What is your weather like ... today

[Catfishnut]

Addy,

No matter how you look at it, the weather is pretty darn lousy. Isn't it? I want so much to be outside on the river! I am going nuts being confined to the dungeon of darkness! Well, I do have one bright spot here.... I get to chit chat with all of you and that is what is keeping me sane! I joke around quite a bit, but this one is not a joke. If it were not for you all, I would be climbing the walls of a padded cell somewhere! Come on spring time!

Gordy

 

[callingcolleen1]

I once swam in the big Okanogan lake in Kelowna BC in late fall. The water felt cold at first, then my my body became acustom to the cold and there I was, out in the deep water with my goggles on, looking at some really big fish! I must have swam for a good half hour, then came out and sat on the bench and started to feel dizzy, must have been mildly hypothermaic or something. .. I don't think I could do that now, not as "hardy" to the cold as I used to be! I used to like the challange, like walking downtown when it was minus 30 outside, dressed warm and it never bothered me. Now forget that noise, cause I am going to stay inside and curl up with my fat Poppy!

Have to work all day and it is going to be really cold, only going to warm up to minus 19c, right now it is minus 23c (minus 10 F) and that is too cold to take aging puppies to the park today!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Springlike temperatures will be here next week... according to the weather forecast!

 

[sissy]

started day at 32 degrees with lots of sun .To many trees budding out though

 

[CountryEscape]

This is what my prediction looks like for the next 5 days. Not too bad, no negative temps, so I can handle that. We shall see how good they are at predicting this snowfall. Two weeks ago, someone posted 14-16", which was soooo funny. Now it's more normal with 2-4" and maybe another 1-3" tonight. I'll settle for that. I can get around in that for sure. Winds going to join the snow, which will make it dangerous. I don't worry about me, I worry about the other idiots that think driving on even 2" of snow packed on the roads is same as dry roads. I'm 4WD, 3/4 ton, 5 - 80# bags of sand in the bed, new tires. Yep, I'm good to go. We shall see how I fare this evening.

 

[sissy]

remember put kitty litter in you truck just in case you loose traction .I always had that and blankets in vehicles in NJ .I also had a shovel in each vehicle ,the you never know .

 

[j.w]

26f right now w/ more wonderful sunlight piercing through the clouds. Was very cold for here last night. Somewhere in the teens. Will be even colder tonight at 10f. I changed my little weather banner the other day to the small one cuz I like how it shows both C and F temps.
I looked ahead at my weather forecast and they say possible snow for Saturday night.......................but then rain comes Sunday to take whatever we get all away

EVERETT AND VICINITY:

...TEMPERATURES WELL BELOW NORMAL EXPECTED THIS WEEK...

OFFSHORE FLOW WILL BRING COLD AIR FROM INTERIOR BRITISH COLUMBIA INTO WESTERN WASHINGTON THIS WEEK. HIGHS WILL BE MOSTLY IN THE LOWER TO MID 30S EACH DAY. THIS IS ABOUT 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.

THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SOME LOCATIONS TO SET RECORDS FOR LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES.

 

[HARO]

Addy,

No matter how you look at it, the weather is pretty darn lousy. Isn't it? I want so much to be outside on the river! I am going nuts being confined to the dungeon of darkness! Well, I do have one bright spot here.... I get to chit chat with all of you and that is what is keeping me sane! I joke around quite a bit, but this one is not a joke. If it were not for you all, I would be climbing the walls of a padded cell somewhere! Come on spring time!

Gordy

So tell me, Gordy..... how does conversing with a bunch of LUNATICS keep you sane?
John

 

[JohnHuff]

Is 35F right now. Went out earlier to the gym and it was a little bit cooler. But a workout at the gym really warms me up. Glad I went.

 

[Catfishnut]

So tell me, Gordy..... how does conversing with a bunch of LUNATICS keep you sane?
John

Well, it's like this John. If you want to look thin, you hang out with fat people.

Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk

That's not my line... It's from Back To School with Rodney Dangerfield. And I am only joking here. You are not fat and you're not a lunatic, as far as I can percieve. So it boils down to a matter of having pleasant company around.

Gordy the Hippy

 

[addy1]

Got it we make you look sane, or is it just saner...............
Glad we can help you stay sane, keeping those fingers typing to your virtual friends.

 

[Catfishnut]

Addy,

I believe it is because everyone here is so enthusiastic about their ponds that it makes my overindulgence and passion and obsession seem normal. We evidentally all have the same love for the outdoors and water and fish and nature in general.

Hippy Gordy

 

[sissy]

almost 7 pm and just started to rain here light .Not that chilly out .I guess because there is no wind

 

[CountryEscape]

Addy,

I believe it is because everyone here is so enthusiastic about their ponds that it makes my overindulgence and passion and obsession seem normal. We evidentally all have the same love for the outdoors and water and fish and nature in general.

Hippy Gordy

Totally agree with you, Gordy! That's why I love this forum and the people on it. Well said,
Very strange weather going on outside here tonight. At 1 the snow started, VERY light, very small particles. By 4, in Effingham where I work, maybe 1.5". By 4:45 when I left the office, it was 3-4" already, and coming down in much larger flakes. The interstate (I have 12 miles of it or 2-lane highway to take) was completely snow packed. I went 40 (speed limit is 70 now) and only got passed by one semi. Had to stop at the end of the exit ramp to clean my wipers (no one coming) then headed south. This storm was to be worse north of Interstate 70 (that's the interstate I drive on) and less south of it. It's freaky, but the storms do that! First 2-3 miles on the blacktop which is a 2 lane highway, was so covered with snow, it was really hard to see where the flipping road was! Then, poof ... no snow on the road! How did that happen??? Little farther, snow covering road for maybe 1/10 mile, then clear again, back and forth. Got home, walk from barn to the house it was like ice was hitting my hood of my coat. Very windy, and winds so far coming out of the ENE, which figures, since bad stuff comes from the E where I live. Going to change to NW winds by morning. Supposed to get 3-6" by morning, and then drifting. My country roads were pretty clear, except a few places where the trees were up by the road, and the snow gathered in drifts. Should be an interesting drive come morning.
I feel really bad for those south of me and SE of me ... the freezing rain band was WIDE, and that's far worse than 6" of snow IMO. Hope everyone stays safe as this storm passes to the east.

 

[callingcolleen1]

CE, STAY HOME tomorrow.... take a sick day or something, weather too strange down there and I have a bad feeling that your roads might not be in good shape come morning.

I hate to tell everybody this, but I am not exactly what you might call "normal" seeing how Catfishnut brought the topic up.... With me, what you "see" is what you "get"!! I have nothing to hid. BUT if you are looking for normal, you may be looking for a long time, cause there is no such thing as "Normal" as I have looked for "normal" my whole life and still not found it. Sometimes those who "appear" to be the most "normal" usually yave lots of stuff hiding under the rug in skeletons in their closents...

Just so you know, the weather here right now SUCKS and it is only going to get even colder!! Got extra blankets on the greenhouse roof and that Fat Poppy won't get off the couch, just sniffing that minus 20 Celsius and dropping was enough for her!!