What's the weather out there? (Words only)

Xelebes · Jun 9, 2012

Without using any numbers (thermometer, barometer, hygrometer, anemometer, udometer, disdrometer, ceilometer or transmissometer readings), describe the weather.

Right now, it is raining. There is the very rare flash of lightning but the rain comes in and out. The rainy clouds are coming from the south, which seems to be a new pattern over the last couple years. The pattern has no name, so we call it a monsoon or the "Nebraska Hurricane."

Watches were issued for Wetaskiwin and Camrose for tornados and the water on the river is rising, raising flood warnings as the Lower Fort Edmonton Trail is shut down.

Susan Coffin · Jun 9, 2012

It's cool, and my chimes are singing a wonderful melody with the wind whistling through my balcony railings.

Xelebes · Jun 9, 2012

A tornado was reported by White Buffalo Lake, a couple hours south of Edmonton.

Susan Coffin · Jun 9, 2012

Xelebes said:
A tornado was reported by White Buffalo Lake, a couple hours south of Edmonton.

Last year, we had a small tornado here in California, which took us all by surprise. It took down some signs and a building.

benbradley · Jun 9, 2012

heyjude · Jun 10, 2012

Hot and humid already, just the way I like it.

BigWords · Jun 10, 2012

Cool, but not cold. There's barely a breeze, and the sky has a diffuse layer of cloud, making it look white - there are patches of gray in there, but (on the whole) it feels like being inside a bad late-90s FPS where money ran out before everything was added in.

KellyAssauer · Jun 10, 2012

Do I have to go outside for this? Or can I just describe what's out the window as I sit and stare - and call this working?

Kerosene · Jun 10, 2012

Have you ever stuck your face in a hot oven?

I feel the same when I walk outside.

shakeysix · Jun 10, 2012

the wind blew all night, actually howled. my summer weight pajamas were limp and sweaty even before sunrise. i need to water my garden because today is going to be another windy, hot bastard.

regdog · Jun 10, 2012

Sunny, breezy and cool.

Of course this is Massachusetts, it won't last long

lorna_w · Jun 10, 2012

As the sun crests the eastern trees, the Arizona sun wraps itself around my head like some smothering animal. It speaks to me, too: this will be a nasty hot day. Beware. My feet are so parched and calloused they itch, despite slathering them with lotion last night. It is daily work to keep the humidifiers in my guitar case filled with distilled water, and now I know why the guitar maker enclosed a letter with the guitar hinting that Arizona's desert might not be the best climate for a guitarist. Yet for the winters here, I will accept the burden of summer, today's burden, today's life-wicking heat.

GailD · Jun 10, 2012

Sunny, windy and very cold!!

Last night the temp dropped to below freezing. We're expecting another icy night tonight.

jjdebenedictis · Jun 10, 2012

The sky looks like the inside of a pearl. The air is silky with moisture. When it begins to rain in earnest, however, it kicks up a smell like sun-baked dust.

rhymegirl · Jun 10, 2012

It is a bright, sunny, sultry day.

L.J. · Jun 10, 2012

BenPanced · Jun 10, 2012

Hot, humid, and incredibly windy.

Alessandra Kelley · Jun 10, 2012

jjdebenedictis said:
The sky looks like the inside of a pearl. The air is silky with moisture. When it begins to rain in earnest, however, it kicks up a smell like sun-baked dust.

The name of that smell is "petrichor." I am not making this up.

Here today the sky is painfully blue and it is hot and very windy.

Mr Flibble · Jun 10, 2012

Fairly Biblical (I'm glad I don't live in Wales today!) and has been all the last week.

This is because British weather always knows when a) it's a bank holiday and b) important sporting events are due to occur.

Even our weather is contrary for the sake of it!

BigWords · Jun 10, 2012

If the weather wasn't contrary, people would talk about it so much...

The completely nutty weather system which seems to exist solely for the purpose of tormenting Britain has given us so many useful words and phrases that it can be seen as a positive. YMMV, of course.

Mr Flibble · Jun 10, 2012

And also means you have two words for al the seasons: Winter and June (except this year when you have winter and rain)

PS I jest, Am off to the Auld home in August. But we'll be right on a loch so hoping for no flooding!

Caitlin Black · Jun 10, 2012

shakeysix said:
today is going to be another windy, hot bastard.

I really wish you were a weather forecaster down here! It'd make the Weather portion of the News so much better.

That line is classic. :tongue

jjdebenedictis · Jun 10, 2012

Alessandra Kelley said:
The name of that smell is "petrichor." I am not making this up.

Omigosh. There really is a word for it.

StephanieFox · Jun 10, 2012

There's a big thunderstorm just a few minutes from my house, but nothing here. We can hear the thunder and it's gotten storm-dark. We may get to miss this one, but Edina MN is getting hit hard.

benbradley · Jun 10, 2012

It rained. But now it has stopped.

What's the weather out there? (Words only)

Delerium ex Ennui

Tell it like it Is

Delerium ex Ennui

Tell it like it Is

It's a doggy dog world

Making my own sunshine

Geekzilla

The Anti-Magdalene

Your Pixie Queen

blue eyed floozy

The Scavengers

Hybrid Grump

Still chasing plot bunnies.

is watching you via her avatar

It's a New Year!

THE BLUEBERRY QUEEN OF HADES (he/him)

Sophipygian

They've been very bad, Mr Flibble

Geekzilla

They've been very bad, Mr Flibble

Wild one

is watching you via her avatar

Maybull the Bulldog

It's a doggy dog world