XPan
The Living Force
You are right, Aeneas - they were indeed Eranthis ! I took a photo on a frosty morning of 20 March 2024, right outside our door, confirming that they are indeed the same flowers.
What's the weather where you are?
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Ventusky.com has a camera function for online locations in some parts of the world. It offers the opportunity to observe what the weather looks like. Some stations are very boring, perhaps showing a road and a few bushes, or a field, or houses surrounding a parking lot, similar to a security or surveillance camera. Typically they show a shot taken a few minutes ago.
Often you can scroll a 24-hour cycle. Some night cameras are poor other cameras can capture the stars, like the one at Cerro Pacho, at The Southern Gemini Telescope, see the screenshot below:
Often you can scroll a 24-hour cycle. Some night cameras are poor other cameras can capture the stars, like the one at Cerro Pacho, at The Southern Gemini Telescope, see the screenshot below:
Unusually warm and nice weather for this period of the year in Macedonia and in southern Balkans generally. The temperature goes up to 25C.
The forecast for next week is that there will be another cold wave from the north which can bring a lot of rain, cold weather, and even snow in some places. If the temperature goes bellow zero, well that can cause a lot of damage to agriculture.
The forecast for next week is that there will be another cold wave from the north which can bring a lot of rain, cold weather, and even snow in some places. If the temperature goes bellow zero, well that can cause a lot of damage to agriculture.
naorma
The Living Force
Similar what @Konstantin said before: Here in the Eastern Part of Austria we have very warm weather, too. A little bit south from where I live they said temperatures were about 30° - which is summer temperature. Where I live we have at the moment 27°. My father would have said: "We have an early year now". I was completely surprised when I realized last week that Lilacs (Flieder) is already blooming. Normally this happens around Mothersday which is on the second Monday in May. Now it was at the beginning of April, which certainly is very early! Cannot remember something early like that. Lilacs are a sign for Mothers Day because in case you have forgotten to buy some flowers you always take some lilacs, that's why one always knows the date . . . We are also supposed to have a drop down in temperature but not so bad, until 15°. That would do no harm to plants - but we will see what this year will become . .
XPan
The Living Force
Catania, Sicily / Southern Italy
9 April 2024
Not as hot as in central Europe, but very pleasant 24°C with super blue skies and a nice breeze from the sea. I believe that Sicily often gets a bit lower temperatures in spring (compared to northern Italy) due to the water temperatures keeping them down a notch, at a very comfortable level
When we left Stockholm early morning of 6 April - it was again … snowing (5 days in a row). In the mean time today the city is expecting 17°C.
In parts of southern Sweden, the temperature reached up to 20°C for the first time in this season. Nevertheless, the outlooks for middle Sweden are… uhm… not so nice. Gradually falling temperatures which over time might stay quite a bit below average (6°C max, 1°C min). Brrrr
Being suddenly in Sicily while experiencing this fantastic weather with all the SUNSHINE… ooh my - it feels almost surreal to me.
View from our balcony, downtown Catania near the harbor. And lots of birds chirping from the roof tops.
Big hugs to you all
Ralf
9 April 2024
Not as hot as in central Europe, but very pleasant 24°C with super blue skies and a nice breeze from the sea. I believe that Sicily often gets a bit lower temperatures in spring (compared to northern Italy) due to the water temperatures keeping them down a notch, at a very comfortable level
When we left Stockholm early morning of 6 April - it was again … snowing (5 days in a row). In the mean time today the city is expecting 17°C.
In parts of southern Sweden, the temperature reached up to 20°C for the first time in this season. Nevertheless, the outlooks for middle Sweden are… uhm… not so nice. Gradually falling temperatures which over time might stay quite a bit below average (6°C max, 1°C min). Brrrr
Being suddenly in Sicily while experiencing this fantastic weather with all the SUNSHINE… ooh my - it feels almost surreal to me.
View from our balcony, downtown Catania near the harbor. And lots of birds chirping from the roof tops.
Big hugs to you all
Ralf
caballero reyes
The Living Force
Today, Friday, April 12, we had 31c at 4 pm. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Despite the heat, the city center has a large number of fresh strawberry sellers in markets and on the sidewalks.
Despite the heat, the city center has a large number of fresh strawberry sellers in markets and on the sidewalks.
XPan
The Living Force
Stockholm, Sweden
19 April 2024
Back from Sicily - weheee
(**) But boy, it is COLD here. As I write now in the afternoon my thermometer shows a mere 2.9°C [37.2°F]. Yesterday, it was snowing at a temperature around 2.0°C [35.6°F] Sunshine... ?! lets not talk about that; but it is abysmal.
Apparently during my stay in Sicily, there was a week of very mild to warm week here in Stockholm, with temperatures up to +18°C - which was way above average. It looks like this:
Sunshine in Stockholm...
So, let's talk about Sunshine. What's up with that ? That's a good question... for unknown reasons 2024 has this far been way below normal average, more in line with one of the poorest years such as 1983 and 1984 (this far until 18 April).
Below, i compare with the previous year of 2023, and as you can see 2024 isn't really much to write home about...
The graph below
also shows clearly, that Jan-April 2024 is diverting from the previous years, e.g. the lack of sunshine hours are evidently visible. While the daily average of April 2019 and April 2022 had a whopping 9 hours per day, we are right now at 3 hours only (equivalent to an average February - or said like this: not much sunshine at all).
The outlook in the next week looks grim; steadily overcast weather, and a max temperature of just +1 to +4°C.
Coming home from Sicily
(**) Not so much "party feeling" really. When my husband and i returned hours after midnight the 18th of April, after a nights sleep - we both got big thick/puffy red eyes. (I've never had such a reaction before). Apparently after the passage of a cold front over Catania, while the air was still pretty warm, but the winds were very fierce...(While we were out and about on the day of our very late departure - we must have caught lots of pollen that went deeper into our eyes ? So, now we look like little reddish puffy pigs in our faces - and nobody would think we just returned from an awesome, wonderful vacation
On top I got fever today, (38.3°C at the moment) with my lungs on fire - so I called in sick at my subway work. Which i don't really like that, because i have already been sick in the end of March
But you know something ? It'll pass. The vacation in Catania kicked out all those remaining Corona/lockdown ghosts i still had stuck in my head from March-April 2020. The city has returned to its loud, bubbly, vital, somewhat chaotic state, filled with life, voices, cars, laughter and... LOTS of human interaction. Oh, did the boy in me love that !!!!
It was simply fantastic to experience all that again, after 4 years of absence. We are already planning to go back in Oct 2024 for a week, as the whole family will meet, the one daughter from California, the other from France, and us from Sweden, and celebrating the mother's / our friend's pension party.
I made a goofy (AI) joke image
from our arrival at Arlanda Airport at 01.43 with a temperature of -1°C there, wondering how we would get home, as the flight busses as well the Arlanda Express trains all had ended their service already. (We also met dear friend to Sal all the way back from their youth, on the very same airplane home).
19 April 2024
Back from Sicily - weheee
(**) But boy, it is COLD here. As I write now in the afternoon my thermometer shows a mere 2.9°C [37.2°F]. Yesterday, it was snowing at a temperature around 2.0°C [35.6°F] Sunshine... ?! lets not talk about that; but it is abysmal.Apparently during my stay in Sicily, there was a week of very mild to warm week here in Stockholm, with temperatures up to +18°C - which was way above average. It looks like this:
Sunshine in Stockholm...
So, let's talk about Sunshine. What's up with that ? That's a good question... for unknown reasons 2024 has this far been way below normal average, more in line with one of the poorest years such as 1983 and 1984 (this far until 18 April).
Below, i compare with the previous year of 2023, and as you can see 2024 isn't really much to write home about...
The graph below
also shows clearly, that Jan-April 2024 is diverting from the previous years, e.g. the lack of sunshine hours are evidently visible. While the daily average of April 2019 and April 2022 had a whopping 9 hours per day, we are right now at 3 hours only (equivalent to an average February - or said like this: not much sunshine at all).
The outlook in the next week looks grim; steadily overcast weather, and a max temperature of just +1 to +4°C.
Coming home from Sicily
(**) Not so much "party feeling" really. When my husband and i returned hours after midnight the 18th of April, after a nights sleep - we both got big thick/puffy red eyes. (I've never had such a reaction before). Apparently after the passage of a cold front over Catania, while the air was still pretty warm, but the winds were very fierce...(While we were out and about on the day of our very late departure - we must have caught lots of pollen that went deeper into our eyes ? So, now we look like little reddish puffy pigs in our faces - and nobody would think we just returned from an awesome, wonderful vacation
On top I got fever today, (38.3°C at the moment) with my lungs on fire - so I called in sick at my subway work. Which i don't really like that, because i have already been sick in the end of March
But you know something ? It'll pass. The vacation in Catania kicked out all those remaining Corona/lockdown ghosts i still had stuck in my head from March-April 2020. The city has returned to its loud, bubbly, vital, somewhat chaotic state, filled with life, voices, cars, laughter and... LOTS of human interaction. Oh, did the boy in me love that !!!!
It was simply fantastic to experience all that again, after 4 years of absence. We are already planning to go back in Oct 2024 for a week, as the whole family will meet, the one daughter from California, the other from France, and us from Sweden, and celebrating the mother's / our friend's pension party.
I made a goofy (AI) joke image
from our arrival at Arlanda Airport at 01.43 with a temperature of -1°C there, wondering how we would get home, as the flight busses as well the Arlanda Express trains all had ended their service already. (We also met dear friend to Sal all the way back from their youth, on the very same airplane home).
Tuulikki
Dagobah Resident
Hope you enjoyed your visit to Sicily. Interesting that Sweden is so cold for end of April. I fully expected the UK to be very cold this winter but all we have had is rain, rain, rain....more rain than you could shake a stick at. It started raining in the autumn and it continued all winter and most of the spring. We have been, literally, treading water. England is usually quite a wet country but I have never seen anything on this scale.Back from Sicily - weheee
Metrist
The Living Force
In SC Alaska, it is 45°F (7.22°C).
It has been cool and overcast for the most part. There is still snow cover on the flat ground, but on the south facing hillsides, the snow is gone.
The warmest temp so far, was about 55°F, on a sunny day; bugs were starting to come out, but when the temps dipped close to freezing, they disappeared again.
I'm reminded of the spring of '93 when the last half of April was like summer, where the temps reached 78°F (25.5°C) and the trees turned green with leaves. Looks like that won't happen again this year.
It has been cool and overcast for the most part. There is still snow cover on the flat ground, but on the south facing hillsides, the snow is gone.
The warmest temp so far, was about 55°F, on a sunny day; bugs were starting to come out, but when the temps dipped close to freezing, they disappeared again.
I'm reminded of the spring of '93 when the last half of April was like summer, where the temps reached 78°F (25.5°C) and the trees turned green with leaves. Looks like that won't happen again this year.
Hey, XPan, glad you had an enjoyable vacation in Sicily.
This made me think of what Bill Gates wants to do: Spraying stuff in the atmosphere to block the sun to cool the planet. I thought I read somewhere that this is being done. Evil idiot that he is, he's going to increase the cooling of the planet and bring on an ice age sooner than it would have occurred naturally, but that, maybe, was his plan all along.
XPan
The Living Force
Yes, Sicily was indeed a true a blast, Nienna.
The bad news then was, that i got very sick, starting one day after our arrival. I haven't felt this ill in 15 years (suspected pneumonia). Albeit, what doesn't kill, makes you stronger - so, i am already on my way up again.
As of writing 26 April 2024, at 04.00 - it is SNOWING
in Stockholm (but no snow on the grounds.... yet) 
Out of all days since we arrived from Sicily, we had one sunny day - while the rest of days since 18th, have been around freezing and overcast.Has it been this cold before ? Yeah it actually has in the past - only with the difference that many April months during the past 1-2 decades quite often been warmer than normal. Therefore it now feels unusual cold.
However, the extremely poor sunshine hours of April 2024 are (in my opinion) out of the ordinary. And nothing has changed since my last entry either; The sum for this month will be very poor; somewhere around 25% of normal average i believe, worse than an average February in Stockholm.
In April 2019-2023, we had between 247 to 279 hours of sunshine. Now, we are up at a mere 82 hours.
That's quite a difference.I have heard about Gate's experiment, but thought it was abandoned. Wasn't there another [?] (of Gate's) experiments which was supposed to be executed over Northern Sweden ? That has later been denied, from what I remember. What we don't exactly know is, what is/has been done behind our backs, though... And yeah, the normal state of earth climate in the past 600 million years, has been ice ages... not the warmth we are experiencing now. (I just listened to a physicist, Prof. Dr. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, who spoke at the 201th Corona Investigative Committee, in Berlin on 20 April, 24 min) about the various climate aspects. Very interesting (but in german language)
XPan
The Living Force
Stockholm, Sweden
30 april 2024
Finally !
It is springtime for real. The temperatures reached almost 19°C in the city today. Despite the cold in the past 2 weeks - many trees now start to unfold their leafs - exactly in the longstanding tradition to do so around 1 May. Last year it felt they were a bit late with 8-10 days into May.
Anyway; It is such a lovely experience... every time ! This morning observed frost in the outskirts of Stockholm while driving out with the first train (Frost this time of the year isn't anything unusual - and can happen occasionally into early June)
30 april 2024
Finally !
It is springtime for real. The temperatures reached almost 19°C in the city today. Despite the cold in the past 2 weeks - many trees now start to unfold their leafs - exactly in the longstanding tradition to do so around 1 May. Last year it felt they were a bit late with 8-10 days into May.
Anyway; It is such a lovely experience... every time ! This morning observed frost in the outskirts of Stockholm while driving out with the first train (Frost this time of the year isn't anything unusual - and can happen occasionally into early June)
