Whats the weather doing in your patch?

[nick]

Drizzling but at least it's warm

[lucy]

An article in EL Pais talks about this winter having been the most extreme and abnormal since 1900, the usual 40% of high pressure days reduced to 25%, with continuous borrascas (English anyone?) being generated in the Atlantic, sending over cloud and rain, particularly to Andalucia, as various people can testify!

Expert prediction for the spring:

"De decir algo, lo más probable es que siga la tendencia"

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Adios/invierno/extremo/elpepusoc/20100324elpepusoc_10/Tes

[Technopat]

Greetings All,
As of even date, huge drop in temps., ie chilly and windy, since the weekend. Large black clouds looming (Sp. anyone?) and distinct smell of rain in the air.

Lucy: re. yer borrascas, how 'bout "areas of low pressure"? Which I suppose means thunderstoms, etc. Nick?

Of course, the adjective, borrascosas, would be "wuthering"

Hold-on-to-yer-brollies regs.,
Technopat

[Clive]

Rain, cold, windy.... Me flipflops are getting paranoid about being abandoned for too long...

[lucy]

There isn't really a good single word for borrasca.  There's one passing right now.

looming could be amenazando

[tonyninfas]

Well, weatheronline told me that there was not going to be any rain in this area for over a week.  So yesterday I finally uncovered the pool and started to repaint for the season.  What happened over night - rain !!  Just hope that my work has not been too damaged when I go out to look.

[tonyninfas]

Piddling down with rain yet again, and more forecast for the week.
Hope that things improve for those of you attending the summit.  Unfortunately I will not be with you as we have visitors over that particular weekend.

[Technopat]

Greetings All,
Aviso para navegantes (En. anyone?): I know I have had occasion before to remind the good folk here at iberianatureforum who happen to live here in sunny Spain that "When in Spain,..." ie http://www.aemet.es/es/eltiempo/prediccion/espana is where it's at. weatheronline indeed!

At least all this water will be good for the crops (?) and for those of us having to stick tent pegs into the ground at the up-and-coming Summit.

Drizzly regs. from Madrid,
Technopat

[Clive]

Its cold and wet in Grazalema....... Everything is green and healthy, reservoirs are full to overflowing... Sunshine now please?

Seriously, what an incredible contrast to last year when the reservoirs were almost empty and the ground here was dust

[Technopat]

Greetings All,
Windy and chilly - but sunny - in Madrid.

The drive back to Madrid from the Summit included a pretty hairy pass through Zaragoza, which apart from the miles of major roadworks along the ringroad and beyond, was the windiest this driver has ever experienced. Yours truly is still suffering from agujetas (En. anyone?) in the antebrazos (En. anyone?). The high winds have since hit Madrid and the sky is full of plastic bags and newspapers flying high above the buildings and sand from sundry building/road works flying into people’s eyes. Accompanying major drop in temps.

Hold-onto-yer-hollyhocks regs.,
Technopat

[Dave]

Hi All
Very windy in León, causing the partial collapse of one of my decorative arches (perhaps not a good idea 9 stories up), it is also quite cold, and the forecast is rain for the next week, That's it I´m going back to England, I warned the weather this would happen if it did not keep the sun shining on me every day, and rained only between midnight and 5:00am 
Regards
Dave

[tonyninfas]

Exactly the same here in the Els Ports, Southern Catalonia.  Not what I moved to Spain for.

[nick]

Are we in May?

[lucy]

A fresh metre of snow on Montseny! 
After 48 hours of rain, when Wednesday morning dawned dry, the bird ringers at the Llobregat Delta were working flat out as the migrant bottleneck cleared - one ringer reported 100 birds just for Wednesday morning, when he normally does 25 in a day.

[tonyninfas]

Piddling down with rain once again here in the Els Ports with more due for several days starting on Saturday.  Seems that we are due for an English summer this year !!   

[Dave]

Hi All
Wet in the kingdom of León today, we were supposed to be gardening in Torre, but He Ho.
Regards
Dave

[nick]

Hi Tony,

Seems that we are due for an English summer this year

Apparantly not...early days for definite prediction though

http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2010/06/hot-summer-predicted-for-spain/

Drizzle here. Also two days ago but yesterday very hot.

[Petrea]

After a cold period of time we suddenly got 20 degr. early this morning, before sunrise! It is quite windy.

The forecasts predict 6-8 degr. morning temp., so I'm waiting for them to wake up to the realities! 

Saludos
Petrea

[Bob M]

20 degrees!

Eight and wet in the Basque country. So no change there.

[Petrea]

Spent several hours out in the cold wind today,  insulating water pipes ......................