Your weather

Hanno Spoelstra · #1 04-02-12, 20:40

How's the weather at your place?

Here in Holland we had about 5 cm of snow on Friday, resulted in trains no longer running and 700+ kms of traffic jams. The latter because people went home early to avoid the traffic jams ....

Last night lowest recorded temperature since 27 years was -22,9 deg. C

Brrrr

hrpearce · #2 04-02-12, 21:31

Unusual summer here, daytime temp's 32-38c, nights 8-28c and wetter than normal.

rob love · #3 04-02-12, 22:46

The thermometer on the window showed +6° C today. Most unusual for the prairies here in Manitoba. I don't think I have ever seen it this warm this time of year.

Dean (Ajax) · #4 04-02-12, 23:24

We have only had snow once or twice this year..and very little at that..temp +6 today..and I am in Ontario...warmest winter I can remember!

Dean

Little Jo · #5 04-02-12, 23:42

Hi Guys

Received some photos of snow around my Aunties home in Holland, it all looked nice but to cold for me. Here in South Australia we have had the temperature up to 40 degrees, but today we had a min of 13 and a maximum of 19 with rain which is below average for February.

Cheers

Tony

Richard Farrant · #6 05-02-12, 00:48

Well it has started to snow in South Kent in last hour or so, about half an inch so far (no metric spoken here).

aj.lec · #7 05-02-12, 02:36

Very mild summer here so far
We have only had 1 or 2 days breaking 40c with most days highest low 30's if lucky
Below average temperatures and above average rainfall
Usually dry and dusty by now but still have lots of grass and weeds around still

Keeping the mowers busy

cletrac (RIP) · #8 05-02-12, 03:48

This is the warmest winter ever for the Canadian prairies. We had a week of 20 below F in November and a week of 30 below F in January but the rest of the winter has been hovering around the freezing mark and up to 50 above F. We had some snow but it all melted. We had 1 1/2 inches of freezing rain but it all melted too.

Ryan · #9 05-02-12, 05:57

Very dry here. We have only had an inch and a half of rain since Nov 2011. That being said it is raining today, spotty and not very heavy. Least it is not hot, mid 20's and very windy this morning.

Hanno Spoelstra · #10 05-02-12, 11:17

I see the weather in many places in hotter than normal. It's the same here, until now our winter could not be called that, until the winds turned and brought the cold in from the East. We'll see how long it lasts.

See http://www.nufoto.nl/onderwerpen/winterweer/ for some scenic pictures.

Richard Farrant · #11 05-02-12, 12:40

Well, we had 5 inches of snow here this morning .

motto · #12 05-02-12, 13:57

Looking forward to coming out for Corowa then Richard?

How long will you be away from that miserable climate this time?

Dave

zemsi · #13 05-02-12, 14:21

... minus 37 degrees last night at the coldes place here in Switzerland. Check out these ice pics from Lake Geneva.

Greetings
Chris

Richard Farrant · #14 05-02-12, 14:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by motto

Looking forward to coming out for Corowa then Richard?

How long will you be away from that miserable climate this time?

Dave

Sure am Dave ! Will not be a long enough stay though, as there is still work coming in.

Will be in touch.

regards, Richard

malcolm erik bogaert · #15 05-02-12, 20:11

no snow here yet although a tad cold..possibly because we are in the lee of the Cheviot Hills and next to the North Sea we might just miss it all...well stocked up in any case..filled the CH tanks on friday..now paying 60.5p a litre...regards to all malcolm

hrpearce · #16 23-03-12, 22:59

We lit the fire for the first time last night so it could be time to start gathering wood for winter. 7c on the enclosed varandah this morning at 07:00

Hanno Spoelstra · #17 23-03-12, 23:45

At 19,1 deg C we broke the temperature record for 22 March. We haven't had such a high temperature since 1936.
This month is quickly approaching a new temperature and drought record.
Can't believe we were ice skating last month.

Keith Webb · #18 24-03-12, 00:20

Well at least a fairly short one here in Melbourne. We seem to have slipped into autumn quite early this year.

The last hot day was Thursday at Corowa... then Friday was wall to wall rain!

Jon Skagfeld · #19 24-03-12, 01:31

This last week or so has smashed records. We were up to 24, 25, 26C (75.2, 77.0, 78.8F). Trees budding, daffodils, croci, tulips blooming, birds and animals probably confused.

Shorts and T shirt, raking, gardening, pruning, etc.

Then...today...Christ!, barely 10C, back to long pants, jackets, etc.

Forecast is for more of the same, as March should be.

Nice while it lasted.

hrpearce · #20 09-04-12, 23:27

First frost this morning and it is still only 2c on the varandah now. I have been out chasing cattle off the road and even with leather gloves on the finger with the metal bone froze.

Keith Webb · #21 09-04-12, 23:35

Cool here this morning, around 6C, some hail yesterday in amongst the showers.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hrpearce

even with leather gloves on the finger with the metal bone froze.

Robert, I didn't know you were the bionic man!

Max Hedges · #22 10-04-12, 00:16

we had a little white frost at Yass as well
the cold sure slows me old bones up these days
Max

by the way I was a year older yesterday and I feel it today

Keith Webb · #23 10-04-12, 00:19

Bet you've got the fires going now, Max!

maple_leaf_eh · #24 10-04-12, 03:54

A friend of mine is a PhD paleoclimatologist. He gets interviewed regularly for a second opinion on global warming. Most of his work is with the fascinating effects of deglacation in Canada. Where he lives in Ottawa, he will happily point skyward and remind people that 15,000 years ago there was a mile of ice. When it melted, a number of very impressive lakes were formed. Even thought the Great Lakes were much lower, to the point that a land bridge existed between Michigan and Ontario across Lake Huron. When the melt water overcame the blockage towards the sea, there was one heck of a big torrent of water headed to the Atlantic. The geography of Eastern Canada is really less than 10 millenium old.

Global warming? Pfft! It is just melting icecaps and the ripple effects on us all.

Ken Hughes · #25 10-04-12, 09:48

Happy birthday for yesterday Max,i have me thermals on already,dammed global warming not working again!!!

Willanthry · #26 10-04-12, 11:23

1 damned degree celsius this morning here in the Nation's Capital this morning; RAN hasn't changed over to winter uniform yet either, so I got to absolutely freeze in my short sleeves, shorts and stocking socks!

Howard · #27 10-04-12, 13:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

...Global warming? Pfft!...

Don't Worry, all. Here in Aus we will be paying a "carbon tax" from 30th June.
Therefore, there will be no more floods, bushfires, grasshopper plagues, hot summers, cold winters, snow in the north... All fixed by our wonderful green government! Julia & Bob save the world!

hrpearce · #28 10-04-12, 22:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Howard

Don't Worry, all. Here in Aus we will be paying a "carbon tax" from 30th June.
Therefore, there will be no more floods, bushfires, grasshopper plagues, hot summers, cold winters, snow in the north... All fixed by our wonderful green government! Julia & Bob save the world!

Thanks for the reminder Howard

I hope there's no tax on anti depression tablets

Ken Hughes · #29 11-04-12, 08:38

Howard that reminds me of an ex female prime minister that we had here in NZ,told us we needed to have our dogs chipped as it WOULD STOP DOG ATTACKS,needless to say it didnt work, the dogs still attack people, but we have yet another tax!.
Yeah and us stupid kiwis put up with it!!!.sorry not trying to hijack this thread.

Max Hedges · #30 12-04-12, 01:05

Yes Keith the one fire has been light as there is not much wood in yet, hopefully soon. Global warming must have left the southern hemisphere and gone to the northern hemisphere, Julia and Bob must've done it with the carbon tax announcement. It is quite a few years since the cold has started this early but it seems more normal for us.

Kathy