Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 333 Location: northern California
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:03 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
First day of May! Well, we're inching toward spring here in northeastern California. The last day in March it was 1 degree here, as I earlier reported. Last day in April was 20 degrees and snowy. Sunny this morning but a chilly 15 degrees. Guess I won't start planting the garden quite yet... _________________ "When hope is gone, action can ensue."
Buzzard, po.com poster
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:18 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
If these past couple of weeks are anything to go by, summer this year around these parts in Northern Europe will be a living hell. It is 20-30 degrees Celsius and out of the shade, I saw 45 already. For this time of the year, that's quite spectacular in a very bad way.
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Colder than usual, still. Flowers are confused. Lots of rain. I prefer the wet cool to drought. Anything but drought, I say. Pacific Northwest, btw. Please indicate where you're from.
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
April marked the 12th straight month of above normal temperatures in the DC/Baltimore region. Rainfall is around normal for the year so far, putting a dent into the slight drought we were in.
Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 5694 Location: My Grandkids' Farm
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Projections of frost again tonight, the beans and corn raised in the greenhouse and set out a couple weeks ago froze to the ground.
Strange weather say the old folks around here... _________________ ...ladies and gentlemen, we're not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality.
--Gekko.
"I hope my own children never have to fight a war,"
--GHW Bush, Naval Aviator
Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 2187 Location: Minniesotuh
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Twisters rake deadly path across 4 states; 7 die
So far this year, 24 people have been killed by storms in Arkansas alone Sat., May. 3, 2008
SILOAM SPRINGS, Arkansas - Residents of communities across Arkansas on Saturday faced the wreckage of homes torn apart by violent weather that has pushed this year's storm death toll in the southern state up to 24. ,,,
Beebe said Arkansans would cope with the latest in a string of bad weather that has included a foot of snow, a foot of rain and severe flooding that killed three. ...
Arkansas
Tornadoes hit Virginia, 200 injured
Reuters: Friday, May 02, 2008
WASHINGTON - Three tornadoes swept through central and southeastern Virginia on Monday, injuring about 200 people and damaging dozens of homes and businesses, officials said.
The city of Suffolk in the southeastern part of the state was hardest hit by the late afternoon storms, said Virginia Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Laura Southard. She said earlier reports of a fatality in linked to the severe weather were incorrect. …
Virginia
Neighbours pull together as N.B. dries out
Marianne White , Canwest News Service : Saturday, May 03, 2008
FREDERICTON - As flood waters from the St. John River receded in Fredericton Saturday, residents were busy pumping out their homes and assessing the damage from the deluge of water that hit New Brunswick's capital region over the last week. ...
New Brunswick
Spring storm slams southern Wisconsin
PORTAGE (AP) — A clash of weather systems set off storms across Wisconsin late Friday that included a reported tornado, lightning, hail and heavy rains in many areas.
The National Weather Service said trained weather spotters reported the tornado east of Portage in Columbia County, about 30 miles north of Madison, as a storm swept northeastward through the area. …
Wisconsin _________________ "RRrrruuuunnnn!!!" ~Apocalypto
Joined: Nov 16, 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Rural Western Idaho
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
I have one good thing to say about it staying cold so long this spring ... it means that not having gotten most of the garden in by May 3rd (because we are so darn busy!) has been a good thing -- since we would have lost most of it to cold temperatures.
Last two days have been in the 70's. May plant tomorrow. (Radishes and peas are in already.)
Lumpy _________________ "Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up."
-- Dean Karnazes, runner and author of Ultramarathon Man
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 5249 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
There was a tornado threat here last night, but we escaped instead with a gentle, night-long thunderstorm that deposited 1.75 inches of rain.
More rain coming.
It continues unusually cool and cloudy here (we've had a few sunny days scattered in, too). My tomatoes are doing poorly and I may have to replace some of them. Otherwise I'm lovin' it. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 333 Location: northern California
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:53 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Rain sounds nice. The most rain I've seen here in one day has been .65" several years ago. The forecast for the next week is snow showers on Monday, leading to temperatures approaching 100 degrees by next weekend! Supposedly a massive high pressure system is headed this way, the likes of which has never been seen this time of year before. Seems like my worst fears of future local climate are about to be realized--that is, horrendous heat waves in the summers. Of course, drought is a foregone conclusion. _________________ "When hope is gone, action can ensue."
Buzzard, po.com poster
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
STILL cold dry and windy. Really crappy spring. Below freezing as late as last week and the tough as nails scrub oaks around here STILL haven't leafed out. WhereTF is spring?
-G _________________ All right, you primitive screw-heads, listen up!
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 5249 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:44 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
It continues really cool and wet here, and the outlook is for more of the same. Two more inches of rain is forecast for Sunday/Monday, and the lows at night are getting down into the 40s. It's not unusual to see 90s here this time of year, but they're nowhere in sight.
It's peculiar to walk around in the woods in mid-May with almost no bugs.
Drought? What drought?
Maybe Virginia isn't so bad after all . . . _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
dunewalker wrote:
Rain sounds nice. The most rain I've seen here in one day has been .65" several years ago. The forecast for the next week is snow showers on Monday, leading to temperatures approaching 100 degrees by next weekend! Supposedly a massive high pressure system is headed this way, the likes of which has never been seen this time of year before. Seems like my worst fears of future local climate are about to be realized--that is, horrendous heat waves in the summers. Of course, drought is a foregone conclusion.
Are you on the coast, or interior? I'm between Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. Do you know if we're expected to get the same? If so, massive electrical storms will accompany the front, with the temperature differential, I'd think. What about high winds? I'd think so. Yikes.
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