What's the weather where you are?

[tohuwabohu]

It is a truly awesome weather here. There are plenty of clouds in the sky and the sun is really just mild. It is not so hot and not so cold but somewhere in between. I love it here. It is not raining either. I do not need rain especially with all the pollution in the atmosphere so I am glad it is so dry here. The earth buzzes some more when it is always dry. It is great just to take a hike barefoot with the totally dry earth touching my feet and healing them.

 

[loreta]

Since a week the weather here is very strange. It rains a lot, it is very cold, like in winter and we are near June. In a day we can have: rain than sun during 1 minute, rain, grail during one minute than sun than rain than wind, than sun and grail. It is very, very weird weather. :O

 

[Atuya]

We just got back from Texas, where the weather was pleasant, which is to say, not extremely hot. For most of the week it rained or was cloudy everyday in Central Texas. Then there was the tornado, but nothing unusual about that. In fact the reason for the visit was my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. When the got married in 1953 there were horrible storms and a tornado that devastated Waco. In fact they didn't think anyone would come to their ceremony. For their honeymoon they drove all the way to Biloxi, Mississippi before their money ran out, with severe storms the whole way.

But now back in Turin, there is frightful wind and rain, about 10degrees. I had to start a fire in the fireplace to warm the house up a bit, not exactly the first thing I wanted to do after 24hours of travel.

Like Laura said, the spring is just not getting any traction. We have some roses blooming now, but the cherry trees are almost a month behind, with respect to last year.

The Giro d'Italia bicycle race had to cancel a section of the stage today, eliminating a climb up to Sestriere, altitude 2035meters 17km from French border, because of snow. I saw some images of the route they had planned for tomorrow, a mountain pass at 2600 meters and there was significant new snow on the road and snow banks almost two meters high.

Now I'm heading out in this awful weather to the woodpile. Fire went out while I was sleeping and dang if it ain't cold in here!

 

[angelburst29]

I live in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The Friday before Mother's Day, after having moderate temperatures around 70 degrees for a high and mid-forties at night, we had a frost warning. It's our planting season now and many have set out plants from the nurseries. If the garden plants weren't covered with newspaper,etc. or in a cold frame, they were lost, for it went down to 28 degrees.

In the last three days, it's been more like mid-August with temps in the high 80's, muggy with lows in the lower 70's at night. Tonight, around 9:30, the temp was still hoovering around the 82-86 mark with tonight's low expected in the mid-seventies. This weather is NUTS for Spring.

Around 10PM, the wind kicked up with a rainy cold front coming through. Guess, that will give us the low 70's for tonight.

Forecasted for this Friday and the Memorial weekend, high's in the mid-60's during the day and low 40's at night. Looks like planting season will be delayed, unless you have - make-shift cold frames or something on the order of a greehouse. Earlier today, Central Pa. experianced rain and hail with a violent thunderstorm.

 

[Voyageur]

After seasonable and also above seasonal conditions, a low cold front moved in, bringing rain and snow at higher elevations. This morning i drove over a mountain pass, the snow was coming down hard (between 1500 to 1800m) leaving the road with near 15 cm of snow/slush and slippery conditions. Temps from mid to high 20'sC are now to <13C.

 

[Lindenlea]

Having had some lovely sunny days (for late Autumn), it is now absolutely pouring and windy, making it a much colder 14c. My rear garden is turning into a quagmire.

 

[Voyageur]

Yesterday it was "<13C" and this morning it was just above 0C (so was very worried about a frost) and it recovered to not much more than 3C for most of the day and it poured a hard steady rain. A brief break in clouds revealed low snows in the mountains, and it must have been substantial - don't know yet.

 

[Finduilas495]

3C and snow this morning, I reckon it's about 20C too low for this time of year.

 

[HiThere]

We're about 4 weeks late in temperatures rising compared to a former average year, but have been over 20 degrees several days the last weeks. Big flooding problems inland with many houses taken by the waters; it was the same 2 years ago.

 

[Gary]

Here in the English Midlands, it is down to 5C with a strong Northerly wind making it feel quite cold. We had a hard frost last week (and hailstones) which killed alot of bedding plants etc, and many people are struggling to grow anything. In the hedgerows and fields, growth in general seems very sluggish and about a month behind.

My farmer friend thinks that this years harvest of hay/haylage/crops will be well below last year. Consequentely, animal feed prices will go up, and therefore food prices in general. More extreme weather globally last year and this, makes one consider just how fragile our food supply chain really is!!Even without factoring in any other possible / probable geo-political or celestial events, it makes sense to prepare for highly inflated food prices / shortages in the very near future.

 

[sitting]

Weather here in northern N.J. has been wet, with occasional heavy downpours. Thankfully no high winds and falling trees.

The severe weather pattern across the U.S. in recent weeks have been driven by an Earth-Saturn electrical connection...according to McCanney. This connection is rare but occurred this past month. We're moving out of it, so perhaps calmer weather ahead.

Of course this does not include what else out there that might be aligning as well. Especially if coming in from the south. My own sense is we're merely seeing the precursor effects. And that eventually there will be a global super-storm of sorts.

Take a look at the turbulence on Saturn for instance.

 

[sitting]

Also noteworthy was McCanney's claim that the equatorial jet stream reversed itself momentarily. It's normal flow is east to west. Recently it went from west to east for a brief period.

It was the first time in his observational career that this has happened.

 

[Cosmos]

Here in southwest germany we have now temperatures of 6°C - 8°C during daytime!! and that for several days even weeks now...

We soon reach June and the temeratures now normally should be arround 20 °C during the day...

It feels like something really odd is going on, to say the least. Are we soon seriously entering the next Ice Age?

The ice saints (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Saints) (Eisheiligen) are supposed to end on the 15.May (The period from May 12 to May 15 was noted to bring a brief spell of colder weather in many years, including the last nightly frosts of the spring) and this almost always seems to be true in our area. My grandmother told me a few days ago that they said on the radio that the ice saints are delayed this year.

But I can't remember that there were even such low temperatures on the normal time were the ice saints are supposed to be during the day.

Also again I notice that the rain seems to have changed:

[...] also there is another thing, when I look at the rain it seems like the consistence of it has changed. I don't know if it actually the case or just my imagination because I pay more attention then before ?

it seems like the drops are denser/heavier a bit like sleet. maybe it is becouse the upper layers of the athmosphere are cooling and/or there is more material (dust?) in the air that causes the drops to become more densier/heavier in appearance?

Edit: more specific

 

[Gaby]

It feels like something really odd is going on, to say the least. Are we soon seriously entering the next Ice Age?

Or we already did and now it is only a matter of degree. Today it is sunny and a bit chilly in Northern Spain, just within the Cantabrian mountains. But it is supposed to be an exception and cold weather and rain will return again tomorrow. It has been like that pretty much all the time. Except for a couple of days, Spring time never really came. We are going to have low temperatures of 6 degrees next week and with the wind, the perceived temperature is going to be like 3 degrees Celsius. Where I live is going to be slightly colder as I am very close to the mountains. I am still driving in icy roads during some days.

Temperatures for June are not looking very promising either.

 

[Aiming]

Here in northeast Germany we had a couple of warm sunny days, and suddenly a few days ago, a severe drop to about 3°C in the morning, and now it's generally noticeably colder than before. There have also been many rainy days and the amount of water coming down seems to have increased considerably, and I noticed something similar to what Pashalis mentions here:

[...] also there is another thing, when I look at the rain it seems like the consistency of it has changed. I don't know if it actually the case or just my imagination because I pay more attention then before ?

it seems like the drops are denser/heavier a bit like sleet. maybe it is becouse the upper layers of the athmosphere are cooling and/or there is more material (dust?) in the air that causes the drops to become more densier/heavier in appearance?

Adding to that, the air often seems heavy/saturated with humidity, and there's also been lots of fog around here. Recently, I woke up in the morning (my window had been open all night) to find everything foggy outside and with the sensation that whatever was in the air had gotten into my system.