What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 08:33 AM

Ditto m, harpgirl.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 02:31 AM

I'm in Glacier National Park, and the weather is...glacial. There were 2 downpours today, dusting the mountains above me with snow. It cleared after the second storm, and there was a beautiful sunset on Lake McDonaldo. It was a thrill to finally see this park. My wife has been here twice on no-men-invited trips, and I was jealous.
Now, off across Montana to the Dakotas. Hope it warms up.
Stay dry, Harpy.
Joe

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 02:34 PM

It is no hurricane Andrew but harpgirl will be without power for at least a couple days.

More power to her.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 01:50 PM

Dire reports coming out of the affected storm area.

That weather system may bring a little rain to Massachusetts, which is largely threatened by drought.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 10:03 PM

Hang in there, Harpie! Floridians don't let a little wind, rain, falling trees, and exploding electrical transformers get to them! It's the herd of cottonmouths that moves into your garage after the storm is over that makes you want to move to Arizona.

Anyway, weather report from about 150 miles west of Tallahassee: Heavy surf at the beaches. Fort Pickens National Seashore closed. (Ivan and Dennis [2004 & 2005] knocked that part of the barrier island so flat that the road goes underwater if anyone even says the word "storm".)   Inland where I live, nothing. No wind. No rain. Nothing.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 08:09 PM

When you can safely do so, please let us- any of us- know how you are, harpgirl. We'll be watchiing for your safe return here...Thinking of you and your family and neighbors.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 07:27 PM

Thanks gnu, and Chantey Lass. I'm filling dad's bathtub for flushing water then I go back to my crib to finish my preparations there. I'm afraid the power will be out for a while and cooking, showers, and everything else that needs electricity will be out of the question.

The coast around Spring Creek is already underwater. We won't be flooded but the power will likely go out and trees may again damage my roof. We haven't had a bad hurricane in Florida for eleven years when Wilma hit near my parent's old home. They were in their early eighties then, and that's when I started lobbying for them to move up here with me! Mom's been gone since 2012 but dad is about to turn 93. He needs full time assistance and that is what I have been doing.

If things turn bad here after or during the storm, I can take dad over to the main buildings of the Westminster retirement community for care and I will take the dog home to my house.

My son is working tonight and his girlfriend is a wildlife rehabilitator near the coast. They are expecting to bring in nesting baby pelicans which are getting washed out so she will be busy! My son works retail and he is very busy provisioning everyone! It's a lot of scrambling, to be sure! We have gotten used to no storms after eleven years but I have been through countless storms beginning with Kate shortly after I moved here when Nathan was just a toddler. It was really bad but somehow I didn't realize it that night I went next door and took shelter with my neighbors along with Nathan. Power in the city was out for days. Trees damaged countless houses and it took us a long time to recover.

When Ivan hit the coast some years later, in 2004 I had to rescue my son from UWF since they were devastated in Pensacola and school was closed for several weeks. Live oaks have shallow roots and fall over when they get soggy and so do the tall yellow pines. They get blown over and they are really destructive to property. I had a live oak smash my roof during tropical storm Francis. and that was interesting, climbing on the roof in the storm to tarp up the hole! Of course my neighbor guys did the climbing! I had a new roof put on in 2013 and the hurricane deductible is about 7500$ dollars so it could be costly!

Then there was Andrew of 92. It didn't impact me directly but changes in the state certainly did!

Right now the feeder bands are dumping rain and I have to leave dad to fill my truck tires, get ice if there is any left, and fill the tubs at the other house. I have a camera system for both my dad and my house so I can keep an eye of dad while he sleeps if I have to leave the house for any reason. I can call security to help him if I can't get back home tonight but I should be able to. I'm only 3.4 miles from him.

Hurricanes, exploding spaceships, zika virus, more and more coastal flooding, and two more years of Rick Scott...when can I leave, please? Wish me luck old mudcat pals, what's left of us...anyway...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 03:37 PM

Good luck! The US Hurricane Center is good but I like this one better... https://weather.gc.ca/hurricane/track_e.html

m... you are welcome. Here is the link at present. It covers well into the US. https://weather.gc.ca/lightning/index_e.html

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 02:52 PM

Luck, harpgirl. Lots of luck.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 12:43 PM

Best hurricane joke: Unfortunately, hurricanes are like men. Sure it starts out exciting enough but in the end you're left wet, frustrated and fumbling around in the dark for batteries.


It's overcast in Tallahassee. The storm is predicted to come through town. The schools are closed, the state offices just emptied out at noon. I've been caring for my dad for nine years and we are watching the Weather Channel. I have some more preparations to do at my house, down the road from dad's retirement community place at Westminster. I've got my tarps in case the roof gets damaged, flashlights, food, water, and a few dollars. Plus wine; lots of wine!! Haven't had a bad storm in eleven years in Florida....Wish me luck!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 05:09 PM

Yes, Donuel, I heard that about the reindeer.

Today I heard about Hermine on the radio weather spot; Hermine will bear watching this coming weekend.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 03:27 PM

A 35 day storm is less than 40 days and 40 nights but possible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 03:10 PM

Hey there, gnu. That is very interesting about the lightning maps becoming useful and accurate. Thanks.

Donuel- We're watching.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 02:29 PM

Iceland 352 Reindeer killed by lightening strike. (no red circle)

The weather is nice in DC.


Batten down the hatches East Coast. Just like the Louisiana storm there is an underestimation going on. In this case 3 tropical storms will effect the coast about Monday. Cable canceled The Weather with claims it exaggerated storms and frightened the public. Now the replacement channel does the opposite.

The reports say Washington DC will have Glorious weather on Labor Day.
Be skeptical.
Tis the season

Obama may be flying to a couple hurricanes in Hawaii after the Donald flies back from Mexico City.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Aug 16 - 02:35 PM

Sorry if I posted this before. Exciting news for me.

original message





On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 8:03 PM, RCDF / CLDN (EC) wrote:




Hello Gary,

Thanks for your email and so sorry for the delay in responding.

I do understand your concerns for the large red circles. It's a safety factor. The problem is one can't zoom in on the map. But we are working on that! We hope to have a geospatial map which one can zoom in to a specific location for next season. The danger circles will then be a more appropriate size and reflect the danger of lightning in the area. This will include not only direct strike but also ground current, side flash and upper leaders. http://www.ec.gc.ca/foudre-lightning/default.asp?lang=En&n=D401EB9A-1

Researchers have found that the next lightning strike will occur within 10 km and within about 5 to 10 minutes of the initial strike. A web map would reduce the size of the danger circles to 10 km.

We are trying to promote lightning safety. I'm afraid too many people ( my colleagues too) think we can dance around the lightning strikes. There was a man mowing his lawn in Ontario. He only had 4 more passes with his push mower before he was finished mowing his lawn. Unfortunately lightning struck and killed him. This is our first and hopefully only lightning death this year.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,
Lyn Mainwaring
Meteorologist - Canadian Lightning Detection Network National Service Office - Natural Resources Meteorological Service of Canada
1238 Discovery Avenue
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V9
Tel # [phone]
[e-mail]
"When thunder roars, GO INDOORS!"
"Quand le tonnerre gronde, RENTREZ VITE!"

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Aug 16 - 01:01 PM

Stealth Tornado?

Concord, Massachusetts was visited by a tornado at three in the morning. The tornado struck silently without lightning or thunder, classification EF-1 whatever that means. No injuries or fatalities thankfully.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 16 - 06:33 PM

Stalled rain dropped as much as 30 inches of rain in some locales.

Aron Neville did a song about the last great Louisiana flood.
I think it was a Neville brothers recording.

Global warming expresses itself in Extreme events.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Aug 16 - 04:35 PM

What horrendous calamitous weather/climate incidents across the continental US. New England, by report, has no greater concern than a lack of rain. What happened this month in Louisiana has been described, in a radio sound-bite with a local first responder, as Katrina without the gale-force winds.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Aug 16 - 07:00 PM

And today the server is chuck, but my cookie is still in place.
We had a brief light rainfall in mid-afternoon in my part of RI. Just a few swishes of the windshield wipers were all that were needed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Aug 16 - 04:45 PM

ChanteyLass, regarding the Mudcat servers, I am told that "awe" is no more. "etta" still turns up however.

It's been threatening to rain all day, but now I see fast-moving puffy white clouds with clear blue peeking through between them. The weather won't make up its mind today.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Aug 16 - 05:04 PM

Yes, it is the season of heat and humidity. Not only the thunder, but the heat lightning high up in the clouds, got my attention. Pity there is so little rain though, the lawn grass looks like straw.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Aug 16 - 12:48 AM

More thunderboomers as I drove home to RI from Shrewsbury, MA! And even more tonight here in RI!

I knew that non-members couldn't post below the line, but this was the first time it happened to me because I needed to log in again. I was surprised but not upset. I love Mudcat (she said, stating the obvious) and will happily accept what ever it takes to keep it going!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 13 Aug 16 - 04:24 PM

In terms of Mudcat history, 'twas a wee kerfuffle, though timing made it feel more personally upsetting, no doubt. :)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 16 - 03:43 PM

Dear ChanteyLass, couple of topics here:

the members-only thing was a big deal, and goodness me! You must have done a neat job of avoiding the big stinking brouhaha behind it. There is no shortage of threads on THAT subject, some of them closed. "Quite a while" is relative: it happened during this calendar year, although it has been a number of months now.

The Mudcat servers: there is one irreverent thread on the subject, called 'my apologies to "chuck"' started by yours truly.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Aug 16 - 10:03 AM

The storm near Fla went west and flooded the south coast instead. Here in DC metro is about 100 degrees that fogs the windows that are in the shade because of the high humidity and air conditioning. Had a few brownouts yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 12 Aug 16 - 07:52 PM

Several servers are in use, thanks to Max's ingenuity. The icon seen by non-members and cookieless members is a result of guests being required to sign in as members to post downstairs... been in place quite a while. ;)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Aug 16 - 06:41 PM

Thunderboomers! It was sunny when I parked my car and went to yoga followed by a 15-minute meditation, so I left the car windows down an inch due to heat and humidity. Then, during meditation, the pouring began! It was hard to meditate on anything other than how wet the inside of my car might be getting, but after a few minutes I calmed down. When I got to the car, it wasn't too bad. It was sheltered under a tree (one of many, so I wasn't worried about being struck by lightning), and the raindrops seemed to be falling straight down.

When I went to post this, I discovered I couldn't because I wasn't logged in! It was startling to see a big red circle with a diagonal slash over this box. So that's what non-members see! I notice that awe and etta are gone and have been replaced by sonny. I wonder if that's why. Just curious!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Aug 16 - 07:44 PM

Aah, the poor dog. The pet dog of my childhood, a wonderful beagle-hound mix, was gun-shy, as well as explosion- and thunder-shy.
Poor baby, she would shake like the proverbial leaf during a thunderstorm. And she had to be touching her fellow humans at that point, until the bad noises went away. Walk from one room to the next, and she was UNDER your feet, between your legs, DON'T LEAVE MEEEE.
We didn't know, in those days, about "thundershirts" -- she was a candidate for such, if ever a dog was. I hope, on her side of the Rainbow Bridge, she is in the company of some fearless wee terriers, the sort who make joyful barking noises when it thunders -- OOOH, let me out so I can chase the thunder and catch it!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 03 Aug 16 - 06:24 PM

Last night 2nd August we had a huge thunderstorm right above our wee town in the small hours of the morning- - -everyone was woken by ginormous flashes then forked lightning, and immediately a huge house-shaking thunderclap

There was a torrential downpour too - but the storm-   the storm seemed to be fixed right above us for a looong time!

My dog leapt onto the bed and straight under the duvet----the thunder and lightning just would not move away or diminish!

End of the world type stuff - - --

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Aug 16 - 08:33 PM

The sun is back! And a COOL DRY night for a change. Just turn on the fan, no need for the refrigerated air for once.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jul 16 - 01:47 PM

Here in the Sierra Foothills of California, it's very hot. 92 degrees F. (33 C.). It has been up to 100 much of the week (38 C.)
Rain? Not until October.
Fire? There was a big one about ten miles away earlier in the month. It's likely our fire season isn't over.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 30 Jul 16 - 01:27 PM

I am in a pub that has just shown the Sky forecast, with speech-recognized captions. There is a system blowing in from the Atlantic that will lead to an outbreak of Rangers in north-west England.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jul 16 - 03:22 PM

a couple more rounds of storms due within the next seven or so days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Jul 16 - 12:07 AM

Pouring. Thunder, lightning. Wind strong enough to slam a bedroom door shut. Drove home from a chantey sing hoping not to hydroplane. Will the humidity subside?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 07:19 PM

And now, as Donald Trump gets ready for his speech, New England anticipates a storm system with lightning, thunder, and hail.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JHW
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 06:53 PM

Tues 19th, Yorkshire, England
2 scoops Ice cream, Litre chilled non concentrate Orange in box, Ice cream milk shake, 2x 500ml chilled bottles water

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 08:21 PM

Finally the humidity has broken and temp is dropping!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 07:40 PM

AAAArrrrrggggh!!

Turn it off - stop it -

the South of England - or at least my bit of it was like an oven this afternoon.

This morning there was a lovely cool breeze, but it gradually faded away and stopped, and we sizzled.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 05:37 PM

No, Jack, not NZ......even though I'm one-quarter Kiwi.

We live in Tamworth, north-western New South Wales, Oz. Far enough inland that we miss out on coastal humidity, but not so far outback that it's unrelentingly hot.

Today's forecast: 100% chance of rain (and very welcome it will be too, we're still recovering from drought) and 21 deg C, a warm temperature for winter. Our long term July average maximum temperature is 16.3 deg C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:49 PM

Flying home tomorrow from Rijeka (high 20s, muggy, one flash of lightning last night) to Scotland where tomorrow's forecast is temperatures about 30, muggy, then nationwide thunderstorms and flash floods.

Weather isn't much of a motive for travel any more, is it?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:28 PM

three beers for the front lawn, and three beers for the back lawn?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Jul 16 - 06:30 PM

Still very warm and muggy here. I still feel like I'm in the tropics. There was a breeze, today, which helped. It also helped that the air conditioning at the Y has been repaired. Some people love hot yoga. I'm not one of them!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 16 - 11:43 AM

JennieG... "I truly can't imagine what it would like to live in a climate which gets several feet of snow each winter."

I can. It would be a change for the better.

Moncton, NB.ca has been in the high 20s with Humidex in the high 30s but we have had enough of a breeze most days that allowed Mum to sit in the shade. Takes me as long as six beers to mow both lawns - two front and two back lawns.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Jul 16 - 02:44 AM

in summer there are limits as to what can be removed, in public at least

The Hungarians appear to be working on that.

Where is JennieG? South end of NZ?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 07:19 PM

Yesterday morning was the coldest morning of the year so far, minus 3.8 deg C with a heavy frost. It was very pretty and white, but it was very cold too!

I truly can't imagine what it would like to live in a climate which gets several feet of snow each winter. I feel the cold, but I don't mind winter - you can always add another layer or two but in summer there are limits as to what can be removed, in public at least - however compared to some parts of the world our winters are quite mild.

Positively benign, in fact.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 05:12 PM

I am in Rijeka, in Croatia at the top end of the Adriatic. We've got the "bura", the cold north wind off the Alps that the north of Dalmatia sometimes gets, but not usually this cold and this windy at this time of year. It's warmer in Edinburgh, and rather disappointing after Budapest where the 30C+ heat had most of the younger Hungarian women sashaying down the street in very brief hotpants or what looked like French knickers.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rara Avis
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 04:13 PM

15 Jul 16 04:11 PM

Here in southern New Jersey it's mostly sunny, and 91F although humidity makes it feel like 98F. Hoping fool cooler weather tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 02:10 PM

Blue sky sunshine, high humidity.
And next week, the Republican Party convention. Long ways from here, but you know people will be cranky about it, even this far away.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jul 16 - 09:35 AM

Bubblyratf:

Welcome to lovely Devon
Where it rains six days out of seven.


Here it's going to be 82F today, clear and sunny, low around 55F tonight. And pretty much the same for the rest of the week.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 16 - 07:50 PM

here come the heat and humidity....supposed to be unbearable by the end of the week.