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cloudy whole day, cold fron should hit us in next hour cuz i can see thunders in far west already. still warm (over 20) but should be much colder in morning.

How high is the biggest peak of UK?

Today at 2pm 30°C degrees reached first time since august. The wind is turning from BURA (NE) to JUGO (SE) and becoming stronge. Pressure is dropping, expecting change in next 36HRS. :shock:

As I promised last week, here are some cool pictures I took during the stormy & rainy period in Split in first part of september. First you can see the dark and dangerous clouds gathering, than at night the rain startes, finaly a very heavy rain wahed away the hell heat of the summer. This night pic of heavy rain really surpried me, lot of people even didn't realize that it's rain on that pic! Hope you'll like it!

Cool nite at the moment, in continent under 10, here about 15°C. Few thundery showers still around. More than 50mm in last week here fallen.

Return of summer today in many places over 25°C! But tomorrow much cooler with passage of the cold front from central Europe. Stormy winds are reported from mid Adriatic coast.

Rain is falling now for a while now. Especially rainy is in the south Croatia where the draught was the biggest. I guess it's because the sea temperature is still around 25˘C there so it's perfect for little stormy systems. One very very interesting thing about temerature happened. Usually south Croatian islands are the places in Croatia with highest temperatures in country. But today happened something extremly rare: today's maximum temperatures were unusally located – instead rising while going south, the temeratures were dropind going south, our southest island Lastovo was the coldest place on sea level today with only 15°C (avarage is 28°C). It's beacuse the center of med cyclone was located there with some heavy rain (101mm of rain in Makarska!!!). It's also chilly in Split for the part of the year, even cooler this weekend is forcasted.

Right now while I'm writing this, it's stormy situation ouside 100%. I presume 30mm of rain in single hour, everything is flooded, it's like the monsoon. It took some great pics of that heavy rain i'll post it when i scan the pics. I guess tomorrow's report will floods around the region...

Stephen, swiss guy - Good night all, i will go sleep now (but after seein STAR TREK at 23,35 of course). See ya tomorrow.

First of all this is important: When I do my own pictures, first I have to publish them somewhere on net (I do in on www.villagephotos.com) and I copy the URL from pics there. http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/nt_chancetstorms.GIF' alt='nt_chancetstorms.GIF'>

"Rain tapering to drizzle". - it's forcast for here in next 2 days. Can someone explain it to me what in means in few words, it's the expression i don't understand. Anyway, long awaited rainy seasone seems to be strarting here. Today the clouds were turning darker and darkern, finally at 2pm rain started. 3mm in split, cooling from 26 at am to 21 at mid afternoon. Heavy and thundery rain repoted in north Adriatics. Today's conditions: Can you belive I used umbrella today after half an year!!?

OK HERE IS A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON OF CROATIA WITH A SPEACIAL VIEW ON HAPPENING IN EARLY '90s The history of croatian state begins in 7th cenory, when Croats came from Poland to present Croati. The Croatian kingdom lasted untill 1103. when we lost our independence letting Hungarian to rule the most part of Croatia. But not Dalmatia. Dalmatia is one of the Croatian's provinces, it is the south of the country. Dalmatia was province which was interesting to many other nations: Romans, Franks, Bisantins, Turks, Serbs... It was in 1918 when Croatia finaly say goodbye to Austro-Hungarian rule. We joined the new state The kingdom of Slovenians, Croats and Serb. It was for the 1st time that those nations united in single state, but it was done only to avoid further Austrohungarian rule. Very fast the new dictatue was set, the dictation of Serb in whole state. The communists established new state after WW2 with new name Yugoslavia. Tito was the leader, it was not a real communist state like eastern block, Tito let the western type of economy took over. In 1980 Tito died, and the main link between 6 nations in state died, nationalist started to pump up their old ideologies once again, but in Serbia tho most. Finlaly 1990 fisrt democratic ellections: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia declared independence, but Serbia and Monte Negro wanted to save Yugoslavia. It was nromal reaction cuz the real economic power was only in Croatia and Slovenia. So Serbia and M.Negro formed new Yugoslavia and attacked Croatia in 1991. 33% of our teritory was occupied, and Croatia was not allowed to buy any wheapons. We were defending ourself with almost funny things in the beginning (hunting tool...), and there was nobody in Europe to wanted to stop the war. There is only one person who Croats hate like Slobodan Milosevic, and that is Lord Carington. He blessessd the Serbs in their agression. He even openly predicted that Croatia would have surrended in few days. But year by year Croatian army was more and more stronger, many friends helped us than politicly and military and finaly in 1995 war ended with great action of Cro army called STORM, when the whole teritory was liberated. War demaged really slowed us down in bringing back Croatia to the Euro future, if we had no war it's clear that we would be strongest transition country first to enter EU. Billion and billion of € was spent for rebuliding demged areas and all afterwar consequnces. But now Croatian future is EU, in spring 2004 Crtoatia is about to become official candiadate for EU, and in 2007 it might enter EU with Bulgaria and Romania. Any question? B,C,D is region Dalmatia. Of course for all informations see www.croatia.hr

Yes I like the pics of clouds also, few days ago I recorded some cirrus clouds, they can be specacular, show you late on. But cumulonimbus is the most beautiful cloud. Now when summer is diening here it is hard to cath it.

I don't doubt about that, I mean in UK. Donkey is only for pictures, their hard days are over now. Once they were valid as gold for people overhere. In middle ages the pennalty for stealing soneone's donkey was deat penalty, and for raping or killing the woman, only few days of jale work!!!

These are the pics of two typical Dalmatian motivs I took today near my house. I don't think that ppl in UK can see such pics live there, am I wrong?

Now at the end of the day I wanna show you some pics I took during the day. Day started sunny, than tighnycirrocumulus, than altocumulus, finaly stratocumulus and totaly cloudy at the end of the day. But without rain. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

Altocumulus in the begining now turning mostly cloudy. Expecting rain.

I must check out jalleyfish in dictionary but it sound like some tropical fish. As far as I know we don't have a single dangerous fish in waters. But we have tons of tourists around, can't find a free place on beach no more! So I suggest you september visit to Croatia, sea about 24°C, air 24°C, and lot of blond girls from Sweden which are also 24!

Yes, not to forget few photos of me: RADE @ SUMMER EDDITION: AND @ WINTER EDDITION:

First of all I wanna thank you all for welecoming me to this nice weather cimmunity. Let me tell you few words about myself. I was born in Split (5.8.1979). Right now I'm finishing law university in Split. Althoug meteorology is my biggest hoby and free-time occupation, I didn't want to study metorology beacuse it's part of Geography uni and it's very hard because of matematics... Croatian climate is pretty much devided in few different types: Continetnal (cold winter, hot summers), mountain (Cold winters, rainy through the much of the year), and mediterranean (rainy and warm winters, hot long sunny summers). Split is part of region Dalmatia (south Croatia). The climate in Split is very changeble, several influences are bieing mixed in this area: warm Adriatic sea, high mountains of Dinaridi (which are mostly even touchning the sea, so the coast is full of beautiful islands, pennisulas and bays. That moutains prevents warm air from going in continetn, but prevents cold air from going to south also. But as a result of that temerature difference, we have very fameous wind called BURA, it's direction id NE, and it's mega cold when it blows. The temperature can be +5°C, but the real feel with bura 100km/h is about -20°C. Although bura is the most fameous wind, it is not the most frequent wind. that one is JUGO (on Croatian we say south JUG - read J as Y), and it blows from SE, it's wet and warm weather, always blows before rain, at fall it's gusts are over 130km/h, the wave became huge, the pressure is getting lower and than rain comes, often heavy. People hate JUGO cuz it affects on people's behaveour badly; hadace etc... About the chnages it's really sometimes drammatic, bura often blows the temperatures rapidly off. Look at my topic on weather season in Split in SEASONAL DISCUSSION. The greatest example happened in April this year when one day it was about 20°C, you could have gone to sea, and when I woke up it was snowing! And about SNOW. Yes, I see the reason of all my meteorology interes in than "bloody" thing. Snow has always fascinated me, even since I was a little child. In my region SNOW is very rare, it snows once to twice a year (if I get lucky). Luckily, the lack of snow I "cure" in mountains, which are, as I already said, always right next to coast, so lot of snow there during the winter and spring and late autumn. If you wanna see more about the weather and climate in croatia please visit the official Croatian weather site, it's all in english: http://www.tel.hr/dhmz/index_en.html

Hey Matthew! As you can see I made it, i don't understand why it tookme sooo long to find this board, the problem was that I should wrote net wether insted of wether net. But here I am, I have much to show about climate and conditions overhere. I'm not meteoroligist but meteorology is my biggest love and hoby.

Sunny, 15 in morning, 25 maximum.

Thanx Paul! I have few questions, but next time, now it's past midnight here and i have to go to sleep (exam tomoroow). About Croatia, yes the changes are dramatic, but the change which everybody has been expecting the most is missing - RAIN, no rain here, and maybe now it's too late for "poor" plants because almost all of the vegetables are burned. Till next time!

Finally I have found this message board. thanx to Matthew who told me about this MB on BBC weather message board. I come from Croatia, from town Split which lays on coast of adriatic sea. So few words for the current condition here. Cold nothern winds have really taken the temperatures down. So after 40°C last week, this week is completely different, cold wind being pushed by the east european low is reaching even islands in Adriatic. So thankfully, I can sleep very good at night because it's about 15°C this night (night t last week was about 28°C!), and in the continental Croatia first ice is possible as the temperature will reach magical 1°C in the begining of september. I have made you a temperature map for Croatia for this night: