The Weather

[Anne]

Michigan:

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST SUNDAY.

LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING...AS VERY COLD AIR SURGES INTO THE REGION. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST FROM 35 TO 45 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG THE LAKE MICHIGAN COAST. THE RESULTING FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WILL PRODUCE NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES. BY SUNDAY EVENING...TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM 3 TO 7 INCHES...THOUGH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE. WIND CHILLS WILL RANGE FROM 15 TO 25 BELOW ZERO.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

You 'mericans still using imperial units and not metric? 

[Anne]

I reluctantly have to say, "Yes."   

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Who is the dancer in your avatar?

[Wanderer]

You 'mericans still using imperial units and not metric? 

Bad habits are hard to die.

[SonicMan46]

You 'mericans still using imperial units and not metric? 

Well, depends on your job, in part -    I interpret abdominal images, and any measurements stated are always metric! 

[Anne]

Who is the dancer in your avatar?

Her name is Darcey Bussell.

[head-case]

Well, depends on your job, in part -    I interpret abdominal images, and any measurements stated are always metric! 

Scientific disciplines generally use metric, commercial enterprises use mostly English measures. 

[ezodisy]

28 October and it is snowing in central London

[Kullervo]

It was 39º F this morning in Florida! 

[knight66]

28 October and it is snowing in central London

I must have just missed that. I was singing Handel at a church near Bank station today. When we came out at 2pm, it was raining with some white stuff in there, but not lying white at all on the ground.

It was however real whiteout near Birmingham, my wife drove back from there and it was getting thick on the ground. I can't recall snow in October.

Swans that normally fly here from Siberia have stayed there, because their climate has become warmer. Why shag yourself out with all that flapping if you can stay where you are and be comfy?

What a world of gammon and spinach!

Mike

[marvinbrown]

28 October and it is snowing in central London

 

  Yes, it's unseasonably cold in London this evening, October 28, 2008.....UNSEASONABLY!

  marvin

[ezodisy]

Swans that normally fly here from Siberia have stayed there

not so, I saw some really hot Russian birds just this afternoon  And the snow lasted till mid afternoon. Possible January destination for me (Courchevel):

[knight66]

So that's not London today! I am almost disappointed. I was packing my snow shoes for tomorrow.

Mike

[ezodisy]

snowed in London overnight. Move over Val d'Isere 

[springrite]

We are supposed to get the first dusting of snow tonight in Beijing. But because the temperature is still relatively high (-2C, or 28F), it will probably more like rain plus snow, making for a muddy mess instead of a white morn.

[hildegard]

It's unseasonably cold in NY.

30 degrees F (feels like 21 F)
That's -1 degree C (feels like -6C)

It's going to be a long winter. 

[Mozart]

Is 3 to 7 inches alot? The only time I was in snow, well I saw flurries, but a snow storm it snowed 6 inches. It was enough to throw snowballs but not enough to make a snow sculpture of myself.

We've had a long summer here...and now its cooling off. Might get rain even!

[Herman]

Who is the dancer in your avatar?

Get the Sylvia DVD with Darcey Bussel and knock yourself out.

Anne, I remember my first year in SE Michigan, the temperature dropped on Halloween and it was snowsville from Oct 30 till May 15.

BTW winter has started unusually early in the Netherlands, too, this year.

[Anne]

October 30 to May 15 is just too much!  I remember when my newborn sister was brought home from the hospital on May 15, it was snowing then also.  Usually we do not have snow that late in the springtime.

Usually we'll get snow in the fall but it often melts and the first snow that stays for the winter often comes on Christmas Eve or Christmas night.  People here do not want a green Christmas.