What's the weather like where you are? (10)

musicalpilgrim said:

It is soooo windy today,

good for kites?

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rebornfree said:

You do seem to be having some varied temps in parts of the USA! Are these in the northern inland areas, which are less affected by sea breezes? One of the reasons I started this thread is that I'm interested in different weather conditions around the world, so it is fascinating to hear of the variety you have in one country.

On this side of the Pond it has been fairly dry and quite sunny, although the breeze can be cool at times. Daytime temps are due to reach mid 20s C by the middle of the week.

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only a sojourner said:

The temperature reached the 90's for the first time this year yesterday, May 26, following several days with highs on the 80's. The official high at Griffiss Airport was 92 F (33C) which tied the highest temperature ever recorded at that station in the month of May which occurred in 1944. It will probably reach the low 90's again today. High temperature records for the date were broken all across Upstate New York yesterday.

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Phoebe Ann said:

81 F at the moment (feels like 83 F). High today will be 89 F. No rain.

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Gidgx said:

First heat event of the season continues this week. Temperatures will peak again to near the thirty degree mark in many areas today. While temperatures Thursday will continue to be above normal, they will be a little lower than today due to more cloud cover and perhaps an isolated shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. Humidex values in the mid to upper thirties will prevail again this afternoon. A cold front will deliver considerably cooler and less humid air to Southern Ontario on Friday

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Phoebe Ann said:

States near the Great Lakes can have lake effect snow if your town is near the lake. If you are farther from the lake, but not too far north, you might have less snow. Western New York State gets blasted in the winter. I don't like the long season of HOT weather in the southeast or the hurricanes. Texas and states along the Mississippi River and Ohio River get flooding. Southeast and Central U. S. get tornadoes. Western U. S. has way too many forest fires!

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rebornfree said:

Thank you for your reply Only a Sojourner; I've been busy recently so not seen your posts until now.

I've been fascinated by the weather in different parts of the USA and Canada, as you have so much more land mass than the UK, so your reply was very interesting. I didn't realise that your weather came from the west, which explains the hot summers, cold winters in the NE States. I've visited Rochester, NY, in August and it was hot, but our relatives also talked about deep snow in the winter.

As you say UK weather is affected by the Gulf Stream and we don't have a great variation in our country, although Scotland unsurprisingly is colder (and wetter I believe) and the South of England warmer than the central areas. However cold can be drawn in from the Arctic and warmth from continental Europe. In winter cold from Russia has been known to bring freezing conditions as with The Beast from the East a year or two ago. I think our weather normally comes from the SW though, so it is temperate as you say.

I have been surprised at times, when reading joyshirley's posts, on how similar New Zealand's weather is to the UK, certainly in temperature range, which I assume is due to both being relatively small islands, albeit on opposite sides of the Earth, with sea influences. However she said they get cold pulled up from the Antarctic at times, and probably stronger winds than we do.

I love reading about the conditions around the world!

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rebornfree said:

In the UK we have had a week or so of dry warm weather. Very nice but a lot of plant watering.

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Gidgx said:

First heat event of the season continues this week. Temperatures will peak again to near the thirty degree mark in many areas today. While temperatures Thursday will continue to be above normal, they will be a little lower than today due to more cloud cover and perhaps an isolated shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. Humidex values in the mid to upper thirties will prevail again this afternoon. A cold front will deliver considerably cooler and less humid air to Southern Ontario on Friday

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Phoebe Ann said:

States near the Great Lakes can have lake effect snow if your town is near the lake. If you are farther from the lake, but not too far north, you might have less snow. Western New York State gets blasted in the winter. I don't like the long season of HOT weather in the southeast or the hurricanes. Texas and states along the Mississippi River and Ohio River get flooding. Southeast and Central U. S. get tornadoes. Western U. S. has way too many forest fires!

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rebornfree said:

Thank you for your reply Only a Sojourner; I've been busy recently so not seen your posts until now.

I've been fascinated by the weather in different parts of the USA and Canada, as you have so much more land mass than the UK, so your reply was very interesting. I didn't realise that your weather came from the west, which explains the hot summers, cold winters in the NE States. I've visited Rochester, NY, in August and it was hot, but our relatives also talked about deep snow in the winter.

As you say UK weather is affected by the Gulf Stream and we don't have a great variation in our country, although Scotland unsurprisingly is colder (and wetter I believe) and the South of England warmer than the central areas. However cold can be drawn in from the Arctic and warmth from continental Europe. In winter cold from Russia has been known to bring freezing conditions as with The Beast from the East a year or two ago. I think our weather normally comes from the SW though, so it is temperate as you say.

I have been surprised at times, when reading joyshirley's posts, on how similar New Zealand's weather is to the UK, certainly in temperature range, which I assume is due to both being relatively small islands, albeit on opposite sides of the Earth, with sea influences. However she said they get cold pulled up from the Antarctic at times, and probably stronger winds than we do.

I love reading about the conditions around the world!

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rebornfree said:

In the UK we have had a week or so of dry warm weather. Very nice but a lot of plant watering.

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only a sojourner said:

The temperature dropped to 36 F (2C) on June 1 here. On May 26 it was 92F (33C). At Saranac Lake, a resort community about 130 miles (209km) north of us, in the Adirondack mountains I heard in a television weather report that it had dropped to 20F (-7C) that morning. This seems to be quite extreme even for that cold spot which occasionally (but rarely) records the lowest temperature in the 48 adjacent states during the winter months. I know from other sources that Saranac Lake that night had fallen well into the 20's. Frost is not that unusual in parts of the Adirondacks in June.

I live in Utica which is about 150 miles (241km) almost exactly due west of Rochester. We have some limited Lake Effect here from Lake Ontario, especially during the late fall and early winter. But not nearly as much as Oswego or the Tug Hill Plateau to the northwest of us which can be inundated sometimes by as much as several feet of snow in a single storm. We can also feel the effects of Nor'easters, blizzards which come up the Atlantic coastline, often veering somewhat inland, although we seldom receive their direct impact. The New England States, especially Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts typically receive direct impact from Nor'easters.

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