Your current weather?

[chrissy]

Well the clouds have officially fallen from the sky and is now covering everything here, snow, snow and yet more snow! It is about 7inches thick and there is no end in sight. :(

[danscope]

"I wonder if my horse will think it odd
if I stop to watch the woods fill up with snow."

At least 7 is not as bad as 15" . Good luck,Crissy


Dan

[Atraveller]

Well the clouds have officially fallen from the sky and is now covering everything here, snow, snow and yet more snow! It is about 7inches thick and there is no end in sight. :(

At least you don't have to shovel "Clouds"

(I used to hate having to shovel out my driveway - just in time to see the plow go by and fill it all in again...)

[danscope]

Ah... 22 ° and light wind, and no snow coming down at present. No town plow burying my driveway apron. We don't like that. A few years ago, a
local newspaper company tried to do an unanounced promotion by
"Dropping" a free paper in the driveways around here. They threw it right into the snow bank at the foot of the driveway. Then, of course, the town plow came by and buried it with a mixture of partially melted snow and salt, which soaked the paper and buried it in a two foot deep bank right across my drive.
then along comes the innocent home owner with his snow thrower who lunches the turbine on his (what used to be a good working) snow thrower.
They cost plenty.
Oh well, here's to snow when you are tooled up for it.

Good viewing,
Dan

[sarongsong]

Tuesday January 5

High: 74° F SUNNY
Low: 45° F

...dropping to 72° F on Friday :eek:

[danscope]

My goodness, the ice cubes will melt. :) Enjoy your good weather and good fortune. Like Max Bialistock said: "When you got it....flaunt it,Baby! "

Somebody has to have it good somewhere. Might as well be yourself.

Best regards,
Dan

[Atraveller]

My goodness, the ice cubes will melt. :) Enjoy your good weather and good fortune. Like Max Bialistock said: "When you got it....flaunt it,Baby! "

Somebody has to have it good somewhere. Might as well be yourself.

Best regards,
Dan

We have high 70's to low 80's forcast for the next week or so... then maybe 90 ish this time next week...

Brisbane (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/results.html?query=Brisbane)

[Tinaa]

Cold here and it is going to get colder. This weekend we are supposed to have lows in the low twenties. Very cold for us here. In south Texas the cold won't last long though. I usually see my hyacinth blooming in February. I moved down here to escape the really cold weather.

[danscope]

We have high 70's to low 80's forcast for the next week or so... then maybe 90 ish this time next week...

Brisbane (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/results.html?query=Brisbane)

Hi, Will ya enjoy some sailing for me, mate? I'm missing it really terribly right now. My Hunter 25 is collecting snow and ice!! :)
Best regards,
Dan

[danscope]

Cold here and it is going to get colder. This weekend we are supposed to have lows in the low twenties. Very cold for us here. In south Texas the cold won't last long though. I usually see my hyacinth blooming in February. I moved down here to escape the really cold weather.

Hi Tinna, No escape even in Texas. I used to think it was warm all the time down there. Much to my surprise...
My Sister-in-law used to live in El Paso . Get's darned cold there at times.

Best regards,
Dan

[LaurelHS]

It's late at night where I am, it's below freezing and it's snowing again. But lately I don't mind when it snows at night because it just reminds me that I'm lucky to have shelter and warmth.

[danscope]

You are wise beyond your years. Sleep well.

[Atraveller]

Hi, Will ya enjoy some sailing for me, mate? I'm missing it really terribly right now. My Hunter 25 is collecting snow and ice!! :)
Best regards,
Dan

Hunter 25, one of my Favorites....

(I sailed a Hunter 37 from Port Angeles all down the west coast to Ensenada then back to San diego... a few years ago now...)

Shame about the snow and ice though - Have you planned the launch date already? They used to have a big Boat show in Toronto about this time of year - Always huge attendance from all the people missing thier boats...

[chrissy]

Well the snow still hasn't stopped, I cleared the path in my garden this afternoon and now it is covered in snow again..:(

[danscope]

Hunter 25, one of my Favorites....

(I sailed a Hunter 37 from Port Angeles all down the west coast to Ensenada then back to San diego... a few years ago now...)

Shame about the snow and ice though - Have you planned the launch date already? They used to have a big Boat show in Toronto about this time of year - Always huge attendance from all the people missing thier boats...

Hi, We'll get her in sometime in June. Shrimp on the barbie , and some of
ol' Dad's punch and a few sea stories. And those are good times.

Best regards,
Dan

[danscope]

Well the snow still hasn't stopped, I cleared the path in my garden this afternoon and now it is covered in snow again..:(

The wind is not our friend when it comes to snow. It's like shoveling out the sea. Maybe a little crust will form and set things up a little. There's hope.

Dan

[Atraveller]

Another day of 28C (84 F) and a little bit of rain - a few clouds... (I love Summer)

But this talk of sailing has given me the urge to pack the old duffle, and find me a rig to travel in.... It will be a few months before the fleet is ready to move from Sydney up to Airlie... that is always good for a gig. (Whitsunday Island sailing is the best... well in Australia anyway - nothing beats the south pacific, well except maybe the Palawan Islands....)

[clop]

PRECIS FORECAST FOR ADELAIDE

Issued at 3:20 pm on Thursday, 7 January 2010

Friday......Min 23...Max 39 Dry. Sunny.
Saturday..Min 24...Max 41 Dry. Sunny.
Sunday....Min 23...Max 41 Dry. Sunny.
Monday....Min 26...Max 41 Dry. Late change.

41C is 106F.

clop

[Tinaa]

I was going to whine a bit more about the cold, but I think I would rather have this cold weather than 100+ temps. Have those too much in the summer here!

[Fazor]

Still cold here. Gray. The sun tried to peek out about an hour ago. It was almost to the point of being bright outside, but then the clouds went on the counter-attack and smothered the solar uprising.

We're supposed to get as much as six inches this afternoon, starting about right now. That means we probably won't get much of anything. Here, we really only get the awful snow storms when the weather forecast is calling for nothing but flurries (as they were when we got the three or so inches that are currently on the ground from Sun/Mon).

Any time there's these "End-of-the-world, blizzard*, run-to-the-store-and-stock-up-on-canned-goods!!!" type forecasts, nothing much usually materializes. But people in these parts sure love a good mindless frenzy. Once or twice a year we'll have half the gas stations in the city pumped dry because they're calling for a few inches of snow.

*and no, I don't consider six inches in the span of a day a blizzard either, but folks 'round here seem to.

[SeanF]

Got to spend an hour moving snow again this morning.

Honestly, the snow is piled up so high on the side of my driveway that my snowblower just throws snow into the side of the pile now.


*and no, I don't consider six inches in the span of a day a blizzard either, but folks 'round here seem to.
Given sufficient wind and snow already on the ground, you can have a blizzard without any new snow falling.

[jrkeller]

It's very windy and the temperature is dropping quickly. We might even get some snow.

[Fazor]

Given sufficient wind and snow already on the ground, you can have a blizzard without any new snow falling.
"True dat" (see? I'm still cool.)

But anyway, I just went to my local paper's website, and just to prove how snow-crazy they are, I noticed that one of the local school districts has issued a 2 hour early dismissal (which means they'll be starting to load up the buses in a few minutes). It did start snowing just before noon (15 minutes ago), but I can still see the tree tops more than five blocks away. Not like it's snowing hard. (Visibility is even better than that, but that's the furthest object I can see from my vantage point even under normal conditions.)

[NEOWatcher]

It did start snowing just before noon (15 minutes ago), but I can still see the tree tops more than five blocks away. Not like it's snowing hard.
Have you seen your radar lately. Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana look like they are getting pounded, and it's moving this (mine, and yours) way.

Now; it looks like it's coming from the WSW, so I wonder why they are saying it's an Alberta Clipper, other than it's a local weather buzzword.

[Fazor]

I saw the radar this morning, and it does look like it could be pretty snowy. But the school in question gets out at 2:30. They called an 2-hour early dismissal at 12:15'ish, after 10 minutes of snow.

I'm just not sure the roads are going to go from fine and dandy, to "can't get the kids home", in two hours. But I could be wrong. (No other schools have closed early, as of yet, though).

[Buttercup]

Very cool (mid-50s F) and sunny.

[danscope]

Hi, 37 ° with a light breeze and clear skies. No snow to shovel.
I shall be grateful.

And from one Rhode Islander to my Aussie friends,
You guys know how to sail !! :)

Best regards,
Dan

[SeanF]

But anyway, I just went to my local paper's website, and just to prove how snow-crazy they are, I noticed that one of the local school districts has issued a 2 hour early dismissal (which means they'll be starting to load up the buses in a few minutes). It did start snowing just before noon (15 minutes ago), but I can still see the tree tops more than five blocks away. Not like it's snowing hard. (Visibility is even better than that, but that's the furthest object I can see from my vantage point even under normal conditions.)
Fazor, I wasn't intending to disparage your opinion of whether local authorities were responding properly to the weather. Just clarifying on "blizzard." :)

Schools here didn't even open this morning. My daughter was kind of disappointed, because it's her birthday today and she could've "dressed down" (no uniform). Now she missed her chance.

I spent, as I said, over an hour outside moving snow this morning. When I came in, she and her mother were in the kitchen making breakfast and the first thing she said to me - first thing - was, "I haven't heard a 'Happy Birthday' yet - just from Mom when she woke me up, but not from you." :rolleyes:

[NEOWatcher]

I saw the radar this morning, and it does look like it could be pretty snowy. But the school in question gets out at 2:30. They called an 2-hour early dismissal at 12:15'ish, after 10 minutes of snow.
Hard to say if it is panic, but there are other factors that are on my mind.

What you are getting (which just started here) ended in Indy within the last hour and brought 5 inches (according to a coworker there).

Sometimes they will push the earlier schools out faster so that the buses won't be all backed up for the rest of the day, and then everyone gets home late.

And, of course, there's the liability angle.

How far does that principal have to drive home? :lol:

[Fazor]

Fazor, I wasn't intending to disparage your opinion of whether local authorities were responding properly to the weather. Just clarifying on "blizzard." :)


Oh, no worries. I never thought you were disparaging it. (And yes, I just wanted to say 'disparage' too, because it's a cool word that I don't get to often use. ;))




Sometimes they will push the earlier schools out faster so that the buses won't be all backed up for the rest of the day, and then everyone gets home late.
Understandable, but this is a K-12 all-or-nothing school, so just one schedule.

But, in the interest of fairness, they were right. The roads look pretty bad now. Particularly considering the fact that central Ohioans don't know how to drive in snow (or rain, for that matter). That's "Da System": 1, Fazor: 0. I'll make a comeback though, I swear it!

[cosmocrazy]

-12C nuff said..:(

[Fazor]

-12C nuff said..:(

What is "(10C)-(22C)! I'll take Quotable Quotients for 500, Alec!"

[cosmocrazy]

We have a salt shortage!

[ABR.]

For chrissy, captain swoop and all the other UK BAUTers, the Bad Astronomer has posted a satellite image (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/tis-a-bit-nippy-guvnah/)of your homes. That's a lot of snow!

ETA: Looks like Fraser did, too (http://www.bautforum.com/universe-today-story-comments/99121-uks-big-snowfall-seen-space.html#post1656854).

[cosmocrazy]

For chrissy, captain swoop and all the other UK BAUTers, the Bad Astronomer has posted a satellite image (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/tis-a-bit-nippy-guvnah/)of your homes. That's a lot of snow!

ETA: Looks like Fraser did, too (http://www.bautforum.com/universe-today-story-comments/99121-uks-big-snowfall-seen-space.html#post1656854).

Yep! a lot of snow and as usual totally un prepared for it! :( its just a night mare out there!

[Buttercup]

My sister just phoned; she lives in northern Iowa. Blizzard conditions, wind chill is about -12 F, her friend got into a 6-car pileup an hour ago (1:30 pm Central Standard Time) but is okay and trying to drive back to town (instead of going to his farm). Her boyfriend is trying to make a 40-mile drive to his home. :( The factory they all work for let workers off early and lots of people are currently driving in perilous conditions. I've been there/done that too... :(

[chrissy]

They have the shortage because they didn't order enough salt to cope with the weather, the reason is we haven't had as much snow as what we are getting this time around a constant snow fall.

I remember when it was as bad as this, snow drifts were almost as high as the telegraph poles, walking on the hedges to get home and my dad having to dig through the snow that was as high as the kitchen extension so he could get to work and us of to school. :( Every night was planned for snowball fights, sledging and building igloos. Now I'm a bit too long in the tooth for some tasks, but I do still enjoy a good snowball fight. :D

[NEOWatcher]

Every night was planned for snowball fights, sledging and building igloos.
Not particularly in that order.
I would think you would sledge the igloo after you built it. :lol:

[clop]

For chrissy, captain swoop and all the other UK BAUTers, the Bad Astronomer has posted a satellite image (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/tis-a-bit-nippy-guvnah/)of your homes. That's a lot of snow!

ETA: Looks like Fraser did, too (http://www.bautforum.com/universe-today-story-comments/99121-uks-big-snowfall-seen-space.html#post1656854).

Imagine how much worse all this snow would be if it weren't for global warming.

clop

[Fazor]

Ha! I just watched two high-school aged (looking, can't know for sure) boys walk buy carrying their snowboards. It's funny because we a) only have about 3 inches of snow on the ground, and b) are in central Ohio! They'd be lucky to find a good 30 ft on a 40-degree grade to 'board' down.

Though I suspect they're more interested in looking "cool" with their boards than they're interested in any real boarding.

[TheOncomingStorm]

When I was a kid the best place to sled was in the middle of the woods. The people who own the land next to ours bulldozed some earth up into a hill because they wanted to build a home there. The resulting hill was in three sections, one about thirty or forty feet and then a small flat area that ended with some small plants that kind of acted liked a spring. Then there was a drop off about twenty feet. You never made it down with your sled all the way down. The hill is gone now.

[TheOncomingStorm]

But back to the topic. Yes we have snow on the ground. The last few days it just have been overcast and temps just above or just below freezing. The driveway is sheet of ice, and would imagine most of the fields around my house are as well if not on the surface but a few inches down. Ah, the fun of trying to cross a field that is just on sheet of ice, the joy but have not done that since I was a teenager.

[Swift]

http://www.mumsmeeting.com/images/smilies/snowman_snow4.gif

Followed by more of the same.

[Fazor]

The roads (at least the one I can see from here, but it's one of the cities heavily traveled roads) are covered. You can tell it's getting slippery by the way cars are crawling by at a cautious 35mph.

... and yes, so that's the posted speed limit, but people here seem to think 35 means "go as fast as you can from stop sign to stop sign", so are typically traveling between 50 and 55. And it's a mixed commercial / residential area. Have I mentioned I hate the drivers in my city?

Anyway, still snowing pretty good for now. It's a lovely sight to watch. I'm just glad it's only about ten blocks of residential side-streets from my office to my home.

[TheOncomingStorm]

My commute between home and work had a spot that almost always was a white out zone. On one side there was a large hill that was called a mountain and on the other was fields then a river with a small island at that spot then more fields on the othe side on the river. So the wind had a clear path across the river then hit the mountain.

One groupd tried to colonize the island 1603 but it was a hard place for a colony most of the colony died of scurvy. So driving in this area was driving between a rock and a hard place.

[chrissy]

Well it hasn't failed to come has it!!! More snow.

My poor plants..:(

[Buttercup]

Yipes! :( Sorry Chrissy. Hopefully it'll soon stop snowing in your area.

[chrissy]

It has been almost a month of constant snowing and the forecast said it was going to continue until monday, I am hoping they have it wrong Buttercup.

The sky is orange and full of more snow. :( The outlook doesn't look that good so far.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Every winter I have to hear people complaining about snow. All I usually say is "Welcome to winter in New Brunswick".

[Lianachan]

It has been almost a month of constant snowing and the forecast said it was going to continue until monday, I am hoping they have it wrong Buttercup.

The sky is orange and full of more snow. :( The outlook doesn't look that good so far.

I can't believe some of the footage of England I'm seeing on the news. Very bad snow, by English standards, yes - but also very bad driving! I suppose folks aren't generally that used to the quite different techniques required for driving in snow.

[chrissy]

The weather hasn't been this bad for a few years, we do get a lot of snow up here, it is down south where they don't normally get that much and added to the fact the councils haven't ordered enough gritting salt for a long stint of snow like what we have been getting, this is what's causing the most problems. In Scarborough they have resorted to using the sand from the beach to do the roads and paths because they have no more grit.
As for driving in the snow, it is a case of do it very slowly and your braking distance should be increased.
I am just glad I am recovering from a major operation so I haven't been out driving myself, I was going to go back next week because I am feeling a lot better but the weather has changed my mind for me so I will make the most of my sick leave in the comfort of my home.

[Lianachan]

The weather hasn't been this bad for a few years, we do get a lot of snow up here, it is down south where they don't normally get that much and added to the fact the councils haven't ordered enough gritting salt for a long stint of snow like what we have been getting, this is what's causing the most problems.Indeed. That's why I've not called my southern colleagues jessies over this winter. Not yet, anyway :). It does look genuinely bad in some areas. Once it looks OK, and if they're still "unable to make it to work", then the abuse will recommence.

As for driving in the snow, it is a case of do it very slowly and your braking distance should be increased.There's quite a bit more to it than that, depending on conditions of course, but that would have been good advice to the drivers of some of the cars in the south I've seen slipping about perfectly driveable roads. Lack of practice, I reckon.
I am just glad I am recovering from a major operation so I haven't been out driving myself, I was going to go back next week because I am feeling a lot better but the weather has changed my mind for me so I will make the most of my sick leave in the comfort of my home.Good to hear you're recovering well, and the timing is pretty good, weather-wise!

[Lianachan]

Satellite image of the UK currently. I live very near the very top.

http://www.anglotopia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.1km.jpg

[chrissy]

And you have had it pretty rough too up there.
I'm somewhere in the region of the red splodge.

[Atraveller]

Satellite image of the UK currently. I live very near the very top.


Wow - I've never seen the UK so covered in Snow...

And one for you guys... I live just about where that band of clouds crosses the east coast - It is pretty overcast today - but it hasn't been raining...

http://www.bautforum.com/picture.php?albumid=115&pictureid=1118

[TheOncomingStorm]

Who here wants to make a giant snowball and send it Oz?:D

[danscope]

Hi, We're getting powder and a mix. Not really good for rolling snow balls.
Got 22 ° and light wind.
We'll get up to 2 inches tommorrow. No big woof. :)

Dan

[Atraveller]

Who here wants to make a giant snowball and send it Oz?:D

A great big snowball in the middle of the country would be welcome there....

in Aussie Slang the outback is dry as.... (aussies never say as dry as what - you are supposed to guess.) Although there is more and more rain thanks to climate change.

But poor Clop in Adelaide is looking at 40+ C in a couple days - and has a Catastrophic Code Red bush fire danger... Could use a bit of snow there right now...

[danscope]

Hang in there, mates. take the good with the bad. Top it off with a Foster's.

[Atraveller]

Hang in there, mates. take the good with the bad. Top it off with a Foster's.

Keeping Hydrated is very important - But I preffer "XXXX" or Carlton Daught...

[danscope]

Many years ago, I had some "Black Swan". Do they still make it?

Dan

[Atraveller]

Many years ago, I had some "Black Swan". Do they still make it?

Dan

Don't know one called "Black Swan" but Swan Lager is still popular in Western Australia - not really marketed here in Brissy. A similar beer from the same brewery called Touhey's new Lager is sold here instead.

[GeorgeLeRoyTirebiter]

I was going to whine a bit more about the cold, but I think I would rather have this cold weather than 100+ temps. Have those too much in the summer here!

Since you won't, I will. Tonight, I had ice in my car's radiator! It usually doesn't get cold enough here to worry about the antifreeze mixture, so I don't own a hydrometer. I drove that car in 100+ F temps (with the AC on) without it overheating once, but let the temperature drop below 0 F and it overheats. ’Taint right, I tells ya.

[clop]

Gawd, it gets worse.

PRECIS FORECAST FOR ADELAIDE
Issued at 3:30 pm on Friday, 8 January 2010

Saturday....Min 26....Max 41...Dry. Sunny.
Sunday......Min 27....Max 43...Dry. Sunny.
Monday......Min 30....Max 43...Dry. Mostly sunny.

43C is 109F. Bushfire disaster territory.

clop

[Lianachan]

For me, it's:

Friday
Max: -3°C
Min: -4°C
Snow Showers

Saturday
Max: -1°C
Min: -7°C
Snow Showers

Sunday
Max: 1°C
Min: -6°C
Sunny

Monday
Max: 2°C
Min: -4°C
Partially cloudy

Tuesday
Max: 3°C
Min: -2°C
Partially cloudy

Although Google says:

-22°C
Current: Cloudy
Humidity: 70%Fri

2°C | -7°CSat

0°C | -9°CSun

1°C | -6°CMon

3°C | -2°CTues

[closetgeek]

They are actually saying possible flurries here tonight...I live in Central Florida.

[Fazor]

Here's a pic of yesterday's/last night's snow (it's actually still snowing, but nothing that will amount to much more . . . supposed to get windy today and start drifting though.)

And that's my neighbor's house, mine's the white one in the background that you can't really see. I had to take this picture for work anyway (we wrote the insurance on it), so I figured I'd just use it. Oh, and yes, the camera on my cell phone is terrible.

[captain swoop]

To paraphrase Agent Smith

'Snow Snow Snow and Snow'

[marsbug]

Satellite image of the UK currently. I live very near the very top.



I'm glad I'm not any further north than I am, it's been -3 to -10 deg C here and that been enough to send people to the shops stockpiling!

I'm under the red star (hope you don't mind I recruited your image chrissy)
and the eight inches of snow hasn't been the problem, it's the sunshine! We have enough sun each day to melt the top millimeter or three of ice, which then freezes into a clear hard slippy layer over night. After a week or so just getting down to the newsagents involves as much planning as a cross country hike, and walking like a frightened ape on rollerskates. There's plenty of parts of the world that get much worse but as a nation we're not really set up for this.

And to boot the boilers busted! Poppy and me have slithered over to Poppies aunts, and now their boilers gone! :eek::eek::mad:


Edit: panic over, the gas man got to us and fixed it :):):)

[Trantor]

WOW! I can't recall such a prolonged cold spell in Central Florida. It's going on two weeks now. Weird, considering that we also had prolonged higher than average temperatures well into November. This weekend, record low temperatures in the mid 20's are expected.

[cosmocrazy]

I'm glad I'm not any further north than I am, it's been -3 to -10 deg C here and that been enough to send people to the shops stockpiling!

I'm under the red star (hope you don't mind I recruited your image chrissy)
and the eight inches of snow hasn't been the problem, it's the sunshine! We have enough sun each day to melt the top millimeter or three of ice, which then freezes into a clear hard slippy layer over night. After a week or so just getting down to the newsagents involves as much planning as a cross country hike, and walking like a frightened ape on rollerskates. There's plenty of parts of the world that get much worse but as a nation we're not really set up for this.

And to boot the boilers busted! Poppy and me have slithered over to Poppies aunts, and now their boilers gone! :eek::eek::mad:


Edit: panic over, the gas man got to us and fixed it :):):)

I'm just a bit further south than your good self, temperature hit -16 last night. :( And just to boot I'm in the same boat as you my boiler packed in last night. Fortunately I can fix it myself, unfortunately I have had to order the required part so it looks like another very cold night in store for me :(

[captain swoop]

I am right next to Chrissy. I live on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors.
It has snowed all day today. We already had about 8 inches we had another 4 today so far.
Yesterday I was down in Newark on Trent, only a few inches of snow but incredibly cold. Ran into the snow about 5 miles from home and it took 45 minutes to do them. Ended up having to leave the van on the Market Place and walk uo to home, the road was completely blocked.

[Click Ticker]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

I'm about 30 miles east of Lake Michigan. We aren't quite Buffalo, New York - but we do get our share of lake effect snow. Another four or five inches last night. They got about 18 inches a couple days ago right along the lake shore. Our biggest one day event this year has been 13 inches. Pretty much constant snow on the ground since December 1 - after a very mild November. It will likely stay like this well into March.

Tonight we're supposed to drop into the single digits F°. Doesn't make for good packing snow when it's too cold.

[rommel543]

We still haven't gotten that much snow here in Winnipeg (at least in normal terms for this area) but it's been constant temperatures from -20c to -25c. Around Christmas we saw a couple days around -35c. It's currently -20 right now, but they are calling for +1c by Thursday next week (which is quite odd for January). I'll believe it when I see it though. More than likely we'll get an arctic cold front drop in and the temperature will drop instead of go up.

[Buttercup]

Wow, I'm sad to read continued weather woes in the U.K. Marsbug, I can relate to the super-slippery/treacherous stuff from growing up in the north of the U.S. :( Hopefully it'll SOON stop snowing everywhere!

We're sunny and maybe 45 F. It's actually rather pathetic that in my area (moved here in early '90s), they've almost got to invent "bad weather." :lol: :wall: I'd like to transport all natives to this area to Minnesota for one winter and spring; they'd find out what weather is.

[rommel543]

I'd like to transport all natives to this area to Minnesota for one winter and spring; they'd find out what weather is.

LOL.. send them up here. Let them go stand outside in -35c with a 40km/h wind blowing. They'll come back home and say how warm and balmy it is.

[jrkeller]

LOL.. send them up here. Let them go stand outside in -35c with a 40km/h wind blowing. They'll come back home and say how warm and balmy it is.

For some fun weather, come visit us during a hurricane.

For Houston, it has been pretty cold. It has been below freezing almost all day long. I've got ice on my fish pond.

[chrissy]

Hi marsbug, no I don't mind you using the map to plot your where-abouts, maybe others from the UK want to make their mark on it too, I might join the dots up later and see what the picture turns out to be. :D

Welcome to the ICE-AGE, returning from a long retirement the wooooooooly mammoth, give him a round of applause and maybe a Scrat might make star appearance too.

[danscope]

Hi Buttercup, tell them cold weather builds character! :lol:

We got a cheery 30 ° and barely got a dusting of the 2 " we were supposed to get. Wind is down. Everything is ticketyboo.
Poor Cosmo, I hate boiler trouble. I keep an extra circulator and a few fittings. You never seem to have what you need. I'm lucky my supply dealer is 3 miles away.
I just bought a new boiler. Now, if I can get a warmer day so that I can swap it in, I'll be fine. ya gotta work fast. :lol:
Good luck,friends.

Dan

[Buttercup]

For some fun weather, come visit us during a hurricane

:confused: Um yeah, but...a hurricane (single storm) doesn't have a 5-month duration like some cold/snow areas in winter. Like the northern Midwest, for instance. :(

Danscope, I agree (character building). Chrissy, a friend of mine in Australia is certain we're returning to an ice age. He's an optometrist who could be a planetary scientist; extremely well read.

[chrissy]

Well you will never guess what???

It is snowing here...............again, heavily too. :(

That is what I have been thinking too, Buttercup. Then we women won't need to shave those legs soon as it will be the in thing, to have extra thermal layers to keep the damn legs warm. :( Not a new fashion thing I would like to have.

[captain swoop]

Well Westgate (Mains treet through the market place) has a solid coverimg, very rare as it's a main bus route and salted and plowed all day, Up Belmangate towards the top of the town the snow is so deep that the undersides of the cars are skimming it flat, another couple of inches and only the $ Wheel Drive types will get up.

[Click Ticker]

Hopefully it'll SOON stop snowing everywhere!

Some of us like the snow. It's fun to play in and the kids (okay, Dad too) enjoy going sledding. Building snow forts, snowmen, making snow angels, snowball fights, ice skating outside. Good fun this time of year.

[Fazor]

Some of us like the snow. It's fun to play in and the kids (okay, Dad too) enjoy going sledding. Building snow forts, snowmen, making snow angels, snowball fights, ice skating outside. Good fun this time of year.

Some snow is good. I'm content with the amount we got. Cost me about an hour of shoveling the parking lot, but I need exercise anyway.

But I certainly don't want all that snow they have in some of those places. Particularly in my business; the worse the roads, the worse our income! (Not that claims are paid directly out of our income, but some of the agent's bonuses are tied to claims losses).

[Swift]

Some of us like the snow. It's fun to play in and the kids (okay, Dad too) enjoy going sledding. Building snow forts, snowmen, making snow angels, snowball fights, ice skating outside. Good fun this time of year.
Other than when it seriously messes up my commute, I like snow. This past weekend my wife and I did two different hikes in it and this coming Sunday I'm leading a hike. I've gone for a walk around the neighborhood just about every night this week. Everything is so beautiful in the snow, we get lots of traffic on our bird feeders, and it is so quiet out.

And just to add to the dataset, we've had high temperatures in 20s F for all of this week and most of last. Because of the variable nature of Lake Effect snow, the snow depth around here varies from maybe about 6 to 8 inches, up to 1.5 to 2 feet (Lake Effect depends a lot on local topography).

[rommel543]

I don't mind the snow, I just don't like the cold that comes with it.

[danscope]

When the wind is down, and the temp gets up to 45°, it's terrific.

[geonuc]

Atlanta is iced over. We had an inch or two of snow which froze over night and it hasn't been above freezing all day. Naturally, as we Atlanteans are not used to that and don't have much road deicing equipment, traffic has been a mess.

Actually, I heard on the local radio station that due to budget woes, of the city's nine sand/salt trucks, only four were operational. Now, Atlanta isn't the size of Chicago or London, but it isn't that small either. Four trucks to serve the many interstates around here. There was a major pileup on one the of the interstates that didn't get deiced.

[Lianachan]

I love the snow. Snow, snow, snow. Can't get enough of it. I also, fortunately lately, love the cold!

[captain swoop]

As long as the roads are clear, I do up to 1000 miles a week.

[Dgennero]

OK, here in the Keys it is bad, although nothing like up North. We'll get 46 degrees, it is windy, gloomy and permanently rainy.
The kind of weather I'd expect after an asteroid impact ;)

[SeanF]

As long as the roads are clear, I do up to 1000 miles a week.
Well, that's almost 6 miles per hour! Slow down, ya speed freak!

[danscope]

We've got 25 °... the high for the day. Still, the skies are clear , with bright sunshine. My wife wilts without sunshine.

[Tucson_Tim]

Sunny, 70 degrees F. Been this way for a week. Supposed to continue for another week.

But I grew up and lived for many years in places with cold, snowy winters - know all about it.

[chrissy]

It snowed from 7pm last night until 3am this morning, it gave itself a break then snowed heavily until 12o'clock today. I went for a walk and took a few pictures of the winter wonderland around my home. Stuck a few in my profiles page.

[Buttercup]

I'll check your pictures, Chrissy. This must be record-breaking accumulation for you guys? :(

[ShadowSot]

It's gotten pretty dang cold here in Florida, surprising for a lot of us.

[Buttercup]

It's gotten pretty dang cold here in Florida, surprising for a lot of us.

If you visit www.spaceweather.com, a photo of icicles in Florida has been posted! :surprised

[cosmocrazy]

It snowed from 7pm last night until 3am this morning, it gave itself a break then snowed heavily until 12o'clock today. I went for a walk and took a few pictures of the winter wonderland around my home. Stuck a few in my profiles page.

It seems you folks are getting the brunt of the snow. It hasn't snowed in my area today but its been very cold! We have heavy snow forecast for tonight and again tomorrow :(

And to add (just watching the weather on the news) it might get windy in places also, which means more havoc on the roads as the snow drifts! :(

[chrissy]

I'll check your pictures, Chrissy. This must be record-breaking accumulation for you guys? :(

30 Years so far and if it continues a bit longer it will break another record. We have had snow every single day so far and here it started on the 16th December. :( I was watching it fall from my hospital bed window view.

A lot of my pictures wouldn't upload here so I have only a few. :)

[captain swoop]

No snow over here in Guisborough toay just a cold wind. We had a bit overnight though. None forecast until Sunday Night now.

[danscope]

Ground is crackling under foot. It's 7 ° F. No snow to shovel. That's a good thing. The cat capitulated. He stayed out 6 minutes and sued for a warm house. :)

Dan

[clop]

Currently 42C. 108F.

Everyone is inside trying to keep cool.

The unfiltered sun will burn you in less than a minute.

clop

[danscope]

Oh...that's some nasty heat. You are wise to respect it. It'll do you no good.
Got 5 ° F now.
" I woke up today and found....
a frost perched on the town.
It hovered in a frozen sky....
and gobbled summer down.

When the sun turns traitor cold,
and shivering trees are standing
in anaked row...."

[clop]

Now 44.9C just up the road. 113F.

clop

[captain swoop]

Sudden thaw, all the icicles have gone and i didn't need to de ice the car today. Road completely clear for first time in a week.
Bitter wind though.

[Lianachan]

It's currenty -3.5 C here. That's the warmest it's been during the last 48 hours.

[ShadowSot]

If you visit www.spaceweather.com, a photo of icicles in Florida has been posted! :surprised

That's not to surprising, folks will usually water their trees and houses before a cold snaps supposed to occur, in order to get them.

[chrissy]

It has warmed up to a blistering 4C, the snow has been thawing out nicely and I can see the path almost, yay! :)

[cosmocrazy]

It has warmed up to a blistering 4C, the snow has been thawing out nicely and I can see the path almost, yay! :)

Hearing you on this one Chrissy! I actually drove through a village today that had no snow anywhere to be seen, it was almost surreal.

[chrissy]

Hearing you on this one Chrissy! I actually drove through a village today that had no snow anywhere to be seen, it was almost surreal.

Where you in the UK cosmocrazy? You didn't drive on a snow covered sea somewhere and find yourself in the South of France? :whistle:

[danscope]

25 ° and light wind with clear skies. Good chicken roasting weather.
Cheers to our friends across the pond and down under.

Dan

[cosmocrazy]

Where you in the UK cosmocrazy? You didn't drive on a snow covered sea somewhere and find yourself in the South of France? :whistle:

Stoke-On-Trent, the village was a small place called Meir. There was thick snow as I approached the village, then in the village the snow had gone and it was raining lightly. Then just about 1/4 mile out of the village there was thick snow again and it was lightly snowing!

[Atraveller]

Now 44.9C just up the road. 113F.

clop

Hey Clop - heard you guys are under a Catastrophic Code Red Fire danger again... Take care out there .

The good news - I heard you are going to get a cooling trend over the next few days - maybe even a little rain. You sure could use it.

Stay Cool...

(High 20's - low 30's here in Bris vegas - high 70's - mid 80's for those of you who speak the Olde Language.)

[danscope]

5 ° f. I'll keep my cat inside. He'll freeze to the ground. Yikes.

[ShadowSot]

It was 17 degrees Fahrenheit when I got up to go to work a couple of hours ago. Wish I'd have gotten up a bit earlier, like to have sen what the river looked like.

[chrissy]

The temperature is 2C outside it has rained a bit today, there is still a lot of snow and it is compressed to a thickness of 5 inches, slippy in parts.

I can see a lot more of my garden though.....bonus. :D

[Swift]

5 ° f. I'll keep my cat inside. He'll freeze to the ground. Yikes.
Plus, you can do what my wife does and use the cat as a furry, portable heat source. They're even better than a hot water bottle. Of course, the cat thinks the same thing about my wife (http://www.bautforum.com/picture.php?albumid=81&pictureid=606). ;) So everyone, bundle up and conserve body warmth. :D

[HerbyRainer]

South Wales is cloudy and the temperature is 1.9 0 C with a very cold wind.

[ABR.]

Cloudy with rain on the way here in the Central Valley of California. No more earthquakes here, although I can't say the same for the coast.

[cosmocrazy]

It snowed again last night so the minor roads near me are treacherous again but the good news is it is slightly milder temperature at present so maybe we might get a thaw! yippee!!

[Buttercup]

Very cool (probably 42 F). Partly sunny with high hazy clouds.

[rommel543]

They're calling for +1c tomorrow and +3c for Wednesday. Weeeeee

[Swift]

Cloudy with rain on the way here in the Central Valley of California. No more earthquakes here, although I can't say the same for the coast.
Personally, I'll trade snow for earthquakes.

[ABR.]

Personally, I'll trade snow for earthquakes.

Let me put you in touch with the town of Eureka, then. Maybe you can make a deal.

[Atraveller]

South Wales is cloudy and the temperature is 1.9 0 C with a very cold wind.

Funny - New South Wales is going to hit 32 C - and humid with a very warm wind...

[danscope]

Plus, you can do what my wife does and use the cat as a furry, portable heat source. They're even better than a hot water bottle. Of course, the cat thinks the same thing about my wife (http://www.bautforum.com/picture.php?albumid=81&pictureid=606). ;) So everyone, bundle up and conserve body warmth. :D

Ah ha! Hot water bottle!! I'll tell my wife. :) This one is grey, warm and fluffy.

Dan

[danscope]

Earthquakes.....Bad! Very bad. I can see Tonto, Tarzan and Frankenstein
doing a public service message about earthquakes. :lol:
Keep it together, Friends. And save bottled water .

Dan

[danscope]

Got 25 ° f and light winds. Tolerable. Even the cat went outside.
He is very brave. :)

[danscope]

Got 18 ° f with light wind. Not good cat weather. :)

[Atraveller]

A Balmy 28 C (82 F) - sunny and a little humid - with winds 10 to 15 from the north east....

Hey Clop, did you get that cold front through yet? Or are you still melting at 110 F?

[danscope]

Can you imagine 110° f ? I'll take the 82 ° right about now!! :)

Stay cool, Clop .

[ABR.]

47F here in Northern California and raining, but we'll have 110F next summer during Fire Season.

[Trantor]

Well, it looks like our cold spell is finally ending. According to our local news here in Central Florida, we had 11 consecutive days where the highs never got above 60F; the lows were in the mid 20's to mid 30's. This is a record for our area. The previous record was 7 consecutive days in 1959!

[captain swoop]

Cold and damp. Snow remaining is now compacted into ice with a layer of water on top :(

[chrissy]

We had a bit of heavy snow this morning it was short lived. There is a lot of compacted snow/ice around making it very hazardous to walk on and there is frost forecast for tonight...Bambi impersonations going to happen tomorrow. :(

[Buttercup]

Yes, Trantor, that is cold for you guys. :( I'm glad the spell is breaking up.

We're overcast (a pretty sort of mild gloom) and cool; probably 52 F.

[captain swoop]

Snowing like mad again and I have to go over to Scarborough tomorrow. Rightr across the Moor top to whitby and then again from Whitby over to Scarborough. ho hum
ha well, Fish and Chips for lunch at the Harbour Bar in Scarbs :)

[chrissy]

You are not going to stand in their long queue are you?

[captain swoop]

Well it depends, I don't think there will be any Queues in Scarborough tomorrow. Mind you, the Magpie in Whitby has a Q all year round.

[Buttercup]

...are you going to Scarborough Fair? parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme; remember me to the one who lived there; he was once a true love of mine... Paul Simon again, Robinson!

[No change in our weather]

[captain swoop]

Unfortunately not I am going to Scarborough cold and shut down for the winter :)

[Atraveller]

Currently 28 C and sunny - light wind from the North East - forcast High of 31 today...

[danscope]

29° and light snow flakes.. Nothing to write home about. Fish and chips on Fridays round here. Good stuff. :)

Dan

[jrkeller]

Dark and Gloomy with drizzle. The temperature is about 55F. It sure bets the week of temperatures below +40F [most of the time it was between 20 and 35F].

[chrissy]

We had snow during the night, 3 inches laid and the fog followed it, the temperature is currently at 0C and a weather warning of it freezing over night.

[TheOncomingStorm]

low this mourning of -15 C and a high of -5 C, skies crystal clear.

[Tinaa]

Mid-fifties, rain. Supposed to have a beautiful week coming up with highs in the sixties and lows in the forties.

[captain swoop]

drizzle

[danscope]

We're having a heat wave ! 45° f , light wind and partial sunshine. Joy !!!
Maybe I can scrape the ice in front.

Dan

[chrissy]

I think I know why we had a load of snow now...:( I washed my car the evening before I had my operation on the 15th of December and I said it will probably snow now for a month!! It started snowing here on the 16th, my fault UK sorry. :(

[Atraveller]

I think I know why we had a load of snow now...:( I washed my car the evening before I had my operation on the 15th of December and I said it will probably snow now for a month!! It started snowing here on the 16th, my fault UK sorry. :(

WOW - To have that kind of power Chrissy - very impressive. You will be like Doug Adams Rain God. You can get whole countries to pay you to stay away....

32 C here today (88 F) the pool however has warmed up to 35 C (94F?) We put a solar blanket on it a few months ago - and it is just a little too warm - feels like getting into a pool sized spa... But still quite refreshing when you get out.

Off for a round of golf now - hope it doesn't get too warm. But there is a nice breeze.

[cosmocrazy]

I think I know why we had a load of snow now...:( I washed my car the evening before I had my operation on the 15th of December and I said it will probably snow now for a month!! It started snowing here on the 16th, my fault UK sorry. :(

No worries chrissy, the snow has all gone!!! :)

It all seems rather weird seeing so much colour again instead of white, and mucky slush!

[Dgennero]

@Atraveller: Weeellll - it is summer down under.
Wait until July and it might not be so good ;)
We in the Florida Keys are back to normal after a long cold snap - daytime temperatures back in the high 70s with plenty of sunshine and between 70 and 65 at night.

[chrissy]

The snow has almost vanished here too and my car is dirty again..:( maybe I will just throw water over it this time. :whistle:

[captain swoop]

No snow at all here now, who would have thought it was nearly a foot deep a few days ago.

[ShadowSot]

Now it's up to the 60's, and it's been raining fairly consistently since 7 pm yesterday.

[Arnold Rimmer]

The temperature has been between 0C and -15C for almost a month now, making it possible to walk/skate on sea-ice to some of the nearer islands off the coast (up to a kilometer out).

The last time this was possible was in the early '80s.

[ABR.]

Rain!

[Atraveller]

@Atraveller: Weeellll - it is summer down under.
Wait until July and it might not be so good ;)
We in the Florida Keys are back to normal after a long cold snap - daytime temperatures back in the high 70s with plenty of sunshine and between 70 and 65 at night.

Well, winter here it can get down to a fridgid 17 C (60F?) but day time highs are usually over 20 C (68F) - some times we even have to wear shoes in the winter, it gets so cold...

Today it is a little warm - we are looking at a high of 36 C ( 96F) But I'm stuck in Aircon all day - so I won't have much of a chance to enjoy it...

[Spoons]

6:35pm and still 40 degrees celsius here. Minimal breeze too. Dang, it's hot!

[ABR.]

More rain!

[danscope]

No...no.. rain is good. Rain is our friend. See how it goes down the drain all by itself without shoveling? :)
Got 34°f and rain,...not the snow they were saying. Life is good.

[ABR.]

Rain is good. Snow at the higher elevations is better. Predictions for the week are for lots of rain -- from 5-15 inches of rain depending upon elevation. The highest elevations, Lassen National Park, etc., should receive at least 10 feet of new snow by the end of the week. The only question for me is where the snow line begins.

[chrissy]

The sun came out for 15 minutes and vanished straight after, but then it returned later this afternoon for an hour or so. However it was warm and I'm not going to complain about that. :)

[danscope]

Catch what sunshine you can, Crissy. I've been in the grey for a couple days
but I'm not shoveling. Maybe some black ice on the roads tonight,though.
31 ° with a light wind.
Best regards,
Dan

[Atraveller]

6:35pm and still 40 degrees celsius here. Minimal breeze too. Dang, it's hot!

Hey Spoons,

I'm in Brisvegas - we got up to 37 yesterday - nice and warm, but not as warm as you.

Have you got some cooling coming? We cooled off over night - we are only going to hit 31 today.

[Spoons]

Good day Atraveller,

It got up to about 42 yesterday here, but the breeze was a lovely warm one from inland. Around 37 or so today, they say. Apparently we're in for a nice mild 31 tomorrow. Mid to low 30's til Saturday.

40 degrees max again on Saturday, which means they may cancel lawn bowls again. Argh! They canceled it last week, and although it did peak at 38 or so, there was a lovely breeze all day.

I see you've got beautiful steady 32 days fort he rest of the week. Lovely!

ETA: I just checked - it was 41 today. It was still 29 degrees C at about 10:30 or 11pm. And my room is at the end of a winding hallway, so the AC doesn't make it there effectively. Thankfully it's down to 25 now.

[ABR.]

Still raining.

[Lianachan]

Here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8467242.stm)'s a weather related story from my neck of the woods. A woman heads out to buy a turkey for Christmas dinner and can't make it home for 30 days.

[chrissy]

I saw that one on the news...:D I think the turkey shopping was left a bit late. :D

We had frost today and then the fog fell like a blanket, the visability was reduced pretty quickly.

Thanks danscope, it is just a shame it didn't last very long. :(

[Atraveller]

Good day Atraveller,

It got up to about 42 yesterday here, but the breeze was a lovely warm one from inland. Around 37 or so today, they say. Apparently we're in for a nice mild 31 tomorrow. Mid to low 30's til Saturday.

40 degrees max again on Saturday, which means they may cancel lawn bowls again. Argh! They canceled it last week, and although it did peak at 38 or so, there was a lovely breeze all day.

I see you've got beautiful steady 32 days fort he rest of the week. Lovely!

ETA: I just checked - it was 41 today. It was still 29 degrees C at about 10:30 or 11pm. And my room is at the end of a winding hallway, so the AC doesn't make it there effectively. Thankfully it's down to 25 now.

G'day Spoons (I'm still learning to speak aussie - please excuse the Canadian accent.)

We have a forcast of 32 C (90 F) and sunny for the next 7 days. I am really looking forward to the weekend... It is absolutlely fabulous pool weather. Pool time and a few Carlton Mid's - that will be most of the weekend for me... (it can be a tough life living in paradise...)

Temps are suppose to come down for you to about the same aren't they?

[Spoons]

Yes, only topped out at 30 degrees today, and it's dropped back to 27 already.

Miraculously, we seem to keep getting the really hot days on the weekend.

Your weather, and weekend plan, sounds perfect. Lucky devil!

P.S. You're getting the twang working just right. Next we'll have to teach you to skin a croc and string corks off your acubra.

[Atraveller]

Yes, only topped out at 30 degrees today, and it's dropped back to 27 already.

Miraculously, we seem to keep getting the really hot days on the weekend.

Your weather, and weekend plan, sounds perfect. Lucky devil!

P.S. You're getting the twang working just right. Next we'll have to teach you to skin a croc and string corks off your acubra.

You'll have me speaking ocker as...

[Spoons]

Too flaming right!

[Atraveller]

You just have to love a forcast like this:

Friday Fine Min 21 Max 32
Saturday Fine Min 22 Max 33
Sunday Fine Min 22 Max 33
Monday Fine Min 23 Max 33
Tuesday Fine Min 23 Max 33
Wednesday Fine Min 23 Max 33

(33 C = 91 F)

Currently 32 and Fine

[BigDon]

Wild unsettled weather. Uncharacteristic thunder storms and the rains that come with them.

Huge redwood tree was obliterated by an enormous bolt.

Squalls so fierce that people driving on residential streets were pulling over because visibility and wind was that outrageously bad.

[ABR.]

Hey BigDon! Good to see you. The winds started picking up a bit today on this side of the valley. Lots of small limbs down, power outages, etc. I saw a county vehicle with a plow cruising the streets. That's pretty common during snow storms, but I think he was shoving limbs off the streets. After tonight, he may be plowing the snow, too. Lots of rain over here this week and we've only been 1000 ft elevation (=a couple miles of road) below the snow line. Hoping to keep it that way. Did you see that Mt. Shasta was supposed to get 33-39 inches of snow last night?

[chrissy]

It has been quite fresh here today but nothing too serious to report. There is rain forecast for the night.

[Paracelsus]

38.5 F and ominous

[danscope]

20 ° and dropping. Clear skies. We will miss the storm to the south apparently.
No snow for the new snow thrower. :lol:

Dan

[Chuck]

Channel 12 in Phoenix kept interrupting Jay Leno to tell me it was raining. Several thousand people lost electric power.

[Atraveller]

20 ° and dropping. Clear skies. We will miss the storm to the south apparently.
No snow for the new snow thrower. :lol:

Dan

Don't you just hate it when you get a new toy and you aren't allowed to play with it?

We have the same old perfect weather:

Sunday Fine Min 22 Max 33
Monday Fine Min 23 Max 33
Tuesday Fine Min 23 Max 34
Wednesday Mostly fine Min 23 Max 33
Thursday Mostly fine Min 23 Max 33
Friday Mostly fine Min 23 Max 29

looks like great golfing weather... and pool weather

(33 = 91 F for those in the Olde temps)


Happy Aussie Day to any Aussies

[BigDon]

Rain with an Artic air blast. The cold is now driving the homeless south, as it does this time of year. I been seeing groups of them hitch-hiking south just off the on ramps the last week.

With two main destinations. The younger, more local ones will go to Santa Cruz while most of the "general homeless" will head on down to Los Angeles. A yearly event.

[Glom]

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[Spoons]

If we don't correspond before Tuesday, happy Australia Day to you too Atraveller!

I just checked the forecast - we're looking at 31, clear and sunny for Tuesday. In non-ABC speak, fine. Fantastic!

Is it just on our ABC that they're now not allowed to describe the weather as fine, or is that more widespread? It seems ridiculous.

[Fazor]

Temperature isn't noteworthy. No snow or ice or anything that really matters. Some rain, but whatever.

The part that's starting to get to me is the clouds. Out, damned clouds! Out, I say! Consistently cloudy for three weeks and counting. The forecast icons for the upcoming week all feature those accursed gray blobs. How do you people in Washington (state) do it? It's slowly draining my soul.

[Buttercup]

Um...after reading your post, Fazor, I guess I shouldn't be overly glad for our overcast day and lots of rain. Yes, I'm enjoying it. :) We're usually very sunny and rain is always a nice change of pace.

But I do recall weeks of cloud cover in the upper Midwest. :(

[danscope]

Mostly cloudy, 32 ° f and no snow. :)
We don't need no steeeenkin snow.:lol:

[ABR.]

Light rain today with periods of snow or hail.

[BigDon]

At 4:30 AM it's it's a bitter, windy 41 degrees F (5 C) with ice water rain. (Poked my head out the front door and pulled it back in in a hurry.) Still several hours until sunrise.

[danscope]

Hi, Rain, in a big way, with a breeze behind it. 53° f is a good thing.
Melting ice is a good thing.
One day closer to golf season is a good thing.:)

Dan

[Fazor]

We actually had about an hour of blue sky and sunshine this morning, before the temp dropped and more rain and clouds moved in, along with a pretty stiff wind. I've been told we're supposed to get up to an inch of snow tonight.

Oh well, it's nice to know that there still is a blue sky up there somewhere, even if we don't get to actually see it.

[ABR.]

Yep. Still raining here. On the way back from lunch my co-worker noticed that the water is actually flowing out of the street drains now.

[BigDon]

Yep. Still raining here. On the way back from lunch my co-worker noticed that the water is actually flowing out of the street drains now.

Hope you don't have any bathrooms below ground level...

Sharing the same storm as ABR. Not as chilly as the last couple of storms.

[ABR.]

Hope you don't have any bathrooms below ground level...

Sharing the same storm as ABR. Not as chilly as the last couple of storms.

We're still a few feet about stream level here at work. It's about 2200 feet higher in elevation at home so I'm not worried about flooding so much there. Snow levels actually dropped enough over the weekend to see some of the white stuff before the rain melted it away.

[megrfl]

Baby, it's cold outside...

[TheOncomingStorm]

Yesterday it was warm at 5 C and raining and windy. The power went out, then when the power came on the internet went out.

[Atraveller]

Was a very long Aussie day Weekend - this last weekend.

And what a beautiful weekend it was - topped 31 every day (that would be 91 in the Olde Language.) The pool was around 30, and the beer was around 4...

The forcast for the next week is more of the same.

[danscope]

Got 30 ° w/ light wind. A 50% chance of showers or snow tomorrow.
Ha. Snow thrower awaits fully gassed up. :)

[ABR.]

I think the sky was broken today. Or maybe there was a short circuit. In either case, instead of rain, there was this large point source of fire in the sky that seemed to track more or less from the East to the West.

[Atraveller]

I think the sky was broken today. Or maybe there was a short circuit. In either case, instead of rain, there was this large point source of fire in the sky that seemed to track more or less from the East to the West.

Yeah, we have that problem frequently here in the burnt country down under. :lol:

You think if it stays broken like that it might warm things up? (allusion to AGW thread General AGW discussion (http://www.bautforum.com/science-technology/70431-general-agw-discussion-thread-115.html))

[ABR.]

Yeah, we have that problem frequently here in the burnt country down under. :lol:

You think if it stays broken like that it might warm things up? (allusion to AGW thread General AGW discussion (http://www.bautforum.com/science-technology/70431-general-agw-discussion-thread-115.html))

I watched it until it went behind the Coastal Mountains. I can only assume it was doused in the Pacific Ocean.

[redshifter]

We've had many days with highs in the 50's which is 5 - 10 degrees above our normal daily highs this January. Typical for an El Nino winter here in the NW. California seems to be getting much of our stormy weather, which IIRC is also typical of an El Nino winter.

[danscope]

34 ° f with snow. Going into the deep freeze tomorrow. :(

[Buttercup]

Cool [maybe 48 F] and solidly overcast. :D Rained this a.m., and chances for more. Yay! :D I love occasional gloomy weather...here, it's a change of pace.

[Littlesnabes]

60 F if we are lucky here in phoenix atm just got over some rain storms

[Spoons]

Yesterday we struggled for any breeze from the coast, so the temperature was very slow to drop. I checked on the Bureau of Meteorology website and it was still 30 degrees Celsius (86F) at about 10 or 11pm.

Fairly uncomfortable weather.

[Middenrat]

What we've got here is not good motorcycling weather: overcast, T around zero, intermittent wintry showers, with a diesel slick on every arterial roundabout.
See you at the caff then, mip mip

[LaurelHS]

It's a clear cold night where I am. The weather channel says there's a wind chill warning at the moment.

[Atraveller]

Big afternoon thunder storm coming through - hope it fills the pool (evaporation is bad here - we can loose 1-2" of water off the pool level in one hot windy day. And we are still under water restrictions, so we can't just fill any time we want. Rain water and tank water are the life savers...)

Still it is low 30's (high 80's) - Just another day in paradise...:lol:

[chrissy]

-2 here the wind has made it this cold, forecast more of the white stuff too..:(

[TheOncomingStorm]

cold and wind here too.

[HenrikOlsen]

Just got home from Zürich and landed in the aftermath of a snowstorm which delayed the flight and completely messed up the trains so I got home 3½ hours after I was supposed to.

[danscope]

Got 3 ° and a breeze. Takes so long to get any heat in your car. Shiver!!!!
Colder tomorrow. Should go right up into the single numbers. Ha!!!!!
Nice to be inside, warm with your friends. :)

Dan

[captain swoop]

Snow back again, a few inches overnight. Sunshine now so it should clear I hope.

[Buttercup]

Sunny (dawn has just broken) and cold, perhaps 28 F.

[Tobin Dax]

The snow that was supposed to come Thursday night finally got here last night. Estimating by just looking outside, there's probably a good 6 inches of snow on the ground. I'll probably wonder outside and take a good look at some point.

[AndreasJ]

Lots of snow, the temperature's about -15oC.

Was -22oC in the morning and the sky's clear, so the night may get seriously cold yet.

[danscope]

-15 °C sounds a bit chilly. And do you get any daylight for a while?

Got 19 ° f and quite grey. Still, there isn't any snow to move.
One day closer to golf season. :)

Best regards,
Dan

[AndreasJ]

I'm a long way south of the polar circle, so we get plenty of daylight (about 8h now I think?).

[BigDon]

I watched it until it went behind the Coastal Mountains. I can only assume it was doused in the Pacific Ocean.

Hey Abe! I saw that too! It did fall into the water. I'd say about ten miles past the Farallons.

Nothing unusual, (for Pacifica), has washed ashore yet though.

[chrissy]

Snow back again, a few inches overnight. Sunshine now so it should clear I hope.

We had the same, I watched it fall last night and there is more to come I believe..:( there is a lot of ice patches around and I nearly got caught out with a big one, like someone else had done earlier on in the same patch, there was mud and grass all over the road. :( No grit on that route, so when I was coming back home later I decided to take the longer and safer route.

[Tobin Dax]

Hey Abe! I saw that too! It did fall into the water. I'd say about ten miles past the Farallons.

Nothing unusual, (for Pacifica), has washed ashore yet though.

I recently heard a colleague say that they had watched the sun rise over the ocean while on vacation in Florida. Being from the left coast, that comment didn't sit well with me for a few seconds.

[Spoons]

Beautiful day today!

Currently 28 degrees C.

SW winds at a speed of 13km/h.

Temp of my vodka & energy drink: 5 degrees C.

Life is good.

[AndreasJ]

Brilliant sunlight and a balmy ~-15ºC.

[Gigabyte]

10° f
6 inches of snow, or as we like to call it, 6 inches of global warming

clear, beautiful full moon just set, everything is white and glowing, sun coming up, it's like a dream

except if you go outside your eyeballs freeze

[tdvance]

Well, in NYC, I hear it hails taxis, but around here, the weather is "impatient drivers in snow" at the moment.

[SeanF]

I recently heard a colleague say that they had watched the sun rise over the ocean while on vacation in Florida. Being from the left coast, that comment didn't sit well with me for a few seconds.
I once saw the full moon, low on the northern horizon, at about noon local time. :)

[Argos]

All-time rainfall record established down here.

[Gigabyte]

I can see why. (http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/shemjetstream_model.html)

[Argos]

Great link. Thanks! :-)

Edit: Actually, it is due to a phenomenon called "the Bolivia high", a High Pressure area that parks over Bolivia in Summer, and conveys the Amazon humidity to the southern parts of S. America. Meteorologists down here blame it on atypical El Nino´s effect.

[Gigabyte]

That high is why the jet stream behaves like it does in your area.

[Argos]

They are, in fact, independent phenomena.

[Gigabyte]

That seems to be a matter of debate. :D

[Argos]

No debate. The current rainfall down here is not due to JS-generated cold fronts. The Bolivia High coupled with a cyclonic vortex in the Atlantinc causes upper layer winds to follow a divergent flow in my location, which enables air uplifting. The uplifting in a moist-saturated atmosphere causes rainfall. The Jet Stream is not responsible this time.

[Gigabyte]

If you look at a radar
http://www.intellicast.com/Global/Satellite/infrared.aspx?location=ARSE0041&animate=true
and compare it with the jet stream, you can see exactly what is happening.
http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/shemjetstream_model.html

It's kinda cool.

[rommel543]

It was -28c (-35c with the wind chill) when I woke up this morning. Suppose to warm up over the week to around -15c, but we're also suppose to get more snow.

[Argos]

The Jet Stream is positioned south of the 40´s right now, so it´s not influencing events here. The heavy precipitation areas you see in Argentina are also a result of the Bolivia High.

The BH can be easily seen in that image [fist link]. See the counter-clockwise motion centered in southern Bolivia [it´s location varies]. It brings the hot air from the Amazon to higher latitudes.

The Bolivia high blocks the advance of the Jet stream to lower latitudes.

[Argos]

I´m amazed to see snow down to the Gulf (http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/SnowDepth.html) shores. Pretty rare, isn´t it?

[Gigabyte]

The Jet Stream is positioned south of the 40´s right now, so it´s not influencing events here.

The Bolivia high blocks the advance of the Jet stream to lower latitudes.

You want to argue about it? :D

[BigDon]

Why don't you two get a thread?

[Gigabyte]

Oh snap!

[Gigabyte]

40 degress F

snow melting

sunny and still

a beautiful day actually

[danscope]

Got 17 ° f and plunging. I just saw Daffy Duck walk by with ear muffs on...
and a scarf.
And God bless our ground hog .

[Spoons]

We've currently got a beautiful circular rainbow around the sun. It's 2:12pm locally, I'm about 50km south of Perth CBD.
It's 27 degrees C.

[Gigabyte]

It's 27 degrees here too! Fahrenheit.

[chrissy]

5C Thick fog and some rain, not a nice day. :(

[Fazor]

We're supposedly in the path of this 'monster storm' that's coming tomorrow morning, and then throughout the day until Saturday. They've been saying 10 inches of snow, but my boss got an alert e-mail from the national weather service (her second job is with her local township, and the report is for the aid of the road crews).

Looking at the NWS stuff, it looks more like 2 inches. But we could be reading it wrong, as it was a massive e-mail with all sorts of charts and graphs and such, and not all of it was easy to understand. Guess we'll see.

[ABR.]

Rain and an earthquake here in Northern California.