What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 06:50 PM

June was a fairly nondescript month, with few days of real warmth but, on the other hand, some good sunny days. Far too much wind at times. However, at just two inches in my back garden, yet another month drier than usual.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 04:12 PM

Hotter than July,
appropriately enough for the first of July.
Thunderstorms forecast for the weekend.
Hopefully Monday the Fourth will not rain, nor thunder, nor bolt with lightning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 22 - 09:51 AM

First of July is forecast to be entirely too hot
unless you have a beach with chilly water to dip in.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 03:40 PM

The summer heat and mugginess have arrived for a day or two.

Some people were grouchy hereabouts about the cool days and nights
that we endured before today.
I savored them fully, knowing they would not last.
We get a little coolness back later in the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 10:47 AM

Eliza/Senoufou, a teacher with whom I once studied,
from the Deep Southern US, startled everyone once when
she went on a group tour to India.
I forget what city the airport was in.
But the plane landed, the passengers started to step down
(an outdoor staircase, not one of those enclosed access things),
and when you left the plane the heat assaulted you physically.
And she was like, "Ah! I'm home! Lovely!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 01:59 AM

When travelling in West Africa (many times, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia etc) all the hotels had air-conditioning in the bedrooms. Noisy things. I always turned them off, because your body needs to acclimatise to the hot temperature, and sleeping in a chilly room doesn't help at all.
But I suppose I'm weird, because no amount of heat bothers me.
It was the same getting off the plane. The cabin was usually quite chilly but coming down the stairs thing they wheeled up to the door, the heat hit one like a bomb. I always smiled with pleasure.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 08:03 PM

Effing hot and one of two heat pump units has died completely. I have a portable unit set up in the area served by the old AC and am contemplating how to replace the dead one (truth be told - both are the same age and need replacing).

It's like August arrived in early June and it hasn't let up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 08:03 PM

Today was beyond perfectly ideal weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 05:18 AM

I did the same Jon, I opened all the windows merely to freshen up the house a bit. But when I came indoors, every room was full of buzzing flies, bees, wasps and other delights. I whisked them all out with a tea-towel.
I've just come inside from sitting on The Bench this morning, because I felt some spots of rain. Good thing for the crops and gardens.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 04:11 AM

Yesterday was too warm for my liking. The one good thing here in N Norfolk was there was quite a fresh breeze which helped a little. I didn't close the doors and windows I'd opened until about 9pm and we were still about 28-29C inside then.

Another change is forecast today. Rain later and max temp of 16C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 08:45 PM

Forecast for this weekend, approaching
the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere,
is for a last breath of late spring:
cool, clear, a little breezy,
an occasional chance of rain.

I for one welcome this with open arms.
Summer in this area, high summer,
is muggy and sweltering hot with too many blood-drinking bugs.

Too bad for the people who want to spend the weekend at the beach
and find that the water is just that little bit too cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 02:29 AM

There's been a weather warning here for Friday -temperature reaching possibly 34 degrees Celsius!! My poor husband has to spend hours and hours cleaning, mopping and polishing floors and dragging numerous wheelie bins around at the two schools where he now cleans.
Although he's an African, his hayfever will be atrocious, and he has to choose between hardly able to breathe or doped up to the nines with Piriton. I feel sorry too for the poor binmen. I usually have several cans of Diet Coke in my fridge for them, (and the postman, any couriers etc) Ice-cold Coke seems to hit the spot for them!
As for me, I can stand any amount of heat (and humidity). I was perfectly happy in Ghana once with 40 degrees Celsius and 90% humidity. Didn't bother me at all!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jun 22 - 09:42 PM

What the heck is going on in Yellowstone National Park?!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jun 22 - 12:14 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/us/yellowstone-national-park-closed-visitors-flooding-tuesday/index.html

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jun 22 - 04:59 PM

The weather cannot make up its mind this week.
All night it rained like mad.
The morning was cool, if damp.
The darned grey clouds remain overhead, however
the clouds are broken up into clumps and
there is clear dry blue sky in between the clouds,
and brilliant sunshine when the clouds don't cover the sun.
Very windy day as well.

It's one of those days when the prepared traveler
carries sunglasses AND an umbrella.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 10:45 AM

We had a heavy thunderstorm over Friday night and it turned our heat into a sauna this weekend. We needed the rain; in the past I have uttered the wish that it "pace itself to once a week," but that in fact is too often. Every other week or every third week is good.

Meanwhile, one of my air conditioning units is blowing air, not cool air, and I'm waiting for the AC tech to arrive. It turns out my regular guy over the last 20 years died this spring. :-( I'm having to test the skills and honesty of a new company.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 08:45 AM

here in Sydney latest temperatures at 10.20pm Sunday night is 12.0 which feels like 7.5, & I'm not wearing all winter layers as I don't need them tonight, thin thermals, long sleeved t-shirt, fleece vest & fleece jacket + velvet skirt are enough!

I don't have or need a heater & my windows are locked open 6" or so. When it gets cooler I add a pair of fleecy track pants & replace the t-shirt with a woollen thermal shirt & maybe a shawl & I'm fine, tho no doubt people would look at me strangely if we had an emergency!

2 & a half hours later the temperature in Jennie's little bit of paradise, several hundred kilometers west of me, is 3.7 which feels like 0.8! But her house is sealed, insulated & heated, as it's built to the local winter climate.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 08:17 AM

We're having the most ideal weather compared to the worst weather which would be fire, eruptions, floods and Richter 10 earthquakes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 06:00 AM

Well, it's getting cool, as you would expect for winter. Currently - just on 8 p.m. - the official temperature at the airport (which we can see from our verandah) is 4.7 deg C, but the 'feels like' is 1.6.

Frost is forecast for this week, maybe a sprinkle of rain.

There is no such thing as bad weather, just unsuitable clothing. There is a reason I knit warm jumpers, or sweaters for our Canadian and American friends.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 03:49 AM

I think it's been a bit of a mixed June here (N Norfolk, UK) so far. For the last couple of days:

Friday was gorgeous. A visiting brother and his wife took mum outside and they spent the later part of the afternoon chatting and enjoying the sunshine.
Saturday was a dull grey day.
Today, we have heavy rain forecast for all day. We've had some of this but it's stopped for now. I still expect more rain later.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 02:21 AM

It's absolutely chucking it down (very heavy rain) and the sky is dark and glowering. Thunderstorms are forecast. What a good job this didn't arrive during that bloomin' Jubilee!
My front garden is already a wee bit flooded.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 22 - 10:36 AM

latest temperature readings - 10.5 feels like 4.3 - shiver

sandra (12.30am Wed 1st June, time for bed)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 May 22 - 03:41 AM

winter draws on here - last few days & nights have been cooler.

I'm close to Sydney harbour (lotsa' building in the way so I can't see the water) & the temperature at Observatory hill which is also on the harbour is 11.9 which feels like 3.1, time 5.20pm Tuesday. To convert Celcius to F - double & add 30 for the approx temperature. 17 was forecast today & we did reach it around noon, but then it gradually got cooler. But I don't feel cold here in my apartment.

tonight is expected to be 8, & tomorrow 15, with winds. The western suburbs will be colder & are expecting 8 tonight & 14 tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 May 22 - 04:33 PM

Unseasonably chilly here in Northern California. Thirty degrees hotter where my wife is visiting her son in Midland, Texas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 22 - 03:49 PM

Later this coming week, there will be some cooling showers and the temperatures will be more moderate.
Right now, though, it is warmer than is usual for this month.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 22 - 05:53 PM

The epitome of a perfect day with blue skies and puffy white clouds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 May 22 - 09:48 PM

Thunderstorms again!
I didn't realize that the Berkshire mountain area had monsoons . . .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 May 22 - 12:25 PM

Elsewhere Charmion remarked on this past weekend's storms.
They were very picturesque here as well, no damage though.

The beauty of it is that the passing-by of the storms
cooled everything down,
and today the sun shines,
and it feels the way May is meant to feel,
not hotter than July the way it felt on Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 May 22 - 06:28 PM

Rain, rain, rain,
and then we're supposed to have an uncommonly warm day this weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 22 - 06:02 PM

Thundershowers over here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 May 22 - 08:35 PM

In many languages time and weather are the same word.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 May 22 - 07:16 PM

Opened the windows here, it gorgeous. No bugs either.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 May 22 - 03:56 PM

We're in the 90s all week, hot even for North Texas. New Mexico is burning. Life in the SW isn't entirely pleasant this spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 22 - 10:14 PM

Wherever you are on the globe,
the seasons are changing.
Here the lawn was mowed for the first time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 02:00 PM

And here comes the next cold snap.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 08:41 PM

Thawing, thawing (the sun came out),
and after several obscenely warm days,
BANG the temperature is going to drop below freezing again. Sheesh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 10:03 PM

The skies have been so gray and dreary
that I didn't wear sunshades,
and I wear sunshades almost religiously.
Even when it is overcast there can be a glare to those cloud covers.
But lately it is just really dark.

Hope it lightens up soon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Feb 22 - 11:15 AM

Yep.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 06:03 PM

I was abroad in Ottawa late this afternoon. The slush had refrozen and had taken on a polish it does not usually have. Footing was very tricky.

And that, boys and girls, is why Charmion moved to Stratford.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 12:03 PM

The tires of my car freeze to the garage floor at this time of year. I always give the accelerator a bit of a shove to break loose on start-up.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 11:53 AM

I had forgotten, if I ever really knew,
what frozen mud is like.
My car was parked on it.
I managed to drive the car off the frozen mud.
Better than sheer ice, I suppose.
Now my car is parked on plowed parking-lot asphalt,
and of course icicles on
all the parked cars, including mine, since the sun is out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 05:18 PM

Everything had just enough time to start thawing,
the parking lots looking like shallow ponds,
and NOW the temperatures plunge --
it will all freeze overnight. grrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 08:32 PM

yep its in the teens through Tuesday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 12:34 PM

The ice storm went Saturday night throughout Sunday to sundown pretty much.
Today there is sun and it is possible to free the car in the outdoor parking lot from its casing of ice.
In fact, one had better do so now.
Tonight AND tomorrow the temperature will plunge well below freezing
and anything that has re-frozen will stay frozen for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 01:58 PM

Whoa. With more than three feet of packed snow on the ground, already, today's forecast is for another 20 inches. Worse: RAIN is forecast, beginning tonight. That one is BAD.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 12:13 PM

Over 400 weather stations globally broke their records for highest temperatures last year. Ten national records were broken, the "winner" being Furnace Creek in Death Valley, which recorded the highest ever reliably-recorded temperature on earth. Siracusa in Sicily demolished the all-time European record in July with 48.8C. I spent a week there in 2015! !

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 09:29 AM

We had early morning ice rainbows :^)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 10:39 PM

Here in the Emerald city (aka the Harbour City) in the Land of Oz we are expecting 27 (84F) Cloudy. Medium (50%) chance of showers, becoming less likely in the afternoon. The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning and early afternoon. Winds south to southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h becoming light in the late evening. Latest reading is 26 at 2.30pm Sunday, a pleasant summer day with similar temperatures & similar chances of rain for the rest of the week. We've had a few big, heavy overnight storms in the past week.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 10:08 AM

We did not get much more snow but it is bloody effing cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 07:15 PM

Well here are my unofficial numbers for December from three miles outside Bude on the north Cornwall coast.

Rain, 82mm, well below the average of 102mm.

Average max, just shy of 11C (52F), around a degree above average. Just one night of frost, when the temperature went down to -1.5C just briefly. My geraniums are still flowering in places. The average is five nights of frost.

I don't have a sunshine recorder, but my subjective record indicates a dull month. There was one severe Atlantic storm at the start of the month, which was devastating up north but which didn't do much damage in Cornwall.

Typical of recent winters and nothing like the ones of my yoof...