What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:36 AM

I’d have to fill them up with a hosepipe as I’m running low and there doesn’t seem to be any rainwater forthcoming but here in North Norfolk, I can store about 2000L of water and sometimes ponder storing more (I could get at least 1000L container in behind the pigsties). I can (and do) do the veg plot, small greenhouses with that. The water is pumped via a marine fresh water pump/ solar panel setup and some micro irrigation bits. The grass round the back is all brown.

At the front, we’ve lost a few things in pots that weren’t on that micro-irrigation set up but is otherwise OK. The last hosepipe ban here banned this too but did allow soaker hose. I did get some of this for the back bed that dries up very quickly but never got round to changing things over.

I’m finding many days far to hot for me to do anything outside but have been enjoying evenings round the back (where Pip/mum, who loves the heat, and Furball join me) and try to get the odd job done. Washed all the stuff in the (not used at all last year) BBQ shed (an old pigsty) up last night, checked the stove and have a new kettle on order so evening cups of tea should be available soon.

I suppose these pleasant evenings are one good side to this. It would be nice to have a BBQ out there but we’ve not worked out how to get Peter/dad down there and don’t want to exclude him from a meal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:27 AM

We had some lovely cloud formations here yesterday, mainly in cirrus clouds, including some virgae which were windblown horizontally for miles. They're actually snow showers of tiny ice crystals which sublime as they fall into drier air below. We also had a stunning whole-sky sunset of scattered altocumulus clouds with a very strange rainbow in the east exactly at sunset. No rain or anything. I've got a photo and I need to look up what was going on there.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MikeL2
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:00 AM

Hi Sen

Here in leafy Cheshire we have been "advised" that the North West area will be prohibited from using the hose pipe from 5th August. I have two lawns that are rapidly burning up along with the plants and flowers.

We have been using up water that we have been washing up with etc but according to my garden water gauge we have had hardly any rainfall since 12th May. Luckily We have not done any pots or hanging baskets because we were away in Wales up until the middle of may.

My No 1 son has rigged up a siphon that my good lady can use to empty the bath water into an outside water butt. I prefer to shower and the siphon doesn't work on this.

This is the worse I can remember and has certainly gone on longer than I remember.

I do remember in 1976 we went up to South West Scotland and when we got there the rivers were dry and there were standpipes in the street.

But as we arrived it started to rain. All I had to do was to get my wife to sing....lol

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 22 Jul 18 - 03:15 AM

Have you had a hosepipe ban yet Steve? I reckon it won't be long before we all have.

We just use a small plastic bucket to put some water in our modest three tubs of flowers, and to refill the birdbaths and water trays for the wildlife. (We normally have a plethora of tubs and hanging baskets etc but for some reason didn't bother last Spring!)

There have been some very weird cloud formations over our Wensum Valley location. I was praying they would result in thunderstorms and deluges of rain.
No chance...
And they're saying it will reach 33 degrees Celsius next week and still not a hope of any rain. Oh Lord!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jul 18 - 05:34 PM

HOT. 109^o (42.8 C).

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jul 18 - 08:45 AM

First drop for three weeks, 7mm overnight, but that's all dried up already. Very warm and muggy today with strong sun and the forecast for next week is for extreme heat and humidity, and not much rain. At this rate the summer will outdo 1976, which was "nonesuch."

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jul 18 - 03:30 PM

Too good to be true,
that's how the weather is at the moment.
Which means it won't last forever.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 09:26 PM

A few pleasant sleeping nights forecast, with lower humidity,
before it gets muggy and uncomfortable again;
I'll take what I can get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 06:09 PM

Same deluge here. Of the 79 moons of Jupiter there are a few with precipitation but not all are water/

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 02:22 PM

I'm sorry, Senoufou/Eliza, it's disheartening and discouraging
to feel so powerless over something so obvious to everybody.

The rain is positively pouring down here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 01:01 PM

My neighbour came back yesterday from shopping in Dereham (very near to our village) and said it had actually RAINED a bit. Everyone had run outside from the supermarket and danced about in the wet, but the light shower had only lasted a few minutes.
I was very jealous - I'd give anything to dance about under a shower of rain. It hadn't rained one drop where we live :(

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 03:57 PM

For all of July here on the north Cornwall coast we've had sunny days, mild nights and temperatures of between 22 and 26 Celsius. It's been much hotter inland, but our weather has been tempered every day by a lovely, gentle seabreeze off the Atlantic. We also had amazing weather in much of June, up to 30 Celsius once or twice. May wasn't half bad either. We've had more barbecues this last few weeks than in the last three summers put together! I'm all brown!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 03:42 PM

It was 32 degrees Celsius here today in Norfolk UK. It's been like this for many weeks. Not a drop of rain for literally months.

The countryside is slowly dying and turning to dust. They showed a farmer on TV who was harvesting grain with a combine, and he had some of last year's grain to compare. The grain he was getting was like tiny grains of sand, but last year's was plump. The yields are way, way down. Pasture is sere and non-viable for the stock.

I fear for the wildlife. The earth is like concrete and the birds can't get any grubs or worms. There is no water.

There's also the risk of wildfires in the fields, with dry straw lying waiting for the binders to gather it up.

Stupid brainless idiots have been letting off fireworks for various celebrations at the local pub. If fires broke out, we're all on oil-fired energy, and everyone has a tank with 1000 litres of kerosene. Bombs waiting to go off!
We've been putting out water for the birds and as much food as we can spare.
It all reminds me of when I was in Senegal in sub-Saharan Africa. Dry as dust and boiling hot.
It's really worrying and depressing. Please let it RAIN!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 02:24 PM

You wouldn't know that there is concern about a drought
in the northeastern US
from the sheer oppression of the humidity outside.
Drenching downpours forecast before the week is out.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 08:41 PM

Dew points 'way up. Here come the cloudbursts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 11:48 AM

Whatever, ChanteyLass, it's swell while it lasts,
to crib from Cole Porter.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 12:11 AM

Lovely yesterday and today. How long can this last?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 03:59 PM

We have 3 fans going + cold air blower but still like a furnace in our house. When it does eventually cool down to a more manageble 22-24C maximum outside, it still takes several days for our house to cool down.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 03:47 PM

somewhat improved: humidity dropped at least.
Easier for sleeping at night.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 06 Jul 18 - 01:19 PM

Hosepipe bans, water pressure cuts, threats of drought and possibility of not being able to feed livestock
Welcome to Global Warming big time
I hope Donald Trump and his ilk all spontaneously combust in unison
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Jul 18 - 11:22 AM

To quote Ella Fitzgerald (or Cole porter):
Too darn hot!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jul 18 - 02:18 PM

From an indoor spot with refrigerated air-conditioning,
looking out through a picture window (library),
the weather is pretty as a picture.
The clear blue sky and puffy white clouds
convey nothing to suggest the humidity / dew-points
contributing to the heat index figures.

Tomorrow we are supposed to have drenching rainstorms,
tomorrow night it begins to cool down,
and by Saturday night
it will be cool and dry for sleeping again.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jul 18 - 08:57 AM

Keep your head above water, Max ... as well as the rest of you ...

I hear that your half of Pennsylvania
is in danger of flash flooding
with heavy rain falling on already saturated surfaces.

The sooner that weather system comes over to New England,
the better --
we need the break from the high heat indices.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 06:51 PM

95 in DC

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 08:02 AM

Dry. Very very dry.

So far this year we have had barely one quarter of our average annual rainfall to date, there is a bad drought. Occasionally we get a few teasing drops of rain.

At least it's winter, so we don't have to contend with summer heat as well!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 06:46 PM

Yes, heat is on its way or already here in much of the US. Here the anticipated heat wave didn't start today--the temp rose to a mere 89 degrees F. The forecast is for a possible 9 consecutive days of temps in the 90s or higher with humidity and little overnight cooling. I know many people live in places where those conditions or worse are the norm, but I don't! I hope the forecasters got it wrong.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 12:52 PM

ChanteyLass, sounds like Greater Providence bore the brunt yesterday.

Now comes the hot muggy stuff.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Jun 18 - 08:35 PM

Rainy, thunder, lightning in morning.
Downpour, thunder, lightning in afternoon.
Fog, humid in evening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jun 18 - 02:44 PM

Last night was overcast, and fixing to rain,
so I did not see the Strawberry Full Moon.

Did anybody else see the Strawberry Full Moon?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: pdq
Date: 27 Jun 18 - 05:43 PM

100 degrees F.

Was 101 yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 18 - 12:34 PM

Last night we had what I suspect will be
our last cool, even chilly, night for some time.

Currently, a new weather system is bringing to southern New England
not only heat, but greater HUMIDITY
and there go the pleasant conditions for sleeping.
The Fourth of July, which I think is a week from today,
will probably be the proverbial "hotter than" --
and muggy to boot.

It was sweet whilst it lasted.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jun 18 - 05:44 PM

11C, rain, windy. Told ya. I am LOVIN' it! But, it will get hot... full moon on the 28.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 24 Jun 18 - 06:52 PM

What is so rare as a nice weekend un June, for then if ever comes perfect weather. The weatherman got it twisted this weekend, which was Ham radio Field Day. We were told to expect brief t'storms yesterday but all we got was mild weather with morning fog today, clearing by 8 AM running up to the mid 80's f with mild humidity this afternoon in Central NJ. Loving it! With any luck, we'll do as well next weekend. Saturday we plan to put up a new radio mast and antenna at the local Red Cross and Sunday is the NYC Triathlon. No time to complain, just making the best of what we get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jun 18 - 12:37 PM

Back to rain and humidity,
and warmth rather than high heat.
All the green growing things
are greening and leafing out to the max.

And the BUGS are out and about.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jun 18 - 08:38 AM

The nights, at the very least, are still cool and refreshing
in southeastern New England,
but that, alas, will not last.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Jun 18 - 12:10 AM

Warning: this post is tthread drift!

It amuses me that the Theodore Francis Green Airport airport is really in Warwick although the pilot announces that the plane is/has landed in Providence. Right now there's a possibility it will be renamed Rhode Island International Airport.

Now back to the weather reports!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 18 - 07:25 PM

Surprised to find springlike temperatures
stepping off my return flight to Providence, Rhode Island.
After all, there's a solstice this week.

But then, it's over one hundred degrees F. in Arizona, where I started this morning.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 18 - 08:02 PM

The plane takes me East tomorrow.
Why does Arizona feel like home to me?
I don't want to back.

Oh, the weather.
Hot, dry, and clear.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe_F
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 08:49 PM

As the feds have warned us for some time, it was hothothot today -- but with dry air & a steady breeze, so it was not at all unpleasant.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 05:29 PM

Keb it sounds like you find nasty storms thrilling and exhillerating
Its an index 105 F here

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 01:29 PM

When my return flight takes me back to the Northeast US on Wednesday,
the flight will probably have to fly through
a nasty storm system parked over the US's midsection.
Better buy some Dramamine.
Then maybe I can sleep through it.
(Dramamine hits me like a ton of bricks.)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 18 - 02:07 PM

Monsoon is here, all right, and everything smells good in nature.
Of course, some unfortunate people
require a truckload of sandbags, I saw that on the evening news.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jun 18 - 06:07 PM

Guess who's coming to dinner in southeastern Arizona?

Monsoon!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 14 Jun 18 - 04:48 PM

Hector the hemi-hurricane has just been through S Scotland: didn't seem as bad as predicted, but plenty of leaves and branches down, and a few whole big trees!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 18 - 12:56 PM

There is much murmuring and muttering about monsoons
here in southern Arizona.
The monsoon may begin about the time I re-pack
for the return flight home to New England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jun 18 - 03:56 PM

One week at a southern Arizona resort, starting now.
This part of the country has summer monsoon.
However this is the dry part of the summer.
The monsoon approaches but it has yet to arrive.
And even though it is dry as a bleached bone out here,
preparations at the resort
are in place for monsoon.

There are racks of umbrellas at every function building,
so one can walk from event to event
without getting soaked by the cloudbursts.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jun 18 - 12:44 PM

I told them we could have frost until late June this year. They called me crazy. Frost *again* tonight. Blueberry, grape, and other, farmers are hanging their heads. There are still apple blossoms on Mum's tree... even the birds won't eat those ones. My wild strawberries seem reasonably well.

Full Strawberry Moon isn't until the 28th. I told them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 18 - 05:35 PM

Just drove south from Phoenix to Tucson, Arizona.
There are many more saguaro cactus here.
Air pollution worse than usual:
dry as it is,
the air has a haze to it.

Phoenix is so terribly FLAT FLAT FLAT
regardless of the outcroppings of hills and mountains about it.
Tucson is another animal:
ridges, arroyos, ditches, steep rises.
It looks like permanent folds in a wrinkled crust of the earth.
Kind of fantastic to the eye.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 06:44 PM

Today was warm, but not hot.
Last night we had a sudden downpour.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 03:54 PM

After the harsh past winter in southern New England,
visiting central Arizona is such a shock
as to feel like being on a different planet.

What's it like where you are?