What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 30 Apr 24 - 07:29 AM

> the usual end-of-season mix of folk in skimpy summer
> gear & folk wearing jackets

Reminds me of the time I was cycling to work, and saw a lassie (a young mother, I *think*) wearing a heavy padded anorak and shorts. Eventual conclusion: the shorts suggested it had been sunny the previous day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bugsy
Date: 30 Apr 24 - 06:33 AM

We've just had our first day's rain (with the exception of a few drops on the newspaper a few weeks ago) since last October.
Here we are almost at the end of Autumn and the temps are still in the high 20's C.

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Apr 24 - 07:01 PM

& here in the Land of Oz we are cooling down, we have the usual end-of-season mix of folk in skimpy summer gear & folk wearing jackets! but we're heading for a "10 day soaking" & maybe coastal floods. Looks like I might need to temporarily retire my sandals & get out my socks & walking shoes! My raincoat is always around.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 24 - 06:30 AM

The US had 120 tornados in four days.
Even China had some devastating tornados this weekend.
It's 6:30 AM and is 70 F here. It could hit 90 F today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Apr 24 - 02:28 AM

dry

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Apr 24 - 09:29 PM

At last we have some relief from spring rain
(to say nothing of last week's mid-country tornadoes)
and there is spring sunshine
with new leaves coming out on the trees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Apr 24 - 02:50 AM

sunny

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 24 - 07:08 AM

The bird chorus begins around 5:30 when there is only a hint of light on the horizon. The sun is way south at sundown. It is not too late to plant seeds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Apr 24 - 02:05 AM

windy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Apr 24 - 02:54 PM

Today the weather cannot make up its mind.
First the sun comes out,
then clouds roll in and it rains,
and back and forth.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Apr 24 - 03:16 AM

rain

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 24 - 06:43 PM

Spring rain is the order of the day,
and the earthworms are sprawling on the pavements,
always a sure sign not just of the moisture but of the warmer temps as well.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Apr 24 - 09:21 AM

The three inches of snow and ice from last week are altogether gone,
with mud in their place ==
but at least we have blue puffy-cloud skies and sunshine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 03:35 AM

meanwhile south of Sydney - A couple have had a lucky escape after the Wollongong granny flat they were staying in was washed away

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 06:10 PM

wet!! Wider Sydney & many other areas have had lots of rain - records are broken, people are evacuated -
Evacuation and extreme weather warnings issued after heavy rain falls across parts of Sydney and the Illawarra ... The torrential falls are part of a broader rain event soaking eastern Australia, and has triggered more than 50 flood watches and warnings from southern Queensland to the NSW south coast.

Bellambi Point, north of Wollongong, has received 190 millimetres of rains since 9am yesterday — with 35mm falling in the half hour to 6:10am...

After years of moaning that I really must buy a full length rain coat, a few weeks ago I finally bought it & did not get a soaked skirt yesterday! I think my rain jacket needs to go to my local charity shop asap so someone can use it!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 03:51 PM

I managed to overlook the earthquake --
it seems I was driving my car on the open road when it happened.
Didn't feel a thing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 02:49 PM

We heard about the Mag 4.8 on the TV news. We looked at one another, and both wondered aloud whether 40 Wall Street was affected.

But I digress.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 11:43 AM

Yesterday I recalled the crack sound of our last earthquake but today I adjusted my subwoofer but felt nothing weird.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Apr 24 - 11:38 AM

I didn't feel the 4.8 earthquake but my wife did.

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

Sleet and high winds ... no fun.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sandra, Friday 10am

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

Not switching out of my winter sheets yet...

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

It's finally raining! Yippee!!

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

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

And more rain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

shit

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

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

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

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

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

MaJoC's Surprise-Factor Law

The reaction to snow is inversely proportional to its frequency:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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