Huh!? - Page 3

badgoodDeb · 06-03-2008, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Okay, so it would be, more technically, "a while and a half."

How about "time, times, and half a time" ? To quote a well-known source.

pshrynk · 06-03-2008, 05:07 PM

It's the first week in June and my pool is still too cold to swim in.

zelda_pinwheel · 06-03-2008, 05:09 PM

today someone said to me, "nice weather we're having, for a month of november."

DixieGal · 06-03-2008, 05:34 PM

It's frikkin' 89 degrees in Birmingham again today, just like yesterday, and the day before, and so on. The warm pool water is sort of flat and stale. Forecasted to be hot and humid again tomorrow, and the next day, and so on. Serious, down here in this sort of weather, the squirrels lay flat out on branches and just try to stay cool. Honest! We used to have a pecan tree outside the living room window, and the squirrels would spend weeks stripping it. But on hot airless days like these, they just laid out there panting. No lie!

DixieGal · 06-03-2008, 05:43 PM

It's a nice day to read indoors.

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montsnmags · 06-03-2008, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pshrynk

It's the first week in June and my pool is still too cold to swim in.

It's the first week in June and my pool is now too cold to swim in (18C Brrrrrr!).

The ocean is fine though (21C). The spa's just terrific. The apparent air temperature's about 25C. ~sigh~ This is how I like to spend winter.

Cheers,
Marc

zelda_pinwheel · 06-03-2008, 08:35 PM

if your winter weather turns out to be nicer than our "summer" (or so they claim) weather i may cry. so, so depressing, to have these leaden skies and frequent downpours, in JUNE (arg !!!)... then again, no-one ever came to Paris for the sun.

montsnmags · 06-03-2008, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

if your winter weather turns out to be nicer than our "summer" (or so they claim) weather i may cry. so, so depressing, to have these leaden skies and frequent downpours, in JUNE (arg !!!)... then again, no-one ever came to Paris for the sun.

Well, you see, temperature is not a prime determinant of overall weather here. In the last week (cleared up as of yesterday) we've had mostly constant rain, and on Monday morning we had 82mm (over 3 inches) of rain in about two hours, and two thirds of that came in one hour. It pissed down.

This had us go from a broad-ish beach like this:

to, at high tide, this:

So, it looks like they'll be pumping sand again. They'd only just got all the rocks covered and a nice, broad, gently-sloping beach back about two weeks ago.

Cheers,
Marc

zelda_pinwheel · 06-03-2008, 09:38 PM

holy cow, do you mean from *erosion* in *one* day* ??

nonetheless, i just don't even want to hear about it. you don't see anybody surfing in the Seine, even when it's not raining, and it's supposed to be summer here.

montsnmags · 06-03-2008, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

holy cow, do you mean from *erosion* in *one* day* ??

Yes, as at Christmas when it happened a few times, we had a low pressure system sit off the coast and drag a trough down from the northern tropics, also piling seas in from the east. If it comes from the right direction, as it did, then big seas can wipe the beaches, leaving nothing but waves crashing into dunes at high tide (or, in the case of Noosa Main Beach, the reinforcement of the rock wall). The high tides also cause the rivers to back up and flood streets near the estuaries and rivermouths (aside from the natural overflow from heavy rain in the creeks, cutting roads inland).

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nonetheless, i just don't even want to hear about it. you don't see anybody surfing in the Seine, even when it's not raining, and it's supposed to be summer here.

Well, that's one of the advantages. Big weather equals big surf, which is nice. Who doesn't like a nice bodybash of an afternoon to clean out the cobwebs and rubbish from all your physical and psychological orifices?

Cheers,
Marc

GeoffC · 06-04-2008, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

It's the first week in June and my pool is now too cold to swim in (18C Brrrrrr!).

Cheers,
Marc

18C is a heat-wave...

zelda_pinwheel · 06-04-2008, 07:11 AM

note to self : do not move to scotland. although the accent is thrilling, apparently the weather is even more abominable than here, where at least we know the true meaning of "heat wave" (30°, until the HEAT WAVE of a few years ago, which raised the bar significantly, not that we've have the occasion since then to measure anything).

GeoffC · 06-04-2008, 07:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

note to self : do not move to scotland. although the accent is thrilling, apparently the weather is even more abominable than here, where at least we know the true meaning of "heat wave" (30°, until the HEAT WAVE of a few years ago, which raised the bar significantly, not that we've have the occasion since then to measure anything).

Would have loved to have had you...
But that means there's more for those of us who are here...

Remind me, what's a traffic jam?...

zelda_pinwheel · 06-04-2008, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Remind me, what's a traffic jam?...

i wouldn't know, i take the métro or go pédibus.

no traffic jams. no one-way streets either.

GeoffC · 06-04-2008, 07:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i wouldn't know, i take the métro or go pédibus.

no traffic jams. no one-way streets either.

pédibus, that's a nice word...concatenation of pedestrian and autobus...?

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06-03-2008, 05:07 PM	#32
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	It's the first week in June and my pool is still too cold to swim in.

06-03-2008, 05:09 PM	#33
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	today someone said to me, "nice weather we're having, for a month of november."

06-03-2008, 05:34 PM	#34
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	It's frikkin' 89 degrees in Birmingham again today, just like yesterday, and the day before, and so on. The warm pool water is sort of flat and stale. Forecasted to be hot and humid again tomorrow, and the next day, and so on. Serious, down here in this sort of weather, the squirrels lay flat out on branches and just try to stay cool. Honest! We used to have a pecan tree outside the living room window, and the squirrels would spend weeks stripping it. But on hot airless days like these, they just laid out there panting. No lie!

06-03-2008, 05:43 PM	#35
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	It's a nice day to read indoors. :

06-03-2008, 08:35 PM	#37
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	if your winter weather turns out to be nicer than our "summer" (or so they claim) weather i may cry. so, so depressing, to have these leaden skies and frequent downpours, in JUNE (arg !!!)... then again, no-one ever came to Paris for the sun.

06-03-2008, 09:38 PM	#39
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	holy cow, do you mean from erosion in one day* ?? nonetheless, i just don't even want to hear about it. you don't see anybody surfing in the Seine, even when it's not raining, and it's supposed to be summer here.

06-04-2008, 07:11 AM	#42
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	note to self : do not move to scotland. although the accent is thrilling, apparently the weather is even more abominable than here, where at least we know the true meaning of "heat wave" (30°, until the HEAT WAVE of a few years ago, which raised the bar significantly, not that we've have the occasion since then to measure anything).

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