How’s the weather?
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^ Bwa ha ha ha ha...
Dang....I really wish I could show a pic of our yard with a couple feet of snow in it to mock your distress, but...this year I can't. We've had a bit of snow, but we have also experienced three separate warmer spells, during which most of the snow on the ground melted away. Even a single thaw during winter is unusual...we usually remain well below freezing for at least three months...but three is unheard-of. Okay, right now we are in our usual deep-freeze; actual temperature on the deck this morning was -29C, with an unknown but very significant wind-chill as well. But they're now calling for a gradual warming trend over the next several days and into next week...
Frankly, this freeze-thaw-freeze-thaw nonsense is very irritating. It results in a great deal of nice high-traction snow melting and then reforming into dangerously slick ice in lots of area where I don't want it. I actually had to re-plow the little path I keep clear around the house and down to the garage and the road. Duke and I were slipping and sliding totally out of control on the old one, so I had to make a new one parallel to it by shovelling snow onto the old one to cover it. My driveway and the entire road from my property to the highway is impossibly slick with ice; we drive in 4WD to the highway at a snail's pace when we need to venture out. Our morning walks call for snowshoes and staying completely off roadways and established trails. I love snowshoeing but I'm way past the point where I would do several miles of it for fun, and Duke is over 9 years of age and he's beginning to tire after wading through snow almost up to his chest in places. By the time we turn around to head home he is usually happy to follow in my wake to take advantage of the pre-packed trail I create.
But...I'd take this all day every day in place of 28C mornings and 33C daytime temps.
Yesterday it was 38 C here max temp and pretty similar the day before.
Today was 18C, crazy variance. I went to the beach with my daughter and her freind yesterday and it was too hot, today i walked the dog along the beach and it felt too cold.
I prefer cold to heat any time for sure.
Ideal for me is is mid 20s during the day with a nice cool breeze and 10 during the night, we get that a few weeks a year during autmn and spring/
Today was 18C, crazy variance. I went to the beach with my daughter and her freind yesterday and it was too hot, today i walked the dog along the beach and it felt too cold.
I prefer cold to heat any time for sure.
Ideal for me is is mid 20s during the day with a nice cool breeze and 10 during the night, we get that a few weeks a year during autmn and spring/
I like cooler weather as well, but it was a big adjustment growing up in Australia and then moving to the US Midwest in my 40’s.
We had a big snow storm last night. I had to work as I’m an RN in a cardiac ICU. Dicey drive to & from w 10-12” snow dumped in less than 24hrs. My usual 25 min drive took almost an hour each way. It looks spectacular but in practicality creates a lot of pre & post work. Lol
For the next week it’s gonna be -5c highs to -15c lows air temp without wind chill
Here’s a few pics. Our dog belly deep, our yard, and a pic out the window from the hospital yesterday evening. It was hilarious watching Hope try to poop cause she couldn’t assume her usual squat position
We had a big snow storm last night. I had to work as I’m an RN in a cardiac ICU. Dicey drive to & from w 10-12” snow dumped in less than 24hrs. My usual 25 min drive took almost an hour each way. It looks spectacular but in practicality creates a lot of pre & post work. Lol
For the next week it’s gonna be -5c highs to -15c lows air temp without wind chill
Here’s a few pics. Our dog belly deep, our yard, and a pic out the window from the hospital yesterday evening. It was hilarious watching Hope try to poop cause she couldn’t assume her usual squat position
Here in the Philippines, much of the same sunny dsys, slightly cooler nights
I can imagine the humidity is crazy high in the Philippines. I grew up in Brisbane, but lived in Perth 14 yrs before moving to the US. 30c & humid in Brissy was less tolerable than 40c & dry in Perth. Crazy how much effect humidity has on our temperature experience!
It's the humidity and the UV that gets you here. Typically the humidity is around 80% give ot take. Then there's the UV, makes you feel like one of them fried chickens at the grocery store under the heat lamps. It feels about 10 degrees hotter than it actually is.
Here in Minnesota,
A few days of warm and rain,
A few days of fog and calm,
A few days of clear and cold,
Then all the ponds and lakes were covered by beautiful clear perfect skating ice.
This doesn't happen very often.
I took advantage to skate a little during my lunch break at work Thursday.
Video, https://youtube.com/shorts/IJoGyuQpo3I?si=L6zLk--mg-uI8odE
A few days of warm and rain,
A few days of fog and calm,
A few days of clear and cold,
Then all the ponds and lakes were covered by beautiful clear perfect skating ice.
This doesn't happen very often.
I took advantage to skate a little during my lunch break at work Thursday.
Video, https://youtube.com/shorts/IJoGyuQpo3I?si=L6zLk--mg-uI8odE
Currently -10C here, after yet another 2-day spell of temps actually above zero. That's the fourth time this winter that's happened to us; unheard of!
But...this morning the snow hit, temps are plummeting and expected to be in the -25C range for the next several days, along with winds are in the 60 - 90kph range. Blowing snow...many areas that had melted now re-frozen into dangerous skating rinks...near-zero visibility...snow coming down sideways...schools closed...RCMP cautioning against any non-emergency road travel anywhere in the southern part of the province...
...and it's still preferable, IMHO, too those insane 30+C temperatures many of you are "enjoying".
@danotaylor , would you mind settling a debate I am having with my wife? It's quite simple; in those pics you showed...is your dog facing left or right? I'm voting left...
But...this morning the snow hit, temps are plummeting and expected to be in the -25C range for the next several days, along with winds are in the 60 - 90kph range. Blowing snow...many areas that had melted now re-frozen into dangerous skating rinks...near-zero visibility...snow coming down sideways...schools closed...RCMP cautioning against any non-emergency road travel anywhere in the southern part of the province...
...and it's still preferable, IMHO, too those insane 30+C temperatures many of you are "enjoying".
@danotaylor , would you mind settling a debate I am having with my wife? It's quite simple; in those pics you showed...is your dog facing left or right? I'm voting left...
And the winner is…..
@jjohnwm
She is facing left
I won’t tell Hope your wife thinks her butt looks like her face
@jjohnwm
She is facing left
I won’t tell Hope your wife thinks her butt looks like her face
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