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Sprites it certainly is today…but it’s the most that’s happened in the 18months we’ve been here… The Emiratis have been out playing in the ice like a snow day back home!! And then they go out hooning around in the flood water in their 4x4s donutting like teenagers! bbf26543-1c0a-43db-93ff-8ca133a8ce44.mov
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So, out here in the middle of the desert in the UAE winter has properly arrived…. Flooding, hail stones the size of golf balls( which have knackered the back of my car), and shredded trees…literally birds dead on the ground where they’ve been knocked out of the sky by the hail…Wadi’s which are normally bone dry in full flood!!! Nice to see some weather though!! IMG_1360.mov IMG_2335.mov 25a1b2df-220f-497c-a16c-4228977ed6d7.mp4 IMG_2320.mov IMG_2312.mov IMG_1351.mov
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Model Output Discussion - mid Autumn
John Stevens replied to Kirkcaldy Weather's topic in Forecast Model Discussion
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Worldwide Mountain & Snow Sports Discussion 2022/23
John Stevens replied to J10's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Snow reported in La Tania and Val d’Isere in the last 24 hours!!! -
Worldwide Mountain & Snow Sports Discussion 2022/23
John Stevens replied to J10's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Afternoon all, been looking at a trip to Cesana in the Milky Way next Feb, does anyone have any experience of that resort? I know it connects into the MW well, and therefore should be good. 1/2 term crowds will be the problem at that time I know, but my hands are tied from that pov -
Worldwide Mountain & Snow Sports Discussion 2022/23
John Stevens replied to J10's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Thanks Paul…pretty much my thinking…. Personally I’ve been to Le Corbier at that time and been fine…but as you say very dicey Unfortunately my hands are tied as to when I can organise the trip…. So take the plunge I think -
Worldwide Mountain & Snow Sports Discussion 2022/23
John Stevens replied to J10's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Quick question for you folks…am planning a school ski trip next season…unfortunately due to holiday dates here in the UAE (moved here 6 months ago from Surrey) my dates are tied to the week beginning 11th Dec2023…looking currently at Siestetre Italy and a hotel at 2000m… my head says that this should be ok…. Given the number of trips I’ve organised in the past at Easter, this will be the first at ye beginning of the season though!!! Any thoughts welcome -
Fingers crossed it all comes off and there’s Snowmegdon between Saturday PM and the 20th with a sudden rapid thaw and then reload from the 23rd just in time for a white Christmas…. Why? it’s a secret return to the U.K. to surprise friends and family for a week or so…snow would top it off! We love the desert, but coming home to snow can’t be beat!!
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Worldwide Mountain & Snow Sports Discussion 2022/23
John Stevens replied to J10's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Now that I’ve moved to the UAE the nearest skiing to here is Georgia, Armenia and Turkey. Does anyone know anything about the resort’s in these places….I know that they are significantly cheaper than the alps…and that they are also very high, with resort level being near to 2000m in some… -
So guys and gals in the SE, life in our new home in Al Ain, UAE, is going well. Settling into our new teaching jobs and the new school year has been hectic but fun! Any way last Wednesday we had a half hour downpour, preceded by a brief sandstorm! At that point we had been here for two weeks…but my calculations it had been a further seven weeks before we left the UK that we had seen rain at our former home in the Surrey Hills!! I’ve been told that there is increased rainfall here in the UAE in recent years due to cloud seeding and also the planting of large swathes of trees in the newly developed coastal and inland areas…i know the cloud seeding science and expiration of trees is the main driver of weather here but also the large cyclonic Indian Ocean weather systems that develop as well. in any case…seeing rain, standing in it and smelling it was amazing! IMG_8238.MOV
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Well folks, we’ve swapped the hot SE summer for the hot UAE desert. A week into our permanent move to Al Ain and the weather here is completely predictable…at the moment! Although rain is never too be discounted I’ll still be watching the SE weather, especially the snow potential, from a distance. Anyway, a lovely sunset picture from the top of Jabel Hafeet, at 6:30pm this evening. Sun dipping into the desert haze