What's the weather where you are?

[Maat]

We just had an extreme hailstorm with hail the size of table tennis balls up to tennis ball size

Sufficient to say that it was american style type of hail (size and damage wise). Several widows arround the house are broken including that of the room I'm sitting in right now. Shattered glass everywhere in my room and in others too. The cars that were outside were damaged including the windows broken and the metal looking like cheese (I somehow saved my new car just a few seconds before it started). Our garden is ruined and the Plexiglas roofs and shutters look like swiss cheese.The hail even damaged the pflaster walls on the house.

We never experienced something like that and for germany to have such a hailstorm is quite not normal I guess. Many houses in my and the cities near by expirienced the same we did...

I've took video and pictures during the hailstorm wich I will upload as soon as I can. Thankfully no body was hurt in my family.

Happy you're ok Pashalis ! For me, and after my previous message, the extreme temperature turned into an all day sheets of rain but nothing compared to what you lived despite I'm not so far from Germany. Phew !

 

[Yozilla]

We are baking here in Dalmatia and surrounding areas on 40°C and it will be the same on Monday...
Some lower temperatures are expected on Tuesday (10° lower). Meteorologists are saying that there will be even some rain inland - just hope that change won't be as violent as in Germany...

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[Cosmos]

I've uploaded some of the footage of the hailstorm and the damage it caused on our house:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQ3wRVodWE

Is that the new normal (extremes) or what?

 

[mkrnhr]

very impressive video Pashalis! According to Piers Corbyn these extremes are due to jet stream swings that are a sign of entering a ice age (or at least a mini-ice age) phase. Having these phenomena in July, even in North Africa is a new pattern in our lifetimes.

 

[Gary]

"July has seen the longest spell of hot weather to affect the whole of the UK since July 2006 as temperatures exceeded 28C somewhere in the country for 19 consecutive days.

The highest temperature for seven years - 33.5C - was recorded in west London earlier this month."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23466469


Here in the UK, we had a number of thunder storms over the weekend, after a period of hot weather. What was particularly notable was just how 'torrential' the rainfall was, coming down like 'sheets of rain' as it were. After an hour or so, we experienced inevitably flash flooding, as drainage systems could not cope. It makes me wonder how damaging it would be should these 'sheets of rain' fall for many hours or days, or even turn to snow/ice!


torrential [tɒˈrɛnʃəl tə-]
adj
1. of or relating to a torrent
2. pouring or flowing fast, violently, or heavily torrential rain
3. abundant, overwhelming, or irrepressible torrential abuse
torrentially adv
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/torrential


Thanks Pashalis for your video. Last year we had a similar freak hailstorm (and mini tornado here); these large hailstones sure can cause some damage. Glad you and your folks are not hurt, and your cat also.

 

[sitting]

This was without doubt "sheets of rain". Wow!



Philadelphia Shatters Record for the Heaviest Rain in a Day

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist
July 29, 2013; 7:00 AM

Torrents of rain over the Philadelphia metro area late on Sunday afternoon turned roads into lakes, submerged cars and made travel very difficult.

A whopping 8.02 inches of rain fell at the Philadelphia International Airport, with 7.35 inches falling between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. EDT.

Runoff from the heavy rain flooded ramps between Interstate 95 and Broad Street in Philadelphia. Flooding also ensued on Interstate 76 in nearby Gloucester City, N.J.
With the added rain, numerous rainfall records were broken in Philadelphia.

 

[Voyageur]

This was without doubt "sheets of rain". Wow!

A whopping 8.02 inches of rain fell at the Philadelphia International Airport, with 7.35 inches falling between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. EDT.

Runoff from the heavy rain flooded ramps between Interstate 95 and Broad Street in Philadelphia. Flooding also ensued on Interstate 76 in nearby Gloucester City, N.J.
With the added rain, numerous rainfall records were broken in Philadelphia.

That is considerable - and in just 4 hours.

 

[H-KQGE]

Here in the UK we have reports of flash floods bursting through homes & ripping up roads in Walsden (Todmorden) in the Pennine area of West Yorkshire. 18 inches of rain (46cm) hit the area on Monday night, the water pouring from a culvert & down a side street creating pressure underneath the streets elsewhere, which literally sucked the road downwards. The pictures of the region looks like mini sinkholes & cars have been carried off with several homes flooded.
The reports also say that the whole place will need to be rebuilt. With all the transportation disasters/accidents i'm wondering about the correlation between them & the specific weather hazards.

 

[lloyd]

I'm in southern Ontario region, near Toronto, and the summer has been a bust. We had roughly 2 weeks of normal hot July weather, and since then its been cool and wet. I have a feeling once the glaciers start showing up the great lakes region will be the first to freeze over! I've never had to wear a jacket or a sweater in July.

 

[Mikko]

Finland's capitol area, southern Finland. Pretty sunny outside, I ought to go out but there's stuff to do...

 

[sitting]

I'm in southern Ontario region, near Toronto, and the summer has been a bust. We had roughly 2 weeks of normal hot July weather, and since then its been cool and wet. I have a feeling once the glaciers start showing up the great lakes region will be the first to freeze over!

Very likely, if the previous glaciation map is any indication.


http://www.iceagenow.com/Ice-Age_Maps.htm


Looking at this historical data, the Great Lakes region definitely a "goner". New York City and nearby New Jersey right on the borderline...so probably a "goner" as well. Ditto for parts of northern Europe. And major ditto for the U.K.

The unknown element here would be a possible pole shift...not magnetic but a physical one. And much would depend on the degree of shift. I think somewhere in the transcripts the C's once mentioned perhaps a return of Earth's rotational axis to perpendicularity relative to the ecliptic.

If that were to happen, the Great Lakes region, and my neck of the woods, may then be ice free. That's assuming one survives the physical rocking and rolling of the poles going haywire.

 

[Cosmos]

We just had an extreme hailstorm with hail the size of table tennis balls up to tennis ball size

Sufficient to say that it was american style type of hail (size and damage wise). Several widows arround the house are broken including that of the room I'm sitting in right now. Shattered glass everywhere in my room and in others too. The cars that were outside were damaged including the windows broken and the metal looking like cheese (I somehow saved my new car just a few seconds before it started). Our garden is ruined and the Plexiglas roofs and shutters look like swiss cheese.The hail even damaged the pflaster walls on the house.

We never experienced something like that and for germany to have such a hailstorm is quite not normal I guess. Many houses in my and the cities near by expirienced the same we did...

I've took video and pictures during the hailstorm wich I will upload as soon as I can. Thankfully no body was hurt in my family.

Just a heads-up.

What struck us there is now reported to have made a damage of about 600 million € (As of friday evening. On Friday morning the damage report was at about 250 million € !) in our region. As of now it is the second biggest hail storm that was ever recorded in germany (damage cost are expected to go even higher).

http://www.swr.de/landesschau-aktuell/bw/unwetter-hagel-schaeden-versic/-/id=1622/nid=1622/did=11839022/1eq8iby/

Almost everyone I've met is and was effected by it, some lost their whole roof because the hail smashed it. Every car in my family was effected, many of them are essentially total losses. I think I've only met two people in the meantime that were not effected by it...

So much glass was broken, both in houses and cars, that the glas is getting short in our region. I think it might be difficult for some people to get the new windows in their homes before the winter hits. So much repearing work to be done and not enough glas and workers to do the work for all, in time I guess.

That was a huge hailstorm...

A few days ago the insurance guy who looked at our house came. He told us that they (fusion of over 380 appraisers all over germany) have never witnessed what they have witnessed in the last couple of months and years. The weather is going crazy.
He even told us that he expects more of that in the future. He told us about a similar hail storm more to the north of germany (several weeks ago) where it hailed for 45 minutes straight through, also with the size of the hail we saw here . After that the hail piled up over 20 centimeters!

He also told us that in one house a hailstone of about 20 - 30 cm smashed through almost the whole house, from roof to ground-floor
and that he never would have belived that something like that is even possible. Those insurance people are very busy in the last couple of years, he told us.

 

[Yozilla]

In Dalmatia is just plain baking and it will continue through next week for sure - next weekend we could expect some refreshment according to meteorologists; and there is an usual "infestation" of tourists in Port of Split - that will be taken care of by ferries - just an ordinary August here...

 

[Rich]

He also told us that in one house a hailstone of about 20 - 30 cm smashed through almost the whole house, from roof to ground-floor
and that he never would have belived that something like that is even possible. Those insurance people are very busy in the last couple of years, he told us.

This really is quite unbelievable Glad you and your family are OK.

 

[Kaigen]

First time in my area (South Japan) we had tornado warning! Also the heat for the last two months reaching 41°C (106°F) sunny day and 32°C (90°F) at night is indescribable. If is raining, then just few big drops for short time. :(