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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Firecat Date: 09 Aug 01 - 07:20 PM Hollowfox, you're on!!!!!!! |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: black walnut Date: 08 Aug 01 - 04:22 PM Intense. ~b.w. |
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: 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: DougR Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:30 PM Yesterday: 113degrees. |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Cobble Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:54 PM WET. Cobble. |
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: 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: 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: bobbi Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:27 PM Caliente'! Ready for Winter... |
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: 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: Pinetop Slim Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:39 AM Muggy in southeastern Mass. |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 |
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