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21 Mar 13 - 05:02 AM (#3492921) Subject: BS: The seasons From: Dave Hanson Here in the UK we are now into the sixth month of winter, this leaves only six months to fit in the other three seasons before we are back into winter, how does that work out then ? Dave H |
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21 Mar 13 - 05:05 AM (#3492924) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Will Fly Define your terms, sir. |
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21 Mar 13 - 06:15 AM (#3492940) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: GUEST,Eliza I know Dave, and it's driving me mad! I'm just aching for some warmth and sunshine, so are the poor birds and wild creatures. It's very depressing isn't it? Normally at this time, I've got the unheated greenhouse choc-a-bloc with the hanging baskets planted up, seedlings, cuttings, tubs etc. It's standing there empty and bare, and covered with frost. I've got spring flowers in the garden firmly shut, crocuses sulking, snowdrops still in flower, daffs and tulips half an inch tall and stunted. Would this be global warming do you think? |
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21 Mar 13 - 07:23 AM (#3492951) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Nigel Parsons To quote Flanders & Swann: A Song of the Weather January brings the snow, Makes your feet and fingers glow. February's ice and sleet Freeze the toes tight off your feet. Welcome March with wintry wind Would thou wert not so unkind! April brings the sweet spring showers, On and on for hours and hours. Farmers fear unkindly May Frost by night and hail by day. June just rains and never stops Thirty days and spoils the crops. In July the sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not. August, cold and dank and wet, Brings more rain than any yet. Bleak September's mist and mud Is enough to chill the blood. Then October adds a gale, Wind and slush and rain and hail. Dark November brings the fog Should not do it to a dog. Freezing wet December, then Bloody January again! Cheers Nigel |
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21 Mar 13 - 08:24 AM (#3492959) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Rapparee By cracky, if you can't stand the cold get out of the refrigerator, I always say! You just move to Scotland if you want balmy weather, by cracky! |
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21 Mar 13 - 08:47 AM (#3492967) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: ranger1 Welcome to our weather. ranger1, posting from Maine where we just got a foot of snow on the first day of spring. |
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21 Mar 13 - 09:42 AM (#3492987) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Sandra in Sydney Sydney's summer is still going strong! It's half-past midnight & we have 22.6 Celcius with 73% humidity. In a few hours we will get our forecast minimum of 21C & later today we will get 28, with a chance of a storm late afternoon We'll have a cool night of 19 later this week! but all others will be 20 to 22, & days 27 to 29. On Wednesday we'll head south to Canberra for the National Folk Festival where nights will fall to 10-14, & days rise to 25-29. I'm glad I'm not in Canberra now as temperature is 15.6 & humidity 94%. Why am I complaining about Sydney's humidity? sandra |
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21 Mar 13 - 09:45 AM (#3492988) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Dave Hanson Sydney's summer still going strong, soft southerner. Dave H |
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21 Mar 13 - 09:48 AM (#3492991) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Dave Hanson To Will Fly, how long will spring last ? how long will summer last ? and how long will the autumn last ? we've only got 6 months to get them all in. Dave H |
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21 Mar 13 - 11:13 AM (#3493030) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Rumncoke We'll probably just get them all within one day from time to time - or one day it will alter from wet and cold to blistering drought and remain unaltered until it changes to hurricanes or an ice age. That is the thing about climate change, it is totally unpredictable. I'm just glad that I chose a house on top of a ridge last time we moved. We can see the millionaires' houses down on the water's edge in Poole harbour from the back windows - we might have some interesting things to watch in our old age. |
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21 Mar 13 - 11:58 AM (#3493045) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Will Fly Ah, Dave - Spring runs from March 21st to May 20th. Summer is from May 21st to 20th August. Then Autumn from 21st August to 20th November. Finally, Winter - from 21st November to 20th March. Those are the seasons. They all fit together into 12 months. Now - the weather - ah, well, that's a different matter...! :-) |
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21 Mar 13 - 12:12 PM (#3493050) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Ebbie Rain Country In the Winter it's raining; the clouds are dark and low It's the normal condition, everybody wants it so With snow-covered mountains, the valleys wet below In Southeast Alaska, we have more rain than snow In Spring the clouds are heavy with impending change Fog and hail, brief sun and wind we go all the range There is no predicting but always -or in the main- In Southeast Alaska in Spring there is rain Ah, but in the Summer the misty air's serene Clothes damp-dry on the line, the grass is cool and green But hang your coat by the fire lest you go out again In Southeast Alaska Summer brings rain In Autumn the storms return, dark clouds are in the sky Wind strips leaves from all the trees and sends them flying high Waters rush and galoshes slosh, a familiar refrain: In Southeast Alaska it's raining. Again. We're a special kind of people who live here, don't you know We've made our peace with weather, with rain not with snow So we take pride in saying, though it may cause some pain: This is Southeast Alaska- bring on the rain! |
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21 Mar 13 - 12:23 PM (#3493056) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Dave Hanson Well done will, although it may officially be ' spring ' there is heavy snow forecast this weekend, so to all intents an purposes, it's still winter, probably until April, at least. Dave H |
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22 Mar 13 - 11:17 AM (#3493477) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Pete Jennings The snow came early, Dave! Ww had blizzard conditions last night here in Staffs. |
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22 Mar 13 - 11:37 AM (#3493489) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: GUEST,DrWord No success in my attempt to catch the "zodiacal light" after equinox sunset, whether too much thin cloud, too much moon, don't know. But the recent dump of white stuff atop the meter already on the ground made for a pretty sunset. Seasons? More likely than not, we'll have flooding on the Red River [of the North]. Then we'll see about summer. We usually get some. For now, it's just great to have the extra daylight. keep cool sandra keep dry ebbie I'm off to the woodpile, through way too much white stuff keep on pickin' dennis |
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22 Mar 13 - 03:29 PM (#3493553) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Jack the Sailor Semi-serious question. In school in Newfoundland we learned that England had "semi-tropical" weather with very mild winters and relatively long summers because of the Gulf Stream. Has the Gulf Stream change or is winter there still better than the rest of Northern Europe? |
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22 Mar 13 - 04:23 PM (#3493573) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Dave Hanson Pete, up here [ West Yorkshire ] the snow started last night and it still hasn't stopped. Dave H |
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22 Mar 13 - 05:08 PM (#3493589) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: gnomad I seem to remember that UK schools taught that we have a maritime climate, though I forget what they reckoned that meant. A significant element is said to be the Gulf Stream, which gives us milder winters than continental places of similar latitude, but also cooler (and damper) summers than those same places. A sort of moderating effect overall, and it seems widely believed that if it were not for the Gulf Stream our islands would be a less pleasant place to live. I hadn't previously considered our climate as semi-tropical (it seems pretty unlikely here during the winter on the north-east coast of England) but any term is likely to mean different things to different folks. There's a large wikipedia entry here which has much to say on the subject of UK climate. Last summer felt pretty feeble, and this winter a bit harsh, but it would need some serious study to say whether this is more than just an anomaly. I wish I could remember who came up with the lovely view "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody actually does anything." |
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22 Mar 13 - 05:08 PM (#3493590) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: JennieG Ah, Sandra.....don't believe everything you read! Last night was a wee bit chilly here in beautiful Canberra, the minimum was 7.4 deg C just an hour ago at 7.14 am. Lovely autumnal Canberra weather....... |
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22 Mar 13 - 05:14 PM (#3493592) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Jack the Sailor I'd like to shake the hand of the man who said "Don't talk to Aussies about weather gnomad, I thought that "semi tropical" was a stretch at the time and I was not yet a teen. I now living in Coastal North Carolina, we have palm trees and this is called "temperate." But as compared to Northern Newfoundland, on "Iceberg Alley" where the Labrador current rules, It is very "tropical" here. |
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22 Mar 13 - 07:25 PM (#3493629) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Bill D Washington DC... went below freezing last night. I have spent far too long now using a heating pad and/or socks filled with microwaved rice to make my bed tolerable to get into. We have NOT, however, had the 12-18 inch snows like we did a couple years ago, so I haven't had to dig the car out for 3 days each time. |
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22 Mar 13 - 07:53 PM (#3493634) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: ragdall First Day of Spring in Northern British Columbia. Dave, with all due respect, your expectations are the problem. In some places, "Spring" is blossoming boughs and daffodils. Not where you are, not this year. Where I live it's wetter snow, lots of it, and the sound of returning swans and geese. |
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22 Mar 13 - 09:09 PM (#3493655) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: GUEST,999 "Here in the UK we are now into the sixth month of winter, this leaves only six months to fit in the other three seasons before we are back into winter, how does that work out then ?" Best I can reckon you have two months each of spring, summer and fall ahead. Here in Canada, we have but two seasons. They are winter and July. |
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22 Mar 13 - 09:14 PM (#3493659) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Sandra in Sydney Good to hear from you Jennie, as always I'll be bringing my 80% down quilt! I'm not planning to bring my heavy coat, cos I have a new red fleece jacket & other warm layers. And a new red summer shirt for the day time! red is the theme this year sandra |
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23 Mar 13 - 05:24 AM (#3493721) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Dave Hanson The last 2 days have seen the UKs heaviest snowfalls this winter ? or spring if you would be pedantic, and it's still feckin snowing. Dave H |
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23 Mar 13 - 06:54 AM (#3493745) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Pete Jennings Yep, still blowin' a blizzard here in Staffordshire. At this time of year the ducks come off the canal to find a nesting place on one of the local lawns. There's a couple of them outside now, trying to find a lawn, but it'll be a while yet before they're able to see one... |
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23 Mar 13 - 09:49 AM (#3493794) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: McGrath of Harlow "Always Winter and never Christmas." |
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23 Mar 13 - 10:45 AM (#3493811) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Bonzo3legs Flying to Malaga sun on Tuesday - always assumimg that the roads are clear to London Gatwick Airport! My sister's flight to Pisa delayed by 150 minutes this morning due to shortage of plane de-icers! |
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23 Mar 13 - 11:09 AM (#3493824) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: ranger1 When you get 32 inches of snow in two days, you can call it a blizzard. Otherwise, it's just a regular snowstorm. |
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23 Mar 13 - 11:48 AM (#3493836) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Ebbie Well, that's not quite right, Tami. I believe a blizzard designation depends on three criteria: velocity, temperature and volume. I remember when I was on a train heading to Chicago on my way to Toronto, the wind blew, it was AWFULLY cold, so cold the snow turned to thick ice on the tracks and we repeatedly had to stop and wait while they deiced them- but there were only six or so vertical inches of snow so they said it wasn't a blizzard. |
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16 Sep 16 - 11:09 AM (#3810162) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: keberoxu Seasons versus weather? Seems to be where most of the previous posts are headed. Right now the seasons are changing where I live. That means that last night was cool enough for comfortable sleeping, for the first time in a long while. |
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16 Sep 16 - 11:55 AM (#3810168) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Steve Shaw The most accurate description of the British climate I heard (can't remember where now) was that it consists of nine months of winter and three months of bad weather. |
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16 Sep 16 - 10:32 PM (#3810209) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: ChanteyLass Where I live in the US, we say we have two seasons: winter and road work. |
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08 May 18 - 04:41 PM (#3923006) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: keberoxu It's one of the changeable times of year again. The antipodes are cooling down and to the North it is warming up. My car still has an ice scraper tucked into a door compartment. |
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09 May 18 - 03:46 AM (#3923056) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Senoufou It must be late Spring. Those blessed swans have produced SIX cygnets again and no doubt will soon be leading them painfully along our main street in the village every morning heading for the lakes, then staggering back half a mile to the river for the night. Lorries and too-fast cars may squash them flat. So upsetting. Why DO they do this every year? On a happier note, heard the cuckoo yesterday, and the house martins are back, although far fewer than last year. And all the fields around here have been set with oil seed rape. Garishly bright yellow flowers and wretched pollen. Husband sneezing already. |
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11 May 18 - 01:13 PM (#3923694) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: keberoxu I'm cheering for spring, over here, as versus summer. It will be summer soon enough. But if it would just stay a bit on the cool side for now, please. Now that the freezing stuff is well and truly gone, it would be nice if the weather did not heat up too fast. Give the green growing things time to enjoy being green before being browned by the heat of the summer sun. |
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11 May 18 - 01:39 PM (#3923701) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Senoufou Same here keberoxu. We have a large circular flowerbed filled with wild bluebells. Over the Bank Holiday the temperature was 27 degrees, and the bluebells shot into flower, went pale then died off. If you blinked you missed them! |
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12 May 18 - 09:35 PM (#3924017) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons in DC From: Donuel Tornados to our south blizzards to our north hurricanes from the east and hail from the west but the worst storms are in the political season from inside the beltway |
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13 May 18 - 11:19 AM (#3924112) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: keberoxu Although yesterday was a bummer to be out driving and running errands, the long soaking rain gave the green growing things cause to rejoice. So this coming week a lot of blooming, greening, and growth can be expected. |
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13 May 18 - 08:36 PM (#3924212) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Donuel Being There, Chauncey Gardner would have to agree with you. |
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14 May 18 - 02:09 PM (#3924427) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: keberoxu Good Golly Miss Molly is it ever GREEN. A month ago we had a snowstorm and the trees were bare. |
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14 May 18 - 06:22 PM (#3924486) Subject: RE: BS: The seasons From: Joe_F Vermonters say they have two seasons, winter and the Fourth of July. In Arizona the tourist bureau says it is "Where Summer Spends the Winter", and natives add "And Hell Spends the Summer". |