The Scottish Caribbean

[Trekmoor]

What is happening to the weather ? The temperatures here in Scotland today exceeded those in both the Mediterranean and the Caribbean This time last year we were still getting snowfalls . This is unheard of - and undreamt of weather for Scotland.
I took my dogs out and they were gasping in no time flat.

Bill T.

[Cajun Casey]

Drove by a field mown for baling hay today. Wow. Got a walking trial coming up this weekend and have already made arrangements to have an AED and medical responder on site. La Nina is not doing us any favors.

[tommyboy72]

Been between low 80's and low 90's here all week and last weekend.

[Graves14]

From 81* to 22* in the same week here...

[Ruffshooter]

Get this just last week up here in Maine We were in the mid 80's f. and mid 70's in the County.
All winter has been warm. We only had one night below zero all winter. Except the County. But even there they had no snow till the last couple weeks. That was thirty inches and now it is all gone.

But yet Alaska and other parts of the country had bad winter. This week it is more normal now in the low thirties and headed back down tonight.

The weather is doing a flip flop.

Rick

[fishvik]

Trek, It's been weird weather here too. 70's on day, scraping ice off the windshield the next. Usually we are still doing snow removal this time of year. The connotation of a "Scottish Caribbeam" however stirs up visions of a Robert MacMarley playing raggae on a bagpipe.

[the_possum]

we were up at the cabin this weekend in northern wisconsin.

all ice off the lake already.

just amazing. earliest iceout anyone could ever remember. gramps included.

[shot2high]

I opened up the pool for the kids this week. First spring break I can remember that the water was warm enough to swim in. I usually open the pool in mid May....go figure.

[sniperjon]

From 81* to 22* in the same week here...

New haven not far from me. Have you spent any time in east windor to do any field trials.

[Bberry20]

this weather is weird, we had 8 months of snow last year. This year we have had less than 2 inches total and that was on a sat, melted by monday. To think also that we had snow in June last year and its 80 in March. CRAZY.

[GWPtyler]

Couple weeks ago, part of North Dakota were in the 80s, which is beyond weird and broke some long standing records. But to top it all off, we actually were WARMER than Arizona!

Of course, not it's been 40s and rain, so I guess it couldn't last forever...

[Trekmoor]

The weather has been cooling down a bit here in Scotland over the last couple of days but it is still hotter than usual for this time of year .......... it's now more like the end of May. We are being told on T.V. news programmes that this is just a normal cyclic event but if it is I can't remember another one and I'm well into my sixties. I've been doing mainly waterwork with my dogs plus some hunting in well shaded woodlands and in among the remnants of gamecrops with the vizsla youngster I'm training. The gamecrops of very closely sown turnips and other plants are high enough to shade her as she works.
This is her on point in the gamecrop and also doing a retrieve over a fence down near the river.










Bill T.

[Ruffshooter]

Bill Did you throw that pup up that high. Holy smokes. That is a great photo. One of a kind.
Rick