Hows is your weather today? Or anything else for that matter

[DannySan]

Wet and windy in Manchester again. Noticed loads of trees down in Southern Cemetery on the way home from work that didn't appear to be down this morning?

[Heno]

in Johannesburg

27 degrees today. man I don't like weather that's too warm

travelled for 24 hours solid and didn't an hour's sleep. didn't drink except a glass of wine with food. done a serious amount of work.

started the wheel of time and think I am going too get lost in it. well not lost precisely. more escape in it

[Master Ray]

Lovely day here in South Cheshire!  Not very cold, blinding sunshine and that howling wind of the last few days has reduced to a minor breeze...  I even went for a little walk earlier!

 

[DannySan]

Lovely day here in South Cheshire!  Not very cold, blinding sunshine and that howling wind of the last few days has reduced to a minor breeze...  I even went for a little walk earlier!

 

Same in Manchester Ray... I'm nervous about tomorrow now!

[sozbot]

Weather-wise, it's been a mixed bag - a month ago I was in Australia, with 35+ (C) degree heat. Then to Vegas, where it was mild (max 15-18deg, lows of 4 or 5), then to New York, where it rarely got above freezing. Now back here, where it seems we need to build an ark. 

[Heno]

what were you travelling for?

25 degrees and the sun bursting. too hot outside for me. just as well I'm here for work.

watched an excellent series on the way down here. it was a bbc documentary about Arabia and its wildlife. it is incredible what evolution has done to ensure that those that mutate survive.

[sozbot]

what were you travelling for?

25 degrees and the sun bursting. too hot outside for me. just as well I'm here for work.

watched an excellent series on the way down here. it was a bbc documentary about Arabia and its wildlife. it is incredible what evolution has done to ensure that those that mutate survive.

Wedding and honeymoon! Wedding in Australia (I'm from there), honeymoon in the States and back home to the UK.

I'm not much of a fan of hot weather, either. Maybe that's why I left Australia in the first place!

[Heno]

i've been to oz a few times. i'm not sure any of the colonialists are made for that weather

should all move back to a housing estate in manchester

[sozbot]

Well, it definitely doesn't suit me, despite having spent my first 25 years there...

[Heno]

we went to a wedding on the paddle steamer on the river in brisbane. hottest day ever. having a beer with a couple of the locals and asked how do they cope and they said they didn't. some of them were like 4th generation and none of them could cope.

[DannySan]

Manchester is still grey but a lot warmer today. But not as warm as Oz!

[Rusco]

Normally it's approximately -20 celsius here and 50-70 cm snow everywhere in the mid winter. But now it's just raining water and +3 celsius. Well it's more comfortable than normally but have to say it's totally weird times we have now. Water's nearly everywhere.

Last autumn there were 5 lesser storm winds between November and December. It was only short time that we had the normal 2 weeks period in January with -15c and -20c degrees. But there wasn't snow more than only 2 cm:s which meant that active layer of frost was very deep (it gets to 2 meters deep once in 30 years).

Active layer and frost is good to the tree roots of conifereous woods we have here. The woods have get used to extreme cold during thousands of years at these latitudes. Now when the weather's so messed up with all that global warming things seem to get upside down here. Foreign species of plants and animals arrive more often.

Strange times...

[sozbot]

we went to a wedding on the paddle steamer on the river in brisbane. hottest day ever. having a beer with a couple of the locals and asked how do they cope and they said they didn't. some of them were like 4th generation and none of them could cope.

Yep, it's a nightmare. I have family near Brisbane and they pretty much stay inside with the air conditioner, or swim in the pool. I'm from much further south, and we were lucky with the weather as it'd been 40 deg the previous week!

[Anna Woman von NRW]

. Now when the weather's so messed up with all that global warming things seem to get upside down here. Foreign species of plants and animals arrive more often.

Strange times...

yep and so do all the new pests/diseases/pathogens: Here in the UK it's not just Ash trees. Currently there are restrictions on import/movement of Sweet Chestnut and Plane trees as well as the spread of Sudden Oak Death

[Shush]

Sudden Oak Death

Dont like the sound of that. Is it a new goth band ?