The climate here in our part of Catalunya

Yes, it is a boring subject but I'm going to talk about the weather. Linda won't even care to read it. What's the weather like here?  We love it most of the time and have lunch out on the patio many days during the winter when it can be in the 60's.   There's an automatic weather station 2km away which allows me to keep track of our weather stats.  In general it does not freeze (3km from the sea) and summer goes up into the 90's but always with a sea breeze.  The season for swimming in the pool is late April to early October. Here's what I have recorded for 2010:
Sunny days                      282
Mostly cloudy                  27
Cloudy                             56
Rain                               49cm(20in.)
wind over 80km(50mph)         35days            
highest wind for yr                   132km/hr (82mph)
highest wind we've seen           148km/hr (92mph)  this is the one that blew the blades off the wind generator

We've been told that at the commercial wind generators in the hills, they recorded over 200km/hr(125mph) back when we had our highest wind in 2009.  There are several wind farms in our area with over 100 wind turbines.  One new tower is 3MegaWatts with 110M (360ft) diam. blades.  Spain, with 884wind farms(22,000MW) was no. 3 in wind generation capacity in the World in 2009 after the U.S.(46,000MW) and Germany(30,000MW),  but this year or next China will surpass all three countries. 

So the weather is great except when that Mistral whips down out of the Pyrennes.

a typical beautiful day

Winter wind blowing water out of our pool

sunrise and the sea under the old pine

Sunset looking across the Ebro Delta

Yes, we did get snow once if you can call it that