Poll: Go home nature, you're drunk...

[Krantos]

Yeah.... I live in Michigan. Our weather is always weird. In fact, the only time we're concerned is when it appears "normal".

True Story: I ran across a "You might be from Michigan if..." list one time. One of the items was "...if you've ever gotten frostbite and heatstroke in the same week."

I blame the lakes.

Edit: found the [a href="http://www.mystery.com/~gabe/michigander.html"]list[/a]
Pretty accurate. Especially the one about the driving being better in the winter.

 

[Slash Joel]

Hey another Minnesotan nice to meet you. But yeah we lost power in Minneapolis last night for a few hours because of the snow. But hey we got discount pizza and sat around watching people having a snowball fight. I found this snow dump to be alot of fun.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I picked other.
The weather by me is going crazy. Every few days it shifts from being way too cold for this time of year to way too hot.

Humidity is fluctuating from like nothing to start sweating the second you open the door.

I hate this part of Jersey...

 

[SomebodyNowhere]

seems colder than it should be but I'm not sure exactly how much colder

 

[Yopaz]

Right now it's about average. Our winter has been scary though. We had a month where the average temperature was 20 degrees above last year's average. It's hardly enough to say anything about climate change seeing as this is over an extremely short period of time, but it's enough to be unsettling in my opinion.

 

[CriticalMiss]

I didn't know the internet had weather.

OT: It's pretty normal here for the time of the year, cool and breezy with occasional showers. We did have an unusually cold start to the year though which is a trend that has been going on for a couple of years. But really it isn't a sign of the apocalypse, the weather changes constantly and has been doing so forever. If we expect the world to be the same today as it will be in 100 years time or 100 years ago then we're a bit silly. It's just all happening a bit quicker than before because the world is being human-formed.

 

[Basement Cat]

South East US, here. This entire week it reached the mid 80's every day. The trees are green, the grasses are growing. The flowers are blooming. The pollen is coating every blinkety-blanking surface outside yellow. And then we had a major line of severe storms roll through last night: Now it's past noon and the high temperature is 45 F.

This is the normal pattern for mid April weather. We always have a late cold snap in the middle of the month.

What concerns me is that 20 to 25 years ago we would have snow and ice and killing frosts in mid April. I remember planting dozens of dwarf apple/peach/plum trees and losing entire crops due to the cold snap being too severe 20 years ago. Now a dip below the 50's feels major.

I've heard old family stories about the weather swinging back and forth between extremes all during the 20th century. When my mother was a child they went swimming in one pond in December but they skated on the same pond in December when my grandmother was a child.

Global warming is a real thing but with stories like that it's hard to figure out just where global warming is happening and where Mother Nature is just being herself.

 

[Woodsey]

It's been fucking all over the place, starting to level out now although it's still annoyingly cool. I'd rather have it fuck up now and have a good Summer though. Last year it was boiling at the end of March and then rained all Summer long.

 

[Deimir]

It's pouring down rain outside today and has been unseasonably cold. Had this precipitation come yesterday, the city would've been covered in snow...woulda been interesting to see that actually, since everyone legally had to have their snow tires off three weeks ago.

 

[Saulkar]

It will not stawp fricking snowing!!! It will snow for about 20cm then melt the next day for the past few weeks!

 

[IGetNoSlack]

Midwest US reporting in. And no, our weather is NOT normal. Torrential rain has made the river near my house, y'know flood. I personally haven't gotten any flooding (yet) A golf course near my house is, with the exception of a few small hills at the edge of the course, completely underwater, as in, top of 20 foot tall trees. It's that bad down here.

 

[Daveman]

Here we've had five months which contained some snow. That's a long bloody winter for the UK. Pretty good now though, way colder than last year, but last year was baking.

 

[Ren_Li]

"Other", in that it can't make up it's damn mind.
It's normal for England's weather to be far more extreme now than it used to be. Snow is far more common- and problematic- than it used to be; we keep swinging between "drought" (as much as a relatively small island in a temperate region can have drought) and even more rain than is normal; summers are often far hotter than they used to be. Each extreme is, well, more extreme than it used to be.

RIGHT NOW, though, it's quite warm and sunny. About three weeks ago we had enough snowfall that my fiancé and I were concerned about trains being delayed (although it didn't last long at all, so.)

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Wales is about normal now (ie grey and shit) but we had snow weirdly late this year. As in, the latest recorded snowfall in the area in about the last century. Something like that. Can't remember the actual statistics.

 

[Joshimodo]

I live in the UK. I don't know what this "weather" thing you're talking about is.

 

[DanielBrown]

Same as always this time of year in Stockholm. Rain. Lots and lots of rain. The only snow left is hard-to-melt piles from the winter. They usually linger on until about now depending on how huge the stacks were. One big snow dumping site close to me is still covered in all black snowpiles(due to being next to a highway).

The papers go on about winter coming back, but they do that constantly and have been wrong every time.

 

[Arakasi]

Your poll assumes that average is good.
I prefer it colder, so yeah, it's slightly colder than normal.

Sorry if I wasn't clear but when I say it's too hot/cold in the poll, it is compared to what your weather should be, not by the posters preference.

I knew that, but when you say it's 'too cold' that generally means in terms of preference, not in terms of the average. So the poll looks strange.

 

[Little Woodsman]

I do not know what we have done to deserve this. Has Minnesota angered nature in some way? Is this the Mayan prophecy coming true with a whimper rather than a bang?

Spoiler: Picture just taken outside my Mum's house about fifteen minutes ago

This type of snow dump would be strange March 19th, let alone April 19th. It's "supposed" to get to the 50's F next week but that's what it did last week and that hasn't stopped schizophrenia nature from dumping 3 inches of snow onto us. Our average high for this time of year is about 60-70 degrees and it is currently a balmy 30 degrees out.

So Escapist, a few things that I would like to get from you so I (hopefully) don't feel so bad...

1. What's it look like for you outside? Is your weather being normal for your area or have your people also angered the nature Gods?

2. Pic please! Please do put them in spoilers though so it doesn't take up too much space.

Edit: Just to be clear, when I state too hot/too cold, I mean against the average of your areas weather, not too hot/cold to what you want it to be.

Snowfall is abnormally late here in Colorado as well. I'm a stone's throw from the Flatirons (mountains) can literally walk to being in the mountains in about 90 minutes. Normally we get our biggest snow storms in March, and might get a little bit in April...this year we had one OK snowstorm in March, then a blizzard three days ago, snow started really melting today but there's another blizzard predicted for Monday. Hee hee, silly weathermen, trying to predict Colorado weather.....

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I do not know what we have done to deserve this. Has Minnesota angered nature in some way? Is this the Mayan prophecy coming true with a whimper rather than a bang?

Spoiler: Picture just taken outside my Mum's house about fifteen minutes ago

This type of snow dump would be strange March 19th, let alone April 19th. It's "supposed" to get to the 50's F next week but that's what it did last week and that hasn't stopped schizophrenia nature from dumping 3 inches of snow onto us. Our average high for this time of year is about 60-70 degrees and it is currently a balmy 30 degrees out.

So Escapist, a few things that I would like to get from you so I (hopefully) don't feel so bad...

1. What's it look like for you outside? Is your weather being normal for your area or have your people also angered the nature Gods?

2. Pic please! Please do put them in spoilers though so it doesn't take up too much space.

Edit: Just to be clear, when I state too hot/too cold, I mean against the average of your areas weather, not too hot/cold to what you want it to be.

holy poop, that is pretty bad relatively to normal, this ice age needs to go away.


OT: it's not snowing in my area (not consistently at least, we've had snow but it didn't really stick enough to last for more than a day), but dear sweet jesus, the winds...i had 2 underarmors and a hoodie on tonight underneath my refereeing gear, and i still felt like a frozen popsicle, this is what it was like:


my ears were on fire when i stepped into my car from the temperature change, it physically hurt like hell just from that.


on average it's around the 60-70's range, if not 80's on average, so yeah i feel your pain when it's not even half that at on most days and we have a possibility for a snow day this upcoming week...*sigh*


its sad to say this, i am missing the heat right now, even though my nuts would be heating up a storm in anything higher than 70-80 degrees.

 

[Gmans uncle]

Here in Utah, we've had unusually cold weather for this time of year for the past month or so. Weather here is always kinda wacky, but usually by now it's wormed up a bit, but as of late we've been getting weekly snow and sometimes HAIL!
But honestly, I feel like this is a good alternative to going back to the staggering desert heat we'll be experiencing in a few months/weeks...