Earth changes - extreme weather updates

[yiolas]

Hi everyone,
I think that it would be useful and interesting, since we are a multi-national membership if we kept each other abreast of extreme weather conditions in our respective countries or regions.

I live on the small island nation of Cyprus, which is situated in the eastern Mediterranean near Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. We usually have hot and dry summers here with the high temperature ranging between 35C - 38C (95F-100F) inland.
Well today, we hit the all time high ever of 46C or 115F !. As a former British Colony we have records dating back to the 1800's.

Fortunately, it's a Sunday and the majority of people have hit the beaches, otherwise if it had been a workday, the power grid would surely have gone down because of all the air conditioners in use.

I checked out a weather map and it seems that the entire region is sweltering. These temperatures are said to last for the whole coming week. Unfortunately, my vacation doesn't start for anther 10 days.

[FrankoL]

Hi Yiolas,

3 days ago we had extreme rainfall. I never seen so much water around in my entire life. In fact there was more than 160 l per m2 in less than one day.

That event make me realize how small we are against the nature.

[yiolas]

Hi FrankoL,
Wow! That is a lot. Where are you located ?
I wish that we had some of that ? It hasn't rained here since March ! Today, I had to go outside every couple of hours to spray my chickens and aviary birds with cool water.

[Etherios]

Hi Yiolas,

3 days ago we had extreme rainfall. I never seen so much water around in my entire life. In fact there was more than 160 l per m2 in less than one day.

That event make me realize how small we are against the nature.

We cannot truelly hurt Planet Earth ... all we ccan do is hurt our selves Erath will be here long after we kill our selves. Now if we manage to find a way to blow up the hole planet then "good" for us...

[FrankoL]

Yiolas: Where are you located ?
I wish that we had some of that ? It hasn't rained here since March ! Today, I had to go outside every couple of hours to spray my chickens and aviary birds with cool water.

I live on Slovenian coast (near Croatian and italian border).
At least watering is not necessary for a while :) Hopefully you will get some rain but I don't wish you that much :)


Etherios:We cannot truelly hurt Planet Earth ... all we ccan do is hurt our selves Erath will be here long after we kill our selves. Now if we manage to find a way to blow up the hole planet then "good" for us...

I agree. We usually forget the primal relation to the Earth. Only a natural disaster than reminds us that we are just Her guests.

[Operator]

Well here's weather that did not happen yet ... : http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

There's a tropical storm developing and already at 80% chance of Tropical Cyclone Formation. It's only halfway the Atlantic and has pretty much potential of becoming a major storm. And this time it's location is more south than usual (if I remember previous ones correctly). Normally I am outside the hurricane belt.

But it was in 2004 that hurricane Ivan passed very close ...

http://www.wunderground.com/data/dhc_archive_charts/at_2004_charts/at200409.gif

It started more or less in the same position as where he current storm is developing and has a long way to go above warm water. Ivan became a category 5 hurricane when it passed north of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao (75 degrees W).

Ivan was actually a very appropriate name ... look what it did above the USA, it continued over land, then turned over sea and made landfall again ...
In the navy/submarine the term "Crazy Ivan" is used when USSR submarines suspected they were followed and made a sudden 360 degree turn (horizontally) just like planes make loopings (vertically).