Climate

[Bernard MILFORD]

Hands up those that know the difference between climate and weather.  Climate,
of course refers to the longer term trends.  One indicator of this is the SOI,
which gives us the good old El Nino and La Nina (excuse my lack of "enyas").
At present, the phase is "rapidly rising"  What this means for the next few
months is on the following web site

http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/longpdk/latest/latpwor.htm

Now, I admit it's a tiny map and it's a bit hard to see Spain, but it seems to
me that it's saying that NE Spain has a high chance of above-average rainfall
up to April at least.  This site is updated every month or so, and looks a
couple of months out, so you may like to wander back at times to see what the
prediction is like for your planned camino.

If you look down in my area in the bottom corner, at South Eastern Australia,
you will see drought on the menu.  Many of these areas had floods last week.
That's statistics






Quoting Diane     Grust <DEG33aAOL.COM>:

>  My one weather question would be, how cold
>
> can I expect it to get in May and would bringing my scottish wool
> sweater be
>
> wise or foolish?  I understand the layer idea but I wondered just how
> cold I
>
> should layer for????
>
> in a word NO.  I think the coldest it was was around O C or 32 F.
> Don't
> bring a big wool anything.  I had a fleece pullover which was warm light
> and
> a pillow when there was none.  I would go for either a fleece front zip
> vest
> (I found pullover annoying as I would have preferred to unzip it once
> I
> walmed up a bit) or a long sleeve sleved front zip jacket with a wind
> breaker
> or nylon hooded jacket over it.  Think light layers, washable fabrics
> and
> short drying time.
>
> to recommend another website which is helpful is:
>
> http://www.pilgriminspain.net/
>
> http://www.caminopilgrim.net/
>
> Not my site I believe the authors of both are all on this list.  Anyway
> my
> packing list is on the later site and there are several others along
> with the
> time of year they traveled.
>
> Diane
>