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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2015 3:41:41 GMT -5
We noticed blossom on the trees yesterday and daffodils blooming. Surely this is fucking the natural order of stuff up? What will happen to the trees in spring?
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Post by Phar Lap on Dec 21, 2015 3:45:26 GMT -5
Yesterday's cool change helped although can someone please explain how I found 12ish degrees in London warm and 20ish degrees in the 'rat cold? A south-westerly? In London last year, I found standing under a tree or in the shade you're suddenly cooler unlike back home - it's still 40 degrees in the shade!
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Post by lillielangtry on Dec 21, 2015 3:46:08 GMT -5
According to the Guardian, it's El Nino that is causing the warm weather in Europe at the moment.
And I also wonder what spring will be like...
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Post by romily on Dec 21, 2015 7:39:44 GMT -5
Too warm for this time of the year - I didn't even have the heating on all weekend, and it's December! Only about 5C difference to most of summer - but that also shows how miserable the summer was!
I need a break somewhere hot. I'm green with envy reading about your heatwaves...
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Post by Webs on Dec 21, 2015 17:14:14 GMT -5
It's way too warm and it's only going to get warmer. It's going to be 70F for Christmas.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Dec 21, 2015 17:20:35 GMT -5
rain, rain, rain at the moment. Going to the Opera House with LC and Riverhorse today, so hope it clears up a bit as the majority of eating venues there are out in the open. And one of the undercover ones is out due to having too many nuts on the menu.
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Post by fishface on Dec 22, 2015 2:39:41 GMT -5
Fucking cold The weather gods appear to have left my city behind when the rest of the country went into summer.
It feels like we are slightly north of Antarctica.
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Post by groo on Dec 22, 2015 2:48:22 GMT -5
It feels like we are slightly north of Antarctica. You are - and it's windy in your neck of the woods, too. It's 20 degrees here, easing rain and I'm freezing.
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Post by fishface on Dec 22, 2015 3:08:20 GMT -5
I accept slightly north of Antarctica in winter But it is summer It is like we pissed off the weather gods.
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Post by groo on Dec 22, 2015 3:55:26 GMT -5
I do hope that things warm up for your Christmas - and ours.
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Post by jimm on Dec 22, 2015 18:48:14 GMT -5
It was really cold in Chicago a few days ago, and now in Detroit it's mild and overcast - maybe 10 - 12c. I packed for serious snow. I like Detroit by the way.
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Post by groo on Dec 22, 2015 18:57:20 GMT -5
It was really cold in Chicago a few days ago, and now in Detroit it's mild and overcast - maybe 10 - 12c. I packed for serious snow. I like Detroit by the way. Yes, but I think I prefer Chicago. I used to live across the creek from Detroit, in Windsor, the banana belt of Canada.
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Post by jimm on Dec 22, 2015 22:02:37 GMT -5
Chicago was nice but a bit sterile compared to Detrot, but that might be because of the area we were staying in (Ukrainian Village cf New Center) Fabulous architecture in Chicago. Fabulous cinnamon buns in Chicago.
Still mild here. NY tomorrow.
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Post by wombatrois on Dec 23, 2015 6:39:25 GMT -5
Thirty f*cking seven degrees! We don't do that sort of temperature here much, which is the main reason I moved here.
And I went to the Christmas farmers' market this afternoon. No wonder I felt hot.
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Post by elora on Dec 24, 2015 11:02:08 GMT -5
Also, much, much warmer than it should be here - about 12C today (overnight was even warmer!) but blustery, very blustery!
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Post by kraken on Dec 24, 2015 11:28:14 GMT -5
It's just not right. I also wonder what will happen in spring --or, indeed if winter does suddenly hit, what with nature behaving like it's spring.
Just remember, there's no such thing as global warming as winters and summers blend into one...
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Post by psw on Dec 24, 2015 12:13:59 GMT -5
Unseasonally warm and drizzly in the Boston area. Glad it's not snow.
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Post by treehugger on Dec 24, 2015 12:46:57 GMT -5
It's suddenly very cold today.
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Post by poppy on Dec 24, 2015 15:28:49 GMT -5
Christmas morning here, with an expected high of 35c, day of total fire ban. as my husband doesn't do heat very well, even with air con etc., all in his head - could be the first Christmas Day of a family feud! tomorrow is meant to be very wet, which considering todays forecast the wet may be a welcome relief for firefighters. Have a couple of big ones still burning from last weekend, no doubt Mr. Firebug will be out and about today giving himself his own good present.
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Post by Bastet on Dec 24, 2015 16:53:38 GMT -5
25c already at 9am and going up to 35. BBQ and beers in the garden is the main plan.
The electricity bill is going to be a shocker this quarter. The AC has been running non stop for days. $450, $550 not sure how much to plan for. :-o
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Post by Webs on Dec 24, 2015 17:43:25 GMT -5
It's 67F, that's like 19C. What it's supposed to be is like 19F. I'm sitting without pants on because it's so hot and I'm going to be turning the fan on and sleeping with the Air Conditioner.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 24, 2015 18:03:35 GMT -5
It's been more like 70°F here, which is I guess in the 20s C. I spent the afternoon alternating between Xmas stuff and sitting out on the deck. In flip flops.
It's like Xmas in LA.
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Post by libbyh on Dec 24, 2015 18:05:40 GMT -5
Love this thread - people complaining that 19C degrees is freezing and others that 12C is too warm.
Of course, being Australian I can't understand people wanting it to be cold at Christmas, the only real Christmas is 30 degrees, cold beer, prawns and a barbecue. Anything else is unnatural.
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Post by kraken on Dec 26, 2015 6:08:51 GMT -5
^^Ha! As a child I was absolutely fascinated by Australia and the fact the seasons were the opposite, to me Christmas in the height of summer seemed so wrong. I mean just how do you reconcile all the Christmas activities with heat? Surely Santa would get heat stroke, the reindeer end up pulling a pedalo and the lyrics to White Christmas just become baffling!
I do think it's ridiculous just how far out the weather is in the northern hemisphere --it's so mild it doesn't feel like winter.
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Post by riverhorse on Dec 26, 2015 16:33:31 GMT -5
Blowing an absolute gale here on the ocean clifftops at Bondi. EGB and I could hardly sleep, the storm was howling round us so badly. So we kept checking updates on the yacht race - lots of entries had to retire overnight with torn sails and broken masts, including the super maxi yacht that was the favourite to take line honours.
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Post by jimm on Dec 26, 2015 16:37:29 GMT -5
We had prawns and salad washed down by cold white wine for Xmas lunch ... in New York. Today is cool - about 10c. We went to see Star Wars this arvo.
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Post by rikita on Dec 26, 2015 18:21:32 GMT -5
it was 15 degrees celsius today. and my brother pointed out a nearby apple tree that has some blossoms.
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Post by sprite on Dec 27, 2015 16:08:55 GMT -5
we are stuck at home because of snow.
this, after christmas day at my sisters where we had to kill the heat and open windows.
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Post by sprite on Dec 27, 2015 16:13:08 GMT -5
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Post by kraken on Dec 27, 2015 16:26:32 GMT -5
Well, the north of England appears to be largely submerged under major floods, and temperatures continue to hover above 10C reaching up to above 15C on a regular basis. Meanwhile in Egypt people are posting snow pictures...
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