The weather where you are NOW!

Great Pictures, thanks.

Andy,

I'm still trying to get this right... You mean right here? This exact spot? Doesn't this overlap with that other thread about small spaces?

Of course it does! But who cares? Lets have a party!!

Also, when you say NOW, do you mean "now" now or do you mean "now" back when you first started the thread?

The weather over Christmas could have been much worse, but it so "Grey" - grey Sky, grey land, grey everything.

We have had frost all the time now for over 10 days, with nothing above -2°C, sometimes down to -8 or 9. The trees looked good with their "Grey Hair" of frost on every branch and twig, but it was not worth photographing as no sun ever got through the thick clouds, dismal!

We actually got about 0.5cm of snow on Christmas day, which left the roads clear for driving etc., but again looked very good, or it would have if the Sun had ever managed to break through.......I am sure that Rudolf was needed this year for Sleigh guidance late on the 24th...... Or does Santa have Radar now?

We are seeing (for us) almost record high pressure for over a week, 103.6 KP right now still, which means that we might start getting smog collecting over us and not being moved on if the pressure does not drop soon.....then we are not allowed to drive our cars as much as we might wish!!!

My Wife and I are off to Dublin, Ireland for a week on Saturday, to take on our Silver Wedding (31/12/07) the Honeymoon that we had no time for then.....so do not fight and I will see(?) you all when I get back......

Hi Andy.

Here in the middle of England it is slightly overcast but warm 9C today.

Spencer.

OK. I'll play along... It was about 48° F for the day, and clear. 48° is when your legs start getting cold, and you need to start wearing something under your blue-jeans.

48° is when your friends stop showing up at Starbucks or go inside even though they're smokers.

Sorry I don't know what the temperature is NOW, but I'm guessing about 44° F. That's as good as it gets in the Silicon Valley. Maybe 20° F on the worst of winters.

Hi vermin.

You are just like that other vermin that runs accross by living room floor some days, irritating!!!!!!!!!!

But we could not do without you. Here in the middle of England today it is 11C, or for you vermin 46F.

Spencer.

Hi, Spencer,

I make 11°C = 51.8°F ... or was that a special conversion for Vermin ?

John

Hi JohnDG.

Sorry about that, but I have just got out of bed and my brain needs it's coffee before it works properly!

You are right, 11C = 51.8F. Incidently, this is very warm for this time of the year over here.

Spencer.

OK. I'll be straight with you guys... Over the last several weeks, daytime temperatures have been ranging between 55° F (12.78 C° or 285.93° K) to about 44° F (6.67°C or 279.82° K).

Of course, nighttime temperatures have been in the high 30°s F (> 2.2° C or 275.37° K).

On "very" rare occasions does it get below 32° F (0° C or 273.15 K). When this happens, the skies are clear, it doesn't rain, and any small puddle of water in a parking lot becomes an insurance company's worst nightmare!

Don't know whether this is related to global warming or not, but here our rainy season is the winter. So far, very little rain!!!

Happy anniversary! How nice that you celebrate it on my birthday... Hope y'all enjoy(ed) Dublin!

Many thanks for your good wishes.

We are often asked why on that date?

The Flip answers are that it gave us one years back tax cash in the hand and that there is always a party somewhere!!

The real answer is that my wife was very ill that year and was in and out of hospital about 10 times.....it was the first date that she managed to be on her feet for!!! She had just spent Christmas in the hospital.....

Luckily for us the reason for such problems is alive and well and called Sarah!! Who will be 25 next year!!!

WAY cool - please send Ms Sarah my wishes for a happy birthday - can't be too far past mine, I reckon! Although nowhere NEAR as many of 'em...

I get asked about the date a lot too - I tell folks my Dad said they just tacked me on at the end of the year for tax purposes...

Quick update: Current Temp -6^oC Was -9^o earlier today. Got about a foot of snow on Dec 24th (That is about 1 of my foots or 2 of my wifes)

It is starting to snow again.

If it gets too much colder, I may have to start wearing shoes.

Weather HERE and NOW - it's 72°F and 59% rel hum at 1015 hours per NOAA.

Weather HERE but LATER - predicted to drop into the low 30's overnight due to a cold front moving in (all that rainy/snowy weather from Texas up to Maine moving across the eastern seaboard). Lows in the mid-upper 20's later in the week, with highs in the low-mid 50's (all in degF BTW).

The 70's we've been having are 10-15 deg above normal average temps, so the mid-high 50's will get us back on schedule. But those lows are NOT typical!

I spent a week in Dublin, Ireland from the 29th Dec. to the 5th of Jan., our Honeymoon that we were unable to take 25 years ago! So it became our Siver Wedding Anniversary instead!!

The weather was I believe for Irish weather very kind, a tiny shower of rain one day that did not even get the pavement wet and a 4 hour soaking on the 4th!

It actually went down to -6 (very unusual) on the 3rd for a few hours, then snowed over 90% of Ireland (but not in Dublin, the handful of snow we had was so thin that it did not even lay around.....)

Dublin turned out to be great, pubs and bars with good Irish live music, lots of good shopping for the wife and excellent Guinness for me etc etc., about our only problem was that we both developed colds by the Sunday 30th, Monday 31st time that sapped a lot of our energy.......of course for the trip home, they were mostly gone!!

We flew home via Zurich (costs the same!) to Frankfurt as this saves a lot on the price of Booze. I bought 2 x 1 liter bottles of Irish Whiskey (Clontarf, the name of the area we stayed in as well!!) and paid exactly half as much as if we had flown directly to Frankfurt.....because Zurich (Switzerland) is not in the EU, an old and well known trick....

Frankfurt also allows people returning from abroad to buy booze cheaply at the duty paid counter, but are very limited on special types eg. no Clontarf, only Jameisons and one other.....but my wife also wanted Cointreau, so a liter was purchased there for 16€!!

Here it is again my least favorite color of gray outside with temps around or just above 0C, I have not yet been outside to check this fully out today though!!

Welcome home! Glad the holiday treated you well. And Happy Anniversary!

Congratulations on your silver anniversary. Here's to you and your sweetheart.

Hope to some day tour Europe with my dear wife. Gotta check out the places you mentioned, especially since I really love that good ole Irish Music. Got about 150 Irish Songs on my i-pod.

Weather Report: Currently -12^o Yesterday we had more snow fall in one day than we've had since 1952. I spent 8.5 hours just shoveling snow. Hope to have a break today to get some work done.

We are still mostly suffering in the "Greyout" conditions that I have bored you all (and myself!) with mentioning several times.

What has been amazing for Germany in January are the fact that some days are getting upto 15°C !!! Totally out of the norm....25 years ago we had only minus temperatures for the later part of December, all of January and February at least.....with late snow falls in April of upto a meter or more......

Yesterday I saw the Sun a few times, once it actually shined on us!!! Amazing.

The warm spells have brought gale force winds occasionally too....I expect the UK is suffering with high winds if I notice it here.....

It's been almost identical in terms of temperature,wind, and grey skies. We've also had some torrential rain.

I just had to share this with you Guys, its brilliantly executed and filmed, it seems almost to be real, and its funny. Enjoy:-

New US Coins

Cold, wet, lumpy rain.

First taste of winter.

Just remember, JohnDG... Weather you're here or weather you're thar. You're never far from our hearts.

Now go out thar and do what a man's gotta do.

Cold front moving through the past couple of days here, this morning about 35°F which is totally unseasonable for Florida.

Overnight weather was more like late December than October. First October snow in London for 34 years.

Typical late autumn weather here in the mountains in South West Germany (almost on the border with France) in a tiny town called Dahn.

You can rent a 2 bedroom (1 double, 1 bunk beds, room for more beds if needed...) flat (apartment for the USA!) here (modern, clean and very well appointed) for €35 per day if anyone is interested, lovely walks and scenery too.....hotel costs €80 a day for a single, but very, very nice.....

Weather is building up for the first snows here as it is around 600 meters above sea level.......we had some flakes today, but not enough to call real snow.....just as we are getting ready to leave on saturday!!!

Back home after more than 3 months in Darn.

Weather is now freezing most days and nights, light dusting of snow from time to time, but seldom enough for a snowman!!

Then try making a snowboy.

Even a "SnowBaby" would be most difficult.....

Today its melting as fast as its falling, though it hasn't stopped snowing for about 20 hours......

Sounds more like cold rain to me...

We have some nice clear sunny days but below freezing. Starlight nights but down to -8 or -9 °C....

Similar here, but about 6°C warmer.

I was back down in Florida over Christmas, 70's and 80's (°F) , shorts & t-shirts. Now, I'm some 200 miles north again, and it's amazingly colder (and rainier).

If I'm not mistaken, you have an anniversary fast approaching - any big plans for this year?

Very perceptive Watson!! Yes it my 26th!!

A couple of nights ago we got snow, snow as we have not seen for many years, 30cm or about a foot.

It has turned the countryside into the Magic kingdom, beautiful!

My new acquisition a Weimaraner bitch (4 months and 21.5 Kg or about 44 pounds or so!) loves it, thought it is now getting so cold, I am worried about her ears freezing.

It was -18°C this afternoon and about -23°C tonight.

We have a very good insulated house and I had to laugh at the front door (also relatively new and well insulated!), the cylinder lock is the only metal connection that goes from outside to inside, it is now sporting an icy beard, inside the house!!!

It is great outside during the day, thick powder snow and totally blue skies with a good Sun, though walking through the local forest is too cold for long walks....

Enviro, my Man - Rick-at-cae, why did youse mark off-topic for these posts? It's a weather thread, dammit!

Here, yesterday (6th) was a beautiful day - clear & blue all over - but bluddy freezing! This morning I tried to take a shortcut down a county lane on the way to work, but found a narrow road, steep hill, sheet of about ½" of ice. Had to do 37pt turn & backtrack.

Warmed up today, overcast & 0° ±1° during the day, about +1º now (10:45pm, figures all °C).

I'd claim modesty for being in such relatively balmy conditions, but everybody'd see right through that, wouldn't they? OK, mental irregularity, leave it at that, and let's move on, eh?

I was just venting off some frustrations... Sorry about that... We ended up with about 25 cm of snow and traffic wasn't sooo bad after all...So I went to the local pub for a pint (or 2) and a good hockey game (we won 6-3 !!!). All in all, a good day