLY VEERING NORTHERLY 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY 5 AT FIRST. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD

IRISH SEA NORTHERLY 4 OCCASIONALLY 5 BECOMING VARIABLE 3. MAINLY FAIR. GOOD

SHANNON NORTHWESTERLY BACKING SOUTHWESTERLY 3 OR 4, INCREASING 5 LATER IN NORTHWEST. RAIN OR DRIZZLE LATER. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE WITH FOG PATCHES

ROCKALL MALIN NORTHWESTERLY BACKING SOUTHERLY 3, INCREASING 5 OR 6 LATER. RAIN OR DRIZZLE LATER. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE OR POOR, WITH FOG PATCHES LATER IN ROCKALL

HEBRIDES WESTERLY 4 BACKING SOUTHEASTERLY 5 OR 6. SHOWERS THEN RAIN. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE OR POOR

BAILEY WESTERLY BACKING EASTERLY 4 OR 5, DECREASING 3 FOR A TIME. SHOWERS THEN RAIN. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE OR POOR

FAIR ISLE FAEROES WESTERLY 4 OCCASIONALLY 5. SHOWERS. GOOD

SOUTHEAST ICELAND WESTERLY 4 BACKING SOUTHERLY 3. SHOWERS. MAINLY GOOD

The Shipping Forcast

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: sledge
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 08:12 AM

Well since I got back to work out here in North Africa, its been hot, damned hot. Today though its exceeded that and is now chuffing hot. Difficult to say what the temp is cos the thermometer burst a while back. Its often windy as well, the winding is also chuffing hot and contains half a ton of sand in each gust, this mean that we never have to buy overpriced cleansing products that promise to remove dead skin and so on, we just go outside for 5 minutes with t shirt off. Oh yes, no clouds, just perfect blue.

Sledge (done this side flip me over)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,53, Glenda
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 09:12 AM

Half an Hour from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA: beautiful day today, blue sky, not as humid as usual - only 90% today. 70 degrees this morning but warming up to low 90s later.

We've been having some rain everyday lately, but that is better than drought.

Enjoying farm produce like okra, watermelons, cantaloupes, beans, etc. from the local farmers market.

Glenda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rowana (at work)
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 09:22 AM

It's glorious in southern New Jersey this last day of July. Very low humidity; early morning temperature of low 60s; expected high is 83; sunny; light breeze. Had fresh Jersey blueberries for breakfast and will have a fresh Jersey peach for lunch. Life is good!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Drumshanty
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 09:33 AM

I am sitting at work looking out on to West Parliament Square in Edinburgh. The tourists are flooding the place and most look quite happy - nice. There is a young man sitting beside St Giles Cathedral playing a clarsach - I think the tune is "Dark Island" - which lends an air of serenity to a chaotic scene.

It has just clouded over after a morning of blue skies and scuddy white clouds. It is very warm but, judging by the past few days, it will rain before dark. Edinburgh seems to have missed out on the heatwave so far.

Tracy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 02:54 PM

Here in the north of Scotland, 50 miles north of Inverness that is, the weather is rubbish. Once again it rained to-day for a short time. I don't think that we've had any more than 10 days without rain since end of May, this is without doubt the most miserable summer I can remember. I'm going over to Boston and points north from 6th September for 2 weeks, so it will probably rain there too. Excuse me Mudcatters but I'm feeling paranoid.

You know what they say, "Just because nobody's getting at you; don't mean you can't feel paranoid"

Jock

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 01:55 PM

Weel that sort of killed that one then!!!!!!!!!!! Jock

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: vindelis
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:53 PM

Not as hot as it has been and still waiting for the thunderstorm predicted yesterday. 77oF in the shade, on Sunday was too hot for me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Arnie
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:05 PM

Verrrryyyy wet today in Dover! However, off to France tomorrow so hope for a bit of sun - helps the wine go down smoothly!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:33 PM

Just came in again to have a look, thanks Shields Folk for that lovely poetry the Shipping Forecast. Used to go to sleep listening and making my way down through the cold North Sea passing Shields on the way and heading south to Plymouth and round into the Irish Sea and I seldom made it to Malin, out like a light. Lovely, better than counting bloody sheep. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:54 PM

Hot, muggy, steamy, and slightly overcast. Could be worse.

- LH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,guinnesschik
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 08:54 AM

Hot! Mostly dry. I have to water every day, and my miniture rosebush is failing. The only thing in my garden that seems to be doing well is the aloe vera. It's been in the low 100's, down to about mid 80's at night. Did I say hot?

In the north Texas area, late summer takes on the smell of dried grass and hot asphalt. We try to do all of our travelling after sundown, and even the the kids have become nocturnal creatures. I'm a mom, so I never sleep, and sunrise and dusk are my favorite parts of the day this season.

Anyone in a northern clime wish to summer in Texas? We'll do a time share thing.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Cheydi
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 09:01 AM

Yes please. Last time I was in Texas (early May) my knees stopped hurting for the first time in years. Want to swap now?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: LR Mole
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 10:02 AM

Cloudy and close in Rhode Island. Chance of big donder and blitzen tonight, with heavy rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 10:21 AM

...we've started a hurricane watch here on the Gulf. 120 days left in hurricane season. TS Barry seems to be going towards Louisianna but recent forcast models indicate a northerly turn. Still too soon to tell. It's hot and sunny but the rain is due tomorrow. I'm going to Gainesville to play autoharps since I can't get away longer for Clifftop...wish I was there....harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:32 AM

...Good News! No hurricane in LaFlorida!!! However....it is a frog-strangler today....hg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:39 AM

Muggy in southeastern Mass.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: brid widder
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 12:44 PM

wet all day in Hull....but back to sunshine tomorrow apparently

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: guinnesschik
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:03 PM

I am ready to swap now, Jim. Where are ya'?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bobbi
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:27 PM

Caliente'! Ready for Winter...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:37 PM

It's hot......it's real friggin' hot.......and it's humid........it's real friggin' humid. The word "friggin'" here applies to only the weather 'cause it's too damn hot and humid for the other kind!

I was hoping we'd make it through this summer without one of these episodes, but it's Ohio and in the midwest, this is the way of things. We have now had a 110 degree difference in temperature this year so all is about normal.

I hate the weather dudes on the tube............

"There's some relief coming as the cold front moves through.".......Lemmee ask you if 5 degrees seems like relief? When the humidity is at the 80-90 level, who cares?

or

"We have the potential for some thunderstorms popping during the evening hours and of course this time of year severe weather including flash floods and tornados."........Yeah, great....at least the wind will be blowing.

or

"Thunderstorm activity will be scattered and I hope it doesn't interfere with your fun wherever you are.".........Fun? Sweating your ass off is fun? What did I miss here?

What he's referring to is the State Fair now in progress. I love County Fairs and Ohio has lots along with assorted festivals. My county has there fair in October......cool weather, fall colors, a beutiful od time red roofed permanent fairgrounds...it's a postcard from another era. But the state fair???? It's August, it's hot. It's dry and dusty, but the humidity allows the dust to cake on you like a clay colored "Man-Tan." Then it pours down rain and the place turns to mud. But the sun pops out about twice as hot with the extra humidity and the mud dries quickly leaving you once again covered in dust. I haven't gone to the damn thing in 35 years and I'm still trying to get the crud off from that time!

Still, I'm an Ohio boy and I've lived a lot of other places..................but home is home ain't it?

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Shields Folk
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:46 PM

Its not friggin hot in Shields!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Shields Folk
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:49 PM

See for Yourself

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Cobble
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:54 PM

WET.

Cobble.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 09:28 PM

What catspaw said, only in New Jersey. And no rain. It's time for the annual drought. At least I have a deep well and really cold water. I can go lie in the tub for an hour. And to continue his gripe about the weather reporters: why do they have to deliver bad news with a smile? HOW ABOUT THOSE TORNADOES IN TEXAS, HUH? HA HA, AND BOY IS IT HOT, A HUNDRED DEGREES HERE IN NJ AND NO RAIN FOR 6 MONTHS!!!!!HA HA HA, BUT IT'S AIR CONDITIONED HERE IN THE STUDIO, SO THE HELL WITH YOU VIEWERS OUT THERE!!!! I checked the Criminal Code book at work, and apparently, weather reporters are not exempt from the laws against murder or manslaughter. Our laws need updating.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 10:14 PM

haven't read the rest of the replies..but it is hot and extremely beautiful in Vancouver, WA. I am moving to Long Beach, WA in a week or two for a job with WSU. Kite capitol of at least Washington. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 10:35 PM

My inside thermometer with outside sensor said 118F (47C?) today. I think it was a tad off as the bank thermometer only said 111. No rain, dry as a bone, and fires everywhere. I'm spending a lot of time in the pool.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bert
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:15 PM

Bleedin' 'taters! In the Pot that is, not in the Mould.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: guinnesschik
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 10:19 AM

Ssshhhhh! Don't tell Jim we have tornadoes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Fortunato
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 10:30 AM

arlington, district of columbia, southern baltimore, including the cities of alexandria, arlington, baltimore, falls church, washington 330 AM EDT TUE AUG 7 2001

...heat advisory for today... ...excessive heat watch Wednesday through Thursday...

Today...patchy morning fog...otherwise mostly sunny with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot and humid with highs in the upper 90s. West wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight...partly cloudy with areas of fog developing. Lows in the mid 70s. Calm wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 12:39 PM

You wouldn't believe how many 'lower 48' people have come up to southeast Alaska these last two weeks! Here our current temps are in the low 70s, sometimes misty. Just the way I like it.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 03:53 PM

Shields Folk, I spent three winters in sunny Sunderland just a couple of miles south of Shields and it was bloody perishing, but the warmest people you will ever meet. Right now in County Armagh Ireland 9pm it is a pleasant 60. Slan Ard Mhacha

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:23 PM

Hotter than the hinges of hell. We had one of those brief "scattered showers" the other day, and everybody felt like the steamed broccoli in a Chinese restaurant.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:30 PM

Yesterday: 113degrees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:30 PM

It's 103 in Richmond ,Va.right now!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:40 PM

'Fox, I am so sorry that I fouled up our meeting and all 'cause I sure could have used a shot of Goshen right now!!

It's still hot.......no breeze to amount to anything. Word is the weekend may get cooler although I'm waiting to see and not counting on it. We're all living down in the big den which is the only palce that's air conditioned. The main house ventilates well, but it's still way too damn hot. The fans upstairs blow hot air and I've got them all (but one) set to blow the air out of the house, but it's still pretty hopeless. I also notice that folks around town are getting crankier.......I am anyway.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: black walnut
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 04:22 PM

Intense.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 05:09 PM

(speaking of cranky) I'll let you do it this once, 'Spaw, but if I ever catch you apologizing for having an excellent reason to change our meeting date, I'll give you a dopeslap to the head worthy of Click and Clack, the Tappett brothers. OK? Probably just after we meet and hug. *G* Yeah, I guess we'll have to make do with our local brands today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Grab
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:00 AM

Just been to give blood, and I thought after that I'd have some good karma. No such luck. In the car on the way back, it started raining so hard that I had to slow down to 20 so I could see where I was going. Got back to work, still raining. Sat in the car for 5 minutes waiting for it to clear, still raining. So I thought I'd better get into work, rain or not. I was soaked to the skin by the time I'd locked the car door, and was utterly dripping by the time I reached the entrance. Lucky I did make the dash though - it's taken half an hour for that rain to stop!

Graham.

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

I'm just about to look out of the window. Hang on...

The sky's kind of a bluey-greyey colour. There's loads of clouds and no sun to speak of! So basically it's lousy!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:18 AM

Grab, Firecat, I'm willing to swap, even up, for a day or two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:31 AM

(95°F and 90% humidity)..Hot & Muggy....and Tueggy...and Weggy...maybe some relief by Fryggy

and G.W. Bush left this for Texas....only sense he has shown, at least the humidity is lower and the pollution warnings are not ringing...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 12:06 PM

Yesterday I spent the day on an excursion boat to Tracy Arm, a fjord about 40 miles from downtown Juneau. My face got a bit sunburnt, I see this morning. It was an absolutely gorgeous day.

We saw whales, orcas, bears, mountain goats; acquamarine water, glaciers piled 800 feet into the sky... They 'calved' several times while we watched, but the most spectacular thing was having a 'shooter' come roaring up from the very depths of the glacier. It was like being present at the birth of the world. It was tremendously big, longer than a city block, tall as a ship, and shiny as a satin wedding dress colored in an unbelievable shade of opalescent blue and silver. When you realize that the top of a glacier has been there for several hundred years, who knows how long it's been since the bottom of it has seen the light of day. As the captain said, I hope you realize this is a very big event!

Incidentally, to bring this back to music, we talked about how neat it would be to 'park' there and have a music party.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 12:26 PM

9:30 am temp, 87 degrees, humidity 70% This is Maine? we already broke a 100 year record the other day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 12:31 PM

The only reasonable place around is in the shower. Or under the hose outside. One of those kiddie pools is sounding VERY good right about now!

Lets all go visit Ebbie!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 02:48 PM

Guinnesschick, I live in what you might call a northern clime (so do Kendall and Jeri, for that matter- I notice it's taken until now for northern New England to post here!). Believe me, you don't want to swap. Not this week at any rate. The heat index for my region is supposed to reach 115 F today- no break until tmw night. I could use a bloody miserable rainy northern Scotland right about now.
I'm coping like a newborn, tho- I took about the second nap of my life a little while ago- really slept for almost an hour. Later my kids and I are going shopping in the air conditioned stores (way up north here we don't generally invest in air conditioning- most summers there's not much point to it!). Guess I'll go give the dog a bath. At least I'll get wet!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Firecat
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 07:20 PM

Hollowfox, you're on!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 08:22 PM

I wouldn't be too sure G.W. bettered himself. I was raised about twenty miles from Crawford, Texas, and lived in Washington, D. C. for two years. They are both pretty miserable in the summer.

Here in Phoenix, we had a cool front move through today. it only got up to 95 degrees. Humidity probably 25%.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:18 PM

Hotter than the hinges of Tofit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:20 PM

Saw a dog chasing a cat, they were both walking.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:36 PM

YUCK!! It is a friggin' godawful time to be a chef!!!! I survive by arriving at the kitchen at 6 in the morning and doing all of the cooking by 10:30 or 11 It's a bit slow as no one wants to eat much. sitting at the computer, dripping sweat, no breeze, whine, whine, growl, whine . . . . What is this?? 90 in the SHADE, in VERMONT?? whine, whine, whine. . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Firecat
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 07:33 AM

Hollowfox, please swap! It's even worse now. I was kept awake by a thunderstorm last night!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 08:00 AM

Not one blade of green grass anywhere in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Someone swap us some rain. We've been getting 35C and 50%RH. Roofing crews are pulling off at noon because the shingles are like a skating rink. Today's humidex is forecast at 43C. I can't imagine some of the heat and humidity described above. How do people work in 95F/95%RH or 115F !!??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: guinnesschik
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:00 AM

Well, at least we have that lovely cripsy leaf smell to look forward to, if the heat doesn't singe your nose hairs....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 10:06 AM

101 degrees F on Thursday, Aug. 9, hottest day ever in August since the Attleboro, MA, water department started keeping track of these things in 1938.

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

We had rain last night and this morning, and it's much cooler. Thanks, Firecat, your drought is in the mail.

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

So sorry for all you good hot people in the US, it is a nice 65 Degrees in Lurgan Ireland, just walked my dog around a lovely Lough and he enjoyed a nice swim, the luxury of being able to go for a walk. When I was in the States I found the weather good training for Hell.Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DancingMom
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 08:45 PM

Good training for hell is RIGHT ON TARGET! It's STILL 103 in Richmond, VA, and humid, hazy,and just obnoxious. This is worse than being cabin-bound with a house full of kids in the dead of winter. (bitchbitchbitch) But, Ah! Nine P.M. Friday night, and what do I hear? Thunder? Be still, my heart, it's THUNDER!! Sharon (leaving now to go sit on the porch.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeep man
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:18 PM

North Carolina Mountains.

The heat lays on the land like a heavy wet blanket which can not be removed. The sultry nights make me long for the crisp cool air of autumn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 06:36 PM

Its freezing cold, with wild winds blowing, snow on the Blue Mountains, rain, trees are being blown about, dogs flying down the street - its Bad weather here in Sydney.

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Cruiser
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 06:52 PM

That weather sounds good freda.

Here in southwestern Arizona it is a relatively cool 108 degrees with a monsoon dewpoint of 56 degrees. Muggy, sweaty, and cloudy, but it does not rain (we desperately need rain).

Cruiser

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 10:11 PM

We've had an odd summer- entirely too much sun. Last month we had a record breaking 8 days in a row of 80plus degrees. One day we even hit 86! The humidity was down, which helped.

Then the last several days we've had warm, sunny weather again. Keep in mind that Junea, Alaska, is in a temperate rainforest- if we didn't get rain, we'd have to call it something else. Texas, maybe.

Today we're back to the misty, silvery, soft air that I love, with wispy clouds clinging to every crevice and curve of the mountains all around. The top of Mt. Roberts is lost in clouds that in most places would indicate a smoking volcano.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 10:41 PM

My wife and I spent today at San Diego's Sea World. Beautiful warm sunshine, dolphins spashing water all over us as we watched the show from the second row. Water rides and Mexican food filled out a wonderful day.

I'm a little sunburned, but I'll live. Besides, tomorrow I'm heading back over to Amos' house for some more beer, food and folk music. 5 more days here until we head back to Anchorage. This is a great place to spend a couple weeks, but it will be good to be back home.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mike_in_st_c
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 11:08 PM

My wife and I just got back from Tobermory on the peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay here in Ontario. Rained most of the time. Saw reports of flooding in Peterborough, ON. Of course as we were driving back to St. Catharines, it was sunny. Cloudy, cloudy, cloudy. Off and on rain in St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. Good for the grape vines, I guess.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 02:40 AM

Ebbie, your beautiful description of Junea, Alaska, (in a temperate rainforest) has just blown all my ideas of what Alaska is like..

its great reading about the hot & cold in all these places.. just had coffee with a neighbour who has just driven back to sydney from Victoria (further south) - they drove through 60k of snowfields from Yass to Goulburn in NSW - so Thats why we're so cold here!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 03:39 AM

Well I just re-read my original post from 31 July 2001, and it's deja vu all over again [tautology] We've just had the wettest June for 36 years, and July is heading down the same path. Our summers here are definitely getting wetter, with the sunshine hours down by a long way, plants in my garden suffer from wind burn regularly, and that never used to happen in summer. It's true what they say, "The world's going to hell in a hand basket"
Giok

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 04:02 AM

There are such severe snowstorms in some of the snowfields that they have had to close quite a few skilifts.

High winds here in Sydney, roofs off buildings, trees down, the harbour is too rough for the Manly ferry to run, there is snow in places that have not seen snow for years. More storms, rain and wind expected for the next couple of days too. The Weather Bureau has put out a warning for "Hazardous Winds and Damaging Surf Conditions". Well, we DID need rain.

Meanwhile there are floods in New Zealand, and two people have died.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:10 AM

bit nippy today - winter has finally started. I've been sitting around elegantly dressed in track suit & dressing gown!

we had a bit of rain in the last few days, after a very dry June (1 day with a few spots of rain, if I recall properly.) Lots of Drought Declarations around & Sydney's dams are very low, we have had water restrictions most of the year.

the climate is changing?

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,jacqui.c
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:55 AM

I'm at my daughter's in Newark England for the weekend. It's warm and a little windy, but it keeps threatening to rain - only a few spots so far though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 12:11 PM

In the words of the Bard Formby "Eeeh turned out nice again"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Anne Croucher
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 12:37 PM

Odd really - every day I wake up and think something along the lines of 'turned out nice again' as I look out of the window - I don't pull the curtain across the middle of the bay window as it faces the street and is not overlooked - our house is the tallest and at the top of the slope - it is on a ridge so the ground drops away both sides. Downstairs in the back there is a wall of green, apple trees, the loganberry, a grape vine, a holly tree, upstairs we can see Poole harbour between the houses further down the slope, and the Purbeck Hills beyond.

Here on the South coast of England the climate is mild, snow is usually just a few flakes once or twice a year, and it melts on contact with the ground. We have a few storms, but nothing that would ever make me think it is a miserable day. The positive energy of a storm makes me want to go out and dance, but most days the sun comes out for some of the time - maybe its like the half full/half empty glass - my days are as sunny as my own disposition.

Anne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 12:50 PM

The skies are a clear cerulean blue, with a few traces of white here and there, and the day promises to be warm, as most of our days in San Diego are. Today we are having a FolkenSplurgen here, a gathering of a clutch of local Catters and folkies for beer, burgers and singing. Alaska Mike is in town, so I ma glad he uis getting a smaple of our nicest weather. I look forward to the day!


A

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 01:03 PM

windy and wet in Wash DC...has been a VERY wet Spring & Summer so far...with last year being one of the wettest years on record. We got two days with no rain, so I went out & mowed grass, but it was so deep that it was still damp from LAST rain, so it gummed up the inside of mower. The plus side is that it is a bit cooler than usual on average...(but the humidity never slacks!)

3 years ago, we were ending a drought...I guess I'll take wet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 11:43 PM

We were hiking in the Sierra today. I'd say the temperature was a comfortable 80 Fahrenheit (27 C.). It was 90 at home (33 C.), so we were glad we were at a higher elevation. The wildflowers in the Sierra this year are the best I've seen - reds and blues and purples and oranges and whites - all in a sea of various shades of green.
There were still a few patches of snow in the Sierra.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 12:05 AM

Oh! The wildflowers of the American West! I've always wanted to see them. Perhaps next year we might! We're saving like mad. True-love would like to see his old homeland again one more time. We're plotting our course in the hope of it all woking out! Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 12:06 AM

Today was nice, 80's F, cool breeze. Last Tuesday night we had a severe thunderstorm, the one that rode the jet stream all the way across Indiana and Kentucky, 80-mile-an-hour winds. I was caught out in it, did some stupid things, but survived. We were without electricity for three days, many homes in Kentucky have been out for a week.

We've also had an extremely wet Spring and Summer. My garden, the first I've grown in ~25 years, is doing well. I've been picking three 40-foot rows of beans nearly everyday for several weeks. I've made over 30 quarts of bread-and-butter pickles, and I already have two pumpkins that are several feet in diamter!

Joe, I'd love to see the wild flowers there. One of my favorite Charles Kuralt episodes was of fields of flowers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 03:11 AM

The Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney, snow Sat. night but since then just cold, wet & miserable.

My wife tells me it's some freak conditions bringing cold from Antarctica in unusual quantities. To be honest it's no colder here than most winters, but I believe the snow has gone to places where it doesn't normally go, and there have been some very strong winds in Sydney.

Meanwhile there are some pretty ugly bushfires in America, and floods in New Zealand, I hear.
Reminds me of last time I posted to this thread.

John

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 03:54 AM

Fire hazard extreme here in the hills of Metchosin on Vancouver Island. The temperature has been in the mid 80s for a couple of days, but has cooled tonight to a comfortable 66. Weather forecast is for showers or a possible thundershower. Sure hope the forecasted rain does more than just wash the dust off the cedars and swordferns, but I won't hold my breath. Its always dry here in the summer, it's the unusually dryer winters, the past few years, that is most worrisome.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 05:29 AM

Clear fine days, cool mornings, temperature range about 6 to 20 degrees Celsius (about 42 to 68 Fahrenheit).

The glorious silver wattle is fading, and we need some rain.

Another bitter winter in Brisbane.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 08:22 AM

Alaska Mike, Amos, Have they got Sea Otters at San Diego's sea world? Just wondering Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 09:32 AM

80s to 90s. Yesterday we had OVER TWO (2) INCHES OF RAIN in less than a hour! Flash flood warnings then, and today from 3 to 9 pm. This is the second weekend with a delugic downpour. Not that we don't need the rain, but I'd rather it came in a gentle soaker over several days.

They say that there is a moist front and a drier front colliding over us.

Wildflowers. They're spectacular! Pale yellows, azure blue lupines, deep yellows, firey Indian paintbrush, purplish fireweed, all against the silver-green sage. Sometimes a magpie will flash black and white among them, or a red-winged blackbird will flit along. Even a golden or bald eagle or a kestrel can sometimes be seen. The best time to see them is probably mid-June. (And for a real treat, see Craters of the Moon National Monument in flowertime. All that dwarf buckwheat and such against the lava and basalt -- fabulous!) Maybe I'll see if I can have some pictures posted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 10:16 AM

Hi Joybell, I didn't see any Sea Otters at Sea World. They had a cute river otter named Opie that performed in a show with 2 sea lions named Clyde and Seymore.

We saw dolphins, pilot whales, orcas, sharks, sea lions, penquins, polar bears, and so many different kinds of fish it staggers the imagination.

But if you want to see sea otters, you will have to come visit Alaska. They are still quite plentiful and easily spotted on any of the many sight-seeing cruises that venture out past the coastline.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 10:56 AM

Ya gotta go here, Joybell. Last time I was up that way they had a video camera out on a island where the only inhabitants were sea lions. You could watch 'em from your hotel room, too. See Seward, see sealife, see?

It's only my poor opinion, but EVERYONE should visit Alaska, and NOT on one of those bloody damned cruise ships! Fly to Anchorage and rent a vehicle! Plan your trip in advance, dammit! You don't let someone else play your concerts, do ya? So why are you going to let them plan your trips? (I'm a bit vehement about that, perhaps.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 11:41 AM

We have a pod? family? collection? of river otters that we can watch go about their business out on the wetlands dike trail in Juneau. And as Alaska Mike said, sea otters can be found in many different spots (One Christmas day I watched three or five- hard to tell- cavorting in Gastineau Channel right here at home) and reliably so in the kelp beds in the Hoonah area. They look like nothing so much as huge upside down Cairn terriers.

I'm originally from Oregon and I do like Oregon. It's just that I like Alaska better.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 09:02 PM

I saw Sea Otters off the coast at Big Sur. One of the highlights of my life. We were passing through. Too poor to actually stay at the place. We watched one banging clam shells on it's special rock that it held in it's arms. Then it floated on its back eating the clam. I was entranced.
Mike and Rapaire thank you for the information. We do plan to hire a car. Alas! we'll be a bit restricted as to where we can go - because of the cost and because True-love will probably never be able to visit again. He has a dear friend in New Mexico so that's where we'll be heading. We will try to see lots of wild places on the way. I am keen to see desert wildflowers and grassland areas. Also as many Mudcatters as possible - wild or otherwise! If they are willing. We are looking at April next year so there's time to plan it all. Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 10:27 PM

Fly to Seattle. Whoop it up with folks like Deckman there. Drive across to Spokane and on into Idaho, stopping to party with Rangeroger up that way. On into Montana (by the way, you're sort of following the Lewis and Clark trail when you hit Idaho from Washington) and take I-15 down south. Stop by Pocatello here; I'll probably be able to find a place for yout to sleep and we can always water the soup.

Keep on South, through Utah and into New Mexico. From New Mexico, cross into Arizona and into California. Amos is in San Diego. Northward along the California coast; lots of folks around San Francisco. Onward through Northern California (don't forget to see the redwoods!) and into open mike/Joe Offer country. Portland has a bunch of 'catters, and north of there is Seattle again. A short flight from Seattle is Anchorage.

A few thousand miles, a few months -- what the heck, eh?

Oh, yeah -- brucie's just up the road in Alberta, and there are the western Canadian 'catters, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 08:49 PM

Sounds wonderful. We don't mind watered soup. I'll check out our possibilities closer to the time. Meanwhile those photos are so good, Rapaire. Thank you. I'm keen to see wildflowers against lava and rocks. And wildlife of all sorts. Cheers Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: TS
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 09:22 PM

sticky and hot at about 30 C in Saskatchewan...with yet another severe thunderstorm and tornado warning which is yet to prove true....Slainte!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 01:02 AM

Absolutely perfect in Long Beach, Washington. Probably 80 degrees this evening, cloudless skies, perfect sunset. I found my sandles in my car and had a swim suit so I went to the beach and splashed in the surf for the first time this year. It's shameful how we don't take advantage of our own places..people come from all over to visit the beach here and I haven't been going at all since I moved farther away from it. mg

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 11:33 PM

It's too damned hot here on Vancouver Island. It's after 8:00 PM and it's still in the 90s.........bitch, bitch bitch...whine...whine...This is not normally a climate where air conditioning is required, but I sure would appreciate it tonight and so would the dogs. I think we'll probably sleep in the basement, to try and find some relief. Wait, I think I felt a breeze cropping up now, off the Sooke Basin, which might cool us down by midnight. Oh dam! it's gone again.

I popped in on my 84 year old Mum this afternoon, to see how she was faring and it was 96 degrees inside her wee mobile home, but it was hotter than that outside. I did manage to talk her into having a sponge bath and got the place more comfortable, by getting more air moving with her bathroom fan and the fan over her stove.

Its supposed to stay like this for another day or so, before we get back to more seasonable temperatures in the mid 70s. Fire hazard still extreme, promised rain, awhile back, only settled the dust.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 05:22 AM

Nearly or around 100 degrees F every day in Tokyo, but I can survive without air-conditioning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 10:11 AM

I'm finally back in Anchorage where the high temps are in the mid 60's F. San Diego was sunny and warm with lots of things to do, but its good to be home. Partly cloudy today, chance of showers, nice breeze to keep down the skeeters, its a perfect day.

Mike

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sweetfia
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 07:38 AM

Shit, at the moment. Thursday nighgt was horrible, it went from almost warm to a complete downpour, and the sky turned from clear to black in about 10mins. Then friday it was absolutely sweltering. And then over the weekend it's just been raining.

I wish the weather would make it's bloody mind up!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,crazy little woman
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 08:04 PM

The Canadians have shipped some life-saving cool air down, and it's heavenly. Temperature maybe 75, blue sky, white puffy clouds, flowers in bloom, birds twittering.

Kansas City has such extremes of weather, and now it's extremely beautiful.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,kk newyorkcity
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 11:50 PM

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: C-flat
Date: 26 Jul 04 - 02:47 AM

We have a word which sums up the British weather perfectly, "changeable".
Some years ago I worked for a large import company selling cheap novelties and gift items. One such item was a barometer/clock which was a popular seller wholesaling at around £5. It wasn't untill I dropped one in the warehouse that I noticed that the only working part of the barometer/clock was the battery operated clock, the barometer was just a dial with a glued-on plastic needle set to "changeable".
I have often imagined how many people have tapped the face of their barometer/clock uttering "Changeable again Doris!, we'd better take an umberella, just in case!"
In the U.K. there's not a more accurate barometer!
C-flat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: s6k
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 06:33 PM

i want a big fat thunderstorm

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Naemanson
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 09:43 PM

A year and a half ago I was scraping ice off of my windshield and muttering about how cold my feet were. Now I live in a tropical paradise with palm trees, ocean vistas and mountains on the island of Guam.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 10:17 PM

still...humid...menacing...two storms coming!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 10:21 PM

Surprisingly cool for August in Alabama. I had on long pants and a sweatshirt this morning. First time since maybe April or May that I wasn't comfortable in shorts and a t-shirt.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnomad
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 04:46 PM

Been chucking it down rain for days, rivers are bursting, structures colapsing.

Apparently (ie I heard it on the local news) West Yorkshire generally averages 2" of rain in August, yet on Tuesday alone we got 4".

I never liked heat much, but this feels like a monsoon to someone who has never experienced the real thing. Anyone out there got some gopher wood?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blackcatter
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 04:48 PM

As Jimmy Buffett says in Tryin' to Reason With Hurricane Season: Squalls out on the gulf stream, big storm comin' soon.

Charley will likely hit my mom's place tommow moring, my place by 7pm. Wish us all luck.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: muppett
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 04:20 AM

Whilst its pissed it down over most of mainland England & Scotland for the past week I heard on the news that the Shetlands have got a water shortage and they're having to bring tanker loads over on the ferry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Holly Butcher
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 10:52 PM

I want a hot day tomorrow

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 10:54 PM

Clear and cold with a chance of New England schizophrenia...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 11:25 PM

Snow on the mountains all around me. Patchy snow left on the ground in protected areas. Temperatures ranging from 26 to low 40s. Breezy and damp. Both ocean and sky are silvery. Looks colder than it is.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 05:49 AM

Grey but not too cold with a bit of a breeze...I can see a tiny bit of blue sky though....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 04:51 AM

For South Wales,its DRY for a change with high cloud...Yippee for dry weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 05:53 AM

Well it WAS beautiful bright and sunny this morning in North West Leicestershire but it's clouding over now. Oh well...probably means there won't be a frost tonight...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 06:03 AM

London...grey and decidedly parky. But I'm a softie Suvner.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Nemesis
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 08:39 AM

England south coast - started out grey and overcast .. been dry for a few days .. very cold and slight wind chill factor .. danger of slight overnight frosts .. and now early afternoon the sun has just broken through and is casting this glorious, autumnal glow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 04:20 PM

It's been siling down in Hull (that's raining for you poor benighted non-Hullensians).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 05:29 PM

Beautiful, sunny day yesterday here on Vancouver Island, around 50F, pissing down this morning. The wind picked up this afternoon, blew away most clouds and a watery sun is now streaking through the trees, transforming grey rain and fog cloaking moss and branches into dripping gold and silver.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 09:57 PM

It's a fine day for weather...

About 7C, kinda hazy, still nice enough to enjoy a piss in the back yard. Think I'll go for a walk later.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 09:59 PM

It was beautiful today in many ways. Hope tomorrow's more of the same. I'd be nice...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 03:28 AM

Today its dull and drizzle.Thats Wales for you.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 06:43 AM

Well it's the same in NW Leicestershire Yas if that makes you feel any better!

I'd like to say something beautiful and poetic about it like some of the others have, but what can you say about a dull grey day? (I'll have to go away and think about that...I'm sure I can come up with a dirge if I try!)

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 11:28 PM

Grey today with a little wind that actually smelled like snow. It was altogether too warm for snow, however. Makes me shiver just thinking about it.

d

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 09:04 AM

Unusual for this time of year here, but we just had a small thunderstorm pass through. A couple of bolts of lightening overhead, thunder and a deluge of hail. The dogs didn't like it at all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 01:15 PM

it's rained constantly all day and caused some small floods on the roads - but now IT'S SNOWING (heavily) - first of the winter season!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 01:23 PM

Sleet here in Yorkshire although gather its heavy snow on the higher ground.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 03:18 PM

Pissing down all day here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 03:27 PM

pouring down all day here in Wales

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: sue exhull
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 04:51 PM

Hi   ITs bloody snowing here in St.neots(cambridgeshire) I didnt believe em when they said it would, but it has!!!! settled a bit too :(.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blackcatter
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 04:58 PM

currently 79 deg (F) and white puffy clouds all around. Temp toight is supposed to dip to 63! Such is life during a November in Orlando. Got a date to go surfing this Sat. May have to where my wetsuit bottoms... burrr - water temp of 72 deg.

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

From the betty swallocks weather of the summer (35 Deg C + with 80%+ humidity) it has turned rather chilly here in Shanghai, sunny but chilly, about 17 Deg C.

Ones blood has thinned a bit living here so I am not looking forward to deep winter even though it does not get realy cold here our houses are not insulated which means I need to start digging out the long johns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 02:57 AM

Snow all over the ground...and it's frozen. Looks pretty with the sun on it, but only if I'm looking at it from in the house! Time to light a nice log fire I think! Ahhh winter in the English Midlands! Think I'll go back to Australia!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 02:58 AM

Dark.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 03:07 AM

Blue sky and dry here,no snow though.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 04:57 AM

Woke up to the first snow of this winter, it's about 4C and we keep getting more light snow showers interspersed with bright sunshine.
Giok

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 04:39 AM

Its wet where i am but up the Valleys its snowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:03 AM

A thick blanket of white snow and more falling. It started yesterday. Five months (at least) of shoveling snow starts now. crud.

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Chris Green
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 11:29 AM

It's brass monkeys out and I've had my hair cut really short. I regretted it as soon as left the barbers. I am now off to buy a woolly hat!

Chris in Coventry

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

Raining!

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: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 12:00 PM

Grey, miserable and BLOODY cold!

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: 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: 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: *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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 12:17 PM

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

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 - 12:21 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: gnu
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:52 PM

Oops... MetchOsin... sorry.

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: 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 - 02:55 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: 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 - 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: 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: pdq
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:25 PM

chili today but hot tamale

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Layah
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:39 PM

I agree with Laura. The snow here is not nearly good enough. No chance of classes being canceled because of it. At least living in California it didn't get cold, now I'm in Edinburgh and it's cold but not snowy. Snowed this evening, but it didn't stick, and now it's all gone. And rain and hail, which are not nearly as nice as snow. The best snow I've ever seen was last week when it snowed and it stuck (first time!) and it was like an inch deep. Now that was exciting.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: annamill
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 03:11 PM

No comment here in San Diego, California.

;-) *BG*

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 06:04 PM

May was wet and cold here in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Had to shut my windows every night. Then, May 30, it didn't rain. May 31, the sun peeked out. Yesterday was sunny and I had my windows open all day and night... warm and a nice breeze. Today, I shut my windows at 10:00h. 33C at 17:00h!! Mom nature sure is a moody bitch!

How's by you?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 12:45 AM

Well, in Juneau Alaska, the sun is shining as it has for the last few days. This is the time of year that our days get really long and bedtime can slip right on by. It's the only place I've ever lived where perfectly good parents suddenly realize that it's almost 1:00 AM and their kids are not in bed yet.

I don't think we've hit 70F yet this year but I know it's been 68 a couple of times. That's good and warm, I can tell you.

It's scary to think about but we may have a VERY early fall. From my third floor window, looking down on a number of trees I can see that the top branches of the maple trees are yellowing. And these are NOT Japanese maples...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 01:00 AM

cloud flurries and chances of snow - miserable start to summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 01:00 AM

Beginning of winter officially in Australia, but our winters in Sydney are quite mild compared to lots of places in the world. Lately it's been fine and sunny every day with temperatures getting up to 17-20 degrees C during the day and down to 3-5 in my particular part of Sydney at night. Everybody I know has colds - me included - the day starts to cool off quite suddenly from about 3pm and you can find yourself breathing cold air before you know it. It's also been very dry - we are still very much in drought conditions - the water level in our main supply dam has fallen below 40% for the first time in a long time, and they have just brought in more severe water restrictions.

I'm actually enjoying this weather at the moment. If you can find yourself a sunny spot in the middle of the day, it is very pleasant, and a good time to be gardening because it is not too hot and humid, like it is in summer. Some seeds from the tomato plants from summer decided to germinate where they fell, and they looked quite healthy, so we decided to give them a little bit of protection by building a sort of green house over them, made of clear plastic on a frame. One of the plants has even set some little tomatoes, so we'll see how that goes. The soil temperature is going to drop, but a blanket of mulch might help. The space is 8ft square and sloping on top - big enough to walk in. I'm going to try a few other plants in there too. It will be an interesting experiment anyway.

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 09:55 AM

after four years of drought, our dams are nearly empty and the Premier of our state is wondering how to continue to provuide drinking water to us sydneysiders. so it finally starts to rain.   and rain. and rain. and rain. It is coming down in troughloads outside as I write, pouring off the gutters and drenching the street. there are floods further north and a gale warning has been issued. The wind is coming up now - its getting wilder and wilder - imagine a huge drenching downpour, and then triple it!

this is typical in this part of australia - its all or nothing - long harsh months and years of unremitting heat and drought, and then a maniacal downpour leading to flooding, trees coming down, cars being tossed along flooded road (two deaths already)...

what's the weather like where you are?

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 10:18 AM

I don't think the weather knows quite what it's doing here. I went out yesterday morning and could hardly move for the heat, then got caught in the mother of all rainshowers walking back from the pub at chuckin out time. It was that really wet rain, too (don't deny it....you all know that some rain is wetter than other rain!)

Now it's just kinda grey and uninspiring. No wonder the Scots keep emigrating...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 10:27 AM

Yes, I was thinking about the contrast as I was inching my car through the wild rain and wind today. The words of Dorothea Mackellar in her well known poem about Australia - "My Country" - came to mind. She certainly had it right:

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,freda, from the back door
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 10:35 AM

after turning my front footpath into a river, the rain has finally become much lighter. here are some photos of today's rainy day in sydney and in new south wales..

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,freda, from the back door
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 10:50 AM

Big Wet forces thousands to flee

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 11:12 AM

I got to see one photo before it insisted I register. I don't like having to do that, so I'll have to miss them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 11:28 AM

Hope everything os OK with you, Freda. Glad to hear the storm is letting up. Did you finally get some sleep?

Moncton, NB, Canada: 30 to 35C and humid until last night at 8PM... I kid you not... went down 10C in twenty minutes... 13C at 6AM. Me mum's got a sweater on! Supposed to be no more than 24C all weekend... then, we'll bake for about six weeks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 11:40 AM

Gnu, I don't think any of us in Sydney were in too much trouble, as long as we drove carefully - I certainly did.

As you can see here 256km Sydney Radar Loop the rain is now moving out to sea. They are predicting a foggy morning and a sunny day tomorrow - amazing!

Some people in other towns in Northern NSW were not so lucky:

Northern NSW on alert as floodwaters rise

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,bobad
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 04:19 PM

HOT

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 04:21 PM

Thanks JennyO. I hope Freda is sound asleep and never sees this. Poor dear.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 04:33 PM

Another silvery day here in Juneau, Alaska. (Silvery is different from grey- the sun is on just the other side of the clouds, lending a silvery glow) The temperature, the last few days, has been around 60F, a little cooler than typical. Before this, we had several days of upper 70s-- very hot for this part of the world.

Everything - the grass, the bushes, the mountains - is green, the fireweed is brilliant and about 2/3 of the way finished ("Fireweed half done = Summer half gone"), the mountain ash berries are in the dull-brown wispy stage before they burst into heaps of brightness, the tops of the maple trees give hints of fall color (as seen from my window), autumn morning fogs (most common in August) force our many cruiseships to moan their way into our harbor. We may have an early fall.

Everything has been early this year- We had a very short spring. We seemed to jump from winter almost directly into summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 05:31 PM

"...the tops of the maple trees give hints of fall color..." Oh dear, already? Nooo? This soon? An early fall? How early can you get it?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 06:26 PM

Rain Country
Ebbie 1999

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 and 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.
Waters rush, galoshes slosh. 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 weather (with rain, not with snow)
So we take pride in saying, though it may cause some pain:
In Southeast Alaska, bring on the rain.
This is Southeast Alaska- BRING ON THE RAIN.

When you are geographically located this far north with mountainous terrain and practically surrounded by ocean you get a lot of rain (upwards of 90 inches a year, PLUS 105 inches of snow.) Winter can arrive most any time. I've seen snow fall on the mountain tops in July, finishing up the old year and new snow fall in September.

On the other hand I've seen the Northern Lights in every month but June and July (the sky is just too light in those months).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 11:14 PM

Hot and muggy in Hillsborough,Norht Carolina---Just got back from walking the dog at 11:00 pm, and am dripping sweat.

Janie

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 05:56 AM

I hope Freda is sound asleep and never sees this. Poor dear.

Gnu, I don't know what you think she was going through - she lives in Sydney, same as me. We live about 7 km apart. Our part of Sydney did get some of the highest rainfall - the suburbs further west didn't get as much. We both had the same conditions to contend with yesterday, except that she uses public transport, I drive - more risky for drivers, but probably drier.

Anyway, I've seen worse here. It was up in northern NSW that got it worse. Three people dead I believe.

Today as promised, it was sunny. I had to go out and try to repair the little home made greenhouse that we made a few weeks ago. Some tomato plants were blown over by the wind, and a couple of plant pots were tipped right over, but a tray of capsicum seeds that have just germinated were still okay.

And after all that, they are saying that the rainfall has hardly made any difference to the water level in our catchment dams. They say it would have to rain heavily and continuously for a week to be useful. We are still officially in a drought - that's Australia for you :-1

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 06:49 AM

I thought she wasn't sleeping well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 07:27 AM

I think she's just a bit like me - gets hooked into Mudcat and stays up late, then can't get to sleep. We've both been known to haunt the chatroom in the not-so wee small hours!

It's probably worse for her because she knows she has to get up early, whereas I don't have to be up so early. I know from experience that sometimes when you have a deadline and you can see the hours disappearing and you know that if you don't get to sleep soon, you won't have had enough sleep, and you TRY so hard that it actually keeps you awake.

By the way, her most recent post on this thread, at 10.50am would have been 12.50am here - not really all that late - for us anyway :-)

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 10:10 AM

hi gnu and jennyo - all dry on the western front here (12.07 am - not too bad..) jenny i think gnu was about when i was carrying on earlier in the week about not being able to SLEEP - and was belting this message about in various ways til about 4.00 am - had to get up and go to work the next morn - still recovering!

deeps sleeps and happy dreams to you both!!

night

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: *Laura*
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 10:32 AM

drizzling.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 11:23 AM

Hot as blazes and so humid that you begin dripping as soon as you walk outside! A friend from a nicer climate said it was difficult to breathe, as well. Plus, the rain is frequent in the summer. Oh, and did I mention the hurricanes? (Gee, maybe I've gone to hell already????!!!)

love, harpy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:39 AM

Here in the California Foothills, it has been a cool summer, with much more rain than we usually get. It got up to 100 degrees the last day or two, but won't stay up there for very long. My wife and I took a hike today to Donner Peak, up at the summit of the Sierra off Interstate 80. Much of the trail was covered with water from melting snow, but we kept our feet dry by walking on rocks.

But we didn't make it to Donner Peak. The snow was too deep, so we found our way to a rocky crag with a beautiful view of Donner Lake. The wildflowers were spectacular. Unfortunately, so were the mosquitos.
Beautiful hike, though.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,sandra in sydney walking thru the backdoor
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 10:59 AM

today it was warm & sunny, maybe 18C!!

I could have left my jacket at home when I went grocery shopping at 2pm, & it's still pleasant now (12.47, time to get to bed soonish) but I am wearing a medium weight tracksuit & will be sleeping under a 80% down quilt as it does get a bit nippy in the wee hours. I haven't heard Monday's forecast yet.

Winter in my part of Sydney (a few hundred metres from the CDB & Sydney Harbour) is always relatively mild. I don't use a heater, tho JennyO & freda certainly do cos they live a few kilometres from the coast, & I keep my windows permanently locked open so I can get fresh air.

My suburb is full of tourists from colder climates who wear summer clothes here as they think our winter is really summer.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Kaleea
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 01:36 AM

It shudda been a hundred & plenty but wow it's been raining in most of Kansas today. After temps in the 90's, we had quite the thunderboomers, 50-100 mph winds (depending upon where in the state one was attempting to stand), the occasional twister/rope tornado, & of course, some street intersections here in Wichita with waist deep water which idiots just had to drive into only to be swept aways down the block/into cars, buildings, etc. Tomorrow, supposed to be 95 here. yee-haw!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 01:42 AM

Climate's what ya expect; weather's what ya get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 02:32 AM

If our weather doesn't go back to 'normal' soon, our climate will have officially changed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 02:43 AM

It's 40 (celsius) out there if it is a degree.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 03:02 PM

It's hot....It's humid....The air quality stinks.....It was the strangest June on record. 85% of the total rainfall in June came in the last 4 days of the month. The crops are confused.

And it is just too damn hot even for early July....This is like August. June was like August. My only hope is that August will be like April.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 03:56 PM

Pat, it ain't the weather; it's yer calendar that's all screwed up. Get a new one and see what happens.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 02:43 AM

Its grey and damp and the garden is like a jungle. Its been nothin but rain, rain, and more rain. We get a couple of days of partial sun once in awhile. Summer has not yet arrived in Vancouver. Its hard to believe its so late.

Of course I'm hoping for an Indian Summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 02:28 AM

Damn! Its snowing. Its not supposed to snow this early here. I've got to move a few loads of furniture tomorrow in a van with summer tires........

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 02:40 AM

Well yesterday as I sat actually looking at a local internet weather forecast showing cold but sunny and no sign of precipitation, it started to snow, and snowed quite heavily for the next couple of hours. It's freezing now, and white everywhere, but the sky is a clear, early morning blue and it's all rather pretty. Better if I could stay in here and not go out in it though!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 04:08 AM

Cold and snowy here in the north of Scotland, but then I bet lots of you think that's normal for here. ☺
G.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 05:17 AM

Funny you should ask - right now there is lightning flashing and thunder booming around the house and it is pouring with rain. We didn't get any severe thunderstorm warning tho, like we normally do. The radar shows it being very isolated, so I think it will be gone soon. If it gets any worse I might turn the computer off for a while.

We've had a lot of weather like that lately, and afternoon thunderstorms have been predicted for the next few days. It's exciting anyway, and my garden is very happy with all the rain!

Jenny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From:
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 06:39 AM

Its cold here and overcast, but no snow!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leftydee
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 08:39 AM

Snowy and slushy on and off. Close to 50F today but the lakes are iced so I guess I can't get my old boat out again 'til April. Rats!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:36 AM

12C and sunny here in Southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.... better enjoy it!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:54 AM

Yeah you better gnu, its usually you whining, not me. Doesn't look very pretty here this morning, the temperature has risen above freezing, the snow is plopping from the trees and the drive is mostly bare with a few slushy patches, so it looks as if I'll be able to do the move after all. Thank you, thank you, thank you......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Katie
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 11:21 AM

I am in the canary Islands and we have just had the first EVER tropical storm. It was meant to haed for Cuba, but changed direction and came here. Scary !

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 11:47 AM

As gnu said .... sunny and warm here in southeastern N.B.today .... but this certainly isn't going to last.

sIx

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 10:11 AM

We had a cold snap last week north of DC but the last couple days were a balmy 65 F which has been great for hot tubbing at night under blustery and threatening skies.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 01:01 PM

Early morning sky was crimson and the ocean's sooty water in places was painted with its colors. Now an hour later there are bright skies and it's breezy and crisp and cold. With my binocs I see the town thermometer seven blocks away and it says it's 26F out there.

When this cold snap breaks we have snow forecast but I don't know when that is supposed to be.

We've had snow on the ground a few times- had a foot of it up here on the hill the other day - but it's all gone. Except on the mountains, of course.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 09:39 AM

-12C and snow last night, but only 50mm. -8C and sunny. Another skiff of snow tonight and 6C with rain tomorrow. We are a month behind calendar-wise. But, with the full moon Thursday, I suspect we may catch up.

Guest Katie - hope all is okay.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 10:01 AM

11 degrees wind chill, clear with 6 chemtrails rpidly spreading.
The 90 ft tree in back still has all of its green leaves and probably won't drop for another week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 12:24 PM

Low 70's.

DougR

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John O'L
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:14 AM

It's hot. 36 degrees Celsius. Has been 38 in the back yard.

We had months of drizzle and steady soaking rain all through Spring, and now we've had about a week of this very hot weather and everything is brown and as dry as a chip. Where did it all go so fast?

No energy.

I just heard that today has been the hottest day of the year.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:17 AM

The weather is just fine here. The temperature could go up 21 degrees C and get us just above freezing. That would be nice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:37 AM

It's nearly 5.30 on a nasty hot humid Sunday in Sydney.

The latest temperature listed at Sydney Observatory Hill was 44.2 Celcius at 4.24pm. I'm about 1km from this site which is next to the Harbour Bridge.

I've been hiding from the weather all day behind dark curtains with the fan whirring away, tho I can still feel the heat & humidity. In an hour or so I'll open the blinds when the heat & glare subside, & I might go for a walk after 8pm as I did last night.

.........................
METROPOLITAN FORECAST
Issued at 3:39pm on Sunday the 1st of January 2006

For the remainder of Sunday   

Fire Weather Warning for extreme fire danger.
The NSW Minister for Emergency Services has totally banned the
lighting of fires until midnight Sunday.
Very hot. Dry and mostly sunny. Some cloud late in the day.
Freshening northwest winds before a strong, squally southerly change
late evening.
..............................

Southerly changes usually are cool, so a walk seems a Good Idea.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:40 AM

John O'Lennaine, a pack of Aussies were here this week- they're touring but as long they were here they played soccer (football) in a game against our High School team. I didn't get to talk with them but I saw a number of them in McDonald's yesterday. They were dressed pretty warmly. Must be a shock from the weather at home.

Our temps had been in the upper 30s the last while but it's gotten nippy the last couple of days. Icy pavements today. The wind has picked up this evening so it will probably bring in new weather soon. At this dark time of the year I'd like some snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 01:58 AM

44.2 Celcius at 4.24pm - no wonder i'm so hot. like you i have been indoors today sandra, avoiding going out. I'll be meeting the kids in Glebe at 7.30 - hope it's cooler by then!

freda

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John O'L
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 02:34 AM

I pity you poor Sydneysiders. I grew up in Steak & Kidney and the summer humidity was one of the things I was happiest to leave behind when we moved to the Blue Mountains. It's been hot and humid here today, but nothing like what it must have been like in Sydney. If you're near the coast or the harbour you are relatively lucky too. Imagine what it was like in Penrith today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?