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

how i long for a clear and crisp night in china. i bet you can see more stars than i can in the orange grey gloaming of a south east london early december evening.

Midlothian Scotland
2/12/03 20:07
Foggy and wet today. still know snow though!

Aberystwyth
22.58
Fog and stars - what a bizzare combination . . .

Welsh weather at it's finest

Melbourne, Australia Wednesday 2.35pm

Had a 'ripper' of a thunderstorm last night - actually more of a lightening storm! The lightening was continuous for more than an hour and we had torrential rain as well - about 4 inches in that time. Our front yard was a huge swimming pool but fortunately we live on a slope. The local shopping centre had some flood damage. Unfortunately it didn't do a lot for the temperature and it is still about 30C - very humid.

Hey Maz-
Live in Australia eh? Isn't it suppose to be summer time now?
Did you get thunder with your weather or is it purely lighting?

Shamrock - of course it is Summer! we wouldn't get 30C in Winter (the C is Celsius NOT Fahrenheit. ie 30C = approx 90F)

That was the strange thing about last night we couldn't hear any thunder. Of course it could have been the noise of the rain !!!!

It is now 530pm and the temp has dropped to 20C with light rain.

Maz

foggy and damp; thoroughly drich; 10.22am London

Newcastle: Wet, wet & wet!

this thread's getting a bit stereotypical. UK - wet and miserable. Australia hot and summery. doesn't anyone live in india or the falklands for example? aprt from bob in china and a few americans

Vienna, Austria (far enough? - do my best, but....)
03.12.2003, 15.15
miserably cloudy, no rain, about 0 degrees Celsius, indifferent...
too humid, therefore too cold...

Hi Redpeck

Well it makes a change from a couple of months ago when the Brits were complaining about the heat and I was complaining about the cold !!!

Today in Melbourne it is cloudy and 23C. Still humid so rather sticky

Maz

grey leaden skies; cold wind from the north-east; can't remember when I last saw the sun! And this pom never whinged about the heat last summer! Oh happy distant memories!10.22 am London

Liverpool England
11:37 Thursday 4th of Dec

Dull, damp and absolutely freezing

Hi Maz

Newcastle upon Tyne

Clear blue skies, quite cold and a tad bit windy!

22:20 Liaocheng, Shandong province, China.

Wet and very cold today, light snow which didn't reach ground level. At least the fog has cleared, visibilty down to about 30m for the past 3 days.

Bob

Just put on the BBC News and the world weather, it says Vladivostok is chilly and there is a blizzard planned for five o'clock. Good for them!

Bob i don't really believe you're in China!

grey leaden skies, miserable, damp, cold, drich, depressing, should I go on?.
London 11.29am

2054 6-Dec-2003 Los Angeles

~65F. Very calm winds, low overcast. The pavement was wet when I just ran to the mailbox, so we must have gotten a light sprinkle about an hour or so ago. Still no mudslides, and the State and County have been loading the burnt slopes with rice straw from Central Valley farms. Dried rice plants are known to absorb water well, so they are trying for stabilization.

Still nighttime temperatures are above 50F, so we are still in 'early spring'. Passifloras still growing a bit and setting out the odd bloom. Paperwhites are up and blooming, freesias and anemones are sprouting, they'll be up next and complement the purples of my heliotrope which is a winter bloomer here. I got some honeysuckles (l. aureoreticulata, l. periclymeum v harlequin, and l, Hall's Improved) from Oregon, and they are now waking up from the chill from the nursery there and setting out new buds.

Guildford, Surrey, SE UK

9.10 am

Sunny
1025.3 hPa
2.4ºC

I see it has snowed quite a lot in Times Square NYC:

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/