What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 16 Oct 18 - 05:18 PM

unbelievably warm and gorgeous. dark red leaves, which is unusual for west coast USA..usually yellow and brown.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Oct 18 - 11:58 AM

Is the sun afraid to come out ??

My umbrella wants replacing ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Oct 18 - 03:03 PM

Any time now, the leaf burning will start, regulations or no regulations.
Hope there is time to enjoy some refreshing not-too-cold
early autumn air
before the fires are lit and the smoke starts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 11:14 PM

The power went out for a bit since its so wet and rainy from Michael.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 02:14 PM

Here comes that rainy-day feeling again ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 03:14 PM

Yesterday was so warm and sunny I sat on The Bench and got a bit sunburned!

Today was as dark as the hakes and drizzling with rain. But the car headlights and the shop windows lit up made us feel very Halloweeny/Guy Fawksey/Christmassy. The world and his wife seem to have had the same feelings, because everyone was headed 'up the city'.

Lots of Halloween stuff, Crimbo decorations and cards everywhere, and the clothes shops now have winter clothes for sale (thick puffa jackets and nice cosy cardigans)
Our central heating is on full blast this evening. Cats are about three feet long on the sofa with big smiles.

Husband is like a little kid. Every time he sees anything with a picture of Father Christmas on, he points and calls out, "Mon ami! Mon ami!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 01:07 PM

It's picture-postcard-perfect at the moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Oct 18 - 11:46 AM

... and today the sun came out
and lit up the autumn colors in the maple tree leaves.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 02:02 PM

At least we got a break from the rain ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 12:51 PM

In North Texas the mornings have a fall-like feel, but by afternoon it's hot and muggy. Same ol' same ol'. Soon, though, autumn will be fully in the air. We usually worry about the first frost in late October or early November.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 12:46 PM

grey, grey, grey. The sky has a low ceiling today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 18 - 01:45 PM

The humidity is gone, and not before time!
No need for refrigerated air-conditioning service overnight
to make the apartment comfortable for sleeping.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Sep 18 - 02:26 PM

It's rather better now.

After a tropical-style rain deluge,
all green growing things are showing the green as if there were no tomorrow.

Appropriate, in a way, as autumn starts officially in a matter of hours with the equinox. Soon the leaves will change color.
But for now, it is gratifying
to see grassy lawns that are green, now brown or yellow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 01:08 PM

Thank goodness for some cool "Indian Summer" that isn't TOO cold.
I hope the muggy humidity of the past summer really is past.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 06:53 AM

Storm Ali ravaged its way across Ireland and Scotland yesterday: 2 lives lost in Ireland, many trees down, no trains from Edinburgh or Glasgow (not "leaves on the line" but trees on the line), power cuts, scary Easyjet "drop" in the sky over Edinburgh with pilot having to make 4 attempts at landing before getting down safely. Much calmer and sunny this morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 09:34 PM

Drying out at last, north of the Long Island Sound.

Further south down the Atlantic seaboard,
it will be a long time before they finish getting dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 12:43 PM

I did hear on last night's news that there was some flooding in low-lying areas in RI.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 18 - 06:56 PM

It stopped raining and the sun came out,
which sounds utterly uninteresting
unless
you have just had torrents of rain for hours....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Sep 18 - 03:37 PM

I am above water! Thanks for asking. At the moment I'm higher above than usual, on the 2nd floor of the local library. I'm having wifi problems at home so I'm spending more time here than usual.
I've had no problems, but it's raining with occasional thunder now and most of the day. I haven't even heard of problems in low-lying parts of RI that often flood. Maybe that's changed. I'll have to tune into tonight's local news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 18 - 11:33 AM

The little leftover shreds and tatters that remain of the
hurricane-force system called Florence
have arrived in the northeastern United State coastal area.

I'm not laughing. This is too much to be amusing.
To get to this public-access, rental-time computer,
I had to get in my auto and take a little drive.
well, I made it, soggy altogether.

But the soggy is the least of it.
The rain is torrential. It is coming down with such force
as to limit visibility to fractions of a mile,
and don't ask ME which fractions.
And when that expletive-deleted pickup truck passed me in the passing lane,
the side-splash over my front windshield
effectively blinded my driver's vision for several seconds,
which I am NOT used to, especially in motion.

I'm kind of west of south-west of Boston.
Now, north of Boston,
there has just expired a TORNADO watch.

Chantey Lass! Ahoy! Are you still above water?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Sep 18 - 08:00 PM

Soggy, since you ask.
Here in southern New England,
the weatherperson says that we are benefiting from
what is left of Tropical Storm Gordon:
that's what is dumping rain on us.
Thankfully there is not much wind. It's just awfully damp.

I'm writing from near to Holyoke, Massachusetts,
on the road again.
This means I am further from the seacost than usual.

I expect all of our New England Mudcatters are feeling the rain.
Of course,
the radar maps online indicate heavy rain also in
New York and Pennsylvania from the same system.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 18 - 01:37 PM

its 105 today in DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 18 - 01:36 PM

I looked at our solar minimum yesterday and we only had two sunspots when 57 is a typical maximum.
The Artic block (high pressure region) has rolled over to this hemisphere and El Nino is in full sway.

All this adds up to a WICKED WINTER in east North America this coming year.

Please pretend to be surprised when it happens.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 01:58 PM

Weather like this, we have not seen since the onset of summer:
in autumn it would be a balmy sunny day;
for the Labor Day holiday, one rejoices in the low humidity.
Which will be humid again within the week. Sigh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 18 - 02:36 PM

Thanks for telling us, Joe. Your part of the world
has had a horrible summer season.

We only need the rain here
in order to break the humidity;
it's like a sauna outdoors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Aug 18 - 04:02 PM

After 2 months of smoky skies and unbearable heat, we finally have blue skies and moderate temperatures in the California Gold Country.
The fire spotter plane was overhead yesterday, so there must have been a fire someplace nearby.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Aug 18 - 02:05 PM

The humidity is cranked back up again in the Northeast US.
Excessive Heat advisories in effect,
and then those weather patterns of
cloudbursts and drenching rains will cool things off ...

some schools have begun for the year already,
even before the long holiday weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 18 - 07:12 AM

I assure you that this Hawaiian storm story is just my unique way of warning and advising that one can not truly run away from nature.
You can try but you just run away into nature.
However I'd still run from fire if I were you.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 04:55 PM

I do believe Donuel was quoting the Brothers Sherman,
and one of their lyrics for Mary Poppins,
a post or three back.
Sounds like a lyric sung by Bert the chimney sweep
early in the Disney film.

Donuel, I hope you survive the Hawaii hurricane...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 11:17 AM

In Hawaii, Hurricane Lane is meeting Kilauea this week.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/hurricane-lane-could-cause-white-out-landslides-with-kilauea-volcano.html

"Other volcanoes have interacted with hurricanes and the results have been disastrous," said Tracy Gregg, an associate professor of geology at the University of Buffalo. "Kilauea is being polite, in comparison."

Volcanic eruptions have the most potential for catastrophe when they are spewing huge columns of ash and gas into the atmosphere, like Mount St. Helens in 1980 or Pinatubo in 1991, scientists say.

"They are putting heat and ash into the atmosphere and that interacts with the moisture in the hurricane and can cause the ash to glob into little balls while it is up in the air and fall down as essentially hail stones" and cause landslides, Gregg said.

Gregg described it as "two monsters passing in a closet. They are really not going to notice each other. They are just going to keep doing what they do."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 18 - 12:41 PM

1906 was the # of that last post. hmmm ah oh
A great earth quake that happened before in San Francisco is going to happen again but not in San Francisco

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 18 - 12:30 PM

Winds in the east, mist comin' in
Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin.
Can't put me finger on what lies in store,
But I feel what's to happen all happened before.
Only this time its coming far faster
Than your average disater

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Aug 18 - 01:49 PM

Here's a thing beyond my understanding:
the wind is out of the east,
and east of us is the Atlantic Ocean,
so it's a sea-breeze.

I get that it is cooling.
And ... it's also DRY. Not humid or sticky.

However it works,
it is welcome relief after the humidity and the rain-flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Aug 18 - 06:23 PM

rain all over again ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Aug 18 - 02:35 PM

The lid came off of the sky today
and something was seen that hasn't been seen for days and days:
blue sky, puffy white clouds and bright direct sunshine.

(Still muggy/sticky/humid though.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Aug 18 - 01:20 PM

"August: cold, and dank and wet --
Brings more rain than any yet."


And so help me,
this year it's true!

Outside, it thinks it's April.
The rain is POURING out of the gutters and drainpipes.
No itsy-bitsy spider has a ghost of a chance
of climbing up the water-spout at the moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 18 - 02:49 PM

The sky still has a lid on it. Ceiling. However you describe it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Aug 18 - 03:18 PM

Well,
somebody has to post message number 1900.

The sky here has got a lid on it.
A lid of dark gray rainclouds.
And the lid/ceiling is expected to stay on the sky hereabouts
for the next four days or better.
It doesn't rain ALL the time.
It just hovers overhead and looks threatening.

Where it DOES rain there are flash-flood warnings posted.
And the humidity never lets up, not even overnight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Aug 18 - 06:30 PM

Well, we have had a day or two to catch our collective breath here.
The storm systems, however,
are not done with us.

The whole weekend could be rained out,
as well as early next week.
Temperatures may cool thereby,
but no let-up with the muggy humidity.

Now if we could only shove the rainstorms
clear over to the United Kingdom ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 06:19 PM

Something unusual is reported on Cape Cod.
It wasn't the ocean surf doing a surge.
It was the rain coming down in inches per hour.
Regardless of the ocean,
streets had to be closed due to flooding,
and there were power outages.

But I merely heard this over the car radio,
as I don't live near the shore.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 10:26 PM

We (North of Wash DC) have had a lot of rain the last month... but the really heavy, long-lasting ones have been on either side and below & above my specific location. A few days it has rained all day... but not heavily... and I have seen really strong rains that lasted only 10 minutes or so. Perhaps the Rain Gods remember that they flooded MY basement 4-5 times the last few years and THEY are giving me a break.

Now I've probably jinxed myself by commenting...
watch this space.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 05:51 PM

Massachusetts is not a monsoon zone.

But we have an occasional monsoon day, and if ever there was one,
this is it.
We've already had drenching rains for the better part of an hour
under thick dark clouds.
Then the sun came out,
and NOW it's pouring down rain with the sun shining.
Must be a rainbow somewhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 01:29 PM

Might as well be in Arizona as Massachusetts, hot as it is.
Advisories, warnings, these extend OVERNIGHT as it will not cool off
even when the sun goes down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Aug 18 - 07:07 PM

And today, you would never know that we got any relief yesterday.
Same old same old, high heat, high humidity,
faraway blue sky looks as though
it ought to be cooler 'way up there
than it is 'way down here.

Refrigerated-Air-Conditioning working overtime, day AND night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Aug 18 - 01:26 PM

A big system of storms just came through here.
The good news is that its movement was rapid.
As it was, there has been flash flooding;
had the storms moved more slowly, the flooding would have been deeper.

No tornadoes where I actually live,
although a tornado touched down a county or two to the west.

Wonder if we can visualize the storms hurrying over to the UK?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Aug 18 - 06:12 PM

When I got into my car in the mid-afternoon, its outdoor temp reading said 100. It had been parked in full sun. After a few minutes of driving the reading had dropped to 97--plenty hot enough. It stayed at 97 as I continued to drive.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Aug 18 - 03:53 PM

We have a heat advisory warning in effect at the moment.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MikeL2
Date: 02 Aug 18 - 10:33 AM

Hi

i have a separate shower with it's own electric heater. I have had it for some years now.

Like Steve when I work in the garden or when it is especially hot I shower out side. We are fairly well private so it is no problem there.!!! At lest I thought we were until a neighbour came into the Pub and during the evening let on that they could see me from their house.

This didn't bother me - many years in the Air Force and more in the Rugby club I am used to not being concerned about my nudity.

Later in the evening I told him I was surprised they could see me. He said "well my wife found out that if they stand on the toilet seat in the bathroom we can just see you." This was a number of years ago. I don't do it now.

PS. we have just heard that United Utilities who supply our water have decided to remove the hose pipe ban that was due to me on from Sunday 5th August.

cheers Mike

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Aug 18 - 08:26 AM

Historic hottest ever recorded temperatures in multiple locations as high as 127 yesterday. I think I know why

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 01 Aug 18 - 03:16 AM

Dry, very dry. Much of Oz is in its third year of very-below-average rainfall, some even longer. Long range forecasts are saying not much hope of rain before next February/March at least. Grass here is a thing of the past, farmers' stock is dying off, native animals - kangaroos etc. - are dropping where they stand.

Not much we can do about it, except cope as best we can......