Oh, the weather outside is...

[Birdjaguar]

We had a beautiful sunny warm day in St. Louis yesterday for our granddaughters birthday. Delightful!

 

[stfoskey12]

It may or may not snow Wednesday morning. I'd bet money on it not snowing any significant amount, as we always seem to get screwed out of a good snowfall.

 

[Darsnan]

To paraphrase Roy Scheider, we're gonna need a bigger shovel!

 

[Zkribbler]

Just got past days of low pressure passing over bringing deluges. Beautiful day today.

Up north. the Taal volcano remains at level 3 with ash clouds and earthquakes a plenty.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Sunny and 60 today. A harbinger of spring. Laundry's on the line and I will spend some time in the yard today.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Freezing rain and high winds overnight. The roads are like polished glass.

And I have to go out today.

 

[Zkribbler]

Freezing rain and high winds overnight. The roads are like polished glass.

And I have to go out today.

Oh . Be safe.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I made it. To and from the store and I got my milk. Yay!

 

[Arakhor]

Storm Ciara has hit the UK, because the Met Office now insists on giving storms pretty names. High winds, pouring rain and general bad weather, oh my.

 

[Camikaze]

We have been waiting months for some decent rain. It has all come at once, causing a fair amount of flooding in Sydney. About 300mm in the last few days. In the long run this is good, because the dam levels should rise, perhaps even to the point that water restrictions will be lifted. But it will make for a horrendous commute tomorrow morning (my train line is already flooded).

 

[Arakhor]

I know someone by repute in Sydney and they were saying that the Parramatta river has severely overflowed and their car-park is starting to flood. At least it's putting out the fires, right?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Storm Ciara has hit the UK, because the Met Office now insists on giving storms pretty names. High winds, pouring rain and general bad weather, oh my.

I vaguely remembering an article I saw here where one of the weather apps/services was blasting another service for deciding to name every 'big' weather system as a distraction that lessened the utility of naming the truly big storms like hurricanes.

We have been waiting months for some decent rain. It has all come at once, causing a fair amount of flooding in Sydney. About 300mm in the last few days. In the long run this is good, because the dam levels should rise, perhaps even to the point that water restrictions will be lifted. But it will make for a horrendous commute tomorrow morning (my train line is already flooded).

Stay safe!

 

[Birdjaguar]

No weather today, just partly cloudy skies keeping the temps cooler than I like.

 

[Arwon]

Now we watch the dam levels over the next few days and see if they full back up.

(Canberra is getting less rain than the coast but the emergency controller seemed confident they were on top of our southern fire even before the rain came. Our ACT dams are at 44%, down from roughly 100% in 2016.)

(There's still fire and drought stricken towns getting water trucked in across parts of the country, too)

 

[hobbsyoyo]

We are getting rain today and since we had to go out grocery shopping, the car got a much-needed washing.

 

[Camikaze]

I'm in Canberra for work at the moment, and the extent to which everything is brown is astonishing. Canberra is a brownish city at the best of times, but absolutely everything just looks dead.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm in Canberra for work at the moment, and the extent to which everything is brown is astonishing. Canberra is a brownish city at the best of times, but absolutely everything just looks dead.

Sounds like most of SoCal in the summer.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Crisp and dry in my part of Norfolk.

 

[Zkribbler]

Sounds like most of SoCal in the summer.

I was just getting ready to post the same thing.

 

[Arwon]

I'm in Canberra for work at the moment, and the extent to which everything is brown is astonishing. Canberra is a brownish city at the best of times, but absolutely everything just looks dead.

Bush Capital hasn't had close to average rainfall for like a year, and you know how the bush gets without rain.

No water restrictions as of yet, dams are still at 44% before the current rain and there's no point hoarding water given we're at the headwaters of the Murrumbidgee and everything we use is recycled and flows into the Murray Darling Basin anyway.