Snow report

Not many changes in the Swiss Canton of Valais during the last weeks. Blue sky and sun plus heavy wind (Foehn) last weekend, blue sky and sun without wind this weekend. Temperature at noon down in the main valley (Sierre, Sion, Visp) around 20 degrees, at 2000 metres around 10 degrees. Snow limit on sunny slopes around 3000 metres, in the shade around 2000 metres. The weather forecast doesn't announce any change for the next 7 days (with a probability of 80 per cent).

Palermo,20° today...cloudy but warm enough for November.

This weekend it will be (finally)olive picking time......

Toulouse, 24° and sunny today. Now it's dark of course but it doesn't cool off too much.

Since fwoggie deserrted, here Bonn.
Weekend will be 21 degrees.

Seen on TV yesterday you have had very strong clouds deeply hanging over Sydney. Is this normal or rare?

We got sunshine each day the past week and up to 25°. Only nights shows with 3/5° that the Winter (or just Winter without "the"?) must come.

the Winter (or just Winter without "the"?) must come.

In most cases just "winter" is good enough (without the, and without a capital W), but "the" is not incorrect:

• Most of our rain falls in winter. (totally correct)
• Most of our rain falls in the winter. (less common, but not incorrect)

Also, "must come" would normally be "must be coming" (soon).

Spring is unstable in Australia, with decent storm systems (with rain hopefully) moving west to east over Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney. Sydney has a mix of wonderful Mediterranean weather, with a bit of funky semi-tropical thrown in ... pretty good. Very rare for it to drop to 3° or 5°.

They published the same photos here in Italy. ..spectacular clouds over a Sydney beach.

It looked like a giant tsunami. ...

Here is one pic of the shelf-cloud phenomenon. Yes - that is pretty rare ... what amuses me is the nonchalance of the punters still in the water ... what did they think was about to happen?

I have been in Western Sicily this weekend (for work)...very nice sunny days,temperature great by day (around 21°) but cooler by night.Good food over there,and I met some very interesting people....

It's finally beginning to feel like November -- cloudy, not very warm, maybe 13°. Still some green leaves on the trees though.