Kate Ellery, I've been on a senior forum in Australia since 2009, In fact belonged to three at different times. I've read two books by NSA employees stationed at Alice Springs in their underground situation, learned a little about your politics, still communicate occasionally on the forum. I could never get used to the different season. When we're burning up here, you are freezing, And your wildfires and floods are something else. Welcome aboard here. Cheers.
Welcome, Christen Aellie, have a friend here where I live from Pakistan who returns periodically to visit his family. Great guy. Hope you enjoy the forum.
@Diane Lane Snails! Where is this activity taking place? I thought snails lived mostly underwater. I've heard some folks EAT them! The only snails I've ever seen were quite small, and could not be eaten (unless you were starving, I suppose).
Yes it can get a little confusing @Bill Boggs ,having members from all over the world mention what the weather is like where they live can't it ...The thing I find confusing now is if a member mentions it's Hot !! 90 degrees ...I think What ...... However the boots on the other foot what I say it's cooool today only 15c...as it here today ..one of my " friends will say is that cold ? But there again how we forget what we were taught at school .. We had pounds ,shillings and pence ,bought flour ,sugar,biscuits, meat by the pound and ounces ....Then our government changed us to metric in 1966 ...I was 20 years old when it all changed . Despite all this ..I like this forum ,and my "friends" I've made on here... I learn something everyday from all the members form different countries and enjoy interacting with them all ,manly playing games but also reading interesting posts members have posted .. I have been to Alice Springs it's weeks travel,by car from where I live in South Aust ,it's an interesting place ,lots of outback beauty in the area ..
There are such huge differences depending on where someone lives. Here in Maine, we've had rain at least once a week, usually at least two days out the week, with rain every day some weeks. It has been raining off and on for the last three days, and it's supposed to keep up through Tuesday, with only partial sun on Wednesday. Last spring, summer and fall was the same. We are having unusually cool weather this spring, though; our highs this week will be in the low to mid 50s, and I don't think we've seen temperatures above 70 in a while. When I lived in Southern California, it would rain for two week's straight once a year, but that was about it. In Texas, we'd have thunderstorms and temperatures above one hundred at the same time, but not a lot of rain overall.
They're all over here. I mainly see them occasionally in the garden or driveway, but lately, they've been up on the balcony and also climbing the posts on the houses. I don't know if they're climbing to escape the high water or seeking dry earth/plants to burrow into. I don't know much about them, and I for sure am not going to eat them .
We seem to go in streaks here. May was like our wettest and coolest month ever here in Central VA. It rained almost every day. June has been pretty dry, but we are in for some storms in the next couple of days. In the summer, it can rain pretty much anytime in the afternoon, because it gets quite humid. Not Florida humid, but more humid than I like for sure. I am going to really try to get a summer place in Pennsylvania...if I ever get any disposable income...because houses are cheap in my home area..and I could could escape the heat and be near by aging parents too.
It was earlier this month that Texas got 4 days straight of rain. The water even pooled in place in my garden that I had to rescue plants. Now, it is only a few weeks later and we are having heat indexes of 105 to 111 degrees. My plants don't know whether to drown or burn up!!
@Texas Beth Two weeks ago we had a few days of 118` 119`, relative humidity was 10%, Dew Point very low. They call out the heat index differently here: call it "feels like". It "felt like" 105`. Usually, with our extremely dry air, it always seems less hot than it actually is. Except in July-August, when Mexico ships huge amounts of moisture up here, and the humidity may go as high as 50% or more, when the Dew point exceeds 55` three days in a row, they proclaim it "Monsoon Weather"! Frank
It's been unbearably hot here today too. Temperatures may have soared above 70 degrees for a little while this afternoon.
Well its raining her ,been raining since about 7 am this morning ..its 2.15 Pm right now, its unknown for us to get this much rain in one day don't get me wrong,its very welcome ..our rain water tanks are overflowing, we have 4, 1Thousand ltr tanks and a 5 thousand ltr tank ..we are required by law to have the big tank ,however our water costs are very expencive so we maily use the rain water on the garden and fruit trees when needed . We have a slow combustion wood heater its been going since 9 Am this morning its 13 C here (outside) I'm using my very old laptop at the moment ..think someone played with it since i used it last time because i cant find the @,?or any of these /,'() second thoughts wait, it must have been ME ..its the dust hiding the keys
@Ken Anderson Just a matter of what one has become accustomed to, eh? Out of curiosity, noting that Maine is I think the northern-most state locationwise (excluding Alaska), What is the usual humidity? Very wet, or halfway? Your experience in Michigan compares to my own in both MI and IL, very, very humid at least 6 months each year.
Typically, we rarely go a week without rain. Last spring, summer and fall, I don't know that we had three days in a row without rain.
@Ken Anderson ,up to about 4 weeks ago we hadn't had any rain for 9 months ..We normally get a thunder storm during summer ..but we had the hottest / driest summer on record ..the summer temps started in early spring with day times temps in high 30's /40's which we normally expect to have mid summer