Could we have a ‘complain about the weather’ thread?

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

OI It’s really snapped cold here. Not that I’m not used to our winters-but we had a lovely fall and good temps and minimal snow up to a few weeks ago. Last friday we had over a foot of snow, which Mikey loved and it was semi warm (for here anyways) about two below celcius.

 

 

 

 

 

And now we’ve had a cold snap-highs of 30-C without wind, colder then 40- (C or F) with wind-and that’s our high temps. It’s FFFFFreezing!! And Fine I can stay inside but my poor doggie-we got him a jacket

and his booties (custom made) are on order and should be here soon-but he’s too cold to stay outside for more then about three minutes and he’s used to 2+ hours of running at the dog park…he’s SO bored. We’ve been doing more trick training with him to keep him from getting too bored and we taught him to use my parent’s treadmill (only two sessions for him to get it!) but that still involved packing him up and going over there, and juggling dogs (my parent’s dog does not get along with others-so we have to juggle them to get him in the basement).

 

So that’s my weather complaint! Go ahead-whine a little about the weather where you are! Better yet-some pictures!! (And for those of you having nice weather-go ahead and brag -at your own risk )

[Elrohwen]

Uhh, so it’s kind of cold here, around 25F, but I’m not going to complain because it’s nowhere near as cold as where you are! I’m pretty good with anything from 20-30F, but below 20F and I start to get a bit chilly.

It snowed here last week Saturday, then Wednesday, so we have a bit on the ground, but now it’s freezing rain 😛 Blech. I’d rather it just keep snowing! It’s worse going out in cold rain than in snow.

Btw, Mikey is so frickin cute running around in the deep snow!

[Monkeybun]

Thats just… ick. So glad I don’t live in Edmonton anymore!

[Cassi&Charlie]

Looks like you have as much snow as we have rain. The monsoon season hit us really hard, really quick and we have a cyclone (hurricane) building up off the coast here, which is dumping a LOT of rain on us plus strong winds. Power lines went down, trees across roads, car accidents everywere. It’s 8am here, sun is up at 6am and it looks like midnight cause the rain is so heavy.
The only reason I’m complaining is because my job involves co-ordinating disaster response for the defence…so you can imagine how much sleep I got over the weekend!

[babybunsmum]

brrrrr!  we’ve had a cold snap here too… not nearly as cold as yours though!  its been -10 to -15C… about -30 or so with wind chill.  and last week we got our taste of the seasons first snow which was seasonably late.  so no complaints here.  accept for my complaint of having snow fly into my face while i’m trying to shovel my driveway.  grr.  the snow has drifted off of my roof so that it hangs down 2 feet from the soffit!  unfortunately this is the side of my house that my uncovered driveway is on.  my car is always burried under a snow drift.

[mrmac]

Oh it’s 60 and sunny here! I am so sick of it though! I soo miss the the cold and the snow! The biggest weather excitment we have had is rain!

[MimzMum]

*gurgle* Snow….bleah! I hate the snow. It’s funny, growing up in California, all you can think about from the end of October all the way through to March is, “Is it gonna get cold enough to snow??” Now my question is, “Is it gonna get warm enough to thaw my achin’ arse out?”
From the day my kids and I arrived in Alaska, all they could think about was going out and making snowmen, burying each other in it, losing socks, boots, mittens and hats in it, smacking their dad with snowballs. Until they got to be the ‘dignified’ teenagers that they are (or were in my son’s case) and it wasn’t considered ‘cool’ to play in the snow. (Although smacking dad with a snowball might still hold some appeal.) The griping about all the gear they have to wear was ALWAYS a factor, and made me wonder why I thought it was such a good idea to move here?
We’ve actually been pretty temperate this year, but cold is cold to me. *chattering teeth* We have some serious subzero forecast for this week though, and only minimal snow. This you would think is good, but for those of us who are living on septic tanks and have exposed piping here and there….well we need that 15 feet the 48 stole from us last week! 0_o

*throws a snowball at mrmac* Take that! lolz….

[mrmac]

*takes snowball and puts in freezer to save!* hehe!

[Deleted User]

I just feel so bad for the pets left outside in this arctic temperature here. People love to tell that animals can just deal with the cold but it isn’t true.

It is too cold for my outside thermometer display to work, and my taps have to be kept dripping. I am looking forward to when it warms up to minus 20 Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit). That will be a relief.

For a few days the lake looked pretty, when the ice began to form:

–you want a sheet of ice, too, mac?

 

 

[mrmac]

Yes please!

[Monkeybun]

lol a pipe burst in my apartment building the other day… it got to maybe -2 celcius here lol.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Thursday is our warm up- two below celcius-DOG PARK time-finally…Mikey is very upset we’ve gone and made it cold outside

Petzy-I was going to ask you how the temps are up there-it’s so cold here and I know ft. mac is always a good ten below more then us-and your pretty close to that Brrrrr

[LittlePuffyTail]

I can relate…

We were having an unseasonably warm Fall…felt weird going Christmas shopping at 15c outside. Then last week we got our first snow and it’s been freezing every since. It’s like Jack Frost suddenly realized he was late for work. Although I’m glad it will be a white Christmas.

[Sage Cat]

We had the super cold weather all last week. It was in the single digits and teens Fahrenheit for the whole week. (about -15 C. to -8 C) and then there was the wind chill!!
J recently started to run with me. So, yes we were out running in that – one run the wind chill was -16F (-26C). It was brutil!

But this week we have lows in the 20’s and highs in the 40’s Fahrenheit (-6 to 5C). Much more like it!!!!!

[Deleted User]

But I also like some things about the dark & cold season…like hot tea and xmas cookies. Or soups. But it doesn’t need to be this cold to enjoy those things….

–November was warm up here, too, it was amazing.

Neigey in November:

[LizzieKnittyBun]

haha! Where’s the bun? Is there a bun in that picture?

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Petzy-how are your dogs doing in the cold? Do you have jackets or booties for them-or are they good? I was wondering cuz Mikey is brutal right now-can’t hardly stand to watch the poor guy take a poo

[MirBear]

hersheys lovin the snow.. (its her first)umm yah its about -10-15 here to…. babybunsmum.. do you let your bunnies out in the winter.. hershey likes the snow im just worried it might be to cold for her.. and i do not want her to get sick

 

it got so cold so quick… no time to adjust.. thats probably why everyone around here’s complaining so much.. my moms soooooo lucky, she’s in jamaca :'( and im not :'(

[Lintini]

Neigey!!!! Does she like the snow? How cute -.- It doesn’t snow here. It’s like 75 today, kinda nice. I wish I was in Hawaii though!

[MirBear]

your soooooooooo lucky!!!! i wish i was where you are…. lol it would be nice and warm.. or at least warmer than it is here

[katie, max & penny]

well…. it snowed here in waco, texas last week. it was about 30-40F all week.

now its 80 degrees F. texas weather is ridiculous.

[Deleted User]

Neigey looks like he belongs with the snow but he was actually headed for the door to inside. He is afraid of being outside on the patio and didn’t last longer than a few laps even on that mild day. He’s just a tender young rex bun.

Deirdra and Mops are the ones out of mine that really love snow. They are also into digging big time… I see a relation between snow and digging! But it has to be a warm winter day for anybunny to be able to enjoy snow.

I have winter clothes for my dogs but it is a big job putting it all on, boots, leg warmers, suit. I just send them out for short periods of time and keep them out of the deep snow. My dogs are not at all built for the north. They’ve got to be indoors. I do like the fact that I don’t need to wash muddy feet when they come inside though…

And my female dog prefers to spend winter like this…

[Elrohwen]

Petzy, do your dogs get snow balls built up in their fur? We had schanuzers when I was growing up and, especially if it was kind of wet snow, they would get huge balls built up on their legs and tummies after only a minute or two so they could barely walk 🙁 We would get a bowl (or even the bathtub), fill it with warm water, and soak their little feet to melt it. Needless to say, they weren’t big fans of the snow.

I suggested bringing in some snow for Otto to play with, but hubby said it was too much work 😛

[Deleted User]

No, no snow build-up on the dogs, only drool icicles. But Mops gets ice chunks in his beard.

[bunnytowne]

Wow I love those pics.   I heard about the snow in the south.   Neat.   And the lionhead with the ice beard  teheee.

The dog chasing the snow flakes  lol.    Thanks for the pics.  I like the cold about 30-50.    I want our cold weather back here in humid florida.

Last nite it was so humid and I cooked some supper.  I couldnt’ get the heat out of the apartment.  I turned the a/c on  it cooled off I shut it off.  Got hot again so I just shut the windows.  Dang.     Poor Boo was lying stretched out on the tile floor I said oh forget this. 

Can’t wait til thursday tho  we get 50’s agian.    Give m some 30s  I am tired of this humidity

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Bahahah Petzy-great pictures thank you!!

So according to weather canada on the radio-Yesterday in Edmonton, our low (-47C without windchill) was the second lowest in the world, second only to Siberia…Umn… excuse me….BBRRRRRRRR OMG I thought it felt balmy today at only 30- lol-can’t wait for Thursday-that’s our warm up

[RabbitPam]

BT, I’ve been too afraid to join this thread because, even though we are all complaining about the humidity and the fact that it’s too warm for this time of year, I don’t dare complain about weather in the 80s with palm trees. Thank you. I am really looking forward to a cool down too. 6 months in the humid 90s is way too much.

I am born and raised and spent most of my adult life in New England, so very used to snow. From playing as a kid to shoveling and scraping ice off my car until I moved here. I do NOT miss that.

Do fondly remember being outside our house when I was little and bundled up in snow suits, mittens and boots, and digging into a snow drift off the fence in our yard that had the ground drop a few feet down to a lower level. I made a big hole like a burrow or fort, and sat inside it. It actually was really cozy and got me warmed up. Must be what wild bunnies do in winter.

I think your weather calls for training all animals to flush a toilet. Why go outside at all?

[Cassi&Charlie]

Snow…what’s that? lol. The coldest I’ve ever been in is -25 degrees celcius with wind chill factor and I thought I was going to die! Remind me not to visit in winter.

[Deleted User]

This was in theweathernetwork news this morning, concerning those in Northern Alberta:

After a weak warm up at the end of last week, Prairie temperatures plummeted again over the weekend reaching an all-time low in Edmonton.

At one point on Saturday night, Edmonton had the dubious distinction of being the coldest place on Earth. The record low temperature of -46 degrees was measured at the Edmonton International Airport. With the Wind Chill, it felt colder than -50. The city itself was a balmy -35 degrees before factoring the Wind Chill.

Edmonton’s frigid temperature was exceeded by a station in Siberia where the lowest temperature measured on Saturday night was -48 degrees. Edmonton’s -46 degrees was 2 degrees off the coldest temperature ever recorded for the Airport. Set back on January 26, 1972, the coldest temperature recorded is -48.3 degrees. Saturday also saw the coldest low ever recorded at the Airport in December. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights also saw record low temperatures for Edmonton Airport

[skibunny8503]

The weather here is terrible. It’s around the 30’s here but it’s been raining and gloomy all week. I think it’s suppose to start snowing (hopefully) by the end of the week. I hate driving in the snow but come on, it’s 10 days until X-mas and we have snow….and it’s Ohio! How is it Texas is getting snow and we’re not?! It doesn’t feel like X-mas at all here.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

This was in theweathernetwork news this morning, concerning those in Northern Alberta:

After a weak warm up at the end of last week, Prairie temperatures plummeted again over the weekend reaching an all-time low in Edmonton.

At one point on Saturday night, Edmonton had the dubious distinction of being the coldest place on Earth. The record low temperature of -46 degrees was measured at the Edmonton International Airport. With the Wind Chill, it felt colder than -50. The city itself was a balmy -35 degrees before factoring the Wind Chill.

Edmonton’s frigid temperature was exceeded by a station in Siberia where the lowest temperature measured on Saturday night was -48 degrees. Edmonton’s -46 degrees was 2 degrees off the coldest temperature ever recorded for the Airport. Set back on January 26, 1972, the coldest temperature recorded is -48.3 degrees. Saturday also saw the coldest low ever recorded at the Airport in December. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights also saw record low temperatures for Edmonton Airport

Petzy!! You found what I was talking about! I heard it on the radio but didn’t quite believe it! We bunkered down on Saturday and attempted to stay home, but had to go out to get Dave’s truck, groceries. Then Dave had to go help his mom get her garage door open-it was a bit frigid!! I almost find it hard to believe we were so cold as to be second to Siberia!! Second to anywhere really!
I know they only close schools in Edmonton if the temp hits 44- or less without windchill-so pity it wasn’t a school day on Saturday LOL They’ve not closed schools since I moved here as it was always colder then 44- WITH windchill.

WHY oh WHY do I not live nextdoor to BT or Rabbitpam??? I think I MUST be nuts!! Petzy lets pack up and move south! LOL

[Monkeybun]

Okay, I’m shivering just reading that Petzy. Brrrrrr I’m glad I moved out of Alberta!!

[babybunsmum]

wow that is frosty my hearty albertans! i feel bad complaining about the flash freeze i had to drive home in since it was only a mere -8c. childsplay. though buddy who was straddling 2 lanes and driving 40 clicks an hour in front of me on the expressway tonight would beg to differ. dude didnt have a clue where the road was. and of course there were all kinds of fools passing him at more than double his speed. i chose to keep a safe distance behind him thank-you-very-much. rather take twice as long to drive home then get run off the road!

[katie, max & penny]

seriously, texas!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! it was 22 degrees F this morning! it was 82 F yesterday!
I CANNOT GET USED TO THIS!! it never did this in the bay area! grr.

/end rant

[MimzMum]

Posted By Petzy on 12/13/2009 09:09 PM

I just feel so bad for the pets left outside in this arctic temperature here. People love to tell that animals can just deal with the cold but it isn’t true.

That’s one of the big reasons we won’t get another dog. It’s just not fair to them. I don’t care who thinks they are built for being outdoors. I’m nto subjecting another animal to these inhumane temperatures. To think that my pack had to live through -40 and -60 farenheit. *shakes head* Makes me sick.

And I know there are folks around here who keep bunneis outdoors. I jsut want to go into their yards at night and steal the poor things!

And lol at K&K! Yeah, what’s wrong with us humans, we left the freezer door open and now when the poor pets try to go out to do their business, their butts freeze to the ground! Hello Kitty is the same way. She is VERY angry that ‘daddy’ won’t do anything about all the cold white stuff on the ground.

I was going to remark about how there was only a pair of eyes on that porch, Petzy…lol. No bunny, just the eyes.

RabbitPam wrote:

I think your weather calls for training all animals to flush a toilet. Why go outside at all?

Amen to that, can I get a witness?! *raises hand*

[babybunsmum]

lol mimz. and please be advised… anyone who manages to get their fuzzies to use the toilet MUST post a how-to thread!

[MimzMum]

I may just start holding my kitties over the bowl until they go. ~_~
No chance with Shadow though, he still weighs about 75 pounds and is as tall as me when he stands on his hind legs.

Besides, who wants to have to fetch HIM the paper for reading material in the loo?

[katie, max & penny]

mimz, please tell me that shadow is not a cat!! 😮

[MimzMum]

rofl…oh heavens no, he’s my 14 year old MacKenzie River husky! *shakes head* Silly me, should’ve made that clear for everyone.
Now that should give y’all a different mental picture. ^_^

[MirBear]

lol… i guess that answered my question…. (whether or not to let hershey out in the snow) hehe i have the 2 siamese cats that love to go outside now they wont go near the door if its closed and certainly not when its open…

[Cassi&Charlie]

I think JG has a fairly good complaint now. Apparently her city had a massive storm last night. It’s all over the news in Oz.

[RabbitPam]

Posted By Kokaneeandkahlua on 12/15/2009 10:55 AM
WHY oh WHY do I not live nextdoor to BT or Rabbitpam??? I think I MUST be nuts!! Petzy lets pack up and move south! LOL

K&K I would love it if you and Petzy and fuzzy families moved down here!!!! That would be so fun.\

I am astonished that you guys can live in that kind of cold. I was always uncomfortable in the 0-10 degree range.

My first thought is: how do your cars and planes even run? Don’t they all freeze up and get stuck? If they don’t, pile all husbands, dogs, bunnies, etc. into them and start driving south. Stop just before you hit South Beach.

 

[Monkeybun]

Cars start fine in the cold if you plug them in for the winter lol. And I found when living in Edmonton, most of the people I knew stocked up on cat litter during the winter months so they wouldn’t get tires stuck in the snow

[MimzMum]

Oh dear! 0_o Jerz, can you check in with us? We’re thinking of you and sending good vibes!

[Deleted User]

Posted By RabbitPam on 12/16/2009 04:36 PM

I am astonished that you guys can live in that kind of cold.

 

Our igloos are very warm….

 

[LizzieKnittyBun]

This thread has been so incredible to me because………… wait for it…………. my husband and I are moving from Florida to Colorado in less than a month!

We’re running from being constantly drenched with sweat : D

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

My first thought is: how do your cars and planes even run? Don’t they all freeze up and get stuck? If they don’t, pile all husbands, dogs, bunnies, etc. into them and start driving south. Stop just before you hit South Beach.

Firstly it’s WARM today!! Only 15- after work-went to the dog park and actually worked up a sweat in my winter gear

I don’t know if your seriously asking but our car’s have block heaters and battery blankets in them-so you plug ’em in and they don’t freeze up. Diesels either need to be kept idiling-or a diesel generator thingy will keep them warm-otherwise kiss it goodbye until spring In fort McMurry where it’s really cold (always about ten degrees colder then here in E town) they jack up the diesel trucks and pin the gas so they are actually ‘driving’ all night because they will freeze up even at an idle.

Honestly if university wasn’t so expensive in the US-I’d be living somewhere in the south right now-maybe south beach like you said?. I’m technically american (born there-but just born there) so I could leave…but I have to finish school here And my familiy is here…I could visit :p Send me some real estate brochures lol

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Oh and for planes they de-ice the wings with some chemical stuff :p

[RabbitPam]

Yes, I was seriously asking, so found that really interesting. I never heard of battery blankets and block heaters. That’s ingenious.

K&K, what’s your major? I can look up schools down here. And real estate is at an all time low due to the housing bubble burst this past year.

Petzy, your igloo looks like a rabbit hole.

Lizzie, best of luck in CO. There’s a Burlington Coat Factory store in my town here, and I couldn’t figure out why anyone in FL would shop for coats, but duh, it’s for travel and moving. Get yourself a waterproof warm one before you go.

[Deleted User]

You can get an oil pan heater, too, for your car, or an electric heated dipstick. But you’d want to buy a road side assistance plan nonetheless, especially if you’re not in a city.

–But did you hear of the Ice Hotel in Quebec? It’s a place entirely made of ice. You can rent rooms of ice and sleep on beds of ice, drinking from ‘glassware’ made of ice… it’s amazing.

http://www.icehotel-canada.com/images.php

Even though, the North frightens me at times, it is filled with beauty. These ‘Northern Lights’ were photographed at Yellowknife:

[LizzieKnittyBun]

Yes ma’am, RabbitPam : D

[Deleted User]

Posted By RabbitPam on 12/17/2009 05:31 AM
There’s a Burlington Coat Factory store in my town here, and I couldn’t figure out why anyone in FL would shop for coats, but duh, it’s for travel and moving. Get yourself a waterproof warm one before you go.

 

Those Burlington coats are nice but they just woudn’t do for farther north unless all you do is go from your car to heated indoors which is what most people do. Here, if you want to spend any time outdoors you have to dress ugly. I wear a nasty old sheep skin heirloom that I wanted to replace with a more beautiful coat many times but nothing is as warm.

 

[MirBear]

all the “preety” / “in style” coats are NEVER warm.. even here it only gets to around -35 at the lowest but still if you want to keep warm…. look for the ugly coats… i should learn to take my own advice… most teens freeze their butts off trying to look cool (im just as guilty)

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Thanks Pam

K&K, what’s your major? I can look up schools down here.

I’m done my BSc, and I plan on vet school-but your uni’s look to run about 20,000 a year to our 5,000 tuition; I was thinking perhaps Australia-but it will likely be Saskatoon-which is just as cold

[MirBear]

i wish i lived somewhere warm!!!!

[Cassi&Charlie]

Australia is expensive too for international students. For my BF (he’s indian) we paid about AU$17000 a year! Definately put a hole in our pockets!

[jerseygirl]

Posted By Cassi&Charlie on 12/16/2009 04:00 PM
I think JG has a fairly good complaint now. Apparently her city had a massive storm last night. It’s all over the news in Oz.

Really??   I guess I should pay attention. 
 

MimzMum, you’re sweet for worrying.  I’m ‘fine’  though maybe short a few brain cells.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Australia is expensive too for international students. For my BF (he’s indian) we paid about AU$17000 a year! Definately put a hole in our pockets!

How long would you have to live there to be considered a local before applying? And would it be cheaper then? I really want to go to Australia to live-and umn…I have delayed sleep phase syndrome-so I’m curious to know if it would shift or if I would finally be on the same schedule of sleep as normal people!!??!

[Cassi&Charlie]

have delayed sleep phase syndrome-so I’m curious to know if it would shift or if I would finally be on the same schedule of sleep as normal people!!??!

Hahaha – Um, I don’t really know what the immigration laws are from Canda because different countries have different policies and Australia seems to cange it’s laws all the time! I just can’t keep up.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Hmmmm I really want to live there someday-I do have some family there and friends there-and I was chatting with a vet student from there-and he said it was a lot easier to get in there. Here well it’s going to be tough-and COLD lol

[MimzMum]

lol @ K&K…I had delayed sleep here last night too, (until almost 5 AM), and for the last couple of months, since the boy’s been away at college, but I don’t think that counts. ^_^ Last night it was all Stephenie Meyers’ fault, I got caught up reading Twilight for the first time. (yeah, I’m a little slow with books)
I miss normal day and night. But when I lived in California, there were so many people I always “heard” a peculiar “buzz” that made me feel like I was hearing everyone’s conversations around me. Drove me nuts. Now we live in the boonies and it’s pretty nicely quiet, but I had to trade normal light and dark for it.

I can’t tell you guys how many folks always say, “So, you live in Alaska? How’s life in the igloo?” >_<
Our igloos come in three stories with hot tubs, that’s how…lol. Not that I would know, I’ve got a chintzy little single story storage shed.

Block heaters are marvelous things…(and auto-starts…when they work!) but man is the electricity expensive! Our bill goes up about $200 every winter while we’re using ours.
Oh and be careful with that grader mister maintenance man…I think I left my extension cord out in that snow berm! (You wouldn’t believe how many of those we go through!)

Just got fuel here today….almost $400 worth for just a little over 100 gallons…yikes! 0_o

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Last night it was all Stephenie Meyers’ fault, I got caught up reading Twilight for the first time. (yeah, I’m a little slow with books)

I’d totally read the books if there were pictures of Eduard (well Robert) in them yummm lol

 

I can’t tell you guys how many folks always say, “So, you live in Alaska? How’s life in the igloo?” >_<

Bahahahah same here in Canada eh! lol
We met someone who’d come up from Michigan to Sarnia (they are a stone throw away-just a bridge from the US to Canada over a river) and they asked us where the snow was…in july
*facepalm* LOL   They weren’t kidding! They were bewildered 

[Monkeybun]

I have read and reread all the twilight books maybe 6 times… I read too fast, and have to reread everything before hubby lets me get a new book They have the first and second released with new covers from the movie now, so you can see edward lol.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Dave was teasing me about the last episode of the office-because Jim gets Kelly an Eduard poster bahahahah Yes that’s what I would like from him for Christmas

[MimzMum]

Uh-oh…another unintentional thread hijack. 0_o Ah well…I sure wish I hadn’t finished the book already, because tonight is going to be about 40 below and if I am going to be up all night shivering it should be because of a tantalizing vampire story! lolz….
Needless to say, off to B&N online to place an order. ^_^ This is one of those times when I wish I had a Kindle and a good net connection. >_<

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Oh I’d love a kindle!

Cooled off again here-not too bad but it was lovely at three below! Now we’re at 16- or so-still nice, not complaining-but warmer is always better imho

[MimzMum]

We have decent temps forecast for Christmas week. In the teens above and below and maybe some dingle digits here and there. Break out the tank tops, shorts and flip-flops! xD

[jerseygirl]

We’re heading for a top of 40C (104F) tomorrow. Earth is weird.

[corpathina]

our high today is 66 and our low is 55. the only bad thing about louisiana winter is that every other day it rains, and the day after it gets into the 30s/40s. we’re preparing for rain tonight so it’s warmed up a bit.

i can’t really complain, though. it’s not cheery weather but we never get snowed in, that’s for sure!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Break out the tank tops, shorts and flip-flops! xD

Bahahahh I have been going out just on the step in flip flops lol :p

it’s getting cold again-but warm for Christmas day I’m hoping to get to the dog park on the 25-that will be part of Mikey’s gift

Jers-does it get cold where you are in the July/aug time? And I have another question…Ok-here it’s winter and December-but In Australia-it’s December-is it winter or summer-like do Australians reverse the names of the seasons to fit?

[Kafrn]

I just had to come into BinkyBunny this morning, just to comment on this thread. I grumbled all the way to work. Now Im going to offload here.
It is currently 35 degrees C ( 95 F), and its only 10:00 am. It is meant to reach 42 degrees today (109.3 farenheit), and I am working in a shed. grumble grumble. The aircon is broken. grumble. Im going to get a really big poking stick for my boss. grumble. And Im gonna poke him with it. grumble. AND THEN IM GOING ON CHRISSY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! TODAY AT 4!!!!!!!
Only thing is, tomorrow is going to be 18c and thunderstorms. Grumble. And you know how humid thats going to make it! Darn Aussie Weather. grumble.

[Kafrn]

KK, Its winter here in July, starts to warm up a smidgeon in August, but not much. normally around the 18 degrees mark celcius. Our seasons are reversed to yours. So in December its Summer. HOT HOT HOT. and it will be hot until about April next year.
Yesterday, it was so hot that our pool heated up in the sun and the water was too warm to swim in at midnight. It was like a hot bath!

[RabbitPam]

Kafrn,,grumble grumble…LMAO!…grumble…poking your boss is a No No….grumble…LOL

We had a little bit of cool air the last few days and it was delicious. They are predicting 80 degrees F. for Xmas day. Nice for people with company who want to go swimming. If they can get here. The snow storms around the rest of the US are really making air travel very difficult this week.

Petzy – love that photo. Is that near where you live?

(Oh, Man! Sammy excuuuuusssseeee you!!!! She’s in her litter box and Whew! Does kale give them gas? Pa-leeze! Sorry. Talk about off topic.)

[MimzMum]

lol @ Pam…you know, I’ve noticed lately that my bunnies are getting a little smelly in the loo. I’m not sure if it’s just from eating winter greens or what, but I’m going to have to purchase carbon credits for the three of them if this keeps up!

I can’t imagine a 110 degree green Christmas though. Yikes on toast! 0_o Don’t get me wrong, if all the snow melted today and the sun came up to it’s normal position in the sky and the birds were tweeting and the grass growing, I wouldn’t cry…but 75 above is plenty hot for me, thanks!
We gained a whole 11 seconds of daylight today, btw. Woo.

[Kafrn]

omg! You live in Alaska! So you dont get sun! thats so awesome! how does it all work when there is no sun? I know that sounds really really silly, but does that mean that kids have to go to school in the dark, etc? Is it dangerous? Wow, I have seen that in documentaries, but still dont know much about it! how long do you have no sun for? How bright is the sun in the 11 seconds that you get sunlight? Do your nocturnal animals get really confused?!

[Kafrn]

You wont believe this, but I just stepped out of the HOT office shed, and it is raining outside! and its cold now! grumble. Feels like its snowing in the sahara. grumble.

[MimzMum]

rofl…whoa! So many questions! I’ll try to answer them all…

We do get sun, we have about 3 3/4 hours of visible daylight right now. We added 11 seconds from yesterday, since we passed the winter solstice (shortest day of the year). Now the sun will slowly start coming back. I think the sun went down in Barrow (think Prudhoe Bay) in November and they won’t see it peek over the horizon until February. Now that’s brutal.

I’d say we have a twilight kind of light from about 10 AM until noon, where it looks like lower 48 sunlight would look at about 6 in the morning…this lasts for a few hours and then it’s all dark again. Conversely, we don’t see stars in the summer, the light is out all day from about 2 in the morning until 12 the next AM (this is at summer solstice-June 21-and for a few months on either side of it) and then you can see the position of the sun going around the pole and coming up again by the angle of light coming over the northern horizon.
For the rest of the year (between March and May, and again in August through October) the light is pretty much how it is for anyone else. Much easier to keep your circadian rhythms going correctly. The bunnies seem to have the most trouble with it, and I have to supply them with incandescent light at regular intervals to help their systems adjust, plus I have to black out my window for them in summer, otherwise they start acting weird.

The worst part is not just the darkness in winter, but the blast of cold we get as the earth rounds the sun (perigee…or apogee, I’m not sure which) in January and February. This is where we often see weeks of -60 Fahrenheit if it’s a bad year. We are currently warmer in winter and wetter in summer than we’ve ever been, global warming I guess-although I’m not a subscriber to that POV, and my hubby swears the daylight was nonexistent during the last two weeks of the year when he was growing up here. So things have changed.

We always took our kids to and from school when they were little. But nothing outdoors is as dark as the cave of a house we live in, (very few windows-to keep heat in, but…STUFFY! 0_o ), so it’s really not an issue anymore. I think the hardest adjustment was the extra daylight in summer…totally threw off their sleep schedules and they never got those back.

Personally, I get pretty depressed during the last few months of the year, and when we hit solstice I try to just keep telling myself summer’s on the way. I spend all winter bummed out and moping through the house, not wanting to even do chores, and then when the good weather arrives, I’m so happy to be outside that nothing gets done then, either…. I think that’s what bothers me the most.

[Kafrn]

Oh my goodness, those weather conditions are just so different to anything I have ever experienced! thank you so much for explaining! At the moment here the sun isnt going down until about 8pm, which is late enough for me! And the coldest weather we get here is only about 10 degrees celcius, which is not too cold at all… but thats 6 months away yet!!! thats incredible that you get daylight for 22 hours a day! Wow! how how does it get there in Summer?

[MimzMum]

Yeah, by summer solstice the daylight is going almost 24 hours. It’s annoying, because I really need darkness to sleep well. Have you ever fallen asleep in the middle of the day, like if you haven’t been feeling well? You wake up all groggy and stuffy feeling…that’s how I get in summer.
As long as there aren’t terrible forest fires going on, or it isn’t raining and thundering and lightning flashing all over the place, I enjoy summer. But we DO get BUGS…in fact the mosquito is the unofficial state bird here.

[Kafrn]

Lol, my dad used to live in Perth, and they get heaps of mozzies there too! Once they had some Japanese guys staying with them on an exchange program, and a HUGE dragonfly flew past and the Japanese man asked dad “What is that?” And dad said “Thats an Australian Mosquito!” and apparently they freaked out and wouldnt go outside at night because they were so scared of the “Mosquitoes!”

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

I was going to ask about daylight up there Mimz!!! I find it so different here in Edmonton I couldn’t imagine there! Here-well we get daylight during the winter months sort of-but right now (shortest day) it’s dark when I leave and dark when I get home from work. BUT I love love love summer. Especially June-it’s almost 24 hours of daylight-not really of course-but 24 hours without any real darkness! It can be 11pm and still quite light with no pitch black occuring-I definitely like June here

The winter I could do without though Tons of snow again today-roads are insane. BUT i am off work for over two weeks starting today SWEET!

[jerseygirl]

Jers-does it get cold where you are in the July/aug time? And I have another question…Ok-here it’s winter and December-but In Australia-it’s December-is it winter or summer-like do Australians reverse the names of the seasons to fit?

That sounds so funny. Sure – we just swap the names around to suit. We have four seasons. Warm=Spring/Summer which is Sept thru to Feb. And cool season Cool= Autumn/Winter i.e. March thru to August. In SA we don’t get much sub-zero temps. It’s like a mediterranean climate. In northern Aust (Queensland, Northern Territory, Top end Western Aust) they have more tropical climate so their spring/summer Dec/Jan/Feb is also their wet season.
In SA where Kafrn and myself are, our average winter temps are about 15C {59F} (lows are about 7C {44F}) So no it doesn’t get cold in your definition of cold!!!!!!!

On Christmas Day it is forcast to be a really mild Summer day (25C {77F} ) So it should be perfect.  Alot of people still do winter style meal from our UK heritage but seafood barbecue is pretty popular.

Mimz, that sounds so fascinating! Maybe not totally livable – I think it would take some adjustment, but it is fascinating all the same!  Woo-hoo 11 secs!

Kafrn – Woo Hoo Holidays!!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

25 on Christmas day!! WOW I’m so pumped because it will only be 3 below and we can hit the dog park after presents and before dinner LOL Definitely somewhere I want to live-25 wow

[MimzMum]

lolz…You folks who don’t use standard…I will never get used to using metric! NEVER. >_< I'm kind of surprised it's not bigger up here though. We certainly have products all over town (especially grocery) that come in French since Canada's right next door. (Gotta love that, my family was of French descent and it's kind of heart-warming to see the language somewhere besides a textbook.)
We’re pretty lucky. About 15 above here and no lower than 0 at night for the next two days. Then fresh snow day after Christmas.
Time for a snowball fight! ^_^ BWAHAHAHA!

[RabbitPam]

They’re predicting 80 degrees F. here for Christmas day.

MM, when I lived in MA one year my Dad tracked the sunset time listed in the paper for about 2 months, just before, during and after the winter solstice. We watched those extra seconds and minutes like greedy birds. What was interesting was that it plateaued for about two weeks right around the shortest day, then got either shorter or longer at a greater rate the farther away from that date.

As for the Berkshires, MA, where I lived before FL, they had three seasons. Fall, Winter and Mud.

[MimzMum]

Oh dear. Can you imagine what they’re going to have this year…with all that nasty weather? Ice, sleet, and deluge? *shudders* But watch in six months we’ll ALL be complaining about how hot it is and how one can’t go outdoors while speaking unless one wants some fresh protein to fly in. xP

It used to be we just claimed two seasons here, Mosquitoes and No Mosquitoes. But for some odd reason we just found a large house fly in here. Where he came from I have NO idea?? (the only buggies that arrive in my bunny hay are those little cigarette beetles from time to time) I am finding more bugs seem to live into the winter months and then annoy the heck out of me in the house. >_<

Supposedly we received one more minute of sunlight today. But I blinked and missed it.

[MirBear]

Posted By MimzMum on 12/18/2009 08:32 PM
Uh-oh…another unintentional thread hijack. 0_o Ah well…I sure wish I hadn’t finished the book already, because tonight is going to be about 40 below and if I am going to be up all night shivering it should be because of a tantalizing vampire story! lolz….
Needless to say, off to B&N online to place an order. ^_^ This is one of those times when I wish I had a Kindle and a good net connection. >_<

 

have you tryed reading the vampire diaries? its not as good as twillight but its still good.. ALSO if you havent read the books dont watch the show…. it has absolutly NOTHING to do with the stories… and they messed up the characters big time..

[Monkeybun]

I remember when I lived in Edmonton… it was said there were 2 seasons there. Winter and Construction lol.

Jersey, I am so gonna move into either yours or Kafrn’s back yard. I soo want to have it no lower than those temperatures! I’m just not made for winters lol. No extra padding

[Cassi&Charlie]

I remember when I lived in Edmonton… it was said there were 2 seasons there. Winter and Construction lol

We have something like that in the Northern Territory. Cause we have monsoon rain for half the year, it’s Wet Season and Repair Roads Season lol.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

They’re predicting 80 degrees F. here for Christmas day.

I have spent I think 5 Christmas’s in Florida-they were magical !! I have to say, those people who say they miss snow after moving somewhere warm-well they are lying Bahahahahha they do not fly to Canada in the winter -if they did I’d believe them lol

It was absolutely wonderful to be in FL in winter though-amazing. LOVE it. I will be your neighbor one day

[MirBear]

im jelous! i just freezed my butt off in waste deep snow for a week! jeeze! yeah mom gets to go to jamaica for a vacation… no kids, on yeah but the kids go further north for vacaition…. WASTE DEEP SNOW!

[Monkeybun]

Booo… its been snowing here since 2 pm, and its sticking Hates snow. Hates hates hates.

[MimzMum]

Back to -20 F for me. Double boo.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Yeah it’s cold again here too-but with the warm up and slow cool down Mikey is doing much better. Dave’s sister better hurry up with those booties she’s making him-if it’s any later then January I’m not paying her-I asked her in Nov to make them!

The snow is still high but they’ve finally plowed the roads-and most of the roads are ok to drive on. And not worse then 20-

Wait-Mimz-your talking F-lemmie see…yeah that’s -30 below C-that’s about my limit. 20- C is ok and anything warmer I can deal with. Colder then that I have to plug in my car and wear gloves YUCK!

[MirBear]

i just read somthing about going outside in flip flops or something.. i got curious and tryed it…. NEVER AGAIN!!!!!! i think my toes caught colds

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Bahahahah I just went out bare foot! It’s 30- C |I am so tough LOL

[MirBear]

yess!! go us tough peoples!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Just at the store today for snacks-and this guy walks in -with a t-shirt on. It’s 30- C without windchill-worse then 40- with windchilll Total tuffies

[MirBear]

I know!!!! i saw some guy when i went skating yesterday walking in shorts and a t-shirt!!!!! but its only about -15 here soo hese not completly stupid just 70% stupid

[CocoBunny]

Sorry you all Saudi winters are like Spring days. Its in the 70s and I open my windows everyday ..

[MirBear]

cough!!! did you say spring????????? wait.. how much is 70 f in celsius??? HAHA yes im the 100th comment

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

My gosh 70 winter would be lovely-I’d absolutely melt in your heat though. I do better in dry heat though-is it a dry heat or very humid?

Mir-70F is about 20C

[Sage Cat]

Oh my goodness – yesterday in North Dakota it got down to -35 F; yes, that is negative 35! (I just checked that is -37 in Celsius)

It is 20F’s (-6C) here today and sunny, lots of snow on the ground – beautiful!!!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Yeah it’s balmy here hitting highs of -20 C

[MirBear]

welll
its still to cold i wish i could finally move to jamaica but we dont have the money to build the house yet
(mummy can we plzzzzzzz move jamaica now, or at least start building the house alread?!)

[Cassi&Charlie]

hehehe, suckers. It’s 30ish C here, monsoon rain, perfect weather for tea and a good book.

[MirBear]

hey don’t brag im too cold to get fustrated and have the blood go to my face… its just starting to reach my toes from when i stood up this morning.. and its 4:00 pm now!!

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