h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello all. Here in Manama Bahrain, (16:07) it's 34C, 32% humidity and a stiff breeze blowing. Blue sky and a lovely warm early summer day.

One word, Monsoon

Coachella Valley, CA, USA
Sa 2 Jun 2012, ~11:30pm PDT

The weather of late has been very unsettled, but mostly hot and windless.

Strangely, we're currently getting monsoonal flow here coming off the Gulf of California.

Currently 6c with an expected high of 11c today, winds are northerly between 6 to 12. Pressure is set around 1014mb, rising to 1017mb by end of day.
Sun rise for you early birds is 04.39 and sets at 21.31.

We have quite a large low pressure system to the west, over the Atlantic which is pumping warmish air up to the southern most parts of the UK and a low positioned over northern Europe which is feeding cold air across most of the UK.

This is set to stay until midweek when hopefully a small ridge of high pressure should build briefly over the UK to pep up the temperature and give us some more sunshine, fingers crossed

Looks like the low pressure won, time to batten down the hatches as the wind and the rain rolls in tomorrow

the jetstream has for the first time this year established a more normal route over the Atlantic,due to the position and converging difference in temperatures up in the stratosphere.

We also have as a consequence a very active low over the UK, windyand wet, thats all can be said at the mo.

sunshine today. Cool breeze from the sea but that's nothing.

CoachellaValley, CA, USA

M 11 6 2012, ~11:00am PDT

Temp. 80F/32.5C

Humidity: 48%

Much monsoonal haze, no wind.

Whats the weather doing where you are?

Well it used to be warm+tropical nearly all year round, now it's just wet and the winters are cold...English cold, Southern Australian cold and that's just not right and the rain...3 or 4 metres of rain last year and 2 metres and counting so far this year and for those types who are challenged by metrics thats a bit better than 6 feet of rain so far

I was enjoying an this dinner time and on reading the last post, I responded with a post to show my annoyance at the current performance of our weather presenters.
Unfortanely my battery died on my mobile phone and the post was, as I found out later on, never sent.

It was steered at my ever increasing annoyance of how the weather is reported.

The post would have mentioned that some time ago , I posted that the weather in the UK was set to be very wet and be below average temperature wise.
It also would have mentioned the absence of the accuracy of the reporting of the weather. They have at their disposal data far beyond my means, yet for some reason they fail to continue to give a full account as to why the weather is ,as it is.
Peoples lives are being very mush effected and they have no chance to respond as a consequence of the information they are currently given
Prior to making this post ,I watched the weather and believe me not but the reporter of our most well known national broadcasting channel, actually mentioned the jetstream as a reason for the current bad weather.
Did he give a qualification , NO.
There is good reason for the weather patterns around the world but for reasons best known to those that report it, they do anything but give good account for its causation.
In the UK, weather presenters on a certian well known channel , were told to tell Joe public about the weather in a up beat manner and not to continually focus on the negative effect it was likely to cause.
Its time that they grew balls and stopped being so politically motivated, as mentioned, its us folk that suffer for their incompetency.

Current Conditions Fair

Current Time 11:35am

46°C Today in the Persian Gulf
Here in Dhahran.
Feels Like 44°C Sky somewhat dusty.


Fair
Last Updated: 11:00 19 Jun (local time), 08:00 GMT
Observation Station: Zahran
Wind
From North North East at 21 kmph

Humidity
12%

Pressure
995.94 mb

Dew Point
10°C

Visibility
10 km

Coachella Valley, CA, USA

Tu 19 Jun 2012, 8:30am PDT

High winds and blow-sands yesterday. Was unable to get a stable internet connection with my new WIFI hardware.

We’ve got a squally low heading up north, should get a tadover the next few hours.

Happy midsummer night, to all you folk that dance around stones in the ground, naked, hope it’s not too for you

Key West, Florida, USA, 20 June 2012, 23:30 EDT

Happy First Day of Summer, Northern Hemisphere.

We've got a minor monsoon visiting here. Perpetual rain guaranteed for the next 48 hours, as a tropical wave is gathering rotation and heading for Texas. This will be a "romantic" weather event, as in I don't have to leave the house for the next two days, and there's little threat of flooding or tree damage due to winds uprooting any waterlogged big ones. I've long since laid in plenty of food/water/beer/liquor/one dollar bills/other in anticipation of the season.

It's not bad when the storm starts here. It's bad when the storm gathers below Cuba, lays in wait for four or five days, then squeezes past Cozumel and taunts us as it turns into a Category Four hurricane. But not this one. This one is romantic. It's also 70 degrees, which means all the jalousie windows are open and I'm enjoying no need for air conditioning.

Enjoy your provisionsetc

Its a tad on the fresh side today,no sign of Summer,just clouds and drizzle.

Watched a very colurful sunrise this morning, not alot of sun, just its rays hitting the underneath of the rain clouds, quite,al.

Grey skies here in north Wales but the rain has stopped for now.
My friend has a barbeque this Saturday so fingers are crossed for the weather.
Does not look promising though.

Wetook some time finding the right BBQ, once purchased its been onced oncecourtesy of our UK weather,the girlfriend wanted a jacuzzi for the patio,at least we could have used that when it rained.

Good luck for the weekend

We had hot yesterday, hot and mulpy, very mulpy later on... then from this morning rain, and the mulpyness diminished... now its not raining... for a while, and its mulpy again

I was coming here to moan that we've had highs around 32°C in Chicago for the last five days, but then I read lapislazuli's post and suddenly felt somewhat cooler.

Of course, by 32 I meant 36, which is a bit more to moan about.