What's the weather where you are?

[Chad]

The intense weather in England continues:

Met Office
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Some stormy weather for parts of the UK today. Jason Day spotted this funnel cloud over Bury!

Which is interesting because they're all over the shop at the moment: Spain, Belgium and Iraq:

Big #Waterspout today, in #Galice, #Spain!

Photo by @lixo1956 / Source: Keraunos Observatoire

International Centre For Waterspout Research

Meteo Europe added 8 new photos.
21 hrs ·

More photo's of the funnels yesterday! " A couple of nice rope-funnels developed in West-Flanders, nearby Roeselare and Torhout - Belgium. "

We thank Severe Weather in Belgium for sharing, full story and a nice summary on this there.

Photo's by Lars Tijssen, Ivan Bruneel, Abdelhamid Attaghzaoui, Nancy Van Parys

Tornado-Arbeitsgruppe Deutschland Kachelmannwetter

And not all in Europe:

Severe Weather Europe added 3 new photos.
5 hrs ·

Ahmed Gamal reports this tornado in Mesan, Iraq today! Thank you for reporting

Also, from the storm in Toulouse yesterday - Laura mentioned above:

Severe Weather Europe
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Alex Rivet of Electronic predominance reports this spectacular supercell, which also produced large hail up to 3 cm in diameter, near Toulouse, France yesterday. Thank you for reporting

Severe Weather Europe
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Crazy lightning barrage over Clermont Ferrand Auvergne, France last night.

Source: @Cieux_Volca

Also in tandem with another spike on the KP index due to the geomagnetic storm from the solar coronal hole (so sez S0).

 

[JonnyRadar]

Winter wasn't that cold this year, relatively, but it was LONG. We are finally, finally getting some warm days on the coast of Lake Superior in the US. :D

 

[Chad]

NW coast England: yesterday, almost total cloud cover, and the wind had you shivering if you were out for more than 10 minutes.

Today started same, but a break in the cloud for an hour or so gave some strong warm sunshine - i got me some ;) - which i think shows how much of a difference the wind and cloud makes.

The split in temperature continues, but it's predicted that the cold weather will creep further south giving the whole of the country frost.

Snow occurred last night at higher altitudes - making more of a mockery of these 'April Showers'. It's not impossible at this time of year, but it's not exactly expected and is odd.

Images below showing the above:

Oldham Weather
‏@ChadWeather

Latest temps as #colder #arctic air digs in from the north. #ukweather

NorthYorksWeather ‏@northyorkswx 12h12 hours ago

Snow now settling A166 #YorkshireWolds. Garrowby to Fridaythorpe currently very slippy. @Matthew122333 @bezberesford

PAUL KINGSTON ‏@PaulKingstonNNP 17h17 hours ago

We've returned back to winter here in Cumbria. #uksnow @UKSnowUpdates @StormHour @liamdutton @CumbriaWeather
https://twitter.com/PaulKingstonNNP/status/721041503896936448 (VIDEO)

Met Office ‏@metoffice 12h12 hours ago

2 zones of weather acted like a pincer across the UK today from the north and south bringing some snow, rain and sun

BBC Weather ‏@bbcweather 6h6 hours ago

Our #WeatherWatcher 'Far_Echo' in Telford is just one of a few of you waking up to #uksnow this morning. Matt

METJEFFUK ‏@metjeffuk 10h10 hours ago South West, England

Alert to all Growers in UK You really need to look at this nxt 3 weeks will feel like Mid -Feb V-cold night frosts.

 

[Niall]

Storm here today near Toulouse. Well, we were driving back from Toulouse; overhead mammatus clouds, very dark, cloud to cloud lightning across entire sky. We made it home. More lightning and thunder that actually made the window rattle! That was a first!

There have since been more thunderstorms here. It's generally warm and sunny during the day, then there are one or two heavy rains at night during thunderstorms. Rather tropical and unusually early in the year for this part of Europe.

 

[angelburst29]

The State of Wyoming is informing all commercial trucks entering their port of entry on Interstate 80 eastbound that the entire interstate is shut down at Rock Springs due to whiteout conditions.

I-80 In Wyoming Opens After Poor Weather Caused Day-Long Shutdown (Video)
https://weather.com/news/news/snow-blinds-drivers-along-i-80-in-wyoming

A 150-mile stretch of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Rawlins, Wyoming, reopened Friday night, more than 20 hours after major wrecks involving dozens of semi trucks forced police to close it down.

Blinding, blowing snow hit southern Wyoming Thursday, creating impossible driving conditions that police say likely led to a series of three wrecks along the interstate. More than 30 commercial vehicles and 12 passenger cars were involved.

Photos show the semi trucks piled up on one another. No one was killed, but about a dozen people were hospitalized.

 

[Konstantin]

Temperatures over 30C in Macedonia in April. I thing this is a record high temperatures.

 

[Siberia]

Temperatures over 30C in Macedonia in April. I thing this is a record high temperatures.

Unusual warmth here in Siberia too. Actually, the winter here was also unusually warm, and now we're having an early spring. It's 15C here today and according to our local weather forecast, it's going to be 20C tomorrow and about the same further on.

Last year we had snow in April and now we're having green grass and first spring flowers already.

 

[angelburst29]

Houston - from large hail to massive flooding.

Houston largely shut down amid rain, flooding (Videos)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/18/us/houston-texas-flooding/index.html

More than a foot of rain in some places flooded low-lying areas across the Houston region on Monday, forcing officials to suspend bus and rail service, close schools and government offices and urge residents to stay home amid what authorities said were extremely dangerous conditions.

"This is a life-threatening emergency," the city said on an emergency website. "Houston residents should avoid travel at all costs today."

No injuries or deaths have been reported, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told reporters Monday, but crews have had to head into the high waters to rescue more than 400 people, fire department spokesman Ruy Lozano told CNN.

At least 1,000 homes were flooded in Harris County, according to county Judge Ed Emmett. Some people were trapped in their homes or attics, Lozano said.

The water was too deep for crews to reach them in high-water vehicles, so rescuers were trying to get to those people in boats, he said.

Nine hospitals in the region were closed to additional patients because of the flooding, the mayor said. Three apartment buildings had been evacuated and residents were being sheltered at a mall, Turner added.

Portions of I-10 and numerous roads throughout the metropolitan area were closed, as were many government offices. The city's bus and rail service shut down early Monday amid "severe and ever worsening weather conditions."

Some areas had received as much as 16 inches of rain by Monday morning, according to the flood control district.

The heavy rains forced seven of the city's many bayous out of their banks and created flooding in parts of the city that had not flooded for many years, Turner said.

Flash flood warnings were up in about two dozen Texas counties across in the southern part of the state, including the Houston and Austin metropolitan areas.

 

[CNS]

Houston - from large hail to massive flooding.

Houston largely shut down amid rain, flooding (Videos)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/18/us/houston-texas-flooding/index.html

Thanks for posting, itellsya. That video also has a great example of a normalcy bias. A man in his car is in flood waters and a news crew films it. He opens the door of the car to almost shoulder high waters, but continues to just sit in the car, asking, "What do I do, I don't know what to do? Do I stay with the car?". Fortunately, the news crew starts yelling, "Sir, get out of the car, you have to get out! Swim!", then one of them goes out into the water to help. But my goodness, I think that man would have died in his car if no one was there to tell him to get out. It is amazing what panic can do. It is good to be aware at all times, especially with these changing times we live in!

 

[latulipenoire]

Temperatures over 30C in Macedonia in April. I thing this is a record high temperatures.

Unusual warmth here in Siberia too. Actually, the winter here was also unusually warm, and now we're having an early spring. It's 15C here today and according to our local weather forecast, it's going to be 20C tomorrow and about the same further on.

Last year we had snow in April and now we're having green grass and first spring flowers already.

Here in São Paulo, Brazil, we had the warmest March recorded for 137 years and this month (Autumn should've given signs other that the dry weather since last month) no rain at all. The latest pluviometric data I saw was like 0.9 mm of rain since April 1st, when the average rainfall for the month stands at almost 90 mm. We're surviving, I guess. Considering that even Siberia is hot nowadays...

 

[Voyageur]

Back to snow - Newfoundland (Canada) hit with spring snowstorm: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfoundland-hit-with-spring-snowstorm-1.2866712

April 20, 2016

The weather agency forecasts strong northerly winds, and snowfall accumulations ranging from 25 to 35 cm in some inland regions, with lesser amounts along the coast. The northern Avalon Peninsula could see as much as 50 centimetres of snow.

Meanwhile, the West (Canada) is baking, snow is leaving the mountain faces quickly. Here the temp rang in the day is 27 c (O c in the morning). Wildfires in BC/Alberta and Blizzard in the East - it's only April.

 

[Konstantin]

Temperatures over 30C in Macedonia in April. I thing this is a record high temperatures.

And from over 30C, today morning just above 0C. Very cold and clear morning.Forecasts are that this cold weather will last until middle of the next week. We have have definitely feel the cold wave that enters through Northern Europe.

 

[casper]

Croatia, very high temperatures, spring in the air... :)

 

[Siberia]

Temperatures over 30C in Macedonia in April. I thing this is a record high temperatures.

Unusual warmth here in Siberia too. Actually, the winter here was also unusually warm, and now we're having an early spring. It's 15C here today and according to our local weather forecast, it's going to be 20C tomorrow and about the same further on.

Last year we had snow in April and now we're having green grass and first spring flowers already.

Here in São Paulo, Brazil, we had the warmest March recorded for 137 years and this month (Autumn should've given signs other that the dry weather since last month) no rain at all. The latest pluviometric data I saw was like 0.9 mm of rain since April 1st, when the average rainfall for the month stands at almost 90 mm. We're surviving, I guess. Considering that even Siberia is hot nowadays...

30С here today... in April... in Siberia...

 

[HiThere]

30С here today... in April... in Siberia...

Wow.