It’s been between 20°-30°F around here for weeks. Gets even lower at night. Not too bad I think. Cold, but manageable. It’s been snowing since Thursday, and we’ve probably gotten about 8 inches so far. I love snow, it’s so pretty.

It is cold in Texas.

Daytime temperatures where I live have been hovering around -15 to -6°C while nights are much colder. The forecast predicts that there’s a cold front moving in, so it’ll probably get even colder.

There’s not much snow, and overall, it’s been a typical winter where I live.

Oh yeah. We had a pretty decent snowfall in early-mid autumn (about 8cm), and it was really pretty to see the orange leaves on the trees covered in snow. I wish I’d taken pictures. D:

Aw, we’re cranking up to 40-43*C here and if history’s anything to go by, we’re gonna go even higher to 45, if not 48*C here in Australia.

How do you get that little symbol for degrees?

How do you get that little symbol for degrees?

Copy-paste? That’s how I did it. XD

70 (Fahrenheit, because I’m an illogical American)

Or 21°C (Because we American science majors are always converting from imperial to metric. XD)

43 degrees Celsius on the Nullarbor coming home. Five suckers on bikes were riding across it, whilst I sat in a nice, comfy, air-conditioned car. Then we had a great big storm yesterday when we got home.

Dunno ‘bout you mate, but it’s still hot over here. Our cool change isn’t due ‘til tomorrow.

Don’t hate on Fahrenheit, Emill. It has character. You euros and your metric system are too sterile.

Bah! Who needs logic when you’ve got plain old (uncommon) common sense!

Okie-dokie, to revive a dead thread…..

I’m buried in a meter of snow right now…. And it just keeps coming down

it’s impossible to get out of town, because the trains are canceled and roads are blocked by crashed vehicles. The western coast of Sweden wasn’t really ready for this, since, well…. We mostly don’t get snow in the winter, but lots and lots of mush. And now we suddenly have the most snow in the country, the most since they started measuring in 1905…. Cracks me up.

We might get snow today or tomorrow, although I think it’s kind of a long shot. I know it’s snowing again back in north Texas.

We’ve been snow-covered for well over two months now, though it’s only in the two recent weeks that it started getting out of hand. Before there were several very cold weeks, which meant that the snow that had been laying on the ground never melted during the day. Two weeks ago, though, oh boy…. Glad I’m not going anywhere all too soon (So-called sports-break… Heh, all skating rinks are closed due to some roofs crashing in around the country, and no-one can even get to the slopes outside of town, I assume.)

Was afraid I’d lose my darling out there…..

That is an adorable dog, Emill. Is that you in the picture?

Aarrrrgggghhhh!!!!

I’m a human popsicle when I wake up in the morning, then I’m a melted human puddle in the afternoon.

AND, I always catch a cold in the mornings! It’s so damn freezing!!! Then once I get to school, my cold’s gone but I still have a somewhat sore throat.

I hate this sort of thing. I want a nice, crisp, cool day ALL THE WAY THROUGH not freezing in teh morning and BOILING in the afternoon!!!

At least there’s a nice cool breeze all day long. That’s nice. relaxes in breeze Ahhhh…

By the way Emill, such a cute dog!

DAFFODILS. SPROUTIN’.

Even though everything else is frigid and dark and various shades of dull brownish-grey, the sprouting daffodils make me happy. ^^

Unfortunately, it’s powder snow, so no epic tunnels, snow fortresses, or snowball fights. sadness

I hate that. D:

All the snow is melting here. :D

A majority of the schools in my hometown are closed due to the massive snowfall last week and flat roofs deemed unsafe when packed with a meter of snow. My school, in the neighboring town, is open though, since there the town shoveled all the roofs. Now all the snow is melting into mush, though, since the temperature is rising and we have the same storm coming in as the one that flooded France, now weakened of course.

I shovel(ed). I still love snow, though. :P

Tornado season! Yeeeeah.

Well, yeah. I happen to live in Tornado Alley.

Lucky, maybe. And yeah, it is thrilling at times. The times when the wind is blowing so hard that is feels like it’s going to blow down the house, and dad wakes you up in the middle of the night to tell you to get down to the basement and fast so we can watch the TV for the tornado paths until the power goes out and we end up getting blankets and pillows and camping out in the basement for the rest of the night in the dark with a candle listening to the rafters creaking and the sound of quarter-sized hail hitting the windows and skylights.

Yeah! It’s great. D:

Earthquakes yesterday.

Facebook in an uproar.

Well, the epicenter was in Baja I believe, and I’m in San Diego. So it wasn’t really that bad, but there was definitely a big shaking.

We’re gonna get a hurricane today. hides under bed

Just heard about Hurricane Irene…. stay safe my Yankee friends.

Yeah, if anyone’s on the East Coast, stay safe…

I’ll gather two of each animal…

Turning into summer in Australia. Slowly.

Well that’s embarassing…

As someone who lives in an East Coast State, thanks.

However, as someone who lives a good long way from the coast, I’m not too worried. At worst, I’ll be getting some nasty storms, but probably nothing life threatening.

Jeni, you actually like Winter?!

I love winter; it’s my favourite season. :D
I also live on the East coast, but I’m not too worried, because, apparently, around here we’re only expecting a few days of heavy rain, which isn’t very unusual anyway. Thanks for the kind thoughts, though. :D

^Don’t make it sound so ominious!

@Jeni: I like winter too, although I prefer autumn. Summer and spring – not so much.

Hayfever ahoy! Pollen count rising and allergies kicking up like there’s no tomorrow.

But yeah, spring’s pretty nice. :)

How fragile are we?

Should the heavens decide, our whole lives would be destroyed, we insignificant few.

Wind. Lots and lots of wind. And rain, but rain’s pretty normal.

Somehow I still have internet and power, though power is a bit finicky at the moment.

I wish there were more thunder. Thunder = AWESOME AND I LOVE IT! :D

My Aunt in Maryland is not responding to our attempts at communication.

Any news from that part of the state?

Ominous news RVL. I’m not quite sure what to think.

On the one hand, everyone’s saying it’s just a power outage, on the other…I can’t help but worry what with the falling trees and flooded streets. Anything could happen in an environment like that.

I hope you get in contact with her soon. I hope my aunt calls or something as soon as she can.

IT’S RA-A-A-A-INING IT’S PO-O-O-URING LA LA LA DE DA-A-A-A!!! does crazy rain dance

Can you tell I’m a little crazy about the fact that we’re having a thunderstorm right now? gasp I HOPE WE GET FLASH FLOODING :D

Lena Horne makes even the worst days better

GAH! HEATWAVE!!!

More tornadoes expected in the next day or two. Grand.

I’m not planning on it anytime soon. The storm cell already fucked a bunch of shit up in Oklahoma today, but it might grind down before it gets to us. Hard to say with storms sometimes.

:( I hope they don’t produce any, NP.

Oh good.

It is really intriguing me how you and I are precisely opposite. You are in fall, I am in spring, when it’s dark there it’s lunchtime here, etc. etc.