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And so started another monsoon!
And I thought last summer was wet... This one has started even better, lake was already high because of last year and soon it begins to rise to grain fields because these rains. (not that there would have been time to sow anything to those, last snow melted two weeks ago)
Here in eastern Finland it has already rained more than normally in this month and now it looks like next week is just rain after rain.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~tuunaes/temp/avnpanel4.gif
And for record according to my father this is already wettest May in last thirty years. (time he has farmed)
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You get monsoons? Or was that sarcasim? :mrgreen:
Our May is having an identity crisis. First it starts off as the coldest may ever with 3 freezes which never happens. We set a record low of 29F. Then a week later we set a record high of 86F. Cold/Dry. Warm/Wet. Then moving to cool. Who knows what else this month will bring.
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Looks like that...
It appears that weather is going "little" haywire and gives monsoons instead of summers...
With luck next week might have even three little drier days.
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Here's some pics I've taken in last few days...
There shouldn't be any water visible except on background
Neither there should be any water visible in this pic
About 1.5 meter too much water.
(before this I've seen water that high only few times and around early spring when ditch was full of snow blocking flow of water coming from melting snow)
How you're supposed to sow something to this?
Rice might be more approriate for this ground dampness, if there would be warm enough for it...
So you'll excuse me that I consider farming subsidies of US and central European countries as treachery.
Almost forgot... Temperature is almost 10 C lower than it should be.
One of the reasons why Finland is so cloudy at winter is because then Finland is in border zone of cold polar air and warmer air coming from south... Normally that border zone is to north of Finland at summer but currently it looks almost like that cold polar air is reaching down to area of Europe normally warmed by Gulf stream.
That cold air mass is very noticeable when looking weather model data. (esp. 500/850hPa maps)
http://www.helsinki.fi/~ajpunkka/mallidata.htm
Doesn't sound good!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/05/10/gulfstream/
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You should take advantage of the photo album system I installed on here. Good way to share your images.
Is this something or is it nothing? Look at this 9 pannel MRF chart. This pattern looks more like late September than nearly the start of June.
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Interesting that its cool and wet there and hitting the 100 mark here almost everyday now. Its not just hot, its sweltering. The humidity is unbelievable. Its so hot you cannot dry off out of the shower. Its like being in Miami or Houston. Last year it didnt get this hot until....umm....Ausgust? Maybe September. Things have definately changed. Its hot.
As I look throught the records...I see we are going to break the record today.
Average High: 84°
Average Low: 65°
Record high/year: 96° (1996)
Record low/year: 51° (1947)
Sunrise: 6:24 AM
Sunset: 8:23 PM
We are supposed to be 97, but I have a feeling we are going to beat that easily, old record was in 1996 at 96. |
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It is payback for last year :-)
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