Thread: Weather

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Wow! Winter is back!

The Spring has come and fishermen awoken!



Sorry for the quality, there are tooooo many Sun (The Spring is bringing it to us).

Originally Posted by Winifred

Может быть, "время не ждёт?"

As you wish, but as already said, it does not make rhyme and does not fit the metre.
If you wonder if it makes sense in Russian - yes, it does, we say so in the same meaning as "время поджимает".

CoffeeCup, you won.
Your spring is the best! )))

And here is a Moscow spring shot:

Originally Posted by Basil77

And here is a Moscow spring shot:

Basil... I guess I should not tease you with anymore beach photos!

I must say though, your traffic in Moscow looks just like Washington, DC. traffic. DC is usually number 1 or 2 on the list of worst traffic/gridlock in U.S. I would feel right at home driving in Moscow!

Well, once I learned to read the signs of course.

It's still snowing here. I really miss the spring.

I'm back again - with a new weather pic!
It was made by metelica, a user from another forum I frequent. That's how a real Russian winter looks!
We have loads of snow here too, but city landscapes are not so beautiful..

Snow has disappeared for the most part, its nice and muddy now.

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

It was made by metelica, a user from another forum I frequent. That's how a real Russian winter looks!

Красотища. Зеркалкой небось фоткалось, не мыльницей.

Originally Posted by Юрка

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

It was made by metelica, a user from another forum I frequent. That's how a real Russian winter looks!

Красотища. Зеркалкой небось фоткалось, не мыльницей.

Мыльницей можно фоткать только собственные портреты на фоне ковра. На всё остальное она не годится.

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

I'm back again - with a new weather pic!
It was made by metelica, a user from another forum I frequent. That's how a real Russian winter looks!
We have loads of snow here too, but city landscapes are not so beautiful..

Amazing photo! That is one that might actually tempt my girls to move there! They are calling for possible snow here on Friday.

I am too lazy to surf and see what the weather is like in Russia these days. Here, we are getting ready for yet MORE snow. They are saying anywhere from 12-23 inches. They had no school yesterday because of a stupid 3-4 inches. My girls want to know what happened to global warming???

Haven't you heard? There was a scandal about it not so long ago. They said some big egg-heads' mail had been intercepted and there they were saying to each other that there is no global warming.

It's +14 F right now in Moscow. There was some heavy snow yesterday but it's ceased already. They even cleaned up the streets (well, almost).

By the way, this winter is unusually cold. We had its first thaw only a few days ago and it's February already. The temperature seldom rose above 0 F during the whole January.

BTW, there was a Groundhog's Day recently. Does anyone know if Phil saw his shadow or not?

It didn't.

Well, so the spring should come soon then! Believe me or not, but today while being outside, I catch myself on feeling that the winter made a small step away (yes, with all that snow around and -5 C, but still). At least it's not getting dark in 4 pm already but a bit later . But then I'v remembered that they told on radio that it will be -20 C on weekend and have returned to reality .

Today is -19. For Pavlodar's winter it is so hot Usually we have -35 and -40 in the winter. But today is hot and so dirty...

Okay... stupid question time...

As we don't get big snow storms that often, we tend to give then names. Sometimes, cute names. Like the one in December was "Snowbama" and then names which remind us of something that happened during the storm like the biggest one ever from 1922 "The Knickerbocker Storm" when roof of The Knickerbocker Theater (a movie theater) collapsed and a number of people died.

Soooooo, do other countries besides the US name their snow storms? If so, what kinds of names and why?

If we were giving names to snowtorms we would have run out of names pretty fast.

Originally Posted by Ramil

If we were giving names to snowtorms we would have run out of names pretty fast.

yeah,yeah, yeah.. but don't you ever get some storms that are just BIGGER and BADDER than others???

I mean we are having BLIZZARD here. They are calling it "Snowpocalypse" and "Snowmageddon"

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said he expected conditions to worsen throughout the day during what "we anticpate will be the biggest snow in Maryland history." O'Malley ordered 200 National Guard troops deployed in Humvees to back up paramedic units across the state.

Thery are talking about closing ALL the highways! Right now, Interstate 66 from Rosslyn, Va., to the Capital Beltway IS closed.

Mail service for today (Feb. 6) is cancelled across Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia.

Catholics in the Archdioceses of Washington and Baltimore have been exonerated from their obligations to attend Mass this Sunday due to the massive snow storm. Officials encourage Catholics to watch mass on TV.

Dulles, Reagan National and Baltimore-Washington Airports have ceased operations, as all airlines have cancelled flights for Saturday. And forget about train service...Amtrak south of Washington, D.C., has been cancelled. And busses, nope, they are not running either. Only underground Metro.

So, what happens when you all get snow like this? No big deal??? Just an ordinary day and life goes on? Because of course, you are the EVIL Empire and the Big Bad Russians!!