Spring didn't spring yet

[vilakins]

I'm getting very sick of crap weather. The longest day is only two weeks away, and I had to have the lights on today when I get home at 5pm because it's so grey and dark. Seems to me we got more sun in winter. Because of the constant winds, I have to wear my purple felt hat just to keep from being blinded by my hair, and earplugs at night because of it whistling round the eaves. Bah. I want to live somewhere hot and dry and healthy. [Beams acquisitive thought-waves at Microsoft so they'll buy Greg's company and she can move to Australia.]

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

You might like to wait till after February for that... it's shaping up as a bad summer :(

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So's ours. If we get one. El bloody nino.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Is it el nino? Or is it la nina, and you're hogging her when we need her? Sally's right, though...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[shivers] Just got back from Casino Royale in the cold and wet, and I saw lightning on the way home. Crap weather like that is el nino and you're welcome to it. It'd put your fires out.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Not my fires. At least, not yet. But, yes, things are bad in Victoria, so bad they are smoking Sally out across the Murray...

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

If you had thrown in a mini tornado or two you would be describing the weather the UK. My light was on at 3.00 pm ( I took a day off yesterday and today) and the Lone Pine was bending almost double. But that is fairly par for the course for for December here. I feel very sorry for you having our winter in your summer, the forecast is better for the weekend here so here's hoping for more synchronicity.

[peladonww.livejournal.com]

The pictures I saw of the houses that had been destroyed by the mini tornado suggest that it the mini was duration rather than power. I was travelling yesterday and the trains were even more unreliable than usual because of the power lines into Euston being ripped out - the weather world seems to have gone crazy. There have been bad El Nino years before but I don't think that they brought tornados to the UK did they?

Has anyone had a 'good' summer or winter recently? Looking at pictures of famous German ski slopes devoid of snow at the beginning of the second week of December makes you wonder.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

The pictures I saw of the houses that had been destroyed by the mini tornado suggest that it the mini was duration rather than power

Oh yes , and area covered. The ones the USA suffer can be several miles in diameter. This one, and the one in Wales, both had winds of 100 mph

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You have the same sort we have: small but powerful ones that take out a street or two. We have several a year in different part of the country, and friends lost part of their roof in one. This year though a slightly bigger one pretty much flattened a small town (what you'd call a village).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks. You never know your luck, but I'd predict more wind. :-(

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Well we still have the wind today and an occasional shower but that is coming out of a practically cloudless eggshell blue sky. The weather is weird.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

how depressing :0( I hope it perks up soon for you

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh well, at least it's too cold for flies and mosquitoes.

I like your icon!

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, that's looking on the bright side if every I heard it.
I stole it from somewhere ;0)

[peladonww.livejournal.com]

[Beams acquisitive thought-waves at Microsoft so they'll buy Greg's company and she can move to Australia.]

I'll wish that for you too at every possible opportunity. I'd rather like to come up with something they or Google would want to buy too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

One day. I live in hope.

[trixieleitz]

We had warm sun first thing yesterday morning, while I was at work, but once it was time to bike home, it tipped it down. Bah.

I think it's some sort of curse on my family. The November and December after we came back from the UK were just like this. My brother and SiL just got back from their UK sojourn a couple of months ago. Autumn sticks to us, it seems.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So it's all your fault. And I was blaming Claudia the little grey rain cloud.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

You may be the only person ever to wish Microsoft was more acquisitive. :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Only in this case. :-) My doctor and my naturopath both say independently that I should live in a better climate but I'm trapped here and that's why. NZ is notoriously unhealthy; we have high allergy and respiratory decease incidences because of the dampness and mould.

Or the company could open a branch in Australia, but that means Sydney (not my sort of city) or Melbourne (which very much is, but has just as bad a climate).

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realized your climate was so unhealthy; I'm really sorry to hear it. Where would you wind up if Microsoft bought out the company?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think Australia is the only place that would permit me to live there for any decent period of time unless Bulgaria joins the EEC. I fancy Perth for its climate, though it's one of the most isolated cities on the planet.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

If you didn't mind commuting, you could live somewhere other than Sydney. That said, I don't recommend the Central Coast. They're just as bad about water supply as Sydney, and both are turning acquisitive eyes to my neck of the woods for their needs :(

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Yuk. :-( I hope the weather has improved for the weekend. We had a bad frost here last night, but it warmed up a little during the day.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was cold and wet yesterday. Today looks nice though: still cold, but there's sunshine and no wind. Yet.

But as I said to someone else, at least it's too cold for flies and mozzies. :-)