Whats your weather right now?

[NashGTI]

Today was OK, 31F with very light snowfall, also we got power back for the first time since 7am Sunday. Nashville is a disaster, I got an inch of snow followed by some sleet then a half inch of freezing rain followed by a good bit of actual rain then more sleet and snow. On my 3/4 acre property I have 7 limbs down larger around than my thigh plus one full tree down but luckily nothing on the lines to my house. Ended up with more than an inch of solid ice on my driveway that me and my boys chipped off piece by piece because there has been about 4 hours above freezing since Saturday. Went through a bunch of candles and 100 pounds of propane just keeping the house livable but we're out the other side.
Honestly we got off lucky here, the other side of town got 3/4 inch of freezing rain and made out even worse, even now something like 15% of the customers in Nashville are without electric.

 

[jetmechmarty]

I'm in day 9 of can't go anywhere. Iced in.

Got food. Got electricity. We're good!

 

[jetmechmarty]

70f today! Warm sunshine and still plenty of ice lying around.

 

[Adamc]

GRIM, bloody GRIM..........
Relentless bloody rain, cold driving rain. When will it ever stop?

 

[Raymond]

Whole of Britain stuck in cold and wet. Our cold isn't nearly as cold as Norway or N America; the last few days in Scotland it's been lows about 0°C and highs about 3°C, but when you add that the air is very damp, there's a cold Easterly wind plus it's drizzling or raining a lot of the time and it feels cold enough for us lot. Really seems to get people down. Still go out for my walk first thing but people think I'm mad.

 

[Pat D]

19 degrees at 6am, down to 15 as of 9am, wind is around 25-35. Just north of Baltimore.

 

[Grimly]

I'll be surprised if all the reservoirs in Ireland aren't full of winter rain, enough to carry them through at least the early part of the spring and summer.
Oddly, for such a wet country, reservoir capacity usually reaches low enough to be concerning by the late summer and autumn. Largely because of leaky networks, but in recent years, there hasn't been enough rainfall over the winter.
Another factor is, that land drainage has become too good in the past half-century, so much of what falls is immediately run off to the streams and rivers, causing downstream disasters, instead of it soaking into the ground.

 

[Raymond]

I'll be surprised if all the reservoirs in Ireland aren't full of winter rain, enough to carry them through at least the early part of the spring and summer.
Oddly, for such a wet country, reservoir capacity usually reaches low enough to be concerning by the late summer and autumn. Largely because of leaky networks, but in recent years, there hasn't been enough rainfall over the winter.
Another factor is, that land drainage has become too good in the past half-century, so much of what falls is immediately run off to the streams and rivers, causing downstream disasters, instead of it soaking into the ground.

Sadly, England faces similar problems with the same root cause - decades of lack of investment has led to too few reservoirs, leaky networks, inadequate sewage system, sewage dumped in rivers in stormy weather. People think of England as a rainy country but with less rainfall due to global warming, changes in rainfall pattern, long droughts then torrential downpours, rising polulation and higher per capita water use, England is now classed water-stressed. No sign that governments are willing to grasp the nettle so the problems are sure to get worse.

Not quite so bad in Scotland with higher rainfall and lower population but, again, the problems arising from decades of under-investment are not being addressed.

 

[Raymond]

It just keeps on raining. Local burns all in spate - Sprouston Burn as always when in full flow has gone a deep red builder's tea colour as it rushes over the rocks in a frantic rush to join the River Tweed. Which is filling its banks - much more and it will flood the fields. Paths are all running with water like streams.

And not just the Borders, it's the whole country. In Aberdeen, it has rained ceaselessly for three weeks. 11th February, many places have had more than their annual rainfall already. And it just keeps on raining.

 

[Pat D]

It just keeps on raining. Local burns all in spate - Sprouston Burn as always when in full flow has gone a deep red builder's tea colour as it rushes over the rocks in a frantic rush to join the River Tweed. Which is filling its banks - much more and it will flood the fields. Paths are all running with water like streams.

And not just the Borders, it's the whole country. In Aberdeen, it has rained ceaselessly for three weeks. 11th February, many places have had more than their annual rainfall already. And it just keeps on raining.

"If it keep 'on rainin', levees gonna break ..."

 

[Pat D]

Moderating here, mid 30's daytime highs. Letting the faucet drip in my Grandmothers laundry sink resulted in a Crystalline Entity taking up residence.

 

[madmax-im]

Last week...

 

[madmax-im]

The past 2 days..upper 60s..

 

[Raymond]

Today a change in the weather. The rain has finally stopped, light cloud and Sun, much colder, somebody appears to have sprinkled caster sugar on the hills, very pretty, and the council gritters have been oot.

 

[Wingedwheel]

Well we came out of the freezer we had been stuck in for the last two months. Got to around 50* today. Almost enough to fool me into getting into a garage project. Almost…… I know better.

 

[Raymond]

This week the forecast is 'changeable'. Very useful because whatever the weather does, the experts were not wrong. Today is clear, cold and frosty, yet more salt shoveled on the roads.

But yesterday and today we have seen the Sun and that always makes everybody feel better.

 

[jetmechmarty]

I’m probably less than two weeks from seeing daffodils. Latitude 34.

 

[gggGary]

I’m probably less than two weeks from seeing daffodils. Latitude 34.

So all your "rock hard snow drifts" are gone?

 

[Adamc]

I’m probably less than two weeks from seeing daffodils. Latitude 34.

I love a daffodil me..........

 

[jetmechmarty]

So all your "rock hard snow drifts" are gone?

Only by a few days, but yes. The exception being piles created by clearing. I’d say plow but we don’t have any.