Although the time is back to normal, Celt, I did get an indication of it's
failure. One of the "ping" times (UTC) to/from Stanford
dropped out. Before that happened, the time went for an extra 1/2 hr.
It usually pings every half hour. Then, after an hour, it went back to normal.

Weird. In my electronics days, nobody liked dealing with problems that couldn't
be duplicated. Am retired, now, so, will just put it on the shelf for future
reference.

My Ipad went south with the time yesterday.
I just don't know why, but I had to reset the time
on it.

Now for the weather:
Well.. hey man, it's the hippy dippy weatherman... man....


:):)

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Pblm. resolved itself, during supper. Cause/solution unknown.

Cheers, to all.

This doesn't belong in the weather thread, but my computer has just started
showing approx. (now) 19:00 hrs., EDT, instead of 18:00 hrs. My cell phone,
also, shows 18:00 hrs. Anyone else with this discrepancy?

My computer is a Dell, Ultrabook, with Windows 7. No similar pblms., before.

That's a good Temp Julie. :)

Currently 22°C! Rain predicted for tomorrow tho:(

Why on weekends though, nothing like a nice damp walk in the park. LOL

70ºF here

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Could be worse, could be November!

Or you could be here on Sat April 18th, 93F/34C is predicted for that day, inside it could be at least 95F...

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Could be worse, could be November!

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The temp here is 49F/10C, high of 80F/26F predicted..

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That's a good Temp Julie. :)

Currently 22°C! Rain predicted for tomorrow tho:(

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That's a good Temp Julie. :)

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Another bright and sunny day, currently 11°C. High today predicted @ 20°C

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There has been severe weather moving through northern Illinois this evening. I'm fine here (it has mostly gone north or south of me), but the worst of it went through the area where Lynn lives. No one has mentioned her town, but thunderstorms and tornadoes have been moving through numerous towns around her.

I've been watching the local TV stations, but I understand The Weather Channel has been covering it extensively for the last few hours.

Hopefully Lynn is alright.

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There has been severe weather moving through northern Illinois this evening. I'm fine here (it has mostly gone north or south of me), but the worst of it went through the area where Lynn lives. No one has mentioned her town, but thunderstorms and tornadoes have been moving through numerous towns around her.

I've been watching the local TV stations, but I understand The Weather Channel has been covering it extensively for the last few hours.

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I am looking forward to that ;)

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We are still four inches shy of normal. My grass will be brown, same as last year. I am going to capture the start up water for the shower to get hot in buckets to water some of my plants. Been thinking about it, but just have not done it.

never mind Uli, I 'm sure England will do its best to grant you some moisture during your forthcoming stay;-)

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I don't think 2025 will be an issue for me, I think I will chalk it in by then.

Our freezes are light almost nothing maybe a frost now and then, our water lines are about 1.5 to 2 foot deep.

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Biggest problem in my neighborhood is, no water meters. Even so there is a law going in effect in 2025, yeah I know years down the road, that everyone has to have one. Not possible in my area, as the set up does not allow it. Most homeowners are responsible enough, it is the renters that are the problem. Of course not all of them, but mine next door is.
Once tax season is over, I will work on documenting the leaks and reporting them.

The park tried putting water meters in the park, their attempt only resulted in frozen water pipes, the reason? The meters weren't buried in the ground in a box that surrounds the meter, so being exposed to air and being the owner at the time was cheap and stupid, of course the meters froze and broke. So there are still no meters today, some say the water pressure is a bit weaker than it was in the past, Me I'm not so sure of the the water pressure being weaker. So far there are no leaks from My place, soon enough though I'm going to have to get some new pipe insulation for some of the few copper pipes that I have here.

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We are still four inches shy of normal. My grass will be brown, same as last year. I am going to capture the start up water for the shower to get hot in buckets to water some of my plants. Been thinking about it, but just have not done it.

I wish that mine was brown already Uli. :-(

Cheers.

One of my neighbors does. Nor sure if that is usefull. A cystern(?)underground may work better. Storage for resecyled water.

Sorry about the spelling $MS got in the way.

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I've read in "green" literature that barrels can be set up to catch rainwater
from roofs. It would be interesting to know how many people in the S-W
have such set-ups.