Thread: What's the Weather Like?

Wildtim, I don't know if you've ever been to Louisiana, but I live in the South West coastal part. My parents are originally from the Mississippi/Louisiana border area --not much more north than here --but the temperatures can be colder there ,and I've experienced those cold, blue and dry days --some of my best memories as a child were winter days there with the temperature near the teens, blue skies, and dry ---and the pine trees, somehow the pine trees make a difference ---we have mostly large oak trees here --- so I know a little bit of which you speak of ---just a little. I like being a southerner, but sometimes I think I should of been born up north and maybe a little west --with the snow, grizzlies, wolverines.........

FiReStart, amazing, amazing,----that's all I can say. -40 and you start thinking of long johns. But maybe working in a shipyard, in July, 100F with high humidity, inside a ship with acetylene torches and arc welders blazing ---who knows how hot is --is something to you as well. But amazing......

Here in Colorado, this will be our sixth straight weekend with a snowstorm. It's beautiful during the week, but we get blasted on the weekends. I currently have about four feet of snow.

My driveway is a trench cut thru the snow and I have a revetment carved out to park the truck.

One boat is basically buried till Spring!

Jimbo, as you might have seen in the news, we get hurricanes around here ---some pretty bad ones. But hurricanes are a slow to build fear --maybe over a weeks time --if you can, you head for the hills and hope you have something to come back to. But, tornadoes, that's a different animal, mate (hope it's alright for me to use the word mate). I've had a couple of near misses, and they do sound like a train coming through your living room ---make you pee a little ---scary. If there are members from "Tornado Alley" , maybe they can pipe in.

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

Jimbo, as you might have seen in the news, we get hurricanes around here ---some pretty bad ones. But hurricanes are a slow to build fear --maybe over a weeks time --if you can, you head for the hills and hope you have something to come back to. But, tornadoes, that's a different animal, mate (hope it's alright for me to use the word mate). I've had a couple of near misses, and they do sound like a train coming through your living room ---make you pee a little ---scary. If there are members from "Tornado Alley" , maybe they can pipe in.

I've lived through hurricanes, I think (we call them cyclones - is that the same thing?) when I lived in Darwin, which is much closer to the equator than Bris-Vegas. Although Brisbane has been known to get a cyclone or two in the past, I think.

Mate, use the word "mate" as much as you want! Actually - I tutored an American girl in the UK, and everytime I said "mate" she'd laugh. Apparantly in the US it's used to indicate a sexual partner? Or was that just her...?

James.

Yeah, Jimbo, I think tropical cyclone is right. As far as the mate thing, maybe the girl you taught was just being a silly girl. Mate can be a sexual partner, but it's not used in everyday speech. The word mate, just isn't used ---words like pal, dude, cat, buddy, jack, -- in the south you'll see guys say words like --babe, baby doll, doll, dog, bro, , even seemingly offensive words like bitch, can be used amongst friends but you have to be carefull ---cat daddy, cap, man, daddio, etc. --but no mate. I don't know why it isn't used --Australia and the U.S. were both English colonies ---I like it though ---it has a certain punch and significance none of the other words have.
By the way, while I have you on the line, what do Americans sound like to you? Americans generally think Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans -- did I miss any --maybe some Canadians sound British or English. But Americans must sound British or English as well. Anyhow, just a question. G'day mate.

The weather has been unbelievably warm for this season in Macedonia (Balkans) as well... I was walking in t-shirt with short sleeves the other day, instead in my feather jacket, with woolen hat, and scarf up to my eyes... 20-23C. I don't remember thempeatures like this...

I enjoy the weather very much, but I just hope the Earth is not going to implode, or a big comet is coming on us, though...


Nenad

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

FiReStart, amazing, amazing,----that's all I can say. -40 and you start thinking of long johns. But maybe working in a shipyard, in July, 100F with high humidity, inside a ship with acetylene torches and arc welders blazing ---who knows how hot is --is something to you as well. But amazing......

I start wearing long johns once it hits 0 and all the way down to -40. I guess I wasn't clear enough, it's an ESL thing in my case lol. When it gets below -40, slush pants are a must just to keep me extra warm and I wear two sweaters instead of one (underneath the jacket ofcourse).
Yikes. I've had to enumerate in 38 degree Celsius weather (that should be close to 100F) but I never had to resort to open flame.. Only non air-conditioned and unventilated slum buildings. But I was thinking of poor souls who had to play around with torches or pave the roads and praising the Lord for not having it QUITE that bad

Reading this thread and looking at the avatars all I can think of is, "Who let the dogs out"?

Sunny and 10ºC all week.

X

26F and Snowing, should snow all day...