Another week, another weekly observations thread!
Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
Please provide a general location. For Example:
Location: Southern Ireland
Picture: Rhodes in flames
Norway. (And neighbour Sweden).
Extreme weather "Hans" with high winds and LOTS of downpour hitting us. Expecting floods and earth slides.
Edit: We got floods and earth slides.
Location: Norway. I'm escaping the heat wave of Southern Germany.
Norway looks to be in decent shape to my shallow tourist eye. Not a lot of birds, though. Denmark we passed through looked like it was in a long-term drought however.
Not yet back, but the weather in southern Germany whiplashed to 14 deg C and torrential rain. Some locations have been hit with ginormous hail. Wonder about the harvest this year.
Tasmania. Winter is really warm, so warm that we have flowers and blossoms appearing during times we'd normally have frosty conditions.
Israel, it is so hot, I'm used to vent at night. The nights are now 20-30c.
Also the little democracy we had is going away.
In the more rural areas during unfortunate peek times you may not be able to reach 991 immediately but get a “caller is busy” sound.
There is multiple reasons for it one being a lack of volunteers at the fire department due to people having to take 2nd jobs to be able to pay their bills.
West Germany.
Location: Colorado.
This weekend I backpacked through some mountainous areas like where I used to live in Colorado 20 years ago. The woods seemed oddly…sterile? But you could only really see it if you paid close attention. Fewer birds, fewer small critters, just an eerie quiet. And no bugs except for pests—tons of flies and mosquitoes.
It's a lonely quiet world.
Edit: Forgot to add that there was a tornado on Pikes Peak. Yeah.
Canada; it's so hot and for so long, and whenever it's not sunny it seems to be a bad thunderstorm or tornado warning?? So different from when I was growing up
Western Europe
I made a large garden just for butterfly and bee friendly flowers, and it's very petty. I'm not in expert but I thought they'd already be active right about now? I saw a single butterfly so far and many smaller flying insects.
I see a few in Southern Germany but not a lot. Right now the weather is too wet and cold for them to fly.
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