Weather

[Yoused]

Disclaimer: I do not there. In fact, I am currently no closer than approximately seven thousand two hundred eighty-eight miles from there. So it should not concern me. But, this is disconcerting.

Scorpion stings kill 3, injure 450 amid bad weather in Egypt's Aswan - Politics - Egypt

Three people have died and 450 others were injured due to scorpion stings in Aswan, a health ministry official said, in the wake of bad weather and thunderstorm in the southern Egyptian governorate since Friday.

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Snow in the Sahara.

 

[fooferdoggie]

rain 37 degrees dark and gloomy Christmas Eve. we are supposed to have freezing weather next week.

 

[Alli]

Gorgeous summer day here with big fluffy white clouds moving quickly out of sight leaving nothing behind but blue. Supposed to be in the mid 70’s. I’m good with that.

 

[Renzatic]

Gorgeous summer day here with big fluffy white clouds moving quickly out of sight leaving nothing behind but blue. Supposed to be in the mid 70’s. I’m good with that.

Ditto here, except it's overcast and gloomy. It's like some weirdo mix of winter and spring.

 

[lizkat]

Ditto here, except it's overcast and gloomy. It's like some weirdo mix of winter and spring.

Yeah it's supposed to be 43ºF here later this week. Incredible. If this south wind fetching spring in winter doesn't let up, I'm going to need my lawn mowed in February. And the guy puts up his tractor mower after he mulches a second time in October. I'll have to get a goat. Rabbits are usually fussy about their greens in a way that goats are not. Rabbits don't like grass that has been freeze-dried and then thawed. Goats could not care less. If it fits in their mouth, it's fit to eat.

 

[Yoused]

There was a slopping of snow on the ground around eleven last night, but only a tiny bit remains on a car or two, so my dream of a wet christmas has been fulfilled.

 

[lizkat]

There was a slopping of snow on the ground around eleven last night, but only a tiny bit remains on a car or two, so my dream of a wet christmas has been fulfilled.

The year or so that I spent in California included one Christmas season. I really missed the crisp cold air and smell of evergreens from New England as late autumn moved towards winter in San Francisco,.. and when I opened a Christmas card from a former economics professor and his wife, and a couple of long Eastern Pine needles they had included fell out of that card's envelope, I actually wept. I hadn't realized how homesick I was for a northeastern winter until that moment.

God knows I had cursed a few of those winters when I was still part of the driveway-shoveling brigade in upstate NY as a grade-school kid. The rule at home was to help shovel a path from house to the road in time to walk to school, or else help shovel the whole driveway to get a ride.

Clever parents: Lake Ontario was prone to dumping 4 feet of snow on us overnight, if the wind shifted around to come from due north and straight across all that water instead of from the northwest. So then we had to opt for shoveling the whole driveway to get a ride to school, being unable to navigate drifts along the shortcut that we otherwise took through a neighbor's farm lane on foot. It was a pain in the neck, siblings to share the task notwithstanding.

After that one winter in SF though, I knew where I belonged at Christmas, and it was back in the northeast with a snow shovel in hand.

 

[Yoused]

The year or so that I spent in California included one Christmas season. I really missed the crisp cold air and smell of evergreens from New England as late autumn moved towards winter in San Francisco,..

Samuel Clemens is erroneously credited with "The hardest winter I ever endured was a summer in San Francisco."

God knows I had cursed a few of those winters when I was still part of the driveway-shoveling brigade in upstate NY as a grade-school kid. …

Not that I have been through a winter east of these temperate mountains, but I did get a brief taste of how brutally unrelenting they can be, which inspired

It appears that the central engines of the Russian economy are vodka and apathy.

It is not apathy. It is a third thing. To understand it, you must go to Wisconsin in April, where the trees are brown, the sky is an afterthought and the snow lies around in a limp and dirty taunt. You escape into a supper club, but the dining room does not open for another 45 minutes, so you go to the bar and have a beer, sitting next to that one guy who just ordered more for himself and for his 14 year old daughter.

Then you understand this feeling, the sense of resignation that staves off the suffocating despair of this monochromatic kafkaesque reality, and in this moment of evading the crushing sole of the universe, it becomes obvious that prohibition was a most vile crime against humanity.

 

[sgtaylor5]

Monday through Saturday highs/lows next week: 20/6 degrees F Monday to 12/0 degrees F on Wednesday to 24/5 degrees F on Saturday. Cold on the prairie next week. Coldest I've ever seen was -28 in La Crosse to -30 in Pullman a few years back.

 

[Clix Pix]

Warm here -- got up to 67° this afternoon -- wow! Opened a couple of windows and enjoyed the fresh air! I'm sure this won't last and that tomorrow and the days following will become seasonably cooler and downright cold again, but this was nice today.

 

[Alli]

Monday through Saturday highs/lows next week: 20/6 degrees F Monday to 12/0 degrees F on Wednesday to 24/5 degrees F on Saturday. Cold on the prairie next week. Coldest I've ever seen was -28 in La Crosse to -30 in Pullman a few years back.

I remember winters like that when I lived in Wyoming. I still have the 45 (record) of a popular song “50 mile wind and 40 below.” I’m much happier here in the south.

 

[JohnR]

We went down to Dawson Springs KY yesterday to visit my sister and her family. They are ok. I lived there for about 7 years when I was younger. Total devastation, unbelievable. They say Dawson is worse than Mayfield because the tornado went through residential in Dawson, while business in Mayfield.

Can't believe there were no fatalities in this house

 

[fooferdoggie]

Portland weather is weird. rain and 37 Friday Saturday snow overnight melted Sunday snowed a little overnight and 30 when we woke up but now at noon down to 27 but clear. its not usually to drop that much from morning.

 

[Eric]

Portland weather is weird. rain and 37 Friday Saturday snow overnight melted Sunday snowed a little overnight and 30 when we woke up but now at noon down to 27 but clear. its not usually to drop that much from morning.

Interesting, my sister got hammered pretty good in the Eugene area. Typically it's worse up north but you never really know with the patterns.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Interesting, my sister got hammered pretty good in the Eugene area. Typically it's worse up north but you never really know with the patterns.

yep. roads are icy but not too bad. my magical dumpster keeps self emptying of wood scraps some how. its like the third time in two weeks

 

[Renzatic]

It’s December. Dead of winter. The supposed to be cold days.

…SO WHY ARE WE HAVING THUNDER STORMS AND TORNADO WATCHES, HUH?

 

[Renzatic]

Tornado warnings to the west of me. Fun times.

 

[Renzatic]

Looks like the worst of it will pass just south of me. I think my town is already passed the shear line.

 

[lizkat]

It’s December. Dead of winter. The supposed to be cold days.

…SO WHY ARE WE HAVING THUNDER STORMS AND TORNADO WATCHES, HUH?

You're in the Bible Belt. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.

Oh wait. I think at least half the Bible Belt has sworn off reading Scripture anyway, judging from their tweets.

OK, so it's just climate change.

 

[Yoused]

You're in the Bible Belt. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.

"Vengeance", which starts with a capital "V" – the shape of a tornado (and it looks more terrifying in italics).