The fourth month of 2011 is over and parts of Northern Germany have recieved very small amounts of rain.
Still, because of the warm air (one week with temps >21°C/>70°F), the nature is waking up from its winter sleep very quickly.
Nevertheless, we're lacking precipitation...
5.2 mm / .2 in in the whole month of April (3 mm on April 1-2, 2.2 mm at April 12)
18.4 mm / .7 in in March
5.4 mm / .2 in between Feb 10 and Mar 1
-> 28 mm / 1.1 in during the last 80 days, no precipitation during the past 18 days
An average year would bring roughly 120-130 mm / 4.7-5.1 inches to our area in this period.
Please let me know if some of you are experiencing such a dry spring weather elsewhere in the world or if you have to bear the exact opposite.
Dry April, waiting for some rain, Northern Germany
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Dry April, waiting for some rain, Northern Germany
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Latest GFS forecast for cumulative precipitation, the red dot shows where I live.
That's barely one millimeter in the next 8 days -.-
As I said in the post above, we had 28 mm / 1.1 inches in since February 10.
My weather station now says 140.7 mm / 5.5 inches of evapotranspiration in 2011, of which 126 mm / 5 inches were reported after Feb 10.
To explain it, evapotranspiration is the amount of all water which evaporated from the ground or transpired from leaves or animal skins, so roughly the amount of water needed by flora and fauna.
Concerning this, the numbers say that only about one fifth of the water needed by the environment has fallen (28 mm / 126 mm ~ 22%).
That's barely one millimeter in the next 8 days -.-
As I said in the post above, we had 28 mm / 1.1 inches in since February 10.
My weather station now says 140.7 mm / 5.5 inches of evapotranspiration in 2011, of which 126 mm / 5 inches were reported after Feb 10.
To explain it, evapotranspiration is the amount of all water which evaporated from the ground or transpired from leaves or animal skins, so roughly the amount of water needed by flora and fauna.
Concerning this, the numbers say that only about one fifth of the water needed by the environment has fallen (28 mm / 126 mm ~ 22%).
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Re: Dry April, waiting for some rain, Northern Germany
Only 11.0mm in March and 5.8mm in April here. Added to being very dry all sorts of daily max temp records have been broken. A week ago it reached 27.4C here which is crazy for April. The highest official station that day was 27.8C (and the second highest April day since 1893!).
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Nice to know that there are even drier places than here
Weather seems to become more and more extreme...
Springs continue to bring heat waves and dry periods and all the water then suddenly splashes down in late July-August, pushing temperatures down below any expected numbers.
This has already happened in 2010.
April and May were wonderful, warm and relaxing
and the Summer holidays literally drowned in the water
Weather seems to become more and more extreme...
Springs continue to bring heat waves and dry periods and all the water then suddenly splashes down in late July-August, pushing temperatures down below any expected numbers.
This has already happened in 2010.
April and May were wonderful, warm and relaxing
and the Summer holidays literally drowned in the water
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Re: Dry April, waiting for some rain, Northern Germany
Extratropical94 wrote:The fourth month of 2011 is over and parts of Northern Germany have recieved very small amounts of rain.
Still, because of the warm air (one week with temps >21°C/>70°F), the nature is waking up from its winter sleep very quickly.
Nevertheless, we're lacking precipitation...
5.2 mm / .2 in in the whole month of April (3 mm on April 1-2, 2.2 mm at April 12)
18.4 mm / .7 in in March
5.4 mm / .2 in between Feb 10 and Mar 1
-> 28 mm / 1.1 in during the last 80 days, no precipitation during the past 18 days
An average year would bring roughly 120-130 mm / 4.7-5.1 inches to our area in this period.
Please let me know if some of you are experiencing such a dry spring weather elsewhere in the world or if you have to bear the exact opposite.
I feel your pain too. Where I am it is very dry and warm.
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