h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's actually been quite warm (nearly 50 degrees F yesterday) but the temperature's been dropping steadily all day... it's currently 30 degrees F (-1 Celcius) at 6:54 PM CST. Still quite warm for an evening in mid-January!

hi all, bradford yorkshire, england,9-45am
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the wind and rain as gone for now, but we had a frost overnight, and its still very cold out,jim

Dublin, Ireland

2.00am

mild, calm, dampish drizzle.

Launceston Tasmania (Australia)

Extremely sunny by the looks of it. That's how it looks out the window.

Hey Frankimouse,

Good to see someone from Tazzie writing in. I have cousins down there, living in Deloraine. Used to have two uncles who lived in Hobart and Burnie. And my great-great grandfather, William Smith OBrien, a politician who led the abortive 1848 "Young Irelanders" Irish Uprising, was locked up on Maria Island, Port Arthur, for many years.

Meanwhile, Monday, Dublin, Ireland: Yet another stormy day with gale to storm-force winds from the west.

Nothin' good here on Long Island. Finally the cold arrived with snow and nasty wind. The forcast is no good for couple of days to come. Bluebird January 17, 2005

hi all.bradford,yorkshire,england,9-20am,tuesday
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well we wanted the wind and rain to go,and it did,but now we have snow,not heavy but its cold out and about,jim

Dundee, Scotland. 9:28am.

Snowed most of last night, so it's white out and thicker than its been in the nearly two years I've been here. Cold too. Haven't ventured out, but as there is no whistling the wind must have gone down too overnight. Get the feeling more snow is on the way.

Zantic

Dublin, Ireland, 20th Jan.

Middayish.

Yet another day of fierce wind, but bizarrely mild weather for January. Setting forth on my trusty bike, hoping it won't decide to rain, though the sky is uniformly grey.

West London, 20th Jan, 13:56.
Coldish, very windy, warmer than yesterday. Total cloud cover, so it will probably rain later.

hi all,bradford,england,2-30pm 20th
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from about 5pm last night ive had a full blown gale all night, its only calmed down about 2 hours ago.
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doe,s any out there think that the earthquake as done something and the powers that be, arnt telling us,we sure are having strange weather,jim

Ipswich, GB, 16:00, 22-01-05

Dull, cold and generally a bit yuk. Average January weather really.

Essex England 1800 hours 22 jan 2005 cold and dry.

This is a classical BLIZZARD you don't want to know!Cold, very cold, snow 2-3 inches per hr, wind, visibility 0.Long Island N.Y. Jan.22/23/05

22 Jan, 5:30 pm PST, a tad north of L.A.

Warm, and sunny today. Nice after all the rain a week ago!

Blue Bird, please don't go out in that storm unless you just HAve TO; NOT good for you, all that high wind and zero visibility! News of your snow storm led news out here in L.A., on the Left Coast.

Chaiwallah, I hear what you're saying about the weather changes. A hill opposite my office is hazed in yellow from a local plant called "popcorn flower" -- it's not due to begin blooming until early March! And another perennial wildflower, "Sticky Monkeyflower" (hey, *I* didn't name it!) is starting to bloom 2 months early. This is not good news for hummingbirds, who feed on the nectar of this tubular-based flower when they come back up from Mexico -- what are they to eat, then, if it gets unseasonally hot and the SMF are gone?

SC

hi all.bradford,england,9-40am,sunday
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to look outside you would think it was the middle of summer here,the suns out,and there,s no wind at all, but its deceiving, its icey and very cold out.jim

London - Sunday January 23rd

A really clear night with an almost full moon. Very chilly with a biting cold breeze.

It *has* been just gorgeous here in LA. It's not even this pretty in summer. Early summer the clouds block the sun and later in summer the smog blocks the sun and the grasses have died but haven't turned golden quite yet. I met a new friend for dinner the other day, he was from Washington DC so he was surprised to see me in shorts in winter. Then he looked further and realized everyone else also was.

I too have worried about the unseasonal heat that followed all of that unseasonal rain here in LA, but I am thinking the hummingbirds are perhaps a little smarter about migration because for the last three days I now have four zipping about my feeder when there just used to be two. I suspect they are coming back up early. In my own garden the pelargoniums, fuchsias and heliotrope have been fooled by the heat and have started to bloom, so there is extra food about besides my feeder

Now, what they are gonna eat later this year, this I do not know because there still won't be all that much California Fuchsia (not a real fuchsia, but with wild penstemons and sages the next food flower in line after the Sticky Monkey mimulus) in the hills anymore after the fires of Oct 2003.

10am,25th jan,bradford,england.
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weathers is cold, but at the moment dry,
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getting my roof repaired later this morning,man just assesed how many needsed, should be back ready to do them any minute,jim

hi all
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its the last day of jan,9-50,bradford,england
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i see thers no weather reports for 5 days,
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its sunny here today, a bit cold when the sun goes down, but all in all fine and dandy jim