Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: frogprince Date: 30 May 16 - 07:29 PM Totally great warm weekend for bumming and reading in the shade and swimming a bit. Never saw so much weekend time with 100% chance of thunderstorm predicted and nothing but a minute or so of scattered raindrops once. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: gnu Date: 30 May 16 - 07:09 PM Spring. Summer. Spring. Summer. Until summer. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Senoufou Date: 30 May 16 - 12:00 PM Very strong chilly wind here in Norfolk, and mizzly rain which could even be sleet. I'm so sorry for all the organisers of Bank Holiday events, and little families who must have been looking forward to their break. My lovely neighbour is off camping with her Brownies, poor soul. And the blackbird is still sitting on her eggs hidden in the honeysuckle at the front door. I keep putting out best lean raw mince for her, and leftover catfood. She looks frozen stiff! |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 30 May 16 - 11:35 AM A lovely steady soaking rain. Nice change from unseasonably hot and dry. With everything growing like mad, the rain is welcome, and cools things down....it had been like summer a month early. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 26 May 16 - 05:56 PM Hot enough for early summer, and us with a long holiday weekend coming up. In fact, it's Thursday and a lot of people are leaving town as though it were Friday -- the traffic reports are unsettling. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Elmore Date: 17 May 16 - 08:19 PM It's been a very pleasant, if somewhat cool, spring here in the mountains of North Georgia. [USA} |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Gallus Moll Date: 17 May 16 - 03:52 PM oops, mistake- - need new specs! read launch year of boat as 1938 instead of 1933 -- - - G L is younger than the boat! |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: vectis Date: 16 May 16 - 10:32 PM Summer has been unending this year. The night time temperatures are still in the high teens and it has been very dry since early January. The sea temperatures have only just dipped below 20. This is winter in New Zealand in an El Nino year. I love the log burner in winter but it is far too hot to light it yet :-( |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Gallus Moll Date: 16 May 16 - 05:56 AM ----just realised Gordon Lightfoot was born the same year as TS Queen Mary was launched! Going to see him in GRCH on Wednesday -- - - journey back in time to my teens and student days. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Gallus Moll Date: 15 May 16 - 08:29 PM gorgeous day here ... not as warm as the previous spell but bright and sunny- -a great welcome back home to the Clyde for TS Queen Mary, which was towed and shepherded by tugs Vanguard and Buster all the way from Tilbury to the James Watt Dock at Greenock. (Well I'm not sure if Buster did the whole route - check the Friends of TS Queen Mary website or facebook page for correct info!) Now the fundraising begins to refit her.......poor wee boatie. Hope they can get her steaming again. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 15 May 16 - 05:41 PM Dark gray clouds overhead, and a wind so stiff that the forecasters are broadcasting wind-chill factors again; the night will be cold. That's good -- it will keep the bugs at bay.... |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 14 May 16 - 07:00 PM The wind, the "coolth", and a spot of rain are due back here. Good thing too, before conditions get forest-fire or brush-fire tinder-dry. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Gallus Moll Date: 13 May 16 - 07:17 PM -- effan' Baltic today in the West of Scotland, after about a week of (for us) scorching sunshine, sandals, havin' tae water the gairden (almost unbelievable here!) Our Copper Beech tree has now completely opened out its leaves -- a bit later than usual, normally 1st May. Hope the cold wind diminishes tomorrow - - - - |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: frogprince Date: 12 May 16 - 09:15 PM Most of a very nice warm day here. We made our usual visit with the FIL at his care facility, and took him out in a courtyard for some welcome fresh air. We did get some booming noises and heavy rain in the late afternoon. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: ChanteyLass Date: 12 May 16 - 08:45 PM Sun's out here, too! I haven't used the AC in my car yet. I put a reflective window shade in my car and crack the windows about an inch when I park, and I try to park under trees. I have used the car's fan, but not the AC. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 10 May 16 - 02:50 PM What I love about this time of year, is that the insects have yet to hatch out and run amok, because it's too cold at night; but the flora are budding and blossoming all about. It will end all too soon, when it gets warm enough for creepy crawly flying things. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 09 May 16 - 05:01 PM How's your weather in this changeable month? I finally put away my long johns. Air conditioning needed for a parked car in the hot sun. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 08 May 16 - 02:11 PM I hear the sun might come out for a change. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: ChanteyLass Date: 07 May 16 - 09:31 PM Wow, Donuel! |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 06 May 16 - 06:59 PM The weather here is raining another serial killer spewing death for 3 and wounding two. Coincidentally with the DC snipers who shot and killed people at the same intersection and grocery store. This time a federal cop that was stripped of all that he felt he had achieved went on a murder spree at locations in which we see movies and go to eat. Picking up some Zithromax at my drugstore I ran into the arrest scene of the killer and watched his car get towed away. I was thinking of starting a new thread called Your daily local shooting but The Brits don't have this kind of problem that Americans do. Shootings here get as much coverage as the weather and often even more. To me the shootings have become as common as the weather in conversation, injury and more often than weather, death. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: ChanteyLass Date: 05 May 16 - 08:06 PM I have a vague memory of something called the sun and hope to see it again someday. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Joe Offer Date: 03 May 16 - 09:49 PM I scheduled a singaround and flower hike at my house April 9, but very few people showed up because it was threatening to rain. We worked around rainstorms, and saw lots of flowers without getting wet. I was hoping to schedule a makeup hike this Saturday, May 7, but it's supposed to rain all weekend. The flowers sure love it, though - there were more flowers in the wooded ravine next door, than I've seen in the 14 years I've lived here. The mosquitoes love it, too. I just came back from a flower hike, and I'm itching all over. The flowers were pretty, though. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 03 May 16 - 03:24 PM Gray, cold, and wet, and forecast to remain that way right up to Mother's Day Weekend. Well, at least it is above freezing, and things are growing, blossoming, budding, and putting forth leaves and shoots. Those things will rejoice in cool humid weather even though the gray skies are depressing to us bipeds. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 02 May 16 - 07:03 PM Yes, on the radio I was shocked to listen to accounts of violent weather across the continental US. It sounds apocalyptic. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Donuel Date: 02 May 16 - 07:02 PM 1 to 3 inch hail in DC area. I've never seen so much hail. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 02 May 16 - 05:36 PM The April showers are back -- whoops it's May |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Joe_F Date: 01 May 16 - 08:24 PM I wouldn't mind learning to cook cicadas. (I think they're even kosher!) When I was last in VA (1970s) we had a massive crop of grasshoppers one year, and a friend of mine fried a batch for breakfast, but they were terribly tough. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 01 May 16 - 03:29 PM Your part of Massachusetts, Joe F., sounds a great deal like my part. I'm just glad to put as much distance as possible between this ending winter, and the 2014-2015 winter, I need say no more, SHUDDER. RE: relocating. Do stop and consider the cicadas. Another batch --"Brood V" -- is due to emerge with the next warm rainstorms, which raise the ground temperature where they are getting ready to come out of hibernating. "Brood V" is supposed to be concentrated mainly around southeastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania, with that sliver of West Virginia in the mix. In 2020, however, there is another big brood, forget which Roman numeral designation, due to come out; and that will occupy more of Virginia. Currently there are numerous online articles updating the whole periodic watch for broods of cicadas, both the 13-year and the 17-year types; many of them have brightly colored maps of the lower 48 states, showing the geographical distribution of differently-timed emergences. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Joe_F Date: 30 Apr 16 - 08:48 PM Surely not winter here in Massachusetts -- there are leaves & blossoms on some of the trees -- and last week we had a couple of days in the 70s (F), so I got my annual haircut; but mostly it hovers in the 50s. This happens every spring: I keep being indignant that it is not 10 degrees warmer, right up into the 80s. Maybe I should move back to Virginia. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Bill D Date: 29 Apr 16 - 10:52 PM 85F in DC suburbs early this week...barely in 50s today.... and rain... |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 29 Apr 16 - 07:33 AM Well we had the first swallows here last week and nearly four inches of snow this morning. It was starting to settle at midnight whilst we were coming back from performing at the Topic at Bradford and was a complete blanket with some local roads closed when we woke up this morning. It is melting now so we should be able to set off for Upton Festival soon! |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: ChanteyLass Date: 28 Apr 16 - 05:08 PM Looks good to me, Jack! |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Jack Campin Date: 26 Apr 16 - 08:42 PM Via Twitter from Tim Peake the astronaut, above Edinburgh today: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg5VFZOXEAA4UEh.jpg |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: ChanteyLass Date: 26 Apr 16 - 08:15 PM Snow, Maeve? Oh, my! (That's my polite way of saying "Horrors!") Well, even in RI we've had snow at least into May, but still, stay warm and dry. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: maeve Date: 26 Apr 16 - 01:13 PM Snow here. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 26 Apr 16 - 12:13 PM The rain is here, with a vengeance. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 25 Apr 16 - 05:04 PM Bracing for another April Shower tomorrow. The rain is needed. That said, the day is supposed to be cold, gray, and dreary. Pull out the long underwear again... |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: ChanteyLass Date: 18 Apr 16 - 09:13 PM The weekend weather for the New England Folk Festival in Mansfield, MA, was great! Today has been glorious, too, in RI. I hadn't heard the Boston Marathon results nor what went on at Fenway Park, so I'll be tuning into the 11 PM news. I'm not much of a sports fan, but it's still good to know. Tomorrow should be cooler. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 18 Apr 16 - 01:12 PM Upset victory in the men's marathon, and the weather could not be more ideal, at least for us spectators. The women's winner says she likes it this way actually, as her muscles don't contract to battle a cold morning start. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 17 Apr 16 - 03:21 PM Well, tomorrow is the Patriot's Day Marathon, and the sun will be out, the air will be warm to the bystanders and hot to the poor runners, and the trees will be bare! The flowering trees and shrubs have got blossoms on them, but the trees, most of them, have not even got little green leaves yet: buds, at most. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 13 Apr 16 - 01:23 PM Glad you're recovered, frogprince. That sounded really scary. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: frogprince Date: 12 Apr 16 - 08:32 PM MUCH nicer day here ! |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 12 Apr 16 - 06:35 PM Hope things are better in Michigan now. It's picture pretty just before Sunset: blue sky with puffy cloudlets like flocks of sheep ambling in one direction. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 10 Apr 16 - 02:39 PM Yikes! Been there, done that, and in no hurry to do it again. My sympathies. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: frogprince Date: 10 Apr 16 - 02:34 PM Yowsa; we set out about 11am for the care facility where the FIL now resides. A few scattered flakes were falling. About 2/3 of the way there, we drove into it. A couple of minutes after that, we drove slowly unto the ramp from Michigan 24 to I75, zigzagged all over the ramp, and crept on hardly believing we hadn't gone off the ramp. I went right back off the ramp to head back north, and enjoyed 30 miles of driving as nasty as I've ever seen in my life. NO traction, crud freezing on the wipers, stretching to see through what spots stayed halfway clear. A pickup pulls across short in front of us, I'm scared to brake and scared not to, he makes it before we hit, and my heart gradually slides back down from the throat. We made it home unscathed. It's been an hour or so. and I've settled back to feeling fairly normal. April ???? |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 08 Apr 16 - 03:02 PM ....and now there is blue sky sunshine again, with neither rain nor frozen pellets. And that wind blowing and ringing the changes. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 08 Apr 16 - 02:41 PM Not sure if I'm looking at small hail or sleet. It's surprisingly warm for frozen stuff to be falling out of the sky. Probably change in a matter of minutes, with that spring wind blowing the clouds about. We had direct sunshine just minutes ago. |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: Janie Date: 07 Apr 16 - 10:08 PM Here in the supposedly sweet sunny south, high winds coming for Saturday (been windy all week) and low of 25F Saturday night. The hydrangeas are fully leafed and setting flower bud, the solomon's seal is up and the earliest day lilies are sending up flower scapes, and the azaleas are in full bloom. Fruit trees either blooming or already starting to set tiny fruit. Strawberries in the fields. I'm not sure covering will be enough to protect stuff at that low a temperature, plus, if the wind doesn't die late day, will be very hard to keep covers on and hydrangea branches from breaking under cover whipped by wind. An occasional light frost is not unusual the first part of April, but 25? |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: ChanteyLass Date: 07 Apr 16 - 09:25 PM Same here, of course! |
Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are? From: keberoxu Date: 07 Apr 16 - 07:09 PM rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain |
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