Spring is springing over here. First day where I felt the sun really caress my skin with it's glorious warmth and goodness.
What's it like where you are?
Pics very welcome.
Wrap up warm or stay cool, whatever applies.
Definitely spring here and the cherry trees are looking great.
Still some snow here, but it'll be gone soon and then I hope we're done with winter. The trees are budding and some of the early flowers (Crocus and snowdrop) have bloomed.
I had my first ocean dip of the year yesterday on a remote-ish beach where we went with my parents and my sister and her kids. It was actually a pretty warm day, about 8 degrees Celsius and very nice sun. We had coffee, a bonfire and grilled some burgers and hotdogs. The water was cold, but the dip was actually very refreshing and pleasant.
It's getting a little spring-y but there's still snow on the ground and more coming in a couple days.
Then we usually have one last blizzard in May.
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Yesterday. Looks like the whole Bank Holiday weekend will be the same. Temperature is not high so it can be a little bit chilly but we're warming up 8)
No snow left here but it can still get below freezing in the early morning hours. It'll be another 3 to 4 weeks before I can put my plants outside.
Quite a bit of snow here still and was snowing a couple of days ago. Seems a cold spring so far. My guess is it'll flip around towards the end of the month and get nice and toasty for early may.
Yo, 84 degrees (29 C) is way too fucking hot for April. Whoever is in charge of weather deployment in my region needs a stern talking to from management. Don't make me come up there.
Quote from: Janszoon on Apr 12, 2023, 09:54 PMYo, 84 degrees (29 C) is way too fucking hot for April. Whoever is in charge of weather deployment in my region needs a stern talking to from management. Don't make me come up there.
Tell me about it, we've got 82 up here in Wisconsin. Seems like it's trying to make up for the last big 10 inch snow dump and going way too far in the other direction, haha.
Quote from: Janszoon on Apr 12, 2023, 09:54 PMYo, 84 degrees (29 C) is way too fucking hot for April. Whoever is in charge of weather deployment in my region needs a stern talking to from management. Don't make me come up there.
Holy shit. Let's trade places.
Norway is aaaight, but what I'd really like is to be stuck on some tropical island for a year. With my fam, of course.
Was pretty hot today. Cool evening, can hear a party going on in the street next to me so it is feeling summery now.
Trance music and girls screaming and cheering.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Apr 12, 2023, 10:20 PMTell me about it, we've got 82 up here in Wisconsin. Seems like it's trying to make up for the last big 10 inch snow dump and going way too far in the other direction, haha.
Since speaking to my friend who lives in Madison it seems that Wisconsin gets extremes of weather. Very, very hot and very, very cold. I dunno why but it surprised me.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 21, 2023, 02:03 AMSince speaking to my friend who lives in Madison it seems that Wisconsin gets extremes of weather. Very, very hot and very, very cold. I dunno why but it surprised me.
It's certainly been the case for a while. It's also very unpredictable; I can remember two times when it snowed here in early May, and this year we had 2 days in the 80s followed immediately by a 10 inch snowfall.
Our summers haven't been that bad lately heat wise. One crazy weather event we had was a week or two of almost non-stop rain back in the summer of 2018.
When you look back on it like that Madison weather really does feel kind of chaotic, haha.
Haven't had any proper snow for about five years now.
I was watching tutorials on YouTube on how to build an igloo and I'd like to give it a try now but we've had no fucking snow.
Maybe this coming winter.
Quote from: Psy-Fi on Apr 09, 2023, 01:13 PMNo snow left here but it can still get below freezing in the early morning hours. It'll be another 3 to 4 weeks before I can put my plants outside.
What plants are you planting this time around? I should make a gardening thread. So I was premature and started our garden a tad bit early and ended up dying on us because we didn't have a proper set up for outside yet to transplant our seedlings to.
Quote from: DJChameleon on May 21, 2023, 02:23 AMWhat plants are you planting this time around? I should make a gardening thread. So I was premature and started our garden a tad bit early and ended up dying on us because we didn't have a proper set up for outside yet to transplant our seedlings to.
I have tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, cannabis, and a wide variety of flowers. The tomatoes, peppers, and cannabis were started indoors at the beginning of April. I wait until mid-may to the beginning of June to plant my cucumber and flower seeds. I live in zone 6 on the U.S. growing zone map.
Quote from: Psy-Fi on May 21, 2023, 01:24 PMI have tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, cannabis, and a wide variety of flowers. The tomatoes, peppers, and cannabis were started indoors at the beginning of April. I wait until mid-may to the beginning of June to plant my cucumber and flower seeds. I live in zone 6 on the U.S. growing zone map.
I'm in Zone 6 as well and we started ours indoors at the end of April but we didn't follow through and transfer them in time or move them to a better area and they started to die off in the 36 plant seeder thing we had them in. They were placed under an artificial light source and we watered them but they passed away. So we are starting from scratch again but waiting until we have mini pots to transfer them to and all to build up our fence that's going to be around our raised bed. I mentioned the flowers we planted in the other thread in case you were curious.
Anyone here affected by the Canadian wildfires? Whatever you do, stay SAFE and don't go outside other than to take some pics of the smoke and shit for this thread.
@DJChameleon @jadis @Mrs. Waffles @Janszoon I think you lot are all in or around places not too far from Canada.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jun 07, 2023, 07:25 PMAnyone here affected by the Canadian wildfires? Whatever you do, stay SAFE and don't go outside other than to take some pics of the smoke and shit for this thread.
@DJChameleon @jadis @Mrs. Waffles @Janszoon I think you lot are all in or around places not too far from Canada.
I was driving through Connecticut, NYC, and New Jersey yesterday and the skies were brown and you could smell the smoke. Crazy shit!
Quote from: Janszoon on Jun 07, 2023, 07:30 PMI was driving through Connecticut, NYC, and New Jersey yesterday and the skies were brown and you could smell the smoke. Crazy shit!
It looks mad. I have a friend who lives in New York, she just took a pic from her office and she said the street lights have came on because it is so dark.
Being serious about pics BTW if anyone has any.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jun 07, 2023, 07:25 PMAnyone here affected by the Canadian wildfires? Whatever you do, stay SAFE and don't go outside other than to take some pics of the smoke and shit for this thread.
@DJChameleon @jadis @Mrs. Waffles @Janszoon I think you lot are all in or around places not too far from Canada.
I'm in a different corner of the globe these days but my mom mentioned today on whatsapp that the air in Montreal is awful
Not seeing any visible smoke where I am, but I'm heading home from work right now and I can definitely smell and feel it in the air.
And don't worry about me, I almost never leave the house even when not in a weather emergency, lol.
Quote from: Janszoon on Jun 07, 2023, 07:30 PMI was driving through Connecticut, NYC, and New Jersey yesterday and the skies were brown and you could smell the smoke. Crazy shit!
Im in Connecticut, it's grey sky here
There's almost no coverage of these Canadian fires here. Sounds crazy, though.
I took one picture and every time I went outside I made sure to mask up. It's funny how we used to put on masks before entering a building and now I was putting on my mask after exiting the building.
I would take it off once I'm inside a place.
One morning when I went for a walk I thought it would be okay to walk mask less because it didn't look that bad but my nose was irritated so I went back to wearing my mask again for the rest of the 20 min walk.
There were times when it looked like a scene straight out of MadMax.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Jun 08, 2023, 07:42 PMI took one picture and every time I went outside I made sure to mask up. It's funny how we used to put on masks before entering a building and now I was putting on my mask after exiting the building.
I would take it off once I'm inside a place.
One morning when I went for a walk I thought it would be okay to walk mask less because it didn't look that bad but my nose was irritated so I went back to wearing my mask again for the rest of the 20 min walk.
There were times when it looked like a scene straight out of MadMax.
I was thinking the same thing about the masks! :laughing:
I walked to the grocery store this morning and wore a mask because the air quality was apparently "hazardous". It isn't too apocalyptic looking here, but it is noticeably hazy and you can smell the smoke.
I can't take credit for the baseball stadium pictures but the last one I link was mines.
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Is it better today or worse?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jun 08, 2023, 10:03 PMIs it better today or worse?
Where I am (south of DJ I believe) it's worse today than yesterday.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jun 08, 2023, 10:03 PMIs it better today or worse?
It is better for me today but like Jans said I'm north of where he is. I wad able to walk outside without needing a mask and the smell is gone.
Well because of this whole fiasco I now know about a website called IQAir.
Just drop in your city and you get the air quality number. So Tuesday at its worse the air quality was 176 and this morning when I went for my walk it was 4. Huge improvement! This weekend it's going up to 50 but that's no biggie.
It did get coverage right after my previous post.
https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/urix/farlig-luft-1.16437103?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The pictures are interesting. Some of them are kinda post-apocalyptic.
Me and the lads this evening:
@Marie Monday @FETCHER.https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/29/weather-latest-date-heatwave-could-return-with-40c-temperatures-19035683/
:'(
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 03, 2023, 08:32 PM@Marie Monday @FETCHER.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/29/weather-latest-date-heatwave-could-return-with-40c-temperatures-19035683/
:'(
It's so damn humid, hopefully if it comes back it's drier heat. The last few weeks have been unbearable.
Oh god please not 40 degrees
People should be very concerned if they aren't already.
40c is absolutely outrageous for here.
I saw some Tory on Twitter say it is just a few days of sunshine and alarmist crap because "come December it'll be freezing" and I wanted to smash my phone to pieces.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 05, 2023, 10:08 PMPeople should be very concerned if they aren't already.
40c is absolutely outrageous for here.
I saw some Tory on Twitter say it is just a few days of sunshine and alarmist crap because "come December it'll be freezing" and I wanted to smash my phone to pieces.
It's a mere 33C here.
14C and rain here currently.
Forecast predicts up to 16 tomorrow, so that's good.
Nine week heatwave coming, apparently:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/britain-set-to-bask-in-blistering-nine-week-heatwave-with-blazing-hot-sunshine-until-late-september/ar-AA1dTSlg?cvid=8366c086df7a4221a9faab55110e086a&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6
QuoteBritain is warming up for a late summer scorcher with the deadly Cerberus heatwave threatening to flick a tail of fire across the nation.
The killer Saharan heat surge, named after the terrifying mythological monster guarding the gates to Hell, is set to turn its gaze towards the UK in the coming weeks.
Alarm bells have sounded for rocketing temperatures next month to kick start a freak two-month autumn heatwave.
But this weekend, as 45C blazing sunshine melts tourists on the Continent, wind and rain is dampening spirits at home.
The miserable UK weather is expected to continue through the rest of this month before thermometers goes stratospheric.
For goodness sake.
everyone here I know in other states has been saying its hot outside, it's hot here but nothing wild
Quote from: Mindy on Jul 15, 2023, 05:24 PMeveryone here I know in other states has been saying its hot outside, it's hot here but nothing wild
I feel like the wild part is how much sooner it happened. Yes people expect heat during the summer but these temperatures usually happen the last two weeks of July and first two weeks of August. They started up way earlier than they normally do.
Also the extreme rainfall and flooding that keeps occuring.
Climate change deniers are really starting to annoy me. It's not so much that they're sceptical or don't believe there is a problem, it's more to do with their reasoning and refusal to accept hard evidence.
There are plenty who think it's fine because it's nice and cool in the UK now or it will be cold in winter. "Spain/Turkey/Greece are hot, so what?" They simply do not understand what the problem is. They think it's all a big plot by the mainstream media and we're being lied to.
Guys if you're really suffering in the heat, you can put your feet in a bowl or bucket of cold water. It really works! I did it when we hit 40c last summer. It was a relief.
It can be difficult to do it right though so remember to post pics if you do it and I can let you know if it's good or not. :)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 17, 2023, 08:46 PMClimate change deniers are really starting to annoy me. It's not so much that they're sceptical or don't believe there is a problem, it's more to do with their reasoning and refusal to accept hard evidence.
There are plenty who think it's fine because it's nice and cool in the UK now or it will be cold in winter. "Spain/Turkey/Greece are hot, so what?" They simply do not understand what the problem is. They think it's all a big plot by the mainstream media and we're being lied to.
I think a huge PR mistake that has been made by environmentalists over the years (and I'm one of them) has been to talk in terms of "saving the planet". Most people are selfish and shallow, so they don't care about saving things that they think don't directly involve them. The fact is that the Earth doesn't give a fuck. It will continue to exist without us. Addressing environmental issues is about
saving ourselves. Maybe if these denialist dipshits had gotten that message earlier, their sense of self-preservation would have gotten them on board with trying to fix it.
Very good point fully agree.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 17, 2023, 08:49 PMGuys if you're really suffering in the heat, you can put your feet in a bowl or bucket of cold water. It really works! I did it when we hit 40c last summer. It was a relief.
It can be difficult to do it right though so remember to post pics if you do it and I can let you know if it's good or not. :)
I see what you're doing, asking for
footage like you're Quentin Tarantino.
You hornay for feet!!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terrifying-heat-maps-show-52c-30494531
QuoteTerrifying heat maps show 52C Europe inferno - when will it hit UK?
With records for hottest temperatures recorded in Europe set to be broken within days due to Cerberus heatwave, forecasters and meteorologists are divided on how it'll impact the UK weather forecast
QuoteThe expert added it is unlikely to get significantly warmer in August in the UK. Temperatures typically average at around 20C in the country in August, a figure eclipsed by the monster 50C largely expected across Europe. Santé Publique France (SPF the French public health agency) estimated that heat is responsible for between 1,000 and 7,000 deaths annually, though this figure may rise in 2023 due to largely unprecented conditions.
So according to this, we won't sizzle in our Kingdom but southern Europe is going to suffer. It's already reached 47c in Spain during this heatwave. 50c is concerning.
It's much colder here now, during our vacation, than it was in June. It's slightly annoying. Couldn't we at least get some of that southern european heat up here?
Thanks a lot, nature.
The weather be really weird right now in the UK. Nothing that a good cup of tea hasn't solved . 8)
Quote from: Thelonious Monkey on Jul 31, 2023, 03:31 AMThe weather be really weird right now in the UK. Nothing that a good cup of tea hasn't solved . 8)
August is supposed to be hot. July has been fucking great imo.
Do you remember when it was 40c for a couple of days last summer? I never want to experience that again.
Well hopefully that was it for the hot and sticky weather. Our glorious Kingdom has been suffering for the past week or so with a September heatwave.
Tomorrow is supposed to be the first day the temperatures drop and it becomes cooler.
Thank you @Jesus 🙏
Uh... so... I just realized I live in an actual house with a driveway now. And fall is coming. Well crud.
Wish me luck friends.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Sep 24, 2023, 11:16 PMUh... so... I just realized I live in an actual house with a driveway now. And fall is coming. Well crud.
Wish me luck friends.
Invest in a snow blower thank me later.
Oh you meant with clearing the leaves in fall time well leaf blower works too. Don't use a rake.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Sep 25, 2023, 12:08 AMInvest in a snow blower thank me later.
Oh you meant with clearing the leaves in fall time well leaf blower works too. Don't use a rake.
Y'know, I'd been living in my previous apartment, never having to think about it for so long that I forgot leaf blowers are a thing lmao. And we do have one, I literally pass by the box every time I tidy the garage and I never took note of what that box was for, lol.
Snow, well, that's a bridge I'll cross when I come to it.
Thank you for the advice! I'll get the hang of this whole full time homemaker thing in due time.
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first day here where it's cold
It's been cold here as well. We've had snow for a while, but it's been wet and sloppy.
Now the temperature is a little below zero and the ice on our porch stays put.
Bizarrely (or perhaps not, Wisconsin weather is always wild lol) we've been having sunny 60 degree weather for the past couple days. Today is a high of 63 and it's been absolutely lovely.
Knowing this place for the past 34 years I'm sure I'll wake up to a white yard very shortly.
Here it's been wet. Then we got some snow. It rained away. We got more snow. It rained away. Now we're just getting fresh snow again this evening.
Opening the door for a quick peek, this is what it looks like.
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That's looking at our garage where my little recording studio is.
Was snowing most of the day here as well. Time for layers, leggings and warm tights.
I normally chauffeur the mister on weekends, but I'm very bad at driving in the snow so today he drove us all over town for our errands. :love:
We currently have rain here and I'm sad. About five hours north and to the west they have snow but we don't.
been cold here in the mornings, frost on the windows of my car.
I bought sweatpants though so walking around the block here isn't that bad with a beanie and hoodie on.
The coldest it got here last year was -1 below zero and it was so cold the power went out.
i hope its a mild winter and I can still get to the park for some days
Quote from: Mindy on Jan 04, 2024, 03:19 AM
I don't know if New Yorkers like snow, but it does make the city look pretty.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jan 04, 2024, 08:23 AMI don't know if New Yorkers like snow, but it does make the city look pretty.
I bet it'll just be rain this weekend, if we get like 5 inches they think it's the end of the world :laughing:
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Looks like Im getting a few inches, the news hyping this up like it's feet of snow ::)
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Looks like Im getting a few inches, the news hyping this up like it's feet of snow ::)
According to that map, I'm getting 6 inches ayoooo.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Jan 04, 2024, 08:28 PMAccording to that map, I'm getting 6 inches ayoooo.
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totals changed ::)
https://www.city-data.com/forum/connecticut/3446320-connecticut-weather-discussion-4-a-28.html
Quote from: DJChameleon on Jan 04, 2024, 08:28 PMAccording to that map, I'm getting 6 inches ayoooo.
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^Glad you're getting some 🙂
It's been quite cold here in addition to all the snow with temperatures hovering around -11/-12 degrees. I think that's 10-12 fahrenheit.
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^ lol at Kenneth Williams: good one, jimmy jazz !
I can't imagine those neg temperatures, guybrush. Over Christmas in UK, I was waiting at a train station in a windy 8°C, wondering which would arrive first: my train, or my death from exposure.
Sorry for the problems you Northern Latitude guys are putting up with, but where I live now is right near the Tropic of Cancer, so appropriate clothes yesterday were shorts and T-shirt, so as not to overheat in the 30°C temp at midday.
Welp, we're getting a snowstorm starting tonight and continuing into tomorrow night. Mr. W took some time off to visit his friends down in Chicago, he was supposed to drive back tomorrow. We texted a bit this morning; the weather is supposed to clear up around 3am Wednesday morning and he's not scheduled for work until 8am that morning, so hopefully he can squeeze through that window and get back up here. I guess it wouldn't be an upper midwest winter without something like this.
^ I hope he gets back ok and is watching the weather advice for his route, Mrs.Waffles.
I love that we got 14 inches of snow. I went outside to make a snow angel. I was so giddy for the snow.
The snow is on borrowed time here now. Today is noticeably warmer. It's only -6 out and expected to reach -1, so that's like 10 degrees up from yesterday. Tomorrow it should hit positive 1 so then it'll start melting.
A spooky prospect when there's so much snow around. I just hope the weight of the wet snow doesn't break anything
Quote from: Guybrush on Jan 10, 2024, 08:14 AMThe snow is on borrowed time here now. Today is noticeably warmer. It's only -6 out and expected to reach -1, so that's like 10 degrees up from yesterday. Tomorrow it should hit positive 1 so then it'll start melting.
A spooky prospect when there's so much snow around. I just hope the weight of the wet snow doesn't break anything
Yeah you have to be careful with that.
So we had 14 inches of snow and the very next day it warmed up so much and decided to rain so it cleared away a large chunk of the snow that had fallen over the weekend.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Jan 14, 2024, 11:29 AMYeah you have to be careful with that.
So we had 14 inches of snow and the very next day it warmed up so much and decided to rain so it cleared away a large chunk of the snow that had fallen over the weekend.
I thought we were getting a warm spell now, but seems it was just one day and it didn't put much of a dent in the snow. At least not up where we live.
Now it seems like it's gonna be cold until Saturday. I won't complain, though. It's become an amazing winter.
Cold today.
We're hovering around freezing.
Going in the shed later to train
@Guybrush, I arrive dressed in gloves and bensie and hoodies. By the time I finish I am wearing a t shirt, shorts and the mirror is covered completely in condensation.
The temperature goes up by about five degrees.
It's really cold here at the moment. It's been between -2 and -4 celsius for the last couple of days. I don't mind the cold too much. It has made it harder for my runs but I have been going to the local train station. I run the streets there because it's gritted and I'm terrified I fall 😅.
The weather has been absolutely mental the past few weeks. Just 60mph gale force winds and all the bloody rain 😡. Can't even walk to the shops without being blown all the way to the Isle of Skye.
On the bright side the days are getting lighter and shorter. I love spring and love summer even more. I can't wait for blue sky's and green countryside. I love my country in summer. It's like a beautiful fever dream.
It's been snowing here again. It's cute, but.. gimme spring!! Gimme summer!! I want sun 🌞
Quote from: Guybrush on Feb 07, 2024, 09:23 AMIt's been snowing here again. It's cute, but.. gimme spring!! Gimme summer!! I want sun 🌞
We finally got some sunny days but still kind of cold. It was cloudy skies for a while but I'm ready for spring and summer too.
Quote from: Mindy on Feb 07, 2024, 09:28 AMWe finally got some sunny days but still kind of cold. It was cloudy skies for a while but I'm ready for spring and summer too.
I'm not ready for spring yet. I want one big last snowfall.