Weather where you are thread

[AndyD]

Been like this for days, weeks

[Rontuner]

This has been a long cold spell for us & the pianos reflect that! Tuned at a high school today. It was 60%+ humidity when I last tuned and 30% today. As you might guess, they were about 35 cents flat of A=440 (100 cents = a half step, or sounding the next note)

[Daniel]

Sounding the next note would be terrible! Good grief.

We're floating in the high 50's/ low '60's down to high '40's/ low 50's.

It's too cold but it will be too hot soon enough. What can you do.

[Rontuner]

I've had a few more calls for sticking/sluggish parts as the wood of the action/keys shrink and cause binding. Ah, the seasonal piano dance for Chicago!

[jon-nyc]

@AndyD said in Weather where you are thread:

Been like this for days, weeks

Reminds me of a joke. A foreigner approached a little girl in London and says “is it always thei grey and rainy here?”

She replies, “I don’t know, I’m only eight.”

[AndyD]

Rained all day again, our lawn is mud, so have started hosepiping the dogs' legs before letting them back in.

On a positive note, after the driest summer since 1893 they just lifted the last hosepipe ban in the south of England.

[Daniel]

Beautiful night! It's 55 F now but will be 57 F by 2:00 a.m.

[Daniel]

@Rontuner said in Weather where you are thread:

I've had a few more calls for sticking/sluggish parts as the wood of the action/keys shrink and cause binding. Ah, the seasonal piano dance for Chicago!

I love Chicago! It's my favorite American city. Just saying.

[Daniel]

@AndyD said in Weather where you are thread:

Rained all day again, our lawn is mud, so have started hosepiping the dogs' legs before letting them back in.

On a positive note, after the driest summer since 1893 they just lifted the last hosepipe ban in the south of England.

I don't like rainy days as much as dry ones but for the trivial reason I don't have to clean up mud and have time to see to other stuff.

We have water. There are mains that need to be fixed every few months. The manager sends a crew immediately and we don't go without water for more than an hour or two.

We didn't get a lot of rain last summer. The weeds and grass didn't grow in the rock beds that needed to be replaced from the beginning. Again, I could see to other stuff.

There were no hurricanes on our side of the Gulf including Louisiana.

It was a lucky break after we the had two catastrophic hurricanes the previous season.

One caused major damage to my place. It took a year to get everything renovated and cleaned up.

I would be remiss not to mention the other hurricane caused catastrophic damage up through North Carolina after hitting us south of here.

I love rainy days all things being equal.

[RealPlayer]

Today (Sat.) we go into the deep freeze, with a low of 7 degrees and a wind chill of minus 16 in the evening. Continues on Sunday.

[Daniel]

Joe, Aren't you glad you aren't living on the street? I don't know how the homeless manage the winter here, let alone there.