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[Pedrito]

Highways in Northern Italy are clear of snow: you can blaze through Italy destroying the winter tires 

L.

[sbr]

Highways in Northern Italy are clear of snow: you can blaze through Italy destroying the winter tires 

L.

Thank god someone finally spelled tires right. 

[Ed Anger]

Tamas: suffers attrition and loses 2 SP's.

[Caliga]

It got up to 77 F here today.  Drove home with my windows down and sunroof open.

[Razgovory]

It got up to 77 F here today.  Drove home with my windows down and sunroof open.

Yeah it was warm here today as well.  Mid 70's.  Then there was a lightning storm.

[Zanza]

It got up to 77 F here today.  Drove home with my windows down and sunroof open.

It's 95 and humid here. 

[Tamas]

Nice to know, Pedrito 

The snow reached Hungary last night and it is still falling  I mean WTF its mid-March FFS.

[Alatriste]

Weather forecasts for Barcelona

http://eltiempo.elpais.com/espana/barcelona/barcelona/938

And Gerona, closer to the French border

http://eltiempo.elpais.com/espana/girona/girona/2577

[Barrister]

By the way, many people don't really understand that Barcelona and Northern Spain in general is roughly in the same latitude that Massachusetts or Hokkaido (and Paris, London, Berlin, Copenhague... are so northern as Newfoundland, Kamchatka and the Yukon). Thanks to the Gulf Stream and the associated winds European winters are usually quite warmer. But sometimes the winds change and come from the East, from Siberia and the Arctic, and then we get some days of snow and freezing temperatures.

Barcelona = 41 degrees latitude.

Whitehose = 61 degrees latitude

I understand your point about the gulf stream, but you badly over-state it.

[Tamas]

Weather forecasts for Barcelona

http://eltiempo.elpais.com/espana/barcelona/barcelona/938

And Gerona, closer to the French border

http://eltiempo.elpais.com/espana/girona/girona/2577

Thanks.

Does not look that bad, compared to the winter hell of few days ago.

[Tamas]

GPS wants to take us on the motorway/highway labelled "AP-7" (AP on the French side). Is that approved?

[The Larch]

GPS wants to take us on the motorway/highway labelled "AP-7" (AP on the French side). Is that approved?

That's the La Junquera pass that I talked about earlier. I'll check if it's still jammed.

[Tamas]

GPS wants to take us on the motorway/highway labelled "AP-7" (AP on the French side). Is that approved?

That's the La Junquera pass that I talked about earlier. I'll check if it's still jammed.

[Alatriste]

By the way, many people don't really understand that Barcelona and Northern Spain in general is roughly in the same latitude that Massachusetts or Hokkaido (and Paris, London, Berlin, Copenhague... are so northern as Newfoundland, Kamchatka and the Yukon). Thanks to the Gulf Stream and the associated winds European winters are usually quite warmer. But sometimes the winds change and come from the East, from Siberia and the Arctic, and then we get some days of snow and freezing temperatures.

Barcelona = 41 degrees latitude.

Whitehose = 61 degrees latitude

I understand your point about the gulf stream, but you badly over-state it.

Perhaps, but I didn't compare Barcelona's latitude with Yukon's... what I said was "Barcelona and Northern Spain in general is roughly in the same latitude that Massachusetts or Hokkaido"

Well, Barcelona is at 41º 23', Vigo 42º 15', Bilbao 43º 15'... while Boston is at 42º 19' and Sapporo at 43º 05'.

The cities I compared with Yukon, Newfoundland and Kamchatka were Paris, London, Berlin and Copenhague.

Petropavlovsk (Kamchatka): 53º 01'
Saint Johns (Newfoundland): 47º 33'

Paris: 48º 48'
London: 51º 32'
Berlin: 52º 30'
Copenhagen: 55º 40'

All four are closer to the North Pole than Saint Johns, and Copenhagen is almost 2,5 degrees more northern than Petropavlovsk. I will freely admit, however, that Yukon was going literally too far (north), Alberta, Saskatchewan and even Labrador would have been better examples.

[The Larch]

GPS wants to take us on the motorway/highway labelled "AP-7" (AP on the French side). Is that approved?

That's the La Junquera pass that I talked about earlier. I'll check if it's still jammed.

Apparently it's already open, but sections of the AP7 are closed for mainteinance.