What's the weather where you are?

[Cosmos]

In parts of Germany especially the east and south is also "sheets of rain" literally happening. Some towns/cities have already disaster alert after days of rain and the German armed forces are prepared. It is suspected that the river Danube gets more water than in 2002 (the once-in-a-hundred-years flood), which may be over 11m of water (2002: 10.81m).

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

Exactly like here in "Mid-West"-Germany. Incredibly cold for the season, weird cloud formations, sheets of rain the last days - except yesterday and today where there was at least some sun.

Interesting also that in the eastern Bavarian city Passau, they expect the highest flood since 1501! (_http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/hochwasser-in-deutschland-passau-erwartet-hoechsten-pegelstand-seit-1.1686750)

What is also frightening is the fact that the German army (Bundeswehr) now will be deployed to help with the catastrophe (this had been done before), which is of course against the constitution - because of history, the army has no business within the country, there is a strict separation between police and army! But I guess we are made to get used to that...

I just heard in the news that in some parts over 400 liters of rain per square meter came down.
I never heard of such amounts of rain in germany before...

 

[clerck de bonk]

...and here in southern Finland it's getting ever hotter.
450 km further north (Ostrobotnia) it's been really hot for over two weeks and no rain (sometimes close to 30 degrees C).

 

[Mal7]

I just heard in the news that in some parts over 400 liters of rain per square meter came down.
I never heard of such amounts of rain in germany before...

That would also be equivalent to 400mm of rain, which is a lot over a 24 or 48 hour period.

A litre of water takes up a space 100mm x 100mm x 100mm, so 1 litre is 1,000,000 cubic millimetres, and 400 litres is 400,000,000 cubic millimetres. A square metre is 1,000 by 1,000 millimetres, making a total of 1,000,000 square millimetres. So the height of those 400,000,000 cubic millimetres spread over 1,000,000 square millimetres would be: 400,000,000 divided by 1,000,000 = 400 mm.

 

[Cosmos]

I just heard in the news that in some parts over 400 liters of rain per square meter came down.
I never heard of such amounts of rain in germany before...

That would also be equivalent to 400mm of rain, which is a lot over a 24 or 48 hour period.

A litre of water takes up a space 100mm x 100mm x 100mm, so 1 litre is 1,000,000 cubic millimetres, and 400 litres is 400,000,000 cubic millimetres. A square metre is 1,000 by 1,000 millimetres, making a total of 1,000,000 square millimetres. So the height of those 400,000,000 cubic millimetres spread over 1,000,000 square millimetres would be: 400,000,000 divided by 1,000,000 = 400 mm.

How much is 400mm of rain in inches of rain? I can't seem to find how I can calculate that...

 

[Tomiro]

How much is 400mm of rain in inches of rain? I can't seem to find how I can calculate that...

Just type it in google (400 mm in inches) and it does the conversion: 15.7 inches.

 

[griffin]

How much is 400mm of rain in inches of rain? I can't seem to find how I can calculate that...

Just type it in google (400 mm in inches) and it does the conversion: 15.7 inches.

That's one way, then there's also the very handy "units" package under Linux (and probably Unix), e.g.:

units
2526 units, 72 prefixes, 56 nonlinear units

You have: 400mm
You want: in
* 15.748031
/ 0.0635

 

[Laura]

Finally some sunshine though it is still a little cool for June. The plants are obviously yearning for the sun.

 

[Cosmos]

I'm just wondering what people will do when that amount of water will come down as snow...

 

[Laura]

BBC news pictures of flooding in Central Europe:

_http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22747240

I am reminded of the accounts of the ancient chroniclers who recorded the things that were happening immediately before the disappearance of the Roman Empire which was obviously an almost total decimation of the population to the point that it was reduced to almost stone-age existence in the Western Empire for over 300 years.

What they were writing are exactly the things that are happening today and in many of the same places, at least as far as Europe is concerned.

Does not bode well.

 

[seek10]

I'm just wondering what people will do when that amount of water will come down as snow...

it is not accurate ( changes with temperature ) , but ballpark from _http://forum.onlineconversion.com/showthread.php?t=225

1 inch 6.25 inch snow
15.7 inches of rain = 98 inches snow = 6.5 ft of snow , little more than our average height.

 

[seek10]

I'm just wondering what people will do when that amount of water will come down as snow...

it is not accurate ( changes with temperature ) , but ballpark from _http://forum.onlineconversion.com/showthread.php?t=225

1 inch 6.25 inch snow
15.7 inches of rain = 98 inches snow = 6.5 ft of snow , little more than our average height.

Oops!. It is 8.1 ft of snow
I was in hurry to head out before making calculation.

 

[Horseofadifferentcolor]

Finally some sunshine though it is still a little cool for June. The plants are obviously yearning for the sun.

Yes, my plants here in texas are being effected. My tropical plants in ground such as bannanas ,cannas, and elephant ears are very slow to come up. Some are just now coming up. The ground has just now begun to get warm. A red maple is still red and has not changed to green yet.

We just turned on our AC for the first time this year! That's amazing for texas heat. It's almost always hot and spring is very very short. This has been one of the longest spring like weather that I can remember.

 

[MoonGlow]

Appalachia has a lot of sudden thunderstorms. It'll be broad daylight during the storms. So, the rain turns to steam in midair. A couple times out in the woods this past weekend, I had to put my shirt over my mouth to get enough air to hike.

It's pretty hot, but not sweltering like you describe in Illinois.

I'm pretty sure it'll be a hot summer around here, with temperatures over 100 for months on end.

 

[Palinurus]

From here: _http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/the_netherlands_gets_ready_for.php (Slightly modified).

The Netherlands gets ready for floods as river water levels rise

Monday 03 June 2013

Flood plains along the banks of the Rhine and other major rivers are expected to be under water in places later this week as very heavy rains in Germany have an effect in the Netherlands.

The water in the Rhine at Lobith, where the river crosses into the Netherlands, is expected to reach 13.55 metres above NAP in the coming days. NAP is the base used to measure how high or low water levels are.

[NAP stands for Normaal Amsterdams Peil or the normal water level in Amsterdam, which is slightly lower than sea level. NAP is used as a base to measure how high or low water levels are. So when the river Rhine is high, it is described as a certain number of metres 'above NAP'. The lowest point in the Netherlands, in Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, is 6.76 metres below NAP. Scary. - ]

A river level of 13.55 metres is considered high but not worrying.

Campsites

However it does mean flood plains along the river which are being used as campsites or for livestock will have to be cleared. Land owners have already been warned that high water is on its way and that dams are being opened, ANP [Dutch Press Office] said.

A number of small foot passenger ferries used to cross some rivers have also been taken out of action. This means walkers and school children face considerable detours.

The heavy rain has caused serious flooding in parts of central Europe and several people have been killed. Emergency operations are under way in Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic to deal with record levels of flooding in some places, the BBC reported here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22752544.

© DutchNews.nl

 

[loreta]

Finally the sun and the warm weather was here all day but it took so many weeks... I was depressed. But the sun is strange, yes indeed. It was hot but not strong. It is a strange sun. I felt the sun like it was very far away, his heating like not very strong, it was like a sun that was sleeping, very mild. But the weather all day was a day like in July, very hot, to much hot. It is a contradiction but I don't know how to express this in other words. All the tomatoes and patatas of my neighborhood are in bad shape because during nights the temperatures are very cold.