Comments on: May 40th in Madrid And Still Raining!

By: vintage t shirts

vintage t shirts — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Well this is exactly the weather I encountered when I had my vacation last summer. I couldn’t even swim or take some sun shines on my skin. I had when the weather is messing up my plans. Don’t you?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:43:07 +0000

You started this by saying ‘my friends’ – is this where John McCain got the idea from? Perhaps he’s using your website to learn Spanish…

By: Edith

Edith — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:09:09 +0000

@ Bill

I remember traveling from Barcelona to Burgos in August years ago, and the temperature plummeted from 35 to 14 degrees Centigrade! Some of the landscapes we passed through on our way to Burgos reminded me of the American Southwest, especially the ‘high desert’ of the Colorado Plateau with its scorching summers and harsh winters.

By: bill

bill — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:51:56 +0000

@Edith – Extremadura gets hot in the low parts that are meseta, but there is also a beautiful mountain range that passes through it: basically an extension of the mountains to the north of Madrid, which pass through the provinces of Avila and Cacares and on down towards Portugal. In summer it doesn’t get so hot there, and there are some beautiful valleys covered in cherry and oak.

It can get cold in winter, and it can rain a lot, but when you’re surrounded by snowy mountain tops and fertile valleys it doesn’t matter so much.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:14:30 +0000

@Edith – scorching in the summer yes, but in winter as cold as Madrid gets, and in Spring it can be beautifully green and full of stunning wild Lavendar.

By: Edith

Edith — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:10:36 +0000

EDIT scorching

By: Edith

Edith — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:10:10 +0000

What is the climate in Extremadura like? I imagine it to be scorcing hot in the summer and cold in the winter – is this true?

By: bill

bill — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:33:22 +0000

Well May 11th turned out to be a bright and sunny day in Madrid, and May 12th has started out pretty good as well. I reckon it’s because the transport strike has reduced the amount of CO2 emissions over Spain, thus reducing the global warming in Madrid.

By: faemino

faemino — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:40:56 +0000

I agree with you Frank, it’s good to have four seasons.

2 weekends ago I went to the Sierra de Neila in Burgos province for some hiking in the mountains. Well, we just couldn’t do much hiking, it didn’t stop raining for one minute, was very cold in the valley and we even got some thin snow up the mountain, That was the 1st of June in Spain.

By: Jon Hundt

Jon Hundt — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:32:13 +0000

I went to Madrid once (remember our fine GME?) and it rained the whole time. I had to buy an umbrella, which I never did in Holland…

As far as my own personal experience tells me, Madrid is a city of strong wind and great rain. Oh, great food and friends too!