How's the Weather?

[nevermore]

I think weather conversations get a bad wrap (rap?). People act like talking about the weather is boring, but really, it can be a great conversation starter, and when you're like us, and have people all around the world with all sorts of crazy things going on, it can be downright interesting!

Like Sheree for instance, who lives upside-down in Australia and where it's winter in July and summer in December! :eek: Crazy stuff!




Apart from our discussions about heat waves of late in the "What Did You do Today" thread, I was also just looking out the window with a smile. I grew up in the deserts of California, and while I no longer live there, I am still not used to this thing called a "heat wave." See, where I come from, starting in May, it gets hotter than you can ever possibly imagine (we LITERALLY used to fry eggs outside for fun when I was a kid), and it stays that way until... December. No joke. And even then, most of you would probably run around in tank tops if you came to visit. There was no up and down, hot miserable stretch followed by some clouds rolling in and cooling things off.

So imagine my pleasant surprise when, despite the fact that things warmed up in my new location for a week or two, over the last few days clouds have rolled in, and rain has fallen, and OMG it's cold! :eek: Like, I wore my winter coat today. And it's late May! What a pleasant surprise! I had no idea weather could do that! This whole "weather pattern" thing is very nice, if I do say so. :o

So how are things in your neck of the woods? What's typical for your area? Are things going all wonky? I know there's been a volcano causing trouble in Europe, and I seem to recall hearing that it was an El Nino weather year (places that usually get rain don't, and places that are usually dry get downpours), but that may have been speculation.

Anyway, without further ado, a thread to discuss the weather in your area, and all of it's joys and miseries. :)

[You stupid boy]

Welcome to Britain, where we talk about the weather ALL the time, no matter how bland it is. "Oh, it was raging mild today!" :p

For me it's really, really hot right now. Even though 23 degrees is probably ski-jacket wear for you guys, for me it's everyone wearing shorts and moaning about how hot they are. The sun's not out right now but it's kinda humid. Nasty. :(

[Wierdkid20]

I'm in Illinois and it's 90 degrees (Fahrenheit) and very humid. Appaerently Illinois is one of the most humid states in the country and on days like these I don't doubt it.

[amypops]

Scotland - where the weather makes up it's own mind. We've had snow in April and heatwaves in November. Or maybe thats just my part of Scotland xD

[Dawnfire]

Freakin' RAINING today. What the hell, it's almost JUNE. RAINING. Pffff. So much for California weather, jeez. I'm told it's 51F. 51. Seriously. Come on.

[QueenTheatrics]

IT RAINED TODAY. IT RAINED. FINALLY.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

I'm sooo happy!!! It's still quite warm but it's not so humid anymore. :p

[nevermore]

Ew I hate humid. Humid is the worst of all weathers. I heard once that humid weather is so miserable because the air is wet, so when you sweat, it doesn't evaporate properly, so your body can't cool itself off. I sit and think sadly about that fact whenever it's humid.

A few tricks I learned over the years:
1) a cold shower. Not like, icecubes cold, but use more cool water than warm water, and gradually turn the heat down the longer you're in the shower. It's very refreshing.

2) Put either your body spray or lotion in the fridge. It's a nice blast of cold after your shower to put cold lotion on, or spritz yourself with cold body spray before you head out

3) Make blended ice drinks. I like to make coffee drinks (just dump leftover coffee, a splash of cream, a spoon of sugar, and a handful of ice in the blender and give it a whirl. Chocolate sauce or a small scoop of ice cream never hurts either). You can also make fruit smoothies using fruit, fruit juice, milk, yogurt, or any combination of those (your main goal is fruit + liquid) along with some ice. One of my go-to drinks is a banana, a cup of milk (or orange juice), a spoonful of peanut butter, and a bit of ice. Nom. Peanut butter and banana smoothie. :o
Really though, the only limit is your own creativity. Experiment with different flavors of yogurt, different fruits (frozen berries instead of ice cubes are awesome, too), or different juices. You'll find a favorite. You can use pineapple and a can of coconut milk to make pina coladas, too! I think they even make pina colada yogurt, so you can really up the ante if you get some of that stuff. Mmm... now I want smoothies. :D

[Ventriloquist]

Because I'm lazy:

I envy everyone who has to endure weather like the last couple of days on a daily basis, and how they can survive it so easily. Because it was so hot, I've had to go around the house barefoot this weekend...and I hardly ever go without socks during the day. Felt strange anyway.

Wasn't barefoot at all today though, weather was awful. Very cloudy and cold, there were even small rain showers when I was out today, huge contrast from Saturday and Sunday. Sod's law I guess.

[You stupid boy]

Yeah, it cooled right down today. I had all the windows open in my house and I was home alone, so the doors kept banging in scary ways. I hope it stays like this so I don't fry in exams.

[Leeny]

Where I live, I get every type of weather imaginable (except humidity, thank God).

In the summer it gets in to the 100'sF (around 38C) and in the winter it gets down to -20F (-29C).

I can handle any type of weather. :cool:

[Dawnfire]

Ew I hate humid. Humid is the worst of all weathers. I heard once that humid weather is so miserable because the air is wet, so when you sweat, it doesn't evaporate properly, so your body can't cool itself off.

We just learned this in science. ;) Yeah, this is correct. The air already has so much water vapor in it that it doesn't want to evaporate any more liquid. The sweat evaporating is what cools you down; therefore, no evaporation, harder to cool down. :D

Correction: no rain, it actually got up to about 64F. TOMORROW will be pouring. Dx

Ahaha, Leeny, wow. xD We're spoiled here. It rarely gets below freezing here, and it gets up to about the mid to high 80sF in the summer. xD Hasn't snowed here for over twenty (thirty? I don't remember) years, and we haven't hit 100 for a long time. xD

[Leeny]

Yes, but I also have a layer of blubber that you don't and I have a better cooling system than you so nyeh. :p

[Soccy]

Today where I live was beautiful! It wasn't to terribly hot or cold (about 70F, that's like 20C or something like that). For having such a bad winter we have having a pretty awesome summer. Except it's raining a tad much, but not by much.

[Dawnfire]

Yes, but I also have a layer of blubber that you don't and I have a better cooling system than you so nyeh. :p

xD You probably do. xD I hate cold weather, it gets to me pretty easily. I much prefer Hawaii weather. ;)

[Russian Girl]

Welcome to Russia where the weather changes every moment)
Today in my city weather is cold, umm, roughly speaking 17-18C....
But day before yesterday weather was hot - 26-28C

[Midnight]

In Scotland I like to think of the weather as 4 seasons in one day! :D

During the weekend it was absouletly boiling at 25'C which I stayed inside to hide from the sun. Now it is cooling down but it still hasn't rained! I miss the rain :(

[You stupid boy]

It was rainging when I woke up today and it was really cold when I was in school. When I was walking home it was really sunny. It's (quite literally) blowing hot and cold. Quite alarming.

[nevermore]

Do you think it could be the volcano in Iceland messing with the weather across Europe? I read recently that the last time a big volcano went off (Pinatubo in the Philippines in the 90s) the whole planet cooled by .5 Farenheight for a whole year! :eek: And it messed with weather patterns globally.

And that, apparently, large quantities of sulfur dioxide spewed into the stratosphere (like large volcanoes do) could counteract global warming (http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-07/ff_geoengineering?currentPage=all). Superfreakonomics is a very interesting book. :nodnod:

[Russian Girl]

Today, the weather in my city is very, very cold...+8C...

[pjy310]

In New Zealand it's winter right now just like Austrailia and it rains almost everyday. I don't like rain. It's always humid. Today was quite sunny though.

[DayDream]

It's raining men...

I kid. Naw, twas raining this morning, but I be chipper because the sun will HAVE to stay out for June. It really, really will.

Rain, rain go away, come back on an August day...

[Qwill]

Fickle
that is all, it rains one day it's sunny the next.
One time in February it rained and snowed while the sun was shining.
That was pretty awesome.

[Ventriloquist]

And the weather's nice again.

Probably not going to last until the end of the month though.

[Midnight]

Today the weather is heating up again to 23'C with no wind!! It is absoloutely boiling outside!! It is half 6:30 and it is still roasting hot outside.

[nevermore]

Eeeew, I hate when it's so hot out that even the nights are warm. That's one thing I hated about where I grew up. It would get so hot in the day that if you went outside barefoot at midnight, the ground would still burn your feet. :(

It got horrible in the daytime though. You literally could not walk outside barefoot in the summer because the ground got so screamingly hot your feet would burn and blister (I've seen dogs burn their feet too! You can't walk them until evening in the summer because their poor little feet burn...). We cooked pancakes and eggs straight on the cement one day just to see if it worked. I wish we'd had digital cameras back then, because I'd love to have the pictures to prove it. I should ask my sister to do it this summer and take a video of it for me...

The sun's peeking out a little today, which is good because it's been raining nonstop for days and my tomatoes were looking more like a wet cat than a summer plant. Poor dears. The lettuce seemed to enjoy the rain though, it's ready for harvesting! Yay! My first crop! :D

[Leeny]

Yeah, the cold crops are going nuts with all the rain we've been having. Luckily, the last few days have been very pleasant out. It's been around 80F.

[ZigZag]

Today the weather is heating up again to 23'C with no wind!! It is absoloutely boiling outside!! It is half 6:30 and it is still roasting hot outside.

This mad me laugh. Like a lot. See, I am not exactly good with the Celsius to Fahrenheit thing so I read your description about how it being 6:30 and still roasting hot and no wind and I feel your pain because lord knows that come August I WILL be roasting every inch of my body off.

And then I used a converter to see how hot 23*C is exactly. And that is what made me laugh. Over here 23* degrees in early June is pretty much par for the course. Actually, if you ask most people around here what their idea of perfect weather is they will tell you "75 degrees and sunny." 75 degrees F is 24 degrees C.

In comparison today it went up to 84 degrees Fahrenheit and everyone admitted that it was hot, but not unbearably so. 84*F is almost 29*C. In July and August it's not unusual for us to get temps up to 95*F (35*C).

And if you ask Nevvie she will tell you straight out that we are wusses because where she lives it got up to around that today (I don't know where exactly Nev lives but I know it's in the Southern California Desert area) in the midsummer they get temps up to 110*F (43*C)!

See, it's all relative. So next time you think you are broiling your buttocks off just think, "thank God, I'm not Nevvie."

[nevermore]

Try 120, love. ;)

[Soccy]

Low Nineties, and I can hardly breathe outside. Way way way too hot to do anything, even thinking is too hard. Gosh I hate this weather, I wish it would get cold again..... I can stand single digit temperatures fine, but within fifteen degrees of anything with three digits I'm not going anywhere near outside, or for that matter anything that isn't air conditioned or a pool.

[ZigZag]

105 today. At least I was inside all day in the cold air conditioning. And I'm only a coreographer for the summer show so I don't have to get as sweaty as the dancers do during practice. It's nine-thirty now and 94 degrees. Hot, hot, hot!

However, at least I'm not nevvie. ;)

[Midnight]

It is only about 18'C with cold winds here today so it isn't that bad. I checked the weather for Majorca next week and it is to be 34-35'C!!!! I am going to be sooo warm. I hate it as the pavements are boiling hot so you can't walk on them and with wet shoes and having to walk in your bare feet is horrible:( At least I get to sunbath though :D

[Leeny]

It's supposed to be 86F (30C) today. Tomorrow and the next few days will be around 95F (35C) though. We're still not as hot as we usually get.

[Soccy]

It's 95F, that's really hot for my area, like twelve degrees hotter then the adverage. The record high in the city is 103F, so it's only like 8 degrees from record breaking. I find this absolutely ridiculous.

[Tancfan01]

Ahh... Illinois :) Such a perfect state... Not!
Lets see its hot and mother nature can't decide whether she should rain or not.

[Qwill]

Wet, wet, wet,wet,wet and warm.
It's been raining so much, no kidding, I love rain and storms but I'm kind of getting sick of it.

[Midnight]

Same here. I knew that when I arrived bakc home from 36'C temperatures that I would be back to rain!!

[You stupid boy]

It's grey and threateneing rain here and I LOVE IT. :D

I do hate hot weather though. I hate it twice as much as I hate fascism. Really, I just can't cope with hot weather at all.

[nevermore]

Same here. I live in quite a rainy part of the world now, and have for well over a year, and I can honestly say that, after years of desert living, I'm still not remotely sick of the endless rain storms. Nothing makes me happier than waking up to see heavy clouds and drizzling rain. :o

It's been warm and sunny and "perfect" for the majority of this month, and I am utterly sick of it. :D

[Myr49]

It has been raining all week here. We get little bursts of sunshine every now and then but then there's a bunch of rain to follow it.:( Luckily though, today it's been sunny so far. But it will most likely be rainy later.

[Absolution]

Rain, rain, rain, thunderstorms.

I saw blue sky this morning. :0 It was quickly replaced by grey and the panic was over.

[Leeny]

80F and not a cloud in the sky. I love it! :D

[ZigZag]

It's hot. But it's not the heat that's killing me here. It's the humidity. Walking outside is like walking into a sauna. I walked over to my boyfriend's house today to give him a cupcake- I was making them for my birthday party this weekend and I messed one up royally and since Jon can't come to my party I told him I'd give him one of my awesome flower cupcakes.

By the time I got there the cream cheese icing had half melted.

[Midnight]

Uhhh, I hate humidity. It is just so warm and sticky and don't even get me started on what it does to my hair!!!

The rain has disappeared and now the sky looks like it can't decide what it wants to do as it is half blue and half covered in big, grey clouds :confused:

[Myr49]

Out here the rain has stopped but it's so humid that you can take a cup wave it in the air and take a long sip. Basically it's like soup. I have to stay inside a majoraty of the time to keep my hair from going crazy. and it's like 90 degree's.

[nevermore]

I must have done a raindance in my sleep, because I woke up this morning to find everything cool and cloudy. AS IT SHOULD BE :mad:

I seriously hate hot weather too much for my own good.

[Leeny]

It's breezy out today. I don't like the wind at all.

[ZigZag]

I must have done a raindance in my sleep, because I woke up this morning to find everything cool and cloudy. AS IT SHOULD BE :mad:

I seriously hate hot weather too much for my own good.
Then I hate to be the one to tell you this Nev, but you live in the wrong place. You should move. I hear Philadelphia's nice.

[nevermore]

I don't live in the desert anymore. :o

[Ventriloquist]

I love hot weather. We get too much rain here, I really think it's better when it's warm enough to be tolerable.

[Dagbert Endless]

You know what? I really love the cold, wet weather that we normally get in Winter. But actually, this year, the weather in Freadwardbobertmc'hammerhimesmitopolis is quite wet for the summertime. If anything, I have to THANK Torsson for that.

[Qwill]

Oh, it's you, Fish boy. Don't you dare, drown my home because I can't swim for hell.

[Dagbert Endless]

Hehe, well, I could be nice....

But seeing as you just called me "FishBoy", I don't see the point.

[Lysander]

Probably because, your signature is just so tempting to call you that, Fish Boy.

[Dagbert Endless]

Oh shut up, you dreadlock-haired twit.

[Lysander]

Dreadlocks are cool, Fish Boy!

[Dagbert Endless]

No. They're not. Simple.

[Qwill]

Seriously, do you two have to fight on every thread imaginable?

[Lysander]

The honest answer: YES!
The answer everyone else wants: Not really....
But it must be done, he must pay for the damage he's done.

[Dagbert Endless]

Fighting's fun, though... *whiny voice*

And what damage? You've got your precious friend back. Besides, you stole my Sea-Gold charms! That's worse than me almost drowning your precious nitwit.

[amypops]

Dude, take your grudges somewhere else! No-one wants them here!

Anyway, the weather here can't seem to make up its mind. It'll be incredibly cloudy one second, then blinding sunshine a moment later, then torrential rain a few minutes later!

[Dagbert Endless]

Ha, sounds like Torsson's where you are, then.

[amypops]

Yup. I suspect he lives in Scotland 24/7 :/

[Dagbert Endless]

Sounds like it.

[TancredTorsson]

Wrong. Just because it is raining in Scotland doesn't mean that I am there!! If it was thunder and lightning where you lived then I would be there. It is the best type of weather and the most fun to create :D So yeah, now it is thunder and lightning outside due to me. Don't tell Matron though, its against her new stu...spectacular rules.

Amypops, what type of weather due you prefer??

[elbow21]

I love it when it is just raining not thundering or just lightly raining.I like it when it pours.It waters the plants and clears the hot smoggy air.It also means that I can splash in puddles!Yeeey!Lol I sound 5 not 13 but come on,I bet you have splashed in a puddle at least once this year!

[DayDream]

It's actually quite sunny where I am (Scotland) right now.

[amypops]

Wrong. Just because it is raining in Scotland doesn't mean that I am there!! If it was thunder and lightning where you lived then I would be there. It is the best type of weather and the most fun to create :D So yeah, now it is thunder and lightning outside due to me. Don't tell Matron though, its against her new stu...spectacular rules.

Amypops, what type of weather due you prefer??

I actually like thunder and lightning. It's awesome. Rain helps me to think, too... but sun keeps me warm o.o

I like most weather xD

[Russian Girl]

Oh, in Russia now weather is very, very, very HOT.
+36 C, it's so terribly for my organism what very much accustomed to the cold ....

[Uncle Paton]

I haven't been outside at all today to be able to determine what the weather is like.

[ink-pen]

I'm just going to jump in on this

I LOVE thunder storms!! The kind with the loud thounder that shakes the house and makes the dogs bark and the air is cool but not too cold and the rain is loud....*sighs* love it.....