What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 23 - 07:44 AM

The Texas power grid held up during the heat wave because of solar power plants - to their credit. Air conditioning, an American invention, is a power-hungry beast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Jul 23 - 01:54 PM

today, up to 36°C outside, inside ONLY 26°C ...

I am melting ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 23 - 08:08 AM

Condolences, for sure, to your husband, Senoufou. How sad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 Jul 23 - 03:23 AM

The weather forecast for Norfolk UK always says 'rain and possibly thunderstorms', but not a drop falls in our small valley on the Wensum.
My husband is in Africa at the moment, and it's the rainy season there. He says the pathways are a sea of mud, but the rain is cooling down the fierce temperatures. (His mother died two weeks ago, and poor man he's had to take three flights to get there and sort out the funeral and burial. The grave has needed bricking over to stop the torrential rain from eroding it.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 09 Jul 23 - 07:10 PM

We are having maybe our third day of Summer today ( sunny and warm ) in Anchorage. We've had cooler than usual, cloudier than usual, rainier than usual, weather since June. no complaints, really, it'll be good for the gardens but I need a new roof.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jul 23 - 09:55 AM

Threat of flash flooding from the thunderstorms and rains.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jul 23 - 06:51 AM

Now that permafrost has reached fermentation temperatures, the runaway greenhouse effect has exceeded all the projected maximum global temperature increases. Our most aggressive remedies can only slow the process and buy time. If we stopped all human CO2 release we would be in a temperature rising event for hundreds if not thousands of years.
It is worth the sacrifice to buy time, but we are talking about mankind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 07 Jul 23 - 10:41 AM

The record for high temperatures has been broken three times in England, on three successive days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 04:26 PM

It's too darn hot,
and the dewpoint is too darn high.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 07:46 PM

The weather here is capricious.
At least we have none of the wildfire smoke this time.
It has alternated rain with bright sunshine all day, the Fourth of July.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jun 23 - 02:20 PM

Less smoky today, but what I blew out of my nose was mud, and I wore a mask yesterday.

I was in Boston earlier, yesterday. No smoke. Came back to Virginia, wow, put the mask I wore for the indoor stuff back on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 23 - 08:01 AM

dangerous asteroids

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 23 - 12:37 PM

CVS drug stores sell canned oxygen. The last time I saw that was in the movie Space Balls.

If this is what a few forest fires can do, imagine what an asteroid impact could do.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 23 - 12:29 PM

For the first time, our weather report included high CO2/low oxygen levels. The Code Red warnings include damage to organs for everyone.

Texas drivers are adapting to the heat by driving with oven mitts on.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 23 - 05:01 PM

TRIPLE DIGITS in Texas but marathons are canceled in the North East due to smoke.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jun 23 - 04:30 PM

I keep my thermostat set pretty high and use ceiling fans during hot weather. After running a few short errands (careful to avoid getting overheated) I'm back home where the house feels good—25 degrees cooler than outside. The thermostat is set at 80^o.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 23 - 12:25 PM

Baseball has ground to a halt in the northeast due to the smoke.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 12:26 PM

The air reminds me of the days after Mt St Helens erupted but then it was actual micro rock that was falling from the sky.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 07:05 AM

The sun is not bright but is an intense tangerine disk.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 05:35 AM

Code Red today in DC because of the smoke from 240 Canadian wildfires. I can smell the smoke. STILL NO RAIN.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jun 23 - 06:48 PM

Three more days of cloudless skies. We're getting 24°-26° with low humidity. Bude is always favoured when the wind is in the east, as it has been for weeks, as the air passes over a couple of hundred miles of warmed-up land before it reaches us. I can't remember a spell as sunny for as long as this one. I'm running out of barbecue gas...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jun 23 - 06:42 PM

It's very cold for the first week of June.
Moreover,
on June 2nd it was really hot, scorching, then we had torrential rains
and everything cooled way down.
So the weather here in southern New England cannot make up its mind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 06:11 PM

Here in Bude we've had 21 days of wall-to-wall sun, with just a tiny glitch three weeks ago with a cloudy day with a tenth of an inch of rain. Otherwise bone-dry. It won't rain and the sun will beam out for at least the next week. I remember the "nonesuch" summer of 1976, when you could plan your barbecues weeks in advance knowing that it would be hot and rainless. That's not the British way! I can't remember a spell of weather like this one. The only downside is that the thermometer still plunges into single numbers/the forties every night. By day we're getting 21-24C which is lovely for sitting around outdoors. But the garden work calls...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 05:39 PM

Oh, Ebbie....we probably will. Australia's climate has cycles of flood and fire; we have had floods over the past couple of years, and are heading back into dryness again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 03:57 AM

JennieG, I remember some of the summer seasons you folks have had over the years. I dearly hope you never have such fire seasons again.

Sandra in Sydney, that's a fascinating bit of info about Sam Hill. I guess that's one way to go down in history. Kind of like what may happen when the tRump, aka as t'Ass, is out of the picture- a braggerly cheating, amoral traitor may well achieve the eponymous distinction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 02:29 AM

Well, May was chilly here in the north west. The average minimum temperature for May was 2.4 deg C (the F folk will have to work the conversion out), making it the coldest May for over 100 years. Can be read about here.

It was also one of the dryest, only 0.2 mm over the whole month, equaling a record which has stood since 1998.

Not a record we wish to break.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 06:22 PM

wikipedia -
Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?").

oh no! Wikipedia is wrong - CantonDaily Ledger sez. Where did the expression Sam Hill come from?
(Sam Hill was a Michigan surveyor in the 1800s who “allegedly used such foul language that his name became a euphemism for swear words,” according to Wikipedia, so it has to be true. Another source says it's a euphemism for “hell.”)

this is fun! A google search on Sam Hill rings up lots of interesting stuff, a veritable rabbit hole ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 05:49 PM

Sandra in Sydney, I didn't know that! I'll bet my parents didn't know they were referring to St. Peter. ha

Incidentally, who was/is Sam Hill? That's one my dad used: What the Sam Hill??

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 12:09 PM

In the coming named Hurricanes this season there is a Nigel and a Don.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 05:21 AM

Glad you asked, Ebbie - “For Pete's sake” originated as a substitute for “for Christ's (or God's) sake,” and other similar expressions as using a shortened form of the disciple St. Peter's name instead was considered less offensive.

Here in the Land of Oz we are heading into winter, so it's getting cooler. But Sydney's winter is different to Alaska's winter.

I live on the edge of the CBD, close to the Harbour (can't see it cos buildings are in the way) & have my windows locked open about 6" & don't have heating. I just put on more layers, naturally those who live west of the harbour have heating, some even have properly sealed homes!!

Average June temperatures in Sydney CBD are 18C high/10C low, averages further west - Parramatta 18/8 (25km from CBD), Penrith 18/7 (60km), Katoomba (in the Blue Mountains where some areas get snow) 10/4 (100km)

For those accustomed to F. temperatures, double & add 30 to get an idea of C. temperatures, for an accurate figure Google is your friend!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 03:32 AM

The weather? Here in Juneau, Alaska, this month of May has been memorable. Downpours of rain for five minutes then tapering off into normal rain then a downpour again, multiple times a day. If we aren't breaking records I would be very surprised.

It is also chilly with highs in the mid40s and lows of mid30s. This is May, for pete's sake. We should be having temps that range from 40 to about 60. (Who is Pete?)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 May 23 - 08:37 AM

Now smoke from eastern Canada fires is making New England hazy.
60,000 Canadians were evacuated. The Arctic is warming faster than predicted. I bet the perma frost melting is the cause. Parts of Canada will be 86 F this week.
17 Hurricanes are expected this year despite an El Nino.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 23 - 09:02 AM

Smoke from Canada wildfires causing hazy, reddish glow ...

FOX 5 DC
https://www.fox5dc.com › news › smoke-from-canada-w...
May 10, 2023 — Smoke from wildfires in western Canada are causing a hazy, reddish glow to appear in the sky across the Washington, D.C. region Wednesday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: haiqu
Date: 21 May 23 - 06:50 AM

It's 8:49pm on a Sunday here in country New South Wales. The aircon is set to 25C and I'm wearing a thick jacket and a woolen beanie and have a doubled-up blanket across my kness and I'm still bloody-well freezing. I hate winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 23 - 08:13 AM

Your 30s were our 50s
Ideal is the ideal descriptor.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 May 23 - 05:59 PM

Brrrrrr!!
We're having an early-April day in mid-May.
And tonight there is a frost warning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 May 23 - 06:34 PM

Another ideal spring day, if a little warm for spring;
low humidity, clear skies, and a warm breeze to keep the bugs away.
The weather is spoiling us with these wonderful days.
Nights are still cool, also.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 May 23 - 06:43 PM

Alberta has declared a state of emergency after wildfires spread across the western Canadian province, driving nearly 25,000 people from their homes. Faced with more than 100 wildfires, Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith called the situation "unprecedented". This reminds me of Oz.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 May 23 - 01:42 PM

Glorious, thank you.
If it never got warmer than this, I would be happy.
The lilac buds are just about ready to burst open.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 23 - 10:48 AM

A perfect day for mowing the grass, which is happening outside.
The smell of freshly cut grass always tells me spring is fully here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Apr 23 - 03:12 PM

Its dusty dry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 23 - 09:23 AM

Spring has returned, after careening through several days like summer.
Rain today, which is much needed. Blessedly cool air.
Nearly all the trees have some new green on their branches.
And the songbirds and evening peepers are loud outside.
Bugs, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Apr 23 - 08:03 PM

Vermont still has got snow on the ground, although not much.
Also the trees are not as green up north
as they are to the south in Massachusetts.
We are in for some rain this week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Apr 23 - 06:26 PM

We have early spring weather this Easter Sunday,
with a chilly wind modifying the strong direct sunshine.

But by the end of next week, it is supposed to be 80 degrees F.!
I hope this summery weather will be followed by some more spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 09 Apr 23 - 05:39 PM

This time of year used to be referred to as "cabin fever' season. Our days are longer and we're gaining about 5 minutes of sunlight to our days per day.

Yesterday after showering I went out to brush a fresh 1-1/2" of snow off the car, then drive out to Starbucks. Today the temperature dropped to 16°F and for dog walking we drove up to one of the trailheads where it was 10°F. The dog loved it and plowed through the trailside snow depth like it was diaphonous ferns. There were many people who drove up there to ski the trails and enjoy the views of town and mountains for Easter. This is the time of year the ravens head back to the nearby mountains to start their nests and domestic chick raisng. Their place is taken by seabirds and Canada geese but it is a bit too early for them. I thought I saw some trees with buds but we're a couple of weeks from leafing out. Nevertheless there are many devoted gardeners who are chomping at the bit to get outside, but no official outdoor gardening until Memorial Day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 23 - 07:05 PM

The weather where I am is early spring weather at the moment.
A cool wind keeps things on the cool side;
there has been a little rain;
and we have had really sunny dry cool days.

The forecast is talking about a wave of unusually warm weather.
Myself, I wish we could have some spring,
and not go from winter straight into summer.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 04 Apr 23 - 02:01 AM

Friday before last we had 60 mph winds with faster gusts throughout Ohio. No tornado activity was reported but my wife and I saw several instances of down trees that had been twisted off rather than knocked over. Hundreds of thousands without power, over 100,000 in my county, nearly a third of the population. I was without power for over three days. we live in the country, literally in the middle of a large corn field, We have gas heat but an elcectric thermostat and well water supplied by an electric pump so we were without both. We had lanterns for light and would have toughed out the 40 degree tempd but how do live without water. After the first night we checked into a hotel. We've been back to normal for 6 days now but they are calling for another such storm two days from now. Fingers are crossed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 09:51 PM

It’s raining in Perth County, Ontario.

This is normal.

Unfortunately, it has been snowing and raining consistently for more than a month now, and wet basements are the rule.

Fortunately, Canadian Tire has wet-dry vacuums on special. What a coincidence!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 07:18 PM

Right now its a windy thunderstorm and the lights are flickering.
It is a bright and stormy night at this hour.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 07:10 PM

The storm that brought tornadoes a day or two ago
is headed for my area,
we have watches up concerning the winds.