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Planitfanit
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Posted: 01/February/2009 at 14:30 |
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The sun is the same in a relative way...........but you're older.
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Avril
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Posted: 01/February/2009 at 16:19 |
Very good, Planitfanit, think Noah lives up in Pateo!!!!
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Consistently inconsistent, Esse sou eu!
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Andrew
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Posted: 01/February/2009 at 18:26 |
Jeez cubsur and fellow Albufeira residents, sounds really bad, my only experience was the Oct '06 storms, cubsars reports seem to mirror that...
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john2604smith
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Posted: 01/February/2009 at 18:27 |
Was having lunch in the square yesterday, sat in a T shirt under sunny skies, back in blighty today watching the snow, heating on full blast, wrapped up in a thick jumper, roll on April !!
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cubsur
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Posted: 02/February/2009 at 08:46 |
Well yesterday was reasonably OK during the day but there were bursts of rain, quite heavy one of them as I walked into town.
This morning it is fairly bright but there are a lot of clouds around looking out to sea. Current temperature is 11C/52F which will rise to maybe 13 or 14C/55 - 57F this afternoon.
Wind is moderate from the north-west, which might bring showers later. The radar shows some weather out to the west near Lagos and Sagres, coming this way.
Rather more pleasant nevertheless than the pictures from SE England that I have been looking at this morning!
The picture from Salema's beach reminds me of a couple of years ago hereabouts when the sand vanished overnight.
I heard also yesterday that an hotel on Cerro Malpique had serious flooding problems on Saturday night.
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Avril
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Posted: 02/February/2009 at 15:57 |
Hopefully it wil pick up now January has gone, keep posting Tom, brother Sam is going over two weeks on Thursday looking for the big yellow thing in the sky!
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cubsur
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Posted: 02/February/2009 at 17:26 |
Fingers crossed - here's an item from the Portugal Met Office website to prove that January was a bit wet. O mês de Janeiro de 2009 foi o 3º mais chuvoso do
Sec. XXI, com valores de precipitação total média no Continente de
140,1 mm. Este valor acumulado de precipitação ficou bastante aquém do
registado em Janeiro de 2001 , quando se registou uma precipitação
média total de 254,2 mm. Not as wet as Jan 2001 in terms of the average amount of rain but the 3rd wettest this century.
Em termos de precipitação total média, o valor
observado em Janeiro de 2009, 140,1 mm, situa-se pouco acima do valor
da média climatológica de 1971-2000 (117,3 mm). No entanto, os 21 dias
com precipitação registada superior a 1 mm é muito superior à média
observada no mesmo período (10 dias) e situa este mês de janeiro logo
atrás de Janeiro de 2001, quando se observaram 22 dias com precipitação
nas estações do Continente. 21 rainy days recorded in January 2009, 2001 had 22 but it must have really chucked it down!
January average rainfall 1971- 2000 was 117.8mm, this year there was about 20% over the odds. However that's taken across the whole country, so I wouldn't mind betting that certain places would have been a lot worse off. Now I am off out shortly and there is a large black shower passing out to sea a few miles away. Let's hope the next one does the same.
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caz 3
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Posted: 02/February/2009 at 19:09 |
john2604smith wrote:
Was having lunch in the square yesterday, sat in a T shirt under sunny skies, back in blighty today watching the snow, heating on full blast, wrapped up in a thick jumper, roll on April !! |
i could have been sat next to you, i was there most of the afternoon, like you came home saturday night
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cubsur
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Posted: 03/February/2009 at 09:19 |
Tuesday morning and it is grey, damp and generally gloomy out here. Current temperature 10C/50F. Wind from the south-west, moderate, and there are a whole load of showers heading in this general direction. Today's high maybe 14C/57F, which is slightly below average for the time of year.
If we are lucky it will be like yesterday, when the heavy showers passed to the north and south of us.
The local forecast is currently predicting a less rainy couple of days for Wednesday and Thursday.
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cubsur
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Posted: 03/February/2009 at 13:11 |
It's just after 1pm. My thermometer insists it is 13C but it feels a lot colder than that.
Anyone else?
There's a horrible mess of murk and rain out to sea, it won't be long before it starts raining.
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peteknopp
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Posted: 03/February/2009 at 13:55 |
13 with me but ditto, feels chiily. just hoping rain will hold off til 5 as little un has riding at 3.30 and its spitting now. Spitting rain, not the horse!
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J2me
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Posted: 03/February/2009 at 14:00 |
Hi Tom, Though the weather in Albufeira at the weekend was truly awful (I was there too), it is better than it was in Dublin on Monday. The airplane was late into faro airport because the engine etc had to be de-iced. Lots of snow showers. Plenty of fender benders due to ice on the road. I plan to get back to Albufeira in either early or late April. What weather can I expect then?
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cubsur
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Posted: 03/February/2009 at 16:39 |
Pete Knopp - unlucky with weather! I'll bet little one is well pleased. The horse is quite possibly spitting by now as well.
Isn't it absolutely nasty out there!
J2me - at the rate we are going I wouldn't be surprised at anything in April. Normally it's in the mid-60's in old money with an odd rainy day to be expected. The ex-pats usually have the shorts and flip-flops out (not the Portuguese for whom it is still winter) and we are generally fairly content. But I will have developed webbed feet, so my flip-flops won't fit any longer.
The rain is lashing against my windows, the wind is gusting and howling and I can barely see beyond the marina. My guess is that fish will be in short supply at the restaurants soon - I just see the fishermen's faces and the '...ed if I'm going out there look!
There doesn't seem to be an respite in sight.
Grrrr. But it's better than snow and ice I think.
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peteknopp
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Posted: 03/February/2009 at 17:35 |
back from riding - soaked to the skin. plus had the added benefit of someone's 7 year old leading us off the beaten track thru mud, forgeting that chez and i were on foot! Joy!
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cubsur
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Posted: 03/February/2009 at 17:51 |
Ah, the joys of parenting.
And just to tell everyone how hard it is now raining my TV Cabo satellite signal keeps going off, depriving me of seeing Mr Beckham's performance from Sunday night.
Ah. it's back.
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