What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 20 - 07:06 PM

no rain coming down,
but good heavens, the clouds are dark and stormy looking.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 20 - 07:08 PM

What is going on in New Orleans?
It looks like a deluge!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 05:29 PM

I don't know if March is going out like a lamb,
but at least this is rain rather than snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 04:08 PM

More sunshine, AND,
someone collected some "pussy-willows" and put them in a vase.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Mar 20 - 09:39 AM

... and clear blue sky the next day:
postcard-picture perfect image.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Mar 20 - 03:49 PM

Snowing!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 16 Mar 20 - 09:30 PM

not a cloud in the sky. breezy though. i am about to head to the ocean (not passing a single soul on the way) to take some pictures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Mar 20 - 07:01 PM

Everything was "lovely in the garden" today,
and tomorrow there might be rain
for the green growing things.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 08:08 PM

... and within a few hours,
all the clouds blew away and
we had blue sky and blinding sunshine.
The local weather
just doesn't feel like waiting for the vernal equinox here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 03:14 PM

Well, instead of early May,
it feels like early April now:
getting soaked with rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?,
From: mg
Date: 12 Mar 20 - 07:08 PM

warm, sunny, breezy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 20 - 10:42 AM

Still warm enough for early May,
and bright and sunny and dry and ...
something has got to crash, eventually,
but right now it's flying-high weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 06:26 PM

This is 9 March, and it feels warm enough for 9 May,
up here in the northern hemisphere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 20 - 08:58 PM

The deep South doesn't need any more rain, but alas,
it looks like you-all are going to get more of what you don't need.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 02:06 PM

If you can stay indoors and watch it from the warmth,
it's picture perfect,
with puffy white clouds drifting through a dry blue sky in the sunlight.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 02:58 PM

Well, we have had rain. Beautiful rain. That which was dry, dead and brown not so long ago is now lush and green.

The big complaint here now is weeds, the unwanted sort. Khaki weed, cat head burrs and that succulent weed which I do not know the name of are running rampart.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 11:21 AM

Today there is a mass shooting in the midwest and scattered death threats and violence in the west.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 09:56 AM

Now, what is this I see and hear about
Australia having snow?

I'm in Massachusetts near the Berkshire Mountains,
and the snow is falling in thick flakes here --

but it's not supposed to be snowing in
BOTH hemispheres at the same time !?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 05:04 PM

My Country: recited by Dorothea Mackellar

"Millennium Dreams" from WalkaboutsVerse

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 06:41 PM

Australia - the land of drought, flooding rain & fires - all at once. 'Tsunami-like' floods destroy bushfire recovery steps leaving folk reeling

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 06:30 PM

Caught between a rock and a hard place on Brown Mountain 2 truck-sized boulders fall on a 2-lane highway

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 05:50 PM

I'm in northwest Florida, just south of the Alabama line. We've had some fairly heavy rains, but the real flooding is happening in and around Jackson, Mississippi, which is about 200 miles northwest of us.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 03:57 PM

Re the floods from Storm Dennis, England needs more trees (to absorb water) & less people via birth control & repatriation (55 million is far too many for the area of land called England); or, in verse, my poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on "Congestion"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 03:10 PM

walking a fine line, in my region.
The season has been warm and wet:
enough rain for concern about flooding anyway.

The rivers are unusually high for February, however.
Now the weather is cool, clear and dry,
and I see the water line going down gradually.
This bodes well for this region.

I have an absolute horror of flooding or surges.
My blood freezes to hear about the mudslides and floodwaters
in other parts of the country.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 08:43 PM

Do we have any United States Mudcatters in what we call
the Deep South,
that's the southeastern US ?

Because the Mississippi is flooding,
and so are the smaller rivers thereabouts,
they have had entirely too much rain
and the weather keeps getting
warm moist airflow from the Gulf of Mexico ...

mudslide city. Houses AND highways collapsing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 01:48 PM

We hear about your monster storm on the news even over here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Feb 20 - 04:31 AM

We've had a terrible night. The wind force was fearful, and there was a very loud, shrill whistling (I think it was the wind on the telephone wire attached to our guttering) Neither of us slept a wink. Bangs and crashes - we thought our tiles were off, or our fences down.
So relieved to see no damage this morning (miracle!) but I'm going to need a long nap this afternoon. I feel absolutely rotten!
Sorry about your flooding Steve. We haven't been down to the Wensum yet at our bridge. Bet the water level is high, if not over the banks.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 09:00 PM

that was how parts of inner & greater Sydney were earlier in the month -
Sydney rains: Record rainfall brings flooding but puts out mega-blaze (10th Feb)
Sydney has been hit by its heaviest rain in 30 years, bringing widespread flooding but also putting out two massive bushfires in New South Wales.
Australia's weather agency said 391.6mm of rain had fallen in the past four days in Sydney, more than three times the average rainfall for February.
About 100,000 homes are without power, and officials have warned flash floods could be life-threatening.
But the rainfall means only 17 fires are still burning across the state ... great pic of a firefighter enjoying the rain. On the wettest & windiest day I saw more dead brollies than I've ever seen!

google image search on "sydney floods feb 2020"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 09:58 AM

All our roads are flooded. We're virtually trapped in the house. The only time I've seen it worse than this was on the afternoon of the Boscastle flood in 2004. Eight miles up the road from us at Otterham Station they had 200mm in a day. We got away lightly, with two inches here in 55 minutes.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 08:00 AM

well, most of our fires are out, some because of flooding rains!, drought affected areas are better off What has the rain done to drought-affected towns running out of water? but the rain caused problems, too Hole in Queensland dam sparks evacuations at Talgai - check out the 2 videos.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 06:20 PM

John sez: "Pretty wild up here in the highlands, but so far we've not had the amount of rain they seem to be getting further south."

Oddly, here just outside Bude we've also had very little rain, 3mm today to be precise. The wind has been pretty bad, but we've had worse many times in our 33 years in our remote house. We've had four weather insurance claims (none for anything else!), all wind-related, one in March 1987, then the Great Storm of October '87, then the Burns Day storm in 1990 (I could write a book...) and then two weeks after that in February 1990. All of those involved roof damage and two a demolished greenhouse. So OK for the last thirty years, in spite of many a big gale...

We've had two lightning strikes, not directly on the house thankfully, both of which struck our telephone line close to the house. One took out all our communications all over one Christmas and New Year and the other blew our wall-mounted phone right off the wall and across the kitchen floor and, scarily, melted and burned the telephone wires to our bedroom extension. Both burned out my computer modems. For several years we've had hardly any thunder and lightning at all, a very noticeable trend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:29 PM

...and Mary Poppins broke the speed of sound over the Thames, before getting stuck on The Shard and having to call an old ex-chimney-sweep mate to set her free.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:06 PM

Facebook post from London tonight:


Garden clearance sale

5 half trampolines

23 fence panels various sizes might have damage

88 marley roof tiles

Few sheds some are half

Contact me for prices

Update correction only 3 trampolines 2 and half have moved on.

New stock arriving every 10 mins.....

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 02:51 PM

Ah Robin, we had a new double-glazed window installed last year in our sitting room, and the same problem occurred - a bit of a draught where the plastic frame didn't quite fit the brick wall. So my handy husband got some mastic with a gun type of thing and sealed it beautifully all round the edges, then smoothed it down with a damp cloth. Solved!
(However, mastic always stinks of vinegar for ages afterwards, and we had to have the window open for hours until it 'went off'!)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 02:07 PM

We have had the most surface water that we have seen here in the eleven years that we have been here. It made those jokes about water-skiing on sloping lakes look possible!

The old rabbit holes were completely flooded in the warren below our house with water spouting up out of them. It has washed the mud away around the gates on our lane though so we might not need the wellies for a couple of weeks.

We have a few leaks through various window surrounds, I manage to find and fix more each time we have a bad storm. The window surrounds are stone slabs that do not easily seal to the windows or the rest of the walls.

Robin

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 01:53 PM

Just had the most terrifying rainstorm, with horizontal rain pounding the house and almost breaking the window panes. But I watched the News and it seems the whole country is in trouble, with severe flooding and storm damage.
Hope this abates by tomorrow - I'm a bag of nerves!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 12:12 PM

A ridge too far?
Pretty wild up here in the highlands, but so far we've not had the amount of rain they seem to be getting further south.
Snow forecast over the next two days though :(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 11:37 AM

Violent gale blowing. I found an 8-kilo lump of ridge tile in my garden, five yards from the house. Could have killed someone! It was some gust that shifted it that far.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 10:34 AM

Our greyhound Dreamy decided that she'd had enough by the time she got to the end of our road this morning - just 200 yards away, and I was nearly blown over by a high gust of wind on the way back!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:47 AM

Storm Ciara is now in full swing here in Norfolk. There have been numerous power cuts throughout the county (not us, so far) and the strength of the wind is frightening.
My husband decided he'd like to run down to the village shop to get the Sunday paper (mad!) and nearly got blown away.
I'm actually a bit scared and worried about our house and nearby trees and fences. It's going to get worse according to the Met Office.
It's now raining horizontally! The poor birds and wild animals...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Martin
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:06 AM

Storm Ciara that is in Ireland.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Martin
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 05:02 AM

We're halfway through it and the rivers are already full!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 01:01 AM

It is wet. Finally, it is wet!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 08:24 AM

Yesterday we had 4 small tornados miles from the house,
Only trees and roofs were lost.
Historicly there was 1 tornado here in the last hundred years

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 09:11 PM

strong wind and rain but it is on and off

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 07:25 PM

I worry about our local Farmers' Market later this morning: they have not called it off, as the worst of teh wind is predicted not to start until after 11 am. We are supposed to be going down to do our usual official busking: i suggested people bring sandbags or guy ropes for their music stands, and clothes pegs for the music, tho better still, ditch the stands and the music and play from memory.
The Six nations rugby internationals should be a bit "interesting" especially Scotland v England late afternoon by which time winds may be over 50mph!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 06:02 PM

When I lived in Edinburgh and then Glasgow, the word 'dreich' meant dismal, dreary, wet and depressing weather.

I'm a bit worried this evening, as the TV weather forecast was full of Met Office Warnings about this blooming storm Ciara, which will bring winds of up to 80mph, and will cause damage to property, power cuts and closure of roads, airports and bridges.
I worry about the wooden fences around our property, the roofing tiles, trees falling onto the roads (there are many large oak trees lining the roads everywhere in Norfolk). Also the poor wildlife.
It's due to hit on Saturday evening and continue through Sunday.
Gulp!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 05:56 PM

Actually there might be distinctions between
"dreich" and the High German "Dreck" (as well as the Yiddish).

When I look further into Scots "dreich" online,
what comes up is
Middle English, Old English, and Old Norse.
And the sense is not just shit or dirt,
but of conditions that have to be patiently endured like an ordeal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 01:56 PM

drek - yiddish (foul dirt)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 12:14 PM

there's one excellent word for it:

"dreich"