1274 Hows the weather in Le Marche?

[QUOTE=Marinaw]Hi are the weather forecasts as hopeless in Italy as they are in the UK?
Have just looked at yahoo weather for Ascoli for the next 2 weeks and it looks abysmal - rain rain and more rain..
I'm hoping that they are as bad at forecasting as here as I'm out for a longed for week at our house near Monte san Martino on Sunday..
Does anyone recommend any of the online forecasters as usually reliable?
*sigh* Looks like we'll be swimming in the rain..
I live on the edge of the Pennines in the UK = lots of rain.
I live on the edge of the Appenines in Italy = same problem.
I guess its obvious really.
Do any Marche dwellers think this summer has been disappointing weatherwise?

Marina[/QUOTE]
hi marina
no hope for the next days: forecasts are bad all over italy not only marche.
yes it is a strange summer: usually september is a grear period for late holydays: no hot, still good sea, no krowd... may be the ozone hole is guilty.... :(

My mate John is coming over from Sheffield, it's all his fault, for months he's been saying "I hope it won't be too hot in September" looks like he got his wish... :eek: This summer has been OK though so far, a bit of rain, plenty of sunshine.

Oh George with your mate John, global warming and my own propensity to be a rain goddess what chance does Sept have? I'll pack my wellies now.

Cheers

Marina

Hear Hear John for your last two paragraphs! We also used the forum in its prevoius lives!

Stone bouncing wildly up and down.......earthquake ;)

I like that site - it has a more optimistic outlook than others - 'some chance of rain' 'more sun than clouds' is much more like it!

On the BBC the other day the forecaster said 'theres a lot of uncertainty about' - I think I could say that examining a few fircones..

I found this site too which seems to cover small places -
[url]http://magazine.enel.it/meteo/indexComuniRis.asp?idComune=IT043032[/url]

Thanks

Marina

Stone crying...deep depression !

[QUOTE=adriatica]
i also hate this posting count thing... i understand the reason behind it but resent the fact that it has some status beyond the number .... i regard myself as having no more right than anyone with one post behind them to have their say and thankfully i think most members here apply the same reasoning....[/QUOTE]

I think your posts are very interesting and agree with much you say. Plus I like your ...... works for me anyway ....... but are you not taking the posting status a little too serious, surely it's just a bit of fun! I personally couldn't care if I remained a pleb and the only reason for posting top 5 was for a laugh! :D

[QUOTE=GeorgeS]Stone bouncing wildly up and down.......earthquake ;)[/QUOTE]

Technically speaking George an earthquake can not be classed as weather... ;)

Rock on
John

[QUOTE=alex and lyn]Stone crying...deep depression ![/QUOTE]

Stone crying blood...tourist attraction (or religious experience)

within view of the gran sasso which being a high range can be quite a long way away but anyway there or there abouts have found that forecasts of rain here in abruzzo mean often rain on the mountains

the region anyway being so varied has several massive differences in climate anyway for those that you that pick areas like aquila and sulmona you will find your idea of pleasant italian autumns winters and springs in for a bit of a shock in general it being one of the coldest and when you get close to the western side of the mountain range wettest areas

if you stick to the eastern side of the appenines the weather in general can be more clement however if you pick the wrong hilltop or stay too close to the big mountains the misty grey weather of the uk will be something you might well have to get used to once more

in terms of rain here in the last two weeks... we have had two afternoons of storms... montorio about ten km away has had a week of cloud.... isola del gran sasso about ten km also is about five degrees colder at night and very often is shrouded already in mist

the summer consisted here of at least two months without rain and day time temps always 30 plus and hot sun... it was a fair summer

june was boiling hot also... whilst there is hail in the north and rain in the south the centre ... at least this side of it remains fairly good...last sunday we were down at the beach with friends and the children were all swimming and temps were around 30 again

in all i would say there has been a good summer here and looking at television reports of the various smaller weather problems we do have here in italy over the last few years i would say that very few of them have ever applied to the northern abruzzo southern marche area... much as i regard the area of teramo as ideal in every respect i also have the same regard for the ascoli region of the marche

however local knowledge will often mean the difference between sun and rain for a good part of the year and even that you can do without if you use a bit of common sense... ie avoid valleys... always colder and mistier.. heights over 450-500 metres the climate changes and keep a distance from the appenines... the higher parts anyway... the coastal plain has a much sunnier milder climate and if you can bear it pick a house with other people living in houses close by... its always a good sign if a small habitation exists there already... though unless your preference is for cold hardy winters avoid those areas where all the men seem to sport those big matted beards and long hair... the towns surrounded by huge stockpiles of logs and a tendency to wear those checked woollen shirts

in all if you do happen to have a second home here the best thing is to have a friend you can phone about the weather because as far as i can see much as any national forecast they seem to get it wrong at least half of the time and the rest of the time mainly wrong too...

i dont know... the dots have crept back... i dont punctuate... its a waste of time... dots help to break up the sentence and allow pauses of breath... maybe i should have a health warning attached to my profile as i seem to cause apoplexic fits amongst some forum members..... regarding dots and punctuation ..... or maybe you could just not bother to read what i say and then you wouldnt have to worry.... or maybe that would include everybody

by the way i love to have new forum members.... sorry to original poster but cannot be bothered to switch threads .. anyway you might well be one of these.... there is nothing like repetition to get things into your head ... though i regard this comment about them asking the same old things slightly more than condesending.... having used the forum in its various guises now for something like three years i have found something new to learn very often from either the questions or answers posted here... and as i can also remind myself i was once new too and maybe the same comments were passed around about me

i still think this a friendly and interesting site.... it has its good and bad days much as any human based activity.... but in reality it is the human element and the various characters that provide as much interest as the knowledge

i also hate this posting count thing... i understand the reason behind it but resent the fact that it has some status beyond the number .... i regard myself as having no more right than anyone with one post behind them to have their say and thankfully i think most members here apply the same reasoning....

All wise words John. I like your ....s they make me giggle.

Cheers

Marina

[QUOTE=will]stone calling to get your attention.............................hail[/QUOTE]
Nice one, :D

Can't stop laughing about the stone !!!!...as they say 'little things please little minds '....... Looking for my string to hang one up... ;)

Stone missing......Look for the dog lookig guilty with a lump in her throat.

At last; a hint at what these sub headings ( plebian, equestrian etc) mean; I wondered why I was a Plebian! How do you get to be an equestrian ( if you wanted to, that is) and where's the explanation of such things!
Jacqueline

[QUOTE=adriatica]
if you stick to the eastern side of the appenines the weather in general can be more clement however if you pick the wrong hilltop or stay too close to the big mountains the misty grey weather of the uk will be something you might well have to get used to once more
....[/QUOTE]

Ahhh great... Now I can imagine that I'm in Italy when I look out from my cottage to the Pentland Hills (south of Edinburgh) shrouded in mist. It's been foggy & rainy all day so far so a bit of day-dreaming can't do much harm... surely not... :)

By the way, John, I like ...s too!!! Ever so useful :D

Stephanie (wearing her rose tinted glasses)

[QUOTE=jackie]At last; a hint at what these sub headings ( plebian, equestrian etc) mean; I wondered why I was a Plebian! How do you get to be an equestrian ( if you wanted to, that is) and where's the explanation of such things!
Jacqueline[/QUOTE]
You a pleb no longer..... and, the weather is delightful... and somebody once did some research somewhere and the discovered that if you forcast that tomorrows weather would be the same as todays, you would be right more often the meteorologists...

weather's amazing? not here. not now.least I'm not a pleb anymore then... crickets off- bad light stopped play. geoff boycott's moaning...takes me back...i like dots too....

[QUOTE=Marinaw]Hi are the weather forecasts as hopeless in Italy as they are in the UK?
Have just looked at yahoo weather for Ascoli for the next 2 weeks and it looks abysmal - rain rain and more rain..
I'm hoping that they are as bad at forecasting as here as I'm out for a longed for week at our house near Monte san Martino on Sunday..
Does anyone recommend any of the online forecasters as usually reliable?
*sigh* Looks like we'll be swimming in the rain..
I live on the edge of the Pennines in the UK = lots of rain.
I live on the edge of the Appenines in Italy = same problem.
I guess its obvious really.
Do any Marche dwellers think this summer has been disappointing weatherwise?

Marina[/QUOTE]
;)
For local weather forecasting I have always found the following very accurate. You will need to thread a string about 12 inches long through a stone with a hole in it and suspend it from a nail, tree branch etc clear of any obstructions. You will then be able to accurately predict the weather by referencing the following chart:

[COLOR=Red]Stone wet on top.............Raining[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Red]Shaddow under stone............Sunny[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Red]Stone moving...............Windy[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Red]Cannot see stone............Foggy[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Red]Snow on top of stone............Cold[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Red]Stone under water...............Floods[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Red]Stone missing...............Hurricane[/COLOR]

:) John & Ronnie

Loved it! Now have this pinned on kitchen noticeboard! Maybe will even find a stone and hang up...amusing conversation topic.

Found this site yesterday

[url]http://www.intellicast.com[/url]

If you put in your nearest town/city in the top right hand corner, plus of course Italy for the country, you should get a 10 day forecast.

Don't know how accurate it is -
(but at the moment Turin [near my place - going out there next weekend] has a lot better forecast than Rome [not near my place])

Hooray!!!!!!