What's the weather where you are?

[stardust]

Prevision for East of France :

https://fr.news.yahoo.com/orages-19-d-partements-plac-s-vigilance-orange-052600259.html

"Une vague orageuse arrive sur l'est de la France, avec des rafales de 80 à 120 km/h, de fortes pluies et des chutes de grêle."

"A wave of thunders is arriving on the East of France, with blustering winds of 80 to 120 km by hours, heavy rainfalls and hail falls."


Where is my umbrella?

 

[Beau]

Wanted to check in we're going to get hit with Hurricane Iselle tonight here in Hawaii, it's hitting the Big Island right now and winds are about 80 mph it should be hitting us in a few hours, if the winds stay at 80 mph it could get interesting! Oh and Hurricane Julio is expected to hit on Sunday winds are picking up momentum at over 100 mph if it stays on course and hits the warm air and water it could pick up strength and hit us head on! Two Hurricanes in a row time to batten down the hatches!

Just saw on Twitter that Julio is projected to turn north of Hawaii and has "weakened" to Category 2 - https://twitter.com/CNNweather/status/497785863922003969/photo/1

Still having these 2 in such short a time is worrisome. Please let us know how things are going when you get a chance.

 

[scyth]

Was struck by lightning in the middle of the sea (Istanbul)

http://video.haberturk.com/haber/video/denizin-ortasinda-yildirim-boyle-goruntulendi/122759

 

[dantem]

Central Italy.
Every time dark clouds gather on the sky you can bet there's a water bomb just a few kilometers around. Rain just accumulates on precise spots, and from a distance you can see a sort of fungus-like formation of rainy clouds, like a nearly-missed tornado. It's going on like that from late June here. Pretty impressive, and dangerous when it hits you! There have been also quite a number of hailstorms and a few, but very loud, thunderstorms.

In one occasion one guy described that odd kind of rainy business as 'sheets of rain'. I've never met that guy before and none of the guy I know ever used this terminology to describe heavy rain.
In fact, the visual effect is self explanatory... In the image attached you can see rain dropping like sheets from a distance.
I've altered the colors in the photo to better empathize that that day the sky turned deep yellow, so deep that I couldn't believe my eyes. No dust dropped down though..

 

[stardust]

Prevision for East of France :

https://fr.news.yahoo.com/orages-19-d-partements-plac-s-vigilance-orange-052600259.html

"Une vague orageuse arrive sur l'est de la France, avec des rafales de 80 à 120 km/h, de fortes pluies et des chutes de grêle."

"A wave of thunders is arriving on the East of France, with blustering winds of 80 to 120 km by hours, heavy rainfalls and hail falls."


Where is my umbrella?

Frankly, There was nothing I can compare with strong winds, hails, or heavy thunder this night. It has rained, yes but it was very less dramatic than others times, and it's quiet this morning.
I'm waiting for news of other areas, which could maybe have been experimenting a much more hard weather. But the "orange alert" (there are ' level green -yellow - orange and red) from météofrance" is stopped for the whole hexagon.

 

[Eboard10]

Well, here in Luxembourg we had a pretty bad thunderstorm last night that lasted a few hours.

You can really use the term 'sheets of rain' to describe the amount of water that was pouring down.

Couple with the lightnings and thunders, it was quite a spectacle.

 

[stardust]

I hope the Chateau crew have no damage, it seems that it is the south west of France which have had the worse this night :

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/08/09/1931674-l-orage-noie-auch-et-le-sud-du-gers.html
(violent thunderstorm over Auch and in the south of Gers region)

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/08/09/1931996-plus-20-000-foyers-prives-electricite-sud-ouest.html
(20.000 homes without electricity in south-west)

 

[Ca.]

We had a very strong system blow through here on Friday evening, with all the right stuff of biblical proportions.

Very strong winds proceeded, the system whipping around the tall tress causing them to sway violently. Then the thunder, followed by lighting, then the down pour of rain, hail, and some light flooding.

I sense that this is just the beginning of many more episodes for August.

Once again the hail beat up some the local farmers, seasonal crop plantings.

Maybe i should invest in hard hat.

 

[Gaby]

In central southern Spain it has been scorching hot, relentless, for weeks. Right now I wouldn't mind a powerful storm :/

 

[Pierre]

I hope the Chateau crew have no damage, it seems that it is the south west of France which have had the worse this night :

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/08/09/1931674-l-orage-noie-auch-et-le-sud-du-gers.html
(violent thunderstorm over Auch and in the south of Gers region)

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/08/09/1931996-plus-20-000-foyers-prives-electricite-sud-ouest.html
(20.000 homes without electricity in south-west)

We went through the storm without damage but it was pretty intense for about 30 minutes. Dark clouds, strong chaotic winds, heavy rains (totaling about 40 mm) and very intense electric activity. For a few minutes the sky didn't have time to be dark, it kept being lit up by lightning. Then the storm subsided but not-too-distant lightning went on for hours.

 

[Yas]

The weather here in Paraguay is quite strange.

We almost didn't have a winter this year. We only had a few days of cold that weren't very cold and then hot days again. It usually starts getting chilly in March and April, and then we go into full winter in June. We normally have one or two months with temperatures around 10 - 15 °C and some days that we get 1-3 °C at dawn... nothing like that this year. During the last few days we had some cold days again but now it's getting warm.

We had flooding all over the country which aren't very unusual, but their extent and duration was.

We also had some small tornadoes (if you can call them like that) which are quite unusual.

There was a report about about a small earthquake, something like 3°, earthquakes are REALLY unusual here.

Well... that's what I can report.

 

[Chad]

So ex-hurricane/ex tropical storm Bertha was anticipated to arrive Sunday-ish and to brush along the bottom of the UK, possibly over the south, but instead it actually went way North, and so some of Ireland and alot of Scotland took much of it's force, areas flooding and very high winds.

(Parts of Scotland affected by ex-hurricane Bertha _http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-28739164 - this link was posted elsewhere)

Sunday, here on the north-west coast, we had 36 hours of relentless (i guess) 30-40mph winds, with even stronger gusts and the sky was ominously dark- nothing compared to what i've seen elsewhere in the world though, roofs and trees were ok. This continued through to Monday where the winds were not as strong but literally didn't break for a second.

Following the 'front', by Tuesday we had a bit of a break in the form sunshine and double rainbows. And then today (Wednesday) it seems we're getting the back end of the storm. Which is currently milling around in the sea between the tip of the east of Scotland and mainland northern Europe (that's as good as my geography is for the moment) so i wonder if they will receive a similar bashing by the storm...

Images 1 - from Mionday 11th August (from Earth Wind Map) 2 - Mondays weather map Scotland (and idea of where it is now) 3 - Tuesdays double rainbow (pic by a friend - spotted mainly in the south)

 

[edgitarra]

Here in Romania, in some parts today was the hotest this year. Almost 50 degress Celsius in the sun, and around 37-40 under the shadows of trees etc.

 

[Laura]

Here in the South of France, it is about 13C outside right now on what SHOULD be a "hot August night"; been raining and stormy off and on for days. Now and then some of that rain is SERIOUS.

 

[Catalyst]

Here in So. Florida it is HOT...94 degrees F. I seems the older I get the hotter the days ?