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I have a theory that if global warming continues then the mountains will be the
best place to live. We have seen this in miniature in UK this summer. At my
modest height of 1000 feet I have enjoyed a wonderful summer with highest
temperature of 29.0 deg C and many many days (not counted yet !) of days over 21
deg C. But also just enough rain to keep going and the grass has stayed green
all summer (just as in Ian's experience) whereas, as we all know lowland
southern Briatin, particularly the SE is parched and suffering.

Ian the Alps are a wonderful place aren't they ? Glad you had a super holiday.

ATB,

Will.
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" Love begins when judgement ceases "
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Ian Currie wrote in message ...

Yes most of my area was at the 700-1200 metre level and part well over 2000
metres so that translates down to the 110 metre level where you stayed Don
in line with your readings. Indeed it was 30C when I flew out of Vienna. It
was lucky with showers at times earlier in the summer and is excellent for
winter skiing where they had a good season this year lasting into April. It
also provides water for Vienna in a remarkable pipeline built in the1900s,
bored through the mountains. Willing to send you a picture or two to show
how lush the pastures were.
I actually went there, apart from having a family holiday, to research a
weather related topic which I will be explaining to readers of Weather eye
in a forthcoming issue for it has a very interesting weather phenomenon
which I was able to observe with excellent results so I am being a little
coy about the precise area.
Now I am off to read the min. temperature in the Chipstead Valley, Surrey,
after a calm , clear cool night it is going to be pretty low.

Ian Currie-Coulsdon
Weather eye- www.frostedearth.com


"Don" wrote in message
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"Ian Currie" wrote ...


I am very surprised at your report. I have just spent 6 weeks in Slovakia
and Hungary on the plains 30 miles to the east of Vienna at 110 metres and
in the mountains about 100 miles to the north east of Vienna and at around
350 metres.

Temperatures between 32 and 35 degrees every day with thunderstorms in the
mountains every third day or so. Sometimes less frequently. But with
little
or no precipitation.

Pastures dry and browning. Trees withering and dying in the heat. Birds
numbers falling. Crops harvested early but with little substance since
there
was no water to allow grains and fruit to fatten. Rivers suffering from
poisoning due to little flow. Fish dying. Lakes at all time low levels. It
was an ecological disaster.

In the mountains our water supply was rationed as the well would
completely
dry up for a day or too at a time.

The raspberries on the mountains were good and very sweet, but a law was
passed when we were there to prevent the picking of mountain fruit and
fungi
so that there would be enough for bears and other wildlife who can't go
shopping at Tesco's.

Were you in some kind of lucky micro climate unaffected by the unusual
conditions the whole of the rest of central Europe is experiencing?

What is more pertinent, are we to expect these conditions more frequently
now?

regards
Don

p.s. you aeroplane was probably on an automatic approach.