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[David Simpson]

This topic seems as good a place as any to post one of my favorite online weather links, originally recommended by a friend from Aachen, Germany:
www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=de

The link that Dan provided above will give you the page in German, because of the "lang=de" in the URL.  "de" is the standard 2-letter abbreviation for German. If you want English, remove the "lang=de". If you want another language, you can add "lang=XX", where XX is the 2-letter abbreviation for the language (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1 for a list of the abbreviations). Note that the website may not support all languages, and will probably fallback to English if you ask for an unsupported language.

Here is the plain URL, without a language specified:
www.lightningmaps.org/realtime

On that website, you can change the language by clicking on the language icon at the extreme bottom left of the page.

- DaveS

P.S. To answer Anto's original question: the weather here (Vancouver) is rain and +6C. Typical Vancouver winter weather.

[Danneaux]

If you want English...

Or,if using a PC/Mac, click on the teeny-tiny little flag in the lower-left corner to directly view in any of 13 languages.

Took me awhile to find it in the beginning because I usually use it on my phone while traveling, and then I forgot to mention it here! Apologies. 

Check out the cool options like lightning densities and the related apps. I have no connection to any of this, but have sure found it handy while touring.

All the best,

Dan.

[jags]

i feel for you mike must be terrible having to endure that sun 

anto .
jealous who me 

Anto mate,

Everyone that I know over 60 is having melanomas cut off them.

I wear long sleeves and long trousers and a hat whenever I go out.
On the bike with the helmet lots of SPF 50

Cheers

Mike

i guess Mike we all suffer one way or another,when we get a good summer here in Ireland it's moan a minute when it hit's  28 deg and everyone complains it's to hot  mind u it seldom goes than high.

[bikerta]

Here in the warmer     South of England, we had a whole day of freezing fog yesterday. Trees and hedgerows looked stunning coated in heavy frost. Not so pretty when trying to cycle home from work at 7.30pm though and a slight thaw at 2pm had dampened all surfaces and then frozen again to become sheet ice.

It was a long 2 mile walk home   

[jags]

Jacki better safe than sorry 

[Matt2matt2002]

I use the BBC app routinely but recently installed
AccuWeather.
The hourly predictions are spookily accurate more often than not.

Matt who, like Harold Wilson, is an optimist who carry's an umbrella.

[rualexander]

We had a nice frosty day out on the forestry tracks above the Ettrick valley yesterday.
Forecast is for it to get milder, wetter, and windier for next few days.
Give me the frost anyday.

[Danneaux]

Ohhhh, Mannn, Rual! I always look forward to your outstanding photos, and these are the best yet!

What an wonderful treat.

All the best,

Dan.

[jags]

Rual hard as nails .great photos.

[rualexander]

Some more,

[jags]

How in gods name did you  2 manage to stay upright.
i fr one won't attempt to cycle in frosty conditions  just to dodgy.

jags.

[bobs]

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[jags]

bike and pilot looking good 
why u no helmet?

jags.

[bobs]

A quick  overnight  trip to  Aviemore,  weather  -8 . Don't  wear a helmet  all the time, my choice  less likely to take chances.

Bob

[jags]

look's like an off road route Bob  were u guys camping.