What's your weather like.? MK3.. - Part 1

As a young lad I used to love driving through South Cave with my Dad.
There was a "posh house" at the junction with big gates across the driveway. Immediately behind the gates were 3 huge St. Bernard Dogs basking in the Sun.
This was over 50 years ago and in my memory they were always there - ergo the Sun used to shine all Summer.
Ah the memories

 

Here in DRESDEN (yes, you understand properly: D-R-E-S-D-E-N), +28 °C !
Sunshine, cloudless sky and hot temperature !
I'm having a 3 days journey here in Dresden (Saxony, East Germany, time ago belonging to the former German Democratic Republic).
The German people are melting up like butter in a pan... .
They are all in swimming suit in the parks, gardens and in the beach of the Elbe River.
I myself am melting up since I left from Italy dressed according to the temperatures of Milan Malpensa (three days ago, it was cloudy with temperatures at +15 °C).
Anyway, I want to promote this nice city: VISIT DRESDEN ! :WINK1:
They call it the "Elbe-Florence" (since it is on the river Elbe and it is full of Baroque Architecture). It has been entirely refurbished !
Now it is really a nice town ! Congratulations to the germans. You can flight to Dresden via Frankfurt...

 

There's a scarey wind howling here at the moment

 

Yes, I've read what you say about the History of Dresden.
I've been astonished about the recent rebuilding of "Frauenkirche" (the main Dresden Cathedral). Think that, as you mention the WWII bombing, it was completely demolished. Nothing but just a few stones were left.
Well, in 1994 the germans (reunified) started the rebuilding of the Church.
In 2004 the rebuilding of the Church was terminated. Exactly in the same architecture as it was when it was previously built in the 1700 years. Fantastic !
Only 20 years ago, Dresden was a decaying town coming out 40 years of Comunism.
Nowadays it is a "jewel-town". Over the last 20 years the germans have transformed a town.
They are clever.

 

Hurrycane ?

 

A mainly dry but chilly day in an easterly wind....

 

Well, its just coming light and its HORRIBLE....strong easterly wind, heavy rain and cold.....

Time to make my "wake up" coffee I think...:WINK1:..I have a feeling I won't be doing much in the garden today

I'm not relegious but please Lord can we have some warm dry weather and if it must rain can you confine it to the hours of darkness..

 

I tell you what: looks like Europe is split into two parts being a meridian a sharp boarding-line.
Now I am in Dresden. Three days ago, I flew from Frankfurt to here (Dresden).
So, it was a west to east flight.
Well, untill mid-route there was a sort of "cloud-carpet" under my flying airplane.
Then, all of a sudden, a sharp bording-line and absolutely not a cloud under me.
So that I could have a perfect visibility of the ground under the flying airplane.
I experience the same thing exactly ten years ago when I flew to Moscow: until Germany, there was a "cloud-carpet", then a completely cloudless sky starting from Poland. Indeed, at that time (it was august 2002) Europe was split into two parts: the west part was cloudy and rainy with some severe floading in Germany.
The east part was hot and dry with high temperatures (more than +30 °C in Moscow and +25 °C in Saint-Petersburg).
This east-west weather-figure is something that sometimes could occur in our continent.
Accordingly to what I'm saying, even Spain (that is south, but also west) is now experiencing cold-wet weather (expecially in the north and in the west of the country).
Conversely, here in east Germany (where I am right now) we are experiencing sunshine, summer weather and temperatures at +28 °C. Today, something +29 °C are expected. Same figure, is in Poland, Tschech Republic and Ukraine.
That's the way it is...

 

Amen to that Bilbo. A very wet shiny patio this morning. Cold with no birds about.Has been blowin and rainin just about all night. I have looked at BBC News/Weather. Flood warnings being issued.

 

it's only 10am now, and since midnight here in Cambridge, we have had 14mm of rain, .... and it's still raining and it is forecast to rain all day/night

might get some root rot if it continues for a another week ( we have had heavy rains for 2 weeks now)

 

Just had to rescue the gazebo from the fence I know I shouldn't have left it up!
Scared to open the greenhouse to water the plants the gusts are that strong,cloches are lifting with bricks on.The chickens have gone back in!
Its not cold but by god the wind is strong,and sods law coming from the one direction where we are not protected by houses or hills its coming straight down the valley,I would imagine a normal day if I lived in the Shetlands!