What is the weather like where you are?

THe weather here (Niagara) is pretty ordinary for this time of year. Around freezing most of the time, although it has been cold at times (-18C or so), but nothing unheard of. Cloudy most days.

The jet stream has been shifted south and more straight across the continent, due to El Niño stuff.

Now, assuming that you live in the northern hemisphere, then if the crescent moon lies more on its back, you have moved south. If the sun is lower in the sky, you have moved north. Or maybe your reference points are different - we judge far away things by perspective in reference to nearby things.

Vancouver has the warmest winter climate in Canada. That's why some brilliant people decided it is a good spot for winter Olympics.

is very nice here at the moment. A pleasant 26c and showers. Some old farmers around here say if the moon is on its back you will get rain, and lots of it. So far that has been true. I live 185km south west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A little place called Allora with a population of 1500 in and around the town. We are 400m above sea level.
All this weather around the world is not unusual as it has all happened before. When we have a heat wave, which is not unusual, the media is all over it with GW/CC. But when the weather is colder we never hear a peep out of them.
The sun is responsible for nearly all our weather conditions so it's cycle is what we should be watching very closely.

This is my first winter here in central Florida, but from what I gather it is also unseasonably cold. For the most part it fluctuates wildly here. We've had a week of freezing or near freezing temperatures at night, highs in the 50s, followed immediately by a week of sunshine and mid-70s. We've been on that roller coaster for months. Unfortunately I can't be sure how much this differs from the norm, but I do know that last month, January, saw the longest cold spell here in decades, with a few chances of snow even.

I've always thought the sideways crescent moon a good sign. Of course, that has more to do with its looking like a giant cheshire cat smiling down on as and less with actual science... Also, where have you heard that the pole is shifting? I would be interested to hear that. It would be nice to know a potential doomsday is on the horizon. I only wonder how good a light show it will put on before it kills us all.

Dear Carol. As you know, I live in a small coastal town on the north tropical coast of Queensland, Oz.

It is currently our Wet Season (we only have 2 seasons, Wet and Dry!). We had some very hot days early in the summer due to intermittent showers of not-very-much rain followed by the obligatory steam-bath as the sun evaporated it.

Then it turned into a Wet season proper due to a minor cyclone which waffled around the Gulf of Carpentaria for a week, finally crossing the south Gulf coast and travelling south inland bringing scads of much needed and eagerly awaited rain - particularly to drought-stricken inland areas.

A recent storm originated in SE Qld, travelling north, and has just passed over us dumping just over 13" rain in less than 48 hours. A few flooded roads and a few river flood warnings, but it has now cleared away.

Nothing out of the ordinary for this time of year. All Wet Seasons are slightly different, but this one hasn't been anything completely extraordinary.

Hope you are keeping well. Love, Kathrinn

I noticed the summer sun here in wisconsin was not as high as it used to be. How did I come to that conclusion. I have a deck on the front of my 14 year old house and I remember the shade as being only a matter of inches out from the house across the deck with the sun over head.

2 years ago I noticed the shade was longer from the front of the house across the deck. I realized the sun had to be lower in the southern sphere than the years previously.

Last year it was cold all winter and this year it seems a little less colder since we didn't have as many days with arctic blast to take down the temps. Maybe al gore was in wisconsin, I don't know. But I do know global warming is BS.

I sometimes notice the moon is rising in the wrong eastern sphere and sometimes its so low in the southern sphere, I really start to think somethings not right here.

It does seem that some people think there are some differences in the weather, and possibly the position of the earth.

This is one of the longest winters I have known in my 60 years of life. I accept there have been some short sharp cold spells, but I don't accept what we are having now is normal.

In centuries past there appears to have been long cold freezing winters, and long spells of warming, so perhaps it is just a cycle we are going through.

I don't accept this El Nino idea. I remember a few years back when it was first mentioned in the media being told that it was the cause of the warming of the sea, and the red tide, at the time affecting the summer months in the northern hemisphere. I also remember being told it happened every 7 years approx. Since then I can recall at least three years when El Nino has been given the blame for unusual weather, all within less than seven years. El Nino no longer works as an explanation for me.

The sun is not acting as normal as it should, but the soho pics are a waste of time because they are so fuzzy. Clearly something is going on there that the authorities don't want us to know about.

It is becoming known that human beings are scientifically interfering with the weather systems - the amount of silver being put into the upper atmosphere to affect the weather is one aspect, especially when you want an important outside event not to be affected by the weather.

But there are suggestions that governments are purposefully trying to interfere with the weather for military purposes. There is also HAARP, and other similar devices. They put rays into the upper atmosphere and we don't know the long term effects of this. There has even been suggestions that some of the recent devestating earthquakes have been created by this type of device.

I cannot say why the weather has changed but it has. The moon looks different to me, and the sun is not going as high in the winter sky as it used to do.

The moon was on its back again last night, and the moon was reasonably low in the sky. You tell me what this means. There has been snow overnight again, and the very southern part of Britain had lots of rain. Make of it what you will, but I think there is more to this than meets the eye, and I certainly don't trust the authorities to tell us so must continue to speculate.

Can we keep an update of the weather? I know that Madeira, just off Portugal, had so much rain there were mud slides and floods resulting in the lost of many lives.

We are on constant weather watch warnings, for one thing or another, and there has been so much snow and ice that Great Britain is running out of grit, not that much of it worked anyhow as there was a lower limit when it became ineffective. Co Durham, England, has complained to the government that it needs more grit, because the government decided to issue the grit from a central national location, and Durham seems to have been allocated very little. The north east is left out in the cold again!

Glad to hear from you.

I have moved for the second time within a year, and am glad, because this house is much warmer, and with the weather we are having an important aspect at the moment.

Just to update you a little, my husband now had diabetes as well as me, and he has high blood pressure. At the moment he has a bad chest infection so this is not helping. My joints are being affected quite badly by the weather, requiring me to use a stick if I go out. My eye is a bit better now that they used laser surgery to weld back the retina, but there is a long white floater which keeps moving back and forth a bit like a long net curtain which can prove quite tricky to see through.

I long for some bright warm weather where I can try to get about more, and at least feel a lot happier with the sunshine pouring down on me. I couldn't live underground for any length of time, without sunshine. Let us hope the sun isn't about to "go out" in any way. I would be very SAD!

Take care of yourself Kathrinn and God bless you.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010...

The part where the sun keeps going lower in the sky you can measure for yourself, using a stick that you put in the ground. Make a sun clock, and measure the shadow length. Of course it will take some time before you have useful data.

Once the snow, rain, and fog, disappear I may just try to make a form of sundial. Thanks for the idea.

The weather,over the past two weeks, has been crazy here in East Texas. It generally either gets too cold or not cold enough for snow here, but in the last week and a half, we have gotten 8 inches of snow in the piney woods of East Texas. It's very unusual.

Dallas has probably gotten 18 inches over the last week and a half. Dallas' annual average is only about 15 inches. Yeah, something's going on with the climate.

Something I have observed here locally is that the extreme weather conditions predicted express themselves here as extreme sameness. Partly cloudy or cloudy, the same temperature over days, hardly any variation between day and night. Boring weather at a miserable level.

On TV I've seen some ads from Newfoundland and Labrador (which is nowhere near where I live), telling us to visit because it's such a nice place. Even Viking explorers visited, hundreds of years before Columbus.

These Vikings, not being entirely stupid, also left fairly quickly, back to the nicer weather conditions in Greenland.