What's the weather where you are?

[angelburst29]

In Northeastern Pennsylvania, we spent the last week under heavy gray cloud cover and below average temperatures with periods of spotty rain.

This report out of Chicago:
Chicago Coldest Winter Ever! 2013-2014 (Four month period) Winter Weather Records
_http://www.liveweatherblogs.com/index.php/community/groups/viewdiscussion/380-chicago-coldest-winter-ever-2013-2014-four-month-period-winter-weather-records?groupid=77

Sunday June 15, 2014 - An over a century-old record falls.

The average temperature for December 2013 to March 2014 period in Chicago was only 22.0°F, 10 degrees below freezing, beating the old record set in the winter of 1903-04. It even beat the harsh winters of 1977/78 which were some of the worst ever.

While stories rage in the media about how global warming is a threat to mankind and nobody will be left untouched by it, the National Weather Service in Chicago issued this statement today.

Here is the statement:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
937 AM CDT TUE APR 1 2014 /1037 AM EDT TUE APR 1 2014/

...COLDEST FOUR MONTH PERIOD ON RECORD IN CHICAGO...

CHICAGO:

THE IMPRESSIVE COLD THIS PAST WINTER CONTINUED DURING
MARCH...WITH A MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF ONLY 31.7 DEGREES
FOR THE MONTH. THIS RANKS AS THE 19TH COLDEST MARCH ON RECORD IN
CHICAGO. HOWEVER...OF EVEN MORE INTEREST IS THE FACT THAT WITH THE
ABNORMALLY COLD MARCH ACROSS THE AREA...THIS MADE THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE FOR THE DECEMBER THROUGH MARCH PERIOD IN CHICAGO 22.0
DEGREES...WHICH IS THE COLDEST SUCH PERIOD ON RECORD FOR CHICAGO
DATING BACK TO 1872!

 

[Siberia]

We are having an unusually hot weather in the South Siberia now for about one week (right after the chilly, rainy and floody period of which I reported here before). I was searching for the related articles and found this one by Bloomberg: Wheat Fields Parched by Drought From U.S. to Russia: Commodities (see at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/wheat-fields-parched-by-drought-from-u-s-to-russia-commodities.html). The article mentions among other things:

Droughts withering wheat crops from the U.S. to Russia to Australia will probably spur the biggest reduction in global supply estimates since 2003 and drive prices to the highest in almost a year.

Kansas, the top U.S. grower of winter wheat, is poised for its driest May on record, the state’s climatologist estimates. Ukraine and Russia, accounting for 11 percent of world output, have endured drought conditions for three months, University College London data show.

Also:

As much as 30 percent of the grain harvest in eastern and southern Ukraine may be lost because of damage from dry weather, said Tetiana Adamenko, the head of the agro-meteorology department at the National Meteorology Center in Kiev. Russian wheat output may drop 15 percent this year if below-average rainfall persists in southern regions during the flowering period for the next two weeks, Macquarie estimates.

And:

Kansas will be mostly dry with only scattered light showers for the next week, and temperatures will be warmer than normal, Mike Palmerino, an agricultural meteorologist at Telvent DTN in Minneapolis, said in a May 23 report. As recently as May 3, yields were forecast at a record 49.1 bushels an acre by the Wheat Quality Council, after the industry group tallied 608 samples from its annual three-day tour of fields.

The outlook is no better in Western Australia, which produces 40 percent of the country’s wheat. The state had below- average rainfall in April, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Production in Australia, the second-biggest exporter after the U.S., will drop 12 percent to 26 million tons in the year through May 2013, USDA data show.

Wheat fields in France, Germany and Poland, which account for about 10 percent of global output, were damaged by unusually cold weather in February. The 27-nation European Union cut its outlook for soft-wheat production to 126.7 million tons last month, about 4.7 percent less than forecast in March.

And it's all only about the crops, but clearly not only the crops suffer from such weather, so prices for other foods can soar too. Another good stimulus to have one's own garden and take good care of it.

 

[Dirgni]

Here in Southern Bavaria it is still too dry. We had too few snow and rain till November. Last week we had midsummer weather. It was really very hot with temperatures around 35 'C. It was too hot for this time of the year and the grass is getting dry. Normally the lawn should grow like mad now. But not this year.

 

[Yozilla]

Last week we had midsummer weather. It was really very hot with temperatures around 35 'C. It was too hot for this time ...

The same was in Dalmatia till Saturday - since then ,mostly cloudy with occasional showers (yeah for cooling down/more time for ) with thunderstorm crescendo last night which i enjoyed on balcony Couple of hours of incessant lightning strikes and thunders exploding, roaring, rolling et al

Oh, speaking of clouds i just remembered what i sow in skies on previous full moon (you know that big cross stuff and reddish color of moon). It was cloudy also and crack was formed in clouds is shape of cross with full moon wright in the middle of it

Perfect cross carved in clouds with full moon in "crosshairs! Just stunning!

Men i've never missed my broken camera more!

 

[Chad]

Noctilucent clouds over Peel Castle, Peel, Isle of Man taken 17th June 2014 - picture 1 (see attached)
_https://www.flickr.com/photos/davethornley/14256543808/in/photolist-nJwaVQ-nJciwZ-nJbr6w-nJ7ZY3-o1rFSU-nKuJyn-o4HH14-nKsLWx-o2DbZF-nKr3Y7-o4w7ia-o2JN78-o2JMHH-o2D5xq-o3NDsD-o3NQ1n-o1TAeL-o1NzmB-nJja71-o1kbkB-nWYYi1-nX5L2g-nWvAeW-nWrHMu-nJ2ToM-nJ1Sur-o1owpu-nHRFjs-nHNvMs-nHL1Qp-o17sTW-o14BVY-nY3FCA-nZMDXK-nY3jud-o2Sf3F-nHxGRw-nHykMz-nZV2iN-o12Qzc-nZJKMB-o2oqMc-nFNDy1-nVM9jL-nXGhLQ-nZwpdg-nX3L8j-nX5Lgz-nWB35e-nWzzgX

Noctilucent Clouds over Bangor Pier - picture 2 (see attached)
_https://www.flickr.com/photos/awelevans/14458875711/


These aren't my photos but they appeared on my twitter feed last night and i thought it strange that there have been so many reported. As per the quote below, it's an expected phenomena, but considering i have never spotted them in the the UK skies, i thought i'd post them incase they actually aren't so 'expected'.

As for the weather in UK - 18C most days, the mornings can be quite overcast letting very little light through, but usually by the afternoon it clears and becomes rather sizzling in the sunshine. An hour sunbathingand the typical Brit WILL burn. It seems this year is hotter than the last few - even if it got off to a very late start.

When and where do I look?

NLC always appear in the northern hemisphere between late May and early August. Start looking for them above the western, northern and eastern horizons about an hour after sunset.

They will quickly reach a peak brightness, then fade slowly until the sun has passed its lowest point below the horizon - typically about 1am throughout summer. Then they will brighten again in the pre-sunrise sky.

Sometimes, an evening display won't carry through to the morning, but it's likely that it will. Morning displays can often be more dramatic than evening ones. _http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/so-you-want-to-be-a-scientist/experiments/noctilucent-clouds/nlc/

 

[Gimpy]

Here in the Midwest (IN,OH,MI) area, we had a day that it reached a heat index of 122 F, which was not a good day.

Since then, we've had thunderstorms, a few funnel clouds sighted, and its been less hot.

 

[Laura]

About 95 F here today. Supposedly, rainy weather is coming next week. We'll see.

 

[davey72]

Central Alberta has been very dry this year compared to last year. We have been getting a lotta crappy weather but even if it does actually rain there is not much of it. Yesterday got pretty hot but any sunny days we get feel like its fall.

 

[Persej]

http://www.sott.net/article/280705-Bulgaria-floods-kills-at-least-12-in-Varna-and-Dobrich

Another heavy rain in the Balkans. When will it stop?!

Dear rain, please go to UK and leave us alone. Brits like you much more than we here. Thank you. :)

 

[Keit]

And here in Belarus we have no summer at all. Typical autumn weather. For example, at the moment +9C, and that's in the end of June! Also there are a lot of lightning storms (it's my third summer here, and I never experienced that much storms) and rain, and there was even a mini tornado in Minsk. The jumps in temperatures and barometric pressure are also very tasking on the system. It's not normal, that's for sure.

 

[Persej]

And here in Belarus we have no summer at all. Typical autumn weather. For example, at the moment +9C, and that's in the end of June!

That's really cold Keit. :/
Yesterday we had +22C and I said to myself that it's very cold for the first day of summer. I cannot imagine living in your conditions.
Today it's +27C. Now that's the summer that I love.

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

And here in Belarus we have no summer at all. Typical autumn weather. For example, at the moment +9C, and that's in the end of June!

Wow, Keit, that's cold for the season!
Apparently, 'normal' temperature in Belarus in June should be around 16°!

 

[stardust]

+ 30°C today, no wind, and at the end of afternoon, 3 drops of rain. 3 not 4. And my garden is drying more and more !It looks like more an August month...

 

[Keit]

Wow, Keit, that's cold for the season!
Apparently, 'normal' temperature in Belarus in June should be around 16°!

Even higher! On the Belorussian weather site it was written for 16th of June, that the temperatures on that day were +11..+16°С, which was 1-5°С lower than the norm. Today it is written, that the current cold front comes from the Baltic sea and Scandinavia.

I also talked to a local friend today that lived here all her life, and she said that the weather is very cold, as if it's not summer at all. She also usually makes trips around this time to a forest to check for blueberries and when they are going to be ripe, and she said that there are no blueberries at all yet. Guess each country gets its own crazy weather now.

 

[Siberia]

Guess each country gets its own crazy weather now.

Indeed, Keit. I spent this weekend at our graduates meeting, my ex-classmates now live in different parts of the world (Western Europe, North America, Asia, Moscow, etc.), and everyone said that they've been experiencing very weird weather in the last two years. And it wasn't me who started this discussion, so I was listening to them and I was very surprised that so many people have noticed it already. They asked me about our recent Siberian flood, but we are lucky here to have a strong dam on the Ob river, so that flood didn't affect our city much. We also had such very cold period as you do now in early June, and it was unusual even for Siberia, many our berries were also ruined, but now it's very hot and dry here (about +30C every day).