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We've had our second fog. A real pea-souper this morning, with a low of 0.5^oC. Visibility was less than fifty metres at 8.30am when I went out, and hadn't improved much by 10am. However, it all burnt off by 11.30 and now it's sunny with a light breeze. The pets are out sunbaking and my washing is getting dry. \o/

bikergeek

Stepped out at lunchtime to run an errand.

The weather is absolutely delightful, sunny and beautiful, in the upper 80s Fahrenheit (or lower 30s Celsius if you count that way). I know that's a bit warm for many New Englanders but it's my absolute favorite kind of weather.

fred_mouse

We've got a severe weather warning current at the moment, and over the last few hours the wind has picked up, there has been intermittent rain, and the temperature has dropped. Our morning walk was okay, just a couple drops of rain, but significant headwinds for one section.

According to our nearest weather station, wind gusts hit 91 km/h at 3:44pm AWST. Strongest winds reported at the BOM site are 117 km/h at Gooseberry hill at 3:33pm AWST. Several locations are already reporting power outages.

(for context: the severe weather warning is for an area roughly from Onslow to just east of Esperance, and west to the coast. This is a very large area, although I'm failing on working out exactly how large, or how much coast there is, but Perth - Onslow by road is about 1400 km and Perth to Esperance is >600, which means at a minimum 2000km of coast are included)

Mods: could I please have a location.au.perth tag.

tozka

Two days ago it was cold-ish, overcast, and rainy. Yesterday and today it was hot and sunny! So I'm not sure what the weather is doing out here, precisely, but I've packed away all my heavier and mid-weight sweaters, finally.

Today was really beautiful; I sat out on the front porch in the shade, with a slight breeze, and chatted on the WisCon 44 Discord for a few hours. I saw a very interesting bird but neglected to get a photo. Maybe tomorrow...

rosefox

We had one (1) really warm day last week and all the roses and irises around the neighborhood went KABOOM. I don't like taking walks during the day because there are so many people around, but I really want to see those flowers in the daylight. Even at night they're spectacular.

All the blossoming trees are done blossoming and fully leafed out. I always have a moment in early spring when I irrationally worry that the trees won't grow leaves, and it's always reassuring when they do. No matter how eagerly I look for it, I still have a day of feeling surprised that suddenly all the trees have these big leaves on them! Where did they come from? When did that happen? But when I sit on our front stoop in the afternoon, the sun is shining from the north, not the south, and I have to position myself just right so the leafy trees down the block don't keep its light from reaching me.

It was still chilly enough to wear a hoodie for tonight's walk, and it's supposed to be rainy and cool for the next couple of days. But by the middle of next week we'll get into proper early summer weather at last: sunny, temps in the 70s F, and a thunderstorm on the horizon.

Current Mood: calm

rosefox

We're stuck in the spring pattern of a few cooler days, a warm front, a rainstorm, and cooling back down (to 60s F during the day and 50s at night). I'm looking forward to getting into the summer pattern of a few warmer days, a cold front, a rainstorm, and warming back up. The other night it was warm and humid and just starting to rain, and I was in a t-shirt and sandals, and it made me hungry for June and July, when it's basically like that all the time. I love getting rained on in the summer and would much rather pack a towel than carry an umbrella.

I've been mostly stuck inside but I'm getting out to my front steps on sunny days, and there are a lot of those. It's just odd to have to wear a light jacket in full sun in mid-May.

Spring allergies are absolutely horrendous this year. Horrendous. My sneezes can be heard from space.

Current Mood: sleepy

mific

A gorgeous day today, warm and clear, 18 degrees C. I went out and had lunch at my local Lebanese place and it was lovely to see the sun, and to see trees finally colouring up. The first pic is a liquidambar, the second an oak, and the third is the view from the Lebanese cafe's big windows. You see why I like going there.

( pics here... )

smallhobbit

Another sunny day, but there's still a cold breeze so it's warm but not very warm yet. This time of year does often have some good weather, and perhaps bears out the old rhyme 'March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flowers'

This is a view looking along the canal about 10 minutes walk from where I live:

Gloucester Canal 17 May 2020

mific

We've had some rain although it was fine for the last two days. But the drought was so bad that there's no sign yet of the reservoirs refilling. I took this pic yesterday at the Nihotupu dam near where I live, and it's still really low - the water should be overflowing that concrete spillway lip.
I gather they're piping water from the Waikato river for the city, but it means there are water restrictions. Messages about that have gotten lost in all the pandemic furore, unfortunately. It's a bit cooler now - edging into cardigan or light jacket weather.

( pic here... )

rosefox

April was rain rain rain rain rain. So far May's had some rain, but also a lot of sun, with temperatures in the high 70sF this weekend. I went out for a walk in just a t-shirt and felt very comfortable—it was the same temperature outside that it was in our house, with fresh clean breezy air that felt like it had just been laundered and hung out to dry.

BBG's latest video shows the Cherry Esplanade in full bloom.

fred_mouse

I'm in Perth, Western Australia, where we are finally getting some rain -- along with a severe weather warning for a significant length of coast, because it comes with a cold front. On the one hand, this is good, because it is about time for a decent amount of rain. Personally though, I'm skipping my lunch time walk and am holed up on the bed, procrastinating before going back to work.

This is in contrast to yesterday, which was bright and sunny, and a balmy 29°C, and both Youngest and I managed to get a little sunburnt going for a ~2 hour bike ride.

mific

It was misty and raining lightly earlier today, but clearing in other parts of Auckland. The pics are from our local Met Service app that shows traffic cams with the weather, and the extreme emptiness of our main motorways at 0915 - rush hour, during lockdown. Cooler but not cold yet - 20 degrees C now, in the evening.
I exercised my car with a short drive to that reservoir I posted a pic of in the drought in March and it's still extremely low, with no green grass at all around it, despite some days of rain since then. I guess we'll need a lot more solid rain to replenish the dams.

( pics here... )

bikergeek

Signs of spring: Sunny out and a bit chilly -- 43°F/6C. I went out to the pharmacy yesterday and noticed that the trees are beginning to show the first signs of leaves on them.

Of course we're supposed to get an inch of snow tonight and then Sunday afternoon's high will be around 62°F/16.5C. Welcome to spring in New England!

sixbeforelunch

It's overcast and rainy this morning. I'm hoping it lasts all day. We haven't had a good rainy day in a while.

It's been unseasonably hot lately. I've been trying to go for periodic walks. I don't mind the heat or the humidity so much as long as there's a haze to block some of the sun. The South Florida sun is brutal.

I live in a very strange spot. I'm surrounded by suburban development on every side, but I live on a private road next to what I assume are homesteaders of some kind which provides a buffer from the endless strip malls and housing developments all around. When I walk, until I get out to the main road, it's easy to forget where I am, and focus on the rustle of snakes and lizards in the foliage, the occasional butterfly or dragon fly, the egrets, the bluejays. I saw what I think was an Eastern Hognose the other day. It was all black, and so still I thought at first that it was dead until it decided it didn't like the creepy biped staring at it and noped out back into the trees.

I'm noticing how vegetal things smell when it's muggy out. It's not a pleasant smell, exactly, but it's earthy and soothing in its way.

rosefox

Yesterday there was a thunderstorm with lots of wind, and then it... snowed today? I think? For about three seconds? We were watching it rain and then the rain very briefly looked like snow and not rain, and then it stopped and a few minutes later we had blue skies. This is pretty normal spring weather here—maybe a little early for thunderstorms, but only a little, and I remember occasional Passover snow when my brother and I were kids.

Last weekend J and I did indeed walk to the Brooklyn Museum and had some very nice weather for it; we took off our jackets for the walk there but were glad to have them on the way back when the clouds came in. I took lots of photos of flowers and flowering trees: cherries, magnolias, forsythia, bluebells/grape hyacinths, and more. My kid, who loves yellow, is thrilled that yellow tulips are blooming outside our house. The last photo in that album is the trees on Eastern Parkway, which don't flower but get fuzzy green halos of new leaves.

For anyone who wants to enjoy Brooklyn's local weather from afar, on Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern there will be a FaceBook Live virtual tour of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.

Current Mood: relaxed

rosefox

Thanks to

tozka and

mific for posting here while I've been off in the lands of Real Life. I hope to get back to posting more and I encourage others to do the same! Even if the only weather you're enjoying right now is through your window.

We had a very warm February and all the trees are blooming much earlier than usual, even though March weather has felt much more traditionally Marchish with a lot of chilly rain. Brooklyn has many cherry and magnolia trees as well as the Callery pears that are common throughout NYC. I love them all (even the invasive species). I took a couple of photos of pear trees last week on a bright sunny day. The enormous puffs of white flowers are dramatic, but I like them better when they've leafed out and some of the petals have fallen and they're a beautiful mix of white and fresh green.

This weekend J and I are hoping to walk down to the Brooklyn Museum—a long walk from our house—and see the cherry trees out front. There are two different species of cherries there and I think the early bloomers will be just past their peak and the late bloomers still just budding, but it's our 14th wedding anniversary and we always celebrate with cherry trees, whatever state they're in. (We honeymooned in Japan in cherry blossom season.) Ideally we'll have decent weather for the walk; highs are in the mid-50s, which feels cool for this time of year, and the 10-day forecast shows a lot of cloud cover and at least a chance of showers every day. I don't mind being rained on, but I'm not fond of being cold. In a few months we'll get warm summer rain, which is my favorite.

Current Mood: tired

tozka

It's been warming up here in southern California! Though it's still a little foggy in the morning, by early afternoon the sun comes out and the whole day is sunshine-y. Today it'll be a high of 71* which makes a pleasant change from the constant low 60*s we've been having all through March.

I found these flowers while on a walk

( (under the cut) )

The iPhone portrait mode makes everything look 10x fancier, tbh.

tozka

A gloomy morning for the first Daylight Savings Day; it's California cold at 54* and overcast. The air smells a little like it might rain, but I think that's just because the humidity is at 82%. Luckily, the weather app says it should get sunnier and slightly warmer (a whole 67*) after 11:00 am!

mific

Too much of a good thing. Still warm and hardly any rain, just a couple of brief, light showers, and we're in an officially declared "severe drought". My local reservoir, the Nihotupu dam, is really low. Usually the water's right at the lip of the concrete spillway and cascading down, but it's well below the spillway lip now. I've seen it a little worse, about 20 years ago in a massive heatwave and drought during an El Nino, but we haven't had a dry patch like this since then, that I can recall. The grassy stuff on the right is reeds, but on the left that's grass, showing how long it's been dry.
How's it going for you guys in the chillier parts of the world? Hope the iguanas are holding on okay.

( pics here )

mific

We had a cooler period recently where temps dropped to 17 degrees C in the day and 10 degrees at night, but today was back at 24 degrees. Super high tide at my local beach to go with the great weather, so high that the usual oystercatchers and ducks were all clustered up on the grassy verge as the beach was gone. Some local dogs enjoyed themselves though - that's one in the top pic making waves, going after a stick.

( pics under here )

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