SPARKS

Eric Murray · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 3:53 pm Post subject:

visability down to about 50-100m tonight due to the Haar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haar_(fog)

Sparksswede · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:28 pm Post subject:

Today up here in the northern part of Sweden it's coming LOTS of snow from the sky.
Yesterday it wasn't that much snow left (OK not so little either but one could sense the spring coming and the sun was shining,not the whole day though).
Today it's a completely different weather,real WINTER with much snow now on the ground and also rather windy..and some degrees below zero celsius...BRRRR!!!!!...

..and it's not an april fools day joke..

loz · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:16 pm Post subject:

Went to Cardiff today. The forecast was horrible.
It turned out to be a warm, sunny day. Like summer.
Why can't the Brit forecasters get it right?
I don't care to wrap up warmly & have an umbrella
to make me sweat and look like a fool! Doh!

Eric Murray · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:30 am Post subject:

Snowing in Kirkcaldy this morning - more like slush on ground so far.

Alex Robertson · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:29 am Post subject:

Absolutely beautiful sunny morning down by Gatwick..bit fresh so far...but beautiful none the less.

@ Loz...maybe we should take Francis Maude's advice and panic store the sunshine in jerrycans in case it runs out. The sales of water-butts in this area went mental with the talk of the impending drought...but no-one seemed to realise that to fill a water-butt with rainwater....you actually need rain....something which has been conspicuous by it's absence(and causing the drought!)
Mind you people have been filling these butts with water from their taps before the hosepipe ban comes into force...thus depleting the rervoirs even more....and so the cycle continues!

Eric Murray · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 7:44 am Post subject:

Aberdeen for the weekend - no rain no wind and about 12C

jessie6413 · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:14 pm Post subject:

We had our first snow in October this year. Now, April 23rd, places 1-2 hrs. west of here are getting several inches up to a foot in higher elevations. Schools were closed, etc. All we had was wet snow mixed with rain and the ground too warm for any accumulation. It's still raining but it's so desparately needed, no complaints. We'd been under a "red flag/high risk" for wildfires for a month already. We're only supposed to get down to freezing tonight and the rain should continue through tomorrow.
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Sparky Rickmaniac · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:55 pm Post subject:

Letter in the Telegraph last week asking whether this is the wettest drought on record

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jessie6413 · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject:

Sounds like you're having similarly strange weather. It was an apt turn of a phrase. :)
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Alex Robertson · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:22 am Post subject:

Although we are having tons of rain..the water companies are saying it is the "wrong kind"....it isn't soaking into the ground enough to replenish aquafers and it is too snooty to go and fill reservoirs...that is the job of "common rain" (seriously...that is what Southern Water said).
I did come up with a theory about why aquafers aren't filling as they used to......the lack of gutters at roadsides!When did they disappear? Now we have big puddles (mini lakes) forming on all our roads after a downpour...nothing runs to the surface water drains (also a disappearing act) anymore.

jessie6413 · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:02 am Post subject:

Remember "snowmageddon"? I guess it's "rainmageddon" vs. common rain. It's true you need a slow, steady rain to do the most good, but it's not like downpours are worthless. Today we're expecting "spotty sprinkles". Do with that what you will....
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Sparksswede · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:22 pm Post subject:

Today here in northern Sweden it rains and are cloudy and a bit foggy.
Not so much snow left now except some "snowhills" and some of them still pretty high and some snow over the grass but the streets are almost totally snowfree.
April has had a big variation in weather here in Umeå with some days with much snowing.

loz · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:54 pm Post subject:

Here, in Wales, it's rained almost constantly for three weeks.
Just prior to that, we were deluded into thinking that Summer had arrived. No let-up forecast either.... Drought?
What drought? Use your hosepipes everyone and defy the
scaremongerers! Rebel I say! ;)

jessie6413 · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:34 pm Post subject:

Loz, you rabble rouser!

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Sparksswede · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:50 am Post subject:

When I looked out the window this morning (OK it was around 10 o'clock

) it was snow on the ground.
Not on the street but on the grass and it did snow/rain.
Even up here in Umeå, Sweden is uncommon to snow this time a year.
Only about 1+ degree celsius..BRRRR!!!!...

Vey much of the snow had disapeared before this.
I don't think this snow will stay longer than just a short time.

Alex Robertson · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:12 am Post subject:

It pelted down with rain all the way through boot-camp.....and stopped as we all finished...by then we were so bespattered with mud, it didn't matter a jot!

Sparksswede · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:28 am Post subject:

Sorry! I missed an "r" and a "p" disappeared in "disapeared" even before I wrote it..in my latest post here so

on me..

jessie6413 · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 3:16 pm Post subject:

Sparksswede....wish I had been there to see it!
Thursday & Friday they predicted low to mid 80sF but instead, 94 degrees. I think my feelings on heat and humidity are legendary, so I shall just leave it to your imagination how I felt (esp. without any of our window ac units installed at that point. They're in place now!). Typically for this area the temps in May would run more like low 70s at this time of year (if not a bit cooler).
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Sparksswede · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:07 pm Post subject:

jessie6413 · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject:

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