The Weather/Climate Thread

[minionofmidas]

29° out there and probably getting warmer yet. Not sure it's an april record - might well be. It's certainly not a record for earliest "summer" (over 25°) day in the year though. We had such records in the aprils of 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011, of course.

[minionofmidas]

We had 30.5° today. Cooling down fast now though even though there's been not a drop of the rainstorm promised for the afternoon. Passed further north it seems.

[minionofmidas]

Did get that heavyish rain in the end. Just as I went out (and stopped posting here), too.

[minionofmidas]

Haha, you Europeans and your hilarious weather maximums.  I always love the BBC when its weather reports are like "TODAY THE TEMPERATURE PLUNGED BELOW -5C IT WAS A TERRIFYING OCCURRENCE".

Yeah, the British appear hilarious even to us in that respect.

[minionofmidas]

After having 34°C (93°F) five days ago, today in the morning it had -2°C (27°F).

It's called the "Ice Saints":

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It snowed down to about 1000 meters, which is about 200m above where I live.

This is a picture I made today from my house, looking up to a snowed in mountain:

Frankfurt tradition is also Pancrace-Servace-Boniface-Sophie.

The coolish days in mid-june are known in German as the "Schafskälte" (sheep cold) because they come up right after shearing. Sheep lose their wool naturally after mid-june.


As to your temperature differences... well there are now four official, state weather stations in Frankfurt... they've opened a new one... and their respective daily highs for today are 29.4° (East), 29.0° (Höchst), 28.5° (Lerchesberg) and 27.5° (Sindlingen)... and Sindlingen is next door to Höchst.