Lyana, yes, it's a deep freeze in Europe. In fact friends of ours from Israel were in London for a wedding, and popped over to Switzerland for a day on business - and couldn't get back to London for the rest of the celebrations because of the snow. So they reutrned to Israel on Friday in the clothes they were standing in. Their relatives will bring their luggage later in teh week, and they are so upset at missing all the festivities.
However - here in Israel we really ARE getting the hard end of the global warming stick. I should have posted my comments about the huge fire in the Carmel mountains on this thread. 41 dead including a friend of my daughter. :(
We haven't had rain since MARCH! We have had days of prayer and fasting, we cloud-seed on a regular basis. But zilch.
I was sunbathing on the balcony of our hotel room this afternoon. It is Jerusalem in December, and instead of shivering in bitter winds and rain, I'm in summer clothes and open sandals. It sounds wonderful but it's not. But we need the rain desperately.
I'm not a "global warmist" but something is definitely going wrong with the climate. We also had the hottest summer on record, with temps well into the 40s Celsius.
No rain since MARCH?!? annie, how are you all surviving at all? I have friends who were in Israel on a tour in October and mentioned that the Sea of Galilee is very low, but didn't connect the "why" until now.
No rain since MARCH?!? annie, how are you all surviving at all? Well, you've got to remember that we are used to having no rain from March/April till around October/November. This year has been unusual in that there's been no rain yet and we're well into December, plus it's also been so terribly hot, both in the summer, and through the autumn and now the winter. We're surviving by having water prices jump sky-high, we're not watering our gardens or washing our cars, and being very careful. We have desalination plants but not enough (everything is always done at the last minute in Israel, only after crisis mode has set in) and just muddling along as we always do.
And this is my sister's front garden, she lives in Brighton which is on the south cost directly south of London.
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That's a bunch of snow for a coastal city.
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Wow. That's crazy! It sounds that all of northern Europe is in the deep freeze.
ReplyDeleteLyana, yes, it's a deep freeze in Europe. In fact friends of ours from Israel were in London for a wedding, and popped over to Switzerland for a day on business - and couldn't get back to London for the rest of the celebrations because of the snow. So they reutrned to Israel on Friday in the clothes they were standing in. Their relatives will bring their luggage later in teh week, and they are so upset at missing all the festivities.
ReplyDeleteHowever - here in Israel we really ARE getting the hard end of the global warming stick. I should have posted my comments about the huge fire in the Carmel mountains on this thread. 41 dead including a friend of my daughter. :(
We haven't had rain since MARCH! We have had days of prayer and fasting, we cloud-seed on a regular basis. But zilch.
I was sunbathing on the balcony of our hotel room this afternoon. It is Jerusalem in December, and instead of shivering in bitter winds and rain, I'm in summer clothes and open sandals. It sounds wonderful but it's not. But we need the rain desperately.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a "global warmist" but something is definitely going wrong with the climate. We also had the hottest summer on record, with temps well into the 40s Celsius.
No rain since MARCH?!? annie, how are you all surviving at all? I have friends who were in Israel on a tour in October and mentioned that the Sea of Galilee is very low, but didn't connect the "why" until now.
ReplyDeleteWill be praying for relief soon.
No rain since MARCH?!? annie, how are you all surviving at all?
ReplyDeleteWell, you've got to remember that we are used to having no rain from March/April till around October/November. This year has been unusual in that there's been no rain yet and we're well into December, plus it's also been so terribly hot, both in the summer, and through the autumn and now the winter. We're surviving by having water prices jump sky-high, we're not watering our gardens or washing our cars, and being very careful. We have desalination plants but not enough (everything is always done at the last minute in Israel, only after crisis mode has set in) and just muddling along as we always do.