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

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  • #362
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭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:


  • #363
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Brother in Madrid. Trees falling with weight of snow


  • #364
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #365
    lolie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭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


  • #366
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭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.

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  • #367
    ito
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭ito


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


  • #368
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


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


  • #369
    theguzman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭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?


  • #370
    ito
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭ito


    Meteorite58 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/MeteoIberiaEs/status/1348291218116120577?s=20

    wow... Just imagine being under!


  • #371
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    ito wrote: »
    wow... Just imagine being under!

    Would get hammered.


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  • #372
    ito
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭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.


  • #373
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭pauldry


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


  • #374
    ito
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭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:


  • #375
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭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.

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    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.


  • #376
    lolie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭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


  • #377
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭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! :D

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


  • #378
    lolie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭lolie


    Danno wrote: »
    That's rather freaky! :D

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

    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.


  • #379
    lolie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭lolie


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


  • #380
    Tyrone212
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭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.


  • #381
    bazlers
    Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭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 ; )


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  • #382
    odyboody
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭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


  • #383
    bazlers
    Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭bazlers


    odyboody wrote: »
    Unfortunately that is from last year!!
    Wonder what its showing in 2021

    Lol : ) apologies.


  • #384
    Tyrone212
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭Tyrone212


    Saharan dust: Orange skies and sandy snow in southern Europe

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


  • #385
    Davaeo09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Davaeo09


    ^ that stuff is a pain

    Worked in Tenerife before having to move home in March (thanks covid)
    The place was destroyed by those "calima" events.
    The winds at night were the worst I've experienced and the next day there was 5cms of clay/dust every where.

    Had to sweep the floors 2-3 times a day
    https://tenerifeguru.com/tenerife-another-calima-january-2020/


  • #386
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    I remember we got a pretty hefty dusting back in the early 90s here from the Sahara. It was very very weird.


  • #387
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    A lot of dust blowing off the Sahara today towards the Canary Islands.

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  • #388
    Bsal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭Bsal


    Dallas Texas today -15C and snow, expecting a low of -18C Tuesday morning

    https://twitter.com/csweirich/status/1361422316668739584?s=20


  • #389
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,955 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I have friends just south of Houston, and they were without power for a while, then without gas and water. The forecast for today is freezing rain. I imagine the wildlife is a bit confused about the last week.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



  • #390
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    There was a time when temperatures close to freezing or above in polar regions would have been news worthy but as its now an annual occurrence it doesn't even get reported anymore.
    As always in the Svalbard area. It can only be as a result of higher sea surface temps in the Gulf Stream. The future is bleak for snow lovers in Ireland and the UK. :(
    https://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?&ech=6&mode=9&carte=1


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  • #391
    Tyrone212
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭Tyrone212


    The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) Thursday reported a new national high temperature for February — 16.8 degrees Celsius.

    Record temperatures were also reported Thursday in Poland where Makow Podhalanski hit 21.7 degrees Celsius, and in Slovakia, where the southwestern city of Hurbanovo reported a high of 20.8 Celsius.

    Thursday’s records come as western and central Europe is seeing something of a winter heat wave, with records falling earlier in the week in the Czech Republic, Austria, and in Germany, where on Monday, Hamburg hit 21.1 degrees Celsius — the warmest temperature recorded there in any winter month.

    Some of the records that fell this week had stood for more than a century.

    The heat wave comes two weeks after western and central Europe saw a frigid blast of winter, with heavy snowfalls in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands.

    Washington Post meteorologist Matthew Cappucci says the region has seen the wild swing in temperatures thanks to a seesaw effect in the jet stream that earlier in the month brought freezing air down from the pole, and this week brought warm air from the south, including dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa.


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