Note: Split from elsewhere. Canadian Smalltalk is 90% weather-based, unless beer is involved. What's it doing outside where you are?
The cold snap looks to continue here, although it might get warm enough for a walk. It warmed up to -19 C so far today.... Hoping for -12 thisafter.
In other words... a weekend for staying in and warm.
Quote from: Agujjim on November 29, 2006, 06:36:23 PM
It warmed up to -19 C so far today.... Hoping for -12 thisafter.
Yow.
High of 14 here today. It feels unnatural.
But we're supposed to get colder for the weekend, so we'll probably be in your shoes soon enough.
Up to 80F+ again today...
It's s'posed to get cold tonight. Maybe below freezing!
Temp's been dropping steadily since this afternoon. Tomorrow (Thursday) should drop to 22F by afternoon.
Raining, currently. Supposed to go below freezing near midnight, and rain--->snow/sleet.
FUN!
About 34oC today, mid 90s in Farenheit.
Could use some rain. Actually, could use a lot of rain.
Hear that there's a good chance that the current El Nino is showing signs of breaking up before it has got fully developed. If so, it can't happen soon enough. The suggestion is that we may begin to get some decent rains in late summer/autumn. We shall see.
Sibling Bluenose
Quote from: Agujjim on November 29, 2006, 06:36:23 PM
Note: Split from elsewhere. Canadian Smalltalk is 90% weather-based, unless beer is involved.
Or hockey, depending on the company.
But speaking of beer, I tried Alpine for the first time on the weekend. One of the guys I was with brought some up from New Brunswick (they don't sell it in Ontario).
QuoteWhat's it doing outside where you are?
When I was up around Bancroft on the weekend, Elephant Lake was just starting to freeze over. Well, more like it had already partly frozen over and the ice was melting a little while I was there.
It'll be a while before it's thick enough to for the snowmobiles (or "snow machines", if you're from certain parts of Canada), to say nothing about driving across it.
Lake Nippissing gets some good ice. They still had huts on the lake in
April the last time I was up in North Bay.
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on November 30, 2006, 03:26:15 PMOr hockey, depending on the company.
But speaking of beer, I tried Alpine for the first time on the weekend. One of the guys I was with brought some up from New Brunswick (they don't sell it in Ontario).
Nah, hockey's
serious discussion. ;)
How was the Alpine? We get it here, but it's a little steep for tins...
Do you ever race on ice? Dad used to race dirtbikes on ice, and I know there were some auto races back in the day, too. Don't know about now, with the warmer winters and all.
Quote from: Agujjim on November 30, 2006, 03:43:37 PM
How was the Alpine? We get it here, but it's a little steep for tins...
It was all right. Sort of a toned-down version of Moosehead, I guess, roughly equivalent to Canadian. A decent sit-on-the-deck-in-July-and-have-a-beer beer, though if it costs more than Export, I'd probably just get the Molson stuff.
QuoteDo you ever race on ice? Dad used to race dirtbikes on ice, and I know there were some auto races back in the day, too. Don't know about now, with the warmer winters and all.
I don't personally (well, sometimes there's icy patches, but not a proper "ice race"), but there's a fair bit of it around here. In Ontario, there's an ice racing series in Minden (http://www.barc-oc.com/about_ice_racing.html) and another inThunder Bay (http://www.iceracingthunderbay.com/page.asp?DocumentID=HomePage); they're usually considered good series for beginners because the costs are low, especially for the rubber-to-ice classes: it doesn't take much to get your wheels spinning, so there's no point spending money on your engine after that.
In addition to the local races, the big boys and girls come over from Europe every year to Sherbrooke (http://www.challengecanada.com/cgi-cs/cs.waframe.index?lang=2) for a big ice racing festival.
Toned-down Moosehead? I'll stick with the original. ::)
Got to 0 C overnight, and looks to be falling all day. Continued hell on the roads, I'm sure. Downtown and all the residential area roads are pretty much straight snowpack, and this'll make sure any of the bare pavement is thoroughly iced up.
I'm in the North. It's cold. It's wet. It's that annoying 'just before the weather breaks' weather. Supposed to snow this weekend. :)
Well, this morning (7 am) its overcast, but the forcast is for a mainly sunny day with a top of around 27oC. Much more reasonable than yesterday, pity I have to go to work. You blokes can keep your sub-zero temperatures!
It's a bit too early to be thinking too much about beer, but i just might be forced to have a little something later on. <grin>
Sibling Bluenose
Forced? ;D
Very cold for my part of the country, since we normally don't even pull in our plants in the winter. Dropped to 30* last night, about 42* at a quarter to eight this morning.
I assume you're talking degrees Fahrenheit. In which case that sounds pretty chilly to me...
Sibling Bluenose
Yesh, I am. Afraid I didn't switch them.
Another freeze tonight, methinks. ><
I was all excited by the weather forecast for a "winter storm" this morning. I wake up, look outside and...
Rain. Lots of rain. No snow at all.
>:(
Cold. 27F or colder. Load of snow.
Am currently stuck in my DRIVEWAY-- as I have a DEEP ditch right next to the 'way, at the street (STUPID city!) and as I was backing out this morning, I slid into that ditch. At least the main part of the truck is in the driveway, and I'm not blocking the street ....
I'll either wait for it to thaw (only a day or 2 at most, hereabouts) or else my partner will come by in his truck and pull me out.
So far, I'd rather wait it out-- I can walk over to the shops for food, if needed.
Stuff like that is why I keep a come-along (i.e. a ratchet-action hand winch) and a tow strap in my van*.
If you really need to get out (or just feel like mucking around in the snow for an hour or so), you could always jack your truck up, drop stuff under the wheel in the offending ditch (scrap wood would probably work), lower the truck back down, and drive it out.
*though I've never had to use them, and truth be told, I have a feeling that my come-along probably doesn't have enough cable to be much use, so I'd probably end up with one end of my tow strap hooked to my van and the other end in my hand as I grin at other drivers to entice them over to give me a pull out of the ditch.
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on December 01, 2006, 03:01:24 PM
Stuff like that is why I keep a come-along (i.e. a ratchet-action hand winch) and a tow strap in my van*.
If you really need to get out (or just feel like mucking around in the snow for an hour or so), you could always jack your truck up, drop stuff under the wheel in the offending ditch (scrap wood would probably work), lower the truck back down, and drive it out.
*though I've never had to use them, and truth be told, I have a feeling that my come-along probably doesn't have enough cable to be much use, so I'd probably end up with one end of my tow strap hooked to my van and the other end in my hand as I grin at other drivers to entice them over to give me a pull out of the ditch.
I have extensive experience (off-roading). A come-along as a vehicle extraction device from a ditch will only succeed in getting you hot, tired and frustrated. It probably won't move the vehicle at all, just take up the stretch in the tow strap. They have their uses, but vehicle extraction is
not one of them.
I hope your tow strap is the kind with loops in the end, not the commonly sold kind with metal hooks. The kind with the hooks are potentially
lethal. That hook is made of 'pot metal', and has less tensile strength than the tow strap itself. When it frags under tension, the majority still attached to the stretched strap becomes a projectile travelling at up to 150 mph. I've seen photos of one that went through a windshield, the drivers head, the leather and metal headrest, and the back glass. :o
If you have the one with the metal hooks, dispose of it (
don't give it away - you don't want some one else to die), and get the kind with the loops (Tractor Supply Company is the cheapest place, about half the cost of offroad stores).
Another tip: Don't hook up a tow strap to a tow ball. If you (or your obliging rescuer) don't have the right attachment points, you can remove the towball unit, and stuff the loop into the connection and pass the little bar through the loop inside the connection - just as strong, and much safer.
The biting cold that you all have been suffering from is now headed my way. Believe it or not, it was 70 degrees (F) today and humid. The front is rapidly approaching and they are calling for dangerous storms and high wind warnings have been posted (70 mph).
As I sit here the hemlocks are swaying like crazy in the wind. Just my luck, I already put up my outside Christmas decorations. At wind gusts of over 70 mph there won't be any left, dog gone it, phooey.
We got hit with The Cold early Thursday morning.
Feh. Cold is icky when it's wet, like yesterday. Today it was bright and clear. Yesterday, my left knee wouldn't bend for love nor money. Today, it's much better.
When you get old, your body starts acting like a barometer...when your 'rheumatiz' acts up.
On a lovely day like today, I got to sit inside at a luncheon for THREE hours, from 11-2. I don't mind volunteering, but next time, they can just keep their luncheon at the Hilton and 'honor' us volunteers with a day off instead.
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on December 01, 2006, 03:01:24 PM
Stuff like that is why I keep a come-along (i.e. a ratchet-action hand winch) and a tow strap in my van*.
If you really need to get out (or just feel like mucking around in the snow for an hour or so), you could always jack your truck up, drop stuff under the wheel in the offending ditch (scrap wood would probably work), lower the truck back down, and drive it out.
*though I've never had to use them, and truth be told, I have a feeling that my come-along probably doesn't have enough cable to be much use, so I'd probably end up with one end of my tow strap hooked to my van and the other end in my hand as I grin at other drivers to entice them over to give me a pull out of the ditch.
I already tried the come-along. Mine is pretty high-tech, and it's "home" IS in the truck (it's a big box-truck with tool doors all over it, actually) I used a car as the anchor point (which is currently trapped by the stuck truck... :P )
I tried the jack-method also, but my initial jack is only 2 1/2 ton, and not strong enough.
By the time my partner brought a new 12-ton bottle jack it was dark and getting COLD again.
Tomorrow afternoon, I'll get out with the bottle-jack, tunnel under the truck to the back axle and jack up the wheel. I've scrounged some large (6" & 8" diameter) logs to put under the wheel. Once it's more-or-less level, I expect it'll just drive out... we'll see, won't we? ;D
But, I HAVE decided that that
hole the city euphemistically calls a drainage ditch is going to be packed with something, very soon. Likely I'll go out to the green dump, and fetch some more large logs ... at least the water can sort of flow around them (and they'll be free-- I LIKE free!)
Quite an adventure, so far!
Quote from: Quasimodo (The Meromorph) on December 01, 2006, 03:42:26 PM
I have extensive experience (off-roading). A come-along as a vehicle extraction device from a ditch will only succeed in getting you hot, tired and frustrated. It probably won't move the vehicle at all, just take up the stretch in the tow strap. They have their uses, but vehicle extraction is not one of them.
I once had to get a damaged car (one wheel was not pointing in the direction it should have been) onto a trailer with a come-along and a tow strap - we did it eventually, but yep, it was frustrating. A chain would work better, but it'd be larger and heavier than I'd want to carry on a regular basis.
QuoteI hope your tow strap is the kind with loops in the end, not the commonly sold kind with metal hooks. The kind with the hooks are potentially lethal. That hook is made of 'pot metal', and has less tensile strength than the tow strap itself. When it frags under tension, the majority still attached to the stretched strap becomes a projectile travelling at up to 150 mph. I've seen photos of one that went through a windshield, the drivers head, the leather and metal headrest, and the back glass. :o
If you have the one with the metal hooks, dispose of it (don't give it away - you don't want some one else to die), and get the kind with the loops (Tractor Supply Company is the cheapest place, about half the cost of offroad stores).
Hmm... thanks for the tip. I always assumed that the rating on the package would be for the entire assembly (wouldn't it?), not just the fabric strap.
Now that I think about it, the offroaders I've seen usually use the loopy strap you mentioned with a couple of heavy-duty clevises. I guess that's why.
At least I do know enough to stay as clear as I can when a vehicle's being extracted (i.e. more than one strap length away from the attachment point on either vehicle), though as you pointed out, it's not possible if you're operating one of the vehicles involved in the exercise.
COLD!!! For us, anyway. Frost every morning, and I've pulled out my pea coat and scarf.
When I first saw this topic I thought it was a discussion of the Smalltalk object oriented programming language. I was thinking of you folks breaking out your Dorados and geekin' out in the Great White North or something. ;D
I predate object-oriented programming languages. I'm much more comfortable with machine code. If you can't program it with a hexadecimal keypad, I'm not interested. ;D
They're saying no snow here for Christmas.
I hand coded machine code on a Commodore C-64. ;D
Cool. ;D
I did mine on a 6800 CPU stuck on a board with a keypad and a few seven-segment displays.
Back to weather:
Snowed here yesterday. Finally. There's actually snow on the ground now.
Gah! -11 and snow this morning. It's been doing the anonymous seasonless brown and cool (-5 to +5) lately.... looks like it's back to winter. Forcasting -28 C overnight.
Snow? What's that? What? Frozen water falling from the sky? Yeah, right... Sounds about a likely as that "rain" thing me great great grandaddy used to bang on about...
9 AM this morning it was already 31oC. Supposed to be a cool change coming through later, the temp is expected to drop to about 24o. I certainly hope so.
Heh... -17oC here, although it's -30oC with the wind chill. Gonna be nasty tonight...
'Sokay... Edmonton's also getting a blizzard.
So what do you use for a refrigerator, a heater?
A bbq. ;)
No, seriously, I stick food in the (unlit) bbq when the weather is more reasonable to keep it refrigerated. When it's this cold, I make ice or freeze foods out there because it's quicker than the freezer.
My apartment stays at about 27oC without turning the heat up at all, so we've been sleeping with the bedroom window open lately and a fan in the window to bring in the cold. I probably will be able to skip the fan tonight. When it's REALLY cold I can leave the window shut.
EDIT: Yipes! I left the beer on the porch!
It is COLD for my state! I've been having to actually move my plants inside this year so they don't frost, even ones that are under big trees. And we had a boar frost today, it actually looked like it snowed a little. Just about everything froze. My friend lives out in the country, and her vinyards froze, too. It's supposed to be 18*F here tonight. >< Tooooooo cold for this area.
Usually, it hovers around the upper 30's this time of year, and we have maybe four or five frosts, but it's dropped a lot, and frosted just about every day for weeks.
Quote from: Kanaloa the Squidly on January 12, 2007, 04:41:50 PM
My friend lives out in the country, and her vinyards froze, too. It's supposed to be 18*F here tonight. >< Tooooooo cold for this area.
Time for icewine (http://www.winesofcanada.com/icewine.html)? ;D
Bah. The snow didn't stay; it's above freezing and raining again.
Aggie, you're hogging all of Canada's cold ration! Send some this way!
Edit:Quote from: Bluenose on January 10, 2007, 10:59:04 PM
Snow? What's that? What? Frozen water falling from the sky? Yeah, right... Sounds about a likely as that "rain" thing me great great grandaddy used to bang on about...
I can remember many times in my youth when it was too cold for snow. Hasn't happened lately, though.
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on January 12, 2007, 04:50:05 PMAggie, you're hogging all of Canada's cold ration! Send some this way!
OK... I'll see what I can do. Look for it early next week. ;)
OK, which of you jokers is sending cold to me??
Don't DO that. I'll have to wash socks again if you do. I prefer nakie feets with some sort of slip on Fakenstock to actually wearing shoes with closed up toes and stuff.
um... ah... we had nothing to do with that. (where's the "Toadfish looking shifty" emoticon?)
There is definitely no plan for Canada to annex Texas. The cold you're experiencing is completely natural and isn't part of a Canadian "terraforming" project.
Yeah.
But... hypothetically... if you were to see a weird nozzle with a maple leaf on it sticking out of the ground spewing cold air, would you mind kicking the dirt back on top of it?
Thanks.
;D
HMMMM.....
You know y'all could do that up around Dallas and nobody'd notice. Them folks are like another Cleveland, but without the charm and culture. ;)
If you gotta send cold air, West Texas out around the stockyards could use it.
But, i'll kick the dirt back if I see that Maple Leaf thang. I can't be havin' with too much freezin' though. One or the other is fine, but it was 74 F here today, and it's confusing the peach trees.
Not good, that. I like peaches, and I hate it when they're expensive because somebody got confused.
COLD again this morning. More frost, though not as bad as yesterday.
Today, we have RAIN with the cold. The front has met up with a warm air mass, approximately directly over my house. It is not raining a mile away, but we're getting drenched.
Yeah, that's really good for the barn full of stuff that I need somewhere with a floor, not dirt/mud. (I seem to be descended from a group of sewing machine obsessed women. I gave away three, and still have 4 more, 2 in the house, 2 in the barn. Oh, and Wilton cake pans...around 30 or so Wilton cake pans. I'm not that domesticated.)
CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's a Wilton cake?
The PANS...not the cake.
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/department.cfm?id=3E3050A4-475A-BAC0-5C5F5E1F588745A3&fid=3E305D47-475A-BAC0-51F3A0DEB1C54219
Those things.
Care Bears, Big Bird, firetruck, ad nauseum...
The fire truck sounds a lot more appetizing than the "ad nauseum" cake pan. ;D
Just had a thought:
- museum: place of the muses
- nauseum: amusment park?
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on January 14, 2007, 07:09:10 AM
The PANS...not the cake.
I've had a hate on for those things since a cake decorating contest in Elementary school.... lost out to some *(&^*&% Care Bear because my black forest with the chocolate cones and everything was 'too professional... probably store bought'.
Some Canadian smalltalk....
Speedy Creek: slang term for the small city of Swift Current in Southwestern Saskatchewan.
Mickey: Canadian Slang. A small bottle of liquor, shaped to fit in a pocket.
Peanut: canadian slang for a small or insignificant person.
hope this helps!
;D
Quote from: Agujjim on January 14, 2007, 08:07:05 PM
I've had a hate on for those things since a cake decorating contest in Elementary school.... lost out to some *(&^*&% Care Bear because my black forest with the chocolate cones and everything was 'too professional... probably store bought'.
I know exactly how you feel, I had some homework in grade six to draw an angel, which I did, the best one was supposs ed to get a small prize (I forget what). When I submitted my homework I was pretty happy with my chances, but the substitute teacher who was taking that class judged that my drawing had been done by my mother. I was incensed and asked her to speak to our art teacher to see what she thought, since she had an idea of how well I could draw - certainly a lot better than my mum, as much as I love her, she can't draw to save herself.
It scarred me for life!
It drove me to drink! :toasty: OK, it took a while, and it was after I had joined the Navy, but it was
her fault, I tell you!
Sibling Bluenose
Quote from: goat starer on January 14, 2007, 09:58:46 PM
Some Canadian smalltalk....
Speedy Creek: slang term for the small city of Swift Current in Southwestern Saskatchewan.
Mickey: Canadian Slang. A small bottle of liquor, shaped to fit in a pocket.
Peanut: canadian slang for a small or insignificant person.
Peanut? Never heard that one. I'll buy into Speedy Creek, and confirm a mickey at 375 mL.
A former co-worker of mine called her fetus "Peanut" before they'd picked out a name, just for something to call him/her (turned out to be a "her").
More Canadian slang: in "Toronto", the second "t" is silent. Pronouncing it is a sure giveaway that you're a tourist.
"More Canadian slang: in "Toronto", the second "t" is silent. Pronouncing it is a sure giveaway that you're a tourist."
Unless you're a tourist from Buffalo. (Turrano, or TeeOh)
But Buffalo is in Canada.
(If it's not, all those people in TO and Fart Erie are gonna hafta root fer the Leafs again....a turible fate if ever there was one.)
Be careful when using the word root when not talking about plants to Aussies, the word has an entirely different and more biological meaning over here.
There's a Canadian-based clothing line called "Roots" - the Australian exchange students in my class thought it was hilarious.
Especially since the logo that features prominently on most of their clothing is a beaver:
(http://canada.roots.com/images/nav/nav_logo.gif)
:o
Quote from: Outis the Unready on January 15, 2007, 06:46:41 PM(If it's not, all those people in TO and Fart Erie are gonna hafta root fer the Leafs again....a turible fate if ever there was one.)
Quote from: Bluenose on January 15, 2007, 09:10:12 PM
Be careful when using the word root when not talking about plants to Aussies, the word has an entirely different and more biological meaning over here.
Heh... that recalls a playoff game a couple of years ago where the TV ended up getting switched off in favour of a more interesting activity. IIRC, the comment made when the TV was switched back on was "Hey, the Canucks scored too!" ;D
The harbour's almost frozen over. Just a bit of water in the middle, and where the creek comes in. Not quite strong enough to put a hut on, but getting there.
Not that you'd ever go ice fishing in the harbour here, though.
The sky is blue and no rain or sleet are falling. The puddles in the yard are subsiding. :)
The chance of rain goes to 70% by Wednesday. :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored:
We have had about 50 mm (2") of rain at my place in the last week or so. My mother in law thinks that just because it's rained over most of the State all the bushfires must therefore be out. She expressed surprise that in fact they are still burning. Never mind that the fire fighters have consistently said it would take at least 200 mm to extinguish all the fires, and there's precious little chance of that amount of rain for a couple of months yet. Still, the urgency has eased off a bit and for the most part the fire fighters are now ale to concentrate on building control lines against the next hot/dry period which will no doubt be along within a week or two. the problem is that even if the place is sopping wet, you only need two or three days of high temperatures and hot northerly winds (an all too common situation in summer here) for the wet area to become tinder dry again and any tree or stump that is still burning from before will spark of another round of fire.
Already we have had well over a million hectares (about 2.5 million acres) burnt out and we still have a long way to go before this fire season is over.
Sibling Bluenose
I wish you could have some of our rain.
Another inch and a half overnight, plus whateven today brought.
I'd like to send you some of our cold, too.
I've started plugging my car in at night. Without it, it doesn't shift properly in the morning.*
*at this point, all the folks from warmer climes are probably thinking "why is Lambi plugging his car in? Is it electric?" ;D
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on January 26, 2007, 02:12:57 PM
I'd like to send you some of our cold, too.
I've started plugging my car in at night. Without it, it doesn't shift properly in the morning.*
*at this point, all the folks from warmer climes are probably thinking "why is Lambi plugging his car in? Is it electric?" ;D
Does it have a block heater? ;D
Ssssh!
They get to wear shorts in January, we get to use winter trivia to mess with their heads - it's part of the deal!
;D
Not as bad here now. I got away with a lighter-the-pea-coat coat this morning.
I actually ran the car air conditioner this afternoon. Of course, I was having a sever carcinoid crisis and was beet red, burning up and shivering all at once.
We're due for temps in the teens again next week.
It is finally getting to be winter here. The low yesterday morning was 8 degrees (F). I had to make a big fire in my wood stove, I was freezing.
Lambi, when I lived in Pgh and lived in an apt. I couldn't plug my car in because of street parking, so I used to put a blanket on the engine on nights it got down below 0 (F). :D
How well did the blanket work?
BTW - what's a "Pgh"?
Seems to be the usual Calgary routine here - generally sunny, and fluctuations in the weather so that you never know which coat to wear, though it's a bit cold and looking to get colder for the weekend.
The apartment is still so bloody hot that we've been running a fan in the window to pre-chill the bedroom for a couple of hours before retiring. ::) I'm also constantly running a humidifier because it's too dry... the houseplants are loving the heat, humidity and light from the floor-to-ceiling south-facing glass doors.
-11 and snowing here, last time I checked.
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on January 30, 2007, 02:56:10 PM
How well did the blanket work?
BTW - what's a "Pgh"?
Hee hee, a Pgh is the abbreviation for Pittsburgh (PA). I suffered through some very cold winters there and the blanket at least helped the engine to turn over in the morning. It remained sluggish though until I went a mile or two or three or four!!
I used to have to add a little container of "dry gas" to the tank also when I filled up, I just did it though because everyone told me to, don't know if it did anything. Not very mechanically inclined to say the least.
Neat - I used to have to leave my van out in the cold for several days at a time while I was away for work. In really cold weather, the automatic transmission wouldn't shift into neutral on its own - if I didn't move the gear selector to "N", it'd stall as I coasted to the stop sign.
Hmm... I have never ever heard of "dry gas".
BTW - slightly warmer today and windy. There are nice white caps on Lake Ontario.
"Dry Gas" is a particular brand of isopropyl alcohol. You add it to a tanklful of gas which may contain water (not miscible with gasolene) and it forms a milky compound with the water (which compound is miscible with gasolene).
The water can either come from condensation in a partially empty gas tank (not likely these days because all cars have gas fumes pumped back into the tank), or from condensation in the gas-station's storage tanks.
The compound burns satisfactorily in the engine, and much more importantly, will not freeze in your gas-lines, plugging them up and immobilising your car.
Quote from: The Meromorph (Quasimodo) on January 31, 2007, 04:56:57 PM
"Dry Gas" is a particular brand of isopropyl alcohol. You add it to a tanklful of gas which may contain water (not miscible with gasolene) and it forms a milky compound with the water (which compound is miscible with gasolene).
Oh... so it's just a brand of gas line antifreeze?
Heh, or rubbing alcohol....
I thought it was raining, but it turned out to be window washers. Fog and snow have descended on downtown...
I heard an apt line this weekend up in the middle of a chilly Quebec:
"I've heard the Eskimos have a hundred words for snow. They're probably all swear words."
-20 C and snowing lightly.
Other than a little sun on Saturday, it's been non-stop *light* beautiful fluff snow all week, slowly accumulating. I wanna go tobogganing this weekend, if it doesn't flip-flop and melt out.
Hey - anyone heard from Outis lately?
The news is saying that her part of the world has received several feet of snow over the past week or so.
We may need to organize an airlift of butter.
But being careful of the airdrop.. ;)
Outis made an appearance, so it seems she at least has Internet access from her avalanche-covered home.
BTW - here, we've had a foot or two of snow overnight, and it's all blowing around... which works out well for me, since it sends all the snow from my driveway down the street!
Ahh, it's weather like that that makes me glad to live where I do.
80*F here, and I'm running around in a tank top and Hawaiian shirt. ;D bloominghttp://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49650345/?qo=4&q=by%3Adorkanese&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49650345/?qo=4&q=by%3Adorkanese&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps) is overwith, by and large, and our trees are leafing up.
I was in Mexico last week. I think I lost ten pounds in sweat and breathed in ten pounds of dust.
It's been warm (well, above freezing. I know "warm" is relative) back home here, so everything got melty and semi-green. It's supposed to get cold again, so it seems like things will be brown and bare soon.
My peach trees are blooming, the bluebonnets are coming out nice and full this year, and the mid-day mid 80's are already getting warm....
Wish I had a camera, and steady hands. The peach blossoms are spectacular. Maybe THIS year, I'll get them thinned out and get some decent peaches. LAST year, I was too busy to bother.
The temp. is hovering around zero during the days, very cold at night due to the wind but the smell of spring is in the air.I've noticed afew of the squirrels i've been fattening up in the autumn have not returned so i believe the winter was hard on the ones that forgot buried their lunches.
Anyhow playoff time be a coming and the Leafs shall be in contention now that the Keon curse is over.
It's hovering around zero (or around 30-ish, for the Americans reading this) here, too.
It's quite windy as well; if it weren't for the temperature, I'd say that this is some of the best surfing weather I've ever seen on freshwater.
Brother Cuzzen, you aren't Canadian, are you?
Greetings Sibling Lambicus!
Tis I,formally known as ChowMein, and yes i am Canadian,more accurately i could be refferd to as a CanAsian (haha).
It's 2 degrees C at the moment but very windy and overcast ,however the hockey playoffs are just around the corner and run on till June so i am feeling the warmth of late sring as i type.Spring shall be glorious, sigh.(It will be a month later in Tansy's part of Ontario,I think she moved up to the Soo or Sudbury,that would be the same approximate latitude as the furthest point of Michigan,It's cooold up there.
Much nicer down here in Toronto.
Ack! I'm in the GTA myself. Not Toronto proper, though - I'm in Durham.
I'm a Canadian who doesn't care about or follow hockey, so I'm a bit of a social pariah. ;D
Hey Sib Lambicus,I only follow the actual playoffs,the regular season is far to long and overly violent for my liking.How some of those guys get away with criminal assaults is beyond me.
Ack!
What's this stuff falling from the sky? It feels like water. Yeah, right, water falling from the sky - go ahead pull the other one, it's got bells on it!
I have done some research on the phenomenon and have found some obscure references in an ancient scroll to something called "rain". My research reveals that most scholars believe that this "rain" is some sort of mythological fertility god. I did find one article in an obscure journal that claimed that "rain" was some sort of meteorological event, but this article went on to make all sorts of unlikely claims such as ice and even some sort of fluffy white stuff (I think it was called "snow") also falling from the sky. This guy has obviously been smoking too much happy weed IMO.
Sibling Bluenose
I know about the 'rain'. We have that some times.
I DO NOT believe in "snow".
The sun lives in the sky, so OBVIOUSLY any 'frozen' rain would melt before it could fall.
These jokers must think we're daft.
My theory on rain is that a strong wind blows water out of a lake or ocean, and it falls on you, much like the rain of fish or cabbages we sometimes hear about from Pseudopolis and Quirm, and even Klatch.
What about the frogs?
Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_(film)At the end of the movie, a rare but precedented event occurs: frogs rain from the sky
No ones mentioned the frogs :'(
We're having a Wiki-quote problem. The forum is missing the close parenthesis at the end of URLs from Wiki. It took me three tries to get the Lamb Chop one right where I used it...
Rains of frogs are MUCH too Biblical. And much too squishy.
Or much too Aristophanean.
Aristophanes wrote The Frogs. I had to take theater history. This guy
http://www.bastard.net/~smartass/james/academic/classics/txt/frogs.html
sums it all up for me!
All the talk of beer has made me thirsty,However the only beer i can't get enough of is ginger beer.
Any other type of beer seems a waste of good water and barley to me.
yep, beer is wasted on me ,however i can finish a Guinness,Canadian and the one in a green bottle from Denmark without vomitting immediately.
From my family of eight i'm the only one that can say that.
Red wine and hard booze I can drink far to much of and i find myself (half the time) sticking a finger down my throat or driking an outrageous amount of water to avoid alcohol poisoning.
But i haven't had to do so in years since that kinda drinking was decades ago.
Besides if i feel like getting sick i watch a Leaf game.
The wiki link I put in to Magnolia above is missing a ")" at the end of the link - it is shown above but is black not blue and not picked up when clicking on the link.
This fault seems to be specific to the way I quoted it which is as the "author" of the quote. Quotes normally include a date etc after author when using the quote function in the reply page. I think because I typed it, not adding a date after author, it isn't handling the last character correctly, maybe because it is a ")" or maybe it wouldn't whatever that character was. Too lazy to test !! (will anyone ever quote a link that ends in a ")" again?) The issue arises due to Wiki differentiating [in brackets] between a Magnolia flower and the Magnolia film.
I could write more on this topic ;)
Well, Swato ended up having to edit my already demolished and replaced after 3 edits post, all from trying to use a Wikipedia URL.
Wiki is gettin' on my nerves!!
Quote from: Brother Cuzzen on March 20, 2007, 08:04:16 AM
All the talk of beer has made me thirsty,However the only beer i can't get enough of is ginger beer.
Any other type of beer seems a waste of good water and barley to me.
If you like ginger-y beers, you might want to check out the Church Key Brewing Company (http://www.churchkeybrewing.com/)'s Ginger Rosemary Spiced Ale this summer (it's only offered seasonally). I know that the Renaissance Cafe on the Danforth (west of Woodbine) has Church Key on tap... if you're not near there, you'll likely have to do some exploring to find it (or take a road trip to Campbellville).
The Renaissance? That place is half a block down the road from me,hanvn't been in there though since i don't frequent bars.It's never very busy in there.A little further at the Woodbine Valumart i can get two litres (half gallon) of Jamaican spiced ginger beer for a buck,it's quite good, has a lot of zip to it.
Small world... my friend's Dad owns the Renaissance; that's how I know it.
BTW - weather update: the swans came back in the warm weather, but then it got cold again. It seemed like they were spending most of their time with their heads in their armpits (wingpits?). It's starting to warm up again, though.
Quote from: Brother Cuzzen on March 19, 2007, 08:22:02 PM
Hey Sib Lambicus,I only follow the actual playoffs,the regular season is far to long and overly violent for my liking.How some of those guys get away with criminal assaults is beyond me.
Heh, I might actually have to start watching again now that the Canucks are looking to make a run for it. At least until the inevitable 2nd-round choke.
Sunny but a bit chilly here today, and it's brewing up for an almighty dump of snow tomorrow... the Weather Network has us on snowfall warning. :P
Inevitable spring dump... wonder if we'll get one in April, too....
Hmm. Crazy warm here: it got up to 20 yesterday, and it's supposed to hit 17 today. Very foggy this morning, though.
When I woke up it was completely bare - the snow hit about 20 minutes ago.
It's getting warmer here, and lots of rain today. The creeks are all flowing fast.
It hasn't stopped snowing since last time I posted.... light, fluffy and not much accumulating.
It's -10 or colder, though.
Hi Sibs, I don't think i can stand anymore of the overcast skys bringing me down and making me lathargic. It has been very windy as well the past few days as well.
And now there's snow on the ground.
I think I figured the problem: I haven't switched my calendar from March to April. Hang on...
Fixed. Let's see if that does the trick. If we get warmer weather in the next few weeks, we'll know that it worked. ;D
Quote from: Brother Cuzzen on April 04, 2007, 10:09:21 PM
Hi Sibs, I don't think i can stand anymore of the overcast skys bringing me down and making me lathargic. It has been very windy as well the past few days as well.
I've hear it was a grey winter in the BC interior as well, this year. That's one upside to Calgary... the weather is all over the place, it always snows in April, and it's often very cold, but the sun pops out and warms things above freezing fairly often, too.
Greetings Siblings,
Snow squalls and sub zero temperatures today, the wind is still fierce also...i personnally do not approve.
Autumn in Melbourne - clear sunny days around 22-24oC cool nights. Just about perfect. Been like that for the last week or so, looks like it's gunna be like that for another week or so, then a cool change for a day or so, then back to more of the same. I just love this time of year!
Quote from: Bluenose on April 10, 2007, 02:45:15 AM
Autumn in Melbourne - clear sunny days around 22-24oC cool nights. Just about perfect. Been like that for the last week or so, looks like it's gunna be like that for another week or so, then a cool change for a day or so, then back to more of the same. I just love this time of year!
Sounds like the weather back in BC this weekend.
Came back to MORE snow, although the sun came out this morning.
I woke up to hear them saying something about a "winter storm" on the radio weather forecast.
Looks like they'll be getting 15 cm north of here.
Good Morn Siblings,
Tis glorious out there now, a britly lit cheery one at that.The weather folks were calling for snow on thursday but it just rained all day.
Anyone been watching the opening round of hockey playoffs?I normally only follow my home team,but since they fell short again this year (by a wisker)i've come to appreciate the game for the game itself and damn partisanship!
The matchups this time around have proven to be very competitive.
Congratulations to Canada for winning the Ice Hockey World Championship!
:woot: :woot: :woot:
It is officially FREAKIN' hot.
At 11PM, it was still 92F in the house.
I'm gonna drag the computer and a flashlight into the freezer.
Just remember your snorkel.
It's been pretty hot (~28 C or so) around here lately, but just cooled off last night. Back to jackets now.
A lovely 62*F here. But then, it's about ten oclock. It'll hit the 90's here again, I think.
Well its been gettin down to around 2 or 3 oC around here in the mornings and only up to 14 oC or so during the day. It's like someone flicked a switch, a week or so ago and it had been lovely for ages, warmish during the day - certainly t-shirt weather - and mild overnight. Now, BLAM!!! Winter's here!!! Haven't had any frost yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if we get some any time now.
Still I s'pose its nothing compared to what some of our North American and European Siblings have to endure, so I won't complain... ::)
Quote from: Bluenose on June 05, 2007, 12:55:48 AM
Well its been gettin down to around 2 or 3 oC around here in the mornings and only up to 14 oC or so during the day. It's like someone flicked a switch, a week or so ago and it had been lovely for ages, warmish during the day - certainly t-shirt weather - and mild overnight. Now, BLAM!!! Winter's here!!! Haven't had any frost yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if we get some any time now.
Still I s'pose its nothing compared to what some of our North American and European Siblings have to endure, so I won't complain... ::)
I think we are on the other side of that switch. 6" of snow last week, mid-to-high 20's this week and sunny with the odd spectacular evening thunderstorm.
Hello Sibs!,The humidity this past weekend was horrid!I suppose it didn't help with me poring copius amounts of water into my yard as i dug my new stream and ponds, the process required relocating most of my green friends which needed more water to clean of the mud and give them a decent drink after the shock of moving.
The "stream" is actually a small swale or trough which is channeling water runoff from my neighbors house as well as mine into a "lake" (actually a pit) dug down below the frost line (4 ft.min. at this latitude).
The "lake" is filled in partially with coarse gravel to act as an aquifer,a pond liner is then put down to hold about 16in of water to hold goldfish,then i put in a pump and water filter to discourage flying bloodsuckers and provide aeration via a fountian (nothing like the sound of moving water to calm ones spirit).
The reasons for all this expense and effort are twofold:one is to be part of the solution to the water pollution in lake Ontario.Most of the homes were built when the sanitary water lines and storm lines mergered before entering the sewer lines to be taken to the treatment facility.The ever expanding city and therefore growing water volume is reaching a crisis level so the city is encouraging downspout disconnections and giving out plastic rain barrels free of charge.I've been told disconnects will soon be mandatory.Secondly i always wanted to have a home by the water.
Did anyone see last nights hockey game?I'd love to see the cup come back to Canada but it seems the Ducks want it more than the Sens.
Brother Cuzzen, I was wondering where you were yesterday when a search for a topic threw one of your posts up.
Synchronicity. Nice.
Beautiful day today! Breezy and cool. Like 70*s. :D
We got WALLOPED with a storm last night - flash floods everywhere. It's still raining.
Some pics here:
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/index.html
Floods in BC as well. (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/06/06/bc-flooding-070606.html?ref=rss)
Hi Sibs !, Has anyone been following the FIFA under 20 World Cup ?
I'm finding myself watching every game i can . I never appreciated the game as much as i do now , I think of it as hockey without the hockey stuff...sticks , ice, body amour , fights, attempted murders etc..
We have a new professional team in town...the Toronto Football Club .
The Toronto FC has the largest fan base for an expansion team , it has become so popular that tickets cannot be had unless you want to pay 5 times the price.
The fans are so raucous and enthusiastic that opposing teams hate to play here .
The FIFA under 20 has been very entertaining to watch and the players are much more sportsmanlike than the big FIFA event .
A wee bit disappointed that the Canuck squad could only find the sides of the goal nets .
I've been following it a little, as the Czechs are there, and playing quite well, playing the semi-finals today, which is quite unexpected.
The only problem is that it will only be shown on one Czech channel, and the one I don't receive... :(
But I hope they'll manage to win against Austria...
OI ! What a downpour we had this morn and later again this afternoon !
BTW , my greenpeace rep just rang me ( mainly asking to increase my monthy donation ).
He updated me about the nasties going on up here , the pillagers aren't letting up despite St. Al Gore's message .
Anyways one of their ships is coming to Toronto on Labor Day , if any Sibs can make it here it will certainly be interesting to see where the money is going . The ship ought to be a beaut , i'm going to see if i can talk them into flying a toadfish pirate flag . :P
(http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2007081130949.jpg)
Damn it's starting to get cold !....I wonder if it is my imagination but it seems the leaves up here stayed on the trees much longer than normal...usually everything falls just past hollows eve ....my maple and lilacs held out until ten days or so past....
On Boo day I gave out plastic bags filled with comic books , wee candy bars as well as a head of garlic , wee potatoes , brussel sprouts, onions and condiment packs ( I held back the hot sauces so no kid accidently ends up with a trot though....I wonder how it all went over when they got home. :P
-31 C here today, -49 with the wind chill. BRRR!
In a nod to Global Climate Change, it's 50+ degrees here (F).
I would be a lovely day, except that my main sewer just clogged again.... *bleah*
The unmitigated incompetent who installed my "cleanout" did so with 15' of pipe..... WHY I have no idea. Idiot.
It's nearly impossible to get proper tools into the actual main pipe because of this. Moreover, he used a standard "T" when making the connection, instead of the _proper_ "Y". With a "T" join, the tools must negotiate a 90 degree turn, and can go either direction..... at 15' you literally have zero way of telling.
With a proper "Y" the turn would auto-guide "downstream" as it were. The turn from the cleanout leg would be 30-40 degrees at most, when it merged with the main leg-- the tool _could not_ go backwards.
But, you say, what if you _wanted_ to go backwards? Why? Go up on the roof, and fish it down the vent stack... (which is what _I_ have to do, because of the problems above...)
*bleah* I _ought_ to call a plumber and pay him hundreds of $$..... if I _had_ hundreds of $$.
*bleah* and *bleah* again.
I _hate_ plumbing-- sometimes I wish I didn't know how to do it. ::)
Ugh. Sounds nasty.
COLD here! Don't know how cold, but it's finally cleared up (completely blue sky and crystal clear view of the mountains), so whatever heat the clouds were holding in is gone.
And as usual, my house is cold. Couldn't find my sweatshirt, so I'm wearing my Hoff-1980s leather jacket to stay warm. Contemplating finding some fluffy socks for my toesies.
Update. I finally got it working, using a very old tried-and true method: boiling water. If the drain drains, but very slowly, keep pouring gallons of boiling water every so often down until it clears.
Worked.
This time.
Yesterday was nice and Climate Changey warm.
Today: more like the January I grew up with. Cold and windy (but not _that_ cold, actually....)
Maybe snow in a day or three.
It's been mostly around 25oC here lately. Had a few very hot days above 35oC but mostly it's been just nice.
This weekend I am taking a couple from Vancouver up to the Murray River to a place called Echuca (actually we are staying in a mate's luxury cabin over the river in Moama). Expect temperatures in the mid to high 30s but being inland it should be a dry heat so it will be quite fine. Plan to show them a bit of country Australia and on Saturday night I will cook a camp oven roast in my mate's fire pit on the banks of the river. Will be very pleasant drinking a glass of nice red, eating a roast dinner, talking with good friends and watching the paddle boats cruise by....
It's WARM here today! A balmy -13 C.... YAY!
Bob I sympathise with the drain thing-- mine are very slow- I've poured gallons of Drain cleaner,boiling water, boxes of baking soda followed by gallons of vinegar, then more boiling water and etc
my pipes evidently make pretzel shapes somewhere -- as a consequence the bathroom always smells sort of --- nasty--
BUT the rent is fantastic and the landlord is working on it so could be worse.
Today it is raining/sleeting and about 30 degrees F--- just north of us is SNOW- we will probably get some ice as always
I work for a university police department
the official 'school closing' news comes from 5 sources- all clearly spelled out in an "inclimate weather' email sent to every single friggin person on campus at the beginning of each semester---- the police department is not one of the news sources- why?? well we have to be here and there are other depts on campus designated for this
so what does everyone do
calls me and says' is school open?'
makes me wanna go postal and I have to be nice and read the 'inclimate weather' email to each of them so they can then contact the correct dept.
Why don't I just tell them as I actually know
well
scenario one-- "yes, school is open"-- they drive from somewhere and have a wreck, or get here and in the intereim it has closed, or they fill up with gas and it's close to payday and they needed the money for condoms or something or etc--- well guess who gets beheaded!
scenario two-- "no, school is closed" -- they stay home and miss an exam, fail to turn in a paper, get in trouble with their department head, etc-- well guess who gets beheaded!
sorry this turned into a snark!
Oh sibs in Australia-- I could use some heat right now.
anthrobabe: "I feel you pain" ::)
It all boils down to the basic inability for people to actually THINK for themselves, I suppose. Why bother to think, when a phone call is so easy?
You _could_ start saying, "that is on a Need To Know basis, and you do not qualify. Good Morning!" *click*
How much more trouble could you get in with that response? :)
In other news, we've pseudo-snow today. Eeentsy, teensy ice bits-- about the size of a pin-head, falling like rain. Only they hit with a tiny *click* instead of a splash or drip. Melt instantly, as the ground is around 35F (or 1C or 2C I suppose).
So, it's not accumulating like snow, it doesn't sound like snow, but it's soooo tiny and, well, cute, that I can't call it sleet or hail. Too dry for sleet. Too tiny for hail.
But, the air-temps falling. Likely it will accumulate later on. So much for my plans to fix my backup lights today...
Oi , much snow up here and more on the way , our mayor has called out all the trucks to clear the streets at a cost of 20 million dollars .
Say Bob , have you changed the drain system to what it should be , I do whatever I can to make the lines as "straight" as possible , it may cost another $50 or so for the fittings but it is money well spent .
It was beautiful and sunny this morning... was out without a jacket. Now it's snowing....
It's OK, we were planning on skating today anyways. There's a beautiful free rink next to the Library downtown (will go there after).
Quote Bob:
"You _could_ start saying, "that is on a Need To Know basis, and you do not qualify. Good Morning!" *click*
How much more trouble could you get in with that response? "
:devil2:
I have often wanted to reply to the question-- usually posed by a faculty member that left their classroom key at home-"when are they going to be here- we are cold/hot waiting outside?" with -my hand covering the phone as if I am talking to someone else," Base to __ , professor so and so wants in NOW -so can you ask the bank robber(we have two banks on campus)/guy with heart attack/etc along those lines -to hang on a minute while you go and take care of something important instead of your stupid police officer job?"
but alas the phones are recorded .....
On a better note-- sort of gross though- I finally figured out the issue with the bathroom sink-- had to take it apart and well gross but it was sometime in the past someone had dropped a wooden pop-sickle stick down there and it was accumulating hair-etc and that is why it would not drain-- like I said gross but it's out of there now and it drains like it is supposed to-- I'm afraid of the kitchen sink so I'm not going there. I really think something is alive down there....
Sorry to hijack the Canadian small talk thread- just ignore me and I'll let you get back to it. Wait- I dated a Canadian once so this is Canadian small talk as we really dated if you know what I mean so that makes me almost Canadian--- right ;)
Aggie: I can not ice skate and I never learned to roller skate-- I wish I had the guts to take lessons now and learn- I find ice skating -even by those just having fun beautiful.
Snowing here - AGAIN.
It's snowed every day for the last 3 days, although it's been melting in between flurries.
Snowing HARD this morning. :P
Nice--- and look I can even see your car ;)
rain here- some flooding- people are almost as funny in rain as in snow, break out the john boats just in case.....
My car is nice and dry underground (unless it floods!).
It got even worse after that - i.e. when I was walking to work.
Quote from: Agujjim...
It got even worse after that - i.e. when I was walking to work.
Intercepting a Canadian thread yet again... the first out-of-season snow I saw here was sudden, heavy and wet. I marveled at the coeds picking their way, delicately, through ankle-deep icy puddles in kitten-heeled sandals and flip flops...
I hope all y'all are more sensible up nort.
Hockey playoff toime , Oi be octa pied fer a munff nows .
Hockey players
question-- who has fewer teeth than the crew of BC's ship
Anyone who eaten Fish Head Stew
Snowing-a-bloody-gain. :P
It stopped for a few hours yesterday, otherwise has been snowing lightly since Friday AM.
<inserting Engllish smalltalk>
had to take coat off outside as got too hot
<end English small talk >
It's been raining for two days straight, here... and this is wonderful because we've been in a drought for the past year. This rain will catch us up somewhat.
It's expected to be sunny tomorrow and near seventy degrees. The grass is shaggy and needs mowing, but it's too wet right now. Major mud! But the flowers will really be popping this weekend. :)
Lovely - it started snowing again. :surrender:
Temps in high 80's.
Mid 70's at night.
Air conditioners soon... :'( :'( :'( ('lectric billz)
Can I send you some snow? It's snowing AGAIN. Not much piling up, but it's snowed EVERY FREAKIN' DAY.
Yes, please.
Lots of it. I have over a third of an acre that you could stack about 5 or 6 feet deep...then I open all the windows and doors on that side of the house and set up fans to draw in the cool air!!
More about Canada
sigh--- heard on Talk of the Nation on the way into work about the pine beetles killing trees up there because (despite the constant snow and current temp around 9C) global warming is making them poliferate and vast tracts of trees are going down-- and when trees go down they add more CO2 to the air, so now the CO2 savings plan in Canada is in danger because the amount of trees that will fall by 2020 will equal or exceed the amount of CO2 not released otherwise under the plan.
I personally think this old planet has a few tricks left in her and will survive even we Homo sapiens! She has survived planet killer comets (and bugger that as it killed the dinos allowing the tiny mammals to creep out and begin to grow into even worse planet killers) ahem, sorry. I think that no matter what we do we will wind up making ourselves extinct (or at least killing enough of us off that we have minimal or no impact again like before we grew to be over 6 billion organisms). I used to be truly afraid that someone would really smeg up with nuclear weapons-- but now I am convinced it will be plastic bottles and car exhaust that will do us in(or at least enough of us that our impact is minimalized-restoring balance- and allowing healing).
Then the cockroaches will take over-- as evidenced by the one currently at 1600 Pensylvania avenue.
Chatty -- I know what you mean, we are going to have to crank the A/C early again this year. Yesterday was almost but not quite to the wet stage(my storage room in particular is a concrete slab on the ground and you know what that means-- it gets swampy-at least the house sits up a bit). I think we will have 'wet muslin will someone kill me please- can I lay in the tub while at work' before the middle of May. I'll take any snow that Canada wants to ship down here.
Good, there's more falling right now, and more forecast for tomorrow. ::)
Spencer says PLEASE...
Until Mommy is up to a 3 hour dog shavin' party, his way of keeping cool is the tile floor in the bathroom. OK, and the Mom puts down a wet towel he can roll on and THEN lay on the tile. (Towel re-dampened 5 or 6 times a day.)
He bit at the few snowflakes we had that one day--but he's not fond of hail.
Quote from: Environment CanadaSNOWFALL WARNING: City of Calgary
Issued at 4:31 AM MDT THURSDAY 8 MAY 2008
HEAVY SNOWFALL TODAY AND TONIGHT.
A COLD UPPER LOW HAS CROSSED THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE OVERNIGHT INTO SOUTHERN ALBERTA. LADEN WITH PACIFIC MOISTURE AND TAPPING INTO COLD AIR, THE LOW HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE AMOUNTS OF SNOW. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL VARY DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF SNOW MELTING ON CONTACT WITH THE GROUND. IN JASPER, NORDEGG AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE SNOW WILL CONTINUE TODAY WITH ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 TO 25 ARE EXPECTED BEFORE THE SNOW ENDS THIS AFTERNOON. FOR THE BANFF REGION, KANANASKIS REGION, AIRDRIE REGION AND NORTHERN OKOTOKS REGION RAIN IS CHANGING TO SNOW EARLY THIS MORNING. IN CALGARY AND SOUTHERN OKOTOKS REGION RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW THIS AFTERNOON. IN THESE REGIONS LOCAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ARE FORECAST TO REACH 10 TO 20 CENTIMETRES BY EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. THIS WEATHER PATTERN WILL BE CLOSELY MONITORED AS THE UPPER LOW DEVELOPS OVER SOUTHERN ALBERTA.
:aargh:
Hey I'll trade you a thunderstorm for a couple a feet ;)
Is this abnormal--- this much snow in May?
Not really. The week of snow we had at the end of April was abnormal, but only because of the duration. We can get snow any time of the year (I haven't seen it in August yet, but I've only been out here 5 years).
Eh, the moisture should help the wild asparagus pop up for the weekend.
mmmm asparagus.
We have thunderstorms expected today and tomorrow.
Luckily my boss showed me up for yet another meeting this morning so I could go out and get all the plant babies into the ground. They'll like all the natural water. Unless they get washed away!
We are having thundersnow, with some rain and hail mixed in at the moment. It's so dark outside that the street lights are coming on. :P
Got a lotta rain yesterday, more expected today and this weekend. It's pretty good, since we've had a drought the past couple of years. As long as the wet/dry days are balanced.
Temps hit the mid 90's today.
My idiot mother had her house shut up tight, and it was over 90 at 9 PM. I set her AC down to 80. I'm sure she'll bitch about getting cold, but she was draggy and slow in speech when I got there, but recovering by the time I left after 45 minutes (and 10 degrees lowering of temp).
Heatstroke in the elderly is often caused by pigheadedness...
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 10, 2008, 06:11:46 AM
Heatstroke in the elderly is often caused by pigheadedness...
:hot-here: Maybe it's "nature's way" of clearing out the space for the next generation?
Naaah. That would make actual sense.... ::) ;D
Sunny but chilly this morning.
Shift to light rain, lotsa rain early afternoon.
Abrupt shift to tiny, pea-sized sleets.
Shift back to intermittent rain.
Skies clear for sunset.
'Sbeen raining blue blazes here. School was cancelled today because of flooding. Luckily, we're on high land, but even then we have gullywash in the yard. Hope it breaks, soon.
Calgary's weather..... see attachment.
NAUGHTY LANGUAGE WARNING - blasphemy and f-words.
The forecast for Monday is very, very consistent with the the 7th day of any long-range forecast here, although to be fair they usually extend that kind of over-optimism to the 4th, 5th and 6th day too. :P
Impressive!
Are you certain you don't want to take accomplishment credit for creating that lovely chart as well?
:D
Nah, I got it by email. ;)
Wow! Who would've thought that Calgary had Bogotá's weather (http://www.accuweather.com/world-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&locCode=SAM%7CCO%7CCO011%7CBOGOTA&metric=1)...
Aee-o! We were stormy last night, but today it's sunny. Good for BBQing!
Well, we got some rain from Almost-Hurricane Edouardo. Started about the time I had to leave for the gastro doc, stopped a couple hours after we slogged home. Nice, nothing exciting rainfall.
The barn cats and under-the-house cats have all been up on the porch, and by previous decisions made regarding animals in one anothers space, Spencer doesn't "see" them when he and his Daddy go walkins, and they don't "see" him. Thusly, all furpersons are happy AND dry.
I hope the cool-down lasts, but I expect tomorrow to be Hell Hot AND muggy, steamy and miserable. :P
Thanks, Chatty, I was wondering how that was going for you. Glad to hear you're okay.
We've got a very warm one today, but overall it's been a relatively mild summer, here. We've had good rain (after a few drought years) so the plant people are very happy in these parts.
Sunny. And kinda hot, like 90* some-odd degrees.
Rotten bloody year here - it was snow to the end of May, rain all June and most of July, and now it's decided that it's Autumn (clear, crisp, windy with occasional showers). Summer didn't even show up for Stampede, except the hail.
I_DON'T_WANT_WINTER_YET
We'll take some of that. It's been dry here the last week or so. The plant people are weary.
We had some small amounts of rain yesterday. Most strange...
It rained a bunch last night.
Made pulling some obnoxious new weeds very easy this morning.
Hot. And blindingly sunny (as in, if the tag tells you to plant something in full sun--don't. It'll burn). Ick.
Hot-hot for once in Calgary. Low of 21 C degrees last night (probably hotter downtown, with all the concrete & such) with a surprising amount of humidity; 35 C or more yesterday.
Thunderstorms scheduled for today which should bring it back to "normal" (no such thing here).
Rain and wind, some isolated tornadoes but so far nothing serious. Fay seems to be a bit stubborn and has been actually strengthening a bit over 'land'* and dumping a bit of water over central FL. It may prove to be a good thing if our main source of fresh water (lake Okeechobee) gets replenished.
* have I told you that FL is a swamp? ;)
My kinda weather today , light breeze , 22 degrees C , and NOT so blasted humid .
It's bone-dry, here. We're hoping for a little leftover rain from the Gulf o' Mexico action. It'd help. Today we've just had a few sprinkles.
Rain, then some rain and on top of that a little more rain.
*now imagine a soaking wet, sulky, terrier and you have a good pic of the emotional me*
Yeay! We finally have been getting good rain.
The evenings are starting to get chilly up here , not too many late nights out in the garden with drinks and conversation with the neighbors left .
Brrrrrr , I can feel winter a coming .
3 C this morning here. Chilly!
I'm at 30C and raising... :'(
Can we average?
I'm about right between you two guys, and it's nice here. The weatherman says that we have our friends in Canada to thank for this nice air, so thanks, Aggie!
We are, however, in the path of possibilities for Hurricane Hanna to visit us by this weekend! No thanks to Zone! (Just teasing, Sweetie! ;) ) Actually, we can still use the rain, as we have not quite caught up with the dry spell. :-*
That thing has been so erratic that no one knows where is going to land. ???
The last storm made our water problems go away, so this one may be a blessing in disguise for you Opas.
Oh goodie, I like natural blessings.
Looks like it's going to miss you and possibly me too.
http://www.komonews.com/weather/hurricane/27766854.html
Weather forecast is calling for -29 C this morning (with wind chill = -42 C) and +8 C on Sunday. ::)
Cripes! That's really, really cold!
Spring is starting to unfold here, and it's been either cloudy or sunny every other day. Sunny today and yesterday, though. Warm enough that a light jacket's about all you need. And the air is CLEAN! Horray for rain!
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on February 26, 2009, 08:51:08 PM
Cripes! That's really, really cold!
Spring is starting to unfold here, and it's been either cloudy or sunny every other day. Sunny today and yesterday, though. Warm enough that a light jacket's about all you need. And the air is CLEAN! Horray for rain!
Spring... hmm, I'm not sure we have that one. ;)
The local groundhog (Balzac Billy) saw his shadow this year, so that meant 16 more weeks of winter.
-29 isn't so bad - it's only REALLY, REALLY cold below -30 C. ::)
Although I will admit that I don't much like doing fieldwork outside past -20 C, especially if there's any hint of wind.
We have wind and (thankfully) rain here today. However, it is expected to turn to snow on Sunday. *sigh!*
We did find two yellow crocus opening under the Rosemary bush yesterday- so spring is apparently sending an RSVP.
No love for the snow? ;)
We finally have real winter here now, we have snow, the lake is completely covered with ice the sun shine during the day, the nights are cold and it snows a bit during the early mornings. :)
I like snow...when it's up in the mountains and I can go visit if I like.
Sunny and lovely here.
Sorry not to be using this thread. I am discussing weather in the Last Post. So ban me !
Cheeky.
;)
We've not been having as much rain as I thought we would, but tonight may bring downpours followed by snow showers.
Temps in the high 70's today.
Last week, they were below 32 at night, mid 40-50's with strong winds during the day. Now? Might as well be startin' summer.
...and I thank you for sending some o' that our way, Chatty. We've been cold as a basket of penquin squattings, here the past week, but today we've hit 50 and I saw a grackle grackling high on a branch. Robins are here all winter, but they hang out in the woods. Grackles are the real spring harbingers.
Huzzah!
It's been wet--raining for two weeks. :D With a couple days of glorious sun, temps in the 70s. The trees are blooming now. :mrgreen:
Temps today, and in forecast, 60's to 80's.
Glad to share the warm, as it means we'll have to turn on AC soon...
Woo woo !
Spring is on it's way , we are going to get close to record high temperatures in the next few days .
I hear your woo-woo and second it, BC my good sibling. We're in the 50's today and are expected to hit the 70's this weekend.
-24C with snow this morning. :P
AND it feels too bloody early...
Crocus and daffodils bloomed, but now it's over and getting cold again!
:P
Hot here.
High 80's days, barely into high 60's at night...some staying around 70.
Winter to summer, so spring.
Bluebonnets are starting to bloom, though!
60's at night? How lucky! 72 outside (due to light breeze) 76 inside and I'm happy because it's still bearable.
The LOWEST has been 68.
I want more COOL weather, dammit!! The 'lectric bill is gonna be hell this summer.
They raised your power bill too? ::) :-\
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 11, 2009, 04:13:32 AM
The LOWEST has been 68.
I want more COOL weather, dammit!! The 'lectric bill is gonna be hell this summer.
You can always come and visit here...
Winter decided to comeback, with vengeance, 15 to 25 cm of snow fell over the Stockholm area yesterday and during the night. It's about +2 to - 4°C which isn't very cold but together with the snow it generate a lot of trouble for cars, buses and commuter trains.
Well, our weather turned around on us. lows in the high 30's, highs in the low 60's and rain.
Of course, as the barometer dropped, I went through hell again. Shoulder, neck and upper bar/head pain that causes me to have to double up on my narcoti meds, and even then, it's touch and go as to whether I'll have to go to hospital for Demerol or stronger injections. I made it this time due to a bottle of liquid oxycontin.
Raining most of the time. Had to go to the stores today, I had a med refill that I needed...and did some basic shopping. (Dog food and peanut butter.)
I don't mind the cold. I HATE the changing barometer and the rain.
Sounds just like our weather, here. We've all been having sinus headaches. The trees are starting to green up though, and that makes me happy.
Here it's getting hotter, mid 80s on the day and the humidity rising. :(
Still snowin'. :P
We have passed the rainy part of spring and have entered the windy/mostly cloudless/fluctuating temperatures part of the season. Upper 60s to mid 70s.
Uggg
We have entered POLLEN season around here- it's been building but is now at full alert.
This is of course right in the middle of -- one day it is freezing (they are warning of killing frost maybe Tuesday morning) and the next gentle summer (it will be near 80 tomorrow/today) season.
Oh yeah, that's what we have here too, 'Babe. We had a loverly weekend, Sunday was 70 degrees and sunny with little wind, but we have a frost warning for tomorrow.
As for the pollen, I've been taking this AllergyMD (http://www.allergymdhealth.ca/) homeopathic stuff. It works pretty well. I used to use loratadine (Claritin) but after taking it for years, it wasn't working so well.
We have a mix of utterly perfect English spring days, quite warm and sunny, with inter-laced dismal dark cold English winter days. My summary is we have reverted to traditional English for as long as it lasts (I haven't checked what the Gulf Stream is doing though). Flowers and tree blossom in huge quantities.
I'm debating on turning on the AC, despite the fact of it more than doubling our electricity usage (and bill) more now that we are on only one income. If it keeps getting hotter I might cave in. :-\
We have a statewide freeze warning overnight.
This means that on the way into work just now I got a good look at everyones extra sheets and blankets.
Some of you might ask -- What?
See when a freeze warning is issued round here this time of year everyone scurrys about draping all tender vegitation with anything and everything available in order to save flowers, buds, fruitings, etc.
People will also run outdoor extension cords to various lighting sources pointed at various plants in the hopes the heat will help as well. Not sure how truly safe it is due to the morning moisture and rain the last few days but interesting to see.
It's often like a lovely quilt in some peoples yards.
I'm enjoying our three weeks of real spring! Cool enough you want a jacket of you're going to be out past nine pm, but warm enough for flip flops. :mrgreen:
oh well spring receded, all is grey
Flowers.... leaves..... ? what are these things you speak of?
(seriously, every year when the trees here start budding out, I do a double take: WTF is all that green crap on the trees?! NO MORE CALGARY WINTERS PLS!)
Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 07, 2009, 11:27:13 AM
oh well spring receded, all is grey
but by the time I got outside it was sunny and mild.... nice
perhaps you need those fake flowers so popular in earlier decades Aggie.
Flurries today. Frost warning here tonight.
A'Babe- some years ago we got a frost warning in May! I went out and stapled paper bags over all the iris buds in my yard. It looked like Christo (http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/)had been here!
Ok so then last night we had tornados---
yep it is what passes for spring around here!
We are springlike here this week ~ 14C in the days and sunny. Niiiiice.
Just waiting for the April Mega-Dump of Snow (and hoping there's only one.... and hoping that there's not 2 weeks straight of snow in May like last year).
Tonight it is cold enough for a jacket--- but no mega snows forecast here-- we'd all die- people about these parts freak over flurries even.
Snowing again. :P
Cool days. Temps not getting above 76F.
Kinda nice, but we could use some rain...
We have plenty. Nice soft, Oirish raaiin. Begorrah.
Aye, ta-tye Laddie!
We're having rain, too. But that's good, 'cause I just planted the lettuce out yesterday that I had started on the windowsill. Now it has to get warm so I can get in the 'maters.
Today we have rain. Maybe tomorrow, too.
Gotta get grow-lights for the tobacco seedlings!!
Arrrgggghhh, we be having rain here today and tomorrow too. A bit cool, too. But hopefully we'll have some mild weather by the weekend.
It's supposed to hit 90*F today. :P
it's forecast to be 77 tomorrow with humidity moving by the end of the week
Still kinda dreary here, but hopefully we'll have our last cold night tomorrow. Then it's 'mater planting time! My little babies have been hardening off for weeks on the front porch and are probably poking their roots through the pot-bottoms.
We did have some very nice autumn weather for a while here, about zero degrees and crisp clear days.
This has now changed to over a week of about +6, windy, and pouring rain. "Lovely" weather for working outside, which I do a lot. Arrrrgh! Give me cold, give me snow, give me just about anything but this endless rain and fog! :fit:
Sun is shing but wind still blowing in gusts.
Storm at the coast, calm at the Alps, we are somewhere in between ;)
To paraphrase Robyn Williams, it been hot, damn hot!
Having our hottest November on record, usually our second wettest month but after an excellent start in October, we've had stuff all follow on rain. The place has got very dry over the last couple of weeks and in the last two days the various state fire authoorities, at least in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales have issued their first "code red" or catastrophic conditions fire alerts for various parts of their respective states, using the new national alert system developed after the Black Saturday fires back in February. We are expecting a change here in Melbourne today and allegedly we will be getting some good rain over the weekend. I'll believe it when I see it...
I wish I could send you some of our rain and overcast skies we certainly have more of both than we really need. :-\ ::)
It's time to bring out all the candles and the Christmas lights!
Fight the greyness!
Good luck with getting some rain and damping down the fire potential, Blue.
Despite thread title, Canadian weather has been boring around these parts lately - not exceptionally cold, mostly sunny. Need to be a bit colder, actually, to keep my trucks from getting stuck in soft ground.
Is the permafrost thawing? :o :o (I know you're not that far north ;))
--
Here the weather is quite nice, very little rain, not too hot, almost a Goldilocks state. ;D
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on November 20, 2009, 01:06:34 PM
Is the permafrost thawing? :o :o (I know you're not that far north ;))
Not on this job, but on occasion I'm that far north.
Cold, wet, grey. It's just like Scotland... ::)
Rain, rain, rain... and I am supposed to be working outdoors from 14:30 to 23:30 today... blergh!
Rain indeed. It's been a dry hurricane season but they're saying we'll get more rain in December.
Apparently it has started. ;)
Been damp here in the middle east-coast USA, too. I put up some lights today, Darlica!
Quote from: Pachyderm on November 25, 2009, 10:59:12 AM
Cold, wet, grey. It's just like Scotland... ::)
Apparently, I'm in Scotland as well, as you have, just described the weather over here..
Glad to see the "Export the Misery" Programme is up and running... ;D
Ayuh, but did ye have to export me a case of the trots as well? :P
must have attenuated a bit on shipment - the carpets are safe;)
As the Sirius Cybernetics Marketing Division says:
"Share and Enjoy..."
All I can say in response to that is to quote The Guide:
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, Marketing Division n. A bunch of mindless jerks who will be first against the wall, come the revolution.
Hello December! It's -25 C this morning, and quite possibly colder at the worksite.
Very mild here, today. Close to 60 F. But tomorrow we go back to freezing! Glad I got the fireplace cleaned out!
Mild weather my hairy butt, 82F plus humidity! Can we trade a bit with our northern siblings?
You need a hairy butt to keep it from freezing off, up here. I will admit that humidity is as formidable as wind chill in how the weather feels, but 82F doesn't sound so bad. You sure you're ready for -25C? ;)
28-30C sounds certainly wonderful if you're coming from -25C. I wouldn't be able to tell though, because the lowest I've experienced is -5C (which isn't so bad once you start moving).
-5 can be quite chilly if the humidity's high; past -10C the temperature tends to dehydrate the air to the point that humidity is not a major factor. -10C is cold enough to make you want to cover your extremities (hands, head, ears) unless it's sunny with no wind. It gets painful past -20C or so (and your toque, boots and gloves may prove insufficient). At -30C, it hurts to breathe and your nostril hairs freeze to each other.
Summary:
-10C = cold
-20C = damned cold
-30C = %#&@ing cold
-40C = don't leave the house
OTOH, we get very low humidity, so if you are bundled up and protected from the wind, it's bearable if you are working or walking.
Back home in the summers, 30 - 40C+ was not uncommon, although it's borderline desert in some places and the humidity is fairly low. 30C and high humidity is quite comfortable for me, although I sweat buckets - just give me lots of water and a handkerchief and I'm fine.
There's some talk of snow here tomorrow! :)
Hoho... we had plenty today. Would post pics but I drove 400 km in it and don't need to see more at the moment.
It's 9:50 a.m. here now, and we have at least an inch sticking all ready. Normally we don't see snow like this here* until the end of December.
*Central East Coast, USA
Here OTOH it has been warm enough for the 'tiels to sleep outside*. A week ago they were inside all day long.
*they are normally on the balcony which has a screen. If in the evening the temperature is forecasted to go below 72F they sleep inside in their cage and with us inside the house if the day is as cold/windy. The downside is that once temperatures go up again they want to be inside the house all the time.
-27C with ice fog this morning. :P
About +5, and rain, rain ,rain interspersed with some fog.
I might sound like an old fogey, but I can distinctly remember winters some years ago when we had snow and cold weather in december, whic is infinitely preferrable to this grey misery.
Give me some snow!!!!
About +5, and rain, rain ,rain interspersed with some fog
This is depressingly familiar...
5° F | -12° F
Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the evening. Lows around 13 below. North winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight. Wind chill readings 21 below to 31 below zero.
prediction for today: 8°C, cloudy but no rain (it still looks soaking wet outside though). Even in absence of wind the weather in the last days is purely aaaarrrrrgh! Wet and above zero often feels far worse than dry and far below.
G'arrrrrrgh! It's soggy and slushy and blughy outside here, today. Gonna get wicked cold tomorrow.
Oh my god. I seriously almost died yesterday. It was SO COLD!
Lovely crisp winter's day. Will probably piss down later.
Rain. mist, rain, mist, mist, rain....
Boooooooring!!!
Still, there are signs of a cold front finally coming in over Sweden, so perhaps we'll get some colder and nicer weather -or at least drier!
There was fog about 40 minutes ago, but now it's clear. The temps are decent in the morning although its quite humid (the fact I can't see the fog doesn't mean the water isn't there ;)).
Forecast: dry today, rain/snow mix to-morrow and temperatures around 0° (deadly combination*)
*eithe it should be clearly above or below. At 'around zero' one gets the worst of both plus slippery sidewalks and streets
Ow-yow cold here, today. But dry.
Quote from: Agujjim on December 04, 2009, 04:35:28 AM
Summary:
-10C = cold
-20C = damned cold
-30C = %#&@ing cold
-40C = don't leave the house
This reminds me of an old temperature/weather related joke:
HOW COLD IS IT?
An annotated thermometer
Fahrenheit / Celsius
+50 / +10
* New York tenants turn on the heat
* Minnesotans plant gardens
+40 / +4
* Californians shiver uncontrollably
* Minnesotans sunbathe
+35 / +2
* Italian cars don't start
+32 / 0
* Distilled water freezes
+30 / -1
* You can see your breath
* You plan a vacation in Florida
* Politicians begin to worry about the homeless
* Minnesotans eat ice cream
+25 / -4
* Boston water freezes
* Californians weep pitiably
* Cat insists on sleeping on your bed with you
+20 / -7
* Cleveland water freezes
* San Franciscans start thinking favorably of LA
* Green Bay Packers fans put on T-shirts
+15 / -10
* You plan a vacation in Acapulco
* Cat insists on sleeping in your bed with you
* Minnesotans go swimming
+10 / -12
* Politicians begin to talk about the homeless
* Too cold to snow
* You need jumper cables to get the car going
0 / -18
* New York landlords turn on the heat
* Sheboygan brats grilled on the patio, yum!
-5 / -21
* You can hear your breath
* You plan a vacation in Hawaii
-10 / -23
* American cars don't start
* Too cold to skate
-15 / -26
* You can cut your breath and use it to build an igloo
* Miamians cease to exist
* Minnesotans lick flagpoles
-20 / -29
* Cat insists on sleeping in your pajamas with you
* Politicians actually do something about the homeless
* People in LaCrosse think about taking down screens
-25 / -32
* Too cold to kiss
* You need jumper cables to get the driver going
* Japanese cars don't start
* Milwaukee Brewers head for spring training
-30 / -34
* You plan a two-week hot bath
* Pilsener freezes
* Bock beer production begins
* Minnesotans shovel snow off roof
-38 / -39
* Mercury freezes
* Too cold to think
* Minnesotans button top button
-40 / -40
* Californians disappear
* Car insists on sleeping in your bed with you
* Minnesotans put on sweaters
-50 / -46
* Congressional hot air freezes
* Alaskans close the bathroom window
* Green Bay Packers practice indoors
-60 / -51
* Walruses abandon Aleutians
* Sign on Mount St. Helens: "Closed for the Season"
* Minnesotans put gloves away, take out mittens
* Boy Scouts in Eau Claire start Klondike Derby
-70 / -57
* Glaciers in Central Park
* Hudson residents replace diving boards with hockey nets
* Green Bay snowmobilers organize trans-lake race to Sault Ste. Marie
-80 / -62
* Polar bears abandon Baffin Island
* Rhinelander Birkebeiner
* Girl Scouts in Eau Claire start Klondike Derby
-90 / -68
* Edge of Antarctica reaches Rio de Janeiro
* Lawyers chase ambulances for no more than 10 miles
* Wisconsinites migrate to Minnesota thinking it MUST be warmer
-100 / -73
* Santa Claus abandons North Pole
* Minnesotans pull down earflaps
-173 / -114
* Ethyl alcohol freezes
* Only Door County cherries usable in brandy Manhattans
-297 / -183
* Oxygen precipitates out of atmosphere
* Microbial life survives only on dairy products
-445 / -265
* Superconductivity
-452 / -269
* Helium becomes a liquid
-454 / -270
* Hell freezes over
-456 / -271
* Illinois drivers drop below 85 MPH on I-90
-458 / -272
* Incumbent politician renounces a campaign contribution
-460 / -273 (Absolute Zero)
* All atomic motion ceases
* Minnesotans allow as to how it's getting a mite nippy
:ROFL:
We have 0°C in Stockholm today and it has been said that the cold and the winter is finally coming...
I'm bored crazy with the perpetual greyness that is called winter these days. I want snow! Lots of it!
Twenty years ago the winters were mostly white here. The rain, fog, supercooled rain, we mostly have these days was called London weather... :-\
-29 C; feels like -39 C if you count the windchill factor.
It has been snowing lightly but regularly for the past couple of days, but since the cold doubled down today there's only some ice crystals in the air from any moisture giving up and dying. My SIL asked me if this was Russia, because some areas of the province are hovering around -35 C with windchills dipping below -50 C. I told her yes it was - she said we need some vodka in that case. ;D
I'll wager we get a chinook through here about December 20ish and a green Christmas as usual - maybe even +10 weather and an opportunity to wear shorts on Christmas Day (I'll be on the other side of the Rockies, hoping for a bit of snow on the ground).
Yesterday, we finally had temperatures below freezing, and some snow in the evening. :)
Unfortunately, it's gotten warmer today, and the snow has now mostly gone. :-[
Still, it's a start!
Chances for white christmas set at 50/50 currently.
Yesterday some puddles were frozen, others were not. Some of those right next to each other.
-30 C and clear this morning. Supposed to warm up to a barmy -22 by this afternoon. ::)
Must be a chinook on the way - they are forecasting +4 C by Wednesday.
The salmon or the chopper?
--
Generally 'balmy' here, with 84F (feel like 89F due to the humidity) expected later in the day.
:hot-here:
The wind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind
and -22C is still barmy cold. ;)
Finally, things are moving in the right direction over here!
A few degrees below zero, alight coverign of snow, and the promise of more on the way. Ahhh! :rockon:
I like snow, too.
Here we had frozen fog this morning, which delayed schools opening. It'll be rather mild the next couple of days.
OK, I'll consider myself lucky to be in Calgary - Edmonton (capital city, 300 km north) was the coldest place on earth at one point on Saturday night! -46C is TOO cold.
Good that I haven't been there in the last 30 years ;)
Super mild today, here- in the 50 F's. Tomorrow we pay for this.
All the rain cleaned up the air and it's incredibly beautiful today, even if it's kinda chilly. Need to check to see if it'll frost tonight--my poor lemon tree has been taking a beating.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on December 15, 2009, 06:10:19 PM
Super mild today, here- in the 50 F's. Tomorrow we pay for this.
Us too; -6C (at night!) and aiming to hit 0 tomorrow.
36°C here today. At least it didn't go to the 39°C they forecast...
It went below zero this night and forecast is that it will stay there for the time being. There has been a wee bit of snow and maybe (just maybe) there will be more of it in the next few days.
Cold as a witch's teat... if'n that particular teat is in the mid-20's F.
Actually, most've the witches Oi've met are rather hot-blooded.
Lovely weather for outdoor work - probably somewhere around -5C today? Cold enough that it doesn't get sloppy, warm enough to sample in nitrile without losing fingers.
21°C today, had about 9 mm of rain in my guage overnight, expecting more over the weekend.
First snow yesterday. Rooves slightly decorated first thing, followed later by small shower at just the moment I went outside. Now I realise why we have windows.
Light snowing (taking a pause currently). But forecasts don't look good, there is a 'good' chance of Christmas thawing.
We still have snow, lots of it (by Stockholm measures). Yesterday the traffic; trains, buses, and the roads in general, more or less collapsed during a 10 hour massive snow fall.
All roads are cleared by now but not the side walks so warm and water resistant footwear is recommended. ;D
Questions:
1) What do call the machine that clear roads from snow in English? Plough?
2) What do yo call the embankment like string of snow by the side of the road that is the result of the activity mentioned above?
1) Snowplow (Plow is ok)
2) Snowbank
That's the Canuckistani version, eh? Other parts of the world may be different (what's the Aussie version? ;)).
Blue, glad to hear you're getting some cool temperatures and rain, no more big fires this year please!
We are expecting 6-12 inches of snow tonight, here. Hopefully we'll be seeing and hearing the snowplows making snowbanks all night.
Rain
and rain
and more rain
(have we moved to Australia while I was sleeping?)
We evaded the snow that is blanketing other parts of the UK. Just a light sprinkling.
Thank you Aggi! :)
It is the situations when one run into words or concepts that are so well known that you take them for granted in the first language but unknown and hard to find a proper translation for in the second language that makes one realise that the second language really is a second language... :-\
-9°C cloudy but no more snow at the moment. Much fun will be had tomorrow as I have to shovel through a 40cm high and 60cm wide snowbank in order to move the car and park it at another street, as Monday is plowing day where I usually park (and I plan to be lazy on Sunday ;D)...
I love snow but I don't particularly like this part...
:mrgreen:
Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 18, 2009, 05:07:59 PM
We evaded the snow that is blanketing other parts of the UK. Just a light sprinkling.
Bleh, some of us crawled to and from work at 20MPH through 4" snow on the way in and 1" Ice on the way back. (Yeah, I know ice less than 2ft thick is called "Summer" in Canuckistan...).
And the correct spelling is "snowplough" ;)
I never crawl anywhere. My grand-daughter, on the other hand, has just learnt how.
Quote from: beagle on December 18, 2009, 08:52:58 PM
Bleh, some of us crawled to and from work at 20MPH through 4" snow on the way in and 1" Ice on the way back. (Yeah, I know ice less than 2ft thick is called "Summer" in Canuckistan...).
And the correct spelling is "snowplough" ;)
No, that's called "Stampede" in Calgary (only 2 seasons - winter and Stampede - as the Bluette is to find out). ;)
20 MPH is actually not bad - I was moving at 5 kph during one of the first big snowstorms out here (had to pick up samples at the west edge of the city).
In Canadian usage ploughs are for turning up dirt, plows move snow. As usual, we are nestled between the UK and the US on this particular spelling.
Temperature has dropped below -10°C but the infamous Xmas thaw is already announced
Finally getting cooler, 60F/16C felling like 56F/14C due to wind and expected to reach 74F/22C at some point but with the same cool wind. Now the birds will likely have to be inside all day long.
Over here, the world has turned white.
About -7 and very heavy snowfall for the last week or so. The first few days were a merry chaos on the railways, with tracks covered in thigh-deep snow, but now that most of the stuff has been cleared away, things are moving again. Right now, it is snowing so much that we can hardly see the house across the street.
I hope we will get a wee bit more snow but it seems unlikely. There's possibly be even rain next week. At close to zero that will make walking outside 'interesting'.
Quote from: Lindorm on December 20, 2009, 10:56:50 AM
Over here, the world has turned white.
About -7 and very heavy snowfall for the last week or so. The first few days were a merry chaos on the railways, with tracks covered in thigh-deep snow, but now that most of the stuff has been cleared away, things are moving again. Right now, it is snowing so much that we can hardly see the house across the street.
Merry Chaos to you too - and a Happy New Year! :mrgreen: ;)
Dropping back to reasonably cold temperatures (-10 ish) after a brief respite. Friday night, it was +8C and a jacket was not required. Current forecast suggests Calgary will get a bit more snow, and then a sunny but white Christmas (of course, the forecast here is useless more than 24 hours in advance).
Heading back home this morning; looks to be rather close to zero with chance of rain, so it may be a green Christmas there (mom and dad are close to the lake, which usually keeps things on the warm side). Last 2 years have been nice and snowy, was hoping for a 3rd.
We got snow! Here's a photo of my round picnic table, looking rather like an alien pod rising up from some sort of ventricular portal.
(The marker stuck in it read 18 inches.)
Quote from: Agujjim on December 18, 2009, 01:33:24 PM
1) Snowplow (Plow is ok)
2) Snowbank
That's the Canuckistani version, eh? Other parts of the world may be different (what's the Aussie version? ;)).
1)Stump jump plough (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump-jump_plough)
2)Hey! What's all that funny white stuff doing on the side of the road there?
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Blue, glad to hear you're getting some cool temperatures and rain, no more big fires this year please!
Yaeh, well we've had a bit of relief the last couple of weeks, but it looks like it's going to hot up again soon. There's been a lot of growth over the winter/spring months and all it will take is a few hot days and some strong hot northerly winds and the whole place could be alight again. There have already been a few bushfires around the place. We're all keeping our fingers crossed.
-10 and more snow this morning.
I feel for poor Darlica who has to walk up and down a station that is infamous for being one of the worst wind tunnels on the network. My time outside will come later this evening and night, so I am digging out the thermal underwear now.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on December 20, 2009, 07:25:40 PM
We got snow! Here's a photo of my round picnic table, looking rather like an alien pod rising up from some sort of ventricular portal.
(The marker stuck in it read 18 inches.)
You could have fooled me there. That looks exactly like the view from the house/hut in Norway we went to for many a happy year. In that case it was an old (lower) millstone.
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Temperatures racing upwards around here, up to +5°C announced for to-morrow and maybe even rain. I hope there is enough snow already that the rain can't wash it all away. With nightly drops to zero even my safety work shoes will go a-slippin' I fear.
We be 'avvin arrrghselves a Whyte Christmas.
Thee blizzardy koinda whyte.
Temperatures stay clearly above zero and the rain has washed away the snow with only traces left. No change in sight.
There was a storm last night.
Rainy, sloppy yucky here, too. Lotsa ice damming and flooding. I would have preferred more snow.
Not hackshooly my suburb, but close enuff.
...we *hatesessss* thee sssssnowsss, precioussssss...
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Wuff! May I rescind my previous statement?
Sunny today, in the 40 F's.
50s & 60s in Orlando with very little rain.
Warmer, then colder, snow gone.
Not much changed. Looks rainy.
I guess Santa has to switch to raindeers sooner or later.
Lovely day today, sunny and about 26°C. It's going to warm up later this week, expecting 35°C (about 98°F) on Thursday.
Blue skies and sparkling frost.
Windy and clear and cold! Snow expected again this weekend.
Wanna be in Blue's pocket!
A bit warmer in South FL @ about 70F/21C. 200 miles translate to 10F - 15F (5C- 8C) difference in temperature (compared to Orlando). :o
Touching zero but currently dry
High in the 30's F and the winds have calmed down, thank goodness. Expecting icy rain tomorrow...boo!
Overcast, snowy and -18C today. Going to get out for a stroll later, I think, before it drops below -20. ;)
Since yesterday thick snow with weather forecasts that promise it to be lasting for at least a few days this time :YaY:
-7°C and they have promised more snow during the weekend. Chaos and hilarity ensued. ;)
For being a city situated as far North as Stockholm is the preparedness for snow is ridiculously low, of cause mostly due to the City wanting to save money during "green" winters... This means that when the snow does start to fall it will take quite a time before the roads are cleared. And even longer before smaller streets, side walks and parking lots are clear, or mostly clear, the snow has to go somewhere, and the number of available parking spaces goes down for every time they clear the roads... ::)
Still a white winter is so much nicer than a grey one! :)
Snow, wonderful snow!
Unseasonally hot these past days but with the t(h)reat of a cooler wave during the week. We're leaving for Saint Augustine 300 miles/500 km north so it will be even cooler (30s to 50sF/0 to 10sC). :D
The weeks around christmas were really cold, with heavy snowfall. Then, just before new year's, we had two or three days of temperatures around zero or even slightly above freezing, with a few squalls of rain. And then, the cold came back with a vengeance, and some more snow.
Now, all the snow from before christmas had compacted alot during the days of milder temperatures and rain. And when the cold came back, it all froze to solid blocks of ice. Guess how much snow clearign was done on sidings and industrial tracks over the christmas holidays? Guess how fun it was trying to get a railway service going again? There were several places were we simply could not do any shunting until the tracks were cleared. Bonus points went to the infrastructure owner who cleared all the roads in their industrial park, and then had the snow dumped on the tracks... ::)
The Deutsche Bahn also complains that their trains were not built for 'Siberian conditions' and that noone should blame them for their failure. Siberian conditions? Deutsche Bahn bets on climate change sound more like it.
But there are -20°C announced for Tueday night (currently only slightly below zero).
Beautiful day in Saint Augustine, FL, sunny, dry and cool, about 10-12C by my reconning.
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 02, 2010, 10:40:27 AM
The Deutsche Bahn also complains that their trains were not built for 'Siberian conditions' and that noone should blame them for their failure. Siberian conditions? Deutsche Bahn bets on climate change sound more like it.
But there are -20°C announced for Tueday night (currently only slightly below zero).
Oh, our trains ran just fine, the problem was that we had no tracks to run them on. ::)
But I suspect that the IPO:ed-any-year-now Mehdorn et Cie are looking for just about any excuse, and have been so for quite a few years now. After all, it wouldn't do to admit that the fact that some 120 factory-new trains are out of service due to DB not bothering to supply the regulatory agencies with required technical documentation, would it? :devil2:
Heavy snow forecast for two days time. But will it actually arrive?
Quote from: Griffin NoName on January 03, 2010, 03:45:20 PM
Heavy snow forecast for two days time. But will it actually arrive?
They were saying it would warm up Tuesday until a couple of days ago, now they're saying bitterly cold with heavy snow for ten days. "Barbecue summer", "mild winter", why don't they admit they haven't a clue?
Quote from: beagle on January 03, 2010, 08:16:35 PM
why don't they admit they haven't a clue?
that would defeat a national pastime. sad.
Quote from: Lindorm on January 03, 2010, 09:55:35 AM
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 02, 2010, 10:40:27 AM
The Deutsche Bahn also complains that their trains were not built for 'Siberian conditions' and that noone should blame them for their failure. Siberian conditions? Deutsche Bahn bets on climate change sound more like it.
But there are -20°C announced for Tueday night (currently only slightly below zero).
Oh, our trains ran just fine, the problem was that we had no tracks to run them on. ::)
But I suspect that the IPO:ed-any-year-now Mehdorn et Cie are looking for just about any excuse, and have been so for quite a few years now. After all, it wouldn't do to admit that the fact that some 120 factory-new trains are out of service due to DB not bothering to supply the regulatory agencies with required technical documentation, would it? :devil2:
Not to forget not spending the necessary amounts of money on maintenance. It is expected to take another 3 years(!) to get the Berlin S-Bahn (cashcow of the DB) back to normal service as a result.
I hope the Berlin-Dessau trains are not too much affected for my vacation ends next Monday. Construction work between Dessau and Roßlau will cost me ten minutes daily extra in any case.
Back to actual topic: Snow seems to have intention to stay for some time although there is not much new snow.
We still have snowbanks here from two weeks ago. They need freshening up.
We're in the 20 F degrees but the 30 MPH winds are what really bite ya.
Snowy fog, fog, and more fog, despite it being too cold to allow much moisture in the aire...
Gonna be cold in the field tomorrow... -31C there tonight with a high of -23C tomorrow. Good thing I have winter Nomex (stops freezing to death and burning to death at the same time ;)) and can duck in the truck to warm up once in a while.
Same site I was sick-as-a-dog at about a month ago, and probably will be sick-as-a-dog again tomorrow (cursed, I tell ya!); at least this time the discharge (or lack thereof) is from the sinuses / lungs and I'll be able to eat more than two bottles of ginger ale and bismuth subsalicylate*. Oh, and probably a reasonable 12 to 14 hour workday instead of the 19-hr monstrosity in December (flew up and back, with flight delays on both ends; this time I drove and will be staying locally so no extreme temporal pressure).
*damn, forgot to pack the roast duck leftovers. Gonna be Subway and pseudoephedrine I suppose... :P
Lovely sunny day today, not too hot, about 28°C (82°F). Tomorrow more of the same, only warming up a bit. Heading for high 30s (about 100°F) by Friday.
No snow - yet.
Cold, clear weather, with lots and lots and lots of snow. -17 or so here in the inner urban areas, -20 or so in the countryside outside Stockholm and inland Sweden is getting even colder. Certain areas of the provinces of Dalarna and Hälsingland had temperatures of -44 the night between monday and tuesday, and similar temperatures are expected to continue for at least a few more weeks. Working outside is a rather brisk and bracing activity!
Ayuh.... wasn't bad with the sun up today, but mah truck was displaying -32C by the time I left the site. The radio weatherperson said lows of -34 tonight.
'It will probably snow to-morrow' they tell us for about a week now.
At least the snow already here shows no indication of leaving soon.
Light smattering of snow, white gardens and pavements, road gritted nicely.
The wind here has stayed up for days. It is quite tedious. When it gets like this, I think of the Mistral- nonstop winds that make some people go nuts. It is mildly stressful to hear the wind howl 24 hours a day for days on end. It's like waiting for the other shoe to drop- but in this case, it's waiting for a tree limb to come crashing down somewhere.
I'll be glad when it calms down.
Road has now disappeared under heavy snowstorm. Have discovered my parents have gone out in it, disobeying the govt. weather alerts. People in their late 80's with health and mobility problems should know better.
We got off lightly today. The moderate amount of snow being more than offset by the lower traffic volume due to the threat of snow.
We now have a respectable amount of snow. Maybe an inch. It snowed hard in short bursts, no staying power. The problem is melting snow now freezing into ice. No, that's not it. The problem is the government taking control of gritting. Even weather has to turn politicial. Mind, GB nearly slipped over in parliament today in another failed coup. I hope they gritted his teeth.
Bah, hotel connection ate my post (re: UK weather, they're reporting on it and playing soundbites from the locals on the CBC).
-35C at the work site this morning; I mostly huddled in the truck. The heater was barely effective until the sun was well up. Probably warmed up to -25 or so in the afternoon and felt quite lovely by comparison.
16 extra inches of snow announced for the weekend. I will believe it when I see it.
But I guess that it is true because it will cause even more havoc as far as the Deutsche Bahn is concerned and that would be espcially 'fitting' since my vacation ends on Monday and I have to travel the usual 2 hours by train to work.
Ooh, it's warm! Might have got up to -15 today. ;)
It was darn tootin cold, here.
May I borrow a cup of your heatwave, Lindorm & Darlica? :cup:
-9C here on the way in. That's cold by Cambridgeshire standards.
Quote from: pieces o nine on January 08, 2010, 07:06:30 AM
It was darn tootin cold, here.
*checks the weather for random SD locations*
:o
Yup, that's proper prairie cold, same as up here. Stay warm! Looks like next week should be better.
Getting warmer here (above 70F/20C) but tomorrow back to our general programming with subzero C in the late night/early morning.
It's -14°C at the moment, this morning it was just -11°C but windy so I nearly froze my butt of at work (the uniform ain't made for Swedish winter conditions >:( )
I don't look forward much to Monday when they have promised around -20°C... Well if it wasn't for the fact that I had to stand on that wind-tunnel of a platform for 4 hours in a uniform that %&#¤!!! cold I wouldn't mind, I know how to dress for cold conditions left to my own devices... ::)
Quote from: Darlica on January 08, 2010, 05:43:43 PM
It's -14°C at the moment, this morning it was just -11°C but windy so I nearly froze my butt of at work (the uniform ain't made for Swedish winter conditions >:( )
I don't look forward much to Monday when they have promised around -20°C... Well if it wasn't for the fact that I had to stand on that wind-tunnel of a platform for 4 hours in a uniform that %&#¤!!! cold I wouldn't mind, I know how to dress for cold conditions left to my own devices... ::)
Order a larger size uniform so you can increase the layers underneath. I swear by wearing three lots of trousers.
mmmm likewise boots - I buy a size larger so I can put fat woolly soles inside.
Quote from: Griffin NoName
mmmm likewise boots - I buy a size larger so I can put fat woolly soles inside.
Don't that mayke ye flounder around?
Quote from: pieces o nine on January 08, 2010, 06:27:53 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName
mmmm likewise boots - I buy a size larger so I can put fat woolly soles inside.
Don't that mayke ye flounder around?
No they just make my footprints larger which means they would be looking for the wrong person in the murder mystery. ;D
Quote from: Griffin NoName on January 08, 2010, 06:22:46 PM
Quote from: Darlica on January 08, 2010, 05:43:43 PM
It's -14°C at the moment, this morning it was just -11°C but windy so I nearly froze my butt of at work (the uniform ain't made for Swedish winter conditions >:( )
I don't look forward much to Monday when they have promised around -20°C... Well if it wasn't for the fact that I had to stand on that wind-tunnel of a platform for 4 hours in a uniform that %&#¤!!! cold I wouldn't mind, I know how to dress for cold conditions left to my own devices... ::)
Order a larger size uniform so you can increase the layers underneath. I swear by wearing three lots of trousers.
mmmm likewise boots - I buy a size larger so I can put fat woolly soles inside.
My uniform isn't too tight and I wear 2 layers of special underwear under it... The thing is around here when you have a work that requires a uniform that uniform is supposed to cover your clothing needs at work... I don't know how much money L and I have spent to keep me warm this winter! The Lining in the jacket is worthless, so is the fabric in the trousers, it blows right trough them and I've worn-out two pairs in two and a half month!
My feet are warm and cosy 'cause I've chosen my boots my self. ;D
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 07, 2010, 08:05:08 AM
16 extra inches of snow announced for the weekend. I will believe it when I see it.
But I guess that it is true because it will cause even more havoc as far as the Deutsche Bahn is concerned and that would be espcially 'fitting' since my vacation ends on Monday and I have to travel the usual 2 hours by train to work.
The BBC are reporting (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8448095.stm) on it. Who said the English have no sense of schadenfreude?
I heartily recommend wool pants as an under layer - I have a rather tight pair that fits under my jeans for work. They are readily available for hunters around here, although I seem to recall that mine might have been Russian army surplus (and were certainly larger, but have shrunk).
If I'd believe the papers instead of my lying eyes then there'd be a raging blizzard outside.
Pure alibi snowing and the wind seems not to be very strong either.
The Beeb are saying a foot of snow (30cm) in Berlin now. But they're probably quoting the German papers ;) .
Was 3 degrees with strong wind today here, so started melting, but back to cold now.
Came late to work by about half an hour. Luckily we have flextime. In parts of North Eastern Germany transport (both public and private) has completely broken down and schools are closed today.
I read there is snow in Florida too.
GLOBAL WARMING IS TEH LIEZ!!! :mrgreen:
Seriously, this is NOT the winter we needed after Climategate. ;)
Really warm today - currently -4c and might hit zero. Tomorrow's forecast calls for 90% chance of getting 5-10 cm of ice pellets. :P
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 11, 2010, 10:43:41 AM
I read there is snow in Florida too.
There was a bit of snow in Orlando, more like frost than real snow, but that is big news here in FL. Windchill below freezing now and in the evening at around 0C/32F with windchill below -5C and -10C. How do I know? I had to take my uncle and family to the airport at 3 AM...
mmmmmelting
43°C (109°F) yesterday, was 33°C (91°F) at 6 AM this morning, going for 40°C (104°F) today before a much awaited cool change.
There has been a total fire ban since yesterday and critical fire danger in various parts of the state yesterday and today. So far we have escaped without any major blazes, just hoping we can keep it that way.
I look at all the reports of snow and ice I see on the TV and even here, and I think that there might be some attraction to it. At least it is possible to keep warm with appropriate clothing when its cold. There is only so much you can take off when its hot and even if you were to run around starkers you will still be too hot. All I can say is when sleeping thank (insert deity/concept of your choice) for ceiling fans!
Hey there Blue, I was wondering about you and the family down under with the reports of fires we've been hearing. Glad you're okay.
We're freezing our toesies off still. But temps are expected to go above freezing about mid-week, thank the Great Everything.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on January 11, 2010, 09:42:01 PM
Hey there Blue, I was wondering about you and the family down under with the reports of fires we've been hearing. Glad you're okay.
We're freezing our toesies off still. But temps are expected to go above freezing about mid-week, thank the Great Everything.
LOL! I think on the balance of things I'll stick to the hot weather. It really only hits us for a few days a year, whereas you can probably rely on a month or two (or more) of cold weather whether it snows or not.
As for the fire, so far there have not been any near us - there were some in Western Australia - that's like worrying about something in California if you live in Manhatten. There have been fires in New South Wales, but even those have been the best part of a thousand kilometres away. Hardly a risk here. I have some family in NSW, but they were not near the fires either. Nevertheless we have our own risks here. I spent some time on the phone yesterday and today to my local council talking to them about an area of bush just behind the houses on the other side ofthe road to me. This is a strip of land, maybe 10 acres or so planted as a reserve between my housing estate and the Lilydale Lake reserve. The council has done precisly zero mainenance in this area sinc we built our house here about 8 years ago and it is very over grown with tall dry grasses, dead trees and shrubs both standing and fallen over. The coucil says that they have assessed it and according to their rules it is OK so long as they have cleared it to a distance of 20 metres from people's houses. What a load of rubbish. If some dimwit were to light a fire in there, the embers would pose a serious threat to all the houses nearby, certainly within 200-300 metres which includes my house (the distiance would be less than 50 m to my place). The council officer I spoke to said he would arrange a meeting with the local CFA (Country Fire Authority) rep and re-assess the situation and let me know the result. I wait with bated breath. After they tell me it is all right, as no doubt they will, I will start making a bit of a noise about it. I think I'll start off with a local residents petition and then a letter to the editor campaign in the local rag. If nothing else this will ensure that the council will not have a leg to stand on if that dimwit does cause a fire and there is any property damage. In that case if we can prove that the council was warned and failed to act they leave themselves open to a liability suit. Not what I want to happen, but perhaps a stick to use if necessary.
Anyway, time to climb down off mysoapbox! :mrgreen:
How likely is for you and your neighbors to organize and do some cleanup yourselves? Not that the council shouldn't do it, but if your house is at stake what other options do you have?
If we went in there and cut anything we would be prosecuted for it. The council has us in a no win situation. The same council prosecuted one resident in the more rural parts of the Shire and fined him $10,000 for clearing vegetation from 40 metres around his house - on his own land - for fire risk management purposes. The council seems to be beholden to a cotery of extremists who do not want to cut any vegetation no matter what the risks. So going into the reserve would be asking for it. Frankly all we can do is try to agitate to get the council to clean it up and to make sure our insurance is up to date, and also keep records of our attempts to get them to do it so that in the event that the worst happens they will be caught by their duty of care. Really not a satisfactory way to have to go about it, but there you go.
Is there a way to get an independent assessment? (I dunno how expensive something like that would be though).
I do in part understand how allowing people to clean could be a highway to deforest but there has to be a balance.
I'm sorry things got to the point of document and prepare for the worst. :-[
Stockholm has been all dressed up in white lace today, as frost has covered every tree, fence, wire, antenna and all other unheated surfaces in the city. Spectacular, especially as the it was all glittering in sunlight for a few hours!
:D
Some days this city is really pretty!
Same here Darlica. Exquisite frosted trees. Took my breath away. Had to take some photos from my window.
Sea change this morning. 7AM dense fog, 0C so much black ice car traction control warning light flickering away, 9AM heavy rain 3C all the snow and ice gone. Yay! The Atlantic weather is back.
For now.
Started snowing when I was coming back from grabbing take-out (still hotel-bound), probably will be slippery tomorrow. Temperature has been reasonable for the past week or so (anywhere from -2 to -20, biased to the cold side a bit).
6 degrees and all snow gone. As Beagle says, back to norrmal.
We are up for 9 degrees tomorrow. Warm even.
Snow changing slowly to snow rain announced for to-morrow with temperatures going above zero duirng the day and below during the night. I expect chaos.
We had the same here (freezing rain, turned to snow). Roads were not pretty. I got passed by pickup trucks going >100 km/h several times on the way to and from the site. ::)
Had a bit of a near miss on the way up here driving straight ahead on apparently dry roads (but bloody cold, so it was invisible ice), and have been driving 20 under the limit in 4wd ever since. Saved it easily enough, but was thankful there was no traffic in the oncoming lane.
Looks like gliding to work
We'll be gliding here, too. Ice expected here tonight. Our "Nunsense" rehearsal got cancelled. Nothing sadder than a bunch of dead pseudonuns skidding all over the road.
Rain, rain, rain.
It got cold again but without really noticable new snow.
And this is the 16th day with the sun not showing around here (the previous record being 12 days in iirc 1964)
The ice canceled school for today. It's pretty cold and sloppy now, but tomorrow we hope to be a bit milder.
Fogs across the province for the last few days, with hoar frost on all the trees. Quite pretty, a bit of a pain to drive in.
It's rained since Sunday. I think it's petering off finally.
Rain/fog mornings. Sunny afternoons.
Yaay!
Temperatures are dropping and the sun is shining again
We had a very mild weekend, but now it's snowing, again!
In the double digits freezing cold. For Thursday slight thawing in combination with snow is announced. Another excuse for the railway corp. for the still rampant chaos.
Last night they were predicting zero to 2 inches of snow here today. This morning it's been changed to 3-6 inches. What next?!
We had a little snow again. It's mostly gone now, but the wind is dead north and pretty cold, so we couls have more any time. :'(
We had about four inches of powder yesterday. Very slick to drive on, but easy to sweep! I just went out and pushed it off our gravel driveway with a wide janitor's broom.
Stockholm today: close to 0°C, it came almost 15 cm of snow yesterday and more is on the way.
It's has been something of a record breaking winter here so far, as it has been cold for a longer period than usual the last 20 years.
It also means that all the snow that has fallen since late December (which isn't extremely much but still a fair amount) still is laying about, and our streets are still a terrible mess... ::)
The snow that everybody wanted a month a go is now the No.1 whining subject amongst people taking the Underground to work in the mornings, most kids seems happy about it though. :D
Personally I prefer this kind of winter (as tedious as it might be to dig out the car from a snowbank at least twice a week), to mild winters with a few °C over freezing, damp sticky air, and supercooled rain...
I just wish I owned a pair of cross-country skies, as that would be the easiest way to get to the underground station without slipping and falling. ::) ;D
D -embracing her inner child :D
I agree, D... some years winter here is just kinda cold an gray, but it has really seemed like winter here this year, because of the persistence of the snow.
Temperatures dancing around zero with occasional snow. Feels rather mild. The problem is that many sidewalks and ways are now covered with hard ice. Where it is even there is danger of slipping and falling down, where it is uneven the danger is ankle-twisting. Fresh snow, even powdery, gives a bit of a grip, so I'd actually prefer to leave a thin layer of it where there is ice.
Just plain blooming miserable here! Cold, damp and threats of more snow, just as the last lot has gone. Send us some air tickets, Bluenose!
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 02, 2010, 08:46:10 AM
Temperatures dancing around zero with occasional snow. Feels rather mild. The problem is that many sidewalks and ways are now covered with hard ice. Where it is even there is danger of slipping and falling down, where it is uneven the danger is ankle-twisting. Fresh snow, even powdery, gives a bit of a grip, so I'd actually prefer to leave a thin layer of it where there is ice.
Very similar here, temperature-wise, though the snow has slowed down as it's warmed up.
I would contend that a skiff of powder over ice makes things even worse. Glue some rocksalt to your bootsoles, it works a treat. ;)
More snow expected today and even more on Friday. If we ever get a "Nunsense" choreography rehearsal in before the show, I'll eat my wimple!
Quote from: Agujjim on February 02, 2010, 03:59:05 PM
I would contend that a skiff of powder over ice makes things even worse. Glue some rocksalt to your bootsoles, it works a treat. ;)
There is an extrem shortage of salt for that purpose at the moment. The mines can't dig up enough to keep up with the demand and the stored reserves are depleted. Even some highways cannot be treated currently.
Ayuh, but surely you have water softeners? A few smallish lumps from a bag of water softener salt would be more than adequate, and would last long enough to be worth the hassle - perhaps wire it in place rather than using glue (which would not hold dissolving salt). Even though the original suggestion was facetious. ;)
Chilly (-8) and foggy this morning.
Our trace to 2" prediction for last night turned up four inches of snow today. Lots more predicted for this weekend.
To get around her safely glacier walking/climbing equipment seems necessary. Could someone lend me a pickaxe or a flamethrower to create a safe pathway from here to the railway station?
Pickaxe, yes; flamethrower.... we'll talk. ;)
Foggy and humid around here lately, with spectacular hoar frost over everything.
We got two feet of snow here this past weekend and are expecting more tomorrow.
It's absolutely beautiful here. It took Mr. Ops and I on and off Saturday and Sunday to dig out our driveway- where do you throw the snow when the drifts are taller than you? But I'll tell ya- I feel like I did the equivalent of about 500 situps- I feels da burn, and it feels good!
Managed to snow for exactly the hour I walked to Tesco. More serious stuff hinted at for Thursday/Friday, but not U.S. levels...
Hang in there Ops...! That's some serious snow.
maybe this thread has spread Canadian weather to all nations as promised?
Wouldn't mind some proper weather, either baking hot or totally frozen, but this "temperate" nonsense is getting wearing..
Quote from: Agujjim on February 08, 2010, 02:28:55 PM
Pickaxe, yes; flamethrower.... we'll talk. ;)
From what Swato has told us about himself, I think the pickaxe may be the more dangerous ;)
Snowing here. Temp. around zero. Feelsmuch colder.
I thought we weren't supposed to get snow til later in the week. We were scheduled rain. Presumably we all watch the forecasts in case they are right, sort of random TV generator, because I cannot think of any other reason to bother.
Snow, cold, more snow, followed by some milder weather so that everything turns to ice and packs itself nice and solid, followed by more snow. What really bugs me is those spells of milder weather -as long as it stays cold, it stays dry and the snow stays airy and light. I most empathically do not like gluey concrete snow. My latest overtime report filled three A4-size sheets...
It's snowing and unlike the last time it makes the ice on the sidewalks more slippery (last time it worked like grit)
Just above zero with a strong breeze, so chilly. But quite a lot of sunshine.
We have 50 mile an hour winds and are working on our third foot of snow, here. So far we still have power, so we're staying warm. Blizzard warning here in effect for the next eight hours. We're hunkered down.
Aaaaannnd... even more snow!
It's coming down again here, too. But hopefully it won't be as much as the last two times.
Sunny and warm here.
Yesterday's snow was minimal, thank goodness! Today we may make it up to 36 degrees F.
Very heavy snowfall during the weekend - 40-50cm of snow in just a few hours in some places of middle Sweden. This was then followed by a front of very cold air, with temperatures of -25 degrees. As a result, large parts of the country ended up in chaos. Motorways closed due to snow drifts, overloaded roofs on large buildings caved in, large parts of the railway network shut down (as in NO trains whatsoever between Stockholm and Göteborg since saturday evening, for example), local and long distance bus services cancelled, sea ports closed due to ice drifts and so on... And our beloved minister of infrastructure sits in TV and blames everything on the former government, of course. >:(
Now it's seriously thawing. I consider a to acquire a flat-bottomed boat to get around until the icy lakes on the sidewalks have disappeared
Quote from: Lindorm on February 22, 2010, 11:23:13 AM
Very heavy snowfall during the weekend - 40-50cm of snow in just a few hours in some places of middle Sweden. This was then followed by a front of very cold air, with temperatures of -25 degrees. As a result, large parts of the country ended up in chaos. Motorways closed due to snow drifts, overloaded roofs on large buildings caved in, large parts of the railway network shut down (as in NO trains whatsoever between Stockholm and Göteborg since saturday evening, for example), local and long distance bus services cancelled, sea ports closed due to ice drifts and so on... And our beloved minister of infrastructure sits in TV and blames everything on the former government, of course. >:(
That's amazing to us Brits. We always believe countries like Sweden and Canada are all geared up for any amount of snow and cope automatically. We think it's only the UK that gets caught out.
There's still such a thing as too much, even here. The recent warm weather may be helping, but we had such a run of cold weather and snow that the City finally relented and announced they'd plow residential streets where the ruts were deeper than 17 cm (typically we get snowfall, extreme cold, then a chinook to blow things out, so there's plenty of snow-free days even when it's -30C).
There are also plenty of idiot drivers who simply refuse to drive like they are in winter conditions, and get themselves into heaps of trouble after any snowfall.
50 cm of snow in a single dump is too much anywhere except the ski hill.
Ook.
I've been watching the Olympics and wishing we were up in Vancouver where it looks lovely.
Rain is expected here today. RAIN! If there wasn't still so much snow on the ground I'd go out and dance in it.
Guess what?
It's snowing again....
They're talking about snow here tomorrow, too. Just when we're seeing the daffodil tops! GARRRRR!
It's raining. For like the third week straight. I am starting to hate rain even more. *shakes fist in rage at El Nino*
You can blame El Niño for the cold snap in the eastern US that 'proves' that there is no global warming. ::)
But it's about to end and now the people following hurricanes say that we may have a 'funny' season this year. :-X
Oh no, that kind of funny doesn't sound fun at all. I hope they're wrong.
The snow missed us! Woohoo! But it is very cold and windy. I am hoping that this is March coming in like a lion.
We finally have some warmer weather, today it was +6°C at the most and the snow is slowly melting away.
I thought I'd post some pictures I took in late February when we had a three day snow weather that halted most of Scandinavia. These are taken at my mothers where I was more or less stranded for a week due to a bad cold and the snow.
I haven't seen a winter like this since I was a little kid.
Sunny and shorts weather (10 C) every day for the past week or two. Haven't actually got the shorts out but t-shirt and jeans has been fine for the afternoons.
Had a bit of a wild weekend weather wise. I was working in the city on Saturday when this massive storm came over. It literally turned day into night, it wasn't just dark, it was pitch black. There were hail stones the size of a man's fist. Flooding in the main streets of Melbourne. Our brand new (and IMHO incredibly ugly) Southern Cross railway station had entire sections of its roof collapse. Chaos on the public transport system. All very exciting. At home we only got about 23 mm of rain (just under an inch) and the following day we had 33 mm, although spread out over the course of the day. Quite a lot of damage done to various places accross the state. I mean, we can use the rain, but surely its not too much to ask that it be spread out a bit?
In Dessau lots of snow came down over the weekend (not so in Berlin) and it became cold again (in both places).
After some nice spring weather over Easter, with almost all snow gone from the ground and flowers starting to peek out, I woke up this morning to find a blanket of heavy wet snow covering the ground, and more snow mixed with rain pouring down. Guess who has a shunting duty today and will have to work outside for ten hours? :-\
Somebody pass me the flamethrower -I am heartily tired of snow by now.
No snow here... March was the driest on record since 1890 or some such. Generally mild and reasonably sunny lately; this means that the gods are saving up for the usual April dump of snow (repeat in May, and possibly in June ::)). Keeping my fingers crossed that June is not as miserable and rainy as in the past few years.
It's been warm, warm, warm here. Our average temperatures have been quite a bit above normal for the past few weeks. It's been in the 70 degrees F. All the early spring flowers have sprung. The first wave of daffodils are over. The second wave approaches. There are buds on the irises. The trees are green again. We have been giddy. We cooked outside last weekend.
But it's been dry. Today we have a rainy front coming in, and temps are back down to the 50's and 60's, where they should be.
I am hoping that we will not be surprised by a late frost.
Got cold-ish temperatures on either side of zero, and scant but persistent precipitation. IOW, what it should have been doing last month before fooling us into thinking it was spring. ::)
Finally, after much to-ing and fro-ing, false starts and hail-laced hiccups, we have some decent spring weather, with a nice and warm sun. We even had the season's first thundersquall today!
Rain announced for yesterday and the following days. None in sight yet, although the atmosphere gives the impression of a thunderstorm being near for some time now.
What to say? Anything from sunny and 24 C to snow over this field run.
Still no rain, just wind. And too warm for my taste.
Snow this morning, sunny & warm this afternoon, too dark to see what's going on right now...
Pouring rain yesterday. Unfortunately, since it was also the 5 year jubilee of the agency at this location and we had an open house. Still lots of people came.
Today not yet rain but it could start any second.
I have a new definition of futility.
Try looking for white weather balloons, attached to fishing line, in thick fog. In up to thigh-deep heather and tussock grass. Oh, and don't forget the fine, soft Oirish rain....
It's been a cold and dry spring so far but today it's raining. Still cold though.
Can't actually complain. Took an extended walk to look for a certain types of shelves (no material success), a lower price than amazon's for a certain DVD (neither) and some things to consume by eating (I just forgot something but otherwise successful). Cloudy in the morning, full sun now. Temperatures acceptable, no rain.
Well, it's darn cold here! It's National Mills Weekend, so despite exhaustion went round a couple of water mills with Mrs H and Cap'n B, and it's the coldest NMWE I've ever known. Maybe 7oC or 44oF at noon.
Erm... 90Fo/33Co here.
Where do you want me to ship the hot steam to?
:hot-here:
Please put a couple of buckets of hot steam in the post. Address it to:
The Prime Minister,
Mr G Brown/D Cameron/N Clegg/other ...........
London
UK
:mrgreen:
Still cold and rainy -7-9 degrees and mostly overcast here. Spring is quite cold and late here in Sweden this year, with plants and trees only now beginning to show any appreciable buds and foilage -about three or four weeks late. Meh. I would really like a hot summer after this winter.
My parents are on vacation in Sweden and they just told me the same over the phone :mrgreen:
Independent verification of observation results! Yay! We can do Science!
...or perhaps just wind up as a bunch of inductivist turkeys with thermometers in our hands... ;)
Wereabouts in Sweden are your parents, Swato?
I don't actually know but not too far North. Within range for a day trip to Göteborg.
It's finally showering here after a dry spell. The garden looks relieved!
Weather completely unpredictable these last few days (typical for April).
Same here, Swato - typical for Calgary. ;D
It's been quite nice this week, actually - supposed to see 17C today.
Get out the sunscreen, Aggie! ;D
Very sultry today. Near 80 F, humid, thunderstorms possible. I was out trying to plant some things and my hair was all frizzing up and flying in my face.
Lucky you! We went on a trip out today; there was some sun, but the wind cut through you like a knife. (And I had lots of layers on.)
Slushy snow this morning, slushy rain this afternoon.
Aughhh! Poor Pieces!
Tis raining here, which is good. The catalpa trees are in bloom and their pollen is murder on those with allergies. The more the rain washes it out of the air, the better!
Back to low 70's. ;)
Lucky you! We barely got into the 60's F here. But tomorrow it's expected to get there.
rainy...sprinkly...dryish...sprinkly...rainy...repeat...
Rain, pouring rain
The heat is on: 85F/29C that feels like 90F/33C
At last, a really summery day, although cloudy at times. Hooray!
sumer is icumen in!
which, contrary to popular belief, means "summer has come in". And it was probably written in Leominster.
We've been in a nice pattern of rain and warmth. Everything's growing like blue blazes.
It's already getting nasty hot. :(
It was too hot last week. Now the temperature is tolerable.
Earlier, in may, we had a few weeks of really nice weather with temperatures around +25 degrees C. Now, unfortunately, the weather seems to have set itself around windy, partly clouded and about +17. Which in itself is quite nice, but I was really longing for some warm weather after this winter.
After a very poor week's holiday, it's really lovely now. :headbang:
Still it will be nice for the charity's AGM tonight.
A bit of alibi rain now and then. Otherwise it is far too hot for my taste (whole last week and forecast for second half of this week)
Duje, we may hit 100 degrees F here, today. Wanna swap?
I'll take it, if you keep the humidity. ;)
Weather has been nice-ish but meh with a bit of rain here and there - nothing extreme to comment on.
Praying for rain tomorrow night. Or at least some wind. Just enough to stop me having to go and do a bat survey, thereby allowing me to watch the football. Vuvuzela at the ready...
Weather forecast is dreadful. >35°C in the second half of the week.
It's 30 something °C in the shade and a very light breeze.
I feel like half melted ice cream looks...
:hot-here:
T in the high thirties (and that's Celsius, not Fahrenheit).
To-morrow will be hell since the commuter train has no air condition.
9C and raining this morning. I'll trade for some of that heat.... well, maybe not this week, I'm drilling in the Badlands and it gets a wee bit uncomfortable there.
But rain's not much fun to work in, either.
At last, steady rain here. We've got what we wanted, and it's not so nice now.
Perhaps I get both - rainfall warning (100 mm) for the area today, with 27C the day I'll be out there...
Evening thunderstorm the night before yesterday. Yesterday temperatures tolerable (and effect of sun diminished by occasional clouds).
Heating up again today and forecast for next few days predicts even more.
Hottern' a June bride in a feather bed. Supposed to stay near 100 F through the weekend. Yuck!
It's been roasting here all day. Then it went cloudy. About 7pm I said to Mrs H, 'it's going to rain'. Within quite literally 2 seconds, it went from dry to a severe downpour. Wish I could do that every time. :(
We could use you over here, DavidH!
Rain at last and tolerable temperatures
Now I don't want rain - we're going out with a lot of participants for a picnic and treasure-hunt on Castle Green.
But, it looks like we're going to get showered on. :'(
You think that's bad? Mr. Ops has a company picnic we're supposed to go to tomorrow and if that isn't bad enough, it's predicted to feel like 110 F here with the humidity index. Yeauuugh!
We had a tropical storm pass by us today, nothing to write home about, a bit of rain, a bit of wind, far less than I expected. Hopefully it will be as mild when it reaches Louisiana, although it will likely spread part of the spilled oil all around. :(
Weather mild and humid (and not expected to change for some days)
gummy sticky and hot----but no malaria so that is wonderful
Spotted weather. If you want a change just walk a few meters.
It wasn't too hot and sticky for ECHO's outdoor party yesterday (20th anniversary celebrations), but we got three showers, one quite heavy.
30+ C with very high humidity (for Alberta) yesterday. Lots 'o bugs, too. I think I have at least 200 mosquito bites per leg from fishing on Sunday - it looks like I have chicken pox or something.
Weather pretty undecided at the moment
Much nicer today. Highs in the 80 F's and low humidity. I've got the windows open.
It's been dry and hot for over a month but when the rain came it came with a vengeance.
Within less than a week we have locally had more than 130mm!
Yes, there have been flooding, roads closed due to being either submerged or undermined by water and all sorts of other fun. :P
Where did our summer go?
. . . t o o h o t t o p o s t . . .
We are having some nice late summer weather over here. The days are hot and sunny, and the nights are full of the accumulated heat of the summer, but the air is getting perceptibly crisper and the nights have also grown darker. I really like these late summer weeks, so full and ripe but also with the bittersweet realisation that soon, autumn will start to set in.
Significant rain in the last few days but today it is also announced that it will be 30°C. That combination could prove lethal.
No! Not lethal, Swato! Put down that...
It's been rainy, rainy, rainy here, but in a nice way. Today is a good, rainy Sunday. Nice and peaceful, good for reading. The rain has cooled things down a bit, at well.
Yes, autumn is coming. Cloudy today but the breeze is warm rather than hot. We actually went for a litle walk.
We actually had literally lethal weather here in Stockholm yesterday. It was quite hot, about 30 degrees during daytime and 22-23 around midnight, with a really high humidity -fog levels, more or less. Yesterday night was also the night when the annual "Midnattsloppet" , "The Midnight Run" is held in Stockholm -a huge long-distance run taking place on shut-off streets during the late night. This year, they had an attendance of about 22000 runners and several times that attending as spectators. Due to the very high humidity, lots of runners suffered from exhaustion, heat-stroke and abnormal fatigue, and two runners actually died -one in his fifties from a heart attack, and one in his twenties that just collapsed at the finishing line. I was out on town and in the area at the time, and actually witnessed the emergency vehicles as they made their way to the causalty. Apparently, the A&E wards of the nearby hospitals had to treat quite a few cases of exhaustion and heart irregularities, too. I suppose those poor runners got so caught up in their running that they didn't notice their bodies signalling to them to slow down until it was too late. :(
Ooo-er. People get so single-minded about these runs.
It's been very nice here for the past week. We seem to be out of our 90 F degree doldrums. Could use some more rain, though.
Please take some - work has been delayed drastically this year due to the weather, and I've been hearing rumours of billion-dollar crop failures (rain ruined the seeding, lack of sun delayed crop growth, and rain is holding up the harvest - it's likely frost will hit first and leave tonnes of food to rot).
Few major monsoons, but we might have had 5 days of summer, total. :P
Pure April weather
Quote from: Aggie on September 14, 2010, 11:29:08 PM
Please take some - work has been delayed drastically this year due to the weather, and I've been hearing rumours of billion-dollar crop failures (rain ruined the seeding, lack of sun delayed crop growth, and rain is holding up the harvest - it's likely frost will hit first and leave tonnes of food to rot).
Few major monsoons, but we might have had 5 days of summer, total. :P
To heck with the Alaskan pipeline. We need to install some kinda drain system between the US and Canada.
:stick:
That's a touchy subject, and I'd advise you against mentioning any type of water-exporting schemes to a Canadian.
But on a personal level, can I mail you a barrel of rain? :mrgreen:
Quote from: Opsanus tau on September 15, 2010, 03:42:18 PM
Quote from: Aggie on September 14, 2010, 11:29:08 PM
Please take some - work has been delayed drastically this year due to the weather, and I've been hearing rumours of billion-dollar crop failures (rain ruined the seeding, lack of sun delayed crop growth, and rain is holding up the harvest - it's likely frost will hit first and leave tonnes of food to rot).
Few major monsoons, but we might have had 5 days of summer, total. :P
To heck with the Alaskan pipeline. We need to install some kinda drain system between the US and Canada.
I thought you already had such a device and that it was called the Niagara falls... :P ;)
We have several, but there is much fear and loathing towards any mention of formalized water exports (i.e. guaranteed water quotas) to the US. Take our oil instead, please. ;)
I plead ignorance!
I was thinking of a water exchange, actually, since we sometimes are the ones with the floods.
Don't mention any offers of oil to the USers, though. We'll bleed you dry and then pollute you trying to get more. Jeez, I wish we could just toss the whole unfortunate oil dependence and put the US dollars towards cleaner, less invasive energy.
Yeah, I know. Big. powerful (and obsolete) oil companies. I'm hoping that the smart ones are investing in alternatives.
OOPS! We have high 80 F expected and a possibility of showers today.
Don't worry, U(s) are bleeding us dry and polluting us, then protesting about the oilsands being too dirty ('scuse me, but until the US is off Venezuelan heavy crude, I fail to appreciate the difference - not that I support the oilsands, but let's be honest about what and where from the US is importing). I don't suppose those are for satisfying domestic Canadian demand, eh?
I have no idea, but sometimes I just wanna slap my nation.
I knew about the tar sand abomination for quite some time (and closely avoided getting a job offer for that) but more in the abstract sense.
Two weeks a go I saw a documentary film ('Petropolis') about it consisting mainly of aerial shots putting it into perspective.
Let's put it that way: The surface of the moon looks more hospitable. Hey, even our East German opencast brown coal mines look (a wee bit) healthier.
Sad!
We finally got a bit of rain yesterday, and this weekend is supposed to be gorgeous!
Weather unpredictable.
Currently happy evening sun but there are dark clouds on at least one horizon.
Rain, rain some more rain, the sky opening, then a little rain in showers and then more rain.
We are not supposed to have monsoons here...
:hide:
Sun and some big clouds. I don't trust it.
Beware clouds bearing greeks? :P
We have more traditional early autumn weather now, with some very nice sunny days, and nights getting more and more chilly and damp. We haven't quite reached leaf fall season with the seasonal low adhesion problems on the railways yet, but it will probably start in earnest in a few weeks or so.
First snowfall of the year scheduled for this evening (more like sleet, probably, it's not supposed to get below freezing).
Just as well I left my snow tires on year-round. ::)
Cloudy. Chilly nights setting in. Day getting shorter; getting dark too early for my liking.
Weather good, relatively warm but potentially unstable
That sounds like a nuclear reactor.
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It's, well, hot as usual.
Fabulously mild, here, but supposed to get hot again for the rest of the week.
We have a 25 degree high tomorrow. That's warm for here now. Won't last though.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on September 21, 2010, 06:13:36 PM
That sounds like a nuclear reactor.
One never knows when and where it will hit
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It's snowing! :P
G'arrrggghhh! Poor Aggie!!!!
It's gotten cooler and the leaves are hitting their peak autumn color here right now. The winds are picking up though, so they might not hang on much longer.
Continuous snow for the last few days here, temperature is -16C this morning (wind chill at -23C) and expected to drop further by tomorrow.
I'm glad I brought my winter Nomex getup - keeps you from burning alive and freezing to death at the same time. ;)
Last weekend we had +19°C. Now about half of that and rain. That's slightly more normal for the season.
-20°C, feels like -32°C with the wind chill. Swirling snow, although I'm not sure if it's falling or just floating - probably steam from the buildings precipitating out.
Yeah, so I shovelled out the flippin driveway today. (http://www.vpsingles.com/pics/shovel.gif)
Bah, humbug!
Weather approaches 'normal', i.e. cold, gray, wet and windy. Sleet announced for later in the week.
A large mass of cold air has entered the baltic sea region and is now moving westward, into eastern and southern Sweden. With it, it brings gale-force winds and heavy snowfall -up to 30 cm predicted in some places! :o
Brrr....
-30°C outright this morning (before the wind chill). Glad to be in the office and that it's supposed to warm up a bit towards the end of the week, when I will be outdoors again.
What is this snow you all speak of? 80F/27C and I'm in the northern hemisphere!
Quote from: Lindorm on November 23, 2010, 03:52:05 PM
A large mass of cold air has entered the baltic sea region and is now moving westward, into eastern and southern Sweden. With it, it brings gale-force winds and heavy snowfall -up to 30 cm predicted in some places! :o
Brrr....
I guess we will be the next recipient
We are also due for a long spell of freezing weather, stating tonight. So they say. I blame these weather harmonisation rules from Brussels.
Maybe it's just the cold facts on their way to and from Ireland
Mild and rainy, here. Feels like April.
drizzle with homoiopathic doses of snow mixed in
Sunny and around 50 degrees F.
Occasional sunshine
Drizzly and cool with pewter clouds. It's expected to get cold tonight!
A wee bit of snow
Same here, but it's blooming cold! Well below freezing each night. Scotland and parts of Wales have got loads of the stuff and many roads are blocked.
Yesterday they promised heavy snowfall for today but I can't see aynthing of it.
Postcard winter weather here -heavy snowfall for a few days, and now a clear and crisp day, slightly overcast, with temperatures of around -6.
Further north, the weather has been more agressive, though. A multi-car and lorry pileup outside Hudiksvall closed down one of the major motorways on the norhtern east coast of Sweden for the whole night, before the wreckage could be cleared. Lots of people were stuck overnight in their cars, some of them also running out of petrol. Fortunately, apart from those involved in the initial collision, noone has been seriously hurt.
Well, thank goodness for that.
Clear, cold and windy, here.
This moment the sun came out.
Snow again postponed
Minus 8ºC / 17½ºF on my outside max/min thing this morning. Somewhere in Wales and Shrewsbury (50 miles from here) both reported -17ºC / 14ºF, according to the BBC. :(
Going into the double digits (below zero) announced for the next days (or at least nights)
Fairly mild, but with fog as thick as fish head stew.
Light scattering of snow on rooves. First I've seen of it. Most of London brought to a standstill by snow falls today, roads, and trains, but my immediate surroundings escaped it, no snow. It's odd, but we nearly always do.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on November 30, 2010, 11:53:38 PM
Light scattering of snow on rooves. First I've seen of it. Most of London brought to a standstill by snow falls today, roads, and trains, but my immediate surroundings escaped it, no snow. It's odd, but we nearly always do.
Looks like it's the same in large parts of Germany. Also not much snow here in the capital but there seems to be some wind (given the noises from outside).
Way too much rain and wind earlier today, but the rain has ended for now, at least. I heard we had a tornado watch this morning. I'm kinda glad i didn't know about that.
Light scattering of snow on grass today, while rest of London cancelled incl. airports. There must be some kind of psychic block overhead (over my head). Hope this continues as I have to drive to hospital tomorrow. With my special powers, I wonder if I can clear the roads in front of me.
Heavy snowfall during the night. Temperatures next night may reach -20°C.
Quote from: GriffinWith my special powers, I wonder if I can clear the roads in front of me.
Prob'ly the X-ray vision can melt a path. ;D
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Snowing again here, but not hard. As our local radio forecaster said, all the heavy snow has been round the E and S of Britain and we're in a kind of horseshoe free of it. Forecast -8°C / 17.6 ºF tonight.
Listen to Rightwingers. That will make your blood boil. The heat emissions should be sufficient. But be careful, if you stand on frozen lakes/rivers/etc.
Possible backfure: The thought that THEY could take over could make your blood chill and freeze instead.
Works for me. It's freakin' freezin' here. The high winds don't help, either.
Our cold snap continues. Not so much a snap any more. Scotland has had to call in the army!!!!!
Temperatures back dancing around zero. That'll get the roads slippery.
Every morning I sit in Mrs H's car and warm it up before she sets off to work. Yesterday the car thermometer read -10.5°C / 13°F, today -8.5°C / 17°F. Normal screen defrosting fluid doesn't work. Luckily there's been no fresh snow for some time but it is pretty foggy. As Grif said, Scotland is far worse off than us with hundreds trapped in their cars all day yesterday.
Well, it finally feels like we are in winter, 40F/5C this morning. They even called from the school district last night to warn about it and dress students warmly today. :o
That's fairly unusual for Florida, isn't it? I saw a story on (US) national news last night about the Florida strawberry farmers spraying their crops with water so that if they froze they would stay at the freezing point.
Still cold and windy here, but it doesn't feel as frigid as yesterday did.
These past two winters have been a bit on the colder side with "snow" (more like frost) in Orlando this past January. It should go back to 60s/70s in two more days.
Good... I'd hate to lose any strawberries! :-*
Some snow still on the ground, but another t-shirt & no coat day, IMHFO.
In My Hot-Flashing Opinion. ;D
Light snow now. heavy snowfall announced for later. Temperatures near zero
My parents are on their way back from Turkey for Christmas. Apparently, there are two feet of snow and it's minus seventeen in central Scotland...
Yes, and according to the BBC this morning there are still people stuck in their cars and lorries since Monday morning. And that's between Glasgow and Edinburgh, not in the wild parts. I hope they're going to be able to get home OK.
Bright sunshine here and it's actually gone just above freezing. Wow
Apparently the motorway between Edinburgh and Glasgow was open this afternoon.
We have bright sunshine and rising temperatures in London. No snow. 1 degree today, but 3 degrees tomorrow.
But the forecast as a whole says the cold snap (snap is now the wrong word) may continue through xmas.
Snow lies thick but currently no new snow falling. Potential rain announced for Saturday
Hooray! It's gone quite mild and my drive is free of snow. They reckon it will be good on Saturday, which is when we have a stall at the Victorian Christmas Fair in Corn Square. ;D
But then they say it'll be back to sub-zero. Dang it!
The winds are quieter here today, but it's still pretty cold.
Still in a short-sleeved t-shirt today.
The Salvation Army bell-ringer-person shed his gloves, coat, and shirt by 10 a.m. and was out there playing air guitar -- with the bell -- in a wifebeater. :P But by evening his shirt and coat were back on.
It's supposed to get cold again now and snow this weekend.
Heavy snowfall yesterday.Temperatures again below zero but not too much
We got a dusting of snow this morning. Very pretty to watch. It's gone now. I'm hoping we get some more soon.
Hello, I'd like to place an order, please? I'd like about six inches of snow in December and again in January. Hold the ice. By February I'd like it all to melt and have the crocuses up before March 1st. That's all.
Snowfall switched on and off arbitrarily
Weather boring. Not much activity of any sort.
Pouring rain most of yesterday. Temperature predicted to drop below zero again to-morrow.
Another vague dusting, windy and plummeting temps. Brr!
Getting colder again each day.
It feels colder today (in my bedroom), but the temperature is still the same.
Quite decent winter weather here -not too cold, a bit of snow, lots of snow on the ground, but nothing unmanageable. The upcoming weekedn promises to be a bit more interesting though. The weather forecast is for first a period of cold, about -15 or so, followed by an abrubt warming to about +1 degrees, accompanied by heavy snowfall with rain mixed in, followed by yet another sharp drop in temperature and high winds. That sounds like just the weather for a weekend of complete chaos on the railways...
Snow has almost reclaimed what it had lost to the rain the last few days. Temperatures slightly below zero.
Quote from: Lindorm on December 13, 2010, 10:49:23 PM
...followed by an abrupt warming to about +1 degrees...
My wife disagrees, we had 1C/33F today and she was disgusted with how cold it is now.
:D
We were 19F this morning, but with winds around 30 mph. Cheese and Rice Almighty cold.
Normal-ish weather here, which means nearly anything. ::)
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it stays above -20C this week, as I'm working outside. Most of my PPE is warm enough, but I wear only nitrile gloves (think lab or medical style rubber gloves) when soil sampling - which is pretty much all day long. Hopefully I am not singing "All I want for Christmas is my Two Index Fingers" by next week. :P
Snowfall in varying degrees yesterday and during the night. Temperature in the 0 to -5°C range.
Eek, Aggie!
Another freakin' cold one. There's light snow predicted for tomorrow. More snow Sunday. I am looking forward to it. Helps the insulation.
I have a warm truck to jump into when it's unbearable - usually.
Blizzard conditions today - the temperature dropped swiftly and we got 10 - 15 cm of snow while on-site.
Temperatire dropping but still in the single digits below zero. Maybe snow in the afternoon.
At 6:20 a.m. we got the call that schools were closed. At 9 a.m. it began to snow. That was two and a half hours ago. It's starting to look pretty out there!
It's been mild and windy here, with rain showers - classic westerly weather for the UK. But they say very cold Arctic air is coming behind and with everywhere wet, it could be bad. The BBC weather man this morning sounded serious and was issuing travel warnings. Deepjoy!
Heavy snow last night. Had almost to shovel my way home from the art museum.
We're finally making it above freezing here, today, so some snow will melt. More expected on Sunday. (I hope it'll be done by Monday's total lunar eclipse!) Maybe we'll have a white Christmas.
The sun is actually shining today. Heavy snowfall yesterday. Temperatures dropping, may reach -10°C this weekend. Slight thaw expected next week.
It's -8 in London right now. I don't know what the record is but London rarely gets really cold and this is quite extreme for us.
EDIT - it's -9 now. Annoying as I want to do stuff on my car today and what with snow as well, I probably lack the energy to deal with the cold and all the snow clearing. Total hibernation is more tempting. I suppose this personal disruption is minor compared to many/most people's - I have small needs, not for me the bunking down in airports and being stranded.
Yesterday there was both sun and snow. Currently clouded but forecast unsure whether there will be more snow today.
The UK is in a fairly bad state in most places, but in our little area it's not too bad. OK, it was -7.5ºC this morning when I warmed up Mrs H's car, but the roads are clear and there's little snow. Mrs H got into Leominster with no trouble, but the office's water main is frozen again.
Despite shortages on anti-freeze the Berlin airports seem to work close to normal. Most cancelled flight are due to problems at the destination point (like Frankfurt).
Or Heathrow :mrgreen:
What will the poor baggage handlers do at Heathrow? There will be no Christmas presents to steal, and their kids will have to use i-phones nearly a week old.
Actually +1 in London today. No more snow so far. Heathrow only has 6 snow clearers against Moscow's 19. The Govt. has to decide if the cold winters will continue for a decade.
Postcard winter weather over here. -10 or 12 degrees or so, lots and lots of white fluffy snow and a slight wind. Quite nice, actually! :)
Though I am glad that the weather forecast from the last weekend didn't turn out as predicted: we were supposed to get temperatures of about -25 to -27 and gale-force winds. Brrr! I'm happy to miss out on those!
Not much change compared to the last few days. Temperatures randomly going up and down, snow falling or not, sun shining or not.
In total I find it relatively nice.
Looks like snow and 0 to -3 back home for the holidays - I hope it stays frozen up and isn't just a slushy Christmas, but the contrast in temperature from the -15 to -20 I've been working in will be welcome.
They've pushed the snow forecast here all the way to Saturday. luckily we have enough residual white stuff on the ground from last week to feel Christmassy, anyway.
Possible sleet in the afternoon. But there is probably enough snow to last for the holy days even if the temperature peeks above freezing for some time.
We're a few degrees above freezing here today, and the wind is low. Feels mild!
Looks like all the bets are off on snow on Christmas Day here. It has to actually snow, old snow lying around doesn't count.
Slight thaw and one can see where the central heating tubes run below the meadow in front of the house.
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 23, 2010, 08:48:24 AM
...........one can see where the central heating tubes run below the meadow in front of the house.
How can you make use of this information? ::)
Our Christmas day snow has been pushed to Sunday, now, and I agree- old snow doesn't count! However, it will mean travel on the 25th will be easier than earlier expected.
Windy as heck today.
Quote from: GriffinHow can you make use of this information?
He could grow a row of vegetables in the warm soil. ;D
I doubt the soil is fertile for that kind of stuff.
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Temperatures do the line dance around freezing again. Snow announced for the afternoon.
Still covered in snow everywhere but we're under the middle of a high pressure, which means very cold nights, sun in the day and no falling snow. Therefore not technically a 'White Christmas' even though it's as white as I've ever seen it.
Not here David. All the snow has gone.
Blimey! We're still deep in the stuff. :'(
A bit of snow falling in the late afternoon but not much, just for atmosphere.
Very cold indeed here overnight. Worcester, 30 miles away, officially recorded -19ºC.
I keep peering out hoping for snowfall, but so far we haven't had squat.
Huge temperature differences inside Germany from donw to -20° in the East and up to +2°C in the West.
Snowfall during the night
Eastern parts still feeling the effects of Communist mismanagement, eh?
You forget that socialism in the Sahara would mean shortage of sand. Why should a sociaist winter have snow?
Well, here in the seat of captalism we aint got squat. It is frakin' frazin' though, with wind gusts of 40 miles per hour. I do not plan to go out today.
Medium snowfall for most of the day but not actually cold. Wind negligible.
Thawing rapidly here. ;D
Absolutely thawed here. And warm enough to hang about outside. Actually, geographically, I am nearer David just now so our posts should contain similar weather content.
You're nearer where I was this morning. Hereford is thawing rapidly now but there was plenty of snow left.
Now I'm near Exeter where there's no snow at all and it's 12 C.
12 C - that's almost summer !
It's still warmish here, the rain cleared the last of the snow, now there's fog. I don't understand fog.
Cold today and likely to-morrow but temperatures forecast to go up near or slightly above zero on Saturday.
Near 40 F here today- 8 degrees above freezing- and low winds. Feels lovely. We're supposed to be near 50F new year's day.
Almost 70F/20C now but the evenings have been on the 'colder' side around 35-40F/5C.
According to weather report about -10°C outside. It's snowing but only a little bit. For the next two days temperatures expected to go above zero again, potential snow/rain mixture.
+7 C here. Warm enough to stand around outside.
Back in Hereford - pretty much the same here. All the snow has gone except for a couple of heaps we made when clearing paths; they now look really yukky.
Mild and windless! I plan on a nice walkie later.
Thawing. Announced strong northerly winds are absent. As is the forecast rain (at least until now)
Still dry here. And the fog has gone. Did I mention the fog?
Cold!
blizzard warnings
blowing, swirling snow
Seems to be a bit of wind. Did not check the thermometer yet but it was +2.3°C at 3am.
Mid 20's (°C) sunny with light cloud, much better than 1,500 km north of here, where not only is there flooding covering an area greater than France and Germany combined, but they're expecting more heavy rain. Fun (not).
Expecting a little snow here. But then rain, so it will clear fast.
Clear and cold, here. The sky is crystal blue and beautiful. But we're freezin' our 'nads toesies off.
Windy, a bit wet, not too cold. (UK low-pressure weather.)
It was dry when I went out to take down the Christmas lights from the front of the house. The moment I got outside - pow! Deluge.
Usual grab-bag of Cowtown weather. Anything from above zero to -20C, sunny-ish unless it decides to cloud over and snow.
Mostly what David said, but without the deluge. No snow; weather man wrong. All a bit mizzly.
Icy rain and wind outside. Hope I make it to the doctor and back alive.
I have just seen a fairly rare event: a genuine wind force zero, the definition of which is 'smoke rises vertically'.
For some reason the dratted stove went out last night and it smokes for a while when you re-light it. The column of smoke rose absolutely straight up until it disappeared at about 10 feet, and it stayed completely steady for as long as I watched it.
Was yer holey smoke white or black?
'Ave ye heleckted a noo pope, then?
My neighbour always asks that! Popeye for pope, sez I!
A sudden, heavy snowfall has paralysed this area, with the road to Leominster closed and Hereford town gridlocked. It's already turned to rain and thawing fast, but Mrs H set off for work an hour late.
Domino effect: we have a group of participants who do shopping for disabled old people on a Friday. They need a worker to supervise them and she's snowed in in her village. An experienced volunteer is trying to get there - she also lives out in the sticks - but if she doesn't make it there'll be a lot of disappointment today. If I was feeling even halfway reasonable today, I'd try to get there myself.
Very mild outside but I found a Nordic Walking stick to be extremly useful to battle the now exposed solid ice on the sidewalks, also the deep pools everywhere still surrounded by dubious hills and dams of snow (will it carry, will it be slippery?).
The Sylvester fireworks remnants come out of the meting snow everywhere too as do the canine emissions of the last few weeks.
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 07, 2011, 10:44:10 AM
The Sylvester fireworks remnants come out of the meting snow everywhere too as do the canine emissions of the last few weeks.
Sorry to read that! When my younger brother started adding big words to his vocabulary, he was disgusted by the 'dog maneuvers' in other people's lawns.
Calm weather outside with hints of sun. Temperatures may reach +11°C today or to-morrow but are forecast to drop again next week.
Winter may stage a violent comeback (without snow though) for that would not be uncommon but a date is not yet set for that.
Water rising dangerously in many German rivers and forming barriers of drift ice on the Oder may lead to severe trouble soon by blocking the flow out while melt water comes down the tributaries. Large parts of the surrounding country (drained in the 18th century) may go 'Land unter' when the dykes do not hold (it's not a privilege of North Sea countries).
Fortunately no risk of similar events around here, although this town also started as Swamp Castle ;).
Our cold spell was broken by a few days of sharply rising temperatures, accompanied by heavy precipitation, first as slush, then as under-cooled rain. Now we have temperatures of a few degrees above zero, lots of slush and water, literally hundreds of cars and lorries in the roadside ditches, and the promise of a new sharp cold spell coming on for the weekend. Holiday on ice!
Outside of Berlin a lot of snow did not get the message and is still lying around. Temperatures went up to 13°C during the weekend, although they are expected to drop again. Here in Dessau (back at work) the sun is shining and it is quite mild. The Elbe runs high but has not yet flooded the countryside as far as I can see. A bit of ice still on the ground but no snow worth talking of (but lots of freeze-dried dogshit).
-17°C with the windchill taking it to -27°C, and supposed to get colder as the day proceeds. Snowy, too.
It's colder again and the sky is clouded.
The Elbe now has gone over her banks and starts to flood the surrounding area
-24°C this morning. The Elbow is probably frozen solid.
53°C this morning at Elba. The bony parts are still cold and stiff, though...
Somewhat rainyish in Berlin. Sunny with clouds in Dessau. Cool but manageable. Elbe still rising.
Snow, slush, slush, snow, slushy snow and snowy slush.
Did I mention the slush?
We are supposed to get colder temperatures for the weekend, which will probably turn every street into a hockey rink.
The clouds have taken over about noon. Otherwise no changes that I am aware of
We won't make it up to freezing today, and we have winds gusts of 40 MPH. Narsty.
Calling for a wind chill of -31 tonight, actual temperatures of only -21. Glad I went shopping last night, I'm on foot.
Rain in Berlin (in Dessau it was humid/wet but no rain falling)
Sorry you transatlantics are so cold.
Here we're back to traditional westerly weather: one depression after another rolling in off the Atlantic. It's 11°C / 52°F here now, but there's been a lot of rain. Any time now the Lugg will flood the road, as usual, and we'll be cut off from all the villages to the E. To reach our house, it would have to rise about 30 feet above the highest flood level I've ever seen, so it's no more than a damn nuisance.
Similar weather here, although the rain is not torrential.
-23 today, windchill of -34. I thought it felt a little bit colder this morning...
6-8°C predicted for Berlin duirng the night.
Storms in some regions (not where I have been today).
Wintry mix expected tonight, starting as snow, continuing to sleet and ending as freezing rain tomorrow morning. I am guessing that th'Opsalette may get an extended holiday weekend.
Yesterday beautiful sunny and mild weather, today drizzly and rather coolish.
We've been icy, but today's temps are near the mid 40's F. Could spring be around the corner?
Sunny most of the day but also coolish and a bit windy.
Elbe running very high but seems not rise any further at the moment
The Lugg is still in its banks. Beats me, everyone thought it would be over by now. I expect it will flood before spring, though.
My weather report says 4 degrees and sunny here. Except it is dark, nighttime, so I don't know that the sunny bit counts for much.
Elbe seems unchanged. Cooler again. Currently cloudy sky.
Touching the 80s F/28C+ these past few days, as hot as it would regularly be...
At noon some snow drizzle for a minute ot two.
Otherwise just depressing.
We're expecting snow showers this evening. No big whoop.
Might break zero today, after a prolonged deep-freeze and snow-in (Edmonton got gobs of snow, it's been moderate down here).
I'm scared! Seriously; it hasn't rained for over 3 days!
The grass is starting to look a bit sad - well, when you can scrape the frost of it...
I want to like in Barbados!
PS - hi again :D
Hullo! Glad to see you!
Temperatures drop and will cross the freezing line several times in the next few days. Potential for a bit of snow in the weekend.
The Elbe water level seems to have lowered a few centimetres but I am not fully sure of that.
We had some snow showers this morning, but nothing stuck. It's been dry here, too. I hope we have some precip soon. They say Tuesday is another possibility.
Hi Alchy! :)
In Berlin some snow has fallen
Tuesday's snow looming larger. Hoping so, because this would cancel a stupid meeting I have to attend that night.
Just hovering round freezing, dull, misty. Depressing. Even the sheep look more cheesed off than usual. :sheep: :sheep:
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on January 22, 2011, 06:05:31 PM
Just hovering round freezing, dull, misty. Depressing. Even the sheep look more cheesed off than usual. :sheep: :sheep:
Same here, although can't say anything about sheep since none are in view currently.
I remember what it was like when I couldn't look out of the window and see livestock, or at least, farmland. I don't ever want to go back to those days.
Well, on the west side there is the church and on the North side the wood. Can't really complain (except about the current weather)
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on January 23, 2011, 10:32:43 AM
I remember what it was like when I couldn't look out of the window and see livestock, or at least, farmland. I don't ever want to go back to those days.
I feel the same way about forest, but I'm still stick in concrete at the moment.
Quite some snowfall in the evening but it was too warm (about +3°C) so it melted almost instantly
According to one of my mates in Canada it was -23 C last night!
(can't be arsed looking for the degree sign...although it would have been quicker than typing this explanation as to why I couldn't be bothered...bugger!)
Another friend in New Hampshire says she's expecting 6 inches, tonight. I say she sets her standards way too low.
Hi - I'll try to remember to pop in and say something stup a bit more often. You know what it's like :D
It's regularly that temperature up here - from the Toronto area I presume, if it's worthy of comment? ;)
Alberta's actually getting above zero at the moment, just enough to trick us before it dips back into the deep-freeze.
Quote from: Alchemist on January 25, 2011, 07:37:07 PM
Another friend in New Hampshire says she's expecting 6 inches, tonight. I say she sets her standards way too low.
:ROFL:
T>0°C but there has been quite some snowfall yesterday eveing in Dessau and this morning in Berlin. So most of it melts the moment it hits the ground.
Currently experiencing sloppy weather in Opsaland. Sleet and freezing rain have made a slushy covering on the ground. Snow is forecast for later today into tonight, with accumulation of up to ten inches. I would like to see some snow. Slush just isn't the same.
Heh, last night we even had a tornado warning, temperatures around 20C/65F in the evening a bit hotter during the day.
Whatever the forecast, it will be wet, cool and thus not nice.
Nothing against cool but then it should be either cold with snow or alternatively completely dry.
Well, Swato ought to like our gazebo.
Nice.
It's less wet if only for the temperature having dropped significantly.
1C here. London has been grey and dull with biting winds. What we need is gigantic wind deflectors.
There must be something to the air. I get out one step and my throat is on fire again (requiring extra supplies of sage)
Maybe you should caarry a fire extinguisher?
That would just replace one type of foam with another ;)
And too much CO2 is discouraged, if one has a disturbed acid balance in the stomach.
Griffin needs a giant wind deflector and Swato needs a tiny one, just to cover his nose and mouth.
Swato- do you think it could be winter allergies?
It's snowing here, again. Not sticking much on the pavement, but pretty, floaty flakes.
Seems to be just the cool air. No problem inside.
Swato, how about two tiny electric fan heaters, one tied to each ear, to warm the air up.
Careful, we don't want him flying off into the wild blue yonder!
A heated mouthpiece would probably be the thing.
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Sunny but chilly today
High pressure. The days are bright and pleasant, but cold. The nights are very cold.
Back to snow and cold again, just in time to get back behind a drilling rig.... ::)
50F/10C in the morning but it's supposed to go up to the 70s/20s by midday.
Massive hoar frost outside or a bit of some extremly hard crystalline snow
-24C this morning; punishment for working on the Lord's day, perhaps?
A lake of fire seems like a not too terrible thing...
Ouch, yaroo! I've never experienced it colder than -15C, and that only for a day or so.
Here the high pressure is supposed to give way tomorrow to a string of lows: wet, windy and relatively warm.
The thermometer on my truck showed -30C when I showed up on site this morning, but it wasn't too bad once the sun was up (the ouch bit is that while I'm VERY well bundled up for the most part, soil sampling must be done wearing medical-style nitrile gloves).
UPDATE: Reportedly -36C at today's worksite, this morning. Luckily it's a supervisory job and I won't be in little blue gloves today. I'll be hiding in the truck!
Eesh, that's cold.
We're a degree below freezing here, today. Sleet expected tonight. Groundhog's Day is Wednesday. Whot say we grab the little feller and cover his eyes so he can't see his shadow? That'll make spring come early, right?
Give it a shot, I am really hoping for six more weeks of winter!
the alternative here is six more months of winter - damn you Balzac Billy!
That's Lunar New Year too, isn't it?
Statistics say that it is far safer to assume the opposite of what that groundhog predicts
Is he no more accurate than the octopus? ;D
Here the high pressure has finally given way, a day later than forecast. Yesterday morning was clear and bright and -6½°C. Today is misty, wet and +2°C.
accuracy since 1887: 39%
Well, that actually makes more sense, and it's the humans that have it muddled. A sunny day (and a shadow) always suggested more good weather to me when I was a young'un. The 'hog is probably hustling back to get the spring cleaning done.
Yesterday was 42oC (108oF) Today a much more reasonable, although still quite warm 30oC (86oF). Heading back into the high 30s/low 40s later this week. Yuk.
Critically close to zero and with some semi-solid precipitation => watch your step or you may proceed horizontally
Punxatawney Phil predicts that spring is just around the corner, and so far it has seemed a little more springy. I even saw some daffodil leaves popping up in the snow today.
Balzac Billy bucked consensus and is calling for 6 more whatevers of winter*. Surprise, surprise - spring in mid-March is not likely, let alone early February.
*likely months, but I'd settle for fortnights, which is approximately correct; we often get a good dump of snow sometime in May, but I'll be out west by then.
Quote from: Opsa on February 03, 2011, 10:38:21 PM
Punxatawney Phil predicts that spring is just around the corner, and so far it has seemed a little more springy. I even saw some daffodil leaves popping up in the snow today.
(http://www.teachchildrenesl.com/picts/icon_gd.gif) A co-worker who grew up near Punxtawney revealed a deep, dark meteorological secret:
that is actually Punxatawney Phyllis!!!
LOL, now you've got me wondering whether Billy's got a Balzac or not. ;)
Spring is coming! Spring is coming!
The sun is out, the wind is blowing, the thermometer on my front (southside) porch is reading 62 degrees F. Joy.
Lows of -22 for Tuesday... splendid spring weather!
Temperatures low but tolerable. The problem is what I call the x-ray wind.
Maybe you need a seal-fur coat? ;) (http://www.dakota-durango.com/forum/images/smilies/canada1.gif) ;)
you might need to travel to China for that
I hear hagfish leather is the newest in decadent fashion.
I think I remember that polar bears have the best insulation. Allegedly their main body does not show up on infrared cameras.
Go Bears!
Awful winds last night kept us awake, but I am hoping they are a harbinger of spring. They have calmed this morning. Today's highs are in the upper 40's F.
Quote from: Aggie on February 15, 2011, 04:12:14 AM
Lows of -22 for Tuesday... splendid spring weather!
22C indeed *
*I noticed the minus ;)
We had a spell of spring-like weather in january with temperatures of +7-9 degrees, sunshine and twittering birds. At the end of last week, the spell broke, and we have been having -15 to -20 and heavy snowfall since then.
Quote from: Lindorm on February 15, 2011, 07:28:23 PM
We had a spell of spring-like weather in january with temperatures of +7-9 degrees, sunshine and twittering birds. At the end of last week, the spell broke, and we have been having -15 to -20 and heavy snowfall since then.
We did not drop that far (and the snow is only of the alibi kind) but essentially same story. Wind still like poor man's x-ray
The windows are open today! We're headed for the mid 60's F.
I have missed having air in the house.
-33C at the site yesterday morning, and probably the same today. Taking a late start, because the equipment gets a bit cranky about starting at those temperatures.
Temperatures are below zero but it feels much much colder that the thermometer will admit. Even only light wind creates the impression at the moment that we are below -20°C while we are somewhere 0 and -10°C (the latter during the night).
Don't know the reason. Can't be humidity, it hasn't rained or snowed for quite a long time.
I don't like to think about the wind chill. I'd not need to be specifying the temperature scale if that was involved, I think.
Here in the mouth of the Caribbean it's starting to heat, 28C for today (and the humidity is fortunately ~50%). I can't complain, but give it a few more weeks (and a higher humidity) and I'll be complaining.
We're in the mid 50's F here today, windy with alternating sunshine and rain showers.
Yesterday I saw the first grackle (http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/id) of the season, but have not yet heard the spring peepers (http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?recNum=AR0014).
The wind is not even strong.
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Weather looks good but I have not yet been outside
You just need some hardening-off. Come to Alberta; after a week of spending time outdoors at -25 or -30, ten below feels like a warm spring day.
You take my job, I'll go visit Zono. ;) Looking forward to the temperatures getting up to +40C this summer, back home (not humid, and we have very nice lakes handy to cool off in).
No problem if it is dry cold.
Weather actually quite nice today and I could go out without cap and with a light jacket.
Hmph. You just freeze-dry. I'm not sure that it's possible to have significant moisture at those temperatures; most of it just gives up and falls out.
But not all of it. And at those temperatures one really notices even small differences
Quote from: Aggie on February 26, 2011, 03:26:26 PM
You take my job, I'll go visit Zono.
Just let me know :)
28C still.
Looks about the same as yesterday
Mid 60's F today, slamming against a cold front. Thunderstorm and tornado warnings. Most have passed, now. It's the pre-spring roller coaster!
Dull, wet drizzle, cold, cloudy, grey. No wonder I am depressed.
-30C (ish), blowing snow, howling winds.
Will report on humidity; had to buy a thermometer to see if it's too cold to work and I got one with a humidity thingy in it. Not accurate, I'm sure, but worth a laugh.
above zero during the day, below at night
sun shining
Sunny, mid 40's F, light winds. Tomorrow we're expecting 60's. I plan to go get my front garden ready for spring.
I dunno about outside but inside my office is 81F, which is an oven! If it weren't for my fan I would be drenched in sweat.
chilly but nice
Decent. 70s/20s outside, likely going to low 80s/25-28C at midday.
Wind has taken up a bit making it a bit too chilly to be perfect
-22C today; feels nice!
Isn't there an 'n' too much? ;)
No, it's balmy by comparison to the last few days of -30 and below.
so no chance of you ending embalmed as an ice mummy in the museum?
Oh, it's still possible. In 10,000 years they will be digging up lots of bog-machines that have disappeared into non-frozen muskeg.
Well, but will there be museums?
Rained all day yesterday. 50's F with high winds today. Some crocuses blooming!
sunny but chilly
-29C, but sunny and warm (-9C) by the afternoon.
Sunny, cool, low winds. I got to do some spring cleaning in the garden. Now my back is achy, but I'm happy.
Day started sunny but now clouds have moved in
Torrential rains expected again tomorrow. Where'd I leave that ark?
looks like rain will come soon
It rained last night, and I -the idiot- left my driver's window open. :guillotine:
Small but sure signs of approaching spring here.
A few degrees above freezing during the day, and even warm-ish in the sun, a few degrees below during the night, and more and more of the snow is melting away. :)
The rain did not come.
Slightly sunny here, cool but tolerable.
Rainy, rainy, rany, rny, rnnnnnn....
Our whole landscape is Puddleby-on-the-Marsh.
And you are doing little? ;)
Looks like rain again. No idea whether the promise holds.
Snow and mildly cold (-10 or -15C) today.
A few drops yesterday evening
Quote from: Aggie on March 10, 2011, 05:14:55 PM
(-10 or -15C) today.
One of us lives in bizarro land, 10C to 15C for today.
No more rain today. All the water is underfoot. 50 F.
No change
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 11, 2011, 12:51:34 PM
Quote from: Aggie on March 10, 2011, 05:14:55 PM
(-10 or -15C) today.
One of us lives in bizarro land, 10C to 15C for today.
Me I guess, I've got the negative values and the outdoor job. ;)
6 am london 7 degrees cloud - actually there are signs of spring - the odd warm day and some daffodils.
Looks nice and sunny
Here too... they are forecasting a 20 degree swing between the current temperature and today's high. -30 with windchill for this morning.
Is it just a world-wide glow from Japan?
It's sunny here, too. Mild but breezy. I'm jealous of Griffin's daffodils! :D
Currtently very nice an dsunny but there will be clouds and maybe rain the next few days
Rain makes for good daffodils. We had some open here, this weekend. 50's F today, light breezes.
Lunchtime was sunny. Didn't last.
Getting above zero - NOT good for my current job. I need solid frozen roads, not mud pits.
I hate having to whinge about nice weather! ;P
Drizzle most of yesterday but very mild, so it was actually quite pleasant
Cloudy, 50 F, rain expected by evening.
Foggy out here, and frosty.
Cool (not cold), windy but dry, sky overcast
Foggy here, too. It's sort of odd looking up theatrical fog machines when it's foggy outside. Can't I just go scoop some up now to use later?
No changes I could see
Temporary setback for the spring weather here, wiht temperatures dropping to -6 or so during the nights. Still, some spring flowers, such as snow drops, are peeking out of the old grass in sheltered locations, so it's heading in the right direction!
Rather dismal weather.
Windy, cool, may rain any moment
Our front porch thermometer is reading 69 F right now. The windows are open. Happy first weekend of spring, northern hemispheries!
Sunny outside but I am to wobbly on my legs currently to walk out to check wind and temperature
I haz a tan - for about 15 cm from the bottom of my safety glasses to the collar of my coveralls.
Go, Malibu Aggie!
Sunny and mild, today, around 60F.
cloudy again
Wonderful early spring weather!
Sunshine and 6°C 8)
Good even I have had enough winter now! ;)
Now it's sunny and it looks mild
Partly cloudy and mild. Had a thunderstorm this morning.
moderately mild and sunny
Snow is setting in for the next few days.
No precipitation here and forecast at worst predict clouds at the moment.
Getting hotter and hotter everyday... 82F/28C expected for today.
Sunny. In the next few days more clouds expected but no rain (or not much of it at least)
A little rain shower activity here, and cooling down. Boo!
Temperatures a bit wobbly but nights inside cities above zero (at the edges possibly slightly below)
Rainy. Cool. Snow expected this weekend. Bleeah!
Sunny. It's possible to walk outside without a coat not feeling cold
Yes, wonderfully sunny and warm here too.
Snow, wind, nice and warm.
Overcast in Berlin, mixed clouds in Dessau. Temperatures are dropping
Sunny and cool, chance of snow showers tonight. :P
Fuddy bluckin cold today - was probably only single digits (-) but the wind chill made it feel like -25C. The wind was howling so loud you couldn't hear the wolves. ;)
It was feckin spring on Tuesday; it's sleeting rain tonight!
Day started with a drizzel but now the sun comes out occasionally
Woke to a blumpy half inch of snow on the ground, but just wet pavement. Most has melted now, but the forecast is for a few more wintry days. Sigh.
All sunny today. Not actually warm but tolerable. A bit windy.
Cold, but not windy. Frosty.
Sunny, absent wind cool but nice.
Staying in double figures overnight !
Yeay, Griffin! :D
It's damp and cool, but staying above freezing.
Looks rainy at the moment
Starting to feel damp but yet not as hot as it will be at midday. I will have to turn on the AC soon, it seems.
Oh, poor booboo! :mrgreen: Wish I was there sipping Pepsi with you, Sib!
Partly cloudy, near 50 F. Breezy.
Brilliant English spring day. 18 C and sunny, no wind. Daffs and crocuses, all very pretty.
Grey, windy and wet.
At least it ought to melt off the remaining snow fairly rapidly.
Yesterday very sunny and nice but also very windy.
Today overcast
Cloudy, but expecting mid 50's later this afternoon. Sunny tomorrow.
Lots of buds on trees waiting for that hopeful breakthrough early next week into warm weather.
sumer is a-cumin in (no cuckoo though)
Back to cold and later rain.
Yesterday was warm and nice.
Today is windy and snowing.
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 03, 2011, 11:40:49 PM
Yesterday was warm and nice.
Today is windy and snowing.
replace snow with rain and you have the situation around here.
It's supposed to get very warm here today, but so far it's only slightly mild.
On my end I succumbed and turned the AC, I can't take it anymore. How hot you ask? 31C/88F and 50% humidity. The worst part? This is just the beginning.
A bit foggy on the way here. Now sunshine
Furious thunderstorms in the wee hours. Now the sun is peeking through the clouds, but it's markedly cooler this afternoon than it was this morning.
I'm pining for the beach.
Cold and wet, but tomorrow is looking good.
Currently totally unpredictable.
Calm and sunny, but cool.
Overcast but nonetheless bright
Sunny and milder. Pretty nice right now.
Unpredicatble change between sun and clouds, very windy, mild
Another beautiful day.
No change, i.e. the weather is still constantly changing
Rainy and cool.
Currently bright sunshine
Sunny and around 72 degrees F. Trees are greening up!
Sunny days have finished.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 12, 2011, 12:11:08 AM
Sunny days have finished.
Yeah, here too.
Yesterday bright sunshine, today clouds and heavy rain on at least part of the journey here.
It's lovely here, but the natives are dying in droves.
"What's the burning ball in the sky?!!"
Weather changing every few minutes: sun, clouds, rain; wash, rinse, repeat
Dark skies and rivers of rain.
It's hot, hot, hot, 32C/90F. "Summer" is back with a vengeance.
Now this is officially bad weather. Rain and heavy winds. Storm gales in some areas.
Calling for more April showers tonight. By which I mean snow. Hopefully less than the first April snow this year:
(http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/8065/aprilshowers.jpg)
Ack, forecast is for 10 cm. :P Get me outta this province!
Rain seems to have stopped for the moment, otherwise no change
Winter freakin' wonderland this morning - see above, only mores(n)o
Clouded, no rain.
Eh, it's still pretty, Aggie.
Wish you was here: sunny, near 70 F today. The grass is greener. Bushier... in need of mowing all ready! Nooooooooooooooooo....!!!!!
Yeah, I was thinking this morning that it was very pretty weather (it's mild) for December. Then I started wondering if I'd finished my Xmas shopping yet. :P
As long as it's not -30. Sunshine in 2 weeks!
When I got up 5am this morning it was +7.4C
Grey skies, occasional breakthroughs, possibly a few showers. Today I have drinks at a street cafe out in the open so the umbrella will come along. Street parties need to match sunspells. All is unsatisfactory and they should be able to cotrol it by now. I say cut everything and pit the money into weather.
Snowed last night and this morning. Trees and automobile glass coated in ice, as are bridges along otherwise clear roads. Many accidents tonight (cars going off bridges on the interstate and into ditches on highway curves) stopping traffic for quite a ways to accommodate emergency vehicles.
What Griffin said
Sunny but cool and breezy here today. Thunderstorms tomorrow are expected to cause flooding, due to the ground saturation.
Darker clouds have arrived
Pretty much t-shirt weather today. sigh.
Currently nice and sunny but clouds and rain are forecast (forecast overcast so to speak)
Carp. I need to build an ark, and it's too rainy to get to the lumberyard.
Snowing again. :P
EDIT: Snowing more again. :P :P
overcast but not looking like rain
Summer litereally started early, 32C/90F+ at midday and rain in the afternoon. I wonder how it will be in August.
More snow...
cool but sunny
Sneaugh
Sneaugh
and more Sneaugh
Fair weather forecast for the whole week.
I have to increase the dose of antiallergics.
Snow on the ground, with occasional flakes still falling.
^What she said.
Sunny
Crazy storms this weekend. Now balmy and muddy.
t-shirt-ish weather again
It got uncomfortably warm in the train on the ride home
Cool and windy, but sunny.
Sunny day but the birches are out to kill me nasally
Sons of birches!
Two nights ago we had a fire in the fireplace.
Today it's 80 degrees F and all the windows are open.
Happy Spring!
Finally springlike weather here too.
Yarrrgh.
Thee Eostre Bunny 'as harizen!
After some (too) warm and sunny days now it's overcast and rain is announced for the next few days.
Hope that will reduce the power of the birches
86 F here today, sunny and breezy.
When I came in it was sunny, now it's overcast
Sunny, windy, big puffy clouds racing across the heavens.
Pleasant and sunny this morning; trying to be cold and drizzly this afternoon.
Rain and thunderstorm yesterday evening
Now (here at work) mixed clouds and sun
rain, on and off all day
Weather completely unpredictable
Sunny, but cool and breezy.
rain has gone away in my area for now-- but still part of Interstate I40 -- a main US artery cross country is closed and with a 6 to 7 hour detour from high river over the road. ARGH--- but will have sun, sun lovely sun for a few days--- on a gross note-- the house I rent is very old and the septic tank is underneath the carport and well it was pumped recently so it could be worse but it overflows when we take showers--- and yes I have thrown a fit at my land lord and am looking for a new place to live-- I know it is swamped due to the ran and no place for the effluent to go but i'm not living in a cess pool.
ugh how disgusting.......... hope you get somewhere else soon.
We await predicted massive thunderstorms.
I hope that gets resolved properly, anthrobabe!
'Weather' here depends on time of day. ;)
Quite cool in the morning and evening and slightly too warm in the afternoon (at least if you wear the clothing proper for morning and evening).
Sunny
Lovely early summer weather, sunny, bright, temperatures around twenty degrees during the day -a bliss after this looong winter!
Temperatures expected to go to the lower or mid twenties (°C). Maybe a few droplets of rain in the late evening but otherwise sunny weather. And the birches still try to kill me, so I avoid going outside as much as possible and keep the windows closed.
We've had a heavenly week, here. Today we're getting the first in a series of rainy days.
At least the rain will wash away some of the pollen, which is quite heavy.
Torrential rain yesterday evening. Before that and most of today bright sunshine
Rainyrainyrainyrainyrainy....
After a very sunny day now rain and some gusts of wind
Forecast says 25C today. Still a bit cloudy.
wind and rain seem to have stopped and it is still warm enough that the sidewalks already start to dry
Thunderstorms expected every day this week. But between them, it's beautiful.
Mrs Blue & I have been freezing our "little" butts off in Canberra, the nation's capital. Came up here for the opening of Grandpa Blue's centenery exhibition (he's a landscape artist). Mrs Blue and I had made a memory quilt for his 100th birthday a couple of weeks ago and we were asked to allow it to be hung at the entrance to the gallery. We were very gratified when we saw clumps of people gathered around it pointing out various photos and the decorated blocks we had sent out to people all over country and even as far away as Ireland. The opening was attended by several hundred people and was a great success. For me it was a chance to catch up with family and friends I have not seen, in some cases, for decades.
Anyway, I'm sitting in my little camper van at 5:30 am because I can't sleep for some reason - very un-Bluenose of me, I can assure you - writing this in the dark on my cell phone. We're packing up as doon as it gets light and heading down to the South Coast of New South Wales to catch up with some more family for a few days. I'll be in touch.
Great to hear from you, Blue! Travel safely, friend.
What a great adventure!
Can you post picture(s) of the quilt?
Unpredictable weather. The weather report does not much to help there, esp. in choice of jacket
When in doubt use a straitjacket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straitjacket). :mrgreen:
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Bit cloudy, a chance of rain and HOT!
The walk to the canteen was roast from the left and water from above
20 deg C, sunny, lovely view of the mountains, fresh fish, cips & scallops for lunch. Planning fresh local oysters and prawns for dinner. Life doesn't get much better than this!
Weather remains unstable but the tendency is towrds higher temperatures and less precipitation
What Swato said.
No significant change
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Hot as usual...
Overcasty, coolish, rain-esque.
looking out the window it looks good but weather report is ambiguous
Warmish - 20C - tomorrow and probably no rain. I play a game with the forecast; it only matters to me on days that I am going out, which are rare. Twice this week though so the game has been harder.
Sky divided. Sun a few hundred metres to the SW overcast here and a few drops in between
Much nicer today. Partly sunny, around 70 F.
After a nice and sunny day now we have a thunderstorm
The storm came first
Where did the summer go?
Strong winds, rain, and temperatures of all of 11-12 degrees. Bleh.
Quote from: Lindorm on June 20, 2011, 08:33:08 AM
Where did the summer go?
Strong winds, rain, and temperatures of all of 11-12 degrees. Bleh.
The same here but interspersed with sun and high temperatures
Weather completely unpredictable at the moment
I got yer summer right here... highs in the high 80's F and pop-up thunderstorms every day. We're getting our summer jungle.
No idea what the weather will be today. Looks like rain at the moment but for some parts of the country blazing heat is announced too.
Still hot and muggy- and it's not even July yet! :help:
It was hot and muggy when I left for the other side of the gulf, to find the same weather, with rain added for some days. Coming back is as hot and muggy. BTW 80F/27C? That's inside with the AC on, outside is 95F/35C feeling like 100F/38C.
There is one thing one can rely on: the unreliability of the weather report
Quite cool and rainy for June, for here (still ace weather compared to AB). The garden is a bit behind due to the cold spring. There have been a few days over 25 C. July is typically the scorcher month, so the heat is coming.
Estimates are that this is the hottest day of the year yet
Yesterday was the hottest day for five years. Today, muggy with thunderstorms.
I wish hot weather did not bring thunderstorms. If they asked me about how to organise weather I'd do it differently.
Hot again but there may (may!) be thunderstorms in the late(?) afternoon.
And my sinuses have woken and are trying to kill me slowly.
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 29, 2011, 08:17:16 AM
And my sinuses have woken and are trying to kill me slowly.
Auntie and I invented some sinus clearers made from waxed string like dental floss........................
I don't think the ducts are stuck. Hot brine takes care of that.
But that does not help instantly against irritation (I hope it stays below inflammation)
It was blazing hot in the cold, cold city.
Hot and Humid
clouded.
cooler
no idea when or if rain will start.
Here comes the rain again...
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More evaporation means more precipitation, I guess we will have to get used to it. :-\
light rain most of yesterday, now it's sunny but cooler (good!), more rain may come (or not)
Hot and sunny - good Wimbledon weather (not too hot) for Andy Murray to lose to Nadal as usual.
The sidewalk are partially wet and the sky is clouded. Rain is likely the culprit but currently I can not see it.
We've just had a rather fabulous week here, weather-wise. This weekend we're heading into more typical metro-D.C. weather- hot hazy and humid!
We could use some decent rain.
Massive rain. I guess I'll have to take the boat for shopping if it goes much longer that way.
Last night we were at an outdoor party and it rained like the blazes, but we just kept pouring the Sangria.
I took a medium length period of no rain to go shopping
Gorgeous as all get-out today. In fact, I think I will.
Sunny all day, although when I woke up the sidewalks were wet.
Hot and sunny, should break 30C tomorrow. Hopefully this warm stretch will kickstart the lakes; the temperature is a bit chilly for prolonged swims.
Similar here. A bit of rain announced for the greater region in the evening but considered unlikely to hit this city.
Better than yesterday.
Rainy and rumbly this morning, hot and sticky this afternoon.
Contrary to forecast the rain reached the city last evening.
Now sunny again
Sunny and hot this morning, rain expected in the afternoon/evening.
One nice thing about this weather is that it's keeping the landscape green and the price of vegetables down in our area. I love my BBQ corn on the cob!
More heat this morning, then a thunderstorm rolled in and dropped the temperature fifteen degrees in an hour. It's deliciously cool and breezy now.
Weather agaain looks fully unpredictable
Here, we have heavy thunderstorms predicted for later this afternoon and evening. I guess I'd better go run my errands soon.
Too sunny for my taste at the moment
Really hot and grubby today, and expected to hit 100 F by the weekend.
YECHHH!
Mixed and unpredictable
After a looong (since Thursday) weekend of broken AC, it was finally fixed yesterday evening, and I don't care how bloody hot it's outside (which it is).
Man, it's like an armpit out there! I'm going to go sit in my little blowup pool.
If this rain keeps coming/going(?) much longer, I'll have to look for the inflatable boat in the basement.
Cooling down a bit. I'm on a team for a 24-hr mountain bike race (relay) and it may hit lows of 4C overnight during the event. Good thing I packed a wool jersey...
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 22, 2011, 08:56:16 AM
If this rain keeps coming/going(?) much longer, I'll have to look for the inflatable boat in the basement.
Yes, been raining for days here too.
I'm hearing thunder, but I'm not seeing any rain. It's around 102 F here, so rain would help cool it down.
Rain has stopped but likely to lure lure us out of the house with a sense of false security
Thank goodness it's cloudy and only supposed to get into the 90's F today!
Dry and cloudy at the moment. No idea how it will turn out over the course of the day
Just around 90 F and low humidity. OODLES better! :)
Dry and cloudy here too.
Dry but humid, overcast but warm.
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 27, 2011, 11:19:21 AM
Dry but humid
Black but white, hot but cold, sweet but salty? ;) :P :mrgreen:
I imagine, no rain but humid... :P
(sorry, I couldn't resist)
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Regular South FL weather, hot, humid, no rain today (yet, it may come at any moment).
Of course, but dry was simply the better contrast ;)
Edit: and food can be both sweet and salty. Did you never eat cheap Asian (food) stuff?
Humidity... coming back... c-can't... breathe... :faint:
A hot day, no rain, cloud and sun.
Heavy downpour
Ooey gooey rich and chewy inside...
No wait a minute, I think that's the Big Fig Newton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI3IL46yq4) song.
Rainy but less torrential than yesterday
We could use that rain! Our grass is shriveling up.
Hot and humid. But not complaining, so nice to have sun and no rain. Rain due back on Wed. though.
Yesterday it was warm and humid with occasional rain. Currently the sun is shining but I do not trust any forecast at the moment.
We finally got some rain here! Thanks for sending it, European Sibs! ;D
Sunny all day but at times high humidity.
Forecast is: hot and some rain
Okay, you can stop with the rain now, thankyouverymuch.
It's been so rainy and humid for the past few weeks that we're all growing mushrooms.
Quote from: Opsa on August 03, 2011, 06:43:49 PM
We finally got some rain here! Thanks for sending it, European Sibs! ;D
Don't say you didn't ask for it. ;D
I haven't seen any (edible) mushrooms yet this year, although I haven't had a chance/made an effort to raid my usual patches. The weathers been a bit too summer-like for them to put up a big crop yet I think. We're getting an occasional feint towards cooler temperatures, but it's generally been quite sunny and warm, and can keep doing so in my opinion.
Yesterday morning a bit of rain otherwise sunny and mildly warm
Ach... calling for snow where I'm working by the weekend, although back to warmness after that.
Sunny all the day
We've got the best weather we've had all summer. 26°C (79°F), not humid, bright sun, blue sky. They say it'll last a day or two yet.
It finally cleared up today, but it was still a tad warm. It's supposed to become cool and windy here this weekend.
I just wish for something to kill all the mosquitos. I have not seen such an invasion in my whole life. The usual dose in the past was about half a dozen per day in the flat. This year it's dozens per hour even with most windows closed. I go into a room, kill a dozen or two and the next time I go there it seems they all came back from the dead (given that they are vampires that is not actually surprising) and brought their extended family with them. Even the insect netting I put in front of my window seems to only slow but not stop them coming in.
You need window screens. It helps a lot.
The weather here today is 70 F, sunny, clear, low humididididity and GORGEOUS! This is how fall is supposed to be.
Unfortunately it is technically not possible to install permanent ones* and the insect nets seem to be not really effective. Gauze or anti-pollen vleece block the very air exchange the windows get opened for together with the stinging critters. Most measures to fight the suckers driectly have their serious detractors. In my experience electric traps (blue light plus high voltage) do not attract the majority to their death, chrysantemum vaporizers only slow them down but do not kill them (or do so so slowly that it does not matter) and repellants seem either not to work at all or only at very short ranges and only on the skin (spraying them on the nets seems not to stop the beasts going through (I guess they use the tunnel effect to do it).
*either inside or outside due to the shape of the windows and the jalousies running directly in front of them (on the outer side).
Try one of these.
(http://www.aviapress.com/engl/mwh/mwh7224.jpg)
I actually thought about a device that would shoot down incoming insects maybe with a water jet. The problem is to get a reliable target acquisition. I doubt that radar would work on mosquitos and infrared is likely unreliable, esp. during daytime. Add to that that the critters tend not to fly in straight lines and your device will run out of ammo soon while most enemies get through.
Sound location? Probably not accurate enough.
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It's very hot here again today after a sweltering afternoon yesterday - up to 28°C / 82.4°F. If it reaches 29°C / 84°F today, it'll be the hottest October temperature ever recorded in the UK.
Opsaville is cold and rainy and gloomy and gross today!
Never mind, Opsa, we'll be the same by Tuesday. :(
Quote from: Sibling DavidHIf it reaches 29°C / 84°F today, it'll be the hottest October temperature ever recorded in the UK.
We made it! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15137832)
@ Swato: "Repellants" do no such thing; they just muck with the beasties' chemosensors so that they cannot easily figure out that you are a target. Presumably they can still see you, to some degree.
For actual combat, have you tried the little racket-shaped electronic zappers? They are quite effective against small insects. Wasps usually can shake off a shock if they are not actually lodged in the mesh and fried until crispy.
I usually smash the bloodsucking beasts on the wall or (with the help of a drawing roll and a pack of paper handkerchiefs) on the ceiling. Sometimes I manage to grab them out of the air.
Wasps get the real (wrapped) racket. Flies are too fast and erractic to hit that way and often too light also. Wasps are heavy enough and go to earth in a helpless state.
QuoteFor actual combat, have you tried the little racket-shaped electronic zappers?
I've got a couple of them, but they require you to stand up and make an effort. :'(
BTW has yours got a complicated two-button safety interlock? Mine had, but I found that if you take the handle apart, there are two small bits you can chuck out to convert it to one-button zapping.
Mine's just a cheap one, so no safety measures included. ;)
With mozzies / skeeters, they come to you and hover a bit, so they are not hard to intercept. Flies and wasps are more difficult.
For those with reasonable alcohol prices, a pump-type aerosol bottle filled with high-test grain alcohol makes a good, safe insect killer, although it can damage some materials and finishes.
I once wrote for college an informative essay, "Weapons used in Swatting of Flies".
:)
The teacher was less than amused, and although technically correct (I got an A on grammar/spelling/style, but only a B+ on subject), she down-graded me due to subject. Such a stick-in-the mud. Or maybe she was PETA.
In any case?
My favorite anti-flying bug spray is simple soap-and-water. A modern liquid hand soap, or hand-dishwashing soap works best. But any laundry detergent, or even plain old bar-soap dissolved in hot water works wonders. Put into an empty spray bottle, and set for either mist or stream, depending on how far away.
The nice thing about dilute soap solution? It's non-toxic to pets, even if you get some on them (of course it makes them unhappy, but what can you do?)
Anyway, the soapy water interferes with their ability to fly somehow-- I really can't be bothered to find out why, but it does, and they drop like.... well, flies.
:D
Of course, if you do nothing, they will simply dry out, and take to wing once more.... but a manually operated ant-mauler1 tends to discourage any resuscitation.
I especially like the mist setting, when attacking wasps or other stinging insects-- you don't really need to aim, as the mist is more of a shotgun effect, and the mist tends to dissipate into the air, if you miss. But with a pair of flat-soled shoes on, a rag2 in one hand, and the mister in the other, and you can wipe out a whole mess'o flying annoyances without endangering either the pets or the little'uns.
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1 Although a professional, manually operated ant-mauler may look like a flat piece of wood with a handle on top, it is really a finely crafted instrument of insect control. But there are suitable substitutions available3, for the budget conscious.
2 In addition to soaking up near-misses, the rag is also handy for cleaning the bottom of your shoes. Or the faces of your loved ones.
3 Whereas professionally made ant maulers can be purchased from your local distributor, a size 7 to 10, flat-soled shoe or boot, placed directly over the fallen insect, and then sufficient pressure applied downwards until the shoe is fully in contact with the floor is a quite effective subsitute. It should be noted that shoes with crevices and holes-in may give less than satisfactory results. A largish book may be substituted for the shoe. Or a brick-- turn the holes sideways for best results; caution! Avoid sudden downward pressure when utilizing bricks, as you may damage the floor. Or the brick.
The soap breaks the surface tension of the water, wetting the insect much more effectively. I think water normally tends to bead on insect wings, and then gets shaken off immediately.
One of the reasons I like ethanol? It dissipates quickly, so there's no need to wipe up. Also, it's non-toxic to mammals in the quantities used. I actually tend to use isopropanol for cost reasons, which is more toxic (considering you rub it on your skin, it's not much of a worry). Don't use either around open flames, though.
The other reason is that you don't need to squash the victims, because they literally get drunk to death. If I had my druthers... :tequila: It does take a fair shot to kill them, though, but I've found wasps are sometimes discouraged enough to fly away after being fogged. Very effective for insects bouncing along a window, because it's good for removing streaks, too. :mrgreen:
Confession: I'm kind of a big softy and will often take great effort to shoo bugs out the door rather than kill them. Even skeeters have their purpose - the males pollinate very small flowers, as do the females until they go vamp. I do kill 'em when they land, though, and there's a fly in my hotel room that might get it....
I'll give the isopropol a try, then. I had the impression it takes a great lot of drenching [the critter] to make it effective. As a matter of fact, I happen to keep some in a spray bottle for spritzing on skin irritations (that you don't specifically want to rub).
:)
I like the thought of drunk bugs myself.... could even be amusing.
Yeah, it takes a good soak sometimes, for larger insects like wasps (a mist won't do it), but it's a good go-to for when they are trapped and buzzing 'round in circles indoors, if it's somewhere you don't want to smear bug guts on (bonus: it's a sterilizer). It's quite quick - they drop immediately and are dead within twenty or thirty seconds. The ant-mauler is likely more merciful. Haven't tried it for mozzie-skeeters, but it could be fun around the campfire. ;)
Watch 'em though.. they are mean, twitchy drunks.
This article (http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05547.html) says (about soapy water bug spray): "In most cases, control results from disruption of the cell membranes of the insect. Soaps and detergents may also remove the protective waxes that cover the insect, causing death through excess loss of water."
The skeeters have been quiet here for the past few days, as we have had very cool temperatures and windy rains. However, it's expected to dry out and be sunny and warm for the rest of the week. We hope!
Just as we're going from ridiculously warm and sunny weather to the usual wind and rain. :'(
I am very selective about killing arthropods. Bees and Bumblebees get escorted out trying not to hurt them. Big flies will first be given open windows and doors to escape (not out of mercy but because they are so difficult to hit in flight). No mercy on wasps at all. Can't remember ever having hornet inside (outside occasionally). Killing them would actually be illegal since they are protected specieses (as are some wasps but those rarely molest humans in their dwellings and I would not care anyway).
I keep a little plastic cup and a piece of card around, which I call my insect escort service. I am quite brave about trapping wasps and hornets, as well as more docile bees and moths and spiders, and then letting them go.
I am not so merciful with mosquitoes. It's me or them.
Finally, some sunshine today!
You can use ovitraps for mosquitoes, females put their eggs in but the larvae can't get out. Quite ingenious and completely safe.
[youtube=425,350]nUO0UFoIxtA[/youtube]
Orphans go in, but they can't get out!
Today is fore-casted to be mild, sunny and delicious! I should go and get some apples.
Our summer is gone after a flurry of last minute hotness. Sad.
It's purdy as a pitcher, here. Nice meteor shower watching weather predicted for the weekend.
It turned to rain yesterday and it seems I am under the weather (headache, irritated sinuses, nausea)
Poor Swato! Maybe you should see a doctor to make sure it's not strep or something.
The weather here is fantabulous!
It's just the recurring theme.
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Temperature dropped to the lower tens, change between sun and clouds, occasional rain.
Shceduled for 13C today, 20C tomorrow. The sun should be mor consistant, someone should tell it.
It's been snowing here since the wee hours, and sticking, too! This is beakin' frizarre for this part of the country. We sometimes do not see snow until after Xmas, here. We have one of those gazebo tents outside, and I have to keep going out and bomping the snow off it so it doesn't collapse before Mr. Ops can get home and take it down.
It was actually quite warm yesterday, although the atmosphere is generally autumny. I sweated a good deal despite wearing only a windbreaker.
Yes, here too it's 4° or 5° C (10° F) warmer than average. Meanwhile poor Opsa gets snow.
I had to mow my grass this week.... been puttin' it off for a coupla weeks, now... it is growing so very slowly. But it finally got long enough to mow. Late in October... hopefully it's now short enough, and we'll finally get a good freeze to shock the grass back into winter mode.
Many of the trees still have green leaves, too...
... I suspect the plants have not caught up to the new weather. The changes're comin' too fast, they is. Kinda smacks in the head the notion it's [the new weather is] all nat'urll & sh1t, don't it?
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Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 05, 2011, 02:39:51 AM
You can use ovitraps for mosquitoes, females put their eggs in but the larvae can't get out. Quite ingenious and completely safe.
[youtube=425,350]nUO0UFoIxtA[/youtube]
Brilliant!
Anyone with a modest set of construction skills could make one of these-- basically, you need to float the stainless-steel screen mesh at the surface of the water, or perhaps slightly above (not clear on that).
The female mosquito lays the eggs through the screen, into the water... trapping the larvae. Rainfall or garden-watering keeps the trap full, the level is not critical, as the screen is floating.
Looks like you could make it out of ordinary plumbing parts... theirs appears to be ABS plastic, but PVC ought to work equally as well. Stainless steel screening is easy to get from Amazon. I suppose aluminum screening would work too, but you'd have to replace it every couple of years (it corrodes). Even nylon mesh would work, say from an old pair of panty hose--but you'd need to keep that in the shade.
I may make some of these as gifts...
:D
http://snowdays.popularfront.com/ (http://snowdays.popularfront.com/)
It's that time of year-- well I do it all year ;)
^ too bad there isn't an "add a leaf" or "add a blade of grass" version!
;)
Forecast overcast. T going up to 16°C. Probably staying dry
Hey, anthrobabe, I've been making online snowflakes (http://snowdays.popularfront.com/) there, too.
Most of the snow has melted here. Today we should get into the 50 F's.
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 31, 2011, 08:55:25 AM
Forecast overcast. T going up to 16°C. Probably staying dry
London was 17C. Beat you by one !!
Sunny
It's been quite rainy here, more than usual I'd dare say, almost as hard as when a tropical storm/hurricane hits but without the hard winds, with many zone getting flooded. Getting a tiny bit cooler too ~20C/70F in the evenings (that one I'm thankful about).
I'd say this is a pleasant autumn day (with the sun preparing to set)
Not bad here, either. Highs today in the 50F's. Lows have been freezing. I'm glad I picked all the good zinnias last Friday night. The ones outside have frostbite.
still wearing short-sleeved t-shirts to work this morning.
strange white, cold, wet stuff falling from sky on the way home.
Weather has stayed essentially the same. Sunny and mild.
Same here, but windy.
It's snowing here, quite unexpectedly. The flakes are in big, wet clusters that have collected quickly on the ground. Very pretty!
I thought it was Spring, today...
I also have the impression that someone switched the intended minus with a plus as far as temperatures are concerned.
It's cooling down a bit but it's still securely above zero even at night. Also rainy (drizzle to be precise) and occasionally windy. The main storm depression has passed us by.
The thermometer on my front porch is at 50F. The snow is melting.
It was lovely, but I like the mild temperatures, too.
After a prolonged warm stretch (temperatures to +13C lately), it's returned to winter with snow this morning and a forecast of -20C overnight. Of course, I'm visiting the wrong side of the Rockies at the moment and can flee west to sensible temperatures at the drop of a hat. :)
Sounds like a decent hat to drop.
We hit 60 F today, but tonight we expect some snow.
Two days ago: Summer time, and the living was easy.
Yesterday: freaking cold, with a fierce wind-driven chill & frozen-shut car doors.
Today: smallish new snow gone in places, cold but not unbearably so.
Tempratures chilly but safely above freezing. Audible wind. Currently not raining but that is just a matter of time.
Looks more like November.
Frost here this morning for the first time this winter. So far it's been as far on the warm side of average as last winter was on the cold side. Must be this yere climate change.
Clouds at the moment thinning where I suppose the sun is located. Can't spot it but the brightness level has increased.
While I type this, the sun has become directly visible. Otherwise no changes.
Hanging around freezing today.
I've got a flu, so it's a good day to just stay inside.
Last week, we had a smattering of snow--which quickly melted, as the ground was too warm. Only that which fell on top of higher grass, or on evergreen bushes survived.
Today? It's up into the 50's again.
I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, come Feb....
Sunny but it looks cool (still far above the seasonal average)
Omigosh cold out there, but I'm better, so it's not bad.
Cold enough to have my birds inside (that is likely hot for most of you 50-60F/10-15C).
It was cold last week (there was even a smattering of snow on the higher peaks in the state. Even had to put the heater on one day - BBRRRRR!
Today it has turned warm again, about 32 deg C and warming up later this week. We're expecting a small cold change tomorrow but it will be shallow and then we're going back to warm temps up around the high 30s. The grass at Cas Del Blue is still green - unheard of this time of year - and I am not getting my normal holiday from mowing the wretched stuff. Thankfully I only have a small lawn area and a push mower is all I need, but still...
Some alibi snow this morning
Flakes drifting past the window...
As expected the alibi snow was gone within hours.
Back to typical November weather
Quote from: pieces o nine on January 16, 2012, 08:18:24 PM
Flakes drifting past the window...
Oh, that was just me. If I'd known you were in, I would have knocked. ;D
Grey skies and hovering around 50 F here.
It's cold as heck here. However, the ski hill is getting snow and in better shape than last time I saw it.
At least I'm in BC.... it's cold as hell in Alberta right now. ;)
Yesterday at this time it was +2.4°C. Haven't checked the thermometer this morning yet.
Currently sunny and dry.
Chilly and windy, here. The temps are around 40 F, but the wind makes it not so fun to walk outside.
-4°F / Mostly Cloudy / Wind: N at 8 mph / Humidity: 76%
(http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10404/brrrr.gif)
It turned windy in combination with significnat rain in the evening.
Forecast for today is dry (again with possible change in the evening) but cloudy.
T about 5°C (I didn't check).
Sunny and chilly, but less windy today. I like it much better without the freezing wind.
Dry forecast failed. The rain gets really nasty and it's going to stay that way for a few days at least.
Light snow has appeared overnight.
Twas nasty yesterday but today it looks moderately nice. T near freezing.
50F and cloudy. Feels more like March. No complaints, here.
Sunny but very windy, although formally slightly above freezing the windchill shifted it far downward.
This morning it was around 65 F for a brief, lovely spell. I even opened the windows for an hour to air the house out.
Now the north wind is blowing again, and the temps are creeping back down.
Less windy today but I still took the cap with the thick ear protection
Now, how am I supposed to keep my thick ears warm?! ;D
Cool and breezy, but sunny.
Cold and temperatures are expected to drop further down the week.
Sunny
Can't say whether it is windy. Not much at the moment I'd say but this spot is rather protected and it might look different a few streets away.
It's only normal for January, but it feels like the South Pole because we've got so used to abnormally warm weather. There's a lot to be said for global warming. y'know. ;D
I know. It's enough to make you wanna give up saying "Y'arrrggghhh".
Pretty mild here.
Definitely not used to cold anymore. Weather nice but COLD (i.e. what would have been normal when I was a kid but has by now become rather uncommon).
Berlin was always cold in winter. As I remember it, the old East was colder than the West. You could feel the temperature drop as you went into Checkpoint Charlie.
I would not be surprised about that. East Berlin was indeed different enough to have a different microclimate.
The officially coldest location was in the West though. Ironically that place was officially known as Eiskeller (ice basement/cellar).
I wish I could import the two of you here, today. It's sunny and 65 F!
As long as I do not have to walk (or worse: stand) outside for too long and there is no wind, I do not mind the cold as it is now.
I just hope there will be a bit more snow to cover the inevitable losses. It looks rather patchy right now.
Wet snow.
Public school classes were canceled at 5:19 this morning. We know bcause they have an automated phone service that called us at that unGTEly hour!
A light snow began to fell around 1:30 p.m. It began to stick to lawns around 3 pm. At this writing it is 4:51 pm and there's still no snow on the pavement.
But... it's kinda pretty!
This winter comes close to breaking records in both directions. Until now we had both the warmest specific day for a century and the coldest since at least 25 years. There was a wee bit of extra snow in the night to cover the gaps left by slowly disappearing earlier precipitation from about a week ago.
Sunny and high 40's F. Most of the snow is melted.
Cold, damp, miserable - and we're due to spend half the morning at the garden project dealing with a local radio feature. :'( I've got very thick socks on.
Sunny and (from the looks of it) not too cold. But the next cold spell going towards or beyond -15°C is (according to forecast) just around the corner.
I went to that interview with local radio at the garden project. I was there to photograph the event for the charity, as usual, and to support our disabled participants. It was bloody perishing! The snow was turning to slush in the freezing drizzle and my toes went numb inside my wooly socks inside my wellies. And the silly cow from the radio turned up late. :headbang:
Ya shoulda sold her to McDonald's to make quarter-pounders.
Partly sunny and near 50, but breezy here. Maybe some snow tonight.
They brought a cow? More manure for the compost pile, I guess. ;)
No sun today but no preciptation visible either.
Well, I did not intend to go outside anyway.
Just below freezing on the ski hill, and the snow is slushy. Very good conditions for blasting down the moguls; it's heavy, but gives you good control.
Sunny but cold, I'd say looking through the window.
Not sure how one can tell it is cold by looking out the window?
Cold but dry. (without looking out the window).
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 13, 2012, 03:50:37 AM
Not sure how one can tell it is cold by looking out the window?
There are a few methods, some subtle some not.
Clouded. Temperatures are expected to stay above -10°C today.
Back to normal Feb weather - above freezing, dull, breezy. Yuk.
Mild enough to go out without a scarf or cap.
Clear and cool and breezy. At least the terrible gusts of the weekend have slowed down1
Cool weather managed to get here, 40F/5C in the evening about 60F/15C and raising now.
Temperature has crossed the freezing point upwards. There may be drizzle later.
I think it's expected to get to near 50 F here today, but it does not feel that warm.
Warming up again after a coolish week or so. Today it is expected to get to 30 deg C (86 deg F). Nice.
It has shifted to rain here
I chiseled a glacier off my car this morning. >:(
But it was pretty nice this afternoon. :)
Large areas of England still in drought conditions - water-tables low, streams dried up, reservoirs down. It's not too bad here now but friends with wells still say they're pretty low.
Currently sunny but I think it'll only be temporary.
Sunny yesterday, snowy today. Still warm, compared to where I've usually been spending winters; it's rarely been dropping below -5 C.
At the moment the weather seems totally unpredictable.
As here. Mild today, snow maybe tomorrow.
Dry but it could start to rain any minute (or not)
You might even get a torrential downpour of frogs, although this is admittedly less likely.
dogs, cats and pitchforks are more likely, if tradition holds true.
Not much change in weather
Slight warming trend here, but windy.
I witnessed the worst waste of good snow in my whole lifetime today, I think.
When I woke up it was heavily snowing outside and up to about 11am there was thick snowcover (after the previous snow had completely disappeared during the last week).
Then without warning it changed to rain and turned it into sludge.
Temperatures are expected to stay above +5°C anf to go up to +12°C before the week is out.
We had a mild week last week and I spent all the time I could in my garden, clearing it out for the coming season. I can really feel it in my forearms, too, from all the pulling.
We have daffodils and croci blooming here!
This weekend it went all cold, again. But the flower's don't mind.
Nice and sunny, although cool.
Same here. Lotsa rain expected tomorrow.
Long-threatened major snow storm has arrived.
The snow is quite pretty on the lawns, but local streets are icy.
Clouded but currently dry
Snowing... there's always precipitation when moving. ::)
Sunny, snow melting, dogs able to run freely through the tiny remaining drifts.
Also, here (http://www.youtube.com/user/apetor?ob=0&feature=results_main#g/u) is a guy who really knows how to enjoy winter!
His videos are as wonderful as they are disturbing... ;)
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 29, 2012, 03:07:09 PM
Clouded but currently dry
Pavement wet but otherwise no change
Horrible chilly thick fog. Yuk!
Quote from: pieces o nine on February 29, 2012, 09:10:22 PM
Also, here (http://www.youtube.com/user/apetor?ob=0&feature=results_main#g/u) is a guy who really knows how to enjoy winter!
His videos are as wonderful as they are disturbing... ;)
Brrr!
Snow showers fell on the daffodils today, but melted in the afternoon.
Weather looks lovely. It goes to light freezing at night but otherwise it looks quite spring-like
Sounds like here. Today the weather here is sunny and cool with light winds.
Snow one day, warm the next. Sounds like I'm at where Opsa was at the start of March.
Weather wonderful. Sunny but cool (in the good sense), although rain has been announced before the week's end.
Snow again this morning... good thing I got a nice blanket of poly over my seeds after planting yesterday.
Smart move, Aggie!
Mild and muggy here today.
It's been very dry here lately, but today we are getting a good all-day April shower. We really needed it!
Sunny but a bit windy
Sunny and mild, rain expected this weekend.
Quote from: Opsa on April 20, 2012, 05:58:01 PM
Sunny and mild, rain expected this weekend.
More or less the same here
Sunny off and on today, but kind of chilly.
Dom yowled to go out, then refused to stay out for more than a few seconds. Repeat... Repeat... Repeat...
slightly sunny but I somehow expect some sneak attack of wet
Wet and cold. It would be rather miserable, except it's ending our drought. Rejoice!
Many storms last weekend. Chill weather-- I'm glad I did not disable the furnace (as I do every spring, once the cold is through playing).
Still chilly even today-- and wet.
In fact? It's rather cold for the usual season, as by now, I really expected T-shirt-and-shorts weather.
Global climate change? You betcha! More extremes of all seasons is to be expected.
When you pump in more heat into a heat-engine? (the earth's atmosphere) You get more frequent, and wider swings from one end to the other...
:D
All in all weather quite pleasing
Pretty here today, too, even if the breezes are a tad cool.
Quote from: OpsaWet and cold. It would be rather miserable, except it's ending our drought. Rejoice!
Exactly the same here. Drought was officially declared all over the southern UK last week. Now it's pouring down and they say it'll go on for days.
It's funny how often your parts of the US match the UK for weather. We ought to keep a log.
Weather still pleasant. But I hear rumors of an incoming hotspell
The weather's been wet for a few weeks now, with the odd day giving some respite. Ironically, this occurred at the exact time the hosepipe ban was announced. ???
Colonel Mustard did it in the Conservatory with the hosepipe, but no-one seems to want to know exactly what "it" was.
I have heard that the weather here in Virginia is rather like England. We have a few English people living in these parts. We do a lot of gardening and horse keeping here, too. I think we get a little colder and a little hotter than most of the UK, though, but just the extremes.
Today it's cloudy, near 60 F with showers sort of walking around us. If the sun breaks through we could see warmer temps, but so far it's been cool.
April weather. Rain lying in ambush ready jump on the unsuspecting.
It's been bucketing down here for days. April has been the wettest since records began in 17something. But they say we're still in drought conditions because the ground is so hard underneath that the water hasn't sunk in, but run straight off into the rivers. So the hosepipe ban is still in force in many places which also have floods or flood alerts.
The road from us to the next village east is flooded, but that doesn't bother us much as there are ways round.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on May 04, 2012, 01:50:11 PM
The road from us to the next village east is flooded, but that doesn't bother us much as there are ways round.
Time to get the rubber dinghies out?
Hope it only calls for rubber duckies.
Thunderstorms expecting this afternoon. Foo, as we were going to BBQ.
No rain today as far as I see/saw.
Looks like the road to Marden is dry, again. We've got friends from there coming for Sunday lunch, so I'm glad. Else the detour is about 8 miles.
Drop in temperature
and a bit of undecided rain.
Can't really complain
for sure
Rain kept on falling,
But has kept away today.
Refrigerator.
Are the weather and haiku thread fusing?
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 06, 2012, 01:05:47 PM
Are the weather and haiku thread fusing?
Maybe. It's my way of having fun. ;)
Then let it be followed by a sonnet
Is there no sun? It has been rarely seen
For some time now she has not shown her face
Some even say those have been rainy days
And little hailstones twice were in-between
Vers libre:
Smudges the colors of
chalk and soot
cut
in front of the sun
and promenade together
above,
the flowers
nod their heads,
the grass
dips,
all to an
unheard
dance band.
But wait-
far away
I think I just heard
the sound of cymbals crashing.
Wasserwagen den Weg räumen
Der Senger der Steppe er strahlt golden
Gefiederte Sänger mit froher Stimme
Grüßen des Tages goldnene Llampe
(short version: sun breaks through the clouds and the birds sing)
Ha! A Welsh lamp.
We have Hurricane Alberto passing by way out in the ocean, and lots of nice rain predicted for this week.
Clouds cover the cavern of Ymir
After blue up earlier this day
Weeping from west is walking here
Where the sun does set showers loom
After a hot forenoon with blue skies we now have could cover (but it's still hot).
Rain is coming eastwards form Western Germany. Thunderstorms are expected in my general area.
We have summer forecast. Today reasonable. Tomorrow in the 20s. :)
We were in the garden today. First time this year I've felt too hot. :stars:
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on May 21, 2012, 07:20:27 PM
First time this year I've felt too hot.
Had a sit in the sun a couple of weeks ago - but was just a one off good day.
Not really sunny here, sort of hazy, though warmer than last week.
It would be so great to have a good summer, surely we are due one?
Saturday was actually cold.
Today it was 90°.
Definitely too hot out there. But I will have to go out because otherwise I will run out of bananas.
Wear a pith helmet...
I only have a hardhat
That will be easier to rinse off after the angry monkeys poo on it.
The rain is subsiding, here. The monkeys are bathing in the puddles, and wearing no hats to speak of.
Failed to change into summer gear and went out in my winter clothes, albeit without a coat. Got fried. Hotter tomorrow - 24o forecast, usually 18o at this time of May.
Approaching 30°C in the shade today
Yup, and at 09:30 it looks like it will be about that here. Good, we're off for a picnic with the village history group, after looking at some architecture.
It's hot out there and the pollen is airborne in strength.
I'm glad I don't have hayfever, and hope I never develop it at any point in the future. It's been a beautiful day, as was yesterday, and i've been enjoying it immensely.
I am holed up doing coursework so not enjoying the sunshine. Silly me.
We should trade weathers, Griffin. Lartsa rain here. There was some flooding nearby yesterday.
We're under a severe storm warning here. Chance of heavy rains, heavy winds, possible hail and isolated tornados. Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
Clouds, rain, and sun in quick repeated succession. Very windy the whole day
The weather, which has been decidedly warm over the past week or two, has now decided to drop in temperature, become overcast, and rain. The plants are appreciating the rain to some degree, but I wanted to be out in the garden this weekend. Oh well.
All rainy today
yeh, rained all over the jubilee river pageant. Still, good excuse to get the Union Jack umbrellas out.
It rained about an inch, by my not-very-accurate garden pot gauge.
The rain went, the clouds stayed
Pretty much the same here, too. Temps are cooler, skies are a mix of clouds and sun, and thundershowers passing by each day.
Just this moment the sun broke through but I guess it will disappear again before I finish typing.
Hooooot!!!
OMG, is it raining OWLS down there, Zone? ;)
We have had some rainy days last week, and right now it's cloudy.
And it is hot.
Very hot.
Hot, hot, hot.
And humid.
Ever heard of Florida in the summer? :hot-here: ;)
It was brain-meltingly hot today.
Naturally, V has the AC on "Antarctica". (http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/11863/freezinsmile2.gif)
We've turned the heating back on. Thick clouds, rain.
I nearly turned the heating on, then I though hey it is June, no way, so I have piled on extra clothes and am using the natural method of heating the body up - shivering.
On average the weather isnice today. But of course there will be clouds to-morrow.
Grey and cool here today. I won't put on the heat, I won't, I won't.
Same here, with some rain and more in the forecast. I did put on the oven to cook some potatoes, but haven't been tempted to put on the furnace. It's still reasonably warm (13C).
Much the same here, too. Rain interspersed with bouts of sunshine. Not sure what to wear when out, really.
I woke up early enough, the sun was actually shining and high enough already, so I got the last bit of the Venus transit.
Awesome! Did you actually see it or were you watching a live feed?
Too cloudy, here. It is showering at the moment.
I had leftover 'glasses' from last solar eclipse (I rarely throw things away).
Not much to see actualy. At first I thought I had missed it completely because I expected Venus to be in the lower right not upper right corner.
It took some time before I was sure that this tiny black 'dent' at the edge of the disk was what I was looking for and not the edge of a cloud or an optical illusion (Mars canal like).
About the safest and easiest thing for watching the sun is a welding mask. (NOT gas-welding goggles.)
There are cheap (occasionally even gratis) foil 'glasses' for the very purpose of looking into the sun.
Mass produced for this kind of event.
Who has welding glasses at his/her disposal (and who certifies them for solar watching)?
Probably not that many people have access to one, but if you can get hold of one, I recommend it.
No, of course nobody certifies them, but they're safe. A welding arc a foot from your nose is brighter than the sun in the sky.
I once found a great old welder's mask lying by the side of the road. I wonder where I put it...
Much warmer temperatures are expected here starting today. Right now it is sunny, mild, dry and very nice.
We picked today for a trip over the border to Abergavenny. Bad move: it rained, then poured and deluged. Now it's a gale and stronger is forecast. Nothing but rain predicted as far ahead as they go.
Mixed weather here but still acceptable
Totally unacceptible here. As David notes above. Supposedly an advantage in that hosepipe bans will be lifted, but frankly I'd rather not wash and drink gin.
London rain is not very nice, as I recall. Herefordshire rain is not so bad, but Welsh rain is truly horrible. It's so depressing. On our way back we stopped off at Llangua, at a point only about 30 yards from England; the rain was already getting less miserable there. Back over the border in Pontrilas it was a much nicer type of downpour altogether.
Weather looks deceptively nice here.
Here, too. It's a gorgeous morning, but don't be envious... it'll ripen and rot by afternoon. Temps in the 90's and humid. I gotta get out there and pull the weeds before the mouldy season hits.
Most people would consider the weather to be very nice. For me it's already a bit too sunny
What did I tell you about Welsh rain (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156782/Aberystwyth-flooding-Holidaymakers-airlifted-Welsh-caravan-park-June-monsoon.html)?
A little rain, off and on, not as bad as David's article, thankfully.
Locals are commemorating (http://www.keloland.com/custompages/rapidcityflood40yearslater/) the 1972 flood and its aftermath (http://www.journeymuseum.org/index.php?pg=exhibitions&id=10725). :rain:
(http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/card_wide/nprshared/201206/154608874.jpg) [picture shows where one set of floating cars *sank* when the waters receded]
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
On a personally political note, I have to keep squashing the urge to remind people that the repubs they are voting in want to dismantle every single "liberal socialist nanny-state" program that helped desperate, destitute, shell-shocked people at the time, or was put in place afterwards to prevent similar tragedies in the future, here or elsewhere in the country. (That includes many of the science course offerings, digs, studies., etc that uncovered and related the history of repetitive paleo floods -- e.g.: more than 4000 years ago, if you catch my drift -- in the area.) An exhausted public servant spoke without thinking soon after the flood, telling the rest of the emergency planning team that they 'could not sentence those people to one more night on the suicide flood plain'. That remark is what led to the incredible community re-development which followed.
Here endeth the rant.
Very warm and humid, here. Rain possible over the next few days.
(Hopefully not as much as what caused the formation pictured above.)
Now it's cloudy but all the day it was sunny and moderately warm.
Yesterday there were more floods all over southern England - roads closed, villages flooded out etc. We had to go about 20 miles in the evening: pouring rain, huge puddles, a few roads closed but we made it.
There must have been some rain during the night but now it looks nice.
It's pouring, here. Glad we're in the hills.
[youtube=425,350]nzugeSPS3oc[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzugeSPS3oc
Nice one.
Three days of sun @ 20o
Then back to torrential rain.
According to weather report it went up to 33°C but I did not go out to ckeck. A short thundertsorm a few minutes ago but the sun has just come out again. Too warm and humid for my taste.
Forecast for to-morrow: 23°C dry. That's more to my liking.
Cool and rainy here today. the extended forecast calls for a sharp rise in temperature by the end of the week. I think I'll enjoy this while I can.
Rain for most of the day, dense but not heavy.
Was hot and sunny, now back to deluge and cool
Very hot and humid, here! I'm getting a reading of 88F in the shade. It may be ten degrees hotter in the bright sunshine. I am grateful for the AC.
drizzle or dry whole day. Temperature acceptable.
Blooming miserable - cold, drizzling, windy.
Weather looks pleasantbut potentially deceptively so. Forecast has possible rain in the next few hours but not in the evening.
The days of sunshine have momentarily disappeared to be replaced with reasonably high winds on occasion, and the odd shower of rain. It's not cold though, so this is a small consolation.
It's kinda yucky here, hot and muggy. We're looking for a cool front that should bring showers followed by lower temps and humidity. Haven't seen it yet.
Weather kept up all day
Although the weather looked menacing at times, it stayed pleasant the whole day.
Sunny and pleasantly warm here today. Good breezes.
Repeated changes between sun and torrential rain today.
Hot and muggy.
Muggy: now there's a self-descriptive weather term. :faint:
Clouded and gray. May rain any minute.
Quote from: piecesMuggy: now there's a self-descriptive weather term. :faint:
Here is the weather forecast:
Tomorrow will be muggy, followed by tuegy, weggy, thurgy, frigy, saggy and suggy.
I like the Japanese term mushi atsui, which implies it being buggy as well as muggy.
Just soggy around here lately... June has been unseasonably wet the last couple of years. The garden is loving it, and I haven't had to water. It's warm for the most part, but not to the usual standards of heat. Hopefully July will be a scorcher; this area is drought prone, but we have plenty of water this year.
Wet and cold. And more to come. June has been a write off.
FABULOUS!!!
(Carpier weather to come, but I'm not listening, la, la, la...)
Now the sky is clear enough to see the stars (which is not easy in the big city in the first place).
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 26, 2012, 10:52:36 PM
Now the sky is clear enough to see the stars (which is not easy in the big city in the first place).
Where I used to live was wonderful for stargazing, as it was a smallish village with little light pollution. There were places you could go with almost zero light pollution, save for the chav town several miles away. It was glorious. Now I live in a town, i'm limited to what I can see, but it's still not too bad. It's mainly the dimmer stars which cannot be seen as well.
Weather's been up and down, but generally humid and warm, with the odd shower.
Weather looks moderately promising
Serious flash flooding in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and even as far as parts of Birmingham. Roads closed, abandoned vehicles everywhere, homes flooded. Herefordshire Council advises essential journeys only.
We're fine; we didn't know about it until people in the village told us to listen to local radio.
For those who are unfamiliar with the area, it is all around our village, in parts quite close, but mainly to our north and east. We couldn't easily get to Cap'n B's house had we been planning to.
>:( >:( >:(
The second half of yetserday was all rain. Now it is sunny but all hells is expected to break loose in the evening (rain, hail, storm)
Hot through this weekend. :P
Sorry David. Sounds frightful.
Bit muggy in London. 28o, (what people here call hot, but isn't really in my book), not much sun, not quite as humid as yesterday. No sign of rain at all.
Neither hail, storm or rain have yet arrived.
The flash flooding spread further north and did a lot of damage. Both main railway lines to Scotland were blocked by landslides, also various motorways. It's gone this morning - until next time.
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 28, 2012, 09:58:36 PM
Neither hail, storm or rain have yet arrived.
Still waiting.
Fortunately, severe flooding has not been a problem here for centuries.
We had a fast and quite furious storm blow in Friday night, which cut our electricity out until Saturday night. There are lots of people still without power. We've been having less fortunate friends over to chill out and power up their devices.
Today is sunny and hot and humid again.
We had some thunderstorms in the last few days. One window broke when a sudden gale passed by without warning (no wind at all on ground level before and after).
June was rainy but now it is HOT! Mid 30's all week!
^ I'm not that far south of you, and it's been in the mid 90's all week here!!! :o
;)
Yet again, serious flooding in the UK: railway lines blocked, roads closed, villages flooded out. In Devon they had 5 inches of rain in 24 hours. This is getting to be a regular feature.
We had some strong rain in the last few days, interrupted by some hot interludes.
G'ARRRGGGHHH... it be hot enuff ter fry a dog-fish's brain, if yer can lowcait it.
Weather completely unpredictable at the moment, scorching sun or floods of rain are both possible, either serially or even together.
Finally rainstorms blew away the 100F weather trend we were having here. Today we're still humid, but a good 15 degrees cooler than all last week.
At the moment we get all kinds of weather except cold
It's getting serious here. Most vegetable crops are badly damaged or not harvestable on the wet ground. Cereals are looking pretty dire to my eye. They should be looking at getting in the first of the barley by now, but that's not going to happen. Cattle are back indoors because the pastures are soggy - that means buying in feed.
Hebden Bridge, where The Last Of The Summer Wine is filmed, has been flooded out for the third time this summer. We're OK here, but nearby villages have been inundated in the past few days.
Sounds like you are lucky to be Ok David.
Hot weather but not intolerably so. Announced thunderstorms seem to have missed their flight and will arrive late.
Aw, we've been catching up with "Last of the Summer Wine", here, now that we have a WETA-UK station. You're flooding there, while much of the midwestern USA is in a bad drought.
Here on the east coast it's been okay. This past week was lovely, in fact. However, the hotter days of summer are scheduled to make a return by next Monday.
Temperatures in the ideal range but now intermittent rain (light and heavy).
More very heavy rain and flooding in places. It's quite cold for July. No-one is forecasting when this might end.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on July 14, 2012, 09:33:11 AM
More very heavy rain and flooding in places. It's quite cold for July. No-one is forecasting when this might end.
Same here just without the flooding
Actually dry today in London, but grey and grim and cold.
Now there is sunshine but I do not trust it.
Relief from the heat today; it's been mid to high 30's all week. I slept in the basement last night, inside a tent to keep the spiders out. ;)
Ending a week of broiling heat and FIRE DANGER EXTREMELY HIGH warning signs along the highway. Surrounding fires have burned hundreds of acres.
Well, at least there is not much of a risk of forest fire around here at the moment.
Sounds awful, Po9. I hope you get rain soon.
We've escaped drought so far due to sudden outbursts from the heavens. High heat around here, triggering evening thunderstorms.
At least the skies have been clear -- last week I came home in what *looked* like a thickening fog. It was smoke blowing in, we think, from Wyoming!
Blimey, Pieces, hope you don't get scorched.
Here it's absolutely bucketing down, as ever.
Wave that stuff eastward, DavidH!
We're around 100F for the next three days.
Part of it comes down here daily, I fear.
All kinds of weather except cold still in these parts.
Rain is a sure bet but no one can say in advance when and where it will come each day.
Little rain last night, little rain this evening.
We were all the way down to the low 90's!
Weather gets more predicatble, the decision fell for rain.
Pouring again.
I was saying about the landslides blocking the railways. It turns out that in Dorset a road tunnel was blocked a while ago; they just dug it out yesterday and found a couple dead in their flattened car. They had been there for ten days.
This is officially the weirdest summer E V E R.
Most days goes like this: sunny beautiful early morning, cloudy late morning, thunder and heavy rain even hail at noon and a good part of the afternoon, then it clears up, and the evening is usually really nice albeit a bit cooler than July here usually are, the night is clear and then it starts all over again.
It rains so much that the rainwater overflows the sewer system, outside my window it's forming a shower head like fountain forcing water 25 cm up in the air and then displacing the cast iron manhole covering which it usually takes two men to lift.
This is not a normal summer in my little corner of the world. :(
Quote from: Darlica on July 18, 2012, 11:31:49 AM
Most days goes like this: sunny beautiful early morning, cloudy late morning, thunder and heavy rain even hail at noon and a good part of the afternoon, then it clears up, and the evening is usually really nice albeit a bit cooler than July here usually are, the night is clear and then it starts all over again.
That's about the pattern here too, just not with a reliable timetable
A guy dug out my garden path and laid the hardcore three weeks ago. Yesterday was the first day the forecast said dry enough to pour the concrete. He laid it in dry weather and immediately covered it with tarpaulins - today it's raining hard again and we just hope the path will be OK.
Well, Darli, at least you've got a predictable pattern.
It's raining, it's pouring
Th' old Opsa's snoring.
You'd think it would be good sleeping weather, but the humidity interferes a bit with the night's rest.
Our weather has been a fortunate mix of hot days followed by a rainy pattern. Some summers we have a bad drought. This one has been pretty well balanced so far.
I am sorry that some of my siblings are experiencing more challenging weather.
First day in a while without rain (yet)
For the first time in months, we've had a completely dry day with more or less unbroken sunshine. Cap'n B has been pedalling his tractor round and round the new patio and running about. ;D
My weather, and yes it does belong to me :P , has been weird. A slight drop in temperature at night (after dark), with warm days, but lots of rain and sun patches. I'm not sure the weather knows what it wants to be right now. One second it's hot, hot, hot, the next it's overcast and spitting rain.
The temps here have settled back into the 80F's. This is much more civilized for August in these parts.
Our last dry spell didn't last long, but we're in another brief one now. People are actually getting their barley and wheat in, though I expect the drying will cost a fortune. Never mind, nice to see a grain trailer.
It's beautiful here, today.
Beautiful hot and sunny weather for days now. It's been fantastic, although it has meant watering more frequently. Made the pub crawl in Sawbridgeworth last night an absolute pleasure.
Hot but not too humid. Nice. No pub crawls here.
The great roast has begun. T may reach 36-37°C to-morrow. Thunderstorms likely in the coming week.
you beat us, we were 32° today and 25° tomorrow
rain storms west and north, London and east escape them
According to the local papers it was 35°C yesterday but they toned down the prediction for today to 32°C.
Anything above 25°C I am not pleased with (unless it is a hot bath, a sauna or my tea).
Quote from: Griffinrain storms west and north, London and east escape them
True. We got rained on.
Pass the umbrellas. It's warm and stormy here, too.
It looks eery. I guess thunderstorm will arrive before midnight
warmish but nice
hhmmm much hotter then 25°C - and more humid - but they were right, no rain
Not here either (or it has all evaporated between me going to bed and rising)
Which is rising, Swato or the raindrops?
We had a good downpour last night. Another may happen today.
I was leaking (just short of steaming) the whole day. Not as extremly hot but very high humidity. Now some rain has come at last and it seems to be a wee bit cooler. But since the midges have learned to fly in the rain, I don't dare open the window of this room.
No rain yesterday. It doesn't seem likely today, either. Temps are mild. I don't mind a bit of a dry-out, as it's been so soggy.
No idea what it has been like today.
Nice weather with tolerable temperatures
Just going out to take a load of disabled people to a farm park. Showers forecast - please cross fingers for us.
David, I prayed to Quetzalcoatl, Zeus, Odin, Baal, and Isis for good measure. ;D
Warm today again, which is good. I'm hoping for an Indian summer this year, with a gentle drop in temperature going into late autumn.
Tolerable Ts in the mid-twenties (°C) and it seems tolerable humidity too (in here 50%).
Hope the field trip went well, David.
Warm and partly sunny here.
Suddenly, it is a but chilly at night...
For the first time in some time I had to use an umbrella today. For weeks it only rained when I was inside.
We knew it was going to rain today so we mowed our lawns early. The rain began as I was putting the mower away. This goes entirely against Sod's Law, Murphy's Principle and Pottinger's Theorem. It must be this here global wossname what's doing that.
BTW Thanks, folks! Roland's incantations must have been effective, we had a dry day although the ground was a bit soft for wheelchairs in places.
Very nice weather today. Sunny but not too warm.
Rain held off though storm clouds gathered. Not too warm though.
We are parching out here. Rain would be welcome. I saw a small forest fire break out today while fishing.
Temperatures tolerable but somehow it is difficult to breathe outside (there may or not be rain later)
Got some rain yesterday (incidentally, picked up Rain Dogs on CD from the library. I picked up a used copy on vinyl recently, but I don't have a record player).
School started this week.
Schools letting out early (after lunch) all week due to unusually high temps.
Aggie's got forest fires? Round here it's so wet that half the harvest isn't in yet. You couldn't start a forest fire here if you used a tankerload of diesel.
Pieces, I love the new avatar. ;D
Rain of fire and steel in Munich (they did not damp the damper straw for that 250 pound WW2 gift and so it gave a nice extra fireworks that set surrounding buildings on fire).
Over here up North (where 3000 tons of UXB is estimated to be still in the ground) the weather looks like imminent rain at tolerable temperatures in the 20ies (Celsius).
I hadn't heard they were 'making safe' a bomb. That's always fun.
Did the Brits have the same fun inventing booby traps for the German bomb disposal experts as we did for your's? :mrgreen:
I watched a few hours of original training films before becoming aware of the TV series (the makers of which DID do their research).
Unfortunately, 10 Seconds to Hell (Hammer's take on the German side, filmed on location) seems not to be available on DVD.
Still waiting for the rain.
Quote from: SwatoDid the Brits have the same fun inventing booby traps for the German bomb disposal experts as we did for yours? :mrgreen:
I expect so.
Downpour just as I was going out. But by the time I reached my destination, all dry again.
There was some rain while I visited a museum but it had diminished enough when I came out that I did not need to don the hood or open the umbrella.
Hot enough to fry a bog's drain.
We had another derecho last night! Knocked the power out for five hours. Luckily it also knocked out the steamy air from the last hurricane, too. It's very nice today. The air is clear and temps are headed for the mid 70's F.
Constantly changing weather at tolerable temperatures. But a heat wave is announced for the next few days.
It's been quite hot the last few days, and definitely enjoyable. Today has been a little cloudier, with the possibility of rain either later today or tomorrow. It was still warm enough to go out in just a t-shirt though, although I got a few odd looks from people. I then had to go back home and dress properly...
A bit too warm but still tolerable.
We've just had the first of our traditional equinoctial gales - the remnants of Hurricane Nadine. 66mm of rain in this area in 24 hours (>2½"). Cap'n B's town had 3 schools closed - but not his, poor little chap! :mrgreen:
...............and now we have massive flood warnings for tonight................. 24 warnings 132 alerts
Cool and autumnal.
Quote from: Griffin...............and now we have massive flood warnings for tonight................. 24 warnings 132 alerts
Oh, dear! Yes, the West Midlands have a load of flood warnings, too. There are minor road floods in all the villages round us, but none here, as usual. The Lugg is only half full ... so far. It takes a while for the water to get down off the Welsh hills. :mrgreen:
Some strong showers today but each just a few minutes.
The figures I gave were national, not local. My area has no flood warnings. Sounds like you are in a lucky spot David. We tend to get towpath flooding (R.Thames) in November when the spring tides are very high because the Thames Barrier was designed so that we do !!
QuoteSounds like you are in a lucky spot David.
If I dared to admit that, Sod's Law would come into play and we'd be nineteen feet under water. So far, however, (16 years) the village has never flooded and we've only once been cut off from town. Mind you. the other road leading out is cut most years.
Lovely sunny dry afternoon !!
Nice and brisk, here. Tomorrow it's expected to be warm and muggy. Nooooo! Not more of that!
It is raining vats here. ("Buckets" does not describe it.)
I'd say the weather is quite nice around here
We are to be mixed all week.
Quote from: GriffinWe are to be mixed all week.
I'm certainly feeling pretty mixed myself. The weather is nice here at the moment.
Weather very nice and opposite to my own state, which is semi-dreadful (slowly recovering after an attack of the barfs followed by backstabbing sinuses).
Poor Swato! :-* I hope you feel better soon.
Foggy and mist-ical.
Not cold but lots of rain today. Yesterday it was quite windy.
We're partly cloudy, breezy and relatively cool here today.
Thursday: snow warnings; smallish glacier on windshield; no snow on ground.
Friday: snow in surrounding areas, chilly but nice here.
Saturday: fallish weather, but nice.
Sunday: a little chilly but pleasant.
Rolled turf has been purchased and stored in garage for the dogs' benefit on snowy and cold days. Dogs are still enjoying going for walks and romps, although they wear coats now.
Dom no longer goes out to play; he sits by patio door chittering at birds or meowing plaintively. If he goes out at all it is to roll once on patio and demand immediate re-entry. He's a *quite* well insulated cat, so not sure what is up with this squeamishness.
Aah, poor old Dom. Is the no longer the Danger Catte?
Dark and dismal.
Damp, grey and cool. But the foliage is going golden.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on October 08, 2012, 10:09:52 AM
Aah, poor old Dom. Is the no longer the Danger Catte?
Apparently he senses more danger than the rest of us. ;)
Fallish, but nice this morning. Gosh durned cold this evening.
Quote from: pieces o nine on October 09, 2012, 04:09:52 AM
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on October 08, 2012, 10:09:52 AM
Aah, poor old Dom. Is the no longer the Danger Catte?
Apparently he senses more danger than the rest of us. ;)
Perhaps he is looking for "The Door Into Summer".
Robert A Heinlein fans will know that of which I speak
^ A good story for cat-lovers. ;)
I am a cat lover!
Sunny and cool today.
They are saying as how some of you Murrikins are about to be blown backwards out of their boots. Some storm, or two storms even. Hoping none of you folks are in the way of it.
Weather was cold and unpleasant yesterday, this morning it looks lovely (haven't checked the thermometer yet)
We are in the way of Hurricane Sandy. Right now we're just cloudy and breezy, but by tomorrow we should be rainy and windy. The worst of it is said to be here on Tuesday, buckets of rain and high winds, then taper off on Wednesday.
I'm doing laundry today in case the power goes out. We've been bringing in outdoor items that might otherwise be blown away.
Batten down your hatches, Opsa!
The Ocean o'Sand is veering from quite chilly all last week to a last gasp of temperate weather.
Weather stayed very pleasant all day.
It just was already completely dark by 6pm.
Quote from: OpsaWe are in the way of Hurricane Sandy. Right now we're just cloudy and breezy, but by tomorrow we should be rainy and windy. The worst of it is said to be here on Tuesday, buckets of rain and high winds, then taper off on Wednesday.
I'm doing laundry today in case the power goes out. We've been bringing in outdoor items that might otherwise be blown away.
Oo-err! Good luck, Opsa - don't forget to nail the garden down. :mrgreen:
Over here and in this place it is still the same lovely weather as yesterday (currently 7.1°C at 11:30am, close to no clouds and only the slightest wind). But other parts of the country are less fortunate. Lots of car accidents in Saxony and Thuringia because of unexpected snowfall. Few people had yet switched to winter tyres.
The outer edges of hurricane Sandy are just clipping us, here. It is dark, breezy and rainy right now. Schools and public transportation are closed. More is expected, along with power outages.
The main brunt of it will pass north of us. I'm glad I'm not up there. Poor folks. I hope everyone comes through okay.
Don't be afraid, the prayer warriors (http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2c8533b164a12dac690d3544f&id=0eabce0e52&e=6bf4fced8a) are hard at work to avert or at least divert the storm.
Personally, I think it would be more beneficial to sacrifice the instigators to the angry storm god(s) instead. It would have the same effect on the storm (=none) but at least we would be rid of some of the most annoying nuts and frauds
Nice and windy @ ~70F/21C
Well, obviously the prayer warriors aren't working hard enough or something, because it is definitely worse now than it was a couple of hours ago.
We put towels on the floor of our back porch as water poured in. We are in the highlands, mind you, not on a flood plain, and the porch is a good six feet off the ground. It is the rain that is pouring in from the north. The O'lette and I just changed the sopping towels with a dry set and are washing the sopping ones. So much water was in them that it slopped over the sides of the laundry basket and I had to drain it over a waste basket before I could bring it in to the laundry room.
This could get tedious!
Blimey! Stay on top of it, Opsa!
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 28, 2012, 11:49:13 PM
It just was already completely dark by 6pm.
Clocks went back yesterday, so I now wake in the dark, and it is still dark when I go to sleep. I might as well be in Finland. Or Lapland. etc.
Hope you don't get flooded out Ops.
Being an evening person and late-riser I prefer late sunrise and even later sunset.
Our clocks don't go back until this coming Sunday. It's a conspiracy, I tells ya.
I'm afraid to go look on the back porch, now.
According to the Darwin Awards website, differences in the resetting date between different regions has been lethal in at least one case.
Two Palestinians were tasked with placing a car bomb (of the non-suicidal variety). But the occupied territories and Israel switched from and to DST on different days. Those who had primed the fuses and the drivers had not noticed that and not compared their respective watches. As a result the bomb blew up when the drivers believed still to have a full hour to find the right spot and get away.
I think you're right about the Prayer Warriors®, Opsa!
Maybe Swato has the right idea for them.
After all, just who are they *actually* battling against, with their incessant demands? Think about it... :hmmm:
Seriously. It's just as you were saying in the Halloween thread. It seems disrespectful to keep nattering at your god for your own needs. What if the Great Whatever has a reason for this storm that's none of our immediate business? Maybe it's here to avert some terrorist attack or something. Aint no planes flying in this area, today. Maybe we need to just shut our pie-holes and cope. Ya know?
It's 2:05 pm here. They just cancelled school for tomorrow, and Mr. ops is being sent home from work at 3:30. So far we still have electricity... coffee, tea... soup...computer... civilization!
It's an ill wind ...
Quote from: Opsa on October 29, 2012, 06:06:27 PM
Seriously. It's just as you were saying in the Halloween thread. It seems disrespectful to keep nattering at your god for your own needs. What if the Great Whatever has a reason for this storm that's none of our immediate business? Maybe it's here to avert some terrorist attack or something. Aint no planes flying in this area, today. Maybe we need to just shut our pie-holes and cope. Ya know?
Well it might stop Romney from being elected... That would be a godly intervention... ;D
The President still gets air time but news of whatever Romney does drowns in the storm reports...
Untaddiness alert: Ha ha on him!
Still here. I just heard that we might get snow tomorrow morning. Sandy is pulling in cold air. I am now setting up the propane fireplace in case we lose power. That'll keep us warm.
It could as well be the other way around. The less Mitt is seen, the lower the chance that another gaffe will drive away potenial voters.
Also the election will likely hinge on turnout. Any major disturbance will hit the Democrats harder than the GOP.
Quote from: OpsaStill here. I just heard that we might get snow tomorrow morning. Sandy is pulling in cold air. I am now setting up the propane fireplace in case we lose power. That'll keep us warm.
Good luck, Opsa. It looks pretty rough from what we see on the TV.
Now the rain has reached us too. Cool/Cold and wet.
We lost power for seven hours last night, but it's back on for now, thankfully. This morning it is colder, but the wind is not as wild as yesterday, and the rain is light. Frankenstorm may have moved to the north of us, I hope.
Good to hear you have power, and I assume you manage to keep the water out. Sounds like a good score.
Quote from: Opsa on October 30, 2012, 12:59:47 PM
Frankenstorm may have moved to the north of us, I hope.
I wondered what happened to the storm. They just focus on yesterday, but don't say anything about where it has got to today.
Papers over here reports over 40 people dead due to the storm. :(
:pillar:
Here it's back to lovely.
Frankenstorm hit some areas very hard. We were lucky, here, just some downed trees. Our fave beach spot, Chincoteague Island was under water I hear, and New York City got very badly slammed. Lots of damage up there. Apparently there were fires in one area and the firefighters couldn't get to them because of the high winds and rain, so they just burned to the ground. Pretty awful.
This morning the sun finally peeked out for the first time in days. Last week it still felt like late summer, but now with the cold and the leaves blown off the trees, it is definitely the dawn of November.
Remember, remember the dawn of November ;)
Grey and chilly. Very November!
Daily switch of weather. Perfect on Monday and Wednesday, dreadful on Tuesday and Thursday
Wendy likes to dry the washing on the line in the garden. The stuff smells so nice. At the moment it's 50-50 whether it'll dry before the next shower, or do we give in and hang it on the dryer over the stove? Much merry fun to be had rushing in and out grabbing stuff, cursing and grumbling. :mrgreen:
Another switch to lovely weather (therefore, I expect a dreadful Saturday)
Sunny and cool today. There's some talk of a nor'easter this Wednesday.
Weather stll switching back and forth bur far less predictably.
Cold and miserable. There was a frost last night which ruined some of Wendy's flowers.
Aw, sorry to hear about the flowers. We got our first real freeze last night and mine are gone now, too. But it is time for a break from gardening.
Me toesies are frozies!
...sudden blizzard of attack ads, gusts of hyperbole reaching Patriot Missile speeds, funnel clouds of encoded racist messages vaguely forming with occasional touch-downs throughout the area...
Hey, you must live near me.
There are even outliers of that over here.
Ahh, it's done for now. Nothing left but this nor'easter headed up the coast. Some talk of snow, but I don't really smell anything yet.
Weirdly, we were bludgeoned with robo calls at work today. About half sounded like the creepy attack ad 'whispering innuendo' guy, and half were overly peppy, 'mature female' voices. They all joyously informed that 'your taxes are about to go up...' or 'your social programs are going to see major cuts...' or ;'small business owners like you...'
I hung up on all of them as quickly as possible. meh. forget that this fear-mongering about the *very* things the preferred [R] candidates promised to bring about their-own-selves. How long will *this* new annoyance go on, now?
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on November 02, 2012, 09:40:56 AM
Wendy likes to dry the washing on the line in the garden. The stuff smells so nice.
Interesting..... I hate the smell of washing dried outside on the line.
Maybe it's different in London?
Quote from: pieces o nine on November 08, 2012, 02:58:35 AM
Weirdly, we were bludgeoned with robo calls at work today. About half sounded like the creepy attack ad 'whispering innuendo' guy, and half were overly peppy, 'mature female' voices. They all joyously informed that 'your taxes are about to go up...' or 'your social programs are going to see major cuts...' or ;'small business owners like you...'
I hung up on all of them as quickly as possible. meh. forget that this fear-mongering about the *very* things the preferred [R] candidates promised to bring about their-own-selves. How long will *this* new annoyance go on, now?
How totally creepy and in bad form! I've had a few strange calls where I just heard a beep and it hung up.
I noticed something interesting last week when I kept getting calls from the NRA, to which I most certainly do not belong. I have caller ID, and when I called back the robo that had called me, I got an option to have my name removed from their list! I took it. Of course, they still called the next day, but not since then. I wonder if you can do the same. If you don't have called ID you might try *69.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on November 08, 2012, 09:47:51 AM
Maybe it's different in London?
No, other areas too.
Quote from: Opsa on November 08, 2012, 02:15:33 PM
Quote from: pieces o nine on November 08, 2012, 02:58:35 AM
Weirdly, we were bludgeoned with robo calls at work today. About half sounded like the creepy attack ad 'whispering innuendo' guy, and half were overly peppy, 'mature female' voices. They all joyously informed that 'your taxes are about to go up...' or 'your social programs are going to see major cuts...' or ;'small business owners like you...'
I hung up on all of them as quickly as possible. meh. forget that this fear-mongering about the *very* things the preferred [R] candidates promised to bring about their-own-selves. How long will *this* new annoyance go on, now?
How totally creepy and in bad form! I've had a few strange calls where I just heard a beep and it hung up.
I noticed something interesting last week when I kept getting calls from the NRA, to which I most certainly do not belong. I have caller ID, and when I called back the robo that had called me, I got an option to have my name removed from their list! I took it. Of course, they still called the next day, but not since then. I wonder if you can do the same. If you don't have called ID you might try *69.
For some reason those sorts of calls always come in as "International" on my caller ID. I always think it's one of my sons and something terrible has happened. It makes me very cross.
Weather here in Kiruna is about -6 degrees, a soft breeze and a delightful covering of snow. Lovely winter weather! The drawback, I suppose is that there is less than six hours of daylight with the day growing about 10-15 minutes shorter every day up to the midwinter solstice. Come mid-december, there will be no sunrise at all and a continous polar night for about a month. Well, there is always the aurora borealis to light your way.
...and just think of the nightlife!
The expected nor'easter must have missed us. It's been cool and breezy, but nothing like the storm that scraped us last week.
I wake in the dark, the daylight gone, and go to sleep in the dark just before daybreak.
Check your eyeteeth and your hemoglobine value ;)
Bright and breezy. Warmer temps expected this weekend. In the US it is Veteran's Day weekend, which is celebrated with a Monday holiday. Good timing this time around!
It might even be clear enough to see the Leonids.
Quote from: OpsaIt might even be clear enough to see the Leonids.
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QuoteIn the US it is Veteran's Day weekend...
We have Remembrance Day on the nearest Sunday to 11th November, which was the day of the armistice ending WW1. This year, the Sunday and the 11th coincide. There are ceremonies everywhere and in London all the royals and VIPs parade in Whitehall and observe two minutes' silence at 11am.
Unfortunately I always miss the 2 minute silence as I am asleep. Whether I am also silent, I don't know.
Swato, just checked my eye teeth - they look fine to me - but they would, wouldn't they ;). I am actually going to ask the GP for blood tests as I feel extra crap.
Snowing here today.
It be durn-tootin cold here, to my way of thinkin', but she'll get colder soon enuff...
Q: Why is the heating bill so low on the new place?
A: Because temp is pre-programmed to 60, "morning" "day" "evening" or "night". Oh, sure, one can stroll over and click it up a couple degrees, but as soon as we reach the next pre-programed day slot, right back down to 60 it goes again.
Dom has actually been snuggling quite aggressively, instead of hiding out in a cool spot like he normally would! ;)
Lets exchange. In my office the ladies have the AC at 80F all the time, thankfully I don't have to go dressed with a suit or the cleaner bill would kill me.
:hot-here:
Quote from: pieces o nine on November 12, 2012, 07:26:44 PM
Dom has actually been snuggling quite aggressively, instead of hiding out in a cool spot like he normally would! ;)
Miloch the Great and Terrible (aka Moche or Tikken) has been snuggling up rather close. I've woken up unwittingly spooning a tikken who decided to crawl in under the covers to leach some body heat. ::)
Weather looks lovely at the moment.
Goldener Herbst
Quote from: Aggie on November 13, 2012, 06:42:35 AM
Quote from: pieces o nine on November 12, 2012, 07:26:44 PM
Dom has actually been snuggling quite aggressively, instead of hiding out in a cool spot like he normally would! ;)
Miloch the Great and Terrible (aka Moche or Tikken) has been snuggling up rather close. I've woken up unwittingly spooning a tikken who decided to crawl in under the covers to leach some body heat. ::)
Tikken! I used to have a cat we called Tikken. Someone thought we were saying "chicken", and after that she was known as "the chicken".
Kittehs is excellent hot water bottles!
It's quite damp and chilly here today. I need to go find th'opsacat and see if she wants to sit on my feet.
Ayuh, he gets called "the Chicken" too... I told him that as long as there's plenty of food, I'll keep feeding him chicken. If there's no food, he's going to be my chicken. Four drumsticks... ;)
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That was zany! ;D
I knew a cat named 'Chicken' in Denver. Her humans sat down with her and started down a list of possible names, while she listened attentively. When they reached 'chicken' (somewhat of a joke name by the child) she meowed and always responded to that name promptly. :)
I often wonder if our lives would be different if we had been given different names at birth. The naming has always seemed to me a practice which gives parents too much power. (I like my name).
After the golden yesterday it was cold and humid today (no rain though). Perfect for catching a cold or worse
Cold as all blankety-blank this morning. The heat pump had a hard time trying to get above 62 degrees F in the house.
Chill, damp and mizz here. 'Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres' my bum - we're already there. :'(
Similar to yesterday just a bit drier.
Sunny but chilly again. Fairly typical for here in November.
More torrential rain again and floods everywhere. The worst have been in the southwest peninsula, but near here there have also been roads and a railway closed. The forecast is for a lot more rain.
The rain sweeps across the country like a diagonal sash which spares the south-east corner including London.
However, I only know this from TV news, as I am sleeping almost all hours and all I am aware of is my small room in which I cringe from life.
Hope you'll be ok David.
Quote from: Sibling DavidHMore torrential rain again and floods everywhere. The worst have been in the southwest peninsula, but near here there have also been roads and a railway closed. The forecast is for a lot more rain.
Builde thee a nark from gophers, wood, and yea, even pitch. Selah.
Seriously, I hope better weather comes your way. It's supposed to be quite clement for the long weekend here in the Ocean o'Sand, with colder waether and snow closing back in on Sunday night.
Sounds scary, Englanders. I hope you'll get through it all right.
Mild and sunny here.
Cool bit dry, cloudy. Typical fall.
More torrential rain with a howling gale. Flood warnings and road closures everywhere, some places are flooded for the third or fourth time this year. :boat: It's getting boring, just like the 18-month drought we had before the rain came in April. :headbang:
The village is OK and the main road to Hereford is open, however yesterday the alternative road was almost impassable. Pretty soon the Lugg will flood and the road to the East will be cut again.
The wind is so strong that the kitchen stove (coal) is getting very hot although all controls are at minimum. Soon I'll have to dump ten gallons of hot water or it'll boil. It's not often the wind does that.
Moderately nice fall weather
Hold on David. There's more on the way ttoo.
True, Griffin! It's a lovely sunny, calm day here but tomorrow they predict another deep low with more gales and floods.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on November 23, 2012, 09:42:55 AM
True, Griffin! It's a lovely sunny, calm day here but tomorrow they predict another deep low with more gales and floods.
Same here, although the prediction for to-morrow is just for normal not torrential rain.
Grey, grey, grey, windy and unseasonably warm. I don't know if whats outsiide the window counts as fog or drizzle, but I am not sticking my nose out the door to find out if I can help it.
Now it's grey here too but no drizzle yet.
Sunny and mellow today, but cold winds are coming in tonight.
It should be winter by now, instead it is wet and grey as Lindorm said.
It's 6 °C outside right now, that is actually the same temperature as we had this midsummers eve... which wasn't normal either... :-\
There was rain during the night but not today (ai least I did not notice any). But it's wet and grey nonetheless.
It rained pretty hard last night, as predicted, and now the Lugg is over the road to the east. Lovely sunny weather now, but more heavy rain predicted this afternoon.
grey skies, otherwise calm
Some rain, but mostly held off, just.
No weather change
It's cool and windy, like Heino's eyes. The wind seems to be going in all directions, like Heino's eyes, too.
It's no different here in Moreton, but Britain as a whole appears to be sinking under brown yukky floodwater.
Looks like a sunny, lovely autumn day here
Sunny, but cold!
The evening has brought an as of yet incomplete light cloud cover. It's getting cooler too.
No idea.
Forecast threatens possible sleet in the next few days. Golden autumn seems to be over.
The heavy rain has mostly moved north and is flooding those parts instead of us.
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Wintry mix predicted for our area today, but so far only cool rain.
Cool, a bit humid but still tolerable.
Sunny with a light breeze top temp predicted at 29°C today, tomorrow currently predicted 35°C with a possibility of exceeding 40°. If so, it will be only the third November day above 40° on record. Staying inside.
Can we come over? Cold today.
Rain, rain and snow, snow, snow and rain but mostly snow!
;D
A bit of drizzle
Bright, dry and cold, now dark and silent.
That sounded ominous. :o
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It is actually nice, not too cold, not too hot, not too humid, almost Goldilocks. ;D
@ 2 pm it's 37°C, temperature still rising, IOW hot, sunny and humid. Made an expedition to the shopping centre to borrow some of their air-con. House still locked up tight, blinds all drawn, much cooler inside than out. Will probably have to open up around 4:30-5 pm.
I miss summer... sounds like one of many this year. We have the luxury of becoming a desert in the summer, so it's relatively dry heat (despite lakes and vegetation) and bearable.
Now it's actually raining here
Tomorrow 4o C - dry. Some flooding but not in Greater London.
Yesterday maxed out at 39.6°C, today is forecasted to be a much more reasonable 26°.
I am inclined to call the weather outright unpleasant
It's going to be a two duvet winter. Oh, wait, it already is. I hate the cold...
Well, I understand your POV my elephantine friend, but I rather look at it this way. When it's cold, you can always put on more clothes, more layers, until you feel warm. When it's hot, however, there is a physical limit to how much clothing you can remove in the attempt to stay cool. Once you are stark bollicky nekkid there is absolutely no guarantee that you will in fact be comfortable. So, although in general I prefer warm weather to cool weather, the extreme form of neither appeals very much, but if I had to choose and supposing I had appropriate clothing, I would go for very cold rather than very hot.
Quote from: Bluenose on November 30, 2012, 02:17:16 AM
Well, I understand your POV my elephantine friend, but I rather look at it this way. When it's cold, you can always put on more clothes, more layers, until you feel warm. When it's hot, however, there is a physical limit to how much clothing you can remove in the attempt to stay cool. Once you are stark bollicky nekkid there is absolutely no guarantee that you will in fact be comfortable.
^ Why is so difficult to make the cold haters understand that? :P
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In all fairness there is a point in which you can't get warm and it makes you feel miserable, OTOH once you live in a hot place you adapt a bit (I couldn't stand the heat when I moved to FL and now I can tolerate it), but yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you, there
are so many clothes you can take off.
IMO it depends on ones circumstances. If living on the streets (homeless) seriously cold must be much worse than hot.
Yeah, fair point. I guess we were talking about ourselves who live in relatively comfortable circumstances. Being homeless would be no fun regardless of the weather, but in the cold it would be downright appalling, not to mention life threatening. of course, I also keep in mind those unfortunate people who despite having a home cannot afford to heat it in winter in cold climates and consequently so many of whom perish. How we manage to be so unwilling to share our over abundance in the West with our fellows saddens me.
:soapbox: I better climb down now...
I also, if there is no other choice, prefer cold to hot. But please dry and calm.
Currently it is not very cold (4°C) but clammy and possibly windy. That is really unpleasant.
In general I think changing temperatures around zero are worse than stable sub-zero.
The thing is that really hot (ie: deadly) places are generally inhabitable unless you have a shelter (like the middle of the Sahara or those mining towns in Australia where the average temperature is around 50C/122F), while you don't have to go to the poles to die of hypothermia.
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Getting warmer here but still very livable at 70F/21C in the morning.
People can get hypothermia even at quite moderate temperatures if lacking clothes and/or being wet for extended periods of time.
And in water anything below body temperature will be detrimental over time.
It seems suspiciously warmer here as the week goes on...
Today dry, 3o C.
Blue, our elderly get Winter Fuel Allowance of £200 per winter. It of course does not actually cover the cost of much fuel. It's tokenism. There's also the possibility of severe weather extra allowance for them if really really cold. I don't know why I say "them" - I just received my very first Winter Fuel Allowance.
What is worrying me at present is all the people falling into flood water or being overcome by it, because it must be so much colder than being dry.
It's the 1st of December and we have proper winter in Stockholm! :D
That is not very common any more, most winters have been wet and grey the last decade.
Being Scandinavian I do like my summer sunny and reasonably warm...
But if we are talking about extremes I to prefer the cold. I can't really stand heat very well, anything over 30°C is too hot and makes me either submerge myself in water or sit panting in the shade drinking copious amounts of water so I won't faint... ::)
That said, one has to have proper clothing when it gets below -20°C or there will be damages (and with proper clothing I mean several layers designed to work together, long Johns and jeans will no longer do).
I've been out in - 40°C which isn't a pleasure in any way, it hurts to breathe and you better cover your face to avoid frostbites on nose and ears. Still it's manageable.
(http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/nysnowmen/t7801.gif)
I've never known anything colder than -15°C, that was quite enough, thank you. :D
Some alibi snow fell during the night. Not going to last, I assume.
We've now had the first official frosts of the season here. The weather has been getting decidedly colder over the last month, and now that December is here, we've had some proper frosts overnight. Yay! :mrgreen:
As predicted all the alibi snow is gone again
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on December 01, 2012, 09:52:36 AM
I've never known anything colder than -15°C, that was quite enough, thank you. :D
I think I've never been much below -5C/23F.
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Getting warmer here...
Could be anything. I am either asleep, or half asleep and weather is not even a concept.
Our grey, damp, foggy and unseasonally warm weather has certainly changed it's mind. We now have clear skies, lots of snow on the ground and temperatures of about -10 degrees.
This was preceeded by a about 36 hours of heavy rain, that turned to "sub-cooled" rain (rain, despite the air temperature was below freezing) and then into snow. Lots of snow. And, of course, with everything first covered by a nice glaze of ice. Apparently, on some roads, youmore or less had to stand i que and wait for your turn to go into the ditch next to the tarmac -it was that slippery. Darlica and I had to spend about an hour yesterday to clear off the snow and ice from our car.
Temperatures are now predicted to fall even lower, down to about -20 degrees the night between monday and tuesday -which is when I will be out and about shunting trains in the middle of nowhere. Brr!
Although there is closed cloud cover, it seems to be thin in places and the sun has just found a spot to shine through.
Most of the fields round here are no longer sheets of water, but soggy grass with big puddles. The river is back in its banks and the Marden road is clear.
However, the soil is saturated with water and can absorb no more, so when it rains again everywhere will flood again. Not to mention parts of the southwest which are still flooded. :mrgreen:
Oh gosh, I hope that won't happen again.
Today was very mild, here. I even got out to tend the garden a bit. (It badly needed it.)
Good for you, Opsa. There's snow in southeast England and they say it's coming here.
Snow comes here during the night and disappears again during the day since it's still above zero.
Is that normal for there, Swato?
Grey and cooler today, but still relatively mild.
Pretty early for snow actually but the falling/melting pattern itself has become rather current in the past years.
Quite sunny today
No idea. Asleep but freezing cold.
Stockholm is embedder in snow. It fell approximately 30 cm during the evening of Dec 4 and morning Dec 5...
The commuter trains are severely delayed if the run at all, many bus lines are completely cancelled and on the road there are cars lying in the ditches to left and right.
The tube still runs...
(http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smileys-and-emoticons/snowman/smileys-snowman-053129.gif)
;D
It is flipping 59 degrees F here today. The weather man keeps saying there is a cold front on the way but it isn't here yet. I am in the library and at first they had the heat cranked up to hot and now it seems they have changed it to arctic and i'm a bit chilly---- and I am never chilly.
Hey! Ababe. I like it, you come here and the first thing you do is check the weather thread LMAO
The puddles are frozen, so I have to assume that temperatures dropped below 0°C
The poodles are frozen? :o ;D
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It's 75F/24C, how can I put it in a way that doesn't sound like bragging? Erm, the humidity is a bit high...ish...? :P
I guess the poodles shorn in expectation of the usual weather pattern are in danger of freezing now.
Looking out of the window I see that it is snowing and obviously for quite some time now. I'd estimate the layer on the garden wall is about two fingers thick.
Dry when supposed to be raining. Thay had snow in Cambridge, but I don't live there any more.
Supposed to snow last night, it did not.
(sorry, but YAY! as oi 'ates thee snow, oi duz)
If snow fell only on lawns, children's playgrounds, and Nature, but not on sidewalks, roads, and parking lots, I would like it much better.
:)
Cool and rainy today; I think it's trying to snow.
Snow on roads is indeed treacherous; I may have to give up biking or throw some knobby tires on once it settles in. I still plan to keep driving to a minimum if possible; the truck just sits in the driveway except for the odd large grocery run or outdoor excursion.
You need one of these:
(http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/02/ktrak-snow-bike-kit-3-537x380.jpg)
http://inhabitat.com/transform-your-bike-into-a-snowmobile-with-the-ktrak-kit/
Ha... cool! I bet you use yours all the time down in the tropics, eh Zone?
Cool and partly sunny here.
Now that the weather is cooperating I should make sure the bikes are in order to do so.
Quote from: pieces o nine on December 06, 2012, 06:57:56 PM
If snow fell only on lawns, children's playgrounds, and Nature, but not on sidewalks, roads, and parking lots, I would like it much better.
:)
This can be arranged for you, no problem. If you'd like me to provide my staring service, i'll be happy to do so. For a small fee, of course. :mrgreen:
Why is it so warm up here? The furry tailed rats are still digging holes everywhere .
The last group were poisoned by my neighbor ( member here , never posts) trying to kill the pack rats, it was awful to see the rats so effed up. He also sickened the dog as well as kill all the adult squirrels I tamed . I still have their kits with me though and have they ever gotten FAT!
I am very concerned though , one has no fear of humans and it will likely not be long on this earth .
It is my new baby and I greive its loss already.
Thick snow and likely to last for a few days :)
Ah, nefyu, that's horrible!
Damn cold here. A friend gave me 3 brace of pheasants (i.e. six) which had got thoroughly frozen solid in his car. I don't mind plucking and gutting pheasants, but by heck it was cold work inside them! :mrgreen:
Never mind, that's 12 meals for the two of us. Pheasant curry is excellent.
No risk of snow down here. The last time there was snow in SoFL was more than 30 years ago.
But who knows, with the crazy weather patterns perhaps a cold front could change that.
Low 20's in the mornings, low 30's in the evenings.
No snow to speak of.
No wind-chill, either, so I am content!
I took this picture on my way home yesterday, just add another 5 cm of snow an it could be taken today...
(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv187/Darlica/2012-12-09200618.jpg)
No snow here, for which I am duly thankful. Perhaps it's the heat from all the petrol bombs and burning flags.... ::)
It is awful seeing the violence flare up again in NI.
Where are you now Pachy? :-\
(The Scandinavian don't get the NI reference...) ;)
He's in Northern Ireland, or 'Norn Iron' as they say over there. There are big riots at the moment because the Republicans (Catholics) managed to stop the Union Jack being flown on top of Belfast City Hall, except on a few special days, and the Loyalists (Protestants) have gone totally berserk.
What a mess. I hope our Pachy stays safe.
It's cool and partly cloudy here today. No snow, no rain. Kinda monotonous.
Sorry Darlica. As David explains, it's all flared up again. I can't imagine why it matters how many days a week the Union flag is flown, but clearly it does.
It's because both sides are living in the 17th century. Don't go there, Darli and Lindorm, or they'll probably shoot at you for something Gustavus Adolfus did. :mrgreen:
F**k not Northen Ireland again... :'(
While Swedish kings had their grubby little fingers on almost every cookie jar of (central) Europe, they did leave the Brittish Islands alone. The last attempt I think was when King Erik XIV, one of King Gustaf Eriksson Vasa's (Gustav I of Sweden I think he is called in English) sons proposed to Queen Elisabeth I and failed. :D
But we are probably descendants of Vikings in one way or the other (a bit like homoeopathy the Viking blood must be fairly thin by now if there ever was any) ;)
:valkyrie:
The Vikings imported their women from Britain and Ireland, so there is a lot of Celtic blood in Greater Scandinavia (not just on the axes).
The 2011 census shows we are definitely mixed race ;D
I am up north again.
Today was a bit bracing, brisk even.
-26 degrees, snowfall and a slight wind. In other words, you could crawl into an ordinary household freezer to warm up and get comfy.
There's also an inversion layer all over the town, so the smoke and steam from the pellets works at the mine rise just a little bit and then form a heavy layer all over the lower parts of town, at the former sea level. It's also very dry here -the tyres give off a high-pitched squeal as cars roll by, and the snow that falls is more like dust than anything else.
In this weather, you are of course reluctant to shut anything down, so the railway workshops where I have been working today are clouded in a haze of diesel fumes and condensation steam, not really letting up in the still air. So much for the unspoiled wilderness touted by the tourist agency.
The polar night has also set in -no sunrise until about mid-to-late january.
I'm safe enough, being both Scottish and, at least on paper, Protestant. Well, I'm safe enough from the lot that are rioting at the moment. The other side think I'm some sort of devil ::).
Wet, cold and more cold. Why didn't I take that job in the Bahamas...
Because there are no grumpy badgers in the Bahamas?
:badger: :badger: :badger:
The pond hasn't frozen over yet . I think I can stretch it out with lights on and the pump as well .
Currently temeperatures stable below zero but for Saturday a slight thawing and rain is expected. Probably not enough to remove the snow (good) but it will be hell once it freezes over again.
It's getting colder here, and the weather reporter last night hinted at snow to come in the coming weeks. Maybe we'll have a white Xmas after all.
It's sunny , above freezing , it is quite lovely out , a wee bit breezy though .
Total weather change in the making. While we were slightly below zero with snow in the last few days, now temperatures are racing upwards. +10°C are expected here, Southern Germany has predictions of reaching up to +18°C in the next 2-3 days. Well, white Christmas could not be tolerated...as usual.
But even in Norway a short thawing period around Christmas has a tradition. Not strong enough to get rid of the snow but perfect to create a layer of ice on any non-perpendicular surface.
It is keee-yold out there today! This morning the front porch thermometer read 27 F (-2 C). But at least the blinkin' wind has slowed. And it's sunny!
It's stopped raining for a while, thank the FSM. Everywhere is sodden, there's not a field without standing water, the Lugg valley is flooded yet again and various roads are cut. So annoying - we needed to get to a village to the east this morning and had to go miles round. A lot of winter cereals are underwater now - they're write-offs. Other fields were too wet to plant; they'll maybe get spring cereals later. Or not. This is getting boring.
Had our warmest December night on record last night - 27.4°C, beat the previous record of 27.2° from 1964. Thank the toadfish for ceiling fans - I managed to sleep very well despite the heat.
Audible thawing outside but snow cover still remains. At 0030 hours temperatures on the balcony +4.6°C
Quote from: Bluenose on December 23, 2012, 10:46:30 PM
Had our warmest December night on record last night - 27.4°C,
don't you mean coldest? :o - :giggle: (misjudged minus sign)
Devon and Cornwall almost washed away. Train tracks erorded by floods. Utter chaos. But as usual, (how much longer though) London not really affected. Xmas a write off for many.
It's Christmas eve day here and we are having our first snowfall of the season. I cannot recall this ever happening here before, but it is pretty wonderful. It is just a wet dusting so far (not nearly enough to make Frosty the Snowman, not even enough to make Frosty the sno-cone!), but has clung to branches and made things pretty.
Record temperatures in Southern Germany near +20°C
Ireland = wet
came home to
Scotland = bloody wet
Bah, humbug!
It's snowed (and mostly stayed) for the last couple of weeks, so it's a white Christmas. I'm looking out at the pine and fir trees that surround the folks' house.
More rain and floods forecast.
It's either autumn or spring outside, definitively not winter.
More and more rain. I thought the fields couldn't be any soggier than they were yesterday, but I was wrong. The Lugg is having a Christmas treat outside its banks and seems to be going for a new record.
If it rises another 27 feet above where it's got to now, it'll be at our door. I'm not too worried. ;)
Lucky you live on Your Hill.
More rain in the night. I heard it. Haven't looked out but the Thames was on flood warning. But as the Thames Barrier was designed so that our bit of the river has planned floods am not worried either.... it does flood but only right down by the river.
Yicky, yicky wintry mix here. Earlier today we had snow, then sleet, now freezing rain. I hope we do not lose power, but we're fairly well prepared if we do.
We heard about appalling weather right across the US. They spoke of tornadoes and blizzards in different parts. Just hoping you folks are OK.
Here - more heavy rain. What else?
Still too cold for my birds to be outside: 55F/12C plus cold wind, I'll have to wait an hour or two to take them out to the balcony for the afternoon and then back inside again as it will go back down.
The good news is that my energy bill came for $55 dollars this past month (AC is really wasteful). :D
Apart from a chilly wind, it is clearly spring outside.
light snewe on xmas eve, some during the day (i think).
yesterday - way, way cold.
today: snewing softly.
Fairly dry, quite bright for a bit, about 6-8 degrees.
Dry between rainstorms. :o
I'm now in Exeter, on the SW peninsula where the worst floods are. The house is on top of a high hill, and isn't cut off from anywhere important. Luckily there are all sorts of places we don't need to go to.
Clear and cold today. Just popping in to see how everyone is, and then it's off to the museums. :-*
More rain forecast. Flood warnings on the hames and the Thames barrier being raised for second time tonight. No floods in my bit though. :)
Let's hope not, Griffin. :D
DavidH: are ye building an ark of gophers yet? :o
No, we're right out of Gophers. I wonder if badgers would do.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on December 28, 2012, 05:32:01 PM
Let's hope not, Griffin. :D
Ho, Ho, Ho.
Actually the Thames barrier was designed so that the river would flood on my bit, which it regularly does; the tow path and the riverside pubs go under, but it doesn't creep as far as my road. All the houses along the tow path have little flood barriers. I think it's only been bad enough to actually get into the houses once in the last 30 odd years, so I guess the Thames barrier is sufficient. It does sometime flood badly just beyond the next bridge though. However, depsite vey high tides, which we have at this time of year, the rain has not been too bad and we have had no warnings, yet.
Well, thank goodness for that.
We are expecting a nice snow here today, but so far it has just been very gray and gloomy with a smattering of sleet and fine snowflakes. I am hoping for prettier later.
Unchanged nice spring weather
The snow that once was white and soft is now brownish grey and hard as rock.
We've had more than a week of thaw now which has turned the surroundings from winter wonderland into a dirty depressing mess.
I love snow, however my opinion about ice is that it should cover lakes in the winter so one can skate (which is optional). Not cover pavements and parking lots and there by make skating (without skates) mandatory... >:(
;)
The weather service is warning about a new snowstorm and about 30cm of snow in some parts of the country... but I don't think that will hit Stockholm this time.
Sun has gone and now we just had a short graupel shower with a hint of thunderstorm
Drove back from Exeter in rain, now here it's a howling wind but not raining for once. Widespread flooding all along the route, but only one road cut which we would have taken, and we'd planned for that one.
Most of the clouds are gone again and the sun just went below the horizon
Sunny here today, but brutal wind. Not nice for going out for groceries, which I need to do.
Grey, grey, grey and wet and foggy. Don't think we will be able to see much of the fireworks tonight -and there is also a forecast of rain during the night. Meh. I wonder if there are any cheap seats on the next flight to Kiruna?
Pouring with rain, hard and steady.
Quote from: Lindorm on December 31, 2012, 08:43:57 AM
Grey, grey, grey and wet and foggy. Don't think we will be able to see much of the fireworks tonight -and there is also a forecast of rain during the night. Meh. I wonder if there are any cheap seats on the next flight to Kiruna?
Same here apart from there being no fog yet (all the gunpowder will provide for that in the evening). Similar forecast too.
Pretty similar here, too.
Cold and sunny here in Opsaland.
Slightly cooler, humid, and increasingly windy. Good to catch a cold, so to say, but not wintery at all.
It's a really nice day! 10°C / 50°F, breezy, some sun. Wendy has gone off to take her HomeStart kids for a walk in the park! Incredible.
dismal 'rainish' weather. It does not rain cats but the chance of getting hit by rain is obviously decided by Schrödinger's, i.e. wholly unpredicatble.
I don't want to rain on your parade (so to speak) but here it is actually quite warm and sunny going on 26C/80F.
We are at about 38F/3C here. Another sunny cold one.
Drizzle, drizzle, little rain
37°C yesterday, heading for 41°+ today. :surrender: Staying in the computer room for now...
Ha, a bit warmer and drier, which actually means not quite so coold and wet.
I'll trade you some of our hot and dry for some of your cold and wet. Today is a day of total fire ban here and is the worst fire risk day since the Black Saturday bush fires of 2009. Just hope we can get by without another conflagration, but the way the grass and undergrowth has sprung up in the last couple of years, that might be a forlorn hope. Just have to wait and see.
I've always thought the UK safe from extreme weather, but latterly our droughts and floods are begining to change that. Still, fire is a whole lot worse. I've always aslo wondered where in the world has the perffect climate, not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, not too dry, not too humid, plentiful crops, and interesting films. Ok, I made the interesting films bit up.
Well, Moreton-on-Lugg would usually meet your requirements, apart from the times when it doesn't. And the films.
Nothing extreme over here, just not looking like normal winter. One would expect slight sub-zero temperatures not 5-10°C above. Damp, cool with occasional rain. Normal, just 1-2 months off.
Another sunny, cold day here in the piedmont.
Went to Italy for the holidays? ;) :P
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Almost exactly the same as yesterday, perhaps one or two more clouds in the sky.
Snowing.... lovely big fluffy snowflakes. I'm going to dust off my skiboards and do some night skiing tonight, I think.
warm and dry enough to leave my coat unbuttoned :)
Windy enough that hood or umbrella are not much use against the rain (although there is not that much rain actually)
Another cold, sunny day, but luckily not much wind. We can stand it!
You can see the fields again - well, sheets of mud anyway - and all roads are open. Today's the second fine day and they say it'll last. Praise His Noodly Goodness! :)
What a relief!
At last, the cold weather's finally settled in-- Friday it was in the frikkin' 70's (F) midday... in January. meh.
But the cold front moved in over Saturday, and the high at mid-morning was in the low 40's or so, and dropped steadily throughout the day.
Temps continued to fall, such that this morning, I woke up to 19 degrees (F), and by 930, it barely climbed to 22. Nice!
Why do I want it to remain cold? Easy: without an extended stretch of sub-freezing weather, the insect eggs that we all find so annoying, won't die out as they ought to. Sure, there will always be pockets here or there that survive, that's expected and part of the cycle. But if we don't get extended stretches (one or two weeks) the pests get really crazy come spring-- an over-abundance of insect pests that is.
Kind of like what happens to the deer population around here, when the predators are scarce ... you literally get deer coming out of the woods into urban areas starving for food.
Same thing happens with insect pests-- they are supposed to die out over the winter, apart from limited and isolated caches here or there. Every time we have a mild winter, the fleas, the tics, the mosquitoes come out in the spring like a literal plague...
.... tis an ugly thing.
So.
I celebrate the cold weather today-- still holding at a nice, chilly 22F and I hope that this cold snap turns into a cold-stay. :)
At last a bit of winter and even a bit of snow (not much yet though)
Damn cold.
snow-covered & cold
Winter has returned! -10, a bit of new snow and even some clear skies!
Yukky mushy snow, now being rained on. Very untidy.
Light snowing, moderately cold
It's been mild and muggy here too, Bob. Not sunny enough to be cheerful, either. Cold weather is moving back in, now. A little snow would be nice.
No snow here, same breezy 70F, clear skies and generally quite nice.
Damn cold again. Still, no serious rain for a long time now and the rivers are slowly going down.
It's cold and dark and rainy, here.
I twas ... NICE today! :o
- 5 degrees
and for the last 2 days a slow but steady snowfall, at the moment big fluffy snow star constellations.
That sounds so pretty. We're not sure whether we're getting snow or rain here today. We're right on the border between the possibilities. I'm hoping for a little gentle snow.
Snow tomorrow (to be confirmed) :D
Well, I can confirm it! :mrgreen: Wales and our area have 4 to 6 inches (don't laugh!) and everywhere is at a standstill. Most schools are closed, many roads blocked, etc. And that was by 8am, after only about 4 hours of snowing, and it's set in for the whole day. Echo has cancelled everything including Friday Club. :'(
Yes, -2o here in London and snow whirlwind, actually snowing upwards instead of downwards. No idea how much is out there, but my car has disappeared. Being snowed in is making my tobacco craving even worse than usual.
Resist!
We had no snow, no rain, just clouds.
Today is bright, sunny and cold!
Some residual snow in shadowed areas; t-shirt weather.
Country grinds to a halt - how come I am not surprised. In my day, we knew how to get to the co-op to buy chicken whatever the weather.
Sunny, mild and breezy today. Just went for a walk, it was nice.
It thawed a little yesterday and now it's re-frozen. Very slippery. And now it's snowing again, with a load more forecast for tomorrow. They say Griffin's side will get a load this afternoon.
Indeed, it has been snowing according to my weather app which is set to my postcode. I have yet to look out of the window. It doesn't seem that cold; I've had my heating off for several hours and I am warm enough, which is a little odd.
Check that the spare bedroom isn't on fire. :mrgreen:
Here, too, it's untidy: bits of melted, refrozen and remelted snow everywhere. It's snowing again, but very weakly.
A wee bit of snow, just to fill the gaps that have opened
We're right at freezing, but it is expected to get colder tomorrow and stay that way for a while. Still no snow.
Snowing softly on the diagonal, past the windows...
Done an 18 hour sleep. It is mid-evening; no idea on weather today, but now is dark and cloudy and zero.
Quote from: pieces o nine on January 21, 2013, 07:54:26 PM
Snowing softly on the diagonal, past the windows...
About the same here
Sunny, windy and cold! 27F or -2.7C combined with 20mph winds = eesh!
-6 C tonight; nothing special in terms of temperature, but we've got a snowfall warning with 10 - 15 cm predicted by morning. Looks like I'll be getting up and shoveling. Hmm... better remind my roommate to shake off the garbage bag that I put out tonight. She's up before I am, generally.
Colder and cloudier than yesterday.
Today they sent the kids home from school at noon. It is now 1:37 and we haven't had one snowflake. But the O'lette is happy!
3 degrees, supposedly snowing, but the unfreezing begins tomorrow and flood warnings already.
^ Have you gotcher snowmen deployed? ;)
I told the participants at Friday Club about the snowman thing, they fell about laughing. ;D
For non-Brit siblings who may not have heard about it: There are worries that the coming rapid thaw will cause flooding, so the government Environment Agency suggested that if we all make lots of snowmen, they will melt more slowly than lying snow, thus avoiding flooding. No, honestly! :mrgreen:
I read it in the morning papers today.
Over here the temperatures drop further (with -16°C in some parts around here).
Thawing has been forecast for next week, likely one of those dances around freezing that leaves a thin wet ice layer everywhere leading to countless accidents on roads and sidewalks.
That sounded pretty absurd, the trick is compacted snow vs regular snow, still they're retracting themselves:
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk/environment-agency-s-snowman-advice-soon-collapses-1.65924
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No chance of snowmen around here, currently at 68F/16C and clear skies.
Collect all the snow and drop it into the sea, then it cannot jam all the rivers ;)
We don't get ice and snow jamming rivers in England, but it would help with the flooding. Or fetch a load of seawater and dump it on the snow, that'd melt it. ;D
All the snow is gone round here. Hooray! I just saw one very small patch under a hedge down the village, but that won't last long.
Not quite the winter wonderland we had a week ago. It's -2º C and overcast. Here in the city it hasn't snowed for almost 2 weeks the snow on the ground is mostly greyish/brownish white.
The forecast talks about +2 to 4º C and rain next week. meh. :(
I wanna be in Zonoland!
Freezing rain here today. School's closed again for safety.
Pleasant day in general but thawing clearly has set in
And Zonoland is as pleasant as it can be 70F +/- 5 depending on the hour, and no rain in the forecast.
It's all thawed round here, except in the daughter's garden where there's a big lump left from Cap'n B's snowman. So it does work.
Now it's a howling gale with pouring rain, so the floods are rising fast. We're cut off to the east once more, and half the fields are lakes again.
Rain here too
Fine and dandy in London. Just a slight mizzle in the air, and quite warm.
Uncharacteristically mild here for this time of year.
Hovering on either side of zero (slightly above during the day and slightly below at night). There's still a good layer of snow on the ground, and any precipitation that's fallen lately has been snowflakes.
It's always overcast, but that's winter here. There's often sunshine up the ski hill if one is really jonesing for it. I've been spending time at the pool (especially the sauna and steam room) to get that summery feeling.
One could almost go out without a coat at the moment.
Chilly this morning, not bad.
Rather nice at lunch.
Quite windy and darn tootin cold tonight!
Raining again
Warm and cloudy with showers this evening and thundershowers tonight.
I must have overslept and it is April now.
Very mild here, too, and sunny with few clouds. Only it's blowing really hard, sort of goodbye-dustbin-lid level.
Three heavy rain fronts forecast soon, which we really don't need at the moment.
It was a dark and stormy night here too
The storms did not hit us too hard last night, but there was a lot of water. I'm glad we're not in a low-lying area, as many of them flooded.
Today the sky is clear, the temps are diving, and the wind is blowing.
Judging from all the twigs and branches laying around the wind must have been quite strong indeed.
Snowflakes falling softly all day yesterday. It didn't appear to be accumulating when I looked out a window, but this morning there was a smallish drift my car had to kind of leap over in the middle of the driveway...
It snows in the evening and completely thaws in the morning. Repeat, repeat, repeat
They're calling for ice pellets and snow tonight. Or rain. Must be February!
Damn cold with a stiff north wind.
Cold? What cold? :P
Rather temperate today; I didn't take a coat (although it was chilly on the way home).
Surprisingly the snow did not disappear overnight. It's still snowing, although T is clearly above zero.
We had a few inches of snow last night, enough to close school. Opsalette is delighted!
It's been sunny and feeling like spring here the last few days. I don't trust it to be the real thing yet, and am hoping we don't have a total melt-out before the next cold snap. I want some of my winter veggies to stay under their snow blanket for now.
Cool and rainy today.
Snow drifted over neighbor's car yesterday, so I allowed extra time to shove l this morning. But! Winds came and blew the snow away from my walk & drive in the night! Yays.
Residual snow, residual cold, bright sun today.
The weatherperson says that there's 100% chance of something precipitating here today. Who knows what?
^ Frogs?
We've had snow, slush and rain today. The flooded fields are getting worse and worse. Various roads round here look likely to be cut again shortly.
Light snow, some rain but not sleet, odd sort of both rain and snow together. 2o. I was out when it started snowing (not settling, too warm). I enjoyed it.
Frogs might be preferable to the weather you're experiencing, my dear DavidH.
Griffin, our weather here was pretty much the same as what you had there yesterday. We did get a coating of snow, but none on the roads. It is quickly melting today.
Clear, cold, and windy going to work; sleeting and freezing at lunch; sunny, cold, snow melted going home.
Mild today, rain later, snow tonight. It's like a roller coaster.
Slight drizzle and a bit windy but generally ok, about 70F/21C.
This would definitely be the right time of year to visit Zonoland.
Luckily no snow (had to drive The'O'lette to school early for all disctrict chorus), but there was ice. It's expected to be COLD today and tomorrow.
But I did find a tiny yellow crocus blooming under my rosemary plant!
Zonoland is partially cloudy and heating up from 60F and it's expected to remain windy and reach about 75F. This is the nice time of the year here and the fact that we have had some rain for the past few days is a bit odd as this is generally a dry season.
Not surprisingly we have plenty of snowbirds (specially from Quebec and Ontario, plus northern states) this time of the year.
Gray as yesterday, no precipitation in the nation
It's windy as heck, here today, a lot like March. I got an Einstein hairdo just walking from the car to the hardware store.
Today is warm(ish) and sunny - it's been like that for the last three days. It's all due to change on Wednesday. :'(
I did not leave the house yesterday nor do I intend to today. Outside it looks gray.
Sunny and less windy today, but still cold.
Yesterday was cool all day long, around 45F/8C, today we're back to 60F/14C+
According to my mum there is an icy wind outside
Windy, rainy and sleety here today.
It's snowing
Snow overnight, but temperatures are mild. Better than frost, IMHO.
Mild here too. The snow's not gonna stay
Cold-ish, wind-ish, trying to snow-ish.
Chance of ... snow.
No, really-- they mean it this time (in contrast to the last time they meant it? we shall see, shan't we?) sleet, snow, the works.
... meh.
Today? Well, today was up into the 60's-- a lovely, not-too-windy day it was, too. I spent the afternoon up on a flat roof, installing an electrical cut-out panel. And punching holes in a concrete-block wall, for later running some copper tubes through-- yes, due to the expected nastiness, I covered it up temporarily.
I loves me my black gaffer's tape, I does. Bettern' duct tape any day. :D
T dancing around freezing, occasional light snowfall
Cold and windy.
The snowfall turned out to be strong but now there is even a bit of sun
Sunny and cold again, but not as windy as yesterday.
Uncomfortably coldish but not overly windy and no new snow
Snow and cold this morning, sunny and warm(ish) this afternoon.
1o but feels much colder.
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1o but feels much colder.
Exactly the same here. 0°C just a bit of wind and the sun is out but it feels teribly chilly.
Overcast with ice pellets and a chance of snow, then ice pellets and snow in the afternoon. High of 37F with a windchill as low as 21F. Winds from the SE at 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70% .
(Ripped off from wunderground.com)
Ooooo, lucky us?
Ice pellets? Just leave your drink outside when it's falling. ;)
Quote from: Aggie on February 22, 2013, 06:25:54 PM
Ice pellets? Just leave your drink outside when it's falling. ;)
Wish I'd thought of that! Oh well, I'll have another chance tomorrow morning.
Raining quite heavily at Casa del Blue. Not sure how much of this is falling on the fire grounds, and the reports I have heard suggest that they need about 60 mm (about 2½ inches) to put them out. Still, if any of this is going there, it surely cannot be a bad thing. So far this has been the February with the most number of days on record over 30°C in Melbourne - 17 so far. It has not so much been the heat in the middle of the day that has been the issue, but the high temperature overnight that really makes it uncomfortable. The house just cannot cool down properly. Oh well, making the most of a day or two of slightly cooler temperatures before it heats up again next week.
(http://www.glittergirl.co.uk/banana/91.gif) rain dance for Oz!
Thawing
Yeay, Blue! I'm sure it's some relief, anyway.
Here it is damp and cold. Thank goodness for hot tea.
Drizzle
Today in NI there were unconfirmed rumours of something called "blue sky". Concerned natives stayed indoors, just in case.
Here too, we are getting reports from startled people seeing a bright golden disc in the sky. What does it mean? What does it mean?!
Cool, gray but dry
We also saw the mysterious golden disc for several minutes this afternoon.
Praise our Noodly Master, it hasn't rained or snowed significantly for nearly two weeks now. However, when I go down into our next village on the West, Burghill, the road is still flowing like a stream with the water which is draining off the fields!
Edit: Burghill is west - why did I say east?
Something glowing here too but I think it will pass soon
The glowing thing was here this morning, but has now been concealed.
Heard some spring peepers last night, but they'll be refrozen tonight.
It passed within minutes of me posting.
The birds stayed.
But have the swallows gone back to Capistrano?
Cloudy. Stray flurries. But a couple of daffodils are trying to open.
Bitterly cold here. Temperature not that low, but chill factor large. I only know as forced out of my nest for a blood test. (my liver may have problems).
Blue sky and sun part of the day but a chilly wind
Another dreary day in Oklahomer-- too cold to be out & enjoy things, but too hot to get any of the really-cold fun stuff in.
On the other hand, it may rain-- we really need that (rain), as it's been too dry for several years, now. Out west, the winter wheat farmers are hoping for rain, instead of yet another year of failed crops.
As for myself? It's an excellent day to stay indoors and fix my frikkin' toilet for the last time-- I finally borrowed a power-snake, and through my newly installed cleanout, I hope to have it fixed on the 'morrorw. This bucket thing is getting old. ::)
Looks like it is going to be a mixed day. Very thin cloud cover, so the sun shines through wit diffeent intensity depnding on position.
Saw a strip of light coming through my blinds.
The day kept its promise
Clear but cold, here. Possible snow on Wednesday. Hope not this time, because I have to get Mr. Ops to surgery on Thursday morning.
weeeeeheeeeeeeeee! 12o tomorrow.
Supposed to snow tonight after a mild, coat-free, windows partially opened weekend.
Opsa, we'll take your snow this one time for our own selfish water table concerns, and to ease your trip to the hospital. Best wishes for Mr. Ops!
Slightly below zero in the night, up to +9°C predicted for the day. Sunny
7 o so far. Apparently sunny, but I can't actually see it.
It's almost too warm in the sun
Cold and windy and sunny.
damcold
damwindy
Dark.
Sunny, no cloud in sight
Sunny right now, but snow expected tonight and all day tomorrow. Accumulations of a foot are possible. Gosh, I hope not, but the Opsalette would be thrilled if they cancelled school!
Been warming up again, Saturday was the last day below 30°C, if things go to forecast, we will break the record of 8 consecutive days over 30°C in March. Right now I am in the middle of an all-nighter working on a server, it is about 4:30 am and the temp has only gone down to 18°C. Thank heavens for ceiling fans, if and when I ever get home and to bed...
Still not a single cloud in sight (except above the smokestack and cooling tower of the nearby power plant)
No idea. Slept through it all.
Woke up to 6 inches of snow at 6 am. Now we're around 10 inches, I think. School and work cancelled. More to come.
The snow is very wet and heavy. The power keeps flashing on and off. I am hoping to get laundry done before it goes out completely.
Nice views from the porch, though.
Snowing here too, although much less than Opsa has.
A few small clouds on the distant horizon, otherwise all blue. Slightly cooler than yesterday, I think.
A little drizzle, but not enough to spoil the dry-out so far.
No snow here. Fine and sunny, going for 35°C today, still on track to break the March record for consecutive days over 30. Feeling much better after a good sleep last night - missed out the previous night when I pulled an all nighter fixing a sick file server. I was like a zombie yesterday!
Sunny for most of the day with temperature above freezing . The streets still have mounds of ice and snow and puddles all about.
Very thin cloud cover, otherwise unchanged. Drizzle predicted for the afternoon.
We have had a row of coldish days, that is 40F/5C in the early morning and 60F/15C to 70F/21C in the afternoons. My birds are complaining because I don't take them to the balcony until the temperature is at least 60F and looking at the forecast they'll have to wait about 90 minutes before I take them out. Blue skies though.
Clouds thickening
It rained a little this morning, I'm guessing maybe ¼ inch, but already the roads are covered with deep puddles. There is nowhere for the water to go. :'(
We wound up with 12 inches of snow on Wednesday. Power flickered a bunch, but luckily never went out completely.
It's been sunny in the mid 40'sF today. Lots of snow melting. Lotsa huje puddles, like what DavidH is experiencing.
No sign of the drizzle yet
Daily threats of snow that keep skipping us, headed east.
T-shirt weather, really.
This is going to be a gray and uncomfortable weekened, if the forecast is correct (cold, windy with even a threat of snow-rain)
Raining. Grey. 7 o and falling.
Mild and melting!
Too cool to be comfortable, not extremly cold. But the wind is nasty
Wet. Wet. Wet.
Hot, hot, hot! >:(
thin but continuous snowfall. Little substance, so even if this goes on for 24 hours it won't exceed an inch (and likely less)
Cloudy, 5 o.
Sunny, 35ºC. Fed up.
Quote from: Bluenose on March 10, 2013, 02:54:33 AM
Sunny, 35ºC. Fed up.
My son has gone to the beach. But my grandaughter heard we have snow heading our way and wants to visit Grandma.
A good deal of snow
We had a couple of beautiful early spring days in the beginning of the week. Now we are back to cold and windy with temperatures steadily under 0oC.
Today it's sunny but -4oC.
Brrrrr(http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10404/brrrr.gif)
My desktop weather shows it is snowing here, but it isn't.
I'd put it outside for a while and see if it changes it's mind! :mrgreen:
Mild and sunny today. We saw people in town out having picnics.
It will be a cold week (zero during the day and -8°C during the night). So the snow might stay for a few days too.
They've been threatening snow for the weekend all week. It jumped us and headed east again.
Damn cold, with a biting E wind.
Well we broke the record for the number of consecutive days above 30°C in March - we've done 8 in a row - the previous record of 7 days was set in 1961. If it goes above 30° tomorrow as forecast it will be the longest run of consecutive days above 30° in Melbourne for any month since records commenced. It's only been getting down to the mid-high 20s overnight which has been rather uncomfortable - thank the toadfish for ceiling fans in the bedroom!
Well.... it's unseasonably cold. 33F
With the unseasonably warm February, I rather expected a short winter-- but it appears that all the normally-in-February coldness was simply pushed to March. It dropped well below freezing last night, for example.
And many of my idiot annuals (flowers) had already pushed above ground, due to the continuous +50F days in Feb, and were wilt-frozen as a result. They may recover, they may not-- this has happened in the past, and on those years, I just don't get any blooms. Ahhwell, I didn't plant them-- but I do enjoy the occasional times when they do manage to survive the changing seasons and bloom. :)
My toilet's functional again, in case anyone wondered. ::)
I was expecting an early wake-up call, to install a furnace-- but it appears to have been canceled due to crappy weather-- the old one is housed in an outdoor closet, subject to the near-freezing temps the whole time. My partner has been rather sick of late, so it's hardly surprising he'd push it for another day or so (it's not time-critical, not the sole method of heat for that building, and all the working furnaces are well able to take up the slack; compared to the rest of the nation, Oklahoma really is mild in the winter).
Just as well-- I've a bit of a migraine myself. Strong coffee + real dairy cream is helping .... rather alot, actually. :D
:cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup:
Hey, Bob- have I gone on and on about Feverfew (http://www.migrainetrust.org/factsheet-feverfew-and-migraine-10904) plant for migraines to you yet? I'm almost fanatical about it. I could get a suit and a bicycle and a name plate and a little pamphlet with panda bears and lions and rainbows on it. But seriously, it is an easy plant to grow, and I have used three leaves between two slices of bread upon early warning signs of migraine and it has made it pass on by within about 45 minutes without getting to the acute pain stage. I used to get migraines twice a year. I used feverfew to treat four of them. Then they stopped coming completely. That was ten years ago. Worth a shot, if it is a recurring problem.
Oh yeah- Weather! Cloudy and mild, here. Rain expected.
Quote from: Opsa on March 11, 2013, 04:57:26 PM
Hey, Bob- have I gone on and on about Feverfew (http://www.migrainetrust.org/factsheet-feverfew-and-migraine-10904) plant for migraines to you yet? I'm almost fanatical about it. I could get a suit and a bicycle and a name plate and a little pamphlet with panda bears and lions and rainbows on it. But seriously, it is an easy plant to grow, and I have used three leaves between two slices of bread upon early warning signs of migraine and it has made it pass on by within about 45 minutes without getting to the acute pain stage. I used to get migraines twice a year. I used feverfew to treat four of them. Then they stopped coming completely. That was ten years ago. Worth a shot, if it is a recurring problem.
Oh yeah- Weather! Cloudy and mild, here. Rain expected.
Yes you mentioned it previously, and I, in my oldage dotage, have completely forgotten all about it. :D
My migranes vary greatly as to the effects and intensity; and to date? A strong cuppa Joe has always, without fail, cured what ailed me-- if to replace the 'grain with a bit'o'jitters... I can live with a wee bit'o jitters in exchange.
Last nights' wasn't all that bad, and I blame it on too strong of herbal teas before bedtime, drying out my sinuses a bit too much-- couple with quite a drop in average temperatures and the resultant drop in humidity, and bingo: I get a sinus-migrane, keeping me from really good sleep. I was too sleepy to wake up & do something about the migrane, but in enough discomfort that I didn't truly get to real sleep. meh. As soon as morning rolled around, and I really woke up, I made me a cuppa strong coffee. I'm all sorted, now. And not in the least sleepy either. But I expect to crash about 7pm ish. I'll either take a nap, or read some to stay awake.
But I really ought to look up your plant recommendation. As you say, it's not hard to cultivate.
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Edit: A quick look at Amazon, and Feverfew is apparently a reasonably common herbal, found in most health food stores. Next time I'm in the Whole Foods market, I'll pick up some.
The reason strong coffee may work is that migraine is quite a common withdrawal reaction from not having coffee. When I used to drink a lot of coffee, I'd often wake up with a migraine. Used to happen if I smoked to excess too - withdrawal while asleep is a killer.
Still damn cold and the wind has backed NE - even worse. It snows small flakes in odd patchy showers, but it settles and isn't melting.
Some oaf once wrote a poem welcoming the North-easter (http://www.bartleby.com/42/656.html). Clearly insane - should have been locked up. :giggle:
World still blindingly white
I prefer fresh feverfew, but I've never tried the capsule form. Plus, I like the little flowers in the garden.
Raining like blue blazes here. The garden is a river.
The news from zonoland are temperatures in the 70sF/20sC. Perhaps a cooler morning in 50sF/10sC but not much less.
The whole of the south east, including London is in the grip of the usual hysteria that accompanies snow. People stuck on motorways for 11 hours etc. Except right here, there is no snow at all. This has happened before. I seem to live in a small area of London that doesn't get weather.
Still sunny by damcold. Weird.
We have above freezing temperatures here , but it is grey and gloomy with light rain.
South East except my road, still getting snow and chaos. Trains stopped; wrong sort of snow on the lines.
Heavy snow this morning, but it melted by late afternoon.
Looks like the snow is going to tay for awhile. Currently sunny. So much so that I have to keep the roller shutters down in order not to get blinded by the reflection of the snow.
Alternating between sunny and cloudy here, with breezes to strong gusts. It is cool, but not cold.
cold this morning
t-shirt weather coming home
Cold but beautifully sunny. We went for a little walk this morning.
Occasional glimpses of sun
Sunny, but with a biting wind!
ice on the streets. dangerous
It was, like, Spring, man.
Yuk!
Cold but sunny
Nice today, but a carpy* weekend.
(*Very rainy. Nice weather for fish?)
Warm and mixed between sun and smatterings of rain. Nice spring weather...
:fireworks_smile: SpRiNg!
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 11, 2013, 08:07:22 PM
The reason strong coffee may work is that migraine is quite a common withdrawal reaction from not having coffee. When I used to drink a lot of coffee, I'd often wake up with a migraine. Used to happen if I smoked to excess too - withdrawal while asleep is a killer.
I frequently skip a day or three, without any coffee, and only herbal teas. So it's not withdrawal I'm feeling here. :D
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In weather news: Oklahoma weather has decided to skip spring entirely, and jump directly to hot-summer: it was 85 frikkin' degrees today. I had to crank up the A/C. In March.
... meh.
But April with her accompanying high-winds & much rain is just around the corner... [said with a deadpan voice] can't hardly wait. oh. joy.
Nice sunny winter day
Supposed to be horrible today, rain, cloud, winds, etc, but the sun is shining through my blinds.
^ Well, it is blooming orrible here.
^ mmmm sorry London always seems to get off lightly........
Snow and grey earlier this morning. Still cold but the sun came out and it's not so depressing now .
Snowing very softly all day.
This weekend was supposed to be a cold, wet washout, but it has been pretty nice for late winter.
Quote from: Opsa on March 17, 2013, 03:19:43 PM
This weekend was supposed to be a cold, wet washout, but it has been pretty nice for late winter.
Looks like it here too
Snow all along the Black Mountains on the border. Looks very pretty. None here, though - yet. ;)
Not as bad as predicted here. Though we did get thunder last night. Close enough for me to shut my laptop down. I always find thunder in col weather strange.
Been a lot cooler the last few days - have even been able to pull up the duvet at night! Bliss!!
Gray and quite unpleasant
sunny and 8 o
Woke up this morning to unexpected snow and school's cancelled again. There are daffodils blooming under there somewhere!
Windy and freezing rain . Argh !
Very pleasant autumn day, sunny with a top temperature of 29°C
Significant snowfall during the night. Repetitive snowfall forecast for the day. For this week night temperatures are expected to fall to -10°C while during the day it is expected to reach about zero.
It is sunny and nearing 50 degrees today. Kinda nice!
It's above zero but constantly snowing
Th one day I have to go out, yesterday, it pours with rain.
Isn't the chance of rain in London higher than 50% at any time of the year?
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Actually we had a little bit of rain today, and temps in the 70sF/20sC.
I don't think it is as high as 50%. Certainly it isn't in my little pocket. And anyway, it should be organised so that on the very few days that I am forced to go out (usually hospital visits, and it was yesterday) it remains dry. This is just poor management.
^ I say, write a strongly worded letter to the Times.
;)
Cold again for the next few days-- more like the Marches of old.
:)
It's technically the first day of spring today, according to some authorities. You wouldn't think so, looking out of the window.
Although the sun does not shine, it looks like a nice snowed-in winter day.
Another fine dry day when I am not going out.
Sunny but cool and breezy, here. Where is that lamb that March is supposed to go out as?
Quote from: GriffinAnother fine dry day when I am not going out.
Go on, Griffin, put on your wossnames and go for a little walk.
Still around freezing here , icy streets . Argh .
It's windy and cold the snow is falling again.
Brrr.
I want SPRING! :'(
Me, too!
Heavy snowfall has set in.
Quote from: Opsa on March 20, 2013, 03:06:18 PM
Sunny but cool and breezy, here. Where is that lamb that March is supposed to go out as?
(http://images.clipartof.com/small/215970-Royalty-Free-RF-Clipart-Illustration-Of-A-Cartoon-Sheep-Running-With-Crazy-Eyes.jpg)
^ You men this one?
Cold, threatening freezing, snowing, coldering for the end of the week.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on March 20, 2013, 03:34:15 PM
Quote from: GriffinAnother fine dry day when I am not going out.
Go on, Griffin, put on your wossnames and go for a little walk.
Impossible! Not recovered from hospital trip yet. And it is still dry, but also it is the middle of the night.
More snow
Fair, marginally sunny, from my window, 4o
Still snow all about with freezing temperatures . Argh!
Took the rubbish down to the bins. Biting, freezing, wind. Still 4o but whoppa chill factor.
Here, too. We're around 36F, but the winds make it feel like we're in the 20's. Low of 25 tonight. Come on, Spring, I know you're out there somewhere!
Yes, Pieces, I'm afraid that crazy lamb looks all too familiar!
Quote from: pieces o nine on March 21, 2013, 12:59:12 AM
Quote from: Opsa on March 20, 2013, 03:06:18 PM
Sunny but cool and breezy, here. Where is that lamb that March is supposed to go out as?
(http://images.clipartof.com/small/215970-Royalty-Free-RF-Clipart-Illustration-Of-A-Cartoon-Sheep-Running-With-Crazy-Eyes.jpg)
^ You mean this one?
Night has come and with it a slight freeze
Masses of snow forecast later today and tomorrow. Oh, deepjoy - today we have to get to Friday Club to make hot cross buns with them and tomorrow we drive 150 miles to Exeter to look after a relative.
The sun is coming through every few minutes. A bit more snow is forecast though.
Sunny, but cool and windy again today. Beastly old lamb!
Woke up to snow covering everything - not too deep, just the cold, wet, spring snow that's good for the ground. By mid-afternoon the white filth was falling again. After work I started brushing snow from the car; by the time I made one compete circuit, you couldn't even tell I had removed anything from where I started!
Quote from: pieces o nine on March 23, 2013, 02:07:03 AM
By mid-afternoon the white filth
That was considerate of you, the term I'd heard was white sh!t (actually I heard it first in Spanish:
mierda blanca). :D
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None of that around here, a little bit of much needed rain and very much average temps on the 70sF/20sC.
Floods and blizzards. But not here. The weather symbol shows snow, but in fact it is just raining, with fairly high winds.
Sunny currently.
Temperatures are forecast to drop even further (maybe -15°C in some areas of the city). White Easter seems to be likely.
Made it to Exeter; the first half of the journey was through falling snow. Here in the southwest there has been torrential rain instead.
Clear and mild here today, but snow expected tomorrow and Monday!
Mierda blanca!
Rain turned to snow in the early hours - but too warm (4o) to settle.
We have a big ol' nasty snowstorm headed our way tonight. Bummer- as we have a road trip tomorrow. I hope it winds up just melting, like in Griffinland.
Would still prefer Zonoland!
Windy. Bitter. Dry.
Damn cold, and it's trying to snow.
Soaking up as much sunshine as possible , still cold .
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 24, 2013, 06:12:04 PM
Windy. Bitter. Dry.
Yeah, same here.
But also quite sunny some of the day
The snow melted from sidewalk and most of drive before I could shovel it...
(darn the luck!)
The sunshine on windowsills is quite lovely.
But the wind is darntootin cold.
What is this snow of which you all speak?
Is it anything like that horrible white stuff they keep at the top of mountains that freezes your toeses even though you're wearing your best thongs (flip flops)?
Mysterious white stuff indeed, never seen it fall.
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Zonoland went from 80F/27C yesterday to 50F/10C today. It should reach 70F/21C in the afternoon, but tomorrow it's supposed to go down to 45F/7C. All over the place but no white stuff in the forecast.
sunny but chilly
The wind goes through you like mouldy fruit.
Why and how does mouldy fruit go through you? ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Dull, dry, and now dark. 1 o
Today I enjoyed the sunshine for the larger part of the day. The temperature reached 7°C. Lovely , spring is in the air .
Came back from Exeter today. Snow now only on the hilltops, still cold but the wind is not so biting, roads are dry. A damn sight easier than the journey out. ;D
About +4 during the day and -4 during the night. Forecast says it is goind to stay that way for a while.
Dull, dry, and strong wind at times. 2 o. Outlook more of the same.
Overcast again here , the daytime temperatures are still 7° C but O °C at night .
Just back from a short jaunt to the beach. Left on Monday in the middle of a blizzard. It was nuts. Snowed all the way there, and snowed at the beach that night.
But the next couple of days were clear and cool, and very beautiful. The snow melted. We played mini golf inside- pirate motif, naturally.
Today it's just a little milder. Spring is trying to push it's way in.
A few snowflakes, cold wind
60's-ish and pleasant.
Weekend forecasts alternate between 70 and snowing... ;)
The day was warm when the sun was out . It's still almost freezing at night .
Bright blue sky, fluffy white clouds, sun in and out, 3o
Heavy snow in the morning but is is constantly above freezing, so it can't keep up with the partial melting.
Just a squinch nicer today.
It's sunny and much warmer today .
Here, too! Finally hitting 50 F!
I have a window open!
cloudy
6°C at the moment and sunny ,
Mild late March showers. The land awaits the re-awakening.
Reasonably sunny and around 5° / 41°, but a biting E. wind cuts through you. Still plenty of snow on the higher hilltops.
Occasional snowfall but too warm for it to last
Had the windows open today.
Still sunny, but cooling.
Hey- I got to air out the house for a couple of hours today, too. But then it got cloudy and cooler.
cloudy and cool but not cold and no precipitation
Yesterday was very cold . It is warming up today . The weather network tells me spring arrives on Sunday .
Unchanged since last time
Snowing. Not settling. Wind chill massive.
Still fairly cool, but not as cold as last week. The Washington DC cherry blossoms, which were pretty much spent by this time last year, haven't even opened, yet. Out where I am, there is only a hint of bud in the still bare trees.
As with BC, we are told that the weather will become springlike this Sunday.
Still mostly unchanged
Cold and dark. If it wasn't dark it would be sunny, but it would still be cold.
t-shirt weather.
Bright and not quite so cold - 6o
I would call it rather stable weather conditions by now
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 06, 2013, 12:51:48 PM
I would call it rather stable weather conditions by now
There's horse sh*t falling from the sky? :mrgreen:
Currently not. I cannot spot a single cloud, esp. no Schäfchenwolken ('little sheep cloud' = cumulus), so no solid precipitation in sight.
Bright. 10o
Now the clouds return but the sun puts up a good defence
Warm today but overcast .
Sun's beating its retreat towards the horizon while the clouds sweep the field of heaven
48°f/9°c
Precipitation: 30%
Humidity: 62%
Wind: 5mph
Last rays of the evening sun through a light haze
Sunny! Warm! Spring!
AHHHHHH!
Change between sun and clouds. Generally quite pleasant.
Snow forecast for tonight!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Second "snow day" today!
This is like being a kid again -- I'm accustomed to employers who have the extremely non-essential services joint open and expect us there even if the Highway Patrol is imploring people to STAY THE *&%# HOME and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are galloping past. I've folded laundry, washed dishes, pruned an email inbox, and watched several episodes of Doctor Who (William Hartnell version).
Later today I'll have to face the honking drifts in the driveway to return to work tomorrow.
a handful drops of rain
Really quite unseasonably warm and sunny here, today. I was trying to plant gladiolus, but it was too hot!
Coolness to return tomorrow with showers.
First rainy day in about a month. Because I am building a shed today, obviously.
Looks drizzly here too
Freezing rain storm last night . Another one is raging at the moment with very high winds . Nasty weather .
Rain, rain, rain.
Sun coming through this very moment (but I assume only temporarily)
Thunderstorms this morning. Now it is clearing, and everything is looking more green all the time. The grass needs mowing all of a sudden!
Quote from: roystonoboogie on April 12, 2013, 09:10:11 AM
First rainy day in about a month. Because I am building a shed today, obviously.
So it's your fault! I had to go out today, in the rain. I never go out.
Zonoland went back to it's regular state, that is 85F+ and humidity ~70%, which forced me to finally turn on the AC.
Drifts slowly melting, slight skiffs of fresh snow, rains forecast for protective ice cover on residual snow...
Sunny and warm today, with cool nights -- perfect weather in my opinion. Not unlike ... spring.
Next week? Winter returns with cold, possibly freezing rain... right in the middle of the week, and my customer really wants the install to be on Wednesday... meh.
Oh well--this is Oklahoma, even freezing rain won't last that long-- nothing (weather-wise) does.
Almost +18°C in the afternoon. Sunshine for part of the day. In the sun it became already too warm for my taste.
Edit: about 25°C and sun. I want my winter back!
Mild and cloudy.
Ominous white flakes.
Threats of accumulation.
Cold and windy.
Pollen levels are getting up dramatically and I begin to feel it :(
Aaaaaaaaaah! That's why I am snuffly. I had a sore throat and thought it was a bug, but it's much more likely to be that.
14 o today, going up.
Change between sun and light cloud cover. Warm.
The white filth is covering everything, with threats of more and more and more...
What fresh [cold!] hell is this?
Could we change places for a while?
Nice rains, mild weather, but a cold front threatens for next week. I'll try to resist sowing seeds too soon.
I've already got a sustainable crop of kale to munch on, courtesy of late summer plantings. The brassicas I planted a few weeks ago are taking their time with the recent cold, but are up out of the ground and starting to form some real leaves.
It's been sun and showers with occasional snow this week.
School closings for today were announced last night about 5pm.
Huge shocking development: terrible blizzard did not materialize.
Still, snow all day; light coverage but heavy flakes, freezing at sundown.
Above 25°C
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Gimme snow!
Goodness, how does Germany get that hot ? Only 10 o here. Torrentail rain and thunder folowed by brilliant sunshine.
Mild and drizzly day, sun breaking in, now.
I hope that snow leaves you alone, Pieces!
Outdoors-- according to my outdoor thingy, it's 46 degrees F. Yesterday? It was 81+ degrees F.
Oklahoma.... meh.
Residual snow is melting, still rather coolish outside.
Swato: get to work on a teleport device, sir! You could pop in and back out of chill zones at will, then in and out of warm areas in your winter...
;)
...or move to the Alps. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Zonoland in general hot mode for the foreseeable future.
Mild with dark clouds. Big old thunderstorms expected tonight. We're in a tornado watch until 10pm.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 19, 2013, 03:39:47 AM
...or move to the Alps. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Not before the severe infestation with Bavarians and Austrians has been dealt with ;)
A nice drop in temperature and light cloud cover. I like it.
Frost here, this morning. :P
I casually glanced out the window at 7:30 this morning.
GAK!
Snow!
A lot of it. I clicked on the tv and saw a carpload of school closings scrolling past. Rat! I kind of had to be there today, so I LEAPED my car over the snowdrift in the steep driveway. Weirdly enough, it worked.
:snowman:
birch pollen are killing me
The tree pollen is killer here, too. I take Loratadine, but even then I'll get itchy eyes and a sneeze fit at times.
Still, I'll take it over snow. Poor Pieces!
Very windy but the temperature is to my liking.
Stealth blizzard just north of us today. Co-worker drove through it for an hour -- nothing on the doppler radar!
The sun here abruptly dimmed, winds kicked up, and temps were cold for a bit with random flakes, but then the weirdness passed.
Allegedly, 73° (47°C) Saturday.
13o in the middle of the night.
I am knocking on wood as I type this, but I think spring has decided to settle, finally. It is sunny and near 68 F here today, with no more frost warnings in sight.
Quite warm but a bit of a haze
13o - hotter than last night, daytime was hotter as well 22o
But tomorrow it plummets.
Sunny but brisk.
Still quite warm but now there is thick cloud cover and there must have been a few drops falling at one time. But now it's dry again.
Yesterday? It was in the middle-to-high 80's.
Today? It barely go over 40 degrees-- even now, it's 37 degrees outside-- that's 5 degrees from a freeze.
Tomorrow? Who knows?
:D
Edit: That's the Furnace turning on at night, but running the Air Conditioner during the afternoon....
... too funny.
Weather quite pleasant, although I would not complain about a little rain either.
Temperatures clearly within the limits of comfort.
Mild, breezy, cool at night.
Finally, some decent spring weather!
About +15 degrees C, sunny, and windy. And no snowdrifts on the streets, either! We did have those just two weeks ago, but now they are finally gone. Spring was late this year, but now it seems determined to catch up.
Slightly above 20°C, sunny. :) Also my nose tells me that the male birches shamelessly ejaculate in public en masse. :(
The hussies! Where is their self-control?
Mild days, cool nights. I am hoping it won't freeze at night now that I put in some tomato plants.
Tomorrow is scheduled to be very warm. It's also the May Day bank holiday. I had fixed with a friend to go out for cake. I even washed my crop jeans to wear. But I've just done one of my 24 hour sleeps - soooooo tired. So had to cancel. Wretched illness.
Poor Griffin! :( I hope you can re-sched for that cake.
Rainy and cool, here.
It's summer here, with temperatures exceeding 30 C this week.
Warm and dry, although it looked several times as if a thunderstorm was just around the corner.
We must be just around the corner, then. Thunderstorms tromping around here.
We had a short thunderstorm here this evening too.
Summer was 3 days last week. That's it.
Quite warm and sunny, but the ground is still waterlogged for the most part.
We had spring here last week . Yesterday brought high winds , cold and hail . Today also found me in my winter coat . brrrrrrr.
Pleasantly warm today; everyone coming in the door started their greeting with whining about how hot it is... ::)
Quite nice weather. occasionally a wee bit of rain
Frost this morning (unusual- had to cover tomato plants), 68 F by this afternoon, maybe up to 80F tomorrow with chance of thundershowers.
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 14, 2013, 02:15:05 AM
Quite nice weather. occasionally a wee bit of rain
A bit cooler and less sunny. I actually still like it
Very sunny and warm but winds qwere near gale force.
It's going to get too warm today (>25°C)
Nice! Around 78-80F, breezes.
I hear that Texas got tornados last night. I hope our Sibling MentalBlock is okay.
strong but not stormy winds aorund here, partially mitigating the temperature.
Heaven. It's heaven here, today. Tomorrow, who knows?
Plus, it's FROIDAY!
Too warm for heaven, if you aske me
Raining today! Heaven for ducks.
Quote from: Opsa on May 18, 2013, 01:46:34 PM
Raining today! Heaven for ducks.
I haven't asked any ducks but it was rainy here too.
It's beautiful out there .
It was overcast with cool wind, yet humid. Rain all around us.
Then -- HAIL!
Then, rain.
Then, sundown.
Then, more rain, more cool wind.
Grey all day, and humid.
Most would call the weather very nice but for me it was already too warm
Nice weather for mildew, now. We could use some sunshine!
Cloudy but until now dry
Cold, wet, March-like windy.
I'm watching news coverage of a really terrible tornado in Oklahoma (http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/20/us/oklahoma-tornado-developments/index.html), with darkness falling to hinder rescue efforts.
Summer arrived early here for Victoria Day . Me and me mateys however , caught rumours of thundering and lightninging . Alas , not rumours . Much wetness ensued .
Super scary tornado shots from OK.
Damp here, but trying to clear.
Unpredicatble weather here, dark clouds changing with burning sun constantly
Partly sunny, warm and muggy here.
Rainy and significantly cooler. I do NOT complain.
rainy and coolio here
Grey, warm and stormy-looking.
Unstable but dry weather
Windy but sunny.
Nearly constant rain since the eve of the day before yesterday. Not torrential but still without major pauses.
Yesteray I had to walk a lot through it. Today I stayed home and just listen to it.
'Sposta climb to near 90 F today, and stay there the rest of the week. Sunny.
Frequent rain with some very warm sunny breaks. June tends to be rainy, so I expect more of the same.
Quote from: Aggie on May 29, 2013, 03:58:27 PM
Frequent rain with some very warm sunny breaks. June tends to be rainy, so I expect more of the same.
About the same here
Cold and Wet. I had to change a planned outing.
Hot and humid!
mild and very humid.
Difficult to breathe
Warm 'n' stormy.
Quite decent today
After days of chilly and drizzle, chilly and rain, and chilly and wind and drizzle and rain, it was quite nice today.
Looked like rain before noon but now it's sunny
Warm, breezy and low humidity! Fab!
Went kayaking on, and swimming in, the lake today. It's summer! :D
June be bustin' out all over. Another nice one, today.
Also nice weather over here
Up to 29C today... I'm doing trailer work in the morning but plan to go for a paddle later this afternoon. This time I'll bring my fishing rod.
Nice weather but starting to get too warm
Drizzly today, here. But pleasant in its own way.
We have summer!
It's 3 in the morning and it's 15 C outside.
(and I have insomnia)
Well, I rarely go to bed before 3am.
Slightly too warm and always looking like a thunderstorm is just around the the next corner.
Today, well ok, yesterday, was forecast to be warm, dry, sunny, blue skies. Instead it was raining and overcast, no sun and not particularly warm. They say we will have a fine weekend, but how can one trust them.
What do They know, anyway?
Hurricane Andrea has bustled past us, skies are cloudy, but at least it's not pouring buckets, like it was yesterday.
Sunny.
Warm and sunny day but now it is raining
Raining here, too.
Simply, it's intolerably hot, HOT!
The rainy stuff is gone for now and we have one nice days before it starts to get hot and muggy again. I'd better get out there and enjoy it!
Currently I am more into hoping that the next ice age is just around the corner.
I would also be content with a nice snowy winter.
Outside: warmish but nice
(http://www.canadianmomscommunity.com/forum/images/smilies/suntan.gif)
Inside: co-worker had air conditioning set on "Admiral Perry"
(http://forum.thecatarena.com/images/smilies/freezing2.gif)
No torrential rains down there? The flatlands are getting flooded, and so is my basement (groundwater seepage through a cracked foundation).
We had torrential rain in the late evening combined with the longest thunderstorm I can remember.
But looking out know it looks like it will get like yesterday, i.e. more heat than I can suffer.
Low last night -4.5 deg C, high 15 C. Fog and frost this morning, but fine and mostly sunny during the day. Predicted to get down to -4 C again tonight.
We can haz summas, pleeze?
Add a bit of snow and I could consider to negotiate a swap ;)
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 20, 2013, 10:31:34 AM
Simply, it's intolerably hot, HOT!
You reminded me of:
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It's been hot, hot, HOT! here for a while already, and no chances of snow any time soon.
I love Ruby Rod!
Getting warmer here too, but not too bad today.
Too warm but less intolerably so than in the previous days
The ghastly humidity is gone. Bit overcast. Outlook bad. Son freezing in Sydney.
Nice yesterday, working up to quite toasty indoors.
Big rainstorm followed by rather chilly night.
Ought and yoomid!
Weather becoming tolerable again
We're about half past Africa, here.
Overcast with teperatures to my liking
Some thundershowers passed and things cooled down a little. But now it is muggier!
Hot and humid during the day , cooler at night , rather pleasant at the moment..
Pleasantly cool and there is light rain. I like it
Hotter! Supposed to get near the mid-90's F here today and tomorrow. Chance of thundershowers both days too, which is good.
Cool, grey, dull. But my father only 45 mins away has had brilliant sunshine and hot hot hot. Often wonder how weather manages to be so local in London which after all has no mountains or valleys etc. Couple of times I've seen where the rain stops - one side rain - t'other side dry, which always amazes me.
Another hottie, and I don't mean Griffin! ;)
Same as yesterday but with less rain. As long as this does not last for weeks on time, I find it pleasant.
Quote from: Opsa on June 26, 2013, 06:17:11 PM
Another hottie, and I don't mean Griffin! ;)
I thought you were the hottie, bay-bee... ;)
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As for how 94F with a humidity of 80% feels like... not that different from a sauna.
A few glimpses of sun with a bit of rain announced for later. Generally to my liking, especially because it is nicely cool.
I think we can all agree that Pieces is the hottiest, though.
Fog this morning, thunderstorms expected.
Was I? :o
[spent the day working under an air-conditioning vent set to Admiral Perry again so do not know the actual weather]
Mainly unchanged from yesterday. I like it.
Humid.
No storms yesterday. Maybe storms today. Hot and humid. Visually, quite pretty but not so good for yard work.
Deluge out there at the moment.
We had one here, too, since I last wrote.
Record amount of rain so far . The combined storms from Sunday and Monday caused severe flooding along the lakeshore . All sorts of vehicles were submerged , people actually swimming away from there cars . It looked as if Lake Ontario rose seven feet .Quite a sight , one I'd never seen before .
I have seen photos posted on Flickr of flood photos from the Great White North. The volume of water is impressive, to say the least.
Here it's just warmy and stormy.
warm and dry but still tolerable
One of our customers showed up with horrible bruises today, and reported lemon-sized hail last night!
Dom & I heard some amazing, whip-cracking thunder, but not hail.
currently overcast and (nicely) cool
A nice, rainy, sleepy summer day.
The heat is back (actually, it didn't really leave, just attenuated slightly).
We have been having a heat wave this week. The temps are in the upper 90's F, with the humidity making it feel like over 100 F.
Add to that the aggressive tiger mosquitoes we have at this time of year and it makes the great outdoors not so great right now.
Hot bit still on the tolerable side here
32 C here. Level Three Heatwave warning. People dying in ponds and lakes.
If ponds and lakes keep forming, we will have people dying in them, it's been raining like the world is about to end here.
We've had a cold snap-- people are freezing hereabouts. Lots of wind damage, from the thunder-boomer the other day.
Temps down to the mid 80's F.
Quite apart from the more typical 110-in-the-shade we had last year.
Of course, the humidity is 66% out there-- so it's a muggy frostwave.
:)
For my taste it's too damn hot around here (similar to Griffin). And for thee weekend up to 37°C are announced.
Anything above 25°C I find intolerable unless it is food/tea or a bath.
I just can't stand the humidity. It's been around 26 oC here this afternoon with a lovely fresh wiind but inside is still like an oven with 100$ humidity.
Last week was very hot and humid. This week the humidity refreshingly low and there are some breezes. We are near 80 F for a high temp today.
Now is the weather turn'd to discontent
In glorious summer by this son of Bike;
And dank exhaust that lour'd in the garage
At all red lights doth build into a cloud.
Now are their brows bound with skull bandanas;
And bruised arms conceal'd in leather sleeves;
Their stern alarums changed to drunken greetings,
Their dreadful marches to Black Hills road trips.
Grim-visaged artists have tattooed their front;
And now, instead of mounting Harley-chromed
To fright the souls of fearful neighbor ladies,
They doth roar throughout the Paha Sapa
With haltered wenches and goggled small dogs.
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At last a bit of rain
Sounds like fun weather P09.
We are due rain tomorrow (actually today, but it is still the evening before for me).
I need to go out for shops stuff but shall wait til Tuesday which shows a sun symbol.
Great weather here yesterday and today.
Thunderstorms and hail again today.
It's been a relatively mild winter, generally not too cold, even had a record high for July, but interspersed with extremely cold bursts of a few days on several occasions, just going into another one now. Roses are starting to grow, but I have not been game to prune them yet as we are still expecting some more frosts over the next few days.
That sounds pretty nice, Blue.
Our summer here has been relatively mild. We haven't had as many scorchers as we often have in late July. There has also been plenty of rain, which makes things perfect for plants, but also for mould. Still, I think it is preferable to drought, at least up here in the piedmont where we are not prone to flooding.
Rainy today.
Very warm during the day (with a dry thunderstorm) and now torrential rain (again with an initial thunderstorm)
Showery again, here.
Minor rain-shower-ettes off & on today.
Warm during the day, heavy thunderstorms in the late evening/night again.
Thunderstorms have been forecast for today, but instead it is sunny and humid at present, here.
Warm to hot during the day, rain in the evening. No thunderstorm that I noticed (although it looked quite eerie right before sunset)
Ooh! Didja take a photo? I like eerie skies.
Another warm, muggy day with chance of showers.
I hope it clears up for the Perseids meteor shower this weekend.
Overcast (as always when astronomical events are in the cards).
Temperatures have become tolerable again.
I know, ack! Hopefully this drizzly morning will give way to clearer skies tonight and tomorrow. I'd like to catch some Perseids.
Rain in the afternoon, now sunny again
Kinda nice today, but overcast expected to move in by Perseid time. G'arrgggghhh!
I didn't know what causes meteor showers -- that is, I didn't know that they are cyclical and predictable because the earth passes through more-or-less regular orbits of comet debris during its own regular orbit...
Lots of silliness in this one, but I discovered it last night and learned some new things, especially when he mentioned the Perseids by name.
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partially overcast, quite nice
I love Neil. He's cool.
We were overcast last night (grrf!), but I'll look for the Persieds again tonight!
Right now it's sunny, but there are clouds lurking about.
Temperatures nice (=cool), mostly overcast, some rain.
Decidedly poor weather for viewing Perseids again this year. We're having some lovely rains here this morning with a cool and clear trend for the rest of the week. Maybe I can catch some stragglers.
:update:
It's positively GORGEOUS here!
Nice and sunny all day but not too warm
Beeeeeeeeyoot!-iful today.
Highs in the 70F's. Clear, a breeze. Lurvely.
Beautiful late summer weather
It's days like these that make us remember how fabulous Fall can be.
Clouds have arrived now but still nothing to complain about.
Hot and humid again, but the ground is dry. Yechh-o-rama.
Cloudy, cool and with occasional rain
Cloudy, cool and with occasional rain...
Perhaps in two months we may have a cool day or two, but not in September.
Suddenly, this week, darkness falls -- abruptly and definitively -- at 7 pm.
Suddenly, this week, nights are chilly.
Suddenly, this week, boss put the AC on -- nice and strong -- in my area. ::)
A little more summer heat, with temperatures into the 30's
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 11, 2013, 03:09:22 PM
Cloudy, cool and with occasional rain
No change, no complaints (from me)
We've been having a heat wave, here, with heat indices near 100F. Afternoon thunderstorms are expected to push the system out of the area today, so hopefully we'll get some relief and more autumnal temps by tomorrow.
No rain today actually although it looked most of the time as if it could start any minute
At last we are having a thundershower. It smells great out there!
Cooler temps here, as compared to previously. About 80-ish (F), but high humidity.
So, after I got home, I went out back and re-mowed my yard one last time? (hopefully) to kind of grind up the dry clippings from earlier in the week. The front still looks fine, I left it.
I was kinda bummed, though-- it was dark by 8pm. Summer's officially over, I guess. meh.
Sadly, even with the high humidity, rain is not forecast, making September a record dry streak. Cooler morning temps could create dew, though-- helping some, but not the trees.
Due to GCC, I guess our formerly dry August now comes in September/October. Bad for Halloween-- outdoor burn-bans will limit what sort of decorations are permissible.
I hope it rains soon....
Here too, Bob.
This morning was gorgeous, though. Crisp as an apple!
Cold, dark and wet. Summer gone. Nice while it lasted. Heading into months of depression.
Nicely sunny for parts of the day. Temperature within the tolerable range.
I'm now closing the portholes at night and opening them back up in the daytime.
As much as I hate to see the warm, long days shorten and cool down, I look forward to cozy firesides and snowy days with no mosquitoes or yard work!
Cloudy but dry (until now)
Milder temperatures again-- only up to 90(f).
Humidity is still too high, though.
No rain, either. meh. The grass is so dry, it's brittle when walked on (instead of springy). At least I won't need to mow again anytime soon--possibly not before next spring. I suppose I ought to prep the mower for winter, with new oil. (I always run the gas out of the carb, by turning off the gas-feed. I add stabilizer, so whats in the tank is good to go come spring.)
But I so wish it would rain...
We had some needed rain here this morning. Hope some comes your way soon, Bob.
At least the dry weather keeps the mould down a bit.
Looked like rain most of the day but there were only a few drops. Now it's clearing up a bit.
Quite cool this morning! The trees are beginning to show autumn colors.
Although it looked several times like a thubderstorm would break loose any minute, it did not hapen and the day was nothing to complain about weatherwise.
Dismal, wind rain, cold, heating on <sigh> winter jammies on, but they say we are about to get a hot and sunny spell.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 18, 2013, 07:45:08 PM
Dismal, wind rain, cold, heating on <sigh> winter jammies on, but they say we are about to get a hot and sunny spell.
Same here but it came according to forecast, just a day late.
I had winter jammies on the past couple of nights, as it was near freezing here. Today it is sunny again, no rain. I'll have to water my spinach seeds for the next two days and then we hope for rain on Saturday evening into Sunday and perhaps Monday, but with slightly warmer night temperatures.
Mixed weather signals. No idea, whether it will rain or not.
Another fabulous morning here in Opsaworld. Clear, mild, low humidity.
Moderate temperatures with unpredictable rain showers
Yaaay! It finally rained yesterday, last night and again this morning.
Alas, these wet spells have caused my local power substation to trip, and then reset-- no power for about 5 minutes. Just long enough to trip various things into a "reset" state. But not long enough to bother reporting to anyone. <heh>
But my outdoor temp is reading a lovely 68 degrees. Alas, the humidity is 85%, so it's a **wet** 68 degrees...
:)
I'm so glad you got your rain, Bob! Maybe we'll get some here, tomorrow.
We are told we will have warm sunny weather with some cloud. I'm not sure I believe them. Although today I did manage to find a sunny spell to take out my rubbish to the bins.
We're definitely into days a little too warm and nights a little too cool for my personal preference.
;)
Sunny all day (but not cloudless) and rather warm. Still tolerable though.
Cloudy and cool here today.
Quote from: Opsa on September 23, 2013, 04:25:15 PM
Cloudy and cool here today.
Looks about the same here
Cloudy until I went out late afternoon. Then 21 C and sunny. Had to take jacket off. (and I now have clean teeth).
Your shiny teeth probably lit everything up, Griffin!
Sunnier and a bit milder today, after a cool start.
Cooler daytime temperatures.
Alas, the humidity has exceeded 70% for most of the day... making even a mild 80 degrees ... unplesant.
Without a fan, I'd have fainted from the heat. Embarrassing, for sure. But, because of the excessive humidity, and the mild temperatures, I'm not thirsty... at all.
But I recognize this, and make myself drink anyway.
... bleh...
..... I'm ready for winter.
The white filth is falling in the surrounding areas. Monday's forecasts for snow tomorrow have been upgraded to possible blizzard with serious winds.
:autumn: :snowman:
Supposed to have been deluge rain, weather warnings out for floods, haven't had a drop of rain. I really don't understand; my little corner never seems to get the weather they have everywhere else. Very odd.
Rain at the end of yesterday continued overnight, turning to snow. Not much accumulation locally yet, but it's wet, heavy, icy, and windy, with expectations of snow accumulation and increasing winds.
:snowman:
Eek! Not all ready!
Here it's as hot as summer, but Hurricane Karen is supposed to visit us on Monday, along with the remains of your storm, Pieces. It shouldn't be cold enough to snow, but is expected to cool things back down to autumnal temperatures.
We do need the rain.
Cooling down and windy on the one hand but also continuous sunshine for several days now
Lovely balmy English September day. Sunny and warm with blue skies. Should have another couple such before it deteriorates. No sign of an Indian Summer though.
Mild but cloudy most of the day, now light rain
Bright and sunny tho not particularly warm. But I am stuck indoors depressed. I don't know quite why I bother to comment on the weather as the only real impact on me is whether to turn my heating on. Except the very few days in a year when I venture outside.
Cloudy, looks like rain but it has stayed dry all day.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on October 06, 2013, 04:34:16 PM
I don't know quite why I bother to comment on the weather as the only real impact on me is whether to turn my heating on.
I think it's interesting to know what the weather is like in different parts of the world. Please keep on commenting.
Finally today, after weeks of dry weather, we are having a wonderful downpour. It looks and sounds beautiful and is a big relief for us here.
Nightly rains over the weekend-- very light though.
Alas, it has made the grass grow enough, that I must consider mowing once again, before fall.
Warmer this week is expected, though. But I cranked up the furnace just in case it needed repair-- it didn't (turn back down). Always good to check these before it gets **really** cold.
Much cooler today, clear and breezy. More like autumn.
Looks like we skipped winter and spring has arrived. 17°C despite fully clouded sky.
The Great Blizzard of '13 is finally past. It sucked.
Okay, now the weather is more apt for the season. Rain and a drop in temperature.
I hope you have no more blizzards this year, Pieces.
Hurricane Karen has finally caught up to us. It is raining and is expected to rain here for the next few days.
Quote from: Opsa on October 10, 2013, 03:07:25 PM
I hope you have no more blizzards this year, Pieces.
Hurricane Karen has finally caught up to us. It is raining and is expected to rain here for the next few days.
How do you know about the Hurricane? I thought with the government shut-down, that even the satellites were on furlough.... right?
:ROFL:
Here? We finally hit the Fall Stride: lovely-lovely cool nights, with quite comfortably warm days, but nothing extreme. If I could find a climate like this year round, I could easily live there forever.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on October 10, 2013, 06:06:18 PM
How do you know about the Hurricane? I thought with the government shut-down, that even the satellites were on furlough.... right?
Ve go by shpy zatellites, zee?
There shall be blizzards and rumors of blizzards -- apparently the same thing is headed towards us again, not this coming weekend but the next one out. On the bright side, no big trees left to take down power again, and with so many cattle dead, fewer stock animals for ranchers to worry about...
* blesses the Teabertarians for being correct that there is no global climate change *
* ^ not really *
After a rainy yesterday and a cloudy morning the afternoon looks sunny
Still rainy rainy rainy here. We're making the most of it with comforting teas and soups.
Raining. Quite cold. Not helped by not realising heating turned off.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on October 11, 2013, 07:10:23 PM
Raining. Quite cold. Not helped by not realising heating turned off.
Got it all sorted, I hope?
Freezing to death, or just as bad, freezing-to-catch-the-flu is not much fun.
Yes, sorted. The problem was I forgot the electrician switched the power off. The battery back up should have prevented the issue but it didn't and the thing de-programmed itself. I imagine the battery is dead. Can't be bothered to check but may have to if the energy companies give us black outs, which they are threatening if they can't apply arbitrary and massive price hikes **** they should never have privatised *** Power should be free at the point of service like the NHS **** then we wouldn't get the elderly freezing to death as we do **** Took me a while to work out how to fix the timer and the mode. Peering into cupboards with a torch is a pig.
We are very soggy again, here.
Almost toasty warm today; no sign of last week's blizzard. Everyone was out cleaning up downed branches and yard debris, and someone a block down with high testosterone and low brains decided to chainsaw down an entire tree. Riiiiight.
Riiiiight on top of the newly restored power line.
Several of us arrived home with replacement grocerie$ to find...no power! But kudos to the power company who arrived promptly (I wonder how many furious calls!) and restored power to us the second time this week.
Oh boy, I'll bet that guy is pretty popular right now.
The rains have stopped, but we will probably continue to be soggy for a few days. We got around 5 inches of rain, I think. Maybe more.
Zonoland remains it's usual sauna self. No changes expected until thanksgiving at the earliest.
I have no idea. Really. I've been too busy to look out the window. I think I heard rain.
Rain today.
Spoiled my plans for yard recycling. I really do need to police up the flat steel I have lying here and there (in neat piles-- don't wish to be trashy)...
... but the rain is welcome, even though it means I will mow the grass yet again before the first freeze finally puts it to sleep.
:)
Rain turning cold, to snow.
13.4°C rain in the first half of the day, now some sunrays breaking through
Mild and sunny yesterday. Had lunch outside!
Today, a little cooler and cloudier.
No idea if we had any weather today.
We're around 70F today and partly sunny. A cold front is coming in though, and I have felt it in my sinuses!
Going to enjoy the mildness while I can.
:update:
The cold front is here. We have a freeze watch tonight. The houseplants are off the porch and I've picked the last of the garden flowers.
It's kinda nice, in a way.
Did I told you that temporary Zonoland is as hot and possibly more humid than regular Zonoland?
But fun, yes? :)
Yes, I'm liking the food so far and later today I will go to a pretty island with an underground river. Pity I'm alone, but I'll take pictures.
We are due high winds (80) and torrential rain tomorrow, late afternoon into overnight to Monday. Orange warnings out for trees being blown down and floods. Such not seen since 1987 I am informed. However, even so, not to be compared with those in other parts of the world. This is a very English version.
"... Very English"
So, just before the flood enters your house, it politely apologizes for any inconvenience?
::)
I'm sure it will, yes. And apparently I am wrong, it is a yellow warning, not orange. There is no orange.
No sign of wind or rain yet.
We have (what looks to be 500 year old) a very very large chestnut tree right opposite where I park my car (allocated spaces) - when it is windy I always hope it won't be blown down on top of my car.
It is reasonably well cared for. Being a protected tree - not allowed to fell it - the council does lop dead branches off once in a while. But I've seen a chestnut eaten away by fungus inside resulting in huge branches falling off, so always a bit wary.
Wrong again. It's an Amber Storm Warning. 2nd highest.
Despite them saying it would hit land in the evening (or might miss us completely), it is already blowing pretty fiercely.
The brown leaves are swirling in the breeze, tumbling past my windows. And the clocks went back last night. Inevitably (except for the clocks which aren't) we are tipping over into winter. Personally I think the clocks should go forward three hours instead of back one hour.
oh dear, oh dear. My neighbouur suggested I put my car in my garage; loads of trees everywhere. I thought I couldn't, but then I thought I must. This involved moving stuff around inside the garage to make space down sides. Then backing car in (if I went in forwards I'd never back it out again), using side mirrorrs (luckily my Dad taught me how to reverse on side mirrors in my late teens, he ran lorries), because less than 1" either side to spare. Needless to say, this took hundreds of shunts then the car hit something at the left backhand side, which I couldn't get to as car now in the way......... more shunts - ....-....-... Came back in so breathless it hurt, and shaking uncontrollably, and sweat pouring down me everywhere.......... actually wasn't sure if I would make it back into flat. Then my neighbour rang to say she'd seen me and she would have offered to do it. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaar!! This little exercise means tomorrow will be a total write off, unable to do anything, as I get the CFS payback.
At least your car is safe, now.
That has to count for something, right?
(of course-- now that it **is** safe? Nothing will happen to the space it formerly occupied... Murphy is such a b**tch). ::)
Yes. The wind has dropped. There's a spot of rain but nothing much. They said on the London news that the storm would hit land about 1 am and affect London between 5 and 8 am, but the then the main UK news showed a weather map which showed London sitting between two blue bits at 5 am and then the storm moving up north east ie. no storm in London. they obviously don't compare national and local news idiots however London was dead centre of the orange warning swathe on the map.............. but yes yes probably my car effort was a waste of time and precious energy - we will see. Some people think they are only saying there's a storm because the got it wrong in 1987 and forecast fine weather.
ok, it is windy now, but showing up only in one tree of four. So not very. Yet.
Sounds awful! I hope that you and your car recover from this traumatic event.
Here it's just been coooooold!
Hmmmm. So, fences down. Tree down just down my road. Tree outside my block, leaning at a very odd angle. No sign of having actually needing to have put car in garage. But suppose was sensible.
Odd, was awake all night and heard some wind but nothing like would have been blowing mature trees down.
Still quite windy.
Peace of mind is nothing to be dismissed, and you have that at least.
Hopefully it'll (the storm) pass.
Far too warm for the season. Weather changing quickly back and forth otherwise, now sunny, soon a bit rainy, dead calm changing to strong gusts of wind and back.
Calm and cool today. Warmer and windier expected tomorrow.
The storm hits several European countries, but low number of deaths. Some are just horrible but one has to wonder at the man who was crushed in his car when a tree fell on it - what was he doing driving around? You have to be stupid don't you? But sorry he died.
Ice this morning. :(
My garage has a steep(!) ramp to the street. A busy street, with a lot of morning traffic both directions. I gingerly started down the ramp only to have my car slide slowly and inexorably into the side retaining wall... I freed it, eventually, but now have a small scratch next to the wheel well.
I picked up some heavy-duty ice melt tonight and threw it liberally around the ramp as we are scheduled for snow again tomorrow.
Have I mentioned that snow is completely removed from my current experience?
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Rain OTOH... on Monday I went to see an underground river in an island called Palawan. It rained almost all day and while I was on a boat on route to the cave it rained in my general direction, as it did coming back. I'll post some pictures somewhere.
sunny
Cloudy and breezy.
Raining
Clear and chilly! A beautiful fall day.
It's getting cold , the sky is gray , the leaves fallen down , I'd go for more walks but there are so many rainy days.
Hmmm , I may have a song with the above . Needs some rearranging methinks.
Sounds like a reworking of California Dreaming to me :mrgreen:
Or "Rainy Days and Mondays"?
We had a brief snow shower this morning. It was a thrilling minute. I stood at the back door and smiled at the weather.
Wonderful sunny weather but a lot colder than it looked.
Cold and sunny here, too. We won't get out of the 30F's today.
Freezing rain!
VERY sunny yesterday and today but the temperature is dropping to light freeze
The cold has finally settled in, hereabouts. That's good, in that it'll quiet the pollen and mold spores.
That's bad, in that cold air is an allergy trigger for me. So I try to stay inside if I am able. ;)
Very cold and windy .
Damp but not raining. Not too cold ~ 50 F. / 9 C.
Same here, Griffin.
Sunday, temps warm enough to open all windows half the day for another blast of fresh air.
Today, temps dropping, rain turning to snow...
Mild and partly sunny today.
Quote from: Opsa on December 03, 2013, 04:21:42 PM
Mild and partly sunny today.
Fog in the morning, otherwise the same
Gigantic storm wending its way across the country again. Temps dropped to pretty darn cold with (fortunately) not too much ice on streets. Supposed to get colder and yet somehow snow as well.
"Feels like" 1°
Zonoland has been quite liveable these past days with temps between 65F and 75F. We'll see how long it lasts.
Mild again today. Looking for Piece's storm on Saturday or Sunday.
Storms and high winds, but not where I am. Instead we get high tides and the Thames Flood Barrier down for the first time this year.
4°F Clear
"Feels like" -9°
:snowman:
The storm is expected here too but has not yet arrived.
Super mild and humid/misty today. My hair looks like mousy cotton candy. Clouds rolling in.
-2°F
"Feels like" -9°
The storm has arrived in the evening. Still too dark to see what it has done during the night.
Update: although now it's not blowing as strongly as yesterday evening, it's now officially a snowstorm. But it's too warm and the snow turns to liquid water the moment it hits the ground.
Raining cats and dogs. And frogs!
Isn't water always liquid. (eg if frozen called ice, if steam called steam)?
No idea what effect storm and storm surges have done but flood defences on east coast were expected to be breached. People were evacuated. Will check news later............ last night's news was solely Mandela, there was no other news at all, and they cancelled two of my favourite programs to keep re-running all the same Mandela stuff over and over again. Totally unnecessary as there's a dedicated BBC News channel to do that kind of thing.
Ice/sleet storm yesterday, which gradually turned into classic tiny Oklahomer snow... bits? They are too small to really qualify as flakes, yet they accumulate like flakes do.
On top of the aforementioned ice.
It's kind of like many religions, outside: very beautiful on the surface. But if you fail to tread carefully? Danger lurks beneath.
:D
^ well said, Bob!
-9°F
Feels like: -9°
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on December 06, 2013, 08:21:12 PM
It's kind of like many religions, outside: very beautiful on the surface. But if you fail to tread carefully? Danger lurks beneath.
And the more experience you have with it you start calling it white sh!t? :mrgreen:
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Zonoland is far from that, 80F at the moment.
Ok, cliffs disappearing and houses (originally 7 metres from the ocoean) falling into the sea. Worst storm surges for 150 years (?record keeping).
Sounds dreadful!
We had about an inch of snow yesterday, followed by sleet, and finally, an ice storm. Schools are closed today (Th'Opsalette is thrilled and will probably reamin in her jammies all day), government opens 2 hours late. It's pretty (a religious experience? ::) ) but we're hoping our power won't go out. The lights keep flashing.
Well, yesterday it warmed to just above freezing-- long enough to thaw the major streets, but not warm enough to help the side streets at all.
So it's an adventure getting to the main road, and then it's not bad.
However; more snow is expected ... or as Zono so accurately describes, "white shyt". :D
Very warm here since yesterday. +10°C and drizzle (after near freezing and snow the days before).
Snow and relative cold here lately, to be replaced by South African summer by the end of the week.
As in, dramatic climate shift or plane to SA?
--
Getting hotter, 80F
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 10, 2013, 06:04:55 AM
Very warm here since yesterday. +10°C and drizzle (after near freezing and snow the days before).
Forecast about the same, just 2°C lower
Back to below freezing (32F) tonight, my porch thermo says it's 27F now. No sign of the predicted sleet/snow though.
We had three or four inches of snow yesterday. It was wonderful! Not too much, and not too little. Plus, it was great snowball/snowman snow. Th'Opsalette built two in our yard. We went to a neighbor's and tried to build a snow serpent plunging in and out of the yard, but the face turned out weird, so we decided it was evil. We put two red tree ornaments in it's eyes and built a dead snowman lying in front of it, squirted with catsup. I guess it was disturbing, but we were laughing the whole time.We must have been punchy.
Today it is barely to the freezing mark. Nothing melting here!
LOL! Calvin would have understood perfectly.
:)
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on December 10, 2013, 06:37:07 PM
As in, dramatic climate shift or plane to SA?
Plane. I was going to drive, but the routing on my GPS was having trouble with it. ;)
LOL @ snow shenanigans, Opsa!
Nice snow creatures, opsa.
Warm enough to melt snow today -- yays.
Supposedly into the 40s tomorrow! Break out the shorts and tank tops!
gray, currently dry, far too warm for the season
Freakin' Frigid! Will not get out of the 20F's today. Breezy, too. I'm staying in.
The sun just came through. No idea how long it will last.
Sunny here, and above freezing!
Low 40's (F) today, with light drizzle. Nice-- the moisture melted all the street ice that had been hiding in low traffic streets, in the shade.
The relative warmth was ... quite nice.
We woke up to the loveliest snow coating making everything look fresh in the morning moonlight.
Now the sun is out and it's all melting. Mild temps expected for the rest of the week.
Forecast is up to +9°C for today with a bit of rain and no chance of snow for Xmas.
28°C forecast for this afternoon, 32°C tomorrow. It's been sunny and cloudless, with wind in the afternoons.
26C/78F during the day 13C/55F in the evening
Up to 50F today. I opened some doors to air out the place.
That's the irony, I open the windows when it's "cold" and you do so when it's "warm"... ;)
It really is all relative, isn't it? ;)
Mild as March, and as cloudy.
Cold temps are back again, but just above freezing this time around.
So much for the brief hiatus of T-shirt weather. :D
Mild again today. Not quite t-shirt weather, but you can go out without a jacket.
Nice, but I miss the beautiful snow.
It's been a slow rise since a low of Monday. An expected high of 70-ish (F) by the end of the week.
Kinda odd, really, for these parts at least. But the nice weather will be useful on Friday: I plan to install a new furnace, a day-long project.
Very bad storms overnight Mon-Tue, railways out, power out (not me), huge floods (not me). Calm today. Storms return Friday.
Cold but sunny.
Rainy the last few days, currently sunshine but also a bit of wind
Nice day today. Sunny and not too cold.
Storms did not return here, but elsewhere.
Mild today, but the air pressure is leaning on my sinuses. We hope to get down to the museums this afternoon.
Still rather mixed but decidedly not end-of-the-year like
It's pouring, here. Bleh!
Currently sunny. It looks cool but not really cold (>0°C)
Sunny and cold, here. Temps about where yours are, Swato- but with wind chill factoring in it feels pretty brisk.
Bitterly cold , the wind chill made it feel like -22 °C.
The sun has just come out. In the night it is probably close to 0°C during the day it goes up to nearly 10°C
We had a couple of inches of snow fall yesterday evening. Today it is windy and very cold- high of 18 F, but below zero with the wind chill.
I'm glad it snowed.
Melting out, here.
You're probably warmer than we are, down here!
Doppleposting- please forgive!
We're gonna get hit by the big bad arctic polar bear breath tonight, lows expected to be below zero F by morning with the help of brutal winds. If you don't see me here it'll be because of power outages.
I am hoping that Pieces is okay. She's gotten some of the worst weather of the season all ready, where she lives. I hear they woke up to something like 30 below zero F there. Stay warm, Pieces!
I'm worrying about Pieces. She hasn't been in for a while. Not seen her on Skype either.
High winds, hugh tides, torrential rain, and masive ocean surges every day............... huge areas of UK suffering flooding and destruction, only a few killed so far. I'm not getting any of it, slightly windy, a bit rainy, nasty enough not to go out, but that's simply a choice. And thank goodness for the Thames barrier which is in use every day at present. It's odd as they talk about climate change but then they say things like "we haven't seen this since 1995" or "1953", and I'm left thinking well if it's been seen within the last century before everyone started beefing on about climate change, why do you think it is due to climate change.......... all they can say seems to be "we will see this more often" of which there is no proof as far as I can tell. Illogical. Irritates me. If they want to look at reasons I wish they'd be logical. I don't have anything invested in it being climate change or it not being climate change, but I do like logic.
Rain yesterday evening, sun today
Climate change is a nebulous thing. Around here everybody beefs when it gets this cold, claiming that "global warming" is a myth. I don't know.
Here we are experiencing a polar vortex, which means that the icy air from the north pole has been pushed way down across Canada and into the United States. This has been caused by a surge of air that pushed up from Western Canada and caused the air mass to shift over us, which may have been caused by stratospheric warming. So- we're freezing because a place that is usually cold got warmer and pushed a cold mass our way.
We got up at 6:30 to a house that was 58F. Our thermostat is set to 68F, but the heat pump doesn't operate correctly when it's below 20F, and it was probably around 3F out there. We've had our little propane fireplace on for 4 1/2 hours and are now up to 62F! Area schools are closed. Th'Opsalette is delighted. Looks like it's soup for lunch.
62F? That's what the AC thermometer is reading (inside), but if I move to the balcony where the door is open* a watch reads 55F and the thermometer in the wind reads 50F. The temp in my den is at a comfortable 73F mostly due to the computer.
*I leave the glass door of the balcony open with a screen door closed because the birds are outside and the best way to know if it is too cold is forcing yourself to deal with the same temperature. Supposedly was going to get up to 64F outside but I doubt the wind will allow it, and my birds will have to go back in three more hours when the sun goes and the temperature drops again.
Ah, that sounds nice.
Our house is finally up to 68F!
More high winds and lots of rain overnight tonight (not here) meaning more floods - it just goes on and on.
Yesterday up to 14°C
A bit of rain this morning
Edit: after a bit of sun now it's raining again. I have to conclude that April came early this year.
Edit 2: And again some sun through a small hole in the clouds
Really cold again, today! House is down to 62F inside. I'm sitting by the fire with my laptop, waiting for it to warm up enough to dare a shower. It feels just as cold as it did yesterday, but we don't have the winds today.
It's obvious that this is a premature April. Constant change of weather and far too warm for the season
Lots of snow, with mild temperatures. It's the kind of nice winter weather that I like here, albeit with the dreary grey skies that are usual for our winters.
Freezing rain this morning. School was delayed by two hours. Now at 1:21pm the ice still hangs on the trees, but the pavement is just wet. A rainy weekend lies ahead, but that sounds rather nice after all the frigid air we have seen.
Premature April still proceeding. January considering to suit
Spring-like weather hereabouts. Nice, after the frosty days just past. Sunday's supposed to be in the lower 70's (F). Positively balmy.
Even better: old man Sol stuck his face through the clouds, shooing them away. I was sure he'd run off with the moon's daughter.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on January 11, 2014, 09:21:53 PM
Spring-like weather hereabouts. Nice, after the frosty days just past. Sunday's supposed to be in the lower 70's (F). Positively balmy.
Even better: old man Sol stuck his face through the clouds, shooing them away. I was sure he'd run off with the moon's daughter.
We've seen his face here too, Bob! Very nice after all the drear. We're only in the 50F's, but after last week's fridge factor it feels almost balmy here, too. Or maybe it's just me?
What many folk do not comprehend about Global Climate Change is this: climate is basically a heat engine, who's main power-source is the sun, and who's main batteries/capacitors are the oceans, chiefly, the tropical-belt oceans (which, due to the layout of our land masses, has slightly more water than not).
But a giant heat engine moves the masses of air around a lot more, when there's plenty of energy to go around. If you increase the energy-capacity in any way, then you get lots more air moving around, than when the capacity is diminished.
One excellent way to increase the total energy [to the system], is to figure out some way to keep the water-"batteries" from losing heat back into space at night.
A sure-fire way to do that? Greenhouse effects. Such as... increasing the percentages of gasses that block infra-red radiation (the chief way the oceans lose heat into space).
What happens when you get more energy available to the heat engine? Much more air masses moving about the place-- and contrary to popular misconception?
Local temperature variation is mostly due to those air masses moving from one place to another (unless you live at one of the temperature-extreme areas yourself, such as the tropics or either of the north/south arctic areas). With more energy available to move the air?
The net result: both warmer and colder winters, as the capricious winds first move the cold air masses, then the tropical ones, and then the cold ones again back and forth across the intermediate lands.
Warm days mid-winter, followed by extreme cold days, followed by a warm snap and so on.
That would be fine, except that all this air moving around, tends to create tornadoes and hurricanes too....
.... meh.
As Dr Tyson said? (more or less) "I believe in global climate change in the same way I believe in gravity".
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on January 13, 2014, 07:43:35 PM
As Dr Tyson said? (more or less) "I believe in global climate change in the same way I believe in gravity".
As a result doubts in gravity have been seriously proposed (although at first they got mistaken for material from 'The Onion'). Ever heard of the 'theory of intelligent falling'? Admittedly it got started more by evolution opponents than climate change deniers but the overlap tends to be large in any case.
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Still very mixed weather here and it's getting colder gradually (close to 0°C at night).
Plus, those that deny climate change tend to be full of hot air, which rises.
Rainy and mildish today, but colder and snowish tomorrow.
Supposed to have been sunny for the next few days.... but rain clouds are again threatening, putting the kabash on my plans (to replace a package unit).
... meh
Second day of above 40 C - no change due until Friday evening. Already had several fires in this sequence, Weather Bureau says this will be the worst fire risk conditions since Black Saturday. Fortunately high winds have not been predicted, but you never know.
I sure wish I could send you some of the rain we've had here, Blue my friend.
Sunny now but cloudy later with drizzle and snizzle.
Day three of the heat wave. Monday go to 42, yesterday 43, today predicted to reach 43-44. It "rained" yesterday afternoon. Well, there was a couple of quick and light showers. All they managed to do was settle the dust a bit and raise the humidity. Thanks, weather gods...
So far so good on the fire front: there have been about 200 odd fires started in the state (mostly due to dry lightning strikes), but none of them are particularly serious as I write this. The risk day will be tomorrow when the winds are now predicted to pick up. After several days of baking in the sun, if a fire starts in the wrong place it might get rather interesting for some people. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I'll cross them for you, too.
:goodvibes:
High winds the past few days. Warm (for this time of year, high 40's F) but expected to get colder next week.
But the winds are seriously strong the past few days. Blowing my work van all over the highway, if I don't watch it.
Cold, wet, windy => unpleasant weather
Got a dusting of snow last night. Today, sunny and colder.
Rain. Not good for those already flooded.
Mild this week , it will get cold , windy and snowy again on Sunday . >:(
A spell of sun currently. Forecast temperature 4-7°C for today
We awoke to an inch of snow on the ground this morning. Pretty and not a nuisance. Perfect!
High 50's today. Positively balmy (as compared to previously).
That sounds nice. I think we're supposed to be like that tomorrow. Then another arctic vortex! I'd better enjoy it while I can.
Quite uncomfortable at the moment. Less about temperature but wind and wetness (caused by drizzle)
Relatively mild and sunny today. Going out while it lasts...
The ground is below zero, the air above zero and there is drizzle => black ice everywhere
Snow at last but how long will it last?
Went to the zoo yesterday to see Bao Bao the baby panda. Stood in line over an hour to see just a tuft of fur as she snoozed in a rocky cradle, but since it was in the mid 50F's and sunny, the wait was nice! People were in a good mood, and we got to see the beautiful red pandas climbing their trees and the papa and mama pandas roaming around in their outdoor habitats as we waited in line. Later we got to see the male lion bellowing, very impressive!
Snow started at 8 am. It's 9:45 am now and we have under an inch on the ground. Total accumulation is predicted to be 3 to 6 inches. Temps are at 28F, but the wind chill makes it feel like 23F. Hunkering down!
Minus 18°C , very windy . The wind chill makes it feel like - 30 °C. I have not ventured out because of the cold . I must get out soon and look for employment , but this type of weather takes away any motivation . *sigh* . At least it was sunny today !
Hang in there, BC!
We got about 5 inches of fine powder snow yesterday- easy to sweep. The main problem is the cold. Right now it is 6F(-14C), but feels like -4F (-20C) because of the winds. The snow is not melting.
The heat pump doesn't operate properly under 20F, so we awoke to a house that was 60F (15C) inside. Our little propane fireplace has been on since 6:15 am and has now gotten us up to 63F (17C) four hours later. That's the general house temperature according to the thermostat. Next to the fire it's much nicer!
All in all, it's not too bad. Our washer pooped out yesterday during the last load (thank goodness) and I'm hoping that the repairperson can get here today. I shoveled out a place for the truck and hope to see it here soon.
Today starts with 17degF. It got up to 20-ish. Now it's 12. This would be in the minus on the celcius scale, but I'm too bummed (pieces) to do the math. (sorry) It's cold, Mmm-Kay?
At least I remembered to put my battery charger in trickle-mode, when I got home, for Friday.
Very cold here too, Bob. Our dumb heat pump can't seem to get us over 58F in the house, even with the propane fireplace and a space heater. Yesterday the laundry room sink froze, but we were able to thaw it out, and are now running a trickle through it to try to keep it open. It's a frigid nightmare.
Today is Mr. Ops' birthday and it is what he would call a "gyp-off". We feel like we can't leave our house because we'd have to turn off the space heaters, and then pipes might freeze. We had plans to go out to dinner tonight. He's willing to go, but I would hate to come home to a cold house and burst pipes. I don't know what to do. It pretty much sucks.
Forecast is for -15°C over the weekend, then a jump to close to zero. Thermometer on the balcony says -8.5°C (so likely about -10°C on the street).
Quote from: Opsa on January 24, 2014, 02:52:04 PM
Very cold here too, Bob. Our dumb heat pump can't seem to get us over 58F in the house, even with the propane fireplace and a space heater. Yesterday the laundry room sink froze, but we were able to thaw it out, and are now running a trickle through it to try to keep it open. It's a frigid nightmare.
Today is Mr. Ops' birthday and it is what he would call a "gyp-off". We feel like we can't leave our house because we'd have to turn off the space heaters, and then pipes might freeze. We had plans to go out to dinner tonight. He's willing to go, but I would hate to come home to a cold house and burst pipes. I don't know what to do. It pretty much sucks.
That's bad. It sounds to me that your heat-pump was not installed correctly. If installed the right way, with a correct thermostat, the heat pump just works-- transparently to the user (you). That is, if the temperatures are below about 28F (max--many stop "heat pumping" at or around freezing) outside, it automagically switches up to the (so called) "emergency heat" mode-- typically, this is electric strip heat, but could be propane, natural gas, butane, oil, etc, etc-- it depends on the install.
Unfortunately? If the thermostat isn't made for a heat pump (or is not in "heat pump mode") or the installer failed to use all the correct wiring? Your 'pump is not able to do this automatically--and needs manual help. Which is this: if it's below 28degF (or 32-- experimentation will tell you) then you must change to "emergency" heat mode, and
leave it there until the weather warms up. How to tell? Well-- one sure-fire clue is that there's no heat coming through the registers... (duuuh... you already figured that one out, right? <heh>)
Another less obvious clue, is the outside unit isn't running
1, or is full of ice
2, or
is running but you can feel heat coming off of it3 (the worst of the worst case scenerio-- this means the thing is actually trying to be an
air conditioner, and is actively
cooling your home in mid-winter!!!) That is ... bad.
Reasons why it isn't running at all:
1 Most modern heat pumps can sense outdoor temperatures, and will politely shut off when it's too cold outside. In this case, your thermostat should have automatically switched on the emergency heat. If it does not? The thermostat is bad or not a heat pump one, or is improperly wired (or all three). Indoor symptoms: the fan is blowing, but no heat is coming out of the registers-- just room temperature air.
Reasons why it's full of ice:
2 This one is very common with heat pumps. Especially ones that were sloppily installed, and the freon/duron gas was not adjusted properly when it was put in. Another cause, is the freeze-stat is stuck or missing (this is a part of the outdoor unit, which tells it that it's too cold-- making it not run at all--see
1 above).
Another cause for the outdoor unit to be iced up, is if the air is just
slightly too cold, but also very very humid.
Whatever the reason why it's iced up-- a modern unit should automatically recognize this condition, and actually reverse itself-- that is, it'll run for 5 minutes or so, in
air conditioning mode, while at the same time, engaging the
emergency heat mode. This is normal-- for a short time. The heat will melt the ice rapidly, and the emergency heat will put warmish air out through the vents. But it ought to only run in this mode for a short time, then quit entirely, then resume normal operation. If not? Something is amiss with the unit.
Reasons why it's running backwards (air conditioning mode) all the time
3. Improperly wired. Using the wrong thermostat (or one that's not wired correctly). A bad control board in either the indoor unit or the outdoor unit or both. A stuck reversing valve (this one can happen "down the road", after a proper install-- the fix requires a service person to come out and evaluate it-- it could simply be a wire that has come loose).
But the most common reason for the heat pump to be running in AC mode in the winter? Is bad wiring, including (but not limited to) a bad thermostat, or one that's setup the wrong way for your heat pump.
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If your pump cannot keep up? Likely it's either running in defrost mode
all the time, or the wiring is not setup properly. If it works well enough when the outdoor temperatures are above freezing, but then falls behind when it's real cold? You could also have lost one or more of your emergency backup heat sources.
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What can a home owner do in the meantime? One of the easiest things, is to simply switch over to emergency heat, anytime the outdoors is below freezing. If the thermostat is wired correctly, this will override all the automatic stuff, and simply shut off the outdoor 'pump, just using the indoor backup heat mode (be it electric strip heat or whatever).
I'd have someone come and check it out-- it may well have just lost some freon/duron gas (a cheap plastic service cap can be the cause of this--insist on brass metal caps, installed with a wrench. Or, barring that? Replace the plastic caps (or metal ones that use rubber seals) every 2 years, regardless if they look okay.
You can evaluate your thermostat yourself--- if it does not say "emergency heat" on it anywhere? That's your main problem...
S'cold. And if I'm not mistaken (which I probably am), isn't there another winter storm system a few days ahead? While the lady and I head up to New York? Might need to buy some better socks...
Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on January 25, 2014, 04:35:22 AM
S'cold. And if I'm not mistaken (which I probably am), isn't there another winter storm system a few days ahead? While the lady and I head up to New York? Might need to buy some better socks...
I think you are not mistaken, Qwerty. But New York is wicked wahsome and better insulated than we are, so I bet you'll have a great time- lucky ducks!
Bob, our heat pump is showing that it is on emergency heat, but I think our emergency heat is electric and really not up to snuff (What does that mean, anyway?). You're right, we should have it checked out. We had some guys come out last year to service it, but they did some stupid things, like installing a moisture drip backwards and not latching the filter door, so it fell off in the middle of the night. I wonder if they goofed it up, somehow.
BTW- we went out anyway last night and everything was fine. I'm glad we did- it was the warmest we felt all day! Plus, we had a blast.
If you are certain your "emergency" heat is electric? Then it ought to be more than adequate for the task.
If it's not, then likely one (or more) of the elements has failed. In most, there are 2 or 4 elements, each of which is protected by a kind of "heat fuse" thingy. (properly called a thermal fuse in most brands)
If you like, I can help diagnose this-- but let's take it to another thread. Otherwise, a pro can easily diagnose if one or more of your elements has quit. Most likely, it's something simple like a failed sequencer or a blown thermal fuse. Fairly inexpensive part(s).
Good luck!
Bob, your input is so much appreciated! I just read your last post to Mr. Ops and we agreed that we'll contact a certain local technician that we like very much. The knuckleheads that did the servicing last year were part of a package deal that sounded pretty good to us at the time, but we won't use them again.
You've been a huje help, Duje! :-*
Meanwhile, back in the States... it's still freaky cold! But we're finally up to 68F in here, thank goodness.
I went to Gainsville for my son's audition for the UF music program, and it was colder there in the late evening-early morning but not so terrible during the day. Back to South FL it's between warm and outright hot (80F now). I guess we're not part of the 'States'. ;)
Nice extended snowfall today. And there is a fair chance that the snow will stay for a few days before it turns to slush.
It almost hit 40F here, but now the wind is blowing and the polar vortex is leaning down on us again. Tomorrow's gonna be another frigid day. I'm waiting for the heating technician to get here to go over the system.
Is it February, yet?
UPDATE:
Oh carp, he just came by and says our motor is dead! Foo. More expenses...
It's a good thing we checked, though.
A dead motor, in an electric furnace, can be bad-- it can cause a kind of cascade failure of other parts. (especially in older ones).
Hopefully he won't gouge you too much (I charge $150 for new motor installs, but I live in Oklahoma, where stuff is cheap... )
Good luck!
Update: last Sunday, it was almost 70F. Today? At 11:13pm? It's down to 18 degrees, and expected to plummet further. Oklahoma weather-- it changes quicker than ... <insert favorite chaotic example here>
:D
I wish I could import you here, Bob. The (Trane) motor is costing $350 and the labor is supposed to be another $250. Yowch. He MAY get here today to fix it. Or not...
We've been up with the (propane) fireplace going since 5:30. It's now nearing 10 am and we're only up to 60F/15C in the house. Outside it's around 15F/-9C on the south-facing porch, and breezy- which doesn't help!
BUT...
it could be worse, I can get comfy enough. The vortex is only supposed to stay until Thursday, when I hope it goes back to Arctica and stays there forever.
Oh my! That's highway robbery. The net cost of the motor is about $75us, anywhere. Even the official brandnames are only $100 or so. The labor takes less than an hour, so $250/hour is also highway robbery. ...meh.
I would *seriously* consider asking for a different company-- explain you need a new motor (have your furnace brand & model number handy-- the model will be on a label on the furnace) and ask up front how much. Shop around. Modern motors are all about the same quality, so I wouldn't let that worry you all that much. And unless you are under warranty (unlikely) I would not worry about a generic motor replacement. More to the point? I keep generic replacement motors on my truck at all times! There should not be a wait of any sort for such a simple fix.
I'd dump that company and sooner than later--they are so ripping you off. Confront them with this post if you like, I stand by what I write. That is outrageous. A brand new electric furnace wholesales for less than $800US for cryin' out loud...!
It seems a lot to me, too.
The problem is that now we have no furnace heat at all. The laundry room pipes froze again at dinnertime, but I managed to thaw them again. All we have is space heaters, which you're supposed to turn off at night. It's almost 1:30 am now and both of them are on and the house is 58F, so I decided to get up and turn on the propane fireplace just so the house won't get any colder. I can't leave the fireplace unattended, so I guess I'll stay here as long as I can stay awake. It is worrisome.
The guy's coming in the morning. I don't have time to shop round. I gotta get this house warm. This is a drag.
Looks like we got a little snow out there, too. Maybe a half inch.
:update:
The guy called this morning. He says: "I'm in your driveway." I look out, he's not there. It seems he had the WRONG ADDRESS! So he came over and looked around, found a bad connection, fixed it and charged us $120. Thank the Great Whatever!
Sunny and bright today, but still quite cold outside.
-end of thread hijack!-
- 30°C this morning with strong winds , tomorrow we expect a balmy -2°C.
Now *that* is more like it, Opsa! Yaaay
Warm... lovely, lovely warm... meanwhile, it's still more January-like hereabouts. Low 20's at night, 40-ish during the day. My Weather-O-Matic thingy (which uses barometric pressure, humidity and temperature trends to "predict" the weather) says it may rain.
However, the sun looks like she's peeking through again today. I think I'll finish my ladder project.
I was kinda hoping for warmish weather (than the low 40's) but at least it's not 20-ish (like Monday).
Sunny and 30-ish for a high today, which is an improvement over the past few days. MUCH better, inside! ;)
Update: my ladder project got put on hold.
*bleah*
When did individual nuts and bolts become a 1000% mark-up item in home stores? ... meh.
I don't want a package of 100 items-- I need 6. At $1/each? A big pile of nope....
.... <insert dark cloud here>
In retrospect, choosing the two days this week with winds of 15-17 m/s for the outdoor practice sessions with the trainees was perhaps a smidgeon too character-forming. Or perhaps not, since those who didn't dress for the weather certainly got extensive feedback on why that was a stooopid idea.
By the way, you get amazingly dried-out by standing outside in the cold winds and talking for a full day.
Forecast is above zero for the next several days.
Farewell snow, welcome slush, I fear.
We're above freezing here, too, thank goodness!
Rather cloudy, though.
It has been a bit rainy for the past two days, nothing terrible (that happens in the summer), current temp is 25C/77F.
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Still amused with the "snowcalypse" in Atlanta and the tales of incompetence of their elected leaders. Not a chance of that happening here though, the last time it snowed in South FL it wasn't even 1 cm and it melted in less than an hour (and it happened 35 years ago).
The real problem in Atlanta (besides their governor) was the ice. Mr. ops and I have been caught in sudden icy conditions and it is quite alarming. One minute everything's fine and the next everybody's going sideways. Luckily, Mr. Ops knew how to drive in between all the sideways cars and he got us home just by rolling slowly and steadily along without braking.
I was driving a monstrous truck (or what passes for a gigantic SUV, not my preferred drive mind you) in Colorado two weeks ago in the middle of a snow storm, and while I had AWD and -I assume- snow tires, if you don't drive like a crazy person you should be able to manage steep and curvy roads. It isn't particularly fun (and much less in that heavy beast) but nothing terribly hard.
Nevertheless, next time they offer me a "free upgrade" I will decline (I can't understand how anyone can feel safer in those things).
It snows right now and last night a fine rain fell, the result very bad road conditions.
Other than that it's quite nice.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on January 31, 2014, 05:49:49 PM
if you don't drive like a crazy person you should be able to manage steep and curvy roads.
As someone who experience driving in winter conditions 4 to 5 months a year I say that's not entirely true. Most of the time, yes. But bad weather conditions can make even a careful and experiences driver lose the grip and slide of the road, then there are always the other drivers and/or the condition of the tires yours, mine and everybody else's.
The worst is "black ice" with snow on top (like we have at the moment in the vicinity of Stockholm). A fine super cooled rain falls and lands on bare concrete/stone (pavements) or asphalt that holds a sub zero temperature. It creates a glass like glaze on the surface, too thin to create a layer that winter tires can get a grip in (like snow or thicker ice) resulting in very little friction/grip. Then as icing on the proverbial cake (*grunt* yes pun intended) it starts to snow. Light dry snow just a couple of millimetres is enough.
And within a couple of minutes one has no grip/friction whatsoever. Studded tires or not, experienced/careful driver or not.
The best thing one can do is not to use the car that day, or if one gets surprised by the weather, drive very carefully to the next proper parking space (like a gas station) and stay there until the heroes in the big yellow trucks scattering sand and salt has driven by...
Almost all other road conditions are manageable using good skills and good tiers. Good skill also imply that one knows when not to take the car for a drive.
;) :)
You are absolutely right, about when to drive and when not to. The only thing I might add is what Opas was mentioning before, avoid using the brakes, personally I was downshifting all the time and driving carefully slow, and even in those conditions I was losing grip at times (nothing insurmountable but good enough to keep me on my toes). Obviously if someone decides to do something harsh, you're bound to lose grip and keep going uncontrollably, which is why careful can get you so far and not going out is preferable in many cases (in mine I didn't have much choice so I drove as carefully as I could).
I know how to drive in slippery wet roads (what I get here in FL or I had back in Colombia in the wet season) and I already know what I can, and what I can't do. As for the infamous black ice, I can only hope not have to deal with it...
Back when I was a late teen, and winter conditions were quite common, and parking lots on Sunday were both empty and free of anything like plants, barriers, obstructions or even light poles?
My buddies and I would go practice on a Sunday afternoon-- driving on the very slippery snow/ice, in a nice wide-open space, just to see what a car could be made to do under those conditions.
It was quite entertaining, as well as educational. You learned how to get out of a spin, how to stop, how to apply the brakes *and* steer too (pumping was a requirement in those days-- no fancy computers, no nothing).
Those lessons turned out to be quite useful as I grew older. I still respond by reflex in a spin (turning into the spin) and will feather/flutter the brakes just so, to stop on very slippery roads. In spite of having modern anti-lock equipment, I still find myself doing that.
I also do the flutter the brakes after crossing through water, to dry out the pads, just in case I really need to stop. A habit I learned back when cars had really crappy brakes (compared to the modern stuff).
I've successfully driven home on ice that was too slippery to walk on. Slow and steady-- no sudden *anything* is the main ingredient here. Carefully slowing down to let others by, but not actually stopping helps tremendously too. Assuming that the other drivers not only cannot see you, but that they'd not stop even if they could, is also good practice.
The worst thing that's ever happened as a result? Once, when I was 18, my car slid into a hole in the road, and bent the rim (creating a flat). Nobody was hurt, and a used rim was all I had to pay. The tire was unharmed. The rim bent, due to the wheel hitting the curb at the side of that hole-- it was a drain in the street that was placed too low relative to the rest of the pavement (I went back and looked, when weather cleared off).
Update: the weather is in severe decline (towards cold/wet). I'm not unhappy-- it's the weekend, and we so desperately need the moisture. We've had fire-watch conditions for months. The winter wheat crops are so going to be small, this year.
Black ice is terrible- especially at night when you can't see it, or when it's under powdery snow, as Darlica mentioned.
Nice today here- near 50F!
Snow! ;D
About 15 centimetre fell last night. It's sadly enough the most snow we had this winter.
And it's -2°C right now.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on January 31, 2014, 09:28:55 PM
You are absolutely right, about when to drive and when not to. The only thing I might add is what Opas was mentioning before, avoid using the brakes, personally I was downshifting all the time and driving carefully slow, and even in those conditions I was losing grip at times (nothing insurmountable but good enough to keep me on my toes). Obviously if someone decides to do something harsh, you're bound to lose grip and keep going uncontrollably, which is why careful can get you so far and not going out is preferable in many cases (in mine I didn't have much choice so I drove as carefully as I could).
I know how to drive in slippery wet roads (what I get here in FL or I had back in Colombia in the wet season) and I already know what I can, and what I can't do. As for the infamous black ice, I can only hope not have to deal with it...
Most of the time I actually find rain slippery roads harder to negotiate, because I guess I'm not really used to that. We usually don't have really heavy rains, not if one compares to places on a more southern latitude. Aquaplaning is one thing that's a risk even around here but not actual slipperiness (unless there has been an accident and there is oil on the asphalt ).
I'm very thankful for that. Perhaps it has something to do with how our asphalt is mixed too stone<>tar ratio or something like that.
Even speed ("drive like you have an raw egg between your foot and the pedal and don't want to clean out you car" mom said when she was teaching me how to drive on ice/snow :) ), downshifting instead of breaking and planning turns ahead so one can turn the steering wheel as little and as slow as possible is a very good strategy.
One problem though the car behind might not see that you are slowing down if you only shifts down (we have a lot of collisions due to that over here every winter), I usually touch the break just enough to trigger the breaklights even when I'm downshifting just to try to avoid to be hit from behind.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on January 31, 2014, 05:49:49 PM
Nevertheless, next time they offer me a "free upgrade" I will decline (I can't understand how anyone can feel safer in those things).
It's actually the fear to sit in a small car when having an accident with one of those. In case of crash it seems better to be the one sitting in the tank crushing the opponent than the other way around. In reality this perceived safety advantage seems to be a myth.
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Above zero even during the night. The snow is fighting a rugged rearguard action but is nonetheless in retreat. Drat!
We'll be quite mild today at 50F, but tonight we expect wet snow.
It actually snowed last night/early this AM.
But it's about 28-ish, and it's all melting off the main roads-- ought to be mostly gone by the morning. Side streets will be iffy, but other than that, no big dealio.
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 02, 2014, 06:56:37 AM
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on January 31, 2014, 05:49:49 PM
Nevertheless, next time they offer me a "free upgrade" I will decline (I can't understand how anyone can feel safer in those things).
In case of crash it seems better to be the one sitting in the tank crushing the opponent than the other way around.
An actual tank has MUCH better stability, suspension and handling than a cow SUV. If I had a couple millions I would design a street legal tank* and I'm sure I would sell hundreds of thousands in the States alone.
*Something like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EE-9_Cascavel), obviously not with a continuous track.
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80F/27C as zonoland goes back to it's regular programming...
Our weather word for today here is YUCKY!
Lots of rain on top of not fully thawed soil is causing pooled water all over the place. We're seeing rain sometimes mixed with sleet. Temperatures are in the mid 30'sF.
We had very nice winter weather, -10, snow, clear skies, until last week.
Now, we have +2 degrees, rain, fog and completely overcast skies. And feet-deep pools of grey slush to wade through. Bleergh...
Mix of sun and (light) rain for some days now. Clearly too warm for the season
Blue skies and sun - no wait! Grey, cloudy and wet. Oh! My mistake, it's blowing a gale. Now it's stopped, aaannnd... Hail, a bit of snow, rain, blue skies, grey clouds...
Sunny and cool today. Ice pellets tonight! Typical February for here.
Light snow. Temperatures just ever-so-slightly above freezing, but expected to fall from the current high (33-ish F). That'll mean tomorrow morning will be treacherous driving. (current conditions are wet streets, more or less)
Personally, I blame the Republicans for this.
We had ice storms last night, and the kids are out of school again today. At this rate they'll have to make up classes until August! ;)
(I hope not, though. :P )
Today was surprisingly cold, but free of ice (mostly).
For this unexpected (and welcome) bounty? I blame Bill Nye's debate win.
:)
Yet another blizzard , it has been a harsh winter thus far . Great for those that revel in winter sports though .
Forecast says rain for the next few days and it's going up to +12°C.
Grey, dreary, gloomy and dull. :(
It's overcast, 2°C and the air is very damp. Ick
We're pretty similar here, Darlica. Maybe a little more sun.
We've gone from a very springlike end of January to a deep freeze.... -18°C this morning. However, the sun's out. We usually get low cloud and mild temperatures, and pay with darkness.
Bright sunshine is pouring through the windows and it feels like hope itself.
Rain and slush mixed rain. :(
Dark and stormy night
And still far too warm
It's currently 27 degrees (F), which is a darn sight warmer than the past few days. I'm curiously comforted.
Hopefully, the clouds will blow off, and we'll see some sunshine tomorrow.
Snow is predicted for today, but so far we have zilch (which is okay by me). Mr. Ops says that people in town were talking about a blizzard, but the last forecast mentioned only an inch or so. The townsfolk here love to moan about the weather.
My Crone Nose smells only cold and wet, but not necessarily snow (and it's fairly accurate, if a bit blocked up this morning).
Sunny and windy all the day
The Crone Nose was right. Barely a flurry all day.
Looks like rain is limited to the night in our area currently
Another cold, grey Februarial day.
:update:
Cold cold cold again!
Maybe snow on Wednesday... eeek!
Sunny all day. Moderate wind
Cold and sunny, but not as cold as I thought it might be.
Double posting again, again! ::)
Every few years we have a significant snowstorm, and it usually near Valentine's Day (February 14). Mr. Ops and I like to call it The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (pronounced "massacree").
Looks like it may well be a massacree year this year. 8-12 inches has been predicted, starting tonight.
A few drops of rain yesterday. Otherwise it stays sunny and windy and a wee bit too warm for the season.
UK is almost underneath the sea now. And still more and more rain and high winds, and high tides. All that trouble reclaiminng land from the ocean, what a waste of time.
We've had a torrid time this summer, I think we've broken the record for days over 40 deg C. Anyway, it's a bit cooler now, but we have been blanketed in smoke for the last few days - more again today - from a number of fires burning around the state. Château Blue is under no threat, the closest fire to here was a small grass fire about 6 Km away a week ago or so. However there are a couple of fires still burning on the outer northern and western edge of Melbourne and last weekend about 20 homes were lost in several fires around the state including 2 in semi suburban Warrandyte, which is best described as a "bush" suburb or town and is a beautiful place on the Yarra River. Another nearby fire threatened the town if it had gotten away from the fire fighters and would potentially have devastated Warrandyte, but fortunately it was kept contained. This is rated the worst fire season since Black Saturday five years ago - the anniversary was just a few days ago. What we really need is aome decent rain, but there's none on the horizon according to the weather bureau.
I'd love to send you some of my rain, Blue, but we are rather short of it hereabouts.
By this time, we typically have had several snow/ice/sleets, which slowly melt into the ground, replenishing the ground water.
Alas, the few we've had have been scant-- so I've none to spare for your neck of the globe.
Perhaps you can persuade Griffin to send you some?
::)
Whoever organised things like this was very silly. Yes, do come and build a big pipe line to pump out our flooded towns and villages (waste high water mixed with sewage) and deliver it to Aussie.
We soooo need a Star Trek transporter machine.... you could beam your excess water to where it's sorely needed...
...or you could stop building in that one little corner of the country, especially on flood plains and right next to rivers. Spread yourselves out a bit, before the weight of all the houses makes the bottom right-hand corner of the country sink.
I daresay lack of dredging and spending on flood defences has been a factor in the extent of the flooding, but you've built too much on too little land - an issue which goes back to just after WWII and therefore can't be blamed on David Cameron. Blame Attlee or Churchill instead.
We had an inch of snow, which melted again. There was quite a lot of wind, but it's February and this is Scotland, so we expect it.
We expected somewhere between 4 and 8 inches of snow on the ground this morning, but woke to 14 (35.56 centimeters)! School, government and businesses are all closed. Snow day!
We spend from 9am until almost noon shoveling the driveway, in an attempt to move the stuff before it got heavy. Luckily, it's a powdery snow and not weighing down the power lines. Also, it has pretty much stopped. Our street has not been plowed since 7 am though, so we can't go anywhere by automobile.
Now we're relaxing indoors watching the news go on and on about people stuck on highways.
Quote from: roystonoboogie on February 13, 2014, 08:46:41 AM
...or you could stop building in that one little corner of the country, especially on flood plains and right next to rivers.
I have never understood building on flood plains. Technically I am in one but protected by the Thames Barrier, at least until it is no longer fit for purpose (due to higher tides) which looks like being @ 2020 ish., but are they doing anything about it now? no of course not. and it will take years to improve/extend/replace it. Since there has been an urban population here at least since Roman times, I don't think we can blame Churchill.
I think flood defences are pointless as this is going to go on getting worse. We should move everyone on flood plains up to Scotland obviously.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 13, 2014, 09:15:24 PMWe should move everyone on flood plains up to Scotland obviously.
They won't be able to buy houses if they're using English pounds... :P
Dry and relatively mild today. I wonder if this 'South of England getting Scotland's weather' thing is anything to do with the Jetstream's late arrival last year? Or is it God messing with you - Scotland gets Gay marriage, UKIP voters get flooding?
Hah!
We got another couple of inches of snow last night, so I guess we're up to 16 or 17 inches. Today the sun is shining brightly on all the snow, reflecting light around like a huge white beach.
Quote from: roystonoboogie on February 14, 2014, 07:21:36 AM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 13, 2014, 09:15:24 PMWe should move everyone on flood plains up to Scotland obviously.
They won't be able to buy houses if they're using English pounds... :P
:giggle:
There's no telling with UKIP voters.
It's snowing again. On the cold surfaces it is sticking better than on the pavement that absorbed the sun's warmth yesterday.
Megga winds last night, but can't see anything has shifted. Having predicted it was going to be the last of the big storms, they promptly contradicted themselves on the next weather program saying more storms on the way. David C. has got himself in a pickle saying Money No Object for help and repairs etc thus erradicating the National Debt. One way to get rid of it I suppose. :P ^^
We had high wind gusts yesterday. I told myself it was the March Lion coming in early. Over the snow.
Weather people now saying weather is improving. But more floods forecast as water washes into rivers from above.
Sounds awful.
Cold but clear today. Lotsa snow still around.
Floods receding a little although still 2 severe warnings out for Somerset and it will take months to get the Thames back inside its banks.
I hope it backs down soon.
We had a dusting of snow last night and schools were delayed by two hours, I guess because the dusting was slippery on top of the iced-over snow still on the ground.
Right now it is sunny and getting warmer. I think I've had enough snow for this winter.
All quiet at present. Been a relatively nice day (according to others; I've no idea).
My porch thermometer claims it's up to 73deg F in the shade.
I'm delighted.
In spite of the massive Solar Spill we've been experiencing hereabouts. It's expected to abate no later than 8pm, so no worries.
I heard a noise that I feared was sleet this morning, but it was just a passing shower. We still have at least 6 inches of snow on the ground but it is slowly melting. Some talk of another blizzard next week. I hope it's just rumors.
I was outside today. Increasingly unusual for me. It was misty rain in the air. Damp. Mild.
Alas, the Solar Spill we had experienced the other day, has abated.
Cloudy today, all day, but a warminsh 67, and a nice rise in humidity too. (it's been really dry this winter--dangerously so)
Take our slush, please.
Mild with melting snow and damming gutters. Foreboding sky. A storm approaching?
The high today was at 7am, 68 degrees. It dropped to a low of 42 by noon, and is back up to 52-- the expected high.
They missed predicting another Solar Spill, though-- claimed we could expect some serious cloud-pollution.
Woo, we had some thunder a little while ago, and a period of pouring rain. Now it's getting foggy.
some actual rain
Quote from: Opsa on February 21, 2014, 04:23:09 PM
Woo, we had some thunder a little while ago, and a period of pouring rain. Now it's getting foggy.
That sounds incredibly metaphoric.
--
Erm, hot?
OMG, it's SNOWING again!
It's falling silently and peacefully in huge white clusters that make one feel as if one is ascending slowly to the sky as one watches. Poor late February snow. It is not nearly as sung to and loved as December snow, but it's just as beautiful.
We have yet another polar vortex bending down upon us, and maybe this is Father Sky's way of pulling a blanket over us to insulate us against the cold.
So... maybe it's not so bad after all.
According to radio weather news it dips down to slight freezing during the night (our thermometer disputes that) but during the day it goes now up to +14°C and it is mostly sunny.
At 6 am the schools called to say they were opening two hours late. I looked outside, but there was no snow on the ground, only a mist in the air.
At 6:30 I got up, and there was a coating of snow on the ground.
A little after 8 the schools called to say they would be closed today due to road conditions.
By 10:30 am it had melted here. However, we live in a large county, so if the southern part got snowed in, we would be off school as well. Th'Opsalette was mighty pleased.
VERY cold tonight, as the polar vortex swipes it's giant polar bear mitt at us yet again.
Wet. Low, grey clouds that drop wet on us, with occasional bursts of cloudless sky that let all the heat out, before the wet starts again. If you stick a garden fork in the lawn to help it drain, you stand a pretty good chance of spearing a fish.
Today had a brief respite from the cloud spill, and the sun peaked through. 40ish.
The weatherman said that by the weekend, we could expect sleet or other nasty weather.
*sigh*
Sunny but quite cold today. We too, are hearing about a possible snowstorm on Sun/Mon/Tues-ish. I hope it won't happen.
:update:
Well, it happened. Yesterday it was mild and rainy, but overnight we had ice storms, which have now turned to powdery snow. I've been out shoveling with Mr. Ops and it's weird stuff to shovel. It's heavy, but it won't stay in a neat pile. It's like trying to shovel pudding!
The temperatures are falling, too. We took a walk and by the time we got back my face was bright red from the cold. I've take a hot shower now, and my face is still red in places.
No school, no work= SNOW DAY!
Meanwhile, we have blue skies and sunshine. Hung the laundry out to dry, took the dogs out for a walk without a jacket, got back and brought the dry laundry in.
That's the first time this year.
It won't get higher than freezing here today. My car won't start, and we just put a new battery in it last week. Bleah.
After 2 days if sub-10 degree nights, and a whole day of the frikkin' diesel van won't start (it finally started at 3:30ish), we have warm (relatively speaking) sunny skys again. High in the 40's. Possible *rain* tonight too-- a blessing.
Our moisture count is still record-breaking low.
Oh, yeah, and it snowed/iced/snowed/iced on Sunday night, early Monday. I think the weather was channeling a cat: snow? ice? snow again? How 'bout some more ice pellets?
I hear ya, Bob-o.
Today we have sunshine and seem to be warming to somewhere above freezing. There is still about five inches of snow wherever it was not plowed or shoveled. Even though our roads are clear here, the kids got ANOTHER SNOW DAY today, which puts us up around 15 so far this season.
Oh, to hear the spring peepers again.
There must have been a wee bit of rain in the night but now the sun is shining again.
Spring weather
Woke up to snow at 5:30 am... it's still softly falling.
Highs today near 50.... yet, in the shade, we still have leftover snow from Sunday.
Ain't science fun? That latent heat of freezing thing again. :)
(alas, the expected rainfall for today has been nixed---- and the burn-ban/warnings continue unabated)
Unexpectedly sunny but still pretty cold.
Quote from: Opsa on March 06, 2014, 03:20:30 PM
Unexpectedly sunny but still pretty cold.
Darn those pesky solar spills.... getting that nasty sunshine all over the place.
::)
In the 50's today, and up in the 60-70's tomorrow. Lovely! Rain predicted for Saturday--even better. (we needs a cloud spill quite desperately, we does)
Wet with occasional showers of very wet. This evening a front will sweep across bringing cold and wet, occasionally cold and very wet.
The river is full. The dogs can swim around the lawn.
Here it's damp and cloudy but getting milder.
Perfect early spring weather.
If I just felt better to really enjoy it :(
50F today and windy. But we got our first crocus bloom, so as far as I'm concerned, it's now Spring.
A wee bit'o'rain. Not nearly enough.
If this keeps up, I fear for spring...
.. but the Temps were lovely. From the Mid 50's to the high 60's today. Yesterday, it got to nearly 80...
I have sunburn.
No, really, stop laughing.
Sunburn.
In Scotland.
In March.
That's it, I'm moving to Scotland.
Last night it rained and was around 55 F. I could hear the little Spring Peepers singing down by the creek.
This morning it's 20F with high winds. No froggy peeping today!
60F as of this moment in time.
Windy-- very, very windy. Dorthy-would-be-concerned windy.
And dry. Again. But I expect 70-ish by day's end.
Wait. My outdoor thermometer just toggled over to 61F.
It's a sign, I tells ya! A SIGN!
Fine spring weather still. But rain and storm announced for weekend
Rain is spring weather!
Ww have a fairly mild-ish weekend predicted for here, but on Monday- SNOW AGAIN! Hopefully not much.
Still no rain. 68F. Windy.
*sigh*
I'll go get Toto....
E tu, Toto?
Mild and cloudy today.
Last night I heard that we're in for over four inches of snow Sunday night into Monday. Grr!
Sunny until late afternoon then a bit of rain. Strong winds throughout the day.
Rained today.
Luckily, nobody exploded an H-bomb-- at least, nobody that I knew did.
Later on, I went out lookin' at the shops. I didn't see anything I wanted, so I didn't buy anything.
;)
Quote from: roystonoboogie on March 13, 2014, 01:27:18 PM
I have sunburn.
No, really, stop laughing.
Sunburn.
In Scotland.
In March.
Well unless you are situated on the very, very, north of the Orkny islands you live south of L and me and it is fully possible to get a sunburn in the vicinity of Stockholm in March if it isn't cloudy.
:)
Beautiful spring weather today but windy! It's a bit colder than it has been for the last two weeks but it's more in line with the normal temperature for the season.
Snowdrops, crocus, and winter aconite are flowering which is a almost a month earlier than usual... Oh well there is plenty of time for another snowstorm this spring, we're not safe until a after the first week of may or so. ::)
Sunburn is not a function of outside temperatures. It's a notorious problem in the arctic and antarctic regions.
For me, sunburn is a function of not having seen the sun since about October, and forgetting that you need to be protected from it when you are working in the back garden.
Today it is grey. Not actually wet, but humid. The mist / cloud is sitting in the trees at the top of the hill behind the house. It's kind-of pretty.
Of course not but the short days and generally cloudy winter weather around the costs are. :)
If one travels to the more northern part of Sweden where there is inland climate (and mountains*) and snow, you can get pretty badly burned this time of the year.
The risk lessens as soon the snow is gone though (the same problem as in the arctic) as the snow reflects the sunshine even better than open water. I've seen people who managed to get severe sunburn and frostbites at the same time when I worked at a ski resort up north (cold, windy, sunny day, didn't dressed up properly when hitting the slopes after sitting in lee in the sun on the mountain side). Stoopid.
One can get burned here to but it'll take a little more effort... :P
* why the mountains? We tend to have clearer sky in those areas during the spring and the snow will be gone in the valleys and on the lowland pretty soon.
I only have one thing to say about today's weather here: G'ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Spring has really sprung around here...
Coltsfoot, Violets, Gagea (I think it's called Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem in English) and Scilla are flowering and the pennyworth is budding.
It all happened very fast and it's far too early, no pollinators out and about yet and we have at least 2 more months left when sub zero temperatures during the night is completely normal (not every night but a week here and a couple of days there).
After a period of almost perfect weather we have now a weather change every few minutes with a (tiny) bit of sleet thrown in for good measure.
Starts out on the cold side-- the I-want-my-jacket-cold. By noon, it warms up, and I turn on the van's A/C.
(luckily, it works this time-- it had been protesting a week or so back, and refusing to come on. Hillbilly roof syndrome. ::) )
How can there be +13°C in Central Europe at this time of the year?
The current forecast for Christmas is rain at +11°C
The only thing white was a bit of ice pellets (precipitation lasting maybe 5 minutes) the day before yesterday.
Ayuh, we are warm and unlikely to have a white Christmas here as well.
Somehwere in Germany it is even +16°C despite a dark and stormy night.
Day temperatures in the 80s F/upper 20s C, going down to 70F/20C at night. Supposedly will go back in the evening to 60sF/15C+ but still up to 77F/15C. Granted, I'm in south FL, but still it's getting hard to keep the AC off during the day!
We've been having same temperature as early November, sometimes +12 C. +13 C. But days interspersed with +6 c ish. Quite odd really. Can't make its mind up.
I guess St.Peter gor the signs wrong
Somehow there was snowfall during the night.
But it's above zero and now one can watch it melting.
What a waste!
I was melting on Xmas eve, it was above 80F/27C.
It's been snowing in the North (of England, Scotland's already had previous snow this year) here. (But of course the North never really exists for us Southerners). Seems to be at least as far south as Derby.
We had a semi white Christmas slightly south of Stockholm, a thin layer of snow and frost and -6°C/ 21.2°F.
Today it was even colder -10.5°C/ 13.1°F still very little snow though.
Icy warnings for London but not snow. More snow elsewhere.
Yesterday (Monday, Dec 29) it was not that bad-- hovering around 43F/6C. The high was around 55ish/13C.
As I was reading the latest (to me) comments? I had me a look at my weather panel (yes, I have a geeky weather panel that gives temperature, pressure, and relative humidity--inside and out.
Temp outside is a chilly 30F/-1C. Humidity is a wet 76% outside, but a dry 21% inside. I've got a rising pressure graphic, indicative of possible rain? If the humidity remains high, that is.
It's been gloomy since Dec 21, but Monday (yesterday) the Sun showed her lovely face for the first time in days and days.
Kitty was perched on his "Lookin' outside at the backyard, Feelin' the warm sunny" place.
Or? Purrrfect Weather for a CatNap.
:)
A bit of nice snow yesterday and today. Not going to last, alas!
Wet Silvester ahead.
Got a good dump of snow after Christmas, and the temperature dropped soon after, so it should be here to stay.
Tomorrow it will be 6oc at Midnight. Which will ge good for first footers.
Capitalism spoils things as usual. For the first time ever you have to buy a ticket to see the London fireworks display on the Thames. However, I can see them from my kitchen window for free.
Fox 10 Weather Report - really
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Here in the United States we refuse to go Metric like nearly all the Globe--;therefore I was about 50 degrees F today , sunny. Very nice outside.
Griffin I would dearly love to see those fireworks over the Thames from your kitchen window one day.
Ababe, you'd be very welcome.
Thank you dearest!
First snow and quite a lot of it.
What a waste! It's +3°C outside and nothing (but wet pavement) will be left by daybreak. :(
We, supposedly have snow in the north, but no idea if it has actually happemed. Vague suggestion of a scattering of snow in London, but I haven't heard any falling ;)
What is this snow you talk about, much less falling from the sky?
We are in the low 70s F/low 20s C here, which is a much needed relief from the heat.
Winter in England:
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We've had a steady smattering of very pretty, very geometric snowflakes over the holidays, with a couple of decent snowfalls. The ski hill's in great shape; I've put in 10 days of skiing so far.
After a December that felt more like spring (+15°C at times) we have a very unpleasant early January. Although it is barely below zero, the wind is icy (the type I call x-ray wind).
No snow in sight, alas!
Meanwhile the North Pole witnessed for a time temperatures 50°C above normal due to a never before witnessed freak weather pattern (a record breaking pressure differential sucking warm air up from the South)
Here it just went down below 70F/21C since Thanksgiving. Cold for my birds (but not for me).
Like Swato, we had 15o hot December. And the worst floods, hmm, well since last year. Also as Swato says, it is now unpleasant.
Beautiful sunny winter day today. Although no new snow has come down and some of the old has disappeared, it's still enough to maintain the impression of this being for the moment what a nice winter is supposed to be (and which has become a rarity).
Snow, snow, snow....
Ski, ski ski!
this was still listed in All Unread Topics... apparently I've been reluctant to clear things I haven't clicked for a couple of years. ;)
hehe. Yes, I don't click on that one.
Here it changing all the time between large varieties of weather but not hot and sunny.