Whats your weather right now?

[Mailman]

Do builders, tradesmen in general for that, joiners, plumbers, leccies, even drink tea in N America?

Coffee…almost exclusively. As the tens of thousands of coffee shops and stands will attest. Grocery stores, gas stations…..you name it, coffee is everywhere, yet tea is far less common. I actually tried to develop a taste for tea once, I like it, but for me at least, I’m still a coffee drinker.

 

[jetmechmarty]

Coffee…almost exclusively. As the tens of thousands of coffee shops and stands will attest. Grocery stores, gas stations…..you name it, coffee is everywhere, yet tea is far less common. I actually tried to develop a taste for tea once, I like it, but for me at least, I’m still a coffee drinker.

Ditto. We do have a lot of different teas in the house. I drink it very seldom. My wife buys it, but I’m not sure why.

In this part of the world it is consumed ice cold with pounds of sugar. I never partake in that.

 

[Charles13]

The snowdrops are coming up here too - seem to be earlier than usual this year?

Today, milder than yesterday. The ice has melted, ditto snow on the hills. Sprouston Burn is in spate with a torrent of what looks like red-brown builders' tea. Caused by passing over the red volcanic earth on the Eildon Hills.

I’m a huge Guy Martin fan and he drinks that stuff non stop, literally!

 

[gunk]

I'm not saying it's cold here. But the flame froze in the garage wood stove.

 

[Jim]

Freezing rain overnight. Everything's coated in ice.
Schools are closed.
Wife's dental appt cancelled.
My Dr's appt cancelled.
News reports wrecks all over the city.
Kinda humorous... my dog busted his ass when I let him out this morning. Legs went 4 different whichaways. He's fine... and I chuckled.

 

[John Regular]

Hail, tried to post a video of it but the Wi-Fi at the shitty hotel I’m staying at doesn’t work so well

 

[jetmechmarty]

It’s forecasted to be 60F here today at top of Mississippi. We’re looking for 75F tomorrow. Sunday says back to below normal cold. I’m in the zone going back and forth between frigid polar air and warm gulf air. I’ll take it.

 

[Raymond]

Today has felt especially chilly. That's a special word we in these parts use for, feels colder than it is. Thermometer on Mrs' car said 2°C but add how damp it felt and a lazy* wind and it felt . . . chilly!

* wind so lazy it'd sooner go through you than around you . . .

 

[Adamc]

Shit and Cold……

 

[JOHNDADDY]

?????????????????
rain. snow. ice 4-10 ?
i wanna be a yes man
i wanna be grossly unappreciated
i wanna be a yes man
i wanna claw my way to middle management

i wanna be a weather man
who knows, i might get a ride in tomorrow
just gotta figure out chains or not

 

[Raymond]

Today, unrelenting drizzle. Well, not completely unrelenting- for a while, it turned to sleet. But now, it's back to drizzle.

However, out for my morning walk, before the Sun was up, had a marvelous encounter. Walking alongside the River Tweed, saw some commotion in the water, near the bank. One, no two, no three otters. Two came out of the water and started gambolling on the bank, while third watched from the river. I was very close, maybe 10 or 12 yards away so I walked on, didn't want to spook them. When I paused another hundred yards on and looked back, I couldn't see them, after all it was still only half light, but I heard them. A succession of little squeaks and calls - a first for me, never heard otter vocalisations before.

I see otters at random intervals on my morning walks. Last saw one about three weeks ago. Might see one tomorrow, or maybe a few weeks, or it might even be months.

 

[Raymond]

Getting fed up with this dreich weather. Every day seems to be dull, cold, damp, drizzle, 10/10s cloud. Probably about 2°C. Again.

 

[Charles13]

It’s hovering close to -20*c again and looks to continue for the rest of February, even the double pane windows in my old military vehicle turned rv are dripping condensation. I just heard on the radio that this has been one of the coldest 5 winters in 50 years here in Ontario. I want to get back up North and start cleaning up the property before our build but just heard they are getting 40cm more snow, and no reprieve from this snowmageddon is predicted until mid March!
WTH I desperately want global warming back.

 

[Raymond]

It’s hovering close to -20*c again and looks to continue for the rest of February, even the double pane windows in my old military vehicle turned rv are dripping condensation. I just heard on the radio that this has been one of the coldest 5 winters in 50 years here in Ontario. I want to get back up North and start cleaning up the property before our build but just heard they are getting 40cm more snow, and no reprieve from this snowmageddon is predicted until mid March!
WTH I desperately want global warming back.

That is global warming.

As the planet warms, energy levels in weather system are higher, so we get hotter hot, drier dry, wetter wet and colder cold. Very inconvenient.

 

[Jim]

Yeah... unfortunately, climate change will be with us at least for the rest of this century.

Winter storm warning issued starting midnight tonight... freezing rain, then snow... loverly, what?
Snow totals of 6-9" and temp drop to 4°f.

 

[bosco659]

The weatherman is “GUESSING” there could be 15-20cm starting tomorrow morning. I suppose it will be second use of the snowblower for the season.

 

[MrBultaco]

Climate change is forever. It's been 11-12 million years ago when 'we' started thawing. See below, it looks like we have a few more degrees to go before 'we' start back to an Ice Age, but don't count on anything.

"According to current scientific understanding, just before the last ice age, the global average temperature was likely several degrees Celsius warmer than today, with estimates placing it around 6 degrees Celsius higher than the peak of the ice age, which was roughly 6 degrees Celsius cooler than present day temperatures."

"The last ice age, also known as the Pleistocene Ice Age, began about 2.6 million years ago and ended about 11,000 years ago. However, we are currently in an interglacial period, which is a warm period between ice ages."

 

[Charles13]

That is global warming.

As the planet warms, energy levels in weather system are higher, so we get hotter hot, drier dry, wetter wet and colder cold. Very inconvenient.

That doesn’t explain the other 4 coldest winters in the last 50 years or take in to account that we are still coming out of an ice age, you realize there are still glaciers left?

 

[Jim]

Human activity is causing climate change. That's stated as a fact, as it's no longer in doubt by the scientific community. There's 97% agreement.... over 200 scientific organizations world wide are in agreement.

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/scientific-consensus/

Anyone with an internet connection can make a lot of noise about it being a hoax/conspiracy... and there's tons of 'em out there, but those with the training in climate sciences have peer reviewed evidence it's real.

 

[cycleranger]

~48° and getting some very much needed rain. Almost an inch today!