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« Reply #2040 on Feb 18, 2012, 11:30am »		[Quote]
Lucky you! :-/ Do the dwellings have heating in Amman?
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« Reply #2041 on Feb 18, 2012, 4:45pm »		[Quote]
It's not gone above three degrees all day.
Yes, we have central heating, diesel powered plus aircon that will heat if we want. That's quite a normal arrangement.
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« Reply #2042 on Feb 18, 2012, 6:11pm »		[Quote]
We had sunshine and 11° this afternoon. Quite a change from a week ago when it didn't go above 0. But there was still some ice on the Canal du Midi today right in downtown Toulouse. It is supposed to cool off again a bit though.
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« Reply #2043 on Feb 19, 2012, 8:00am »		[Quote]
Civil defence and public security crews were called in on Saturday to help rescue 590 foreign tourists stranded by a blizzard that struck the Kingdom and secure their arrival in the ancient city of Petra.

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« Reply #2044 on Feb 20, 2012, 4:43pm »		[Quote]
This was supposed to be a big La Nina winter for us, lots of cold and snow. While we have enough snow for skiing, it certainly hasn't been a bonanza year of powder days. And in town, just a lot of dreary grey days with occasional snow showers that don't amount to much.

Sh*t or get off the pot, winter! If you aren't going to snow, let's get on to spring!
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« Reply #2045 on Feb 24, 2012, 11:06pm »		[Quote]
This morning everything was dry, we were watching the squirrels rushing about, the birds pecking at the trees and then this happened... It is still snowing tonight and by the end of tonight it will probably total 20 cm of snow!

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« Reply #2046 on Feb 25, 2012, 7:07am »		[Quote]
Spring is in the air here, but I'm sure that winter has not said its last word yet.
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« Reply #2047 on Feb 25, 2012, 3:15pm »		[Quote]
Winter's back. Another Christmas card day, here in the piney woods.
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« Reply #2048 on Feb 29, 2012, 9:25am »		[Quote]
It is absolutely balmy across France. But everybody knows that March is a treacherous month.
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« Reply #2049 on Feb 29, 2012, 9:39am »		[Quote]
Cold this morning because of the clear sky, but it's going to be beautiful again today. Yesterday it was 17°, maybe today a couple of degrees more?
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« Reply #2050 on Feb 29, 2012, 1:49pm »		[Quote]
It started going a bit dark this afternoon - and then started to go a funny colour. So I took a few shots from my kitchen balcony -

It's all gone a bit yellow -

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Then even more yellow -

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Then the sleet/hail started to come down -

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Then at least it began to brighten up again -

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About ten minutes later, all was back to normal.
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« Reply #2051 on Feb 29, 2012, 4:05pm »		[Quote]
What do you think caused the sky to become this colour? Was it maybe a sand storm? Very unique photos Mark!
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« Reply #2052 on Feb 29, 2012, 4:11pm »		[Quote]
I can only think, as it was windy yesterday and overnight, that sand has been picked up to the east of us and brought over.
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« Reply #2053 on Feb 29, 2012, 5:36pm »		[Quote]
Sandy sleet, even better!
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« Reply #2054 on Feb 29, 2012, 8:56pm »		[Quote]
Update - because the wimps in authority think that a bit of sleet constitutes adverse weather conditions all the schools have been closed for tomorrow (Thursday) - plus - my cleaner has phoned to cancel also saying the taxis are loath to drive around (which is true) so she can't guarantee getting here.

Pathetic, the lot of them.
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« Reply #2055 on Feb 29, 2012, 9:10pm »		[Quote]
I wonder what she would say if you offered to go and get her? Or perhaps that is not allowed culturally?
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« Reply #2056 on Feb 29, 2012, 10:02pm »		[Quote]
here it is warmish and cloudy. well now it is dark, but i assume it is still cloudy.
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« Reply #2057 on Mar 1, 2012, 6:26am »		[Quote]
mich, she's Filipino, it's allowed culturally anyway. But it is to my advantage not to have her here as my daughters and I can then stay around the apartment rather than normally when she is here (when they are at school) and I go out. Besides, I don't know where she lives for now.
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« Reply #2058 on Mar 1, 2012, 4:18pm »		[Quote]
Just went for a long walk this afternoon -- 19°C and sunny, no wind. Just beautiful. Loads of people cycling, jogging, walking -- it looked as though they took off work or university to enjoy the weather. Even saw young guys in shorts and flipflops. They better enjoy it -- it's supposed to cool off again.
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« Reply #2059 on Mar 1, 2012, 4:20pm »		[Quote]

Mar 1, 2012, 4:18pm, bjd wrote:
Just went for a long walk this afternoon -- 19°C and sunny, no wind. Just beautiful. Loads of people cycling, jogging, walking -- it looked as though they took off work or university to enjoy the weather. Even saw young guys in shorts and flipflops. They better enjoy it -- it's supposed to cool off again.


Remarkable! I'm a long way from you and we have exactly the same weather. Had the office windows and door open all afternoon.

It won't last.............
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« Reply #2060 on Mar 1, 2012, 5:32pm »		[Quote]
How jealous am I! :)

-2C, cloudy and with the threat of more snow today. I have never felt the urge to take a southern vacation, but I have been feeling it the last couple of days...
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« Reply #2061 on Mar 1, 2012, 9:18pm »		[Quote]
Warmer, slight haze, but a pleasant relief from previous winter weather.
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« Reply #2062 on Mar 2, 2012, 6:24am »		[Quote]
Wow -- haven't been here in a while & am just now seeing Mark's pictures. The sky is SO yellow -- dramatic! Did you all see that kind of thing in Egypt?

Weather here: hot as hell during the day.

Mainly came to thread to comment on the weather in the US midwest. I think it all bypassed Lola in St. Louis, but she hasn't been around. Hope everything is okay with her & her family.
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« Reply #2063 on Mar 2, 2012, 7:43am »		[Quote]
Yes, about once a year bixa during the time of the 'Khamseen', the yearly wind. It was never followed by rain and snow though.
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« Reply #2064 on Mar 2, 2012, 8:12am »		[Quote]
In the years that I have lived in Paris, we have had the yellow sky twice -- and it was indeed caused by the sands of the Algerian Sahara whipped up by storms and then deposited over us. The next day, you could see a little film of yellow dust on all of the parked cars. (Of course in North Africa, they get a little film of yellow dust deposited on the cars about 320 days a year.)
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« Reply #2065 on Mar 2, 2012, 8:38am »		[Quote]
We get that yellowish dust a couple of times a year when there is a very strong wind from the southeast. The wind then changes name from the usual "vent d'autan" to "scirocco".

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« Reply #2066 on Mar 2, 2012, 9:13am »		[Quote]
This morning from my kitchen window -

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« Reply #2067 on Mar 2, 2012, 1:01pm »		[Quote]
Wow. I saw on a news report yesterday that it was snowing in Homs, Syria too.
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« Reply #2068 on Mar 2, 2012, 1:31pm »		[Quote]

Mar 2, 2012, 8:12am, kerouac2 wrote:
In the years that I have lived in Paris, we have had the yellow sky twice -- and it was indeed caused by the sands of the Algerian Sahara whipped up by storms and then deposited over us. The next day, you could see a little film of yellow dust on all of the parked cars. (Of course in North Africa, they get a little film of yellow dust deposited on the cars about 320 days a year.)


Once, that got as far as London back in the 60's.
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« Reply #2069 on Mar 2, 2012, 4:47pm »		[Quote]
Snow. In Jordan. Somehow I never featured that!

I've only seen a big dust storm once, in southern Oklahoma years ago. I came out of a building and the sky was brown. Since the dust hadn't hit yet, I had no idea what it was. Looked like the end of the world!
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