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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 15, 2024 19:26:45 GMT
We actually had a thunderstorm tonight.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 15, 2024 22:20:19 GMT
We had a thunderstorm about a week ago, which was shocking! We have absolutely zero snow left, incredible. There is still ice on the lake, but it should break a record when it has all melted. My husband was raking the grass today. It was cool though only about 5C and we did have some snowflakes for about 15 minutes which melted as it touched the ground.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 16, 2024 9:23:54 GMT
In Belgium hundreds of frogs drowned due to accumulation of rain and fish are starting to commit suicide en masse as they cannot stand so much water. Humans are starting to évolve and get palmed hands and feet like ducks.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 20, 2024 15:59:08 GMT
We are back into winter mode. Snow and cool temperatures for the rest of the week. Good thing we are off to Barbados next Tuesday!
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 20, 2024 16:11:39 GMT
A very good thing indeed!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 20, 2024 16:26:31 GMT
It's supposed to be 20° tomorrow and then down to 11° the next day.
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Post by bjd on Mar 20, 2024 19:07:52 GMT
It was sunny and 23° yesterday, overcast and 17 today, cooler every day, rainy and below 20° every day for the next two weeks.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 21, 2024 17:23:55 GMT
Yes it is a good thing Mick! This morning it was -17C! We had snow again last evening. At least we will feel our late season trip will still feel like we are still in winter.
Yes bjd! Being late March we are excited that spring is so near and that this winter will be over!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 22, 2024 20:36:10 GMT
Okay, we liked our couple days of nice sunny weather. It was mantioned that the temperature went above 20° in Paris for the first time since last October. Now we are back to normal, rainy and cool. Too bad.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 22, 2024 21:07:08 GMT
Daughter was in Paris today and sent a picture of Gare du Nord station with a cloudless sky.
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Post by questaredux on Mar 23, 2024 1:37:20 GMT
I have not told you of our mighty floods that have caused so much grief last few months. It started with major Eastern rivers...Murray, Murrumbidgee, Goulbourn and others all getting record rainfall back in last winter, After a couple of months there was nowhere for the water to go, so it started a thousand mile surge down the Murray to the sea. As it travelled it re-routed scores of smaller rivers and billabongs.
In the last few years there has been hundreds of "shacks" built along the banks of the lower Murray as retirees and cashed up water sports families moved in. Now their homes and the river banks themselves started toppling into the ever swelling surge.
Each night the news reports gave the water levels, but there was nothing that could be done...vehicles could not drive near the banks or another few tons would break away. Sand bags were shipped in from India and crowd control concrete barriers flown in from Canada and choppered into place to save the established villages. In one town they have built an embankment that runs through the town's main street and is 20 miles long. The local school had it's sports day with the events being "sand bag filling" and "wheel barrow pushing" etc.
It is still happening. The water levels are lower and the river is open for power boats, lighter craft get into trouble with the undercurrents. Books are being written and glorious photographs sold, maps and charts redrawn, wild-life rejoicing and breeding up and now tourists are spending their "overseas holiday" on the new riverbank,
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 23, 2024 9:05:51 GMT
Missed that questa but it makes a change from drought.
Bright here but blooming cold.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 24, 2024 16:42:14 GMT
In France, the Pas de Calais (and parts of neighbouring Belgium) have had terrible flooding twice recently, of the awful kind that once you have cleaned the mud out of your house and thrown away all of the ruined furnishing and dried everything and replastered the walls and moved back in, you get a second flood just as bad that destroys everything again.
The rest of the country was both sympathetic and disappointing. It might have been the same in Australia where the rest of the country thinks "we really needed the rain" and "why do you live in flood zones?" with just a little bit of "how awful for all of those people!"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 24, 2024 16:54:13 GMT
Chilly this morning, especially in the wind. This afternoon has been sunny and glorious...very fresh but warm in the sun. 15°C.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2024 23:37:31 GMT
In France, the Pas de Calais (and parts of neighbouring Belgium) have had terrible flooding twice recently, of the awful kind that once you have cleaned the mud out of your house and thrown away all of the ruined furnishing and dried everything and replastered the walls and moved back in, you get a second flood just as bad that destroys everything again. I read this after cleaning the downstairs floors today. I was sulking because it's hot, dry, & windy right now & everything will get dirty again immediately. That flood report put my "terrible problem" into perspective. Cheery, Spring is upon you, yes?
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Post by Kimby on Mar 26, 2024 13:35:42 GMT
Snow!
We have gone from a spring-like winter to a winter-like spring. The ski season that seemed on its last gasp has gotten a shot in the arm so we’ll be taking advantage of it.
Though inside I am bemoaning the postponement of spring.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 26, 2024 15:35:16 GMT
It's been raining most of the day, just as was forecast. And that goes for a lot of the week.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 28, 2024 11:53:47 GMT
Cold wet and miserable
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Post by bjd on Mar 28, 2024 12:07:23 GMT
17°, very windy, mostly sunny.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2024 4:10:39 GMT
Day before yesterday it was borderline sweltering here. Today the high was only in the low 60s f /@17 c, with drizzle & rain.
Tomorrow it's supposed to get up to @79f / 26 c -- quite a difference!
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Post by bjd on Mar 29, 2024 7:59:29 GMT
It started to rain yesterday late afternoon and has been doing so ever since. Not heavy, no wind but it is supposed to continue all day. 13° this morning.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 29, 2024 8:12:29 GMT
Another miserable grey damp morning.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 30, 2024 9:54:21 GMT
Sunny and pleasant for a change.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 30, 2024 17:57:06 GMT
It rained some today but really not all that much after 9 am. It never really got sunny.
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Post by bjd on Mar 30, 2024 20:07:30 GMT
It was sunny and windy today but clouded over progressively. As we headed home from the park with our grandchildren about 5:30 we got caught in a downpour.
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Post by questaredux on Mar 31, 2024 7:52:07 GMT
Poor Mick. you really do suffer the winter blues, don't you? I don't think I could cope with the gloom...I need my gamma rays and sunshine. Have you tried a sunlamp?
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 31, 2024 7:58:05 GMT
No, I need real sun! After a lovely day yesterday we’re back to dull gloom. At least it isn’t raining.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 31, 2024 19:23:14 GMT
Huge thunder and lightning storm this evening, hail, deluge, wind, flooded streets. Packed up and left after about 40 minutes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2024 20:00:49 GMT
Earlier today it was about as pretty as weather can get. Right now it's a little too hot-- 82/28. But this morning @ 8:30 the dogs & I went up the big hill that overlooks Coatepec. It was perfect, with a gentle breeze. The best part was how silent it was, with hardly any cars on the road.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 31, 2024 21:07:45 GMT
You need to move under a huge outdoor auditorium.
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