Author Topic: Weather - Sick of winter. (Read 9038 times)

Jim Allen · « **on:** February 15, 2020, 03:32:21 am »

Last week it was Storm Ciara with freezing conditions in-between followed by Storm Dennis hitting our shores today. Ugh, totally sick of it, I need some sunshine.

Grasshopper · « **Reply #1 on:** February 15, 2020, 05:04:50 am »

What are you complaining about....not so long ago you were in Floridan and soon your'e headin for Malta

At least Dennis is bringing warm winds. We are relativelye close to the coast, so we have to brace again for heavy winds comming sunday.

Keep safe

Jim Allen · « **Reply #2 on:** February 15, 2020, 05:16:02 am »

I know but I'm still sick of it.

Wishing I could afford living somewhere warmer for at least 2 months of the winter.

It's not as bad as when I was a kid, walking over the frozen ijsselmeer or watching the Elfstedentocht but still

Jim Allen · « **Reply #3 on:** February 15, 2020, 05:21:40 am »

P.s for anyone reading wondering what the hell is the Elfstedentocht, it's a ice-skating race about 200 km long passing 11 towns in Friesland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht

fabio · « **Reply #4 on:** February 15, 2020, 06:08:16 am »

Went for a walk just a minute ago and it was very sunny,however the very cold wind blowing gave me a headache.
It's really unfortunate that the seasons go from summer to winter (at least where I'm from) there isn't that stepping stone period to change and have a mild weather. It's certainly not how it used to be 10 years ago.

Jim Allen · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2020, 06:26:53 am »

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It's certainly not how it used to be 10 years ago.

Feeling the same here.

Quote from: fabio on February 15, 2020, 06:08:16 am

Went for a walk just a minute ago and it was very sunny,however the very cold wind blowing gave me a headache.

Earlier this week I took a walk in the park and pretended it's was a warm spring day to try and cheer myself up. The rain put an end to my delusion though.

Jim Allen · « **Reply #6 on:** February 17, 2020, 08:50:07 am »

Happy days, Storm Dennis has passed and finally a sunny morning and, I wasn't the only one enjoying it either.

Nice start to the week

fabio · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2020, 09:41:45 am »

Are squirrels that common?
The only animals I see are stray cats and roaches....wish we had squirrels

Jim Allen · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2020, 11:43:48 am »

Hiya,

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The only animals I see are stray cats and roaches

Maybe you could give one of the cats a home...
I thought Greece had a pretty good number of animals? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Greece

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Are squirrels that common?

Well in wooded area's they are pretty common I suppose. The grey squirrel as in the pictures is considered an invasive species in Ireland, still, I do like watching them. https://invasivespeciesireland.com/species-accounts/established/terrestrial/grey-squirrel

I saw the little European robin out this morning as well, although, it's still a tad windy. Can't really upload great quality here, but have a look

Twitter handles pictures somewhat better https://twitter.com/JimAllenDublin/status/1229444124518080517?s=20

fabio · « **Reply #9 on:** February 17, 2020, 01:22:57 pm »

There are plenty of them on the mainland,but the island I live has some roach infestation....
Actually,im wrong. We do have the careta careta turtle,alongside flying roaches.

Jim Allen · « **Reply #10 on:** February 17, 2020, 02:27:41 pm »

Okay, I had to google the turtle I admit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_sea_turtle

Looks nice, though. The flying roaches sound a lot less pleasant.

fabio · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2020, 04:07:42 pm »

My island is a huge nesting site for these turtles. Planes arent allowed to fly at night hours for this reason as well. When you go to the beach in the morning you can see the mother turtles trails. Night swimming is forbiden in nesting sites as well as big lights nearby (because the eggs hatch and they follow the moonlight to guide them to the sea).
They are quite fascinating animals.

Jim Allen · « **Reply #12 on:** February 17, 2020, 04:24:14 pm »

Quote from: fabio on February 17, 2020, 04:07:42 pm

My island is a huge nesting site for these turtles. Planes arent allowed to fly at night hours for this reason as well. When you go to the beach in the morning you can see the mother turtles trails. Night swimming is forbiden in nesting sites as well as big lights nearby (because the eggs hatch and they follow the moonlight to guide them to the sea).
They are quite fascinating animals.

Sounds fascinating to see as a local, I would not want to disturb as a tourist but sounds like you have front row seats to see something amazing from time to time

fabio · « **Reply #13 on:** February 18, 2020, 03:45:03 am »

There's a sad thing to the whole turtle spotting business,because the tourists don't respect the poor animal. Just like all sea life it should be admired by a distance and not disturbed by getting close or taking pictures with flash.
Most English tourists don't seem to understand that it's a sacred animal,in danger of extinction.

Bhall4 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 18, 2020, 10:31:49 am »

Quote from: Jim Allen on February 15, 2020, 03:32:21 am

Last week it was Storm Ciara with freezing conditions in-between followed by Storm Dennis hitting our shores today. Ugh, totally sick of it, I need some sunshine.

63F here today and cloudy. We’ve had very few below freezing days this winter... so far. I’m near Florida though

OneTampa · « **Reply #15 on:** February 18, 2020, 11:46:55 am »

Bird on hood of car in Florida asked me if I am an Uber Driver.

Weather temperature in the 70s.

Best,

OT

fabio · « **Reply #16 on:** February 18, 2020, 12:15:31 pm »

Looks like a glorified chicken haha

Expat1 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 20, 2020, 08:48:52 pm »

Consider yourself lucky, I live in the tropics and we have only two seasons.
Hot and Wet,
and Hot and Dry.
Wet has floods and Dengue mosquitoes.
Dry has 30 million tourists, and burning rice fields polluting the air. $:-\$

fabio · « **Reply #18 on:** February 21, 2020, 09:23:03 am »

We have that species of animal too (tourists) haha.

Jim Allen · « **Reply #19 on:** February 25, 2020, 09:03:10 pm »

Quote from: Bhall4 on February 18, 2020, 10:31:49 am

63F here today and cloudy. We’ve had very few below freezing days this winter... so far. I’m near Florida though

63F is like a warm spring day here in Ireland. Would be jealous, except I just arrived in Malta 2 hours ago.

Quote from: Expat1 on February 20, 2020, 08:48:52 pm

Consider yourself lucky, I live in the tropics and we have only two seasons.
Hot and Wet,
and Hot and Dry.
Wet has floods and Dengue mosquitoes.
Dry has 30 million tourists, and burning rice fields polluting the air. $:-\$

Extreme weather is never good, although, I have tolerated extremes seasons before, not in Ireland I admit. The thing with Ireland that gets me down the drawn-out greyness of winter, particularly this year

Quote from: fabio on February 18, 2020, 12:15:31 pm

Looks like a glorified chicken haha

Quote from: OneTampa on February 18, 2020, 11:46:55 am

Bird on hood of car in Florida asked me if I am an Uber Driver.

Weather temperature in the 70s.

Best,

OT

Does not look like a sandhill crane or is it? I know those are protected in Florida

Jim Allen · « **Reply #20 on:** February 27, 2020, 12:52:33 pm »

So far the visit to Malta has been fantastic, sunshine, sunshine and more sunshine with stunning scenery and busy nightlife.

Definitely would recommend visiting if you get the chance.

Best, Jim

fabio · « **Reply #21 on:** February 27, 2020, 04:12:59 pm »

Wow! Looks amazing!
Was it expensive (including the tickets)?

Jim Allen · « **Reply #22 on:** February 27, 2020, 07:26:29 pm »

It is stunning.

Expensive depends on your preceptive I suppose.

I'm travelling out of season so that helps, the flights were the cheapest budget airline tickets as I would rather spend the extra on a bigger, nicer hotel room or nice food etc.

Car Hire is 27 euro a day. 4-star hotel for 4 nights total 325 euro and it comes with sea view & balcony, food and drink is cheaper than Ireland, example steakhouse last nights 2-course dinner with a few drinks and the bill for the two of us was 58 euro.

Best, Jim

Grasshopper · « **Reply #23 on:** February 28, 2020, 03:48:43 am »

Enjoy the sun. Around here we had a brief brush of winter. The weather sucks; lots of wind and rain.

fabio · « **Reply #24 on:** February 28, 2020, 12:30:31 pm »

There was a trip to Paris from my island for 44 euros only. Never thought that flights would be even cheaper than going to the mainland.
I'll try to look these up,maybe go somewhere off season.
350 euros is trully nothing! It's more expensive to have a week here on a local island.

Jim Allen · « **Reply #25 on:** February 28, 2020, 12:34:45 pm »

Quote from: Grasshopper on February 28, 2020, 03:48:43 am

Enjoy the sun. Around here we had a brief brush of winter. The weather sucks; lots of wind and rain.

Sorry to hear that, yeah enjoying the sun as much as I can and it feels great

Quote from: fabio on February 28, 2020, 12:30:31 pm

There was a trip to Paris from my island for 44 euros only. Never thought that flights would be even cheaper than going to the mainland.
I'll try to look these up,maybe go somewhere off season.
350 euros is trully nothing! It's more expensive to have a week here on a local island.

I have not been to Paris in years, it was okay the last time I went, depends what you want to do on a trip i suppose, Paris itself was a bit expensive like most capital cities.

OneTampa · « **Reply #26 on:** February 29, 2020, 03:36:52 pm »

Nice pics all.

And yes Jim, my pic is a Crane protected by the Florida government. They are all over the place and even cross the neighborhood streets in groups with traffic stopping for them.

OT

Jim Allen · « **Reply #27 on:** February 29, 2020, 04:01:12 pm »

Cool, thought as much

I first heard about them being protected after i saw a cop car crawling behind three of them walking down the middle of the street and someone told they were protected.

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Nice pics all.

Thanks, arrived back in Ireland 90 mins ago, just on my way home now. I didn't miss Ireland and have arrived back during storm Jorge

Malta in one word was gorgeous

Jim Allen · « **Reply #28 on:** February 29, 2020, 06:06:53 pm »

Bhall4 · « **Reply #29 on:** February 29, 2020, 07:14:04 pm »

Yes Malta, so much better than where I am!!! Lovely pics!!

Loa111 · « **Reply #30 on:** March 08, 2020, 05:26:50 am »

Yes I’m sick of these winters too..lol...I start to get sick as soon October comes right through until the clocks change end of March. I loved living In tropics everyday being summer suited me perfectly so coming back to Ireland, the dark gloomy winters I find really tough...but hey ho the things we must do to give the kids a better future.
I always feels a bit of a drag in winters and when I went to live in the sun ☀️ immediately this went away, and now I’m back so is that dragging winter feeling.
Roll on end of March the bright evenings help, but knowing Ireland will be be gloomy n cloudy n piss rain all “summer”?
I’ll certainly if I can later in life spend winters in the sun...now where that lottery ticket?

Jim Allen · « **Reply #31 on:** March 09, 2020, 12:01:16 pm »

Quote from: Loa111 on March 08, 2020, 05:26:50 am

Ireland will be be gloomy n cloudy n piss rain all “summer”?

Lukewarm piss during the summer. The problem is we only have two seasons, yeah, I know we technically have 4 but I have a hard time identifying them some years, spring is two weeks and autumn is another two weeks

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the dark gloomy winters I find really tough...but hey ho the things we must do to give the kids a better future.

Yup and they better be fecking grateful or else

fabio · « **Reply #32 on:** March 09, 2020, 03:26:21 pm »

About this time 15 to 20 years ago it used to be spring here and the weather was nice. Now it's still cold and its raining the whole 2 months.
Although I hate summer for the extreme heat and the fact that you can't go out in the sun without getting scorched,I miss watermelon and swimming in the sea every day....

Nolaguy4111 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 15, 2020, 11:45:57 am »

Hey Jim,

Thank you for taking the time to converse with people in the forum. I see your posts everywhere and your responses are timely, thoughtful and pragmatic. I've been visiting the forums for quite a few years now. I read the stories because I need to see the real aspects of life - the good, bad and the ugly.

You are being super helpful to a lot of people and I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate that, in addition to the thousands of others you've helped.

Best,
J

Jim Allen · « **Reply #34 on:** March 15, 2020, 09:29:05 pm »

Quote from: Nolaguy4111 on March 15, 2020, 11:45:57 am

Hey Jim,

Thank you for taking the time to converse with people in the forum. I see your posts everywhere and your responses are timely, thoughtful and pragmatic. I've been visiting the forums for quite a few years now. I read the stories because I need to see the real aspects of life - the good, bad and the ugly.

You are being super helpful to a lot of people and I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate that, in addition to the thousands of others you've helped.

Best,
J

Thanks, you're welcome, I suppose.

Like most members, I just post and react whenever I think it might help. Sometimes it does, sometimes it pisses people off

Take it easy.

Nolaguy4111 · « **Reply #35 on:** March 15, 2020, 09:36:37 pm »

Yea, but you're honest and don't mince words. Even if it does piss some people off, more than likely it's their own issue not yours. Are you in Ireland? I thought I read that in one of your posts. My relatives are from County Cork.

Jim Allen · « **Reply #36 on:** March 15, 2020, 09:38:51 pm »

Co.Cork, well they had their fair share of floodings and storms in recent weeks.
Yeah, I'm in Ireland, Co.Meath.

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Even if it does piss some people off, more than likely it's their own issue not yours.

- No comment.

Nolaguy4111 · « **Reply #37 on:** March 15, 2020, 10:01:58 pm »

Cool. Yea, my relatives ran out of potatoes a few years ago and took a boat here. I've always wanted to visit Ireland, it looks amazing. I applied for a job in Dublin a few years ago. But being an American it's difficult to get hired in a foreign company unless you have some mad crazy skill they want.

How's the mood in Ireland with the Coronavirus? People here in the states are buying every roll of toilet paper they can. It's obnoxious.

But we do need to take it more seriously. A lot of the 20 somethings just don't seem to care and that makes me mad because they are being reckless and could pass it on to someone who might have a tough time.

I hope soon they will find a cure for HIV. It's been too long. Although I'm glad the medication is lower toxicity than several years ago. I've read a lot of literature on HIV throughout the years so if I ever became poz, I know exactly what to do, the tests, etc. These forums provide a lot of good info too.

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