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[RADE POPADIC]

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:

[Paul]

Hello Rade, welcome to net-weather! Glad you have managed to find us!

Look forward to discussing the weather with you, its always great to chat to overseas visitors about the climate in their country. Croatia sounds amazing, 40ºc one week then 20ºc the next!

If you have any questions about net-weather please feel free to ask me or any of the other mods/admins/hosts.

Thanks

Paul

[RADE POPADIC]

Hello Rade, welcome to net-weather! Glad you have managed to find us!

Look forward to discussing the weather with you, its always great to chat to overseas visitors about the climate in their country. Croatia sounds amazing, 40ºc one week then 20ºc the next!

If you have any questions about net-weather please feel free to ask me or any of the other mods/admins/hosts.

Thanks

Paul

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!

[Guest ChaserUK]

HELLO RADE!! This is Matthew Hatton from the BBC Message Board - nice to see you here - hope you enjoy what we have to offer!!!

[RADE POPADIC]

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.

[du_snow]

Hello Rade, welcome to net-weather

[Mrs Snow Lover]

yes a big welcome from me too.

I have a question for you. If you have it 40C one week and 20C the next, do you get a lots of colds etc? I know here we get colds when the weather changes so I was just wondering if it was the same with you?

[RADE POPADIC]

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

[RADE POPADIC]

Yes, not to forget few photos of me:

RADE @ SUMMER EDDITION:

AND @ WINTER EDDITION:

[du_snow]

Wow Croatia sounds brilliant Rade, i waas going to go there on summer holidays before, but we cancelled the idea becasue supposedly there were dangerous jellyfish in the water where we were going to stay :? Sorry if my posts are a bit strange tonight, I feel kind of spaced out.

[Martin R]

its those welsh mushrooms polar dont eat so many lol

[RADE POPADIC]

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!

[cumulonimbus]

Hello Rade, Croatia sounds really nice, the weather sounds more interesting than Britain too, and even though I'm a bit old for the 24 year old Swedish women now, I can still come to look at them eh

[RADE POPADIC]

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?

[SP1986]

Trust me Ive seen lots! not here though

[RADE POPADIC]

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!!!

[SP1986]

Did Croatia used to be Dalmatia in the middle ages or is it the coastal region of Dalmatia?

[RADE POPADIC]

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

[Methuselah]

First frost today. -0.6C!!! :o :shock:

[du_snow]

Woah wasnt expecting that Pete, thats very early.

[Methuselah]

Not really that early Dunc. We have 1500 - 2000 ft high hills on two sides. Cold air drains down them at night. :o

[du_snow]

Ahhh, do you also have a river nearby? If so you are a perfect spot for low ground temps, like Sennybridge.