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larryhammer

Not nearly so chill this morning: the storm those cirrus clouds hinted at has come, leaving us overcast overnight, and as a result we didn't cool off nearly as much. Temperature at daybreak was 65F/18C and the sky is completely grey -- though not uniformly so: the layering is thicker and darker over the mountains in a way very suggestive of moisture getting too heavy to remain vapor. The birds, during my morning walk, were subdued -- except for a fluster of sparrows down one alley.

The chance of rain down here on the valley floor is only 30%, and unlike the last storm it's not at all blustery -- barely a breeze in fact. Better chance of rain tomorrow, and predicted much cooler, so probably the associated cold front hasn't actually moved through. We'll see.

larryhammer

A slightly chill morning, still hanging at our low of 43F/6C just after sunrise. The sky is almost completely clear blue except for high cirrus over the distant mountains. The expected high is around 79F/26C, warming up a little after the blustery cold front moved through two days ago. We're expecting another tomorrow (see: cirrus), this one with possible rain.

Early spring has definitely sprung: the turtledoves and mourning doves have been very coo-y all over the place, the hawks and kestrels calling out occasionally, and the grackles -- oh boy the grackles have been loudly frivolous when they gather. The lupins are in full bloom, ditto cassia and brittlebrush, and the first African daisies are opening. The pollen alerts are high, almost all ash and cottonwood.

tozka

Woke up to a surprisingly foggy morning! I tried to take a photo, but fog's always been one of those things that's more impressive IRL than in digital...

Description: Photo shows a backyard with a tall hedge, shed and laundry rack. The sky is totally grey and overcast.

It's very dewy outside and the grass is all wet. Temps currently 37*F, with a high of 51*F later once the fog burns off around noon.

tozka

Some very interesting weather today! It's raining, windy, and yet weirdly somewhat warm at 10*C/50*F.

I woke up to very overcast skies, dark to the point where I needed to turn lights on around the house. It's raining steadily, but very softly. Everything's wet outside and the windows are covered in raindrops, but it's not torrential or anything like that.

The wind is coming in gusts, and I can hear it rushing around the top of the house and through the garden in particular. There's one tree waving around a lot but the bird feeder isn't moving at all, possibly because it's all seed balls and they've been soaked through to becoming bricks. The cat I'm petsitting has refused to go outside at all (fair enough) but as that's where he does his business he'll have to make the trek out there eventually...

Looks like the rain will continue through til about 5pm, which means I should be able to go out and get the potatoes I need for dinner without getting soaked (hopefully).

fred_mouse

After a wet (and occasionally foggy!) week, today is clear and crisp, although it is apparently going to warm up to about 22°C in a couple of hours. A bit of wind - I can see the garden waving gently at me through the window (although the weather app tells me it is about 20 km/h). Good gardening weather!

mific

I made a post in my journal about recent storms and heavy rain breaking the drought in Auckland. The pics are here. We still have water restrictions as the dams aren't all as full as they could be, across Auckland. But the water levels are way better than they were a few weeks ago, whew.

mific

We're back under full lockdown with 1 Delta case yesterday, five today and up to 150 predicted. It's a fine winter's day with a cool wind, about 13 degrees C. Most of us can only look out at the day through the window, but here's hoping the lockdown works. Pic is of eerily empty main motorways in Auckland, from the one of the Metservice's traffic cams.

Empty motorways on a sunny day, Auckland.

tielan

Middle of winter, Sydney.

We're in lockdown with Delta COVID wandering free in a chilly winter full of sniffles and coughs. So it's all on the cold and damp and miserable right now.

Our temps are down to 5C in the dark of the mornings, and up to about 18C in the midafternoons - just manageable for this Sydneysider. But June and July are the coldest months of the year and I'm not very fond of the cold (especially not when living in a house which had zero wall and floor insulation when we moved in...

tielan

In Canberra for the day.

It's a late winter afternoon. Temperature ~12C, and it's been sunny and clear all day.

Rather better than home when I left it this morning. North side of Sydney was covered in smoke from the RFS backburning (to try to keep things from getting out of control later this fire season)...

mergatrude

We had a trifecta today: rain, hail and snow! Not enough to stay on the ground, but it's always lovely to see white flakes floating around (safe and warm inside).

rosefox

Hurricane Isaias is blowing through, and we're under a tornado watch. The lights are occasionally flickering. We aren't letting anyone in the front rooms, which have big picture windows, and closed those curtains tightly; the cats and the small child are annoyed at being kept from their usual spaces. We're on the second floor, and it's a tornado watch, not a warning, but best to be careful.

About five years ago, a little redwood tree was planted in front of our house, and it's now a medium-size tree about the height of our two-storey house. The wind is bending it over at nearly a 45-degree angle. We're hoping it survives. Behind the house there's a much bigger tree that sheds leaves all over the garage in the fall. The garage is currently covered in bright green leaves that have been stripped from it, and when the wind blows the tree back and forth, it sounds like the surf. When branches started tapping on my window, I closed that curtain too.

Last night we got the front edge of the storm, which is where all the rain is. Now it's just wind. It's weird to see such strong wind without rain—not a thing that happens here much. No freight train noise yet, and hopefully there won't be.

EDIT, an hour later: The wind has mostly stopped, with occasional gusts, and there are patches of blue sky. I'm already hearing a chainsaw. I'm guessing there's a downed tree or large branch somewhere. Friends near us reported that a tree branch landed on power lines and split the pole in the corner of their yard. The tree behind the house is tangled in some data cables, but nothing broke. Hopefully other damage around the city is minimal.

silkensteel

We're in Northern Nevada - and yesterday (and looks like today) we've got heat, followed by delightful rumbly monsoonery. Mid-high 90's instead of mid 100's because the unpleasant days and days long heatwave is now broken; I actually wore a long sleeve shirt over my 'jamma T as it was in the mid 60's which is almost 50 degrees cooler than it was at peak a day and a half earlier. Also my zucchini plant is huge. Insane huge. I've never seen leaves 2' across before. Only one squash bug which I (naturally) squashed, and then immediately trimmed all the leaves touching the ground just in case any more than the one washed in on last weekend's irrigation flow.

rosefox

There was a very impressive thunderstorm this evening. We heard the first rumbles around 6, and it didn't fully reach us until 7. The sky was more green than grey—not quite tornado green, but close to it—and the lightning and thunder were constant for something like half an hour, with bouts of torrential rain. We cuddled up with our kid and watched the storm through the window like it was a movie.

Sometimes rain clears the air, but the prediction is for more storms today and tomorrow, so I'm guessing the air will continue thick and unbreathable. After that we'll get a few days of sunny weather and the humidity should ease off a bit, though it'll still be very hot.

This is all perfectly normal New York City summer weather, incidentally—there's a reason my "summer" userpic is a painting called Love in a Rainstorm. I'm always baffled when shoe stores insist that rain boots aren't needed outside of spring and fall.

rosefox

It's been beastly hot here, and the air quality is atrocious. In the late afternoon I took a short walk to the store, no more than a mile there and back, in one of my most lightweight masks and a cotton t-shirt and shorts, and by the time I was home I was short of breath and had literal rivulets of sweat running down my back. It wouldn't feel so bad in the shade, even a little breezy, and then I'd step out into full sun and feel the heat of it smack me in the chest like a physical force. Our air conditioners are struggling and we have a family policy of only running the washer/dryer and dishwasher overnight so we don't add to the daytime load on the power grid. Really looking forward to Thursday's promised thunderstorms.

mergatrude

Heavy fog this morning; it will probably persist past midday unless the wind picks up. A cold front has passed over the south-east of the continent, but we only got 2.4mm yesterday. Just enough to dampen everything down, and to discourage a school holiday visit to beach.

fred_mouse

Beautiful sunny winter day today, forecast high of about 18*C, and it probably got to that -- we went for a relatively long bushwalk, and it was still and comfortable. Started off a bit too cool for my liking, but by half ten it was bright, sunny, and I was moving fast enough for the weather to count as warm! At one point, it was so still that I could hear buzzing of insects, and then the movement of leaves as the faintest gust of wind came through.

hannah

There was an absolute deluge of rain here in New York City today, nearly two inches over four hours, and I wrote about going out on a bike ride in the worst of it here.

mergatrude

Yesterday afternoon a rare event: fog!

We'd had fog in the morning, but it cleared to a partly cloudy day with a top of 14^oC. Around 4.30pm, a heavy fog rolled in, blanketing the entire city.

(Mods, could I get a location.au.canberra tag? Thanks.)

silkensteel

Last night was our traditional First Week Of June Frost/Freeze Warning. From here on it _should_ be summer, 'though it's happened that snow squalls will run through in July. Yay for Lahontan Basin High Desert!

Sheeted the grapevines, tarped the tire raised bed, tarped and rug'd the tomato, cuke and watermelon seedlings, closed the citrus tree greenhouse. Everything survived. The stone fruit trees had more damage from the wind front than the cold front behind it. Definitely chilly out there today. I've left the covers nearby in case I need them tonight.

bikergeek

The second thunderstorm front for today is moving through Belmont, MA right now. High this afternoon was about 90°F, and the first front resulted in about a 10° drop.

I like summer thunderstorms. :)

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