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Brooklyn, NY, USA

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.

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Perth, WA, Australia

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.

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Water! Falling from the Sky! - Perth, Western Australia

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.

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Rainy morning, Auckland

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... )

Current Mood: relaxed

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Brooklyn, NYC, USA

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: tired

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Brooklyn, NY, USA

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.

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Sydney, Australia

Yes, that is rain!

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The good thing is: IT'S RAIN.

The bad thing is: a lot of it is washing off our roofs and into the stormwater drains and out to sea rather than soaking into the soil.

The really bad thing is: it's also raining in areas that have recently been burned out, which means ash and the thin layer of topsoil is washing into our rivers, streams, and dam areas, and killing a lot of the waterlife that survived.

*sigh*

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Anaheim, CA, USA

So, round about midnight, we had:

* Tornado warning
* Flood warning
* Wind advisory
* Thunderstorms
* Hail (the size of pennies)
* Snow causing a major highway to close

And now this morning: sunshine (with just a little flash flood warning). Wtf, SoCal?

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Torrential rain, Auckland, NZ

Typically changeable weather after a stretch of full-on summer heat, but today it was darkish and raining buckets, pouring down outside my living room window. Late at night now and it's still stormy and cool, only 15 degrees C and 96% humidity.

I took a vid of the rain - click on the pic to see it.

Pouring rain outside a window, coloured glass vases in front

Need a tag, season: summer, please, not that it feels summery today!

Current Mood: sleepy

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NYC, NY, USA

We got our first snow of the year today! When I left the house at noon it was spitting cold rain, which then became frozen rain, then bits of snow. A friend and I were out getting lunch at that point, and I yelled, "This snow isn't picturesque at all! I want my money back!" But it did become proper fluffy snow (quite a lot of it) for a while, then went back to bits of snow. Actual accumulation was minimal because most of it melted; it was well above freezing all day, with gusting winds. I was very glad to have a good parka and waterproof over-pants.

I took this photo in Chinatown mid-afternoon during the fluffy phase. I don't really understand using umbrellas in the snow, but it does look very pretty.

Snow accumulates on two black umbrellas

As you can see from my icon, I like eating ice cream in the snow (my mom, who gets very excited about snow, texted me and my brother to see whether we were available for "snoice cream"), but unfortunately this wasn't the right kind of snow for that: for ice cream I prefer the fairly dry and powdery snow that happens when it's colder, and less wind. Today I was mostly getting facefuls of slush and that wasn't fun. It's supposed to be a pretty precipitation-heavy winter, though, so I hope I'll have better opportunities.

Current Mood: sleepy

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Here in the armpit of Sandy Hook, NJ

It's the first day of December. The sky is thoroughly overcast, and there's a cold gusty wind - the temperature is 37° F/2.8° C. It's going to start raining here very soon, but the rain will be mixed with freezing rain, sleet, and snow, and the temperatures are going to keep going down. The prediction is for all that wintry precipitation to continue and turn back into light rain, but then become more frozen and hazardous through all of Sunday and Monday and into Tuesday morning. Weather that I would normally have expected for early December. I hear the trucks going by on the main road, spraying ice-preventing "brine" on the pavement. It's easier to get into the mood for the winter holidays when the weather is wintry.

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Anaheim, CA, USA

It rained yesterday, it's REALLY raining today, and it'll keep raining tomorrow!

Yesterday the rain was sporadic, and light. I managed to miss both the initial morning downpour and the evening return, so despite carrying my rainboots around all day I never actually needed them. It was also pretty cold, lows of 48* in the darkest part of the evening.

This morning it started raining around 5:00 am; it's almost 8:00 and it's increased in fervor. It sounds amazing outside! Unfortunately, my windows leak-- so I've been running around putting down towels and containers to catch drips. Temperatures remain low, and I'm totally ready to spend the day in cozy blankets and multiple sweaters.

One of my internet friends sent me this song after I posted about today's rain, and I love it so much I wanna share it with you all:

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Sydney, Australia

Well, yesterday, Sydney got rain.

About 20 minutes of gale-force rain and wind that completely effed up many suburbs' power and transport.

I was at a friend's house right on the edge of the storm (both her house and my house were on the edge, a little further east they were right in the middle of it all), and the rain was slanting at an oblique angle - that's how hard the winds were.

No photos from me - there were a few trees down in our area, but not near my house, but the news article I linked to has some impressive pics of trees and lines down. What I did get a pic of is the queue for the bus replacements that were sent in to move all the people who weren't able to catch the intercity train north of the suburban network because the power was down and the trains weren't running. But that's not weather.

Temperature in the morning was cool and humid, but also smoky with smoke from the bushfires up north and north-west settling in the basin. The temperature heated up to 32C just before the storm hit, after which it dropped to 23C (1pm). At 4pm, it was back up to 28C but eased back down by sunset at 7pm.

Today, on the other hand, is blue skies and sunny. Temperature is mild at about ~25C, humidity is medium-low (well, it is summer in Sydney). Almost no wind down on the ground, and no sign that there's going to be anything picking up later.

I'm in an office today, but have plans for gardening tomorrow, so a clear day is good.

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Sydney, Australia

We got rain yesterday afternoon - not in the bushfire areas, but in the Sydney basin.

Unfortunately, geographically, the Sydney basin does not also contain the Sydney basin's water supply, so the rain yesterday washed mostly into the gutters and stormwater drains.

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But it made for some pretty afternoon light!

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Tucson, AZ, USA

We're in the middle of our first major winter storm systems of the season (it's actually two lows chained together). Rainfall throughout the city has been .8" to 1.25" over the last 24 hours, after about .5" the previous night, and about 2" up on the mountains. It's early enough, though, that it's not cool enough for snow except on the very peaks.

Traffic this morning was not pretty, though at least for major rush hour, rain was on pause between bands of clouds. Our house and the couple blocks around it was without power when we woke up -- took a couple hours for repair crews to fix things.

Rain showers likely through the day, trailing off tonight, but the bulk of precipitation should already have fallen. It'll be chilly tonight, after the two cold fronts moving through. If it were a month later, we'd have frost tomorrow morning, but for now it'll just be time for jackets at dawn.

(Admin: Missing location.us.az.tucson and place.desert tags.)

---L.

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Palm Beach County, FL, USA

Rainy and overcast and breezy this Saturday morning. Sticking my head outside tells me it's what passes for cool in south Florida. Last night it poured while I was in a Thai restaurant. There's something so cozy about rain at night when you're inside and being well fed.

It's been a rough few weeks, and this is good weather for drinking tea and watching Doctor Who.

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Boston suburbs, MA, USA

The weather has been fluctuating between the 50s and the 30s, bright sunshine and drenching downpours. Welcome to New England.

Halloween trick-or-treating was expected to be interrupted by a nor'easter, but it was so warm and pleasant that the teen didn't need to wear a coat over his costume when he went out with the much younger next-door neighbors. The nor'easter held off till later, and even had the courtesy to be done when it was time to leave the house in the morning. Plenty of downpours later on, though.

The teenager has a fleece jacket and a lightweight hooded jacket that zip together into a winter coat, and he did that this week.

The pre-teen lost her similar coat, so yesterday after her dentist appointment we got her a coat and extremely cute ankle boots at Costco at appropriate discount. Then when we left, the wind gusts nearly took the boot box sailing off of the top of the groceries.

My tires DEFINITELY need replacement before the roads get icy; going through deep puddles has been hair-raising already.

But, the weather finally matches the lack of daylight, I suppose...