Snow falls - April 2006

My vermieterin firmly stated that there would be no summer this year. Rain Rain Rain she forecasted. However, she is not a meteorologist. And what she based her statement on, I have no idea.

@ER

There's this hobby meteorologist who lives out at Starnberger See. I read an article on him two months ago. His predictions are more accurate than the official weather report. He predicted the unusually hot summer in 2003, the floods last year and the unusually cold winter. The official meteorologist have no idea how he manages his mostly correct predictions but listen to him nonetheless. Anway, he has discovered that weather repeats itself in 7-year patterns. Concluding from that and jotting down the daily weather meticulously, he has been able to predict the weather very accurately. He only has his own private weather station on his balcony as a help and the figures he had gathered over the many years. Anyway, he said April is going to be very cold and wet. He said that spring will only start end of May, that summer is going to be a flop again, but that we will at least have a *few* days for going to the beergarden.

Please stay with us ER! Misery loves company!

I thought he said the second half of summer would be nice, but Oktoberfest would be rainy (reserve those indoor seats now!)

Oi. I know nothing about that! Read the article before I left for SA. Let's hope you are right.

but then you'd have no reason to be miserable and no excuse to moan! What would you do then?

Dont worry, they would find something to moan about, they always do!

She would still e-nag you from there!

He got that out of "The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I'm spending part of July and August back home in Southern Alberta ... perhaps, I can send you some sunshine, if you like!

Yes please.

I'll take blue skies, sunshine and -40° over grey, wet and 0° anyday.

its lovely and cosy


apart from almost every year for the last few years

You have got to be absolutely joking - Please i just got back from Oz and even though i love this cold weather its still a drag!

Keeps bugging me every morning when walking past Coffee Fellows at Isartor - their blackboard is showing SUMMER SPECIALS - Smoothies in varîous flavours. We haven't even had a spring - how can they talk of summer???

What really really gets to me is the "Weltwassertag" they go on about in Germany. Saving water. In MUNICH.

the weather cycle seems to be almost exactly the same every year here - so it amazes me that people are still amazed by it

although todays snow fall is a little heavier than the usual snow falls I 'd expect in April!

I know it has been a year since last April but I for one don't remember this much snow staying on the ground last time.

there was a lot of snow on the ground until end of March and then the odd snow flurry in April. When I say the same I mean pretty much the same rather than exact snow depths on exact days

I thought there was some kind of super summer the year before I got here. Any evidence that that was cyclical or just a freak occurence?

@ER

Don't know really. The bf was living here already two years before I came and his word for Munich is "Regenloch".

Btw, it's stopped snowing! It's suddenly a lighter shade of grey outside! Let's hit those beergardens!

I assume you mean 2003. Yeah that was unusual in its intensity I must admit (35 degrees from May to Sept). That was a freak occurence in the whole of Europe though

2003 was an exceedingly hot and dry summer. Temps consistently in the 30s. A bit of a blip, just as this snow is now.
Edit: Mr Rat beat me by somewhere between one second and a minute and 59

Speak for youself. We in Unterhaching are still blessed with the ever-popular blizzard weather.

I am at Giesing and its still fluffy here, admittedly a bit lighter though.

now you call for God! huh...

Only when we need something...

to be honest, it's not surprising considering we live within sight of the north side a continental mountain range, with the prevailing weather coming from the south west. we're gonna get rain and snow and, weather. if you had come from the uk, the weather here is better. someone made the comment earlier that although the uk get less rainfall, it seems to be more constant. here, it may be higher, but it comes in concentrated torrential downpours.

Yup always when i need him do i call him, any problem with that, he never complained to me why you...spokesperson?!

Hey Psioni man, come on, bury the hatchet will ya? Make a sunny prayer for us. Pretty please?

You thinking about strapping your snowboard on again Arshoo??!! That boy is so talented he's dangerous

'cause, if He talked to you, you'd be dead my friend!!!

yep, there are thousands of us on earth...just to save you that trouble !!

what !! your God cant speak to you

mine does and no when he speaks to his creations he dont kill them! he has other methods of doing that.

@ DJ, race you i will

Ok ok...will try...
Ofcourse, God answers only prayers that are within His will.

You see, maybe someone else really needs the snow for some work he/she does for a living...( like the ski operators..etc ) and God gives sunshine/rain/snow as He thinks best for all of us...

Ok i;ll try ...

sounds funny..
but I meant, If he really opened His mouth and spoke...You'd be dead, for the sheer power of His voice...
you know He just spoke and worlds were created...just imagine...

Oh. BTW: He already gave you a break by giving you His WORD...

i think you'll need to wait till friday for a bit of warmth and sunshine majorB.

Still snowing in Ottobrunn

you just name the day and time arshoo...but please give me a headstart

Oooh Psioni! Divine! It's actually become another shade lighter. Ouch, my eyes hurt when I look outside! Your prayers work very effectively. Amazing. Anyway, it really has stopped snowing up here in the North of the English Garden.

not really, when our God speaks he does open his mouth and no i would not be dead, there were living accounts of that. and i dont know about the WORD i only heard WORD UP

DJ, i cant give you a head start, you have to help me get up once i tie the board on and ensure i dont slip off before i am ready

Ahhh! So by your logic the tsunami was God's way of assisting builders and undertakers. He DOES move in mysterious ways.

I totally understand this guy's logic.

I am going to plonk Psioni with a snowball.

Oh come on Xargon, to get the weather to change here you'd have to get the pope to pray 24/7 or something. Psioni's prayer worked for an hour at least, give him credit for that!

and just for the record:

This is absurd. Our God of perfect love can whisper to his children, and often does; just because the vast majority of us refuse to listen does not mean that He is not talking to us.

What the chuffing flump is the psicotic (sic) God botherer doing spouting religious jibber-jabber in a weather thread? Is nothing sacred anymore?

I wish someone would fuck off with his/her Prayer mat!

According to some friends in England it snowed on Sunday night and has been pissing down with rain today!

When I speak to God it's called praying. When I hear God speaking to me it's called a psychosis

I see gods 2i/c has hijacked another thread. Oh well I`m off to look at naked ladies. Bye

Back on topic: 18°C this Friday.

Ya, but they are predicting rain over the weekend. Good thing I am leaving for Italy I need to soak in some sun, else I would turn into a serial-killer.

Here's the latest 6 day forcaast from the Deutsche Wetter Dienst

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