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01.07.09 at 20:16:19
 
...as if it wasn't enough that April has been the hottest April in recorded weather history here in Germany (since 1890), the heat is once again battling the country.

From my experience, I can barely from the 70's and 80's remember seeing such heat on isolated days, sometime in high summer around August/September.

I also remember we used to have freezing temps until March, isolated even snow in early April.

Now the last two winters have basically.... vanished (!?)
2 years ago, I've seen the first time in my life that Nature simply "skipped" Winter, auntum lasted for some 5 months, just to turn into Spring in less than 2 weeks.

This year, I've (again, for the first time in my life) seen an almost non-existing winter jumping right into Summer in less than 3 hours (!!!)

I mean this is unbelievable, just imagine this :
Temps are around a constant 4-6 Degrees Celsius over the last 2 months straight, with tops of max. 10-15 Degrees Celsius on sunny days. Add wind to it, and you're outright freezing - and I live less than 30mi away from the north sea, so there should almost always be some wind.

You look at the thermometer at 07:00 in the morning after waking up, 5 Degrees C as usual, windows have been closed in the bedroom because it tended to be too chilly during nighttime (although I prefer a rather cool temperated night).
You drive to work at 08:15, note it's still 5deg out there and light morning fog - and dress up nice&warm accordingly, even think about putting gloves on (it's gonna be a bicycle ride).

Now get this : half way to work the fog lifts and the sun comes through.
Before 09:00, ambient temperature is exceeding 20 degrees and >30 degrees in the sun. You stopped several times, had to take everything off because you're sweating like crazy.

By noon, it's a hot summer day. Everyone shakes his head in utter disbelief but eventually welcomes the turbo-summer change.

This is driving me nuts, it gets hotter and hotter every year.
Germany used to be known for it's mediocre weather and rather low average temperatures. Vacation sites have for many decades been the warmer, southern regions (Spain, Italy, tropical islands and all such).

Now we're seeing people wander off to the north because it's cooler there and the southern traditional vacation regions either have shitty weather or their own temperatures have reached or exceed insane levels (movement in air conditioned compounds only).

...until some 5 years ago, Tornados in Germany have been nothing but a blank theory; noone never witnessed a single one in the 85Mio population state since the dawn of time.
Now we start having them year after year, on multiple occasions and recorded on tape for the first times in our history.
They're still small and thanks to German-typical building (very robust) relatively little damage is done.

In aviation terms, our thunderstorms one could always overfly, back in '93 I was teached that german weather will hardly ever exceed 25000 ft of altitude. Penetration was always highly discouraged but at anytime possible when unavoidable.
Now we're seeing badass 35000ft+ Class 5 to 6 thunderstorms I wouldn't dare to even approach, last time I remember seeing those was in Texas, Tornado valley.

We've also seen for the first time that the energy production (nuclear reactors almost all situated near large rivers for cooling purposes) had to be severely limited, as the rivers exceeded 35 degres celsius. They throttle down the Megawatts in order no to literally "cook" the rivers and kill everything alive in it. When I was a kid I remember no large river here ever had more than like 20 deg peak, swimming was equaling a painful, freezing experience.

The years of medium, soft weather where you could at anytime go out and play as a kid even during storm days seem absolutely gone. Now it has become too dangerous. 3 weeks ago the way home on the road was interrupted just about every few Minutes, as one had to carry complete tree parts and strong 10 foot branches off the road to advance at all. Needless to say, half town was almost flooded (the sewers luckily were desert-dry when the storm came through, so it had 100% capacity to take most of the water)

Absolutely crazy. And it keeps getting worse and worse - every single year.
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Reply #1 - 01.07.09 at 20:53:09
 
Very interesting....

My perspective on weather is from the Great Lakes region of Canada.  

I live in a traditional snowbelt region.  At least until about 5-8 years ago it snowed here a lot.  In the last 5-8 years, winters have been halved in duration and the intensity has also diminished.  Ski hills were starting their seasons later (January) and shutting down much earlier (March-Feb) with the snow that was there mostly machine groomed.  Blah!  

However last winter we were blessed with huge amounts of snow.  Snow started flying in late October and we had snow here until April.  I love the winter so it's been nice to see the old weather come back.  This summer has also changed.  So far this year, once winter had finished, most days here have been below seasonal temperatures, with lots of cloud formations and rain.  It's been a very cool summer so far.

Typical day here:
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Reply #2 - 01.07.09 at 21:01:16
 
this year he had a cold winter here
snow how remains two weeks and 3 month ice scraping every single morning

and 2008 white easter




but yes
the average winter was colder
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Reply #3 - 01.07.09 at 21:11:15
 
The Netherlands is no difference.

I can't remember the last time we had trees full of icicles in the winter. For that matter, can't remember the last time we had weeks of snow lying around. It's been a week at most in the past two decades.

And summers are getting hotter and hotter. It's rediculous!
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Reply #4 - 01.07.09 at 22:57:31
 
FalconFly wrote on 01.07.09 at 20:16:19:
Absolutely crazy. And it keeps getting worse and worse - every single year.


Winter here in New England was no better or no worse than years before... however..

This spring and summer has set new records for rain and cool temps.
It is July and still it is very mild! The number of hot days can be counted on one hand with a digit or two left over.
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Reply #5 - 01.07.09 at 23:52:55
 
Say hello to global warming  Wink

I remember when I was a kid, back in late 80s, it was snowing a lot in the winter, sometime the snow layer was even higher the 1 m. Now, if I see some snow flakes and a layer of 2-3 cm of snow it's almost a miracle, I supose that in a few years snow will be only a nice memory.
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Reply #6 - 02.07.09 at 00:13:03
 
weather is always going nuts on this planet-any sort of "stability" is just a temporary illusion..global warming is not that scary-ice ages are.
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Reply #7 - 02.07.09 at 02:50:12
 
ps47 wrote on 02.07.09 at 00:13:03:
weather is always going nuts on this planet-any sort of "stability" is just a temporary illusion..global warming is not that scary-ice ages are.


http://crichton-official.com/speech-ourenvironmentalfuture.html

Only mankind in his arrogance would assume the temperature of Earth remains unchanging over time and at his comfort level.
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Reply #8 - 02.07.09 at 05:00:39
 
I can't complain.. Never any frost on the windshield in the winter. Rarely gets above 95* F and the humidity is low in the summer.. But that's typical for Southern California  Roll Eyes
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Reply #9 - 04.07.09 at 09:14:39
 
hmm yeah, it's been getting hotter here as well. I live in Minnesota and we used to be known for all the lakes here. A large portion of them are now dried up water holes. Winters are no where near what they used to be like when I was a kid (70's-early 80's). It's either to cold to snow -30F or just doesn't and because of that, things are drying up as it doesn't rain as often as it used to either. The last real winter we had here was in '97. In 2002 in the middle of Jan, typically one of the coldest months here, there was a week that I was wearing shorts and t-shirts and it hit 70 degrees F. That's just nuts.

My parents live on a lake, each year for the last 8 years we've had to add sections of the dock in order to keep the boat from grounding. It's a hazzard as you have more boats on the lake and now that it hasn't been snowing or raining as much, have less water to navigate for water skiing or tubing.
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Reply #10 - 07.08.09 at 20:31:20
 
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incoming thunderstorm from west......
http://www.uwz.de/uwz/
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