I have been able to sit outside the last two days. It has been so beautiful! I love sitting in the sun and reading or doing Sudoku puzzles. Bowie lays out with me and we enjoy the birds singing for us.
The weather experts say that the weather we are having now is what normally comes at the end of April. Wonder what the spring/summer will bring this year after such a mild winter.
This winter (in Holland) has been the mildest ever according to KNMI. Since the time we started measuring in 1706 it has not been this warm.
The meteorological winter ends today. The average temperature was 6,5 degrees and the normal temperature is 3,3. One day there was some ‘serious’ snow and 15 days it froze. Normally it freezes an average of 38 days.
The whole of 2006 was booked as an extreme warm year and it was the warmest year in three centuries. (Rtl)
January Records as follows.
Jan 2007 was the mildest temperature of the last 300 years.
The average temp was 7,1 degrees, almost one degree higher than the old record or 6,2.
It was the warmest temperature since the beginning of regular temperature measuring in 1706. The warmest day was Jan 18th with 14,9 degrees with the old record being 11,9 in 1957.
The coldest day was Jan 23rd with minus 9,3. The weather in Jan was wet with the sun shining 50 hours.
Some amazing pictures capturing the storm of Jan 18th and the damage done.
Deadly storm batters Europe
Britain and Germany hit hardest, with at least 27 dead overall in several countries
Last Updated: Friday, January 19, 2007 | 12:02 AM ET CBC News
The worst storm in years is pounding Northern Europe, killing at least 27 people, knocking out power for tens of thousands and bringing most travel to a standstill.
Many problems throughout Holland due to a heavy wind storm. On the highways in particular there are water problems. Stuff blowing off a truck caused A27 to close and in Utrecht a crane blew over.
The KNMI (weather bureau) has issued a weather warning for high winds for today – Jan 11th. They expect wind gusts of up to 110 km an hour along the coast.
Though the KNMI expected heavy traffic jams in the morning everything went as usual.
Yesterday on the news they were warning people not to ride bikes between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm due to winds. 😉 .
My doggie, Bowie will be getting very short walks till the wind dies down. 🙂 It is comforting to be sitting inside as the wind howls around our apartment.
Man — Western Canada is sure being hit with storms this year. My kids in Edmonton were having blizzard conditions yesterday. I remember those kinds of conditions in Ontario years ago. When I was there a couple of weeks ago there was about 2 cm of snow one morning, which I shoveled off the driveway. I actually enjoyed it. 😉
Winter storm batters the West
‘This is Mother Nature reaping revenge on all of us who asked, “Where did the winter go?”‘
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 | 8:15 PM ET
CBC News
A massive winter storm pummelled much of B.C. and the Prairies Wednesday, causing school closures, flight cancellations and havoc on the roads.
The blizzard started early Tuesday morning in British Columbia before sweeping east across northern and central Alberta and Saskatchewan, causing near-zero visibility for motorists.
The storm is being blamed for at least two deaths in Saskatchewan. A woman and a teenage boy died of exposure after leaving their stuck vehicle Tuesday night near a First Nation reserve north of Lloydminster.
CBC meteorologist Claire Martin said the system is moving east and expected to buffet Manitoba and northwestern Ontario with winds and snow, while driving temperatures in much of the Prairies below –30 C.
“It’s nasty,” Martin told CBC.ca on Wednesday evening. “This is Mother Nature reaping revenge on all of us who asked, ‘Where did the winter go?'”
B.C. motorists stuck as temperatures drop to –41
Dozens of motorists were stranded in their cars in northeastern B.C. on a road near the Alaska Highway on Tuesday night as temperatures dipped to –41 C.
Search and rescue crews used a fleet of snowmobiles to reach 28 drivers on Braden Road between Dawson Creek and Fort St. John and brought them out to safety.
RCMP Const. Darren Forsythe said the crews reported that all 28 people were in good condition.
“Everyone they were coming across were warm and happy. They followed the proper safety precautions, stayed in their vehicles and things were running. The only complaint they came across was that some people were out of cigarettes by the time they got rescued.”
He said a search helicopter has spotted other stranded vehicles across the Peace River region, and efforts are being made to get them out.
A Vancouver woman suffered a fractured skull, broken arms and a broken leg when she was battered by a falling tree in Stanley Park, which was blown over by winds of more than 100 kilometres per hour.
A large avalanche closed the Trans-Canada Highway between Revelstoke and Golden in eastern B.C. for some time earlier Wednesday. The highway has since been reopened.
The storm also forced delays and cancellations at Edmonton International Airport, while officials warned motorists in north and central Alberta to stay off the roads.
In Saskatoon, temperatures were below –19 C for close to 10 hours with wind speeds reaching 80 km/h.
“If we had to hand out an award for the worst weather today, it would go to Saskatoon,” Martin said.
The storm was expected to hit northwestern Manitoba late Wednesday before continuing east.
For the first time in thirty year buds on pear treas are in bloom in the southern provinces of Holland. 15% of the buds are in bloom according to Ad Slabbekoorn, of the land and garden organization ZLTO. These blooms would not live through a period of frost. The last time this early bloom occurred was in January of 1976.
This does not need to affect the crop and Mr. Slabbekoorn foresees no problems.
The pear treas normally go into bloom the end of April.(Rtl)
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I could not believe the buds on treas and shrubs in Canada while I was there. I come back to Holland to find the same thing going on here. This is very unusual and makes me feel like I am in the wrong season. 😉
It is so windy today that there are delays in landing and takeoffs of up to an hour at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. They expect this to continue and be resolved at around 20:00 tonight.
In the north of Holland the sun is breaking through and in the south we see clouds. The temperatures range from 12 to 14 degrees and the winds are blowing from the southwest. Above land the winds are strong and above the sea they are storm like winds with surges up to 8.
Happenings 