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Post by Bonobo on Jan 25, 2016 20:21:47 GMT 1
We always find a way to deal with stuff. After a series of accidents when a towed person, especially child, died on a snowy road, the police here is especially sensitive to such entertainment. So there is no "You are awesome" as in the video, but the highest fine available. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 25, 2016 21:06:25 GMT 1
I hope that our Polish friends Tomek and Bo are fine too. Lately the Dutch national television news reported that in one very cold freezing winter night in Poland 21 people died. I thought probably drunk people who fell somewhere along a slippery icy and snowy road or alley, fell asleep and died. And homeless people who are extra vulnerable during winters if they don't have enough clothes or blankets. It is always sad when a fellow human being and human soul dies. God have mercy on their souls. Pieter Yes, either homeless (mostly drunk) or intoxicated residents freeze to death in Poland. And nothing can be done about it because some people will drink despite the weather. There are enough homeless shelters but their rules are strict - if you drink, you must leave. So the homeless prefer to stay outside on their own to have access to booze even if it it deadly for them.
According to the Government Security Centre, 90 people have died as a result of hypothermia since November. - See more at: www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/237843,Eight-people-freeze-to-death-in-Poland#sthash.zxPPcOHR.dpuf |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 9, 2016 9:43:36 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 28, 2016 15:56:09 GMT 1
Hurricane-like winds cause damage in northern and central Poland
27.12.2016 09:17
Strong winds which hit Poland on the night between Monday and Tuesday caused significant damage in the northern and central parts of the country.
The winds snapped trees and damaged roofs and cars, authorities said on Tuesday morning.
Firefighters responded to over 400 calls over the night, adding that the regions of west Pomerania, Pomerania and Wielkopolskie, in northern and central Poland, were the worst affected.
A spokesman for the Polish firefighters said that no one was injured.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 8, 2017 0:11:05 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Feb 8, 2017 7:00:03 GMT 1
In the Eastern Netherlands there is a nasty combination of cold, wet snow and general greyness. I am glad I can escape to some warmer territory and warm up a bit. I prefer dry snow, and a stabile winter in staid of these wet cold winters with a lot of fog, wet snow, snow and cold rains. It makes you gloomy. But good work, good friends and ceetainly good girlfriends can cheer a poor old bachelor like me up!
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Post by jeanne on Feb 8, 2017 14:24:20 GMT 1
Likewise, here in New England, we are having snow, rain, and a grand coating of ice. Forecasters claimed temperatures would rise overnight to melt and wash away with rain the snow we accumulated yesterday. It didn't happen...temperatures were well below freezing this morning; it did rain, but coated everything with ice. Around Boston, the morning commuters ended up in many pile-ups of skidding cars...a nasty scene. Schools have delayed openings by two hours today. Glad I don't have to go out. Later on today, forecasters assure us, the temperature will rise...we shall see!
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 25, 2017 20:17:53 GMT 1
Two fully grown firs were uprooted by wind in my residential estate. Fortunately, they fell early in the morning when the streets were empty. Wind, rain wreaks havok in Poland 25.02.2017 14:24 Firefighters were called out more than 1,600 times as strong wind and heavy rain wreaked havoc in Poland, a State Fire Service spokesman said on Saturday. Falling trees and branches injured three pedestrians on Friday, while a fourth person was hurt when his car hit a tree on the road. The highest number of reports of damage came from Poland's south and southwest, accordig to the fire service spokesman. More than 250 calls regarded flooding of homes and damage caused by water, but the spokesman said there was no risk of flood. On Friday, firefighters removed thousands of trees which toppled onto roads and train tracks, pumped water out of basements, protected buildings from flooding and monitored levees. (vb)  |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 25, 2017 23:48:46 GMT 1
Wow...what a mess!
We have been having warm, balmy, spring-like weather the past few days.
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Post by jeanne on Mar 4, 2017 20:21:57 GMT 1
Forget about spring weather. Today holds the record for the coldest March 4th on record in my area...15 degrees F and -9 degrees C...and it's very windy! I'm f-f-f-freezing!
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 4, 2017 23:26:01 GMT 1
Forget about spring weather. Today holds the record for the coldest March 4th on record in my area...15 degrees F and -9 degrees C...and it's very windy! I'm f-f-f-freezing! W Marcu jak w garncu - March is like in a pot.  |
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Post by jeanne on Mar 5, 2017 0:33:34 GMT 1
Forget about spring weather. Today holds the record for the coldest March 4th on record in my area...15 degrees F and -9 degrees C...and it's very windy! I'm f-f-f-freezing! W Marcu jak w garncu - March is like in a pot. "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb." Only this year it came in like a lamb...but then quickly became a lion! |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 5, 2017 1:41:27 GMT 1
Bo, The weather in the Netherlands is a typical North-West-European, North sea climate, weather. Stormy, nasty winds and water cold weather. Not freezing, but more nasty, close to zero and a lot of damp in the atmosphere and on the soil, so wet city streets, walls, vegetation and houses and buildings. The long rainy days make the atmosphere outside rather grey with all the grey, white and anthracite clouds. The wind creates noises of rattling windows, clapping flags or advertisment banners on their aluminium flagstaffs, the lisping sounds of trucks, cars, vans and busses driving over wet streets and boulevards, and the sharp whistling sounds of the wind that forces itself around buildings, tall trees and constructions like bridges, street lights, metal fences and traffic lights. We have those noises all year round, because in our flat lands the wind is master. But in the winter the wind is more nasty and it's tone more harsh, because you don't have the soft gentle whispering sound of young leaves and tree branches of the spring or the full tree brances of the summer. Like in a poetic Russian movie. Some people in the North of Europe suffer from winter somberness or depression. Lot's of people from Nordic countries like the Netherlands, Northern-Germany, Denmark and the Scandinavian countries above Denmark go to warm destinations in the winter, Portugal, Spain, the Canary Islands, Thailand, Greece, Turkey or Egypt, Israel, Ibiza or Mallorca. I hear the rain and wind at night (and the noises I described), because I live in the periphery of the city, inbetween a Industrial zone and a old neighbourhood. Lot's of industrial and civilian neighbourhood elements that can catch wind and therefor make all kind of noises. This next to some industrial and construction noises at night, because a large firm of road construction materials (gravel, sand and cement, concrete, ground/soil, and other materials like metal, synthetic materials and etc.). Trucks driving in, receiving their load and moving again, cranes putting the materials in the trucks and etc. Road construction work and train track construction work often happens at night in the Netherlands. The minimum temperature in Arnhem, Sunday, March the 5th 2017 is 5 degrees celcius, and the maximun temperature is 11 degrees celcius. So better than last week. (mo, Tu, Wed, Thursday and Friday). In the morning it will be dry with lightly overcast, and in the afternoon there will be more clouds and rain again. www.weeronline.nl/Europa/Nederland/Arnhem/4057527Cheers, Pieter |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 5, 2017 1:49:45 GMT 1
 An image of typical Dutch stormy weather, you see Arnhem below the middle, under Zwolle, Februari, 23, 2017  An image of the Dutch North sea during a storm Trees hit cars in the Netherlands too in Frebruari 2017 Storm and human errors cause a lot of damage on Dutch highways, roads and boulevards  In the Vossenalley in the Dutch city Nijmegen a large tree fell down. It hit a car of a local inhabitant. His neighbor from across the street just escaped from the falling tree when he passed the car of his neighbour. He was lucky and unharmed. |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 5, 2017 2:07:53 GMT 1
   In the province of Gelderland, near Arnhem Somewhere in the Veluwe forest region in the provinice of Gelderland (near Arnhem) tall tree braches blocked the road and had to be removed by the fire brigade |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 5, 2017 21:15:15 GMT 1
Bo, The weather in the Netherlands is a typical North-West-European, North sea climate, weather. Stormy, nasty winds and water cold weather. Not freezing, but more nasty, close to zero and a lot of damp in the atmosphere and on the soil, so wet city streets, walls, vegetation and houses and buildings. The long rainy days make the atmosphere outside rather grey with all the grey, white and anthracite clouds. The wind creates noises of rattling windows, clapping flags or advertisment banners on their aluminium flagstaffs, the lisping sounds of trucks, cars, vans and busses driving over wet streets and boulevards, and the sharp whistling sounds of the wind that forces itself around buildings, tall trees and constructions like bridges, street lights, metal fences and traffic lights. We have those noises all year round, because in our flat lands the wind is master. But in the winter the wind is more nasty and it's tone more harsh, because you don't have the soft gentle whispering sound of young leaves and tree branches of the spring or the full tree brances of the summer. Like in a poetic Russian movie. Some people in the North of Europe suffer from winter somberness or depression. Lot's of people from Nordic countries like the Netherlands, Northern-Germany, Denmark and the Scandinavian countries above Denmark go to warm destinations in the winter, Portugal, Spain, the Canary Islands, Thailand, Greece, Turkey or Egypt, Israel, Ibiza or Mallorca. I hear the rain and wind at night (and the noises I described), because I live in the periphery of the city, inbetween a Industrial zone and a old neighbourhood. Lot's of industrial and civilian neighbourhood elements that can catch wind and therefor make all kind of noises. This next to some industrial and construction noises at night, because a large firm of road construction materials (gravel, sand and cement, concrete, ground/soil, and other materials like metal, synthetic materials and etc.). Trucks driving in, receiving their load and moving again, cranes putting the materials in the trucks and etc. Road construction work and train track construction work often happens at night in the Netherlands. Cheers, Pieter This is a beautiful post. Peter, with all rich imagery and sounds, while reading it, I can almost hear the noises you are talking about. As for depression, it is interesting because it is also a problem in Poland. Some experts claim that Poles are so cold in everyday relations due to the weather. It suggest that primitive tribes which moved here a few thousand years ago from Eastern steppes and created the civilization we see today, still haven`t adopted to local condtions. How long is it going to take, then? |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 7, 2017 1:11:19 GMT 1
Thank you Bo, I simply spoke my mind and feeling about the somber wet rainy winter weather in the Netherlands. When it rains for days or weeks you get kind of depressed. Only work, social contacts and social activities make you forget the grey dull and cold wet weather and think about spring and summer. I prefer snow and a little bit colder temperatures, because that feels less cold than the wet cold. Funny theory about the primitive tribes that moved from the Eastern steppes to the West. I believe there is some truth in that when I see some primitive behavior of angry Dutch people in traffic jams or awkward traffic situations. Behaving themselves like Neantherthals, primitive brutes with shouting, vulgar guestions, agression, impatience, and acting if they are the only important ones. And the Hooligans, low lifes, white trash of rednecks (or the Duch kind of hillbillies) and other particular strange individuals and groups that just seem to have come out of the stone age or the Migration Period in the middle of the first millennium AD. When Germanic, Slav and Romance tribes travelled great distances all over Europe. The time of the Barbarians, Romans, Huns, Franks, Goths, Visigoths and Celts. The images below here are images I made iat the back of my apartment with a view on Arnhem city and from my balcony on the front of the apartment with a view on the industrial zone and the Rhine river area in the distance. The Third photo is an image of the road from Arnhem to Oosterbeek in the West Monday morning. I you look at the imagery of the first two images and imagine the sounds at night you can maybe hear the noises I was talking about.  The Rhine river and Industry side of my apartment in the front of the apartment building, fourth store The North side of the apartment building with a view from my front door to the Balustrada walkway to the
elevator and stairs to go downstairs with a view on the city center of Arnhem. The road from Arnhem to Oosterbeek in the West Monday morning |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 7, 2017 1:27:23 GMT 1
The same view from my front door with snow  |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 7, 2017 1:33:16 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 10, 2017 23:18:08 GMT 1
That was the weather throughout summer time - southern Poland was scorched. People who went to the seaside were extremely disappointed.   |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 29, 2017 21:51:23 GMT 1
Coming back from the mass service, I spotted 3 broken umbrellas in a single bin. Some cities Two dead as fierce winds wreak havoc in Poland 29.10.2017 09:54 Two men have died as gales wreak havoc across Poland. The man was driving his car in Poland's north when he ran into a tree which had fallen onto the road as a result of a gale, according to fire department spokesman Paweł Frątczak. The PAP news agency said a second man died when a tree fell on his car in southwestern Poland. His passenger was taken to hospital. Frątczak said that firefighters were attending 1,200 call outs on Sunday morning, as trees had been knocked down across the country. Meanwhile, Poland's meteorology institute issued gale warnings for the pomorskie, zachodniopomorskie, lubuskie, wielkopolskie, dolnośląskie, opolskie, śląskie, małopolskie, podkarpackie, świętokrzyskie and łódzkie provinces, where winds could reach 140 km/h speeds. Poland's remaining five northeastern provinces are on alert. Water levels may also rise in country's north, the institute said. (vb/pk) Source: PAP     |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 25, 2018 21:40:23 GMT 1
A little snow, a little frosty. Not bad. American forecats for Europe suggests January will be mild in Poland. tvnmeteo.tvn24.pl/informacje-pogoda/prognoza,45/jaki-bedzie-styczen-przewaznie-cieply-czyli-malo-zimowy,281812,1,0.html  |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 19, 2019 22:20:47 GMT 1
It is mid February, spring weather, warm and sunny, moles started working underground.
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Post by jeanne on Feb 19, 2019 22:37:40 GMT 1
It is mid February, spring weather, warm and sunny, moles started working underground. Sounds lovely...except for the moles! We are in a short cold spell right now; we had a storm yesterday with about 2 to 3 inches of snow. It is supposed to get warmer later in the week. All in all, it hasn't been too bad of a winter...of course March can always surprise us with some snow storms and low temperatures just when you think spring is on the way!  |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 19, 2019 22:44:25 GMT 1
March can always surprise us with some snow storms and low temperatures just when you think spring is on the way! March is like a boiling pot - Polish saying. |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 19, 2019 22:47:54 GMT 1
March can always surprise us with some snow storms and low temperatures just when you think spring is on the way! March is like a boiling pot - Polish saying. Yes, I remember your saying that before; and I think I responded with "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb." But that doesn't always hold true! Sometimes the lamb doesn't show up! |
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 13, 2019 13:51:35 GMT 1
In May the torrential rains lasted for a week, now we have had a heatwave since Monday. it is hotter than in southern Europe. Students stopped coming to school because it is unbearable. I can say I have made it at last if not for this crazy temperature. The only airconditioning that I have is in my car and summer house.  Media advise how to survive the heat www.tvn24.pl/raporty/upaly-w-polsce,686 |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 17, 2019 14:24:54 GMT 1
Today it is so sunny and warm I put out the tortoise out to get some sunshine. They predict colder temperatures next week but without freezing. And December is said to be warmer than usual. Good. It means less smog in cities. Poland is warmer than Spain  tvnmeteo.tvn24.pl/informacje-pogoda/prognoza,45/sprawdz-co-pogoda-szykuje-na-grudzien,307559,1,0.html |
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Post by jeanne on Nov 17, 2019 22:08:23 GMT 1
Today it is so sunny and warm I put out the tortoise out to get some sunshine. They predict colder temperatures next week but without freezing. And December is said to be warmer than usual. Good. It means less smog in cities. Poland is warmer than Spain We had a fairly warm and fair fall...then November arrived. We have been having temperatures in the 20 degrees F range during the days. Today it is 35 degrees F, cloudy with snow showers. It seems more like December... I guess we didn't get the memo that there is global warming going on... |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 1, 2019 21:23:01 GMT 1
I guess we didn't get the memo that there is global warming going on... Global warming mostly shows in off winter seasons like summers which are extremely hot and dry. |
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