World weather is forecasted to be dominated by El Ninô during 2015: http://news.yahoo.com/el-nino-weather-system-...-australia-053103198.html Some like it hot!

A new paper is out why the Arctic melt has been causing for the jetstream to undulate much deeper south and worse, much slower so weather systems stick much longer... when there's deluge, there's deluge and not normal rains. So happens to read an article from way up in Northern Europe 'Some forest spots look like it's late autumn... instead of boots, you can walk around on your slippers". The northern, bone dry winds, increasing forest / heather fires risks badly.

Same here, very localized, trees already loosing their foliage. Yet 15 miles further the windsor of the House of Chiariere told us last week the season has been dramatically better than last year, which was a write-off for them (We bought some bottles of 2013 and 2009, 3rd of the price in the shops... he would not even sell 2014 but as vinigar).

Anyway, it's an El Ninô year, so abnormal weather as we've seen it the last few years, it likely to be even more abnormal [The Med has a known strong 'teleconnection ' with the Pacific. Yesterday we had 35C (official) [95F], so throttling the comps to a third of their regular cycles was not an option to skip, or power off :(. We're bracing ourselves.

(Curiously, where last year there was enormous acreage of sunflower growing in the region, this year it was all -all- swapped for grains, oats, barley, wheat... based on the long range weather predictions). Farmers have to live, the world has to eat.

Yes, that's the BAU memê. It would actually just cost 6% of GNP... of course those who have lots will cost it more, but then it's 2% owning 90% [worst ratio is apparently the UK, where a 150 or so pretty much own the country]. Those are paying for all the disinformation memê like the Kochs. Would you feel sorry for them ;>)

On weather, finally some rains and midday temps predicted not to exceed 25C [though digital shade side meter indicates 28.6C at this moment, 08:30AM]. So much for localized weather deviations. It rained during the night and now it feels like a sauna. We don't run the aircos anymore. Once you get used to the ambient temp, it does not feel that warm in the shade with some fans to circulate the air. One on NW sucking it into the house, one on SW pushing it out.

Well, today is supposed to be tropical hear with temperatures 90+F(35+C) and dew points 70+F(22+C). Not looking forward to this.
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Lots of time by July the lawn is looking brown and crispy. Not this year. The lawn and garden are positively lush due to timely rains. But, the heat is on.

Edit: Last night we did get the storms predicted with lots of wind and lightning. Had to shut down systems temporarily. Had a brief power outage, but no damage. Got a little more than 2 in(5 cm) of rain. Tropical weather continues for a while.
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