[ricardo]

This sounds to be a crazy year...

Here, Sao Paulo/Brasil, we have passed a full month in summer, a couple of sunny days so far. Aways clouded and raining a lot. During the year change we had 10 days non stop rain.

How is it affecting you?

Ricardo

[Carl007]

a lot of rain and no winter in gothenburg.
Today at last we got some snow, but later tonight we will have a storm and about +10 degrees celsius, so all the snow will melt again...

[thxraph]

here in mallorca no winter...yet (?) still in post summer weather, no clouds, sun & ~20°C during the day

should be raining for a month...

[DrMerman]

I've booked a snowboarding trip in March, and me and my friends are beginning to get WORRIED

[misterasset]

The flip side of global warming is brutal winters also. Texas and Oklahoma just spent a week (well, Oklahoma is still dealing with it) locked in ice. You have to understand, we may get a day of ice, but we don't get a week of ice. It even snowed in Florida this week. Crazy.

[Micha]

Global warming dosn't mean warm nice weather. The warming cause more wind action, stronger evapotranspiration of the oceans, more rain and more catastrophs - so the words of a professor I heared some years ago.

Two days befor we got a hurricane here in germany. The temperatures are much to warm - no snow until now, but flowers are visible.

Some months befor I saw a reportage: winegrower in germany are looking for more sun stable wine species for the next years. The old species produce a bad taste by to much sun. Good by german dry wine.

[Boris Ulzibat]

Here in Moscow we got FIRST strong snow of the winter today and first time the temperature got below zero in a month. It snowed 4 times up to today since November and the avarage temp was +2 - +6. Just to compare, last year we had -35 this time
And everybody said things like "where is your damn global warming??? Is it happening because all the cold comes to Rusiia and all other places get warmer???" And things like this

[Joss]

In Moscow winter started just today - lil bit of a snow and kinda -4 -7C right now. There was +3 - +5 last month here.

[ricardo]

Global warming dosn't mean warm nice weather. The warming cause more wind action, stronger evapotranspiration of the oceans, more rain and more catastrophs - so the words of a professor I heared some years ago.

Two days befor we got a hurricane here in germany. The temperatures are much to warm - no snow until now, but flowers are visible.

Some months befor I saw a reportage: winegrower in germany are looking for more sun stable wine species for the next years. The old species produce a bad taste by to much sun. Good by german dry wine.

Hi Micha,

That's exactly the point. We expect sun and some scatered thunderstorms in the arftenoon until late february. Then it rains a lot. 35c should happen sometimes, but we barely touched 30c.

Some floods and mudslides already happened in areas not prone to that.

Ricardo

[ivox3]

December was indeed warm (Ohio), ..warm and rainy like late spring, but winter has finally shown up in January.

This is a La Nina year though ... crazy jet streams.

[Hervé]

no snow or cold yet in Luxembourg either... my friend Sal was in Las Vegas for Xmas.. it was freezing so much, you had to put a heavy coat on.. err... in the middle of the desert...

there is only one good side to it.. we heat less our houses.. so it's less pollution.. doh...

[x_site]

London_____________________________

Lots of windy conditions, severe gales and temperatures unusually high for this time of year! 13C in January????? efe'me!...

End of November and flowers were blooming, some animals were coming out of hibernation .... totally efedup if you ask me.
Is this an 'El Nino' year?

[tom]

Still sunny and no remarkable rain so far in Istanbul. I expect a flood soon.

[andretto]

last night i was in Florence: at 1 am we had 14° (!) which i think is at least 15° above average on past years
someone here is guessing there will be some huge snowfall in the next week or so, but it's hard to believe right now

eerie...

[glypticmax]

We're having our first snow in Wash, DC as I type.
I love it!!!
Spring-like until the last week. Then below freezing with slightly above and very windy days.
Personally, I think the oceans are creating much of what we see.
I wish I could say *global warming* was responsible, for political reasons (I think our corporate owned *leaders* have ignored science for far too long), but the current conditions seem to be dictated more by oceanic conditons rather than atmospheric conditions.
But what do I know?
I fear it's not going to be pretty in the near furture.
I hope all you guys faired well during the recent blow over in the UK and Europe.