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owlice wrote:What, Orin, you didn't like all that hot weather??!

63°F here at the moment, clear and a little breezy. I'm glad it's cooled off; my A/C is out and I've been too lazy to find the necessary replacement capacitor needed to fix it.

It's a lovely day out there!

Lets face it; I'm just a fair weather person! It's 59F right now;and is forecast for 83! I can handle that!

Ann wrote:

Beyond wrote:About 34' F here this morning. BBBRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

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Bit cold for your early morning swim, then?

Around here, autumn (which is a word I like much better than fall) arrived last Friday. All day we had hard winds and drizzling rain, and it was about 14C.

And the leaves of the trees are slowly, slowly beginning to turn. Some rowan trees sport red foliage, highlighted by red berries. The maples still mostly wear late summer green, however.

Ann

Morning swim You think I'm Tarzan I get enough exercise just getting up in the morning.

orin stepanek wrote:Lets face it; I'm just a fair weather person! It's 59F right now;and is forecast for 83! I can handle that!

That sounds like a great forecast to me!

57°F here right now; the forecast is for a high of 78°F. The weather is perfect for bread-baking, a nice drive, and taking my favorite kid out for lunch and a restocking trip to the grocery store; he's likely out of whatever provisions he laid in at the beginning of the semester which accounts for his willingness to have me visit him today!

Here, too, autumn took a temporary step back today. It has been mostly sunny and 18C, although it is a bit windy. I went out wearing my autumn/winter coat, while a lot of people walked around in tank tops and T-shirts! I went down to the long sun deck at the waterfront, and lots of people were sitting there, basking in the sun. Loads of people had their dogs with them, but one twenty-something girl had brought her soft fluffy cat on a leash. The cat was so friendly and interested and and loved to come up to you and say hello!!! Awwww!

Ann

59F here today! It is supposed to stay in the low 60's! I just hope winter doesn't rush in!

"Bye-bye, summer!" my local newspaper wrote today.

But the weather is okay today. It's pretty nice, actually.

Ann

Currently:

Local Weather Alerts

• Flash Flood Warning District of Columbia.
  Coastal Flood Advisory District of Columbia.
  Flash Flood Watch District of Columbia.
  Severe Thunderstorm Warning District of Columbia.
  Tornado Watch District of Columbia.

And the tornado warning that had been issued has just been cancelled. Yee-haw.

Good deal! I would be truly confused by an Owlice in Tornado Land… somewhere over the rainbow…

GADZOOKS It's raining buckets! And they're full of water

Beyond wrote:GADZOOKS It's raining buckets! And they're full of water

Whats rain?

orin stepanek wrote:

Beyond wrote:GADZOOKS It's raining buckets! And they're full of water

Whats rain?

It's that clear wet stuff that the N/E has gotten a lot of this year. glub-glub-glub

Beyond wrote: It's that clear wet stuff that the N/E has gotten a lot of this year. glub-glub-glub

It's still dry here; but at least we are enjoying cool weather! My ash tree is showing some yellow leaves; so I imagine that cold weather is on the way!

Fall, fell, fallen!

Summer took a fall!

Sweet Sunny Summer

Shone on us all.


Sweet Sunny Summer

Took a great Fall.


And all the Meteorologists

And all the Weathermen

Can't make Sunny Summer

Shine on us again.

(Until next year.)

Ann

Looks like some one's Fall-en into a new pile of smilies

Wow; last week I had to still use my AC and yesterday; I had to start up my furnace! It's been getting pretty cold out here!

Yeah, it's cool here, too. Hasn't made it to 50 yet today. Frost warning for tonight.

bystander wrote:Yeah, it's cool here, too. Hasn't made it to 50 yet today. Frost warning for tonight.

Well below freezing here. Love it!

Goodland Kansas just got it's first snow today.
http://www.wibw.com/home/localnews/head ... 57901.html

Last Wednesday we got a final whiff of summer around here. For a few hours it was sunny and about 16C. I celebrated with an ice cream.

Now autumn is attacking full force. In Sweden the meteorological definition of autumn is period of five days in a row where the average temperature for each 24-hour day is below 10C. This meteorological autumn has arrived in almost all of Sweden. Yesterday, on Saturday, it was raining almost all day here in Malmö, but the 24-hour average temperature was above 10C, just barely. It was below 10C almost everywhere else in Sweden.

Today it isn't raining, not yet, and the temperature right now is about 11C.

Ann

Meanwhile, on Mars, Curiosity is recording a balmy 43F or 6C at the bottom of Gale Crater

ha-ha, that's 3 degrees warmer than my place when i got up this morning.

Almost 20°C here today. I managed to get some more painting done around the house. But this won't last long. Normal daytime temps this time of year are more like 12°C.

Rob

Fall arrived here last Tuesday. In a meteorological sense, fall is defined where I live as five days in a row where the average 24-hour average temperature is below 10C. We had one such day on Tuesday, another on Wednesday and yet another on Thursday. As I'm writing this, very early in the morning on Friday, temperatures may have dropped below 0C (I don't want to know yet, so I haven't checked). The top daytime temperature today is likely to be, at best, 11C. Tomorrow the cold will be accompanied by rain. At least it will not snow.

Yesterday morning was really cold, even if this morning is likely to be colder. Anyway, after the very chilly start, the weather turned quite lovely. Our autumn leaves around here aren't nearly as colorful as the ones you've got in North America, because for some reason our deciduous trees don't get nearly as red. (So I'm not exactly an avowed lover of red colors, but even I find the very red autumn leaves irresistible.)

Still, even if our trees don't turn as red as yours, they still show nice autumn colors. It was a pleasure to be on the train going home from work and look out at the sunlit autumn countryside.

When I came home, the weather was still nice, and I decided to spend an extra hour cycling along the rather lush old "beach and recreation" part of Malmö. However, I saw something really strange, which I have absolutely never seen before. On some mornings the world is "dressed in dew", as it were, and elegant, beautiful spiderwebs seem to just "pop out" everywhere because they are bejeweled by tiny drops of water. Well, yesterday I saw no spiderwebs, but the fields of grass seemed to be cocooned in billions and trillions very thin but long strands of spiderweb-like filaments. The Sun was in front of me, an I could see how the light from it created long shiny columns of reflection in the grass, as if the grass had been wrapped in a "dream-coat" of transparent silk.

But there was more. Every tree, every lamp-post and every sign-pole seemed to sport these long delicate strands of "almost-spiderweb". But in the case of the trees and the lamp-posts and sign-poles, the threads didn't "hang down". Instead, they pointed horizontally away from the structures they were attached to to, all of them pointing from the west to the east. I was going south, and I had trees and lamp-posts on my right, and long thin strands at least a meter long pointed horizontally away from all these vertical structures straight over at the bicycle path where I was cycling! I felt as if I was cycling straight into ultra-thin long fingers that kept coming at me directly in my path!

Wow! It was weird! But somehow, it was beautiful, too.

Ann

Sounds like the thin boney fingers of the frost of fall are starting to reach out to you, Ann. They start at your feet and work their way up as it gets colder, until you just want to stay inside with hot chocolate and not go out. Well, at least spring chases them away, but it seems like it always takes toooo long for Spring to get here. Shovel, shovel, shovel, shovel....

Beyond wrote:Shovel, shovel, shovel, shovel....

Oh: I hope not! I hope my snow blower works wonders this winter! I'd hate to shovel, shovel, shovel! Actually; it's been so dry that I don't expect much snow this winter! I have heard somewhere that the drought here is supposed to last another 6 months! I'm no weather man; but that would take us to about Spring!