How's The Weather By You?

8 degrees this morning...the creek is completely frozen over, first time ever. Four of the cats were using it for a skating rink..I was hoping none would fall through the ice...wasn't up for a rescue on ice in this weather. I stayed out for a while doing some chores and actually, it didn't feel as cold as when it was in the 20's yesterday...no wind blowing. I kicked the chickens and the shed cat out this morning and they seemed to enjoy the sunshine.

TWH..you were a bit colder than we were here today.
 

rkunsaw said:
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LOL...I'm sure their hands were keeping warm wrapped in all that money. This creek looks kinda like mine, only not frozen like mine.
 
Pappy said:
A wee bit chilly in old Palm Bay this morning.....38 degrees at 6 am.
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Love Canadians, but they will go in the water when we're just down for an adult spring break...in jackets!:)

Just spoke to my friend in Del Ray Beach (for Aussies, that's south Florida and very close to Miami) and she was trying to find a jacket to walk her dog. Said it had been so long since she needed one...but it's hard to rack up a whole bunch of sympathy for you Floridians.:friendly_wink: Problem is, when you guys get cold we pay a bundle for citrus, as has been posted before.
 
Ozarkgal said:
8 degrees this morning...the creek is completely frozen over, first time ever. Four of the cats were using it for a skating rink..I was hoping none would fall through the ice...wasn't up for a rescue on ice in this weather. I stayed out for a while doing some chores and actually, it didn't feel as cold as when it was in the 20's yesterday...no wind blowing. I kicked the chickens and the shed cat out this morning and they seemed to enjoy the sunshine.

TWH..you were a bit colder than we were here today.
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About the same here, OG. No precipitation, but the temps delayed schools today for 2 hrs because of those who ride the bus. Thank goodness the wind isn't blowing here so you don't notice it so much. The entire country seems to be affected to some degree. or less degrees I should say. I just feel so bad for those who have really been hard hit, so no complaints here.
 
It's been pretty cold here, minus 10 degrees the night before last. Today it warmed up to 40ish, but with the breeze and clouds, it didn't seem that warm on our walk. The snow is starting to melt, got around 4 inches total this week. TWHRider, hope the horses are doing okay in that cold weather. Did you have any issues with pipes freezing in your home?
 
I generally prefer the cooler weather to the extreme heat we sometimes get......
But the weather in the US is just too much.....:cold:
I feel very sorry for you guys.....I just can't imagine being in such freezing temperatures.....:awman:
 
muckferret said:
First decent rain in 5 months here in central Queensland Australia lets hope the drought has broken folks, grass that once looked dead has leapt back to life yipee:woohoo1:
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Grand news Sir Duke, seems to have brought you back life too.
Not long now and you'll need to chase the spiders and snakes out of that trusty war steed of a ride-on mower again.

Hope Max got some of it, it's been a long time between drinks for him too.
 
Well that poster is just plain fascinating. To me anyway. Did you send the link to Tim Flannery*? (*High priest of the OZ chapter of the Church of Global Warming.)

When you shrink that down and look at it as a colour pattern it's remarkably uniform over the century. If anything there seems a slight increase in rainfall colour in recent decades as opposed to the droughts we're warned of.
But what shouldn't be overlooked is the amount of pale blue throughout all those images. That indicates areas where the rainfall was average. And still is. For here.

".... a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains." So what's new Mr Flannery?
 
At last; the sun is trying to shine; and the wind has dropped. I do hope those in SW England are beginning to recover, and there seems to be hope for eastern US and Canada too. BBC news led on the US here last night too; not much going on in the UK at the moment!
 
Go to the stratosphere and this is what your get: http://earth.nullschool.net/#current...6.69,80.09,275

Interesting, isn't it?
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Riveting really! Can't stop playing with that now. Turning the globe around reveals dead boring in the SH and that fantastic 'vortex' in the NH folks... play with it a little. Best 'toy' in a while.

So DB, what winds we get down here is just the minor 'ripples' made by the high speed jet stream ones ??? (Be nice to dummies please.)

To find the 'magic' :
Click Earth: Then the different hPa levels in the Height row... 1000 - 850 - etc and watch wind pattern change the higher it gets.
Click Earth to clear the box from the screen after each change.

The Scale line is interactive, the cursor over each colour shows the wind speed the colour represents.

Enjoy.

Never too old for learnin' and luvvin' it.
 
It is above freezing now 33. Pipe is still frozen in the back yard. Turn the water on the other night, but it froze anyway. Haven't done it for years, so I guess I didn't turn it on hard enough. May need a plummer later. That should prove interesting because there is only 1 in our area. I have a feeling he will be very busy soon. It is suppose to be the mid 60's by Saturday. Hope the rest of you are warm, dry, or cool.
 
Judi, if you're anything like me you'll just wait until it thaws from the temperature rise. If it's just an outside faucet hopefully it isn't a major thing, but if it leads to the house plumbing then yes, you should probably try to grab that plumber as he drives by.

Good luck with it.

Phil
(No shower for 4 days, no friends for 2)
 
Overcast in low sixties. They actually dared mention rain on the radio but that's just silly . . .
 

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