Drought
Aug 6th 2017, 2:52 pm
#16
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Re: Drought
Trouble here is it is saying on Accuweather a heatwave from Tuesday into Thursday!
Aug 6th 2017, 4:16 pm
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Re: Drought
I've given up on Italian weather forecasts: they just seem to adjust the forecast to match what's actually happening at the time. But to be fair it must be more difficult to forecast than in the UK, because of the absence of a prevailing wind amongst other things
Aug 7th 2017, 7:03 pm
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Re: Drought
Firemen in Ragusa were not patient enough to wait for accidental wild fires so they had to start them themselves.
https://www.thelocal.it/20170807/the...ollect-bonuses
https://www.thelocal.it/20170807/the...ollect-bonuses
Last edited by philat98; Aug 7th 2017 at 8:21 pm.
Aug 8th 2017, 2:44 pm
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Re: Drought
Forecasting must be much more complex in a country with as much relief as Italy - all those mountains creating rainclouds/storms (or not) and complex air currents.
Some pretty stark stuff online from the glaciers above the Stelvio - they look to be in a terrible state. No doubt it's partially cosmetic as a result of last week's heat (zero isotherm was at nearly 5,000m last week) but it's also pretty unusual by all accounts for things to be quite so bad up there even in August.
Some pretty stark stuff online from the glaciers above the Stelvio - they look to be in a terrible state. No doubt it's partially cosmetic as a result of last week's heat (zero isotherm was at nearly 5,000m last week) but it's also pretty unusual by all accounts for things to be quite so bad up there even in August.
Aug 9th 2017, 6:13 am
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Re: Drought
Forecasting must be much more complex in a country with as much relief as Italy - all those mountains creating rainclouds/storms (or not) and complex air currents.
Some pretty stark stuff online from the glaciers above the Stelvio - they look to be in a terrible state. No doubt it's partially cosmetic as a result of last week's heat (zero isotherm was at nearly 5,000m last week) but it's also pretty unusual by all accounts for things to be quite so bad up there even in August.
Some pretty stark stuff online from the glaciers above the Stelvio - they look to be in a terrible state. No doubt it's partially cosmetic as a result of last week's heat (zero isotherm was at nearly 5,000m last week) but it's also pretty unusual by all accounts for things to be quite so bad up there even in August.
