What's the weather where you are?

[Arwenn]

Ok, well yesterday was blue skies and 30 degrees Celsius. Then early this morning a cool change came in (temps of 20 degrees C), along with a massive thunderstorm replete with heavy rain, hail and high speed winds that lasted an hour. And then by this afternoon blue skies again. This weather is definitely wierd at the moment. :/

 

[aurora]

In Istanbul, Turkey this winter was very mild almost like Mediterranean weather. And now spring has come, all the tress are in bloom, actually some trees bloomed in February. The downside is it did not rain much and the dams are one third full. I bet there will be a great water shortage in the summer when water is used more. For long years I did not see such a warm and dry winter in Istanbul. I guess it is because of the changing jet stream or some other cause I am not aware of. Istanbul would normally be affected by weather fronts from the Balkans or from the north (even Siberia).

 

[Laura]

Anybody got reports on these?

Winter suddenly returns again for Russia's Urals
http://www.sott.net/article/278044-Winter-suddenly-returns-again-for-Russias-Urals

Winter remains in Romania - "It's as if we were preparing for Christmas - not Easter"
http://www.sott.net/article/278046-Winter-remains-in-Romania-Its-as-if-we-were-preparing-for-Christmas-not-Easter

Reminds me that the Cs said the Ice Age would fall on Eurasia first... then North America.

 

[Siberia]

Anybody got reports on these?

Winter suddenly returns again for Russia's Urals
http://www.sott.net/article/278044-Winter-suddenly-returns-again-for-Russias-Urals

It is true about the Urals: this spring seems unusually cold there. But on the other hand, Siberia is experiencing quite the opposite: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/06/3423410/siberia-wildfires-summer-heat/. We are having forest fires here and smog in the cities as a result :(. It's been also very windy here for a week already, and today it's even stormy.

Our specialists say (and it seems to be the case) that the air masses show significant slow down in the recent years here. Once a cyclone or an anti-cyclone came, it would stay for a much longer period than it used to be.

 

[Keit]

Anybody got reports on these?

Winter suddenly returns again for Russia's Urals
http://www.sott.net/article/278044-Winter-suddenly-returns-again-for-Russias-Urals

Yep, apparently Omsk region was also hit with a rather heavy snow, rain, winds.
_http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/storms-lash-western-siberia-as-a-statue-is-rolled-over-in-omsk/

Officials in Omsk imposed a state of emergency in the region because of the 25 metres a second wind. A seven metre tall ball-shaped monument in Omsk lost its moorings, as 800 people were called in to help counter the consequences of the storm.

One fatality was reported after a girl died when the bus stop shelter was uprooted by the wind, killing her.

Extreme weather was reported elsewhere around Urals and Siberia.

Meteorologists reported the same rainfall in two days as normally occurs in two months in the Urals.

In Tyumen - close to Omsk - motorways were blocked because of heavy snow.

Houses and blocks of flats lost electricity because of the strong wind and snow, with some 50,000 people hit.

Parts of Altai region in southern Siberia suffered from dust storms, with wind gushes reaching 30 metres a second,.

Heavy winds were reported in Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk regions, along with wet snow.

And that's a video taken on 26th of April. The description says: Walking on the street is like conquering the Alps.

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[Siberia]

Thanks, Keit! No wet snow in Novosibirsk city yet, but the crazy wind will probably bring it tomorrow. Okay, snow is better than fires, I hope :)

 

[Gaby]

Wow, 10 tornadoes reported yesterday in North Carolina:

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[H-KQGE]

I heard that the reported storm system is set to go through the centre of the US until next week.

 

[Cosmos]

On friday there was a huge thunderstorm in my area. I was working at that time at my workplace and at around 21:30 in the evening suddenly a loud boom shook us up, it must have been a lightning that struck our building because the emergency horn went off and we lost electricity for a split second, so that all machines went into save mode in the whole company...

There were several loud booms that followed (thunder). But that big one was actually so strong that my colleagues who worked closer to the impact zone told me that the building actually felt like it was shaking because of it.

Later when I went home I asked my grandmother if they had bad weather also there at my home, and she told my yes. She actually told me that she was outside at that point in time and that suddenly everything around her got so bright that she described it as a "wall of dazzling brightness all around", there was no sound, but as soon as the brightness was gone electricity stopped in our area, so everything went dark directly after the "wall of dazzling brightness". She told me that she never experienced something that bright before and she actually did not notice that it was actually thunder until it later really started to thunder... She also saw a neighbour during that time and that neighbour was actually confused by that bright light and in panic mode.

 

[LQB]

Later when I went home I asked my grandmother if they had bad weather also there at my home, and she told my yes. She actually told me that she was outside at that point in time and that suddenly everything around her got so bright that she described it as a "wall of dazzling brightness all around", there was no sound, but as soon as the brightness was gone electricity stopped in our area, so everything went dark directly after the "wall of dazzling brightness". She told me that she never experienced something that bright before and she actually did not notice that it was actually thunder until it later really started to thunder... She also saw a neighbour during that time and that neighbour was actually confused by that bright light and in panic mode.

Yes, I've also noted a few long distance bolts that yield much more light in the flash than usual. It may be that the discharge current in some of these bolts is really "amping" up.

 

[Search]

Ornithologists can not explain why starlings have not arrived in eastern Kazakhstan.
_http://www.zakon.kz/4618865-ornitologi-ne-mogut-objasnit-pochemu-v.html
It is on russian. date: 22 of March.
In this article is said that the starlings have not arrived back, even experts on birds can not explain why. Starlings are considered harbingers of spring. Ornithologists can only assume that that something happened with them in the places where they are wintering. Maybe they were shot, because starlings are "destroyers" of vineyards. Usually they come back at the end of March.

I guess birds know when they should return and when shouldn’t. It is hard to believe that they all were shot/killed.

 

[monotonic]

I'd like to see the glass formation in the ground where the huge bolt struck! Of course, it may also be a good idea not to go near there...

 

[Arwenn]

Later when I went home I asked my grandmother if they had bad weather also there at my home, and she told my yes. She actually told me that she was outside at that point in time and that suddenly everything around her got so bright that she described it as a "wall of dazzling brightness all around", there was no sound, but as soon as the brightness was gone electricity stopped in our area, so everything went dark directly after the "wall of dazzling brightness". She told me that she never experienced something that bright before and she actually did not notice that it was actually thunder until it later really started to thunder... She also saw a neighbour during that time and that neighbour was actually confused by that bright light and in panic mode.

Yes, I've also noted a few long distance bolts that yield much more light in the flash than usual. It may be that the discharge current in some of these bolts is really "amping" up.

Same here, with the thunderstorm last Friday - massive bolts of lightning, and really loud claps of thunder right overhead. Maybe a battle between STO & STS forces, as elucidated by Laura in The Wave?

 

[luc]

Same here, with the thunderstorm last Friday - massive bolts of lightning, and really loud claps of thunder right overhead. Maybe a battle between STO & STS forces, as elucidated by Laura in The Wave?

Same here in western Germany, Friday night we had an enormous thunderstorm right above our heads - for the first time since we moved here a year ago. It was really frightening and we could hardly get any sleep that night.

 

[Siberia]

Later when I went home I asked my grandmother if they had bad weather also there at my home, and she told my yes. She actually told me that she was outside at that point in time and that suddenly everything around her got so bright that she described it as a "wall of dazzling brightness all around", there was no sound, but as soon as the brightness was gone electricity stopped in our area, so everything went dark directly after the "wall of dazzling brightness". She told me that she never experienced something that bright before and she actually did not notice that it was actually thunder until it later really started to thunder... She also saw a neighbour during that time and that neighbour was actually confused by that bright light and in panic mode.

Yes, I've also noted a few long distance bolts that yield much more light in the flash than usual. It may be that the discharge current in some of these bolts is really "amping" up.

Same here, with the thunderstorm last Friday - massive bolts of lightning, and really loud claps of thunder right overhead. Maybe a battle between STO & STS forces, as elucidated by Laura in The Wave?

Hmmm.. This reminds me of the news from Chile two weeks ago:

Worst storm in decades kills more than 60 cows on Chilean ranch

Sunday World, April 10, 2014

Cecli Fourt, who owns Los Rios ranch in southern Chile, has reported that 54 of his dairy cows have been killed after being struck by lightning on Monday.

Another farmer said that 9 of his cows were killed after they took shelter from the storm under a nearby tree where three days earlier another 3 cows were killed in a similar incident.

Carlos Goday, the manager of La Hacienda, where the 54 cows were killed, said it wasn't just a lightning storm, "We've had storms with lightning but never like this one. It was not only the storms and lightning, there was some earth trembling too".

Goday says that it was one of the worst storms in living memory, "Old people tell it had been decades since such a combination of thunder and lightning".

He reports losses of around $100,000 "but if you include the milking period our losses climb to near $300,000".

The world record for the most cows killed by a single bolt of lightning is 68. Those cows were sheltering under a tree in New South Wales, Australia in 2005.

See at: http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/daily-world/60-cows-are-killed-by-lightning-in-chile.

Sounds like our atmosphere is kind of "overcharged" currently?