Hot weather the last weeks !!!!

[Deleted member 8431]

It's extremely hot, 38°C here. While the temperature is so high, one can simply do nothing. I hope it will rain soon. :(

Yeah, apparently part of Europe is burning these days.

Best thing is to not make extensive physical work and stay hydrated. Avoiding direct exposition from the sun would also be advisable.

We've had 30°C+ weather for weeks here and I just couldn't do outside work such as house painting. Just staying outside would make me sweat like a horse. Then the flies would come and oh man...

 

[zim]

I really don’t know what to prefer rain or hot!!!

After several periods of hot weather then Big Thunder Rain Storms!!!! And my home completely full of water everywhere!!! and then a huge hot!!!

Then low of temperatures: !!!! It is really a crazy weather!!!!

 

[Sirius]

Six month ago, in winter, it was exactly the opposite: extreme cold, where you couldn't leave the house for five minutes.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

Well gentlemen, I think all I can say is that weather has to be drunk or somethin'... ;)

On a more serious tone, we might be very well only seeing the 'tip of the iceberg'. So we really need to get ready in the case it gets worst, witch is most likely to happen.

The year 2012 is not over yet. And so far, we have gotten a lot for our money.

 

[loreta]

In March 1971, we've had "la tempête du siècle" (the storm of the century). We have received an average of 80 cm of snow through the province. Also had winds of over 100 km/h. I wasen't there (me father was 11 yo) but that was apparently something.

I was there and I remember that people where using skidoos instead of cars. Everything was blocked, it was fun. And I was there for the tempest of the cristal, in 97 or so, I forgot the year. And I was there during 30 winters... So I have remembrances of the Nord wind and let me tell you that I miss sometimes winter. But just "sometimes".

The expression "mon pays ce n'est pas un pays mais l'hiver" sang by Gilles Vigneault is so true. My country is not a country but winter. Too true, unfortunately.

Ok, lets sing with Gilles... It is a very beautiful song about winter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH_R6D7mU7M

 

[Deleted member 8431]

And I was there for the tempest of the cristal, in 97 or so, I forgot the year.

January 1998. I was in 6th grade elementary. We've had a power breakdown for two days but the wood stove allowed us to cook and warm ourselves. As a matter of fact, we had to open the windows at some point because it was too hot (sorry for those who froze). Food was easily preserved into the snow of course.

Many people though had a shortage of power for weeks. Some even died. I remember this very sad story about a family using the BBQ (propane) to warm up the appartment. Unfortunately, carbon monoxide killed them all (they didn't suffer much at least, osit).

The expression "mon pays ce n'est pas un pays mais l'hiver" sang by Gilles Vigneault is so true. My country is not a country but winter. Too true, unfortunately.

I like this quote. Makes me smile everytime.

But now I can't really say what our 'country' is anymore. We are in the middle of a political campaing and yesterday's debate (débat des chefs) was nothing more than a good humor show to my eyes. Seriously, I often see kids with better reasonning and maturity.

I prefer to watch the weather channel. At least the girls are good looking and nobody care about what they say. ;)

Just kidding of course.1

Anyhow, the list of climatic extremes for Québec is getting longer and longer. Since the ''crise du verglas'' (ice storm crisis) the trend has been so that more and more of these happen now. Irene has been devastating here (more recently) for instance.

Peace.

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1 Note that all jokes contain a bit of truth.

 

[loreta]

And I was there for the tempest of the cristal, in 97 or so, I forgot the year.

January 1998. I was in 6th grade elementary. We've had a power breakdown for two days but the wood stove allowed us to cook and warm ourselves. As a matter of fact, we had to open the windows at some point because it was too hot (sorry for those who froze). Food was easily preserved into the snow of course.

Many people though had a shortage of power for weeks. Some even died. I remember this very sad story about a family using the BBQ (propane) to warm up the appartment. Unfortunately, carbon monoxide killed them all (they didn't suffer much at least, osit).

The expression "mon pays ce n'est pas un pays mais l'hiver" sang by Gilles Vigneault is so true. My country is not a country but winter. Too true, unfortunately.

I like this quote. Makes me smile everytime.

But now I can't really say what our 'country' is anymore. We are in the middle of a political campaing and yesterday's debate (débat des chefs) was nothing more than a good humor show to my eyes. Seriously, I often see kids with better reasonning and maturity.

I prefer to watch the weather channel. At least the girls are good looking and nobody care about what they say. ;)

Just kidding of course.1

Anyhow, the list of climatic extremes for Québec is getting longer and longer. Since the ''crise du verglas'' (ice storm crisis) the trend has been so that more and more of these happen now. Irene has been devastating here (more recently) for instance.

Peace.

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1 Note that all jokes contain a bit of truth.

During the Crise du Verglas the Rolling Stones were supposed to do a spectacle but it was cancelled. And Montreal was cut (Montreal is an isle) because it was too dangerous to take the bridges due to the glass formed on the structures of all bridges. Millions of trees fall and died, millions. And a huge quantity of cows and animal farm died also. I remember a man crying because his beasts were dying of cold.

I offer myself to work in a cafeteria at the big Commissariat of the Police in the old Montreal... I left home at 4:30 in the morning and the temperature was around minus 45 celcius... So today, here in this hot weather is good these remembrances. We are never happy with what we have: when it is cold we want hot, when it is hot we want cold...

 

[Thomas Alan]

The temperatures have cooled considerably in the last week or so. Highs mid 80s F/29C lows mid 50s F/13C central plains US. Open windows at night.

But very dry. Thunder storms pass through but leave just sprinkles. I haven't mowed my lawn since early July.
We have mandatory water restrictions now. Of course, golf courses are exempt. I was walking in a near by wilderness area last week. Many of the trees have dried brown leaves. Very few insects to be seen.

Mac

 

[LQB]

Things have cooled here in Tenn too but with plenty of rain. But the (GMO) corn is long since dead standing tall and brown.

 

[cassandra]

Some parts of Germany registered almost 40 °C during the day. The hottest day of the year. Have just experienced a ferocious storm (about half an hour), with raging winds, very powerful thunder and lightening, which has now passed.

 

[Keit]

And here, in Belarus, we've been having a particularly cold August with a lot of rain. While last year, as locals say, they had a very hot summer. Also, they mentioned a general trend of weather intensification. Until recently, Belarus was considered a place with a "mild climate" - mild summers, mild winters, etc. But now, more and more there are either strong storms (trees falling, etc., like something that happened here recently) or droughts.

 

[Yozilla]

All over Europe hot weather is breaking records and Dalmatia is not exception - so therefore I am keeping myself inside pit of mine and going outside rarely...

Yesterday I red something that I have totally forgotten; in Summer of 2003. France also suffered lethal heat wave (a kind of present there wright now) so 15 000 people have deceased then??? & that was The Year when Laura and squad moved to Republique...

 

[Deleted member 8431]

Of course, golf courses are exempt.

Golf course = money = they don't care. The almost-perfect green grass is far more important than human beings of course. Everyone knows it. Tsssk... ;)

Here we had to auto-restrain our water consumption as our sources (natural spring water) have ran almost dry.

Rivers are also in bad, bad shape. Lakes as well as a matter of fact. More and more sea water is infiltrating and mixing with the Saint-Laurent river (soft water).

Thing is we have received very little water so far. And most of the time, it'll just be a very harsh drop and only last for 15-30 min. So water has no time to get properly absorbed by the land and will just flood creeks, damage everything (intense erosion) and go down the mountains. Then come long periods of intense heat and sun which cancels all received rain and evaporate even more water.

:(

 

[dantem]

It's extremely hot, 38°C here. While the temperature is so high, one can simply do nothing. I hope it will rain soon. :(

Yeah, apparently part of Europe is burning these days.

Best thing is to not make extensive physical work and stay hydrated. Avoiding direct exposition from the sun would also be advisable.

We've had 30°C+ weather for weeks here and I just couldn't do outside work such as house painting. Just staying outside would make me sweat like a horse. Then the flies would come and oh man...

After an exhausting week with a steady 38°C finally some rain and a sound temperature drop here in Italy. As the cold swarm entered up North it shook the coastline and other areas very badly though. Lot of damages due to mini-tornadoes here and there. Fortunately I've experienced only a few wind blows, leaves and small tree branches on the roads, and a heavy rain for a couple of hours.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

We've just had a tornado in the city of Drummondville, Québec, Canada.

It was a F-zero, or so it seems, but it is very unusual nontheless for our province.

This summer has been devastating so far here.