What's the weather like at the moment?

stivi said:
which is fantastic!

finally a winter with some halfway acceptable rainfall quantities. I know some fellow residents are pissed off because the last few weeks were pretty meh for balearic standards, but it really is what we needed!
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Definitely! The island is looking so green and with gorgeous flowers coming out.
 
2H76 said:
Thing is peeps don't realise that 17th March is the equivalent of 25th Sept, the sun is just as high (and powerful) on hot days, so still worth applying sun cream if you're a skin cancer risk (like me, genetically!). Being by water s just like being by snow and adds to it I suppose!
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Everyone should wear SPF daily, even living in cooler climates. I’ve been wearing SPF 30 or 50 on my face every day since I was a teenager - and I lived in Edinburgh / Glasgow and Brighton before moving to Ibiza!
 
Clara said:
Everyone should wear SPF daily, even living in cooler climates. I’ve been wearing SPF 30 or 50 on my face every day since I was a teenager - and I lived in Edinburgh / Glasgow and Brighton before moving to Ibiza!
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Wish i had not been such a dick all my life and applied the advice above... Waiting on date for my surgery to have my skin cancer removed at 37 years old. Already been told that it will probably be first of many.
 
Bucko08 said:
Wish i had not been such a dick all my life and applied the advice above... Waiting on date for my surgery to have my skin cancer removed at 37 years old. Already been told that it will probably be first of many.
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Sorry to hear this, wishing you all the best for the surgery.
 
The Sun God said:
don't be too hard on yourself. you were just unlucky. wishing you all the best with treatment
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My Dads had skin cancer issues, hes a roofer, im a roofer with him since 16... all the signs were there. Just stupidity but cream and sweating and dirty hands just seemed too much effort. I wear an Ibiza branded bucket hat now atleast 🤣.

Its Basal cell carcinoma so not the aggressive type luckily.
 
Bucko08 said:
Wish i had not been such a dick all my life and applied the advice above... Waiting on date for my surgery to have my skin cancer removed at 37 years old. Already been told that it will probably be first of many.
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I've been wearing sunscreen all my life. As a grown up I've also been wearing a wide hat whilst doing outdoor activities. I never used to were caps, only wide hats/bucket hats that covered the ears, and which also made me look like a dork.

Yet I got skin cancer last summer on an ear. The Greek doctor, at a small A+E hospital, who by chance discovered the cancer at 6 AM on a Sunday morning last summer, didn't seem to think I'd make it. He's been woken up to see me, and gave me the dead man walking look. He said "There's nothing we can do for you. There's a ferry to the mainland at noon. You will be on that ferry." But two rounds of surgery later, and doctors telling me my ear "now looks like it got shot, just like what happened to Trump", I'm most likely cured.

Good luck with the surgery.
 
The Sun God said:
Tourists & Guiris in Spain moaning about wettest March ever

“this is not the Barcelona I signed up for” 😂

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Turistes i 'expats', frustrats pel mal temps que fa a Barcelona: "No és la ciutat on em vaig apuntar"

Barcelona és una ciutat amb un bon clima. Els estius són calorosos —fins a cert punt, massa— i els hiverns són suaus, gens gèlids. Tampoc hi plou en excés,
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My lawn, here in Lancashire (Ibizashire!) is bone dry. Not had rain for days and plenty of sunshine.
However, that will change next week as the cricket season starts. Obvs.
Seriously Spain should be happy as water levels have been so low recently.
 
Ibiza/Formentera today (Sunday 6th) 20c, calm and the webcams show folks in the sea! AEMET has the sea temps at 18-19c which I don't believe, seatemperature.org has a more believable 15.8c but there might be warmer patches around the seaweeds.

At home it's 100% sun but a nippy breeze from the east. In for a good few days though.
 
In the uK right now we have all the sunshine you could ever want - but not the heat to go with it! OK mid-afternoon, but cold in the shade and very cold overnight!
 
Today was a dream in Ibiza. 22-23 degrees and the water in Talamanca was a lovely temperature (and crystal clear - before all the yachts & cruise liners descend) - far warmer than yesterday around San Antonio and the sea on the West Coast.

Dined al fresco outside La Bodega at 22:00-23:30pm too!
 
Is Ibiza greener than usual these days? I was on Sardinia on this weekend and was surprised how green the island was - was looking more like Central Europe in May with green grass everywhere than a "typical" Mediterranean landscape. I wonder if it's always like that or that extra rain in March played a role...
 
tclubber said:
Is Ibiza greener than usual these days? I was on Sardinia on this weekend and was surprised how green the island was - was looking more like Central Europe in May with green grass everywhere than a "typical" Mediterranean landscape. I wonder if it's always like that or that extra rain in March played a role...
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Hasn't Ibiza had a decent amount of rain over the winter?

One of the best clues as to how dry it's been is on landing, usually the grassy surrounds of the runways are all brown unless landing in very early spring!
 
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