~~**-- The Weather Thread --**~~

[snickerd3]

They aren't the regular hostas, the greenery part looks like hostas but these have a really compact blue flower head that will shoot out purple/pink mini flowers about half a centimeter or so. We had them at the old house and I was just able to find them at the store We saw them at the MO botanical garden last summer which labels them as part of the lungwort (sp?) family.

 

[Supe]

Well, no office for me this morning. Had a LOT of rain overnight during a pretty wild storm, and water is currently too deep for me to even attempt to get out of my complex.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Ugh...supposed to be 95 here today. When will this heat finally break?

 

[MA_PE]

Ugh...supposed to be 95 here today. When will this heat finally break?

somebody shoot that man!!!! or at least smother him with ketchup.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^ I hate hostas.

We call them Du hostas.

84 and sunny today! perfect. Time to put down some Weed-B-Gone!

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Those couple days in the 70s were fine. All you can do when its 95 is sit there and feel the sweat collecting in various places. I just don't like when it gets hot or cold suddenly, the 30 degree shifts make my body go :wacko:

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^You wouldn't like SC...

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

I'm a winter man. I can plod around in snowshoes in the 20s all day and be down to a long sleeve t-shirt by the end of it, but anything over 80 is miserable to me.

 

[frazil]

^I've been thinking the same thing today - I'm a winter person. I guess the next step is Canada.

 

[mudpuppy]

95 degrees in April! Holy crap! It only got up to 55 here today.

 

[wilheldp_PE]

It was in the mid-80's here all last weekend. My head got sunburned, and I think I got a mild case of heat stroke. Shaving a burned head really effin' hurts.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

^ Ouch!

It's in the upper 40s here this morning. so refreshing after that heat wave. I slept with the windows wide open all night and slept great. Fresh air is great.

I did put in the AC's for the next time it heats up. It was 84 in the downstairs when I got home last night, and had to have been 90 upstairs. That's a little hot for the dog. I usually just put it to 75 F in energy saver mode while I'm at work to take the edge off. He looked miserable last night.

 

[cement]

I just had to pay dish network $50 to come re-aim the dish after I smacked it with the push broom to knock off the snow.

we have had four storms of two feet or more this spring. I still love it though.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

This pretty much sums it up what its been like here the past 2-3 weeks.

 

[Guest]

It has been AWESOME here ... 50s in the morning culminating in upper 70s, low 80s during the day. A few showers here and there .. but not bad for a month of field work!

JR

 

[Supe]

Been like clockwork here just about. 90 during the day, rain at night. Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[Dleg]

Damn! Three years of good luck is over. Now, a typhoon is headed our way - supposed to pass just north of us on monday night, with 85 mph winds on the island here. That generally means lots of trees down, tin houses blown apart, and three to five days of no power and no water. This is going to suck.

If no one hears from me for a few days, you'll know why: no power.

 

[Dleg]

Whew! "Choi-Wan" has tracked farther north than expected during the night, and it no longer looks like we will be getting damaging winds here.

 

[Master slacker]

Forth straight day of rain here. I like it, actually. Temps stay in mid-80's and naps come easily. Besides that, brown grass magically changes from brown to green. YAY!

 

[Dleg]

Aw crap! I spoke too soon - Choi Wan drifted more southerly overnight and is now expected to come closer.... "damaging winds" will set in this afternoon... but only in the 40-50 mph (sustained) range. A "banana storm", but with the state of our electrical distribution system, and the massive vegetation growth we have had with 3+ years of no typhoons, I can almost guarantee our power will go out today, and stay out for at least 24 hours.