What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 02:56 PM

No snow this winter season yet. It generally has been warmer than most years, with a few colder below freezing nights. Heavy rain and wind forecast for the next few days. Seems like we are on the southern side of a winter snow event.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 02:50 PM

The gulls are inland (I am about 20 miles from salt water). We have them all the time but have many more when a storm is coming in. I can tell just looking at my black truck in the driveway. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 05:29 AM

Twas -17C yesterday morn but it's slowly warming up to snow a bit and then turn to sleet to freezing rain to rain by tomorrow morning. Rain and snow are no problem. It's the ice+wind that I worry about.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 02:12 AM

Rain. Very wet. Most roadways are clear of ice and snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 12:18 AM

Oh, I can't imagine how cold that must be!

It's raining here, again. Over the past week we have had more than our average December rainfall, with more to come over the next week. The hill behind us was dry, brown and dead last week, now it is green.....wonderful to see.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 11:49 PM

Cold. Really cold. Below freezing cold. So cold I didn't bother turning on the car's heater when I drove between home and the Y because it's a short distance and the motor wouldn't have time to warm up. By the time I reached my destination I was almost frozen.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Dec 14 - 07:55 PM

Nothing as dire here in Rhode Island as what some of you are experiencing! I wish you relief from heat, humidity, and drought, or freezing temps, ice, and snow. Today was chilly: sweater and long wool coat weather. Yesterday I needed only a heavy sweater.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Dec 14 - 03:20 PM

It's now morning, storms have passed and we had very good rain last night with more forecast for today - fingers crossed that actually happens! One thing that we don't want, however, are 'dry' electrical storms with lots of thunder and lightning but no (or very little) rain. Many fires are started by lightning strikes and, to quote a favourite media cliché, the bush is "tinder dry".

It's such a cliché, in fact, that many people eagerly await the first sighting of the phrase in spring each year, and newspaper columnists announce it with glee!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Dec 14 - 04:39 AM

Thank you, Guest Manuel.....and now I am going to turn off the computer, because thunder is getting closer!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 06:32 PM

In those dire circumstances, then, JennieG, here's hoping that it comes down in torrents!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 03:32 PM

Well - it's not cold.

I live 5-6 hours drive north-west from Sandra, who lives in the heart of Sydney in the Big Smoke, and here today in the Small Smoke very welcome rain is forecast. Welcome because we are in drought, and the drought is biting hard; we are now banned from using hoses to water our gardens (or for any other purpose), although we can use buckets or watering cans between 6pm and 8pm. Elderly folk who may have trouble carrying buckets can apply for a dispensation, and will be allowed to use a hose for two hours a week. Local farmers are having a tough time, as you can imagine; many are having to sell cattle, even breeding stock which they had hoped to keep, because there is no feed for them and they can't keep buying feed with no end in sight to the drought.

So rain, which is forecast for the next few days, is eagerly awaited.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 01:48 PM

15kph tops this AM. LOTS of accidents on the roads. Every time the radio announcer came on, he said SLOW DOWN! I helped some elderly people up ta yer Sobeys get in and out for groceries... got my quota+ of good deeds for today done in jig time. The temp is up to 5C now but she's windy and heavy rain. Back to -10C by Friday. Makes a man feel ALIVE! And bloody wet and cold. Brrrrrrr... grrrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 06:48 AM

Here on the South coast of England the weather is decidedly chilly for short sleeves - I think less hardy souls than I are in overcoats now. The temperature overnight went below freezing inland, I am sure. The barometer is showing high pressure the sky is clear and the sun is shining, so all in all a good day, just cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 04:31 AM

"... it's still bloody hot & humid." Ouch!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Dec 14 - 04:04 AM

here in just-after-sundown-Sydney it's still bloody hot & humid. I'm close to the harbour (can't see it!) and get the same weather as at the official Sydney location Observatory Hill.

14 mins ago it was 21.4C with 87% humidity. About an hour ago we had a big storm - lotsa' rain - in a tropical fashion - down it came then away it went! 22mm fell between 6.30 & 7pm. Max temp today was 29.3C.

forecast for today (Wednesday) was min 21 & max 29 with the same tomorrow, & we are expecting more rain.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Dec 14 - 09:54 PM

For four or five days we had brilliant blue weather with high temps of around 20. Beautiful, no ice underfoot, no wind.

Then day before yesterday it clouded up and started snowing. Not a whole lot. We ended up with an official 8 inches.

Tonight it is raining into the snow. It is forecast to freeze overnight. Gonna be a slippery drive in the morning...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 02 Dec 14 - 12:00 AM

Temps and cloud cover bouncing all over the place. Today was sunny and about 70 f. Sunday was cloudless and mild, in the low to mid 60's. Friday was chilly and Saturday was cool. Tomorrow, rain and high of 46. Bounces a bit the rest of the week but headed for more seasonable weather in the low to mid 50's as the week goes on.

Typical erratic late fall here on the Piedmont of North Carolina. Not a wet fall, but at least not completely droughty.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 07:59 PM

I think it's -12 here tomorrow. Such are the Merrytimes of Canuckistan eh?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 04:14 PM

Rhode Island's h aving a heat wave, too, after unseasonably low temperatures on Saturday. We were told to expect more severe cold in a day or two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 01:39 PM

The HORROR! The CARNAGE! It was 13C just an hour ago here in Moncton, NB.ca... the children are stricken with grief and tears... snowmen (snowpersons?) are mere puddles containing rocks and carrots and... I can't bear to type the graphic description of such tragedy... dead!... all of them dead. No news at eleven.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Oct 14 - 11:08 AM

last night I slept undeer my 80% down quilt after several nights under my finest woollen blanket with the fan blowing nearby!

Today I wore winter clothes after days of spring clothes.

Quilt & winter clothes were meant for the weekend when I'll be at a festival several hours south where life is cooler, not for Sydney.

sandra

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Oct 14 - 01:36 AM

Yesterday and today, barely an hour south-east of here, it snowed! It's supposed to be hot in the middle of October, geez!

So yesterday and today it is not ~quite~ warm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: brashley46
Date: 15 Oct 14 - 12:05 AM

Still warmish, fixin' to rain here in Toronto ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 12:47 PM

Sandra, the nicholson cartoon emphasises your point quite well! Thanks. Hope the downpour goes away for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 10:13 AM

Thanks for the enlightenment, JennieG. Here's hoping Tamworth and surrounding areas get that additional 131 mls, and more, before long.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 09:32 AM

& I'm about 5 hours south east of Jennie, near the world-famous Sydney Harbour, & a km or 2 west of the even more famous Bondi Beach.

We are in the middle (end?)of a big storm & in the past 15 hours have had 53mm of rain, most of it in the past 6 or so hours) a lot more than Tamworth has received. Go away, rain - head out into the dry inland areas, we don't need you here on the coast. Sydney weather radar

In the past 5 or 6 hours the Sydney & surrounding areas have had floods & blackouts etc. I'm keeping my torch close just in case, I'd hate to try to avoid all the stuff that lives on the floor in a search for light.

sandra, 12.30am Wednesday morning


as a poet, Dorothy McKeller put it we live in a land of droughts & flooding rains & here's a bit of light relief

my favourite drought relief cartoon

cartoon - drought relief floods

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 02:18 AM

Guest Manuel, I live in Tamworth, a town in north-western New South Wales, Oz.

After I wrote that last post we had more rain for a grand total of 19 mls over 24 hours yesterday, and more storms and rain are forecast tonight. Oz has cycles of drought and flood, drought and flood; we had a flood four years ago and well above average rain for a couple of years, but last year (after a promising start) was below average and this year even more so. Concern is felt because town water supplies are a bit low and we are heading into what is forecast to be a dry hot summer again, last year's summer was the hottest ever.

But what the heck, next year we might have a flood again......

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 13 Oct 14 - 09:03 PM

JennyG's post paints a pretty grim picture. I am wondering what part of the globe is experiencing the drought she has described to us.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Oct 14 - 07:33 PM

Janet... my heart goes out to you! I hope you have relief from the heat.

First decent frost yesterday. Now back up to 20C daytime. It will bounce back and forth here in the Canuck Merrytimes until it doesn't. Buying four cans of gas tomorrow on sale (double Coop coupons) for the quip and generator. I am a Boy Sprout... always prepared. >;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Oct 14 - 05:50 AM

Earlier this evening we had a thunderstorm with rain, actual real live wet rain, falling onto our garden.......and, hopefully, farms in the district too. The drought has been biting hard for some time now so any rain is welcome - our town received 10 mls, but a local agronomist said tonight on the news that we need at least 150 mls to make much difference to current conditions.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Oct 14 - 09:27 PM

We had a lot of rain on Saturday, especially in the morning. Today, Sunday, was gorgeous: very cool but sunny. The fall foliage seems slow to show up this year. Often by now it is at its peak. That's true here in Rhode Island and in southeastern Connecticut, where I spent the day.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 11 Oct 14 - 12:22 AM

On the whole,London, England has been delightfully cool and, of course, wet since we arrived here last Sunday morning. But the sun's few appearances have been entirely welcome. A whirlwind visit to Canterbury and Wye Kent yesterday got us away from the rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Oct 14 - 12:32 PM

Cloudy, damp with rain expected later for the fourth day in a row. I keep telling myself the earth needs it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Janet
Date: 04 Oct 14 - 02:59 AM

Temperatures have been extremely hot here in Southern, California and the temp. for Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 is supposed to be around 106 degrees in the area where I live.

It's unbelievable that here we are in October and it is going to be that hot tomorrow. Well of course as I type this it is close to midnight - Oct. 3, and even at this time of night I have to have the air conditioner going. It is still very, very warm even close to mid-night. Tomorrow, I plan to be in an air-conditioned car, an air-conditioned restaurant for lunch and then back home.

There are different outdoor events scheduled for this weekend that I would have liked to attend but most are outdoors like a day time food and craft festival or some other events - but man, 106 degrees outside - no way! I am not near the beach at all and anyway the beaches will probably be packed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Oct 14 - 04:20 PM

At the rate our weather is going, we'll have snow on the ground before Hallowe'en, maybe as early as next week. Snow has already reached down the mountains toward us as far as the treeline.

We've had a cool, wet summer. Not unheard of, by any means, but very different from the summer of 2013 when we had a lot of sunshine.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 02 Oct 14 - 08:01 PM

Commendable resistance there, ChanteyLass. And since you didn't go all the way, I, for one, will not count that one against you.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Oct 14 - 06:42 PM

Three days of gentle rain will slightly alleviate fairly dry conditions recently. Last night I turned on the heat for the first time since late spring, but I left it on only while I took a shower and my hair dried!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 03:55 AM

The last year has been rather different from the previous few. The lowest temperature here in Pennine Lancashire last winter was -0.8C as opposed to -16C last year.
We have had very little wind for the last three months compared to the last few years as well.
I'm well on the way to making lawns from what was field after cutting the grass so many times this year.
The temperature last night at 10:00pm was 14C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 07:26 PM

Sorry- the last was Calgary, Canada.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 07:24 PM

My daughter had to scrape the ice from the windshield this morning when she came to town.
Dark and drear, but not really cold; near freezing at night, 10C the high today.
Deciduous trees yellow. Our decorative potted plants outside froze, so time to clear the pots.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 04:16 PM

Considering that it will be October in the morning we have had a good year here is Dorset.
the weather has been warm We are still enjoying warm days, the apples are still growing larger on our trees, but by about 9 o'clock at night it is becoming chilly so going out to the supermarket makes me think I should look for my jacket, though it has not yet made be turn back to find it - but I am of hardy Yorkshire stock raised in the North of England and we don't get many sports cars up there - it is difficult to even find them when it snows.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 12:21 PM

Sorry. It was a calendar I left on the month of February. My bad.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 12:19 PM

Snow up to my waist. Freakin' cold.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 12:15 PM

70 degrees (f), sunny and beautiful here in the mountains of North Georgia, USA.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 11:21 AM

Guest Over the bar, I note your post with interest. I wish someone in the south of England, preferably London, would say something about how September has been, especially the end, weather-wise.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,Guest Over the bar
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 11:09 AM

Warmest September on record, warm Summer also. Armagh Ireland.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 08:26 AM

Cold, damp and dark.











Well, it is before sunrise.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 01:47 PM

West of Scotland has had the best Summer that I can remember, wall to wall sunshine!

Of course, being a Scot I must say...."We'll pay for it!" :0(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 11:52 AM

NB.ca (Forgot to include my location in my last post... thanks Manuel.) Poor day to paint the kitchen and bathroom. Cold, damp and windy with isolated showers. Yesterday, the windows were closed due to hot weather.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 10:22 AM

here in Sydney is it allegedly early spring.

Today we had 30 on the harbour near where I live, with our western suburbs (usually a few degrees higher) a few degrees cooler. If you prefer degrees F. instead of Celcius, double + add 30 to get an idea of our day.

We also have a crop of nasty summer fires in other parts of the country - as winter has been very dry across the country we can expect a very bad fire season when summer gets here, tho perhaps it is already here.

sandra