THAT'S IT- i'M NOT GOING!

[david uk]

My lovely ex boyfriend Zoltan has offered to pay for me to fly over to stay with him in Budapest for a week and cover all my costs.

He is my best friend ever and Budapest is a second home to me (I spent 8 years there), but it is currently 41c (105 fahrenheit) there :eek:

So I am declining his offer for a few weeks.

I have memories of working right through the summer when I lived there, and a hot Hungarian summer is something I don't miss. Even at night it only goes down to 25-30c (75-80 fahrenheit). I used to sleep with all my windows open but it made no difference.

He has gone off to Lake Balaton (the largest lake in Europe) for the weekend to cool down, but I shall not be flying out until late August, when it generally cools down a bit.

so I'm stuck in the rain....

Here in the UK we have had the worst summer I can remember in all my 44 years- it has rained (I should say POURED) almost non-stop for 2 months now. There are major floods all over the country and the experts say there is no change in sight. Today it is 16c (about 60 fahrenheit)- absolutely crazy for summer.

[Agnes]

Oh, poor thing. We're not that far apart and it's been lovely in the Netherlands the last few days, actually a bit too hot for my taste (27-29 degrees Celsius), apart from a shower yesterday. Got a sunburn today :rolleyes: It's pretty inconsistent around here, apparently we'll have rain coming down the next few days as well...

[aabram]

David , we actually had a nice day yesterday, but it's back to rain today and I could actually do with some hot weather now that the tour is over :rolleyes:

Agnes, can you chuck some sunshine our way, please? :p

Annabel

[Eva]

David,

Talán igayad van hogy nem mész Magyarországban. 41 Fok nagyon sok! Azonkivül anyian vannak a Balatonnál mind az Oroszok (= nagyon sokan) De a 16 fok meg nagyon kevésnek tünik nekem. Igaz, itt se sokal jobb. Remélem melegeb lesz majd. Miert nem mentek le egy másik tóra? Akár mitt fogsz csinálni; remélem jól fogod érezni magadat.

A big kiss for you, David!

Eva

[david uk]

koszonom, Eva!:p

[Rkitko]

Daviduk, think you can spare some of that rain and send it this way? We're near drought conditions, though the temperatures are decent.

[nion]

Hmm eastern european guys :)

[aabram]

Daviduk, think you can spare some of that rain and send it this way? We're near drought conditions, though the temperatures are decent.

Swap you for some sunshine and decent temperatures :D

[diver_boy]

you can have the hot and humid new york city heat

[Dee]

Human activity is changing rainfall patterns throughout the world, bringing more precipitation to temperate and northern regions while providing less to subtropical and tropical regions north of the equator, according to a study to be published Thursday in the journal Nature.

The study is the first to confirm a link between rainfall patterns and global warming, according to co-author Francis Zwiers, the director of the Climate Research Division of Environment Canada.

Previous studies haven't shown a positive link between human-induced changes and precipitation on a global scale because changes in precipitation in different regions cancel each other out, Zwiers told CBC News.

But by looking at each latitudinal region individually, larger trends were discovered that could not be accounted for by naturally occurring changes such as increased volcanic activity.

Instead, the burning of fossil fuels appears to a leading cause, the authors said.

(source (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/07/23/science-rainfall-climate.html))

[aabram]

you can have the hot and humid new york city heat

Bright sunshine and hot, please.... You can keep the humid stuff!!!!! :D