Weather Where You Are

[Auntie Blackbeard]

Freezing yesserday , tea shoit weffer taday . Winter be ovarr .

ARRRGH!
YARRRRRR !

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

Freezing yesserday , tea shoit weffer taday . Winter be ovarr .

ARRRGH!
YARRRRRR !

Saym hear.

[black bart]

It's trying to get all Spring like but it's struggling a bit.

[Auntie Blackbeard]

Yarrr Barffollymule , verily , thee cundishuns ere be loikewoise .

[Ravi Oli]

I feel Winter in me bones. 18*C inside this morning! Easter is the last long weekend of [a wet] summer here so hope those April showers stay away. I'm sure the days have gotten an hour or so shorter this week.

[black bart]

Yarrr Barffollymule , verily , thee cundishuns ere be loikewoise .

Well it would ye daft bint...ye be sittin in thee Crows Nest direktlee above me!!!!

[Roland Deschain]

The weather has been especially nice these past couple of weeks, with some decent warmth too. I was even working in the garden in just a t-shirt (no, nothing else on) at the weekend.

[Roy Hunter]

Snow. Not real snow, not 8,000 feet up in the Rockies snow. Not six feet of dense white mush. Pathetic snow, rubbish snow. "Oh look! It's snowing... no, it's stopped now..." That kind of snow.

Nevertheless, I am expecting to have to go and rescue Mrs. H. from a railway station somewhere between here and Glasgow later. Train cancelled because the driver has a cold nose. The signallers went off to get some hot soup. The ticket inspector fancied a wee nap.

I tell you, come the revolution I'm gonna be hanging some railway managers' bodies on lampposts. The people will cheer, but the council will tell me to cut them down because they're a health and safety hazard in this bad weather.

[Roland Deschain]

That about sums it up, Roy. Let me help add to the bodycount by stringing up some of their contemporaries down south. Wouldn't want to show us softie shandy-drinking southerners up, would I?

We've had some lovely weather just north of London in the past few weeks, which has facilitated much in the way of outdoor activity, but I learnt yesterday that there is going to be a hosepipe ban from Thursday. If you'll excuse the pun, it never rains, but pours. Then, just a little while ago, it promptly started to rain very lightly, which was immediately followed by tiny little hailstones. This all took place in only around 10 minutes, so it was in the same vein as Roy's snow ordeal (ie - pathetic). Weather is weird.

[TwistedSister]

We had summer like weather all of March until the first day of Spring. We had several freeze warnings at night since then and temps are back to where they should have been in March. Crazy stuff.
I blame Bart. Fish head stew vapors are destroying the Ozone layer or something like that.

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

I'm hoping to attend a seminar on Thursday, on "Abrupt Catastrophic Climate Change". A subject I remember discussing in college in the late 1970's. Feedback loops, don't you know. Not part of the more popular GW models. Should be interesting.

More tornadoes, down in Warlord's territory this time. Must be, what, the third or fourth major outbreak this year? Lemmesee, tornado season starts in June or July, right?

:fsm_significantly_concerned:

[Roy Hunter]

We are into our third? fourth? consecutive year of hard winter, summer instead of spring, monsoon / typhoon season instead of summer, another summer instead of autumn, and back to a hard winter. The pattern is less conclusive the further back you go, but if you were to use statistical regression on it I am fairly confident you would find the pattern is changing, and a projection would show it to be taking on a stronger pattern (although with a lower degree of certainty, obviously). So what, I hear you cry?

Well, it's killing the flowers: they appear too soon, they get frost damaged, the monsoon blows them away. It is damaging the larger more mature trees: they are not equipped to deal with the winds in high summer when they have leaves (think about it - it's like the difference between having sails on your boat or no sails on your boat), so many mature trees are being damaged or uprooted by the wind. It is washing away topsoil and eroding the coastline to a greater extent than it has done in living memory.

I think the Gulf Stream is definitely moving. All the warm water from the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribbean is no longer going to be flowing northwards past my bedroom window, and we are going to be reminded in a quite unpleasant fashion that we are on the same latitude as Moscow. Pass the wodka, comrade...

[DavidH]

Yup. And it's interesting that Twisty's got the same pattern. March here was mild, then very warm. Today it's sleet, strong wind, 3°C/ 37½°F.

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

Exactly, Roy - one of the things we discussed back in the last century was the potential for an abrupt shutdown of the gulfstream, and the consequences for western Yerp. Not pleasant at all. My area, on the other hand, is likely to see the opposite effect. Less snow, milder winters, warmer summers.

Oh, and more frequent and more powerful hurricanes.

But I'm sure it's all just a big conspiracy.

[pieces o'nine]

^, ^^, ^^^, and the almost total lack of snow in these here parts this winter (topped now by mysterious fires on the crispy prairie) is iron-clad proof that Climate Change is just a liberal lie.