Weather

[urbpan]

An old joke I tell too often involves a visitor to New England who complains about the weather. His New Englander friend objects saying that New England has all different kinds of weather, at which the first man says "Yes, but all in one day?!"

This morning it was clear for a while, then a cold nasty rain began to fall. Then the sun came out and the sky was blue. The next moment there were whiteout conditions with high winds and heavy snow. We walked out into lightly falling flurries. In a little while it was sunny again. Just now there were some thunderclaps. I looked at the window and it's snowing heavily again.

Where are the locusts?

Comments

[mas69ter.livejournal.com]

It's like the joke thing in Ohio, "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes, it'll change."

[proreality.livejournal.com]

The weather here in San Francisco has been so trippy lately, too.
I'm half-expecting an earthquake or something to happen.

[hildythenerd.livejournal.com]

Aww, we had all that today EXCEPT the thunder. I'm jealous you had thunder!

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

The locusts come after the rain of burning brimstone. THEN the locusts, THEN the scorpions.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Melbourne.

Neil Finn (of Crowded House) even wrote a song about the place called "Four Seasons In One Day".

[droserary.livejournal.com]

You must have had what we had last night out here in Ohio. It was my first ever thundersnow! My sister used to live in Binghamton and she would tell me about their frequent thundersnow and I used to get jealous.

The winds were ridiculous last night, too. I thought at first I was seeing lightning, but when the sky turned turquoise I realized it was probably transformers blowing out nearby. What fun!

[droserary.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that. I've lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Washington state. Every time the weather changes frequently I hear the locals use that same remark. I'm therefore forced to conclude that if you live anywhere and you don't like the weather, if you wait five minutes it will change. Five minutes seems to be consistent.

[harrietbrown.livejournal.com]

We had sunny, clear, warm in the 40's during the day. Then around 4 it started snowing. Then it stopped snowing and the temperature has dropped to 21 and the wind is howling. I've never heard it as loud as it is tonight since I moved in here last year. Oh, yeah, yesterday there was thunder. But no snow.

So, yeah. Wait 5 minutes. Still, your weather in NE is ... sucky, really.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Where did you live that there weren't any thunderstorms? I thought those were everywhere.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

I thought the scorpions came after the rain of frogs.

[droserary.livejournal.com]

Well, I had never seen thundersnow before yesterday. But I did live in the Pacific Northwest (Olympia, WA) for two years and didn't hear a single clap of thunder or see any lightning. Lots of rain, no thunderstorms.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Woa... O.o

[candent.livejournal.com]

Jef, is it true that sea turtles wedge their heads into holes while they sleep so they don't float away?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I've never heard that before, but it's plausible. Apparently they can sleep on the surface or under the water.