Europe: April 2007 ...no rain

Doves,

serious times...

the month of May is just beginning here in Germany as April ended:

“lovely” + “beautiful” weather... blue sky, no clouds... and: no rain...

However: “behind the scene” ...  whole creation groaneth (Romans 8)

it is Spring time and ....there is no rain....

Amos 4, 7

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered....

Warmest April has Europe bracing for  killer heat wave

“...(April 2007)... is set to be the warmest April in Britain since records began nearly 350 years ago ...

Temperatures from Belgium to Italy are averaging more than three degrees above the 30-year norm.

The Netherlands has not had rain since March 22 and April is set to be the driest in at least 100 years.

Germany also has recorded the highest April average temperature by 12 degrees, and the most hours of sunshine at more than 276, since records began in 1901...

Drought has hit Hungary’s key grain regions and may severely reduce grain and oilseed crops, ...

Water levels on Italy’s river Po, which supplies the region accounting for one-third of the country’s agricultural production, has fallen steadily. ...”

http://www.dailyherald.com/search/printstory.asp?id=307081

Record High Temperatures in Europe in April

“The month of April was so warm and so dry across Western Europe that it rewrote the weather record books in country after country, national weather services said today, as hot air masses from Africa and the effects of a changing climate combined to drive up temperatures and drive away rain....”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/world/europe/30cnd-europe.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin