What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 25 - 05:05 AM

Its the spring equinox today, darkness equals the light.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 11:56 AM

Another storm is making its way across the continent.
In the Northeast we have been fairly lucky,
as the storms tend to blow themselves out before they get to us.
But in other places there have been tornadoes and much loss of property.
Until then we have March winds and the sun is shining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 25 - 06:50 AM

This weekend the daffodils bloomed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 16 Mar 25 - 09:55 AM

I'm moving my reply to the Felons thread.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 25 - 07:27 AM

There is an active volcano 80 miles from Anchorage. DOGE has shut down the AK volcano assessment office, but it might be re-funded after a big eruption like in 1992.

There were 52 tornados and 153 hail storms in the South to Indiana yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 03:30 PM

Well, we just had a February and early March with many days above freezing and no precipitation. Not good because much of Alaska dries out in Summer and wildfires are common. But in our part of Alaska we were down to lawns and unraked leaves.

A couple days ago all at once it looked like one of our volcanoes was acting up. Anchorage has been dusted by ash three times since I've moved here. We were told that it was likely it would happen but not soon and really no way to tell how likely on any particularly near future day. Just that it was sort of likely.
Yesterday morning, 6 inches of snow.

At least my unraked leaves are covered.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Mar 25 - 05:53 AM

East of the Rockies, much of the country is 30 degrees above normal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Mar 25 - 05:35 AM

After a couple of days in the 80's and then a rainy afternoon I heard the sharp thrumming of a gator in the cypress strand out back for the first time this year. Love is in the air.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 25 - 03:16 PM

Bright,sunny, 47° F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Mar 25 - 06:56 PM

The wind is dying down and
we may have some temperate, sunny days --
that means mud, but we'll take it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Mar 25 - 06:13 PM

The extended forecast shows two distinct trends:
stormy weather patterns,
and nights that are warmer than January or February nights.
It is promising that there are warmer nights to come.
It's been a bitterly cold winter,
and a gradual thaw by night is a welcome thing, mud notwithstanding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Mar 25 - 09:59 AM

Spring temperatures and rainstorms rather than freezing rain today.
It's supposed to get cold later in the week,
but first some more of the old ice may melt == hope so, anyhow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 25 - 12:36 PM

ahh garlic, the poor man's natural antibiotic.
I suppose weather and diet change with the seasons.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Mar 25 - 06:55 AM

Actually I'm now a lapsed vego, Helen. I got my gut situation straightened out and partake of turkey and chicken now and then so I'll give your recipe a go. My favorite sammich is turkey on whole wheat toast with avocado slices and a little bit of garlic mayo. I find it's best to keep things simple with avocados because they're so easily overpowered.
Looks like another beautiful day here in SWFL.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 25 - 06:28 AM

Red sky in the morning...

Avocados are so high in protein and fat that cats like them too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 05:05 PM

I know you're a vego, gilly, but my fave breakfast is fried bacon bits on wholegrain toast covered in a thick layer of avocado. Maybe feta or fried cubes of halloumi or tofu might do the trick for you.

Another fave is chicken breast, avocado, sun dried tomatoes and flash-fried-then-steamed asparagus - or even tinned which I usually prefer not to eat because the flavour is nothing like the fresh asparagus.

Maybe I should take this to the recipe thread instead.

The birds have been eating the avocados on the tree, too.

I know what is going to happen next avocado season. The tree will be totally bereft of a crop. My expectations will be sky high and the result will be abysmal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 04:46 PM

Amen, sister. I've got a thing for avocado toast. Real easy to make.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 03:59 PM

Oh yes! Avocados: the best food on the planet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 03:22 PM

Oh the guacamole. You're a lucky girl,Helen.

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

75 today, light breeze, clear blue skies in SWFL. About as close to perfect as a day can get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 12:37 AM

I just had a rethink. I started growing the avocado from seed maybe 18-20 years ago. I was wrong about the 25 years. Feels like 25 years, though. LOL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 12:01 AM

Here in east coast Oz, I am happy to report that somehow the weather gods have worked together and we finally - after 25 years - had a good sized crop of avocados on the tree I grew from seed.

We've had some years with no avocados and some with a few, but this time there have been at least 25. Unfortunately most of them are too high to pick because the tree is taller than our two storey house, but I have picked some from the top verandah with an extendable picking tool. We just have to keep checking the ground for the ripe ones when they fall off the tree.

I know that the avocado tree is either a Shepard or a Hass variety because they are my two favourite varieties. What’s the difference? It is probably a Shepard because the skin is green. It might not be the best tree for our area but they have a good flavour, colour and texture so that's why I did the avocado seed sprouting trick. It took a few months at least for the seed to sprout and a few years in a pot to be big enough to plant in the ground.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 25 - 04:46 PM

Clear skies and frigid temperatures.
I'm dressed in multiple layers for walking between buildings.
Cold dry air, makes me cough.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 25 - 02:49 PM

March is beginning with a snowstorm, which sneaked in on little cat feet.
And the temperature is plunging downward. where it will stay for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 25 - 06:20 PM

A lot of thawing, a lot of mud, where I am staying.
It's supposed to freeze again in a few days, though.
For now we are blessedly free of ice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: leeneia
Date: 26 Feb 25 - 10:53 PM

It was 70 degrees F in Missouri today - Hawaiian weather, and a good time to mix up the herbicide and zap the creeping charley, which glows green in a dead brown garden.

Winter will return, but for now, we just enjoy it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 25 - 05:16 PM

Today DC was warmer than Los Vegas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 24 Feb 25 - 10:13 AM

And then you'll get another freeze, and the slush will become lumpy ice. Don't let your guard down even a little bit.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Feb 25 - 09:00 AM

Early next week the temperatures are to rise above freezing for several days straight.
That may serve to melt some of the ice that is underfoot and everywhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 21 Feb 25 - 09:29 AM

56 in SWFL this morning, we must be getting some of that stuff from up north.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 25 - 05:55 PM

... it's so frigging cold ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 25 - 06:23 PM

The storm is past;
now we have bitterly cold winter winds blowing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 25 - 06:36 PM

... and another winter snowstorm is on its way to the Coast.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Feb 25 - 11:46 AM

... and it only delivered two inches. Not complaining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 04:54 PM

And this coming snowstorm promises to deliver at least half a foot of snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Feb 25 - 03:04 PM

Waiting for another snowstorm tomorrow morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Feb 25 - 03:51 AM

horribly hot & humid!!!!! 25C = approx. 80F, it has been hotter & more humid, but this is more than enough for me.

sandra, Tuesday evening 7.50pm

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 09:54 PM

After a day of melting snow and rain,
it gets cold and windy again tomorrow. That means more ice ...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 31 Jan 25 - 02:09 AM

This was the first day all year that it got warm enough for the snow to melt some.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 25 - 01:31 PM

So the snow stopped, and now it's just
a nasty icy winter wind, freezing everything over.
You just grit your chattering teeth and carry on.
Bright cloudless sunshine, though, on top of that wind.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jan 25 - 03:01 PM

We have snow squalls blowing through --
brief, intense, volatile.
It's a good day to stay indoors and watch from someplace warm.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Jan 25 - 05:21 PM

here we have a heat wave - 40C/104F in the harbour city & hotter (42) further west. Tomorrow & following days 25/77F. Expert (Academic) on getting cool is on the radio - shopping centres, public libraries, community spaces etc. are recommended. My plan today was to drop off kitchen scraps at Community Garden compost bins, plan now is to go after 6pm.

sandra - 9pm Tuesday 30C/86F under a cool fan

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jan 25 - 06:15 PM

Here in the northeast US it isn't so beastly cold any more,
but not warm enough for the snow and ice to melt yet
(so mud season is not upon us just yet).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Jan 25 - 05:44 PM

Well that was some storm - or at least it's still going but tailing off. Just watching the news, and a trail of destruction throughout Ireland and Scotland and N England - 1000s of trees down, roofs blown off, falling masonry as chimneys collapse, whole sides of buildings taken out, lorries and cars blown over, power cuts, floods. It was another day of lockdown, and rightly so.
On a personal note, we had one fence panel down in our back garden, and a woodpile blown about. And now we have the prospect of snow and ice coming overnight. Happy Days!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 07:14 PM

No buses running in Edinburgh during the red alert phase, which is from 10am to 5pm.
Amber alert starts at 6 am. Very calm at the moment (12 midnight)
First time ever, one of those siren alerts to all mobile phones, with a message about the impending doom. I didn’t hear mine, as was in another room at the other end of the house when it went off, but others report having been terrified by its loudness!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 03:07 PM

Yes, you know they are running out of names to use
when they start digging through Tolkien.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 02:24 PM

Storm Eowyn blowing in across the plains of Rohan...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 02:13 PM

It is calm now, neqr Dunmanus Bay,The storm is supposed to start just after midnight .

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 09:21 AM

All council buildings shut across Midlothian tomorrow - schools, sports centres, libraries. The whole Scotrail network will stop.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 08:04 AM

Rainy and cold, relatively speaking, here in SWFL.