What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 18 - 02:57 PM

Day two of pickaxing some more flood control ditches around the house.

Storms of 6 to ten inches of rain in this day of climate change is more than engineers expected 40 year ago.

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

The season of tropical storms is off to a windy start.
People are looking back at last year's Hurricane Maria
and ruefully observing that initial casualty reports were inaccurate.
Amongst other things.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 May 18 - 03:04 PM

Rain, rain, you need not go away,
it isn't the rain that bothers everybody at the moment,
it's the pollen and the allergies.
Complaints and lamenting everywhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 May 18 - 09:07 PM

Humidity. Luckily the temps aren't too high yet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 May 18 - 01:13 PM

Green and humid, which is weird for eastern Massachusetts in May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 18 May 18 - 05:30 AM

It's a fine day for weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 18 - 08:51 PM

10 inches of rain this week will result in big floods tomorrow.
Railroad tracks in our area have no earth under the rails for 10 or more feet, its washed out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 May 18 - 10:26 PM

Downpour, thunder, and lightning here earlier. Had my flashlight handy but didn't need it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 May 18 - 04:41 PM

What are mammatus clouds? I've heard of cumulonimbus clouds, but never mammatus clouds.

Thankfully the tornado watch is well to the west of us.

We're still expecting severe thunderstorms and maybe hail. Sigh.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 May 18 - 03:39 PM

The sun came out today!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 May 18 - 09:52 PM

A litle farther south than gnu's home, we in Rhode Island say not to plant until after the last full moon in May, but many people ignore that.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 12 May 18 - 01:49 PM

FreddyHeadey... T'ain't no theory. Ya don't plant until after the full moon in June round these here parts. Now, the moons are late this year so ya gotta watch the sky and the tree buds carefully. Yer best bet is watching fruit tree buds... maples and such, not so much. Twas -2C here this AM but the wind kept the frost down. Most farmers (in the backwoods) will plant around May 26, three days ahead of the next full moon but that is still a situation to watch carefully. Some crops can stand a slight frost... others, not so much.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 May 18 - 10:55 AM

Cool overcast day today,
and I'm just so thankful that
it isn't what it was four weeks ago -- snow and ice...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 May 18 - 05:16 AM

gnu,
no, I didn't realise the lunar cycle could affect the likelihood of frost.
What's the theory?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 May 18 - 01:04 PM

Had frost yesterday morn. Yuppies are uppity. Never seen frost this 'late'! I ask, "Where are they from?" Do they not understand the lunar cycle?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 May 18 - 04:22 PM

Just hoping we stay with the current season for a little while.
It does seem as though the seasons with the solstices
are eating into the seasons with the equinoxes,
from both sides.

For today, it is the season of the current equinox, and pleasant.
I'm just scared that
solstice weather will barge in
and flatten the joys of the present season.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 May 18 - 11:38 PM

Autumn has finally arrived so right now it's pleasant in the sun, much cooler in the shade with that chilly little breeze blowing. This morning the temperature here dropped to 3.3 deg C, I don't know what that is in F but I can tell you it's not quite warm.

Trees are changing, leaves are turning. Summer started early and went on for (it seemed) much longer than usual; it's been very dry, so plants are dying everywhere. The drought is biting hard.

But - it will rain eventually! Until then "we'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan".

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:57 PM

And the frogs, Joe?
Are they still making noise?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:51 PM

What's the weather like where I am?
Lovely!
Of course, I'm in Northern California, in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.
Wildflowers are good this year, too.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 05 May 18 - 02:40 PM

Had a few beautiful days in the mountains of North Georgia {USA}, but today it's cloudy and humid.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 May 18 - 08:41 PM

And today, humidity! My body needs time to adjust.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 18 - 01:57 PM

Yes, I reckon that all the heaps of frozen dirty snow have melted and evaporated hereabouts, by now.
Northern New England may be another matter,
but even there the ski resorts have closed for the season.

JennieG, how's the weather in Oz?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 May 18 - 11:04 PM

Suddenly, it's summer--at least it was today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 May 18 - 02:15 PM

The only thing that doesn't look enough like
the first day of May,
is the bare trees. It's been cold and wintry for so long
that the trees are JUST NOW budding with new green leaves,
many remain bare.

But after several straight days of spring rains
and cloudy skies,
today the sun comes out
and EVERYTHING perks up. It's pretty as a picture.

The blossoming shrubs and trees, like the forsythia and dogwood,
still have blossoms on them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Apr 18 - 02:08 PM

Great black-gray clouds overhead, one has to keep the umbrella handy.
But the wind has stopped blowing,
the temperature is rising,
and for the first time in lo these many months
the trees have new green leaves.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 03:59 PM

A good soaking of spring rain in southern New England.
People are trimming their lawns for the first time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Apr 18 - 12:56 PM

It's not truly Spring until we have seven full days without a trace of snow -- not sticking on the ground, not flakes in the air.

Monday I drove home from a wonderful weekend in Brunswick, Bath, and Bristol, Maine. It was gray, damp, and cold all weekend and I saw flakes in the air mid-day.

I drove home to Nottingham, New Hampshire via I-95 on Monday. What an incredibly TEDIOUS drive! Wind, rain, fog... Sleet as I was passing through Yarmouth, remnants of early morning snow in the grass and rock crevices around Biddeford.

The temperature kept rising, degree by degree, from 34°F in Harpswell to 39°F when I got home. Snow on the side of the road after I crossed Rte. 125 in Lee, NH and I turned into a white driveway. A very slippery hard white sludge was outside my car door as I debarked and covered the deck.

Just tired of it. A year ago it was 83°F. I'm not seeing any leaf buds on trees and damned little greening up of grass.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 18 Apr 18 - 11:41 AM

Here in Perth County, we're having Winter, Part Trois. First we had lots of snow in December and a bit of cold in January, then a protracted thaw in February. Then it snowed a bit more in March, and stopped and warmed up again. But then we got to participate in the Southern Ontario Ice Storm With Extra Wind, which has been succeeded by yet another bout of snow.

Good thing we haven't taken the snow tyres off the car yet. The robins are looking somewhat disconsolate, however.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 18 - 11:17 AM

The sun came out for a few hours. That's NEWS,
after the Patriot's Day Marathon was held in the rain and wind yesterday.
However, the Boston Red Sox postponed their Patriot's Day Game,
they'll reschedule it for May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Apr 18 - 05:05 PM

snow ... snow ... what do we want with yet more snow ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Apr 18 - 10:04 AM

Not nearly enough above freezing, that's what it's like.
Need the long underwear and turtleneck sweaters all over again.
And it hasn't even started precipitating.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 18 - 05:05 PM

gray, gray, gray.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 09:19 PM

Gnu posted on Mudcat Cafe's Facebook page 1 hour ago.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 12:11 PM

Gnu?
Could you stick your head above the snow
long enough to tell us that
you and your mother are still alive?

I look at the current weather map
and I see Nova Scotia covered in snowstorm radar symbols.
That means close to New Brunswick and Gnu.

Winter and snowstorms
just will not let up
in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Mar 18 - 08:19 PM

By now I hope your big gums have taken you back the 19 steps to your place!
Seagulls can be great weather indicators.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 18 - 07:43 PM

Environment Canada zero. Seagulls 5. Man it's nasty outside. Seagulls can see way out to sea, see? EC just look at maps.

Gots ta put me big gums on ta walk 19 steps ta mudder's place and kick the white away from her door ta get 'er open, eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 07:38 PM

I gotta run up the genie. Make sure she's up for anything. Shouldn't be bad according to ECanada but I got seagulls up the ass here (again!). Seagulls can see way out to sea, see? And when seagulls see what they see coming in from the sea, the get away from the sea. Of course, it was garbage day today so... we'll know how much snow we're gonna get after it stops snowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 05:45 PM

We in & near DC had a lot of wet snow this morning. I got 5-6", but it slowed & pretty much quit after 1:00PM...It is above freezing, so a day or so and a lot will be gone.
It was NOT a good idea to be driving during rush hour, but we are in no serious trouble.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 01:14 PM

Pennsylvania is getting buried under falling snow,
and there is heavy snow in Baltimore as well,
so I wonder about Washington DC --
unless they are warm enough for rain.

The snow has yet to arrive in the Greater Boston area.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Mar 18 - 06:27 PM

Donuel,
what kind of storm hit the DC area today?
Was it snow, freezing, or simply rain?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 18 - 11:50 AM

Catching our breath after too many blizzards.
Snow, snow, stay away . . .
we're still digging out from under the re-frozen snow from last time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 09:11 AM

It stopped snowing and the sun has come out.
The sun is welcome.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 01:43 PM

in one word:
white.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 10:50 AM

Whine, whimper, bleat, moan, and any number of deletable expletives.
We don't need any more snow over here in the northeast US,
but the forecasters are agreed
that we're going to get it anyway.
And some households are just now getting electrical power restored
after as long as a week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 18 - 02:58 PM

The Winter Terrorists have been happy campers of late,
with one snowstorm after another.
We have been through the list of names through the letter R, next comes S.
The residents, not so happy.
Trees down, power lines down, power out.
Coastal homes flooded, some of them obliterated, evacuations.

We may get a few days to breathe before the East Coast
has another storm.
So it's cold enough for the snow and the snowmelt to
freeze overnight into black ice;
enough above freezing in the daytime to melt snow and ice a bit at a time.
Yesterday THE SUN CAME OUT for a few minutes before setting,
the rest of the day there were these roiling boiling grey-blue clouds
that gave no rain or snow but swept rapidly overhead.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 11:24 PM

Hot. Hot, hot and more hot. Another heatwave this week.....I am well and truly over summer.

Roll on autumn.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 04:35 PM

said it before, say it again:

DREICH

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jan 18 - 11:02 AM

Is it true what they said on the news,
that in parts of Australia
the asphalt on the highways
is literally melting in the heat ??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 10:50 AM

Massachusetts could be in for a thaw,
and I'm worried it could be too much too soon --
the last thing we need is flooding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 01:15 PM

Tomorrow (Sunday 7th Jan) in central eastern New South Wales, Oz it is supposed to get to 36 deg C (97 deg F) here on the coast, but 20 miles inland where I work it will be 45 deg C (113 deg F). Luckily I won't be working tomorrow.

I grew up in that town. I don't ever remember it getting much over 40 C/100 F. To get to 45C/113 F is just crazy.

And snow in Florida? That's crazy too. I've seen photos of a frozen fountain, and Niagara Falls frozen in mid fall.

Helen