Moaning about the weather

[N_Molson]

The vehicles are all buried under enormous snowdrifts.

:rofl:

Those icicles look beautiful but dangerous, too

 

[Unstung]

It hit 27C two days last week (and 28 one day), record temperature. And it's been a few degrees hotter than usual.

 

[diogom]

You guys are lucky. All I have here is rain, rain, rain... and no snow. It's been raining non-stop here today. Last year it snowed for the first time in 10 years (maybe more) in Lisbon, and it didn't even reach 3 cm .

 

[Unstung]

You guys are lucky. All I have here is rain, rain, rain... and no snow. It's been raining non-stop here today. Last year it snowed for the first time in 10 years (maybe more) in Lisbon, and it didn't even reach 3 cm .

At least it's not a hot desert. I could use some rain.

 

[diogom]

At least it's not a hot desert. I could use some rain.

Well, I would gladly send the rain there, if I could!:lol:

 

[Lucy]

It hit 27C two days last week (and 28 one day), record temperature. And it's been a few degrees hotter than usual.

TROUT OF JEALOUSY!!

Icicles hanging from my guttering this morning.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Damn me for sitting here without any camera. It's buran outside!

 

[Wonderer]

Damn me for sitting here without any camera. It's buran outside!

:rofl:

 

[Thorton]

Damn me for sitting here without any camera. It's buran outside!

And it's better than this (look on the right up corner of the board):




And near my work

 

[Sky Captain]

This is how Swedes are having fun in winter.

 

[GoForPDI]

Haha, thats fantastic! No defence cuts in Sweden then, eh?

Its around -10 celcius here just now... Hardly any snow, just ice!

 

[Quick_Nick]

First day of winter and it's pretty warm here... (60-80F?)
Curse you Gulf

 

[GoForPDI]

Its thanks to the Gulf that I'm not in -40C conditions!

 

[Unstung]

TROUT OF JEALOUSY!!

Until you get heat all year; 45C is a common occurrence in the summer months.

 

[Sky Captain]

Last night and today it was raining while still minus 6 and everything is covered with layer of ice now. Snow soaked with freezing rain is turned into firn. I had to showel a pathway clear and I had to attack the frozen snow with metal shovel to break it up and remove.

 

[Urwumpe]

Last night and today it was raining while still minus 6 and everything is covered with layer of ice now. Snow soaked with freezing rain is turned into firn. I had to showel a pathway clear and I had to attack the frozen snow with metal shovel to break it up and remove.

Here, the trains found a new reason to fail: Ice so thick around the overhead lines that not enough voltage reaches the motors.

But...if you don't need to travel, except by your own feet, the world is a really beautiful place, coated by clearest ice.

 

[SiberianTiger]

http://www.timesofmalta.com/article...nseasonable-weather-shuts-down-moscow-airport

A power line failure shut down Moscow’s largest airport yesterday as unseasonably warm weather produced hail storms that wreaked havoc with the city’s traffic and left shoppers slipping on ice.


Domodedovo International Airport, which handles a daily average of more than 55,000 travellers, reported a total power outage at around 8 a.m.
An emergency power supply unit allowed the airport to receive the approaching traffic but all arrivals and departures were ended two hours later, Itar-Tass reported.


Some 16,000 people were left stranded at the facility and airport officials said they did not expect the problems to be resolved before the evening.
The city’s second-largest airport Sheremetyevo was operating according to scheduled and expecting to pick up some of Domodedovo’s arrivals, a mouthpiece told RIA Novosti.


Various news reports said that similar outages had affected some 150 settlements around the city and other parts of central Russia, with more than 100,000 people left without electricity by midday.


Temperatures in Russia’s capital hovered around the freezing point throughout the weekend, producing unseasonable rain showers that turned the city into what one television station described as a “concrete skating rink”.


Moscow officials advised the city’s 10-million-plus inhabitants to stay at home, with a mayor’s office spokesman telling Interfax that people should not venture outside “unless there was an extreme emergency”.
The freezing rain also damaged power supply lines used by the city’s trams and trolley buses, with officials ordering 96 extra buses out onto the streets to cover the affected routes.


Further problems were reported on Moscow’s suburban train routes. A traffic spokesman told Interfax that there were delays throughout the region “affecting almost all the destination points”.

Actually, 2 of the 3 international airports of Moscow are shut down. Travelers are waiting in lobbies of airports, many are deprived of food, drinks, resting places. Aeroflot are the worst, they are keeping people with no information supplied, absolutely in black.

There are tweets coming from the stranded in Domodedovo about unrest situation at passport control and checking boards where crowds already breaking things. Police reinforcements are rumored to be called in.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Actually, it's growing to scale of a humanitarian disaster. You'll soon watch that in news.

 

[Turbinator]

 

[Artlav]

That is ironically fitting actually.

We laughed at europeans skating in their cars across a slight snow cover, and now lo and behold, here comes weather we can't handle, and now it's our turn to skate in our cars across the streets.