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A thread for weather extremes that don’t normally get reported

RobertKK

I thought it might be interesting to have a thread where people can post weather extremes from other countries that might appear on their news feeds but are not generally reported on.

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Tyrone212

Saharan dust: Orange skies and sandy snow in southern Europe

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-55966867

bazlers

odyboody wrote: »

Unfortunately that is from last year!!
Wonder what its showing in 2021

Lol : ) apologies.

odyboody

bazlers wrote: »

https://www.severe-weather.eu/recent-events/brutal-cold-in-yakutia-russia-mk/

Now if we all breath in from the east and exhale to the west there is a slight chance we might bring it a little closer ; )

Unfortunately that is from last year!!
Wonder what its showing in 2021

bazlers

https://www.severe-weather.eu/recent-events/brutal-cold-in-yakutia-russia-mk/

Now if we all breath in from the east and exhale to the west there is a slight chance we might bring it a little closer ; )

Tyrone212

lolie wrote: »

Seen this earlier, for some reason it reminded me of the scene in the movie Ghost when the demons come up out of the ground :pac:
https://twitter.com/ERMurray/status/1348269720642977794

Looks like Alien tadpoles.

lolie

A stunning sun halo in Sweden on sunday.
https://twitter.com/WeatherSarov1/status/1353793933252440064

lolie

Danno wrote: »

That's rather freaky!

Around two weeks ago there were similar scenes nearby on the hills - never bothered recording though.

Freeky but I'd love to see it, lots of rivers froze near here in 09/10 so it would've been cool to see.

Danno

lolie wrote: »

Seen this earlier, for some reason it reminded me of the scene in the movie Ghost when the demons come up out of the ground :pac:

That's rather freaky!

Around two weeks ago there were similar scenes nearby on the hills - never bothered recording though.

lolie

Seen this earlier, for some reason it reminded me of the scene in the movie Ghost when the demons come up out of the ground :pac:
https://twitter.com/ERMurray/status/1348269720642977794

BonnieSituation

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Meanwhile in Japan the snow continues. The station of Yasuzuka, just 126 m amsl, registered over 3 metres depth overnight. That's 3 metres on the flat, not drifts. Several other stations reported even higher.

Talking to a friend in Tokyo last night and she was saying there's not a dribble there at all [as you can see on the maps], I would have expected something drifting over. Mountains doing their job.

ito

pauldry wrote: »

They are a bit over imaginative with their snowman building in Madrid

snowcouple! Or maybe they were surprised by the storm and are frozen there :pac:

pauldry

They are a bit over imaginative with their snowman building in Madrid

ito

theguzman wrote: »

Would houses in Madrid be insulated like here or have radiators and central heating or would they be relying on the Air Con operating as a heater?

In Madrid city we are not used to houses but to apartments, but the insulation normally is better than in Dublin (or what I have seen so far in the last 6 years).

There are old block of apartments with central system, meaning that there is a central boiler for the whole block (apparently is more efficient like that).

The new apartments or the houses have their own boilers.

Normally they are all connected to pipes in the street that supply gas for the boiler, but some houses might have their own deposit where they store liqud gas for their own bolier.

Last, but not least, the heating system is way different to Ireland. When you have your own boiler, you will have a thermostat where you control the temperature that you want to be in your home (let's say 21 degrees) and set a time frame. The boiler will automatically stop when the place reaches those 21 degrees, rather than (what I have seen in all the places I have been here) staying all the time on for a period of time.

Another thing different is that we instantly have hot water all the time, we don't need an innersion or something similar.

TLDR: radiators, boilers, etc. Heating with AC is way more expensive.

Meteorite58

ito wrote: »

wow... Just imagine being under!

Would get hammered.

ito

Meteorite58 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/MeteoIberiaEs/status/1348291218116120577?s=20

wow... Just imagine being under!

theguzman

Would houses in Madrid be insulated like here or have radiators and central heating or would they be relying on the Air Con operating as a heater?

Meteorite58

https://twitter.com/MeteoIberiaEs/status/1348291218116120577?s=20

ito

Oh... I am in Madrid at the moment... I was supposed to be flying to Dublin yesterday but... SURPRISE!!!!!

Gaoth Laidir

Meanwhile in Japan the snow continues. The station of Yasuzuka, just 126 m amsl, registered over 3 metres depth overnight. That's 3 metres on the flat, not drifts. Several other stations reported even higher.

lolie

pauldry wrote: »

Brother in Madrid. Trees falling with weight of snow

Good video here, scary stuff.
https://twitter.com/MarcusWadsak/status/1347949757885521926

https://twitter.com/MarcusWadsak/status/1347913118433878018

fryup

Danno wrote: »

I bet you think that the Spanish Climate is the sum total of a Budget Travel brochure. :rolleyes:

well eh, no i don't........but this is the heaviest snowfall there in over 50 years so not exactly normal spanish weather

so no need for the snide comment

pauldry

Brother in Madrid. Trees falling with weight of snow

Danno

fryup wrote: »

a blizzard in spain, surely that confirms climate change to the doubters???

I bet you think that the Spanish Climate is the sum total of a Budget Travel brochure. :rolleyes:

Gaoth Laidir

Looking at snow depths in Japan and I noticed that North Korea seems to want to be top of Asia with their depths. Up to 400 cm (yes, 4 metres!) just within the confines of their country. And all perfectly round figures too. Again, North Korea is the best country in the world at everything it does!

RobertKK

On the flip side, Malta got a record high for January thanks to Filomena.

https://twitter.com/severeweathereu/status/1348041885517012992?s=21

fryup

a blizzard in spain, surely that confirms climate change to the doubters???

Nabber

Pa ElGrande wrote: »

Storm 'Filomena' leaves the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Iberian Peninsula: -34.1 ° C

Has it been verified, I read about this yesterday and they said the station was relatively new and other stations Pyrenees were not reflective.

For those interested, the station is about 2.5km above sea level.

Pa ElGrande

https://twitter.com/P4Estacions/status/1346712869069615105

Storm 'Filomena' leaves the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Iberian Peninsula: -34.1 ° C

This week has been very cold, with frosts in much of Spain even in areas very close to the coast. The early hours of this Wednesday were marked by intense cold and snowfall. The thermometers show such low figures that the temperature at the Clot de la Llança (Alto Aneu) weather station stands out: - 34.1 degrees. It is the lowest temperature in the Iberian Peninsula since there are records.

Supercell

RobertKK wrote: »

Not extreme but it can be recorded here.

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1344311971106185217?s=20

I saw that earlier today and thought to myself that it looked like a hole punch formation, delighted to see it confirmed, never thought i'd see one myself outside of the internet.

Rougies

NASA satellite captured it too. Looks like the clouds fell down, which is pretty much what happened.