What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 19 - 11:57 AM

Two months ago I posted that the rivers near where I live
had risen, before freezing, over their banks.

It's still like that.
The one local route between towns, that I drive on every day,
has some low-lying stretches that cross the
upper part of the Charles River, the twisty turny part
with wetlands and marshes all around.

It gives me a turn to see
how high the ice -- the river level, I mean --
is over the banks and creeping up to the level of the road itself.
Are we in for another year where the river floods the road?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 19 - 12:30 AM

here in sunny Sydney it's not normally as hot as where JennieG lives 400knm to the west. She is normally living in a furnace & I'm living in a sauna, but we both have high temperatures & low humidity at the moment.

Today in the Big Smoke, next to the Harbour it's 38 with 24% humidity at 4pm, & only 32 with 29% humidity in the Small Smoke.

I'm not aware of Sydney's current low humidity, cos it feels like the 80% we had overnight when I was sooo pleased that I'd had my 12" fan fixed yesterday, because had a good blast of very cool air all night.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 06:21 PM

We are experiencing short days, about 7-1/2 hours daylight, but enjoying increasing light at a rate of 5 minutes a day, and the human organism notices this, if only unconsciously. So there is a chipperness in the air.
Considering the very cold temperatures being experienced throughout the American 'Lower 48' we had chilly but unremarkable weather two weeks ago, to about zero deg F (-12 deg C) which is not news for Alaska. But then we had a warm up to exactly a couple of degrees above freezing, and now we have dangerous conditions of rain mixed with snow falling on ice. So the danger is that we will be falling, too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 06:10 PM

You can be sorry for us then, Joe!

Here in north-western N.S.W. it's been a very hot January. Daytime maximum temps are 5.4 deg C above average compared to long term January figures, and overnight minimum temps are 4.4 deg C higher too. This does not bode well for the future.

As well as the long term effects we are fed up with heat. No one is sleeping as well as we should, and days are very draining too. This morning.....10 a.m., as we speak.....is quite smokey, we can smell smoke in the air from fires. We can't see the hills on the other side of the valley because of smoke haze, usually we have a wonderful view for a very long way.

I think I will stay inside today, and drink coffee, and play music, and sew.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 03:32 PM

Here in the Sierra Foothills of California, it's 61 degrees F (16 Celsius), and partly cloudy. We've had a reasonable amount of rain the last 6 weeks, and things are greening up nicely. Our first flowers came out last week - paperwhite narcissus, growing in profusion. I imagine our fruit trees will blossom soon. We'll get some snow before the end of April, but our weather will generally be mild and in the 50s and 60s in the day and 30s and 40s at night.
If you don't live in California, I'm sorry about your weather.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 02:42 PM

This afternoon there is a warning
about a line of snow squalls blowing through --
it would be over quickly,
but when the squalls hit there is blizzard visibility,
and you know what that means.
I'd better get my driving overwith for the day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 02:17 PM

Baltic in Argyll!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 12:17 PM

We are at the 11 year solar minimum this year.
If the sun had a heart beat it would be at rest now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 11:57 AM

The polar vortex we have now was over Siberia last winter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Jan 19 - 03:29 PM

We got some very bad news this afternoon. Neighbour-across-the-road is in his seventies, but still does a bit of lorry-driving now and then.

He had to deliver a huge wooden prefabricated building to some place in Wales. He succeeded in spite of the snow and icy conditions over there, and the enormous low-loader was to be left in Wales.

A chap picked him up in his small truck to bring him back to Norfolk but the vehicle skidded on the compacted snow and ice, overturned and our neighbour broke his neck.

He was taken by Air Ambulance to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and they operated immediately to relieve pressure on his spinal chord.
His wife says he can feel his legs and his hands are moving a bit. She's going with her son to visit him tomorrow.

The problem is that we don't seem to cope very well with snow here in UK. Other more snowy lands deal with it so much more effectively.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 19 - 11:35 AM

The rain came down, the sun came out,
there was some melting and it was possible
to plow and clear and treat with salt,
and get the road surfaces dry.

Now there is this frigid air mass slouching towards the East.
Like the rough beast in Yeats's "Second Coming" poem.
At least we got the roads clear before it gets here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 04:09 PM

Pissing rain again on the top of the new snow. She's runnin' like ducks, eh? (Newf saying.)

I tire of the Global Swarming. SALT is my defense... lots of salt... lots.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 02:54 PM

Somebody somewhere has been doing rain dances.
It's the end of January, and we have spring weather instead,
well above freezing, and rain pouring down in inches.

Hope New Brunswick got some thawing, as well, friend Gnu.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:34 PM

Good grief, gnu. That sounds dire.
Keep your feet under you!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:39 PM

Well, I got the garage door 'unfrozen' and working again. Wall-to-wall ice. Highways are passable again.

More rain coming after -17C tonight and then it will freeze again. Sigh.

Moncton, NB.ca.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 06:45 PM

It's so cold that you can feel the chill indoors and out,
no matter how well your heating works. At least, the storm is past.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 11:04 AM

Harper isn't finished yet.
I'm thinking of Gnu and his Mom in New Brunswick.

In the meantime,
some people are measuring snowfall,
and in other places
they are measuring ICE.

I hate ice storms. I cannot express how much I hate ice storms.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 05:48 PM

The US winter storm currently grinding its way from west to east
has been named Harper by the Weather Terrorists, as our Gnu calls them.

Who has dug out from under the snow yet?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Jan 19 - 06:08 AM

Hot......dangerously hot. Last night was the hottest ever recorded in parts of Australia, 35.9 deg in western N.S.W. Heat records are falling as we speak, and mutterings about "when is it too hot to safely work outside" are filling up news stories. This is the hottest weather for over 80 years, not a record we wish to set; we (indeed much of Australia) are suffering a run of daytime temps of over 40 deg.

It seems that night time temps are warming up at a greater rate than daytime temps, and that has health implications. People whose job requires them to be alert during the day are suffering from lack of restful sleep - and that is not good for society.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 10:25 PM

Snow flurries predicted for early Saturday morning. Real snow is expected Sunday. possible ice-covered power wires causing power failure. Time for bread and milk!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 08:12 PM

And here comes the snoooooooow ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 01:19 PM

The calm before the storm. Getting out my snow boots.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 05:03 PM

brrrrr,    brrrrrrr,   and moreover,
brrrrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 03:09 PM

Yesterday: snow flurries. Today: below freezing temperatures.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:04 PM

To sum up the last three days, rain, fog, and crazy wind chill.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 19 - 08:50 PM

It may be mild around Alphabet City
but around Boston it is below freezing,
and we are being warned about
icy spots on the roads for tomorrow's commute.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 19 - 08:56 AM

Back in January 2001 the freezing wind stung my face as I carried our one year old from the car to the shops. Today I lay back and watch one lonely vulture pivot in cloudless sky. It is warm and mild as the sun makes the branches of tall trees glow golden orange. There is a sadness and sinister sense in this winter heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 11:01 AM

I prefer the yiddish 'drek'

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 09:06 AM

In one word:   dreich.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 19 - 09:25 PM

In DC there are scattered Democrats with a stalled Republican front that has shutdown a huge unstable government system.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 19 - 12:29 PM

An astronomical event is coming which sounds as though
it could certainly affect the weather.

21 January 2019: Super Blood Moon
combines a total lunar eclipse with perigee, the closest that the moon comes to the earth.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 19 - 12:09 PM

Rapparee, Happy New Year.
I thought you lived in Idaho's banana belt??

Here, the contrast is striking with New Year's Day one year ago.
It was below freezing then.
Today there is a SPRING wind blowing and it feels balmy.
Never mind, it will all freeze up hard
within a week's time.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 18 - 03:11 PM

Sunny, 16F (-9C) with a wind chill of 10F (-12C). Tonight will be clear and -6F (-21C); tomorrow clear with a high of 14F (-10C) and a low of -1F (-18C).

The wind has been so hard until a bit ago that I wasn't going to go out to blow snow. I'm still not going to. There's about 6 inches (15cm) on the ground. Maybe by tomorrow morning it will all blow away.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 18 - 02:53 PM

Warm enough for heavy rain for New Year's Eve here.
I hope that the places that got snow and ice last week
get a chance to thaw or dig out, or both.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Dec 18 - 03:52 PM

Oh I want 35 degrees Centigrade!!! Now!!! Even as high as 40 would be absolutely fabulous!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 29 Dec 18 - 03:16 PM

We're enduring what is being called "a low level heatwave", meaning days are in the 35-38 deg C range......better than the areas who are suffering through 40-plus temps, though.

Ah well. It is summer, after all.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Dec 18 - 12:24 PM

Gosh robomatic, that's absolutely terrifying! I've been looking at some of the videos of it actually happening. Hope you and your family/friends are safe, and that your property hasn't been too damaged.
I see that Alaska is prone to earthquakes but that this one was bigger than most.
Stay safe!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Dec 18 - 05:20 PM

Yesterday morning at 0523 (AM) we had a magnitude 5 earthquake right under our buts here in Anchorage. Oh, you wanted the weather? Well, it's been snowing lightly but regularly so that we've got a nice layer of powder every-freaking-where and it is about 20 degrees F which is about -7 C. Which is typical South-Central weather. We had a lovely white Christmas and so far so good. This is seriously nice weather for the place and season. Don't jinx it, Jetstream!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Dec 18 - 04:26 PM

It was actually 14 degrees today, according to our car thermometer. Unheard of in late December. No wind either. Felt quite hot in my winter jacket. I'll be looking out my summer tops if this goes on!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Dec 18 - 02:08 PM

Keberoxu, you've left me wondering which of the Lenox resorts you are at. I can think of two plush ones! And I understand if you don't wish to make your whereabouts public now or after returning home.
In the Berkshires I stay at a budget motel in Lee. I took myself there most recently for my birthday weekend and may return in February if my son and his family use their timeshare near the motel where I stay. There may be a problem, though. His wife recently switched jobs and may not be able to get those days off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 18 - 03:24 PM

It looks like a picture postcard outside. A very chilly one!
The sun will be setting shortly,
so the shadows are long
on the fallen snow under the bare trees;
clear blue sky, and no wind to speak of.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 18 - 11:10 AM

Have traveled west, in Massachusetts, to a Berkshire Mountains resort in Lenox for Christmas.
And look here! It's snowing on Christmas Eve!
No blizzard, no wind, no ice to speak of --
just gently falling white stuff amongst the bare trees.
Pretty as a seasonal holiday picture.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 18 - 03:45 PM

ach, that WIND.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: mg
Date: 21 Dec 18 - 04:34 PM

mild and sunny in SW Washington USA

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Dec 18 - 03:26 PM

It's 62°F. here in southern New Hampshire...and raining. Not exactly seasonal weather but not exactly unheard of, either.

We had two plowable snowfalls in November and last week was well below freezing...enough to maintain the patches of ice between my car and the house that were left over from the one inch of white concrete that precipitated a week and a half ago. (That's what quickly turned into that sheet of ice.)

At least it's not snowing...

Linn (fondly remembering a couple years ago when it didn't snow until the second week in February)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 18 - 06:39 AM

Yep its the first day of winter and this morning it is 60 degrees and will go up to 64 today. Springtime Tornados tore up an Amazon warehouse this week. The weather is bizarre to the extreme.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Dec 18 - 08:20 PM

Still in the storm season here too! Our daily thunderstorm arrives sometime after 4 p.m. More is forecast for today.

Sandra.....as one who survived The Great Sefton Hailstorm of 1990 and lived to tell the tale (albeit with several broken windows and skylights) I don't need to look at Sydney storm pics. Already done it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Dec 18 - 07:43 AM

wide spread hail storms today!

Where I was 8km from the CBD we had lots of heavy rain & 3 short hail storms, largest hail about 2cm (almost an inch) in diameter but most was much smaller. When I got home (1km from CBD) I'd heard I'd missed golf ball size hail, my neighbour saw them smashing into roofs of cars below.

Sydney storms: city battered by tennis ball-sized hail as fronts hit NSW coast

Sydney's storms saw cauliflower-shaped hailstones batter the city. here's how they formed (read on)

google image search on "hail storms sydney 20th dec 2018" brings up some great pics


sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 08:57 PM

I thought about complaining about the rain, but instead I'll write, "At least it's not snow!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 02:00 PM

The sun just came out! How startling.
We are in the middle of a thoroughly "dreich" spell. Dreary gray.
At least we are well above freezing,
and some of the flooded rivers and aquifers
are actually gradually lowering,
which is a relief.