What's the weather where you are?

[Ekios]

North East of France, near the German border :
We had a couple of hot days in the beginning of July, it was running around 33°C to 38°C during the worst part of the day but the night always remained fresh and around the 20°C +/-
Then all of a sudden it dropped to 13/15°C during the day, and one night I had the bad idea to open my windows and get a nice 9°C wind in my face ... in the middle of "summer" it is quite surprising, especially here in my area where summers are supposed to be hot and "heavy"

There is a little detail I want to share since this is something I'm discussing with a lot of people who goes from 30 to 79 years old :

The wind have changed here. It is weird to say it just like that but, it changed. We are used to have a thick one, like a wall pushing everything massively, bringing everything with him. Now as I have discussed with more than 20 people about that, people coming from all the area, we all agreed that it changed, dramatically, for something really more piercing, the wind now don't move everything at once, it pierce and destroy in lines order.

I had long conversations with people doing vine for generations and they never felt something like that, they have to rethink all their pattern for the knotting of the vines because this "new wind" is able to tear everything apart "just like that".

/!\ Note to mention : we always had strong winds here and our storms can be devastating too.
I am talking about a change in our weather but not like a "wow this is crazy ~#{& !!" but far more as "oh well, that is weird now since when is it like that ?!"

 

[loreta]

Here in Spain we have some very important fires, one in Gerona, at the frontier with France that have victims and many many animals have died. And another one near here, in the region of Caceres, a very beautiful region. I have always difficulty to believe that just "a cigarette butt" is responsible of all these fires and they always say that....Liars!

 

[Gonzo]

We've had several weeks of high temps 30-35C (86-95F) with no rain in Ottawa. We are part of the drought that covers a huge part of the US and Canada. We finally got a few minutes of rain yesterday and last night, but it was accompanied with damaging winds and large hail in some areas. My partner, who lived in tornado alley in Kansas, said our weather is becoming more and more like the tornado weather she witnessed in Kansas. Seems we neverget a normal summer shower this year, just scary storms with hail and high winds.

Gonzo

 

[tom32071]

Our weather here in Northern Florida has been pretty weird. It'll get hot for a while then it cools down for a while. We'll have fairly hot days and nights then it cools down, then we'll have fairly cool nights and hot days. It's been really weird. Some of our plants are pretty confused too. We have some plants that are blooming for the second time. My gardenia (for one) bloomed like crazy earlier and is fixing to bloom again. We have 4 (I think) plants that are fixing to bloom for the second time and I don't recall seeing them do that before.

 

[Ekios]

Our weather here in Northern Florida has been pretty weird. It'll get hot for a while then it cools down for a while. We'll have fairly hot days and nights then it cools down, then we'll have fairly cool nights and hot days. It's been really weird. Some of our plants are pretty confused too. We have some plants that are blooming for the second time. My gardenia (for one) bloomed like crazy earlier and is fixing to bloom again. We have 4 (I think) plants that are fixing to bloom for the second time and I don't recall seeing them do that before.

Argh I wish my Roses could do it again too !!! Wait & see ;)

 

[Voyageur]

Here in Spain we have some very important fires, one in Gerona, at the frontier with France that have victims and many many animals have died. And another one near here, in the region of Caceres, a very beautiful region. I have always difficulty to believe that just "a cigarette butt" is responsible of all these fires and they always say that....Liars!

Last year in September (Barcelona Conference) the locals up in the Catalina and east areas talked about how dismal the mushroom picking was that year; apparently it is pretty famous. Suspect the same likely for this year based on what you mentioned unless the rains come. Here in eastern BC, June was so wet that mushrooms that normally come in September/October flourished in July.

As for cigarette butts lighting fires, fwiw, indeed it happens, yet in wildfire forensics, a c-butt needs to land just so against fuel; the right angle, the right fuel, temperature, < RH marker and > winds. Of high wildfire causation percentage, it goes to winter/spring hangover fires, lightning (can sit and smolder for a few weeks and then pop-up - in BC a lightning map from one storm can generate locations of hundreds of strikes in a given area), camping carelessness, prescribed burns (gone array), car fires (side of the road) and so we see of recent note; fireballs, too.

 

[Mahael859]

Center of Italy here:
We are having really sunny and hot days,then for a couple of days, a very stormy sky but with so signs of rain.
In the place I live there`s a water emergency cause we pick up the water from a spring.
I really hope it would rain soon, but there are no signs this is going to happen at least in the next week or so.

Sometimes in thees days I find myself considering the statement from the C's:

-"Italy and Greece are burning too"

If this has to be taken literally; this weather would be the perfect condition for it. Even considering the incidents of wildfires around the world.
But Probably this refers also to our economy.

 

[loreta]

Center of Italy here:
We are having really sunny and hot days,then for a couple of days, a very stormy sky but with so signs of rain.
In the place I live there`s a water emergency cause we pick up the water from a spring.
I really hope it would rain soon, but there are no signs this is going to happen at least in the next week or so.

Sometimes in thees days I find myself considering the statement from the C's:

-"Italy and Greece are burning too"

If this has to be taken literally; this weather would be the perfect condition for it. Even considering the incidents of wildfires around the world.
But Probably this refers also to our economy.

In Spain the government cut money for the firemen and the results are that when you have big fires you don't have enough people to stop it with all the dire consequences. That's why our firemen are also manifesting and telling the population that this government is in part responsible of everything that can happen when a fire is in march. Firemen are very worried of this situation.

 

[Kaigen]

it is supposed to be high summer or the beginning of it now here in southwest germany.
the air temperature is very low especially when the sun is not shining at the moment. at night the temperature goes down to about 10°C and during the day it is at most about 20°C. it really feels very cold for high summer.
the air temperature in general so far in this summer is kind of weird here OSIT.

also there is another thing, when I look at the rain it seems like the consistence of it has changed. I don't know if it actually the case or just my imagination because I pay more attention then before ?

it seems like the drops are denser/heavier a bit like sleet. maybe it is becouse the upper layers of the athmosphere are cooling and/or there is more material (dust?) in the air that causes the drops to become more densier/heavier in appearance?

Edit: more specific

Pashalis I saw it too here in South Japan. I was thinking something is different with the rain. The drops went bigger and heavier and first moment I was wondering if somebody is playing with water from balcony above. The temperatures are 30-38C (86-100F) Rainy season finished yesterday.

 

[ctw5000]

the canadian prairies have had record rainfall this summer with lots of grid roads being washed out. Also lots of extreme weather, golf ball sized
hail and tornado watches seem to happen every week now..We have had a number of funnel clouds touch down this summer luckily no major damage..Storms have also cut off power for days on end in some parts of the province...

 

[Al Today]

the canadian prairies have had record rainfall this summer with lots of grid roads being washed out. Also lots of extreme weather, golf ball sized
hail and tornado watches seem to happen every week now..We have had a number of funnel clouds touch down this summer luckily no major damage..Storms have also cut off power for days on end in some parts of the province...

Seems the weather is more than bad, it is extreme one way or the other, and opposite of just a few hundred miles away. This is what amazes me...

 

[Esote]

I wonder if other places in the world are experiencing rather fair weather for this time of the year, as we do in the southern Alps of France.
Not too hot, not too dry, not cold etc. Just quite alright, nothing weird...
Are we the only ones ?

 

[un chien anadolu]

I wonder if other places in the world are experiencing rather fair weather for this time of the year, as we do in the southern Alps of France.
Not too hot, not too dry, not cold etc. Just quite alright, nothing weird...
Are we the only ones ?

It's extremely hot here in Istanbul, Turkey. 39-40 °C in shadow. Southern cities of Turkey 47-48 °C.

 

[dant]

@ecoste: You are not the only ones...

Compared to most of the US burning up, floods,
tornadoes, the Northwest (Coast of Oregon/Washington)
has been relatively cool and we have had mild swings
(55F-80+F).

We had one day that was very windy - but nothing
serious. It is 81F today and sunny. (Knock on wood!)

 

[dantem]

Italy, East coast and thereabouts.

More than one full month of super hot weather from around the 15th of June to the 20th of July, up to 40 deg. C. in some day, and no rain at all.
Reports from seashore told about calm and flat waters, with both very hot and freezing cold currents not mixing together, a sort of grace/disgrace for bathers, continually zapped by those cold currents while relaxing in a hot sea.
This month's (July) hottest night were on the Monday 9th and Saturday 14th, with 26 deg. C at midnight.
Then a very cold night on Tuesday 17th (10-12 deg. C.), then hot again, and finally some serious rain from Saturday 21th till yesterday (Tuesday 24th), but no cold nights and average daily temp. of 20-25 deg C.
It all begun on Saturday 21th with a massive body of clouds, pretty tropical-like, thunderbolts, flashes and on-off rain all the night long.
Today has been cloudy and warm.