Nice weather, isn't it?

[Markus]

Nasty weather for an exam... Eat light and rich in carbohydrates, drink plenty, and take more time than usual to get there so you needn't hurry and have some time left to cool down.

Best of luck and cheers!

Markus

[Persephone]

thank you, Markus but I don't think i will be able to eat anything. But for the water - definitely yes, plenty of it.

[Markus]

Right now it's terribly warm and the sky is hazy. In the evening or tonight heavy thunderstorms are expected, and that will end the current heat wave...

[Lucy]

37°C in shade. They promised some cooling from tomorrow on...

[Persephone]

We had 30°C at night tonight horrible.


BTW, I got mark 3 from the exam. It is a shame but I am just happy it's done. 

[Markus]

I see, Kris. But you've passed and that's what counts most, isn't it? So congrats!

About our weather: We did get severe thunderstorms last night and they did bring much cooler air. Luckily, no damage was done right here. The rain was heavy and the lightning activity intense. In a 90-minute-interval they measured 137.000 bolts of lightning over Germany and small parts of the neighbouring countries. That's quite a lot - a normal front in summer may bring 30.000...

Cheers!

Markus

[Persephone]

I watched the storms in Germany on the radars :-) Very interesting, indeed!

We had only few here. In the middle of the night a thunder and 2 lightnings woke me up but that was all. Nothing really happened. So I guess it was already distant even though quite noisy.

[Agnes]

Lucky you! We couldn't sleep the WHOLE night because it was too hot! The window was opened and the fan turned on... during the night the cats started to do MIAUUUUUU to eachother (it's so hearable, where we live now it's some kind of a well...

Please send me some thunderstorms to Warsaw (even if I'm going tomorrow to Puławy, mum is coming back from Germany). I need some sleep...
I need some cooler air..

[Lucy]

Serves cold drinks and wet towels to all who have this crazy hot weather

Congrats, Kris!

[Agnes]

yes please!

it's 31 degrees in the shadow... jeeeeez 

[Markus]

Poor you, Agnes! I hope you'll get some cooler air soon.

[Agnes]

I hope the same It's 33 degrees in the shadow now.. and imagine that I have to leave home to do the shopping and buy a ticket for a train for tomorrow..

[Agnes]

thanks for sending some rain and thunders to Warsaw (it's somewhere above us, it's grey around) Some rain from time to time, some thunders on the right and left..

I hope it will be cooler at least for a night. So far it's still hard to breathe (and the clouds are for 5 hours here ) It's 24 Celsius degrees outside (but the temperature I feel I a little bit higher.

Hugs :*


EDIT: I went outside, It's much better

[Luth]

Curiosly, we have a very mild summer here! A max. of 24º in a sunny day is not a lot, and I don't feel too much humidity. Tonight / Tomorrow some rains or storms can arrive, so temperature can even be lower. We've had very few days of real hot, when at those time of the year, usually, we've been already sweating for a lot of time! Maybe we've changed the climate?  

In fact, in the mountainous part, there had been some heavy problems: there's a lot more snow than usual this time and right now they had some high temperatures (snow melts), some heavy heavy rains (snow melts and rain makes rivers grow). Consequences: the rivers have been uncontrollable, some of them have overflown and a lot of people had to leave their homes for safety for some days. Bridges broken, and a lot of destruction. No human life suffered, fortunately, but rivers have been fuller than ever... in their birthplace! 

[Markus]

Yeah, seems like they confused your weather and ours.

But seriously, Luth, I'm sorry to hear about the floods! Of course it's good that nobody got killed, but the material damage is bad enough.

Best regards

Markus

[The One]

You guys have been having floods, so I'll not complain about the humidity and boiling in my room.
...Oops, I just did.

[The One]

So, two weeks later it's us who have the floods...

[Persephone]

Are you ok?

[The One]

I'm fine, I live in area at an elevation high enough that I was pretty much unaffected, but other parts of the city were pretty hectic. We also had a city-wide blackout.
So, this is what happened: Monday seemed like a nice regular day, you know, sunny and all. Then at about 4pm it all got dark out of a sudden, it rains. And it rains. And it didn't stop raining until about midnight. We had twice the amount of precipitation we'd regularly have in a whole month... So obviously, this led to rather unfortunate situations, especially downtown where the subway tunnels flooded. People's basements got flooded to pretty much waist-depth. And well, then there was the city-wide blackout. My building for example didn't get power back until about 1am. But things are fine. Now it's just a little wet out there.

[Markus]

Ooops, sorry to hear that, Jorge! I hope the damage was only material and no one got seriously injured?

That local flood even made it into our newspapers, albeit only as a small note.

Over here, we're having the finest summer weather: Lots of sun, some clouds and rainshowers in between, warm but not yet unpleasantly hot - just plain lovely.

Cheers!

Markus