Is your May Extra Hot?
 

Is May being extra hot in your area?

It's been on TV about the heat over here.

Last week we were with Log burner in the evening, woke up last wednesday I think it was, opened the door and the heat hit me, this week can't sleep without the air con on. There seems to be no lovely in between weather this year.

What a difference a few days makes.

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we've gone from duvets to a sheet with a fan literally from one night to the next........ haven't used the aircon yet though

I seem to remember doing the same last year & the year before though - not sure exactly when

looking at this for the past few years it isn't much different http://www.wunderground.com/history/...q_statename=NA

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surely it is a question of looking at the calendar, it is now mid-May so why shouldnt there be high temps.

2 years ago the BH's brother came to visit and he went home with sunburn on his rapidly balding head from early April sun.

the earth is a living breathing thing and we get so stuck into expecting things to be distinct cutoff from one season to another on a particular date.
things just dont work that way.

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It's been much hotter than usual over the last week.

It usually reaches 30c by the end of May but we have had it over 30c for the last 6 days, only today has it stayed below 30c.

Going back over my records for the last 8 years on only one other occasion have we had 6 30+ days in the month and they were right at the end.

For 4 other years it has been 30+ on 1 or 0 days in the month.

The long range forecast suggests it getting cooler (near normal) from today for about a week and then picking up again but probably not getting as hot as it has been over the last week.

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same here! Ive just finished washing and drying all the duvets and heavy blankets in the house and taken out the summer linen!! I havent been able to sleep without the aircon...DD bless her hates the warm nights so had to invest in a fan for her room as she has no air con.

Is it usually this hot in early May??? :confused:

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Nobody can predict the weather anymore like in England there is no such thing as seasons nowadays

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Been raining here since I came back last Thursday, I am sooo fed up with it.. only another four weeks and I'm back in Spain. Can't wait. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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I'm back in England at the moment been back here just over a week sorting a few final things out its thundering and lightning in Birmingham not that I care because my flight back to Spain is at 6.30 in the morning happy days lol

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Quite a few Spanish around my way were complaining about the excess heat and sudden change last week, saying it was far from the norm.

When it comes on gradually ppl have a chance to acclimatise, but this caught quite a few out, incl. myself, and apparently some older ones are suffering a bit.

This trend towards little or no in-between period, (spring or autumn), seems to me to have increased in recent times and not only in Spain.

Maybe it ties in with the continued trend to more extremes of weather.

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I have been topping up my tan since early February, but it was only about 18c Not 40c which we have had here this week, it's been 35c through the nights.

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I'm glad your records confirm what my amateur impression has been - in Velez-Malaga we've had temps around 32C for a few days before today, although today has been cooler, only 27C a short while ago as I was coming home. It has seemed to get hot a few weeks earlier, normally it's been late May/early June before we've had that "someone flicked a switch and Summer's here" feeling.

Night time has still been pretty cool though, we have no air con and I've not had to open the windows or put a fan on to sleep yet.

I am glad the forecast is to stay cooler for a few more days though, I was getting a bit worried about what July and August were going to be like if it was 32C in mid May!

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Today its 120*f or 48*C outside my door..:thumbsup:

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Really? Is your thermometer in the sun?

The officially recorded temperature in Las Palmas today at 6pm was 28 degrees.

The all time temperature record is 39c.

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We've had 38c - the Spanish are telling us that this is an unusual heat-wave for this time of year.

They say that it will only last another 3 days or so before returning to normal.

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Lived in Spain 15 years and never known 35C through the night, that would be a health hazard:blink: Infact we didn't get those temperatures in central Africa or Egypt.:blink:

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I came back down on Oct 1st last year,expecting comfortable weather,only to find temps up in the mid 30s where they unusually remained for ten days or so,...until we were hit by the gota fria and thrown straight into typical Spanish winter weather from then on.
Once again little or nothing in between. :confused:

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Well aren't you just the lucky one hey?:p

Exactly my point Doh

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I don't quite understand how you could have had 18c during the day and 35c during the night. Have I missed something?

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Yes you definitely have, !8c was referring to February daytime this year and this week one night touched 35c at 9 30pm which we normally see in July and August. It's even hotter upstairs indoors as of course the heat rises and also comes through the roof.

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Maybe May is a provider of horizontal refreshment from the roundabout, and she is hot...............?

Possible......?

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Possible,... there again maybe he forgot to switch the central heating off. :unsure:

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I have quite a fertile imagination......hence my hot totty theory.:D

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It would likely send my temperature through the roof as well, so I'll try and avoid roundabouts and birds called May till the weather cools off again.

There again June could be even hotter.:wub:

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That might get you into trouble, but not the young ladies I'm afraid:D

Pity you only have imagination now hey:D

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Yes I agree, good sound advice at your age:D

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ISTR she was hot, but May nothing but a tease

but I have my memories

just thought how old they would now be
:eek:

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Forgive me for being thick, but Plz tell me what these letters you use so much mean?.:o

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I
Seem
To
Remember (or Recall)


but you are forgiven
;)

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Awww thank you, I can enjoy your posts better now:thumbup:

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Come to think of it my May turned out quite a bit hotter than expected when an old Swedish flame from way back, turned up on the doorstep.

Fortunately I had her on the plane back home just before the worst of the heatwave started or I might well have been an ex-poster by now.


Hell, just noticed,that last sentence may well have given the wrong impression.
I haven't joined the 6 mile high club just yet, but I still live in hopes.

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.... I live in Playa Del Ingles in the south..its always hotter than las Palmas..Mogan is futher south than us and its hotter..Las Palmas has some snow in winter ..we have sunshine

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Local Weather Alert
Potential disruption due to extreme high temperatures for Gran Canaria,
From 10:00 AM WEST, Wed., May 16, 2012 until 7:00 PM WEST, Wed., May 16, 2012
Its so hot here i had to take off my overcoat.. ha ha
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I tell ya, it aint funny, the earths tilted:p

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I blame all those Chinese rockets myself,

....but there again Mrs Merkel could have something to do with it.

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yesterday afternoon it was 35 in our kitchen and the BH complained because i made salad for dinner

well, round here the Spanish have now taken their coats off.
can't be too warm, still wearing woolie pully over a thick lumberjack shirt
it will have to get alot hotter for them to take off the wooly

in Granada no matter what the temp the "professionals" will never take their tie off, nor roll up their shirtsleeves

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May 14, 2012 10:29 AM
Two British tourists die in Gran Canaria due to intense heat Posted by Canaries News on May 14th, 2012



Two British tourists died yesterday (Sunday 13th May 2012) on the island of Gran Canaria in two separate incidents related to the intense heat the Canary Islands have been experiencing. Two others have been admitted to hospital with heat stroke and an additional four people have also needed medical attention.

The first event took place in the area of Barranquillo de Andres in Mogan. At 12.48 hours, the 112 emnergency services were alerted that a group of British hikers between 61 and 78 years suffered from health problems related to the extreme temperatures. When medical personnel arrived on the scene most elderly of the hikers, a woman aged 78, had experienced a cardiac arrest. After a period of attempting resuscitation she was pronounced dead. One of her colleagues, who suffered a heat stroke was a 66 year old woman who was later taken by helicopter and admitted to the Hospital de Gran Canaria Dr. Negrin where she was admitted in critical condition.



A helicopter was also used to transport a third 65 year old hiker who had respiratory failure and was admitted to the same hospital in a critical condition. The other hikers, four British tourists between 61 and 69, were attended to by medical personnel at the scene.

Shortly afterwards, at around 15.00 the emergency services received a call from a hiker who said that his companion had fallen down the Barranco de Azuaje, also o nthe island of Gran Canaria. They were two related British tourists, who had taken a route through this ravine where they planned to stay overnight in the Fontanales area. The emergency services informed the Moya local police that they had difficulty finding the people because they had not properly informed of their location. Finally, the rescue helicopter which had arrived from Tenerife spotted them and was able to rescue the hiker. .We are having a HEATWAVE here 40* which is 105F and its getting hotter.. in the UK you close the door to keep the heat in ..over here we close the door to keep the Heat out....

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It never ceased to amaze me how these one foot in the grave retired old fogies would arrive in the Canaries, take on a new lease of life and proceed to go clambering up mountains sometimes in the mid-day Spanish heat.

I saw enough of it while I was there and even rescued one old girl and her mutt, who got stranded up on a mountainside ledge with darkness fast closing in one night.
On two other occasions the fire brigade had been called for, though they never got up the mountain yet and I recall one old dear who had bravely completed a really strenuous walk in the mid-day heat, promptly collapsed and fell backwards into a huge patch of evil looking cacti.

She was a hospital case of course and I heard it said they were still extracting cactus needles from her rear end weeks later

I must add that I was quite a bit younger and a fair bit fitter myself back then.
No way would I even dream of it now.

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Some of the "dying due to the heatwave" stories, are more like dying for being a asshole.

Who in their right mind would exert themselves to that point, when any heatwave can be ridden out by being a bit smart, or a least my not being a total f**king nutter.

And if the people who go to Spain, Tenerife dont know it is a hot climate,compared to the UK and Norway, well they should have done a bit more research.

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just wait until its blowing a blizzard in the UK then some eejuts will get out their trainers and a raincoat and decide to do all the hills above 2000ft in a single day on their pushbike.

is it small wonder that our great armed forces (UK & Spain) have to spend so much money on training and equipment to pull these people out the the jam they get themselves into irrespective of country.

hit them with the £1000+ per hour true cost of a helicopter and see the pips squeek

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Its now 35*C and its not even midday..