NH Summer/SH Winter 2023 Discussion Thread

Just had an awesome thunderstorm pass overhead with tons of lightning and torrential rain. Picked up 0.50” (12 mm) in just 15 minutes.

At one point 0.30” (8 mm) fell in 5 minutes, a rain rate of 3.6”/hour which is the highest I’ve seen here.

Looks like a dry pattern will take over after this weekend which is perfect timing as I’ll be leaving.

Fuck this bullcrap.

that's how I feel… at least your drought is over

Lol you would've liked what happened yesterday here (see previous page of this thread) 

cdweather.boards.net/post/248628/thread

Note the DAI in Gay Paree: dry air island

I meant to write about this earlier but I forgot. Between May 1st and June 30th, Delsbo in central Sweden had recorded only 19.4 mm or rainfall and was suffering from drought like the rest of Sweden. Then, between 14:00 on June 30th and 17:00 on July 1st, 27 hours later, 150.9 mm of rain fell. 147.9 mm fell within 24h and 111.7 mm fell within just 7 hours.

The July average is only 68 mm, and the July monthly record is 167 mm, so the monthly record sum wasn't far away from getting beat in a single day.


In one 15 min period, 16.3 mm fell, and in another 14.7 mm fell.

Johannesburg Residents Enchanted By Once-In-A-Decade Snow
( source: ABC News )



South of the city in Brackenhurst, a Reuters photographer saw children making snowballs and snow angels in a school's grounds.

But for others, like delivery driver Chenjerai Murape whose motorbike would not start, the snow made life difficult.
"I'm trying to warm the engine so that it can start … otherwise I will kick the bike all day," he said.

The South African Weather Service has issued warnings because of the cold front that has struck Gauteng province, which contains Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria.
The alerts for "disruptive snow" include warnings for dangerous driving conditions, potential road closures, and disruption to local services.

Snow was also seen on Monday in the coal belt in Mpumalanga province, where many of struggling utility Eskom's power stations are located.



A rare snowfall dusted Johannesburg and other high-lying parts of South Africa on Monday, with weather services warning of potential road closures and dangerously cold temperatures.

Residents in the business hub woke up to snowfalls lightly covering rooftops and gardens as a cold front that hit the country late last week morphed into a weather system called a "cutoff low."

At a Johannesburg kindergarten, excited children made snowballs and attempted to catch flakes with their tongues -- some having never witnessed snow before.

"We last saw this type of weather in 2012," Puseletso Mofokeng, a senior forecaster at the South African Weather Service (SAWS), told AFP.

Mofokeng said snow was reported across southern parts of Johannesburg's Gauteng province and was expected to continue falling throughout the day, also hitting high-lying areas of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.

"Roads may be closed," he said.

Johannesburg lies at an altitude of more than 1,700 metres (5,600 feet) and is in the peak of the southern hemisphere winter.

But snow in the city remains a rare event -- prior to 2012, heavy snowfall occurred in 1996, Mofokeng said.

"It's been such a long time, I feel so happy," said Lerato Matepese, a Johannesburg resident.

SAWS warned that icy temperatures posed a risk to street dwellers in a country where poverty remains widespread.

Rough seas and strong winds were also expected to create hazardous conditions for small vessels off South Africa's eastern coast.

Paris proving once again to be a hopeless, dry AF hellhole. Soon to be a desert town. Current dews:

Wow that's one big blob of lightning.