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Whats the weather doing where you are?
Sea Change Posted Dec 25, 2003
2249 24-Dec-2003 Los Angeles
Not Christmas yet. (late) Solstice Blessings, Maz.
13C Low overcast has been misting since about 1620. A nice slow warm front. The barometer is falling fast, and my joints are aching, so we will get some heavy rain tomorrow. If so, it'll be the first heavy rain since the fires, so some may not have so happy a Christmas.
Hummers seem to be anticipating the storm, and so they have been guzzling and are cooperative (for hummingbirds) at the feeder. My passionvine A. apetala has decided to bloom again, this time the caterpillars can't move fast enough to eat them because of the cold, and the blooms are quite pretty and dainty.
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only asking Posted Dec 25, 2003
NSW Australia
38-40C! Bloody hot.
Fairly normal but of late its not been as hot.
Christmas day seems to have a personality here...'I think I'll just be extremely hot today'
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(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia Posted Dec 25, 2003
quite chilly but clear here in edinburgh,,,,do you know canowindra?
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only asking Posted Dec 25, 2003
No, but have step-relatives in Blakeney.
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Ballynac Posted Dec 26, 2003
Rayleigh, Essex UK
Boxing Day 2003
Grey and overcast. Mild though, about 10c. Typically English Christmas weather.
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(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia Posted Dec 26, 2003
i used to to live near rayliegh ..in westcliff
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Ballynac Posted Dec 28, 2003
I'm just visiting Rayleigh for Christmas. Sunday 28th, 0940.
Sky doesn't know whether it wants to be cloudy or not. Temperature just above freezing.
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(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia Posted Dec 28, 2003
pretty much the same here in edinburgh..only not cloudy ay at all at the moment
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a visitor to planet earth Posted Dec 28, 2003
Essex
Sunday 28/12/03
Cold!
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lugworm Posted Dec 29, 2003
29/12/03 noon cool & cloudy 25C.
Shortland, N.S.W.
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angelicaheaven Posted Dec 29, 2003
Liverpool England
0:44 Mon 29 December
It's rather chilly here with the wind and sleet.
I have turned 
with the cold.
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GreyDesk Posted Dec 29, 2003
Brighton, nearly 1am
It's having a little break from absolutely pissing it down. I mean, it must get tired of doing that day after bloody day 
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(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia Posted Dec 29, 2003
still chilly but clear in edinburgh
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Ballynac Posted Dec 29, 2003
Central London - December 29th 2003 - 0900
Raining and miserable - about 2c. Quite blustery too. Pants weather!
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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 29, 2003
and bits of sleet have now joined with the rain. Dirty pants weather. yuk. London 10.33am
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Agapanthus Posted Dec 29, 2003
My feet are blue with cold. It is sleeting with persistance outside. I think I'm going to have to say to heck with the gas bill and put the heating back on.
London, 11am.
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pdante' Posted Dec 29, 2003
18:11 London UK .Cold and absolutely puddling down
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Sea Change Posted Dec 29, 2003
1256 29-Dec-2003 Los Angeles
15C. Thinly overcast, another nice slow warm front. There's a light eastish breeze, enough to tickle the honeysuckle and fuchsia leaves but not enough to turn the copper-doily style wind-spinner; my guess more than 3 mph but less than 7.
I joke to east coast (USA) friends and relations that California really does have 4 seasons, Fire, Mudslide, Earthquake and Riot, but there's some seriousness behind it. (We actually have three-ish seasons, spring from 31 Oct to 14 Feb or so, autumn 'til the end of Feb, an then spring again until 6 June or so, then summer until October again) I'm about to be morbid so you can skip the rest of this if you are not inclined.
Paso Robles' old town was built not too long after the SF quake of 1906, so we-all still hadn't really gotten the idea that brick is a miserable building material. California was settled by health nuts and there was (and is now, due to the quake!) a hot springs there it was something of a mini-Lourdes. Otherwise, there wasn't a particular reason to build there. 2 dead there, but quite reasonable compared to Iran's count for the same 6.5 magnitude.
Darwin Awards go to those who thought it was a swell Christmas idea to camp in a canyon, ->in the rain!<-, ->just below a huge fire burn!<-, in an area where the non-burned trees were mostly dead from drought and not drinking water and no longer having vigorous roots to act as a slope stabilizer. It looks like about 10 dead there, 5 times the toll from the earthquake.
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lugworm Posted Dec 30, 2003
Shortland. N.S.W. 30/12/03 11:00 am
Sunny and getting warm 28C.
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Maz Posted Dec 30, 2003
Melbourne, Australia 1545hrs tuesday
About 40C and windy. Scarey weather - usually means grass fires and sometimes bushfires. Certainly not what you would ever call 'pleasant'!!
Although there is always an 'upside' - one MUST keep up the fluids!! and nobody has ever said that they HAVE to be water!!! 
Maz
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