 |
|
It’s June and in Madrid it’s still cold and rainy. For the last two months we’ve been having regular but very short spells of sun and chirpy birds, but the rest of it has been dark and rainy, in other words: ugly and depressing. By now my shorts and flip-flops should be out, but I’m still wearing jumpers and boots!
Actually, the last two weeks, the weather has been changing every hour — literally. Warm and sunny, dark and rainy. You can’t do anything without carrying a little suitcase with a clothes change! This has never happened before in Madrid.
I took 3 trips over the last two months: Prague, Valencia and more recently Seville — same deal there. What’s going on? I thought the planet was struck with global warming issues! In other words, the why is the temperature falling instead of rising? Is your city also experiencing the weirdest weather ever?
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 am
We were having the same problem here in Lisbon: a few sunny days and a lot rainy, cold and windy days.
But for me there’s a bright side: the rainy days clean up the air and set the way for great light on the sunny days (http://www.flickr.com/photos/t3mujin/tags/lisboa/)
Cheers!
PS: Lisbon is just 600km away from Madrid, perfect for a quickie on a weekend
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 am
Northeast Brazil is the same. Rainy season came earlier. Climate change FTW
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 am
The Trans-Atlantic gulfstream has lost quite a bit of it’s oomf, and Europe is not getting as much warm moist air. Thus, as the planet warms, Europe will turn colder, much like her North American counterparts at the same latitude. Enjoy!
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:15 am
Seattle has been in what I would call about a year-long funk. Last Summer was a bust, the Winter was the typical rainy and dreary and so far this Spring has been awful. A few nice days a month just does not cut it. Although I don’t want others to suffer, in some respects it’s nice to hear it’s bad elsewhere because then it doesn’t make me think I’m missing out by staying here…
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:46 am
Northwest Yunnan has been colder than the past 3 years but maybe not colder than 4 years ago.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
The change in weather patterns due to anthropogenic climate change thus far are negligible compared to standard year-over-year variation. It is completely misleading to assign blame to every weather pattern to climate change, and I’d argue that it does great damage to the sensible campaigns aiming to rein in the (longer-term) effects of AGW. The change in average temperature worldwide since 1900 has been well under 1 degree Celsius, the change in hurricane and cyclone power thus far is considered nil, and the change in rainfall patterns is likewise barely altered from when anyone reading this has been a child. Don’t interpret this as denialism - there is a great likelihood of major changes in climate over the next 100 years, but AGW has nothing to do with a warm or a cold European summer this year.
For what it’s worth, it will be in the high 90s here in Virginia this weekend.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I’m visiting my family in Dallas, and its been freakishly windy all week. Normally its just hot and stagnant air. Interesting.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Another sympathy card from Seattle where I could not fall asleep last night BECAUSE IT WAS TOO COLD.
Sorry for the shouting. We’re due some sunshine and the lack of it makes me snappish.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Yakkh. I’m into my tenth month in Madrid, and I just cannot believe that one-third of the way into June, we are much more likely to have clouds and rain than to have a bit of sunshine. Seriously weird.