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Raining long and hard outside- not that rain is unusual here, but usually it's the drizzly kind and not the "God turned on the faucet" kind for a long stretch.

Doubly interesting because I think this is the first time there's been a downpour since I moved to the new place in March, and I'm on the 4th floor and there's a skylight, so man oh MAN is it loud! Hope it ends before I want to go to bed...

So happy that it's continued to be a cool spring--at least 10 degrees below normal. I can hide my frakken scarlet fever scars with pants and long sleeves.

pumpkinpi wrote:So happy that it's continued to be a cool spring--at least 10 degrees below normal. I can hide my frakken scarlet fever scars with pants and long sleeves.

10 degrees colder here too. Alas that's the difference of ten degrees colder that makes it high 50s/ low 60s here, and that's not as nice IMO.

I haven't turned my heater or AC on for quite a while. Nice.

It got up to 104 degrees today. I think that's a record.

Gullible Jones wrote:It got up to 104 degrees today. I think that's a record.

Could be worse... could be snowing... Snowed in the Southern Tier of New York last week...

I know that since I grew up in Florida, I should be used to temperatures in the 90s. But for some reason, living in New York City, I can't quite get used to it.

Hey Rommy, are you still in NL? It's been a long cold winter and ditto spring over there for some reason. Over here it is the usual 85, feels like 95F at 9:30 am....

She is. And she's been very unhappy about the long cold winter and spring.

It was a long winter here.
Went from winter, snow on the ground to over 90 in one week.
It was fucked up.

Ja, ik woon in Amsterdam.

About two years in, two years to go (geez!).

Yesterday they announced it was the coldest spring in 40 years. Yeah, I couldn't tell.

The current weather in my neighborhood is apparently 'explosions'. Lots of large fire-crackers going off in the ravine off my backyard. Sounded like gunshots at first.

It's been fairly mild and nice here today quite a turn around from the last few days of gloom and doom thunderstorms. But hey, that's Florida!

FINALLY it decided to become summer...days in the low 80's, nights in the low 60's...3 - 4 days of sunshine
and then a day or two of rain...just enough to be pleasant, and not enough to make the grass grow real fast...
It's summertime summertime sum sum summertime...(copyright someone I disremember)...

Was in the 90s, now it's in the 50s again. WTH.

And we're in a tornado watch.

FZR1KG wrote:And we're in a tornado watch.

Lot of that going around lately.

geonuc wrote:

FZR1KG wrote:And we're in a tornado watch.

Lot of that going around lately.

One of the stranger things for me is the fact that I can live in a country so darn flat that never has tornadoes (I think they get one or two a decade, ie very rarely).

I seem to recall it has to do with the moisture coming up from the Gulf of Mexico in the USA, right? Is the Mediterranean just not big enough for that then?

I would think there are a host of differences between the Netherlands and the US midwest that explain it. Other than both places being fairly flat, not too many similarities, I'd say.

It's pouring out and I have to walk 4 blocks to get to an appointment.
Not that I mind. I have a raincoat and an umbrella, and it's warm enough.

But it's Buster's first day of soccer at preschool, and I know he will be soooo bummed to miss it. He doesn't handle change well.

mother nature's become bi-polar

Rommie wrote:I seem to recall it has to do with the moisture coming up from the Gulf of Mexico in the USA, right?

I just read something about this (might have been in the Cleveland Plain Dealer).

The US is the tornado capital of the world; I don't remember the numbers, but we have the most tornadoes by a huge margin, and most of those are in "Tornado alley", which goes from Northern Texas, across Oklahoma, and Kansas, and into the upper Midwest. It has to do with have the perfect conditions for making them.

You are right about the Gulf of Mexico, providing the moisture for this. The other parts are the cold air coming down across the Northern plains. And apparently the Rockies play a part in this too, and how the Westerly winds come over them. And all of this meets up in a big flat area that is perfect for making thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Ohio is on the outskirts of this, so we get a few tornadoes, but not a lot. And right around where I live gets very few - close to Lake Erie, apparently the lake acts to disrupt tornadoes, and just south of me is fairly hilly, and that also tends to disrupt them.

It's that brief strange few weeks of the year where the sun is actually up before I get to work. Makes me feel like I'm late.

Sun rises around 5am here right now, sets just after 10. Last night I was chatting to a friend on my roof (got up to the 80s, so it was great! never was warm enough to do so before!) and we lost track of time cause the twilight glow goes until midnight.

I rather like this time of year cause it's not that hard to find yourself going home at dawn after a good party.

Rommie wrote:Sun rises around 5am here right now, sets just after 10. Last night I was chatting to a friend on my roof (got up to the 80s, so it was great! never was warm enough to do so before!) and we lost track of time cause the twilight glow goes until midnight.

I rather like this time of year cause it's not that hard to find yourself going home at dawn after a good party.

i remember those looong summer nights...