What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:14 PM

from the local paper: Mini tornadoes hit hundreds of homes across Sydney and the Illawarra region overnight, there is flooding across NSW. One resident of north Sydney's Kirribilli described seeing a "funnel cloud" that struck just after midnight, bringing down trees in the Willoughby Street area, damaging cars and ripping off the roof of the Kirribilli Sailing Club. The wind "sounded like a freight train," and the cloud was between 50-100m wide.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:53 AM

This song really needs to be belted out by a big baritone, in a strong declamatory style. But in the meantime, this gives you an idea of the song (and of how wet it is here)

Hey Rain by Bill Scott

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:43 AM

It's raining in Sydney. Thunderstorms, heavy soaking saturating constant rain. The cat has come in, wet, and the skies are just pouring bucketloads of rain.

Flood warnings in NSW, two flood related deaths already, and sheets of rain pouring across the state.

And, thinking of rain..

My Country

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ...

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

******

©Dorothea MacKellar

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 04:44 PM

61 degrees and sunny in the mountains of North Georgia.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 07:19 PM

We have a blizzard going on right now in Rhode Island and most of New England. Some people have already lost power. I'm good for now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 09:35 AM

It was so cold yesterday that I saw a hitchhiker holding up a picture of his thumb!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: bobad
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 10:50 PM

Why it was so cold here today I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 13 - 08:43 AM

I have said Moncton, NB, CAN so many times in the past dozen years that I tend to assume almost everyone here is in the know. Technically... sorry.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 09:15 PM

Sorry, andrew e. I'm in Rhode Island.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 08:17 PM

Halifax NS, Canada- Everything was green yesterday, it snowed overnight and this morning, then it turned to rain, and still is raining - The weather can't make up its mind this year, if it is actually winter or not.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:39 PM

In case anyone doesn't know my general location, I'm in Nottingham, New Hampshire USA -- about halfway between the New Hampshire/Maine seacoast and the mountains. Southern New Hampshire. Half hour from Portsmouth, but with slightly different weather (inland and uphill).

I moved here to come to a "warm climate"...since I was born in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (ayuh, I'm a Yooper) and grew up in Milwaukee. If you can put up with a Great Lakes winter, just about anything else is moderate. Coastal New Hampshire and coastal southern Maine sure is compared to Wisconsin.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 08:37 AM

It's so fuckin' cold here in southern Quebec that we no longer have weather.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:19 AM

It has turned cold in Sydney, the doona is on the bed. We've just had the coolest February weekend in 19 years.

Subject: RE: weather you like where you are? or not
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:41 PM

Hwere do you live andrew? hhh do you have a basement? Are you alone?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: andrew e
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:35 PM

Am I missing something, but if you don't say where you are, it doesn't mean much to me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 03:54 PM

Cold again here, too, but at least it is sunny.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:18 PM

I am glad it turned COLD again. The guy that shingled my roof a couple of years ago will get to my repairs asap.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Janie
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 09:33 PM

Sleet and ice and freezing rain and cold temps in the high teens and mid 20's(for here, anywho) Friday, late warm-up to almost normal temps for the rest of the weekend, normal on Monday and Tuesday, then 2 days in the 60's and 70's (F), yesterday the wind commenced to blow, thunderstorms and the wind howling, thunderstorms or no (was very glad it is winter with the leaves off the trees). Temps started dropping some this afternoon as the wind began to significantly ebb, and now we are in for a chilly but not unseasonable weekend. Was planning on driving up to Mom's in WV for an overnight this weekend, but three days snow and low temps forecast for the northern half of the journey. Latitude and altitude both in play.

On the otherhand, the winds have scoured out the atmosphere and now it is is a chilly night with an unusually clear sky. Orion right overhead just now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 09:20 PM

Yesterday was 70 F but tommorrow is 24 with an inch of snow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 08:31 PM

Last week here was extremely cold with temps well below freezing. There was some light powdery snow one day--Tuesday, I think. This week has been much milder but with a lot of wind and rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 07:31 PM

Well, we had snow on Monday, freezing rain on Tuesday and unbelievably thick fog on Wednesday. No snow left this morning. The wind is howling through the trees and the dryer vent is flapping to beat the band...almost enough to tip me over the edge. Glad the wind is drying up the mud, though.

Linn

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: freda underhill
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 05:00 PM

In Sydney, it's been so changeable. we've recently had meltingly hot weather (45.8 = 114f) followed by WILD winds, massive storms and days of soaking rain. we're lucky, in other parts of the country there have been raging bushfires followed by flooding.

this week we had a few pleasant sunny days, I woke up this morning to a brown/grey sky, and wild winds sweeping through the garden. trees bending this way and that, the sound of the wind in the
weeping lilly pillies is like waves crashing on sand.

and now for a cup of tea :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 11:53 AM

Juneau, Alaska: Freezing rain yesterday and this morning, on its way to rising temperatures.

But odd weather. For about 10 days, up until four days ago, it rained, the billowy snow all disappeared and the temperatures got to the low 40sF.

Bears out of den were sighted- scary for all, because there is nothing for them to eat, except for humans' garbage. With the segue to snow and cold weather I imagine they heaved big sighs and returned to their dens.

A man with his snow machine fell through the ice in the lake in front of our biggest local glacier last weekend and just barely made it out alive- sprawled full length he made his way through the breaking ice until he reached firmer surfaces. His snowmobile remains submerged.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 13 - 06:53 AM

On the weekend, -40WC. Presently, +13C and 60 gusting to 90kph.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 09:38 PM

Snowed last night here in RI, then mixed with rain early this morning, making the snow on the car heavy and hard to remove. Luckily it was only a few inches deep.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 05:49 PM

First snow in a while. Just a skiff and it's only about -5 at 7PM. Warm as a bug in a rug for days. No ice on the pave. One day closer to spring.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 05:41 PM

Frosty and very sunny..lots of icy roads here.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 08:21 PM

It was a balmy 80 degrees in north florida today. My Meyer lemons are almost ripe. I hear cold is coming back in a day or two.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 07:09 AM

Here in Staffordshire, frosty first thing this morning but now it's 3.5C and sunny. We had a dusting of snow a couple of days ago but it all melted yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 04:04 AM

We had six feet of frost yesterday morning!

Now it's snowing!
I don't know what it's like outside!

David

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Jan 13 - 12:18 AM

The ice that was on the river is melting fast. The birds are all screwed up thinking spring has arrived. Only two critters I have yet to see are Charly the Skunk and Charly the Chipmunks 1, 2 and 3. It's hovering just above freezing all day and dropping to juuussst below freezing at night. This would be normal were it early May.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 09:27 PM

Ridiculous warm in Rhode Island, too.--into the 60s.

Maeve, I hope your chickens continue to lay unscrambled eggs!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 09:26 PM

I don't know what it got up to here (also southern NH), but Portsmouth got to 60°. I had a window open, and listened to dripping all day. There are patches of actual ground outside. I got motivated enough to cook down some bird stock.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 08:12 PM

That other Guest was me. We had a record high today, 59 degrees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Elmore
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 06:49 PM

51 degrees and sunny at noon today in Southern New Hampshire. 48 degrees at 6 a.m. on the top of Mt. Washington; a record I think.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 06:24 PM

43C? 80F and 90RH? I am stayin out... 10C, sunny, wafting breeze.

God is gonna get me for this post! It January in NB and, although this is not unusal over my 55 years here, it sure as hell ain't normal... could just as easily be -30 with wind and a three day snow OR a one day snow with 1.5m of it.

That there 43C is unthinkable, tho, to me.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 04:40 PM

We have had sunshine and 75-80 degrees all day. Almost perfect weather. 90% humidity is less than ideal for gardening.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 04:34 PM

Hot still, although today is slightly cooler so far. On Saturday the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded officially here was broken, the new record now stands at 42.7 deg C. That's nearly 109 deg F if you still use old numbers.

Either way, it's hot.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 03:44 PM

Bright sunshine, no wind and it's 57 degrees. You hear that, Dani? :-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: maeve
Date: 14 Jan 13 - 03:38 PM

" The Times Record   USGS: 2.4-magnitude temblor hits Mid-coast...
Quake felt like 'loud explosion' in Arrowsic, knocked items off shelves in Bath.

The U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed a 2.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Edgecomb at about 1:19 p.m. today. There are no reports of injuries or damage, but several Times Record readers report feeling the quake, as far away as Arrowsic and Bowdoinham. "http://www.timesrecord.com/news/2013-01-14Front_PageUSGS_24magnitude_temblor_hits_Midcoast.html


Knocked my clothes drying rack over on the porch, it did. Sounded like a big, loud wind. The chickens were too darned pleased, either.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 05:22 PM

60 pounds per cubic foot here today, 6 inches deep. It IS white, but is IS water... ooooh, me back! Buckets of rain and 10C by Saturday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Joybell
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 05:13 PM

Interesting looking back.
Strange weather here in Victoria, Australia just now. One day it's 40 degrees and the next it's 16. Cool today and it rained yesterday.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 04:47 PM

We had some welcome rain last night, 21 mls - nearly an inch, in old numbers - this morning it is overcast and a little humid so more rain must be on the way. Today's forecast is for 35 deg.

Charmion, Ottawa doesn't sound very nice at all!

Rumncoke, when one lives in a very dry continent (not cure if it's the driest - I think Antarctica may be be drier) then rain can be a blessing. As Ebbie says, parts of the US would welcome rain too.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 08:38 AM

It's not all about you, Rumncoke. Ottawa, Ontario is wet and miserable today with the temperature hovering around the freezing point, streets full of slush, and precipitation alternating between rain and snow.

In short, it's 'orrible.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 05:10 AM

Rain?

It's all come to the UK - where it is now raining. Not so much again as taking up where it left off last time.

Usually we don't need to encourage clothes to dry, just hang them up for a day or so, or this Spring, an hour or so, but now hanging things up just keeps them damp, so I have to put everything through the tumble dryer and then store it over the radiators or it feels damp when put on.

Some might not admit to the existence of climate change, but really - the weather is very strange these days.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 07:04 PM

A slight segue: It seems unbelievable that more than 2/3rds of the US has drought conditions. Is this something new? I don't remember such figures in my own lifetime.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 03:08 PM

Here on the South coast of England it is trying to be cold, but there are still flowers in the gardens and insects about in the afternoons, my deadly mousetrap with it's month old bait of chocolate and caramel remains set and ready, but the mild weather has not sent any wee sleekit thing looking for shelter as yet.

There was a frost on the bins when I took rubbish out a week or so ago, but all the rest has been a lot of rain and a few clear days.

The Spring this year was very dry, the apple trees which were loaded to breaking last year produced a few small cracked fruits this Autumn. The fruit and leaves fell off early. The strain of drought then deluge might have been too much for them.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 10:04 PM

Here in Juneau, Alaska, it is code.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 09:27 PM

-6C last night, with wind. It's +2C now, rain tomorrow and +4C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 08:38 PM

Cool to cold and drizzly!