Crazy!
Over here in southern Japan it has been surprisingly winter-like over the past week or so. We had snow that actually stayed on the ground for a couple of days, and -8 overnight with warnings about frozen pipes sent by the municipality. We woke up one morning to 3C in our bedroom and 0C in other parts of the house.
Normal weather returns tomorrow with a daytime high of 14C and low of -1. Extended forecast confirms that Spring is right around the corner.
Over here in southern Japan it has been surprisingly winter-like over the past week or so. We had snow that actually stayed on the ground for a couple of days, and -8 overnight with warnings about frozen pipes sent by the municipality. We woke up one morning to 3C in our bedroom and 0C in other parts of the house.
Normal weather returns tomorrow with a daytime high of 14C and low of -1. Extended forecast confirms that Spring is right around the corner.
Damn, that's like winter camping! Thankfully, other parts of the world enjoy central heating .... I'd be an ice cube otherwise. -33° C this morning with a wind chill of -37° C.
I grew up all over Canada, so I can relate to that @prairieboy. Cold Lake, AB was the coldest, but Edmonton wasn’t much better. But yes, the lack of central heating here takes some getting used to. I’ve gained a whole new perspective on the term “house coat”.
Good luck to any Aussies on here that are in the path of Cyclone Alfred. I think one Randy Bassinga may be right in its path.
Here in Belgium spring is in the country, nights are still - °C (freezing) but daytime temperatures are getting hot, today 18°C (65°F) in Hainaut (south west Belgium) and sunshine and blue sky from sunrise to sunset.
The weekend would even get hotter. Finally the dark cold grey wet days are over (at least temporally, this stays Belgium so the weather is very unpredictable). The terraces at the bars are out and full of people, the parks are full of people also, the barbecue smells are all over the place and the traffic jams to the beaches are back. Summer is definitly on it's way... 😉
The weekend would even get hotter. Finally the dark cold grey wet days are over (at least temporally, this stays Belgium so the weather is very unpredictable). The terraces at the bars are out and full of people, the parks are full of people also, the barbecue smells are all over the place and the traffic jams to the beaches are back. Summer is definitly on it's way... 😉
Unfortunately, we are still getting days up in the forties...it was 42C here yesterday. I had a slight hangover as I'd had a few while seeing New Order the evening before (quite a good gig). But hangovers are not good in 40+...
Woke up to an 1" of wet snow this morning in northern NJ. Strange since we had temps near 80F in March.
My son reported a few inches of snow in Franklin Lakes NJ the other day. We had very light snow in NEOH last week..
We did get 25° C (77° F) kast saturday, which is very warm for mid april in Belgium. Yesterday it was a storm and 15° C (59° C) again and finally some rain. It was very much needed as it did not rain here since early march and the first bushfires were there already destroying in total about 150 hectares of mostly woodland. My garden also had ground hard as stone as i live on a heavy clay ground. Today and the rest of the week would have more rain, and we all hope it's true. Normally march and april are the wettest months down here, but not this (and many of the last) year(s).
Mine is too.
Northeast Ohio (NEOH) is mostly clay ground with a thin layer of topsoil. When you go west of the Cuyahoga River things change dramatically and by the time you get to Illinois the soil can be meters deep.
This led to a curious phenomena. The indigenous peoples of NEOH didn't really "settle" as much as they did to the west after the end of the last glacial period. They were a more nomadic, hunter-gatherer society. To make matters worse, clay soil drains more slowly so malaria was a problem! To the west however agriculture flourished. This was abetted by the warmer waters in the lake which provided abundant fish.
How does this relate to the weather?. Our major city is bisected by the river in an enormous valley. Moisture moving west to east just stops under certain conditions!
Not really weather in strict sense, but kind of it is.
In western Turkeye (arround the City of Istanbum) people are camping outside en masse. Not because the weather is nice, but because of the fear for a major earthquake of a magnitude of +7. Wednesday there was already a major one of 6.2 magnitude (no dead, only wounded) and all geologists say there is a bigger one comming soon (on geological data). So all parcs and other open spaces became campin sites. Everybod is aware of what happened a few years ago at the other side of Turkeye, the 2023 earthquake at Gaziantep and region, that killed thousands and destroyed whole cities.
And it's not only in Turkeye that the earth is rumbling. The greek Cyclades islands (next to Turkeye) are stil llargely evacuated because a whole series of earthquakes on all islands and people are affraid that all these earthquakes are a first sign of a probally apocalyptic event that is comming soon. Satorini, one of the cyclade islands is a remain of an old super volcano called Thera, that exploded in 1628 BC. The signs we see now are largely the same as described now. This eruption back then did destroy most cultures (Minoian, Hurrits, Hettits, ...) in that region at that time and damage many others that were laying futhrer away. If it happens now, Turkeye, Greece, Syria, Israel/Palestina and Egypt will be the main victims, but the whole wide region will suffer the effects, probally even the whole world...
In western Turkeye (arround the City of Istanbum) people are camping outside en masse. Not because the weather is nice, but because of the fear for a major earthquake of a magnitude of +7. Wednesday there was already a major one of 6.2 magnitude (no dead, only wounded) and all geologists say there is a bigger one comming soon (on geological data). So all parcs and other open spaces became campin sites. Everybod is aware of what happened a few years ago at the other side of Turkeye, the 2023 earthquake at Gaziantep and region, that killed thousands and destroyed whole cities.
And it's not only in Turkeye that the earth is rumbling. The greek Cyclades islands (next to Turkeye) are stil llargely evacuated because a whole series of earthquakes on all islands and people are affraid that all these earthquakes are a first sign of a probally apocalyptic event that is comming soon. Satorini, one of the cyclade islands is a remain of an old super volcano called Thera, that exploded in 1628 BC. The signs we see now are largely the same as described now. This eruption back then did destroy most cultures (Minoian, Hurrits, Hettits, ...) in that region at that time and damage many others that were laying futhrer away. If it happens now, Turkeye, Greece, Syria, Israel/Palestina and Egypt will be the main victims, but the whole wide region will suffer the effects, probally even the whole world...