Friday, April 30, 2021

Extreme Weather

 This year (2021) has been a unique year on weather so far.  Since 1 January, I would take a guess that we've had maybe two single fronts to come through this part of the Rhine Valley, with thunder, lightning and heavy rainfall over the past 120-odd days.

Yesterday?  For about forty-five minutes....a serious amount of lightning and rain (3rd day for the year).

In a normal year?  If you go back ten to twenty years.....it was normal to have thirty of these fronts in a average year.  Last year, I would suggest that fewer than six serious fronts came through the valley.  

Last night, the HR weather guy (our regional public TV network)....did a detail analysis over rainfall for 2021 so far....we were in the zone of only 40-percent of normal rainfall for 2021 so far.  If you went around 100 km north of here....they had around 140-percent of the normal rainfall.  

Just luck or bad luck?  Maybe.

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