Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 19 June, 2020, 08:18:12 am
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OK that's enough about rain. 30c forecast for London next week. That's hotter than [insert name of some foreign place].
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Hartlepool?
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Swindon? ;) :D
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Ushuaia?
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Bongo Bongo Land?
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People in the Congo (neither version) haven't heard of Umbongo. I've asked extensively.
I therefore declare that they do not 'drink it in the Congo.'
Next week I investigate Kia-Ora. Is it really too orangy for crows?
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People in the Congo (neither version) haven't heard of Umbongo. I've asked extensively.
I therefore declare that they do not 'drink it in the Congo.'
Next week I investigate Kia-Ora. Is it really too orangy for crows?
I shall use my extensive contacts in showbiz* to pitch "ianvestigates!" to Bravo-2 as a series. Every week ian checks out the truthiness of 80s TV shitvertising slogans. Buy shares in water cooler manufacturers, kids, this is gonna be huge!
* Professor Larrington has a couple of godchildren whose parents have been on the telly
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People in the Congo (neither version) haven't heard of Umbongo. I've asked extensively.
I therefore declare that they do not 'drink it in the Congo.'
Next week I investigate Kia-Ora. Is it really too orangy for crows?
I shall use my extensive contacts in showbiz* to pitch "ianvestigates!" to Bravo-2 as a series. Every week ian checks out the truthiness of 80s TV shitvertising slogans. Buy shares in water cooler manufacturers, kids, this is gonna be huge!
* Professor Larrington has a couple of godchildren whose parents have been on the telly
Sounds good, I'd watch it ;D
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I genuinely have investigated Um Bongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. My Congolese friends are adamant and willing to go on the record that they do not drink it in the Congo. (This could be a lie, my long-anticipated trip to Kinshasha still waits for political stability and I'm not sure I plan to live that long.)
I've also investigated the possibility that it's The Other Congo. I've emailed Clément Mouamba to ask him but he's not yet responded. I'm a bit like that chap from Eastenders who investigates hard stuff.
I do like the pitch of ianvestigates though. I also want to know if Shake-n-Vac really puts the freshness back and is there genuinely a society of secret lemonade drinkers? I may have to infiltrate it.
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You'd need to investigate the persistent rumors that the Shake-n-Vac ads were showing a bored suburban housewife cleaning up after a daytime gangbang before her husband got home from work.
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Get Barry Scott on the case.
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Bzzt! Deviation! The archetypal headline is "Phewataschorcha!"
And it is not my intention to call myself Phewbagger.
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People in the Congo (neither version) haven't heard of Umbongo. I've asked extensively.
I therefore declare that they do not 'drink it in the Congo.'
Next week I investigate Kia-Ora. Is it really too orangy for crows?
You also need to investigate if it just for me and my dog.
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Ian: can you also confirm that it's frothy man?
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And does Harp stay sharp right to the bottom of the glass.
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I'll be tuning in for the Ian Rush lactose intolerance exposé.
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And do bears really drink Hofmeister, and vikings Skol?
But what I really want to know is why are druids so thick? When talking on the beeb about the longest day, two of them independently repeated the line "the sun rises everywhere". No it fucking doesn't, that's why you are celebrating the solstice right now, because the length of day is fucking seasonal.
Too ranty for ianvestigates?
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If Hans does do dishes, which was unlikely I think, is he a mild Green?
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ianVestigates
Come on guys, lets get the capitalisation right.
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I believe the common design is ianvestigates. Ideally, it requires a thin font.
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If Hans does do dishes, which was unlikely I think, is he a mild Green?
...mustachioed cephalopod?
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After a morning of intense investigation, it seems true that while Weebles wobble, they indeed don't fall down.
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OK that's enough about rain. 30c forecast for London next week. That's hotter than [insert name of some foreign place].
Eye Beefer.
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I genuinely have investigated Um Bongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. My Congolese friends are adamant and willing to go on the record that they do not drink it in the Congo. (This could be a lie, my long-anticipated trip to Kinshasha still waits for political stability and I'm not sure I plan to live that long.)
I've also investigated the possibility that it's The Other Congo. I've emailed Clément Mouamba to ask him but he's not yet responded. I'm a bit like that chap from Eastenders who investigates hard stuff.
I do like the pitch of ianvestigates though. I also want to know if Shake-n-Vac really puts the freshness back and is there genuinely a society of secret lemonade drinkers? I may have to infiltrate it.
Having been to both Congos, I can confirm that I never saw the residents thereof partaking of the aforementioned liquid refreshment.
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I genuinely have investigated Um Bongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. My Congolese friends are adamant and willing to go on the record that they do not drink it in the Congo. (This could be a lie, my long-anticipated trip to Kinshasha still waits for political stability and I'm not sure I plan to live that long.)
I've also investigated the possibility that it's The Other Congo. I've emailed Clément Mouamba to ask him but he's not yet responded. I'm a bit like that chap from Eastenders who investigates hard stuff.
I do like the pitch of ianvestigates though. I also want to know if Shake-n-Vac really puts the freshness back and is there genuinely a society of secret lemonade drinkers? I may have to infiltrate it.
Having been to both Congos, I can confirm that I never saw the residents thereof partaking of the aforementioned liquid refreshment.
Strictly speaking, that's no longer true, because a couple of years back I posted a six-pack of cartons to two chaps in Kinshasha. As a surprise, they actually received it, so I have a photo of two smiling gents slurping the magical juice through little plastic straws. I may up the ante by telling Clément that the Other Congo has it. Probably that weird bit of Angola that sits between them too.
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"Cabinda", said Mr Wastes-Far-Too-Much-Time-Poring-Over-Maps.
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On the subject of African places, did Tolkien visit Ethiopia? It has both a Shire and a Gondor.
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On the subject of African places, did Tolkien visit Ethiopia? It has both a Shire and a Gondor.
No - but he was familiar with Ethiopia. It's also Gondar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondar) that's in Ethiopia, rather than Gondor.
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He might have been acquainted with that area of Cricklewood/West Hampstead formerly inhabited by my partner, where street names bear appellations relating to Africa.
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"Cabinda", said Mr Wastes-Far-Too-Much-Time-Poring-Over-Maps.
Apropos of nothing, I discovered a series of mysterious Fantas in the shop on Sunday including one that claims to be baobab fruit.
That took some investigation as it was labelled entirely in Cyrillic. Bulgarian apparently, where the baobab trees grow wild. I have yet to find the cabbage flavour Fanta they must have in Madagascar.
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There is also daisy flavour Fanta, which is blue. Just like daisies.
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Blimey, I've never seen that one. You can get hawthorn (I think, it could have been lost in translation) flavour in China.
Japan though is the awesome hotbed of Fanta-dom. Moo Moo White is definitely my favourite yoghurt flavoured diabetes juice. Salty watermelon is quite good too. As is white banana.
I think Fanta was invented by the Nazis though, so we might be on dangerous ground (true apparently, because the Germans couldn't get Coca Cola syrup during the war, the Coca Cola bottling plants made an orange drink instead, because there were literally loads of oranges just lying around German during the war).
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s/orange/orange-flavoured. See also "cheez-flavored food product".
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Here in Oxon, currently 30C out, 25C inside...
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50043492026_0ec67a9eb1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jfaYG3) (https://flic.kr/p/2jfaYG3) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurekb/)
The number circled in red is the outside temperature. 33.1°C.
The sensor is hanging on the north-facing wall of my shed, in the shade.
Since taking the photo a few minutes ago it has crept up to 33.5°C.
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Mine's peaked at 31.47C. Which is plenty, thanks.
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34.5°C now.
I really dislike it when it gets this hot.
Heavens knows how I managed to work on construction sites in Greece when I was younger.
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There's something specially unpleasant about BRITISH hot. Probably a combination of humidity, and large swings in temperature so you never get to acclimatise. Plus we're stuck in houses optimised for ...well, they're rarely optimised for anything, but certainly not maintaining a comfortable temperature in sunny condiitons.
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Plus we're stuck in houses optimised for ...
Value accretion.
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Humidity is part of it for sure. 40 degrees in Arizona is (just about) bearable. 40 degrees in on the Gulf Coast requires staying in an air-conditioned environment with copious quantities of cold BEER within arm's length.
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35°C.
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Humidity is part of it for sure. 40 degrees in Arizona is (just about) bearable. 40 degrees in on the Gulf Coast requires staying in an air-conditioned environment with copious quantities of cold BEER within arm's length.
I found the difference was that Arizona was too hot to do anything and Georgia was too hot to want to do anything.
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I tried that whole freeze a bottle of water and put it in front of the fan thing. Temp in my flat went from 28.2°C to 28.3°C...
The bottle has since defrosted and gone back in the freezer... Maybe I'll just hug the frozen bottle later.
Currently my flat thinks it's 29.0°C, with 39.1% humidity.
Which is cooler than yesterday when it hit 29.5°C inside.
J
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More sensible temperature now at nearly 20:30. Currently 27° and sitting in the garden with a beer is actually quite pleasant.
There were some impressively tall cumulonimbus stacks building earlier but they've gone now.
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Sleeping arrangements have been adjusted from sleeping under an 11 Tog duvet, to sleeping under a duvet cover.
ETA: It's currently 24°C outdoors and 28°C indoors. I'm considering what my options are for a night under the stars.
ETFA: Will the slugs eat me?
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I tried that whole freeze a bottle of water and put it in front of the fan thing. Temp in my flat went from 28.2°C to 28.3°C...
The freezer produces hot air when freezing the water. I suppose you could freeze the water overnight, when the extra hot air matters less, anr use the frozen water the next day. Or arrange ducting to transfer the hot air out of the flat...
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Sleeping arrangements have been adjusted from sleeping under an 11 Tog duvet, to sleeping under a duvet cover.
ETA: It's currently 24°C outdoors and 28°C indoors. I'm considering what my options are for a night under the stars.
ETFA: Will the slugs eat me?
I've been sleeping under a sheet since mid-April, and probably will do until October/November. My winter duvet is only 4 tog.
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Sleeping arrangements have been adjusted from sleeping under an 11 Tog duvet, to sleeping under a duvet cover.
ETA: It's currently 24°C outdoors and 28°C indoors. I'm considering what my options are for a night under the stars.
ETFA: Will the slugs eat me?
I've been sleeping under a sheet since mid-April, and probably will do until October/November. My winter duvet is only 4 tog.
'Kin 'ell.
From where do you get this heat?
Mid-winter I Tog up to something like 13.
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Down to 20 now in my garden. Occasional single spitting drops of rain so I'd better head in.
Ooh. Flash ka-boom.
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Sleeping arrangements have been adjusted from sleeping under an 11 Tog duvet, to sleeping under a duvet cover.
ETA: It's currently 24°C outdoors and 28°C indoors. I'm considering what my options are for a night under the stars.
ETFA: Will the slugs eat me?
I've been sleeping under a sheet since mid-April, and probably will do until October/November. My winter duvet is only 4 tog.
'Kin 'ell.
From where do you get this heat?
Mid-winter I Tog up to something like 13.
I think the winter duvet is too warm, the better half has a supplementary duvet. I have no idea how, but I do seem much better than most at regulating my temperature. Around the house I generally wear shorts from March to November.
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I tried that whole freeze a bottle of water and put it in front of the fan thing. Temp in my flat went from 28.2°C to 28.3°C...
J
This is to be expected as no machine is 100% efficient and wasted energy ends up as heat. I hug ice packs or just wet flannels mostly.
Hands are good counter-current heat exchangers. Their blood flow can be up to five times that needed for the needs of the tissues.
I told my cool-skinned partner I'd use him as a heat sink.
He said that wasn't very romantic so I countered that I was warming the cockles of his heart....
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Down to 20 now in my garden. Occasional single spitting drops of rain so I'd better head in.
Ooh. Flash ka-boom.
Send it over here!
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Clouds are gathering and thunderstorms are forecast - but the temperature is only due to drop by a degree to 29C today.
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Anyone else finding their computer running slow in the hot weather? Mine was running like a dog yesterday, and one with two legs at that - one at each diagonally opposite corner. Picked it up off the docking station and the base was too hot to the touch.
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Mine played up a bit yesterday. I know there were also issues for a number of ISPs and networks.
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Mine played up a bit yesterday. I know there were also issues for a number of ISPs and networks.
This is leaves-on-the-line Britain, what do you expect?
Must say my ISP has been a lot better since Dido Harding got the push.
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Clouds are gathering and thunderstorms are forecast - but the temperature is only due to drop by a degree to 29C today.
Rain already up here
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Thunderstorm about 5am, started with a long, rolling rumble that went on for about a minute. Then it chucked it down.
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The predicted thunder didn't arrive - a couple of drops of rain that evaporated in a minute, but nothing else. Will have to wait see if this afternoon/tomorrow's predicted thunder and rain turns up (as I am yet unsure whether I will get out on the bike, it is no doubt held in a state of quantum superposition; if I manage to finish my jobs and head out, I'm sure it will resolve itself in favour of pissing it down...)
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Clouds are gathering and thunderstorms are forecast - but the temperature is only due to drop by a degree to 29C today.
Rain already up here
We had a short and not very heavy bout of rain. Now it's just hot and humid.
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We seem to have dodged the recent rain, it's been hot and sultry all day.
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Thunder woke me up this morning, followed by torrential rain. Most of the day it's just been dreich.
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15 minutes and the heavens will open. It says.
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Ferocious downpour behaviour at first light but hot and sticky subsequently. Stop it. I have some heavy lifting to do.
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Temperature is falling now, the sky has occluded.
I predict a weekend.
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99% probability of rain at 7am but it did not happen. Boilio and humid.
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Anyone else finding their computer running slow in the hot weather? Mine was running like a dog yesterday, and one with two legs at that - one at each diagonally opposite corner. Picked it up off the docking station and the base was too hot to the touch.
Normal for laptops, which are engineered for portability rather than decent cooling. Sometimes you can improve matters by arranging for better airflow underneath. There may be clean the fan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCJzdWxEbQ) issues.
My desktop, which is optimised for quietness and ease of cleaning fans, remains unaffected.
Our downstream internet connection is still a couple of megabeans lower than it ought to be, on account of the sync rate adapting to the thunderstorms a couple of weeks ago, but that's not enough of a difference to notice an effect on anything.
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We had a couple of hours of thunder from about 4.30am, but less than 2mm rain fell. Up to 29°C this afternoon. The thunder/heavy shower that was forecast for about 3pm manifestly failed to materialise.
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We were sitting outside until gone eleven last night. We'd had friends round for a socially distanced barbecue. We had to finish when the rain started, but it wasn't heavy and everything was dry this morning.
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Anyone else finding their computer running slow in the hot weather? Mine was running like a dog yesterday, and one with two legs at that - one at each diagonally opposite corner. Picked it up off the docking station and the base was too hot to the touch.
Me.
MacBook Air has had fans on overtime.
Lost all calendar entries at one point.
EVERYTHING running very slowly, if at all.
Got fed up. Switched off computer, washed the dishes, then the rain came.
Seems better now.
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Macbook Pro and iMac were silent in a >30 degree office all day. I was less silent, but I ate a tuna and mixed bean salad yesterday evening.
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Gosh, it has just rained for thirty or forty seconds. Back to boilio.
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Plenty of rain here during the day in fits and starts and thunders. Humid as hell, but I didn't mention when on the phone to Ghana, I think they'll trump my "a bit warm in east Anglia"
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Steady rain overnight here at the bottom end of rural Cheshire. Dog came back from his walk wet, so now in drying off mode.
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It’s doing a rain here today. Weekend, farmers market restarted. Normal.
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Forecast yesterday was dire, but in the end it was just a cold front moving in with the usual sort of hello. Cooled things down a bit, and I got wet toeses taking the dogs out later on. Warming up again now, 25°C in office with windows open and through draught.
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Wish it would make its mind up: sun/rain/sun/rain. I'm trying to dry the washing.............
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It's peeing down here... still 19C though.
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Likewise here, only 21°C, and the wonderful smell of petrichor.
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I would think I were in the tropics if it was a bit warmer
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Likewise here, only 21°C, and the wonderful smell of petrichor.
Yesterday I smelt the rain before I saw or heard it, and when the sun came out I heard it before I saw it. ;)
60.1mm fell into my rain gauge in June, almost 33mm of those on one night.
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34 today :(
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Many happy returns!
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Likewise here, only 21°C, and the wonderful smell of petrichor.
Yesterday I smelt the rain before I saw or heard it, and when the sun came out I heard it before I saw it. ;)
60.1mm fell into my rain gauge in June, almost 33mm of those on one night.
Oops sorry. We'll move the sprinklers so they don't hit your rain gauge :p
J
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34°C here - and 37.3°C down the road at Kew Gardens.
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Stupidly hot when i got up this morning, but now cooling very rapidly.
Smells of rain.
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No rain forecast here but on the other hand there is quite a breeze, sometimes feels like the sort of breeze that can precede rain.
A more acceptable 23°C max forecast for tomorrow, praise be. I have done almost fuck all of what I was hoping to do today.
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Now it’s doing that leaf-shakey thing!
Rain FFS.
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Rain FFS.
I'd appreciate some of that over here right now.
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Declined to go and sit in a small room with lots of hot electronics today. It wasn't that important.
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And.......The jumper is on. :(
Actually, it's currently 19°, which is not really jumper weather, but the temperature drop from yesterday and this morning makes it feel colder than it actually is.
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Still in the 30’s in Leafy Bucks, although clouded over, with a decent breeze. Looks like we’re just south of any precipitation, which is good as we’re planning to eat outside.
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Still in the 30’s in Leafy Bucks, although clouded over, with a decent breeze. Looks like we’re just south of any precipitation, which is good as we’re planning to eat outside.
Cycled home from the shop, wahoo peaked at 30°C. Cycling was fine as long as I kept moving. Stopping at a traffic light the absence of breeze made it uncomfortably warm very quickly.
Melty now...
J
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Garmin hit 36C here in North Cambs this evening, like being in a fan oven
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Supposed to be 27°C and sunny here. It's actually a bit cooler than that (still warm, but not hot) and raining hard. ::-)
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House in York destroyed by lightning yesterday evening, no casualties.
In Limoges over the next 10 days, six days are forecast to be over 30c, three higher than 35 and the highest 38C. That's not fun in the sun.
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36°C here yesterday, but this house takes a long time to heat through so stayed comfortable inside. Went out this morning at around 8am and the air all felt as if someone else had already breathed it.
32° & storms forecast for this afternoon, then it's back to the usual ho-hum & low twenties.
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Storms didn't happen. 10/10 cloud & muggy now.
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Bzzt! Deviation! The archetypal headline is "Phewataschorcha!"
And it is not my intention to call myself Phewbagger.
Not reading through whole thread, so risk of repetition, but I read the thread title and immediately thought of certain pictures from the WNBR.
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M'Julie from Whitstable came to collect me at around 10:30 on Friday morning.
My weather station, which has its sensor in the shade, was showing 32°C at that time.
It took us 4 hrs to drive to Whizzybelle.
I've cycled to Whitstable in 3hrs 45 minutes (with a tailwind).
Julie's Skoda has aircon :thumbsup:
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I had to drive to London Town Divine on Friday afternoon, in the company van. This is the air conditioning, which in our case we have not got. (It is similarly unequipped with Sat Nav).
Imagine the scene. Hot van, summer in the city, back of my neck getting dirty and gritty, running Google Maps on my iPhone to guide me unerringly to Old Street, when the poxy phone craps out, whingeing about it being too hot. Arse.
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Your second paragraph starts of as a promising rap but then deteriorates rather...
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Currently have 'equilibrium'... 22.7C in. 22.7C outside
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I've got 39.2° C in the shade at the moment.
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Scorchio! Only 33C here in Oxon. (24.5C inside)
ETA. clouded over now.
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It’s cool here.
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36C in Great Shelford...
...and we're going camping. :-\
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It’s cool here.
Here too. Only 20c.
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Snap...
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my Garmin peaked at 39C around 5pm
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It’s cool here.
Here too. Only 20c.
Yep, been lovely up here too; might have made 25 in the afternoon. It's grim nice up North.
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We've had some dry bits in between the rain showers today - must be summer. It's still overcast and cool, though.
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Much quoting of temperature figures. Would be nice to know where they occured.
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Ely
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2100 in Furrybootoon we have just under 18°C outside and 23°C inside.
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Mild here by London standards (which appear to be slightly short of 'on fire'), with a peak of 30.44C here at around 5pm. It's just cooled down enough to re-colonise Upstairs.
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Currently 32 Deg C and a bit boilio. Humidity seems quite high. The Camargue was cooler if memory serves. Going for a ride tomorrow but suspect little sleep tonight. Mmm now 24 apparently. Not V accurate these things are they? Still feels a tad warm btw.
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Jumper on here. :(
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Yes, we had a strong breeze that shouted "Jumper!"
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Yes, we had a strong breeze that shouted "Jumper!"
And the wind cried Jumper
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It's still over 27°C in the kitchen which is probably the second coolest room in the house.
Eastbourne fwiw.
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So it's been kinda warm here...
It's now midnight, and it's 29.5 in my flat...
Twitter sums it up nicely:
https://twitter.com/ariekeji/status/1022916615120318466
J
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Although outdoors it hit around 32°C in my bit of Suffolk, indoors (under the thatch) never got above 24°. Trouble is, it’s not dropped below 24° either, even now. Sleep would appear to be impossible!
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Thermometer on the living room fan is indicating 25 at 0600, and bloody muggy
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Distinctly chilly this morning.
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Ditto.
22c max today.
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Warm, sunny and humid here in leafy Bucks.
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Cloudy and 29c in Southampton
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Hot today!
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I've come indoors to cool off. It's only 80ºF in here.
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Really quite pleasant here now. Warm but not hot, and the sun's out! :thumbsup: Even rode my bike this morning...
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Hot in Herts. Yesterday, some wag decided to set fire to hay bales, a few miles away. Opening windows to cool the house in the evening was thus rendered inadvisable >:(
(https://i.ibb.co/5xxwRS4/Fire02.jpg)
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Maximum of 33.5°C yesterday in Saarfend. Minimum of 21.7°C overnight. Maximum today 31.7°C. That has now dropped to 27°.
I'm cooking curry.
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It's cooled down a lot here - probably around 20 now. It's nice :)
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Hot in Herts. Yesterday, some wag decided to set fire to hay bales, a few miles away. Opening windows to cool the house in the evening was thus rendered inadvisable >:(
(https://i.ibb.co/5xxwRS4/Fire02.jpg)
That looks like (illegal) stubble burning.
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We had a few spots of rain... Which drove the humidity up a bit...
Humidity is now 49.5%...
Temp is 29.8°C...
Inside my flat...
At midnight...
J
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Maximum of 33.5°C yesterday in Saarfend. Minimum of 21.7°C overnight. Maximum today 31.7°C. That has now dropped to 27°.
I'm cooking curry.
I did the same. It was damn fine! Sleeping may be even more of an issue than I'd anticipated...
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Warm overnight but has suddenly dropped with cloud and wind. Much more pleasant.
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Warm overnight but has suddenly dropped with cloud and wind. Much more pleasant.
Been like that here (Durham) all day - I doubt we even made 20c here today. Plenty sunny on and off, but no warmth to it at all.
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Breezy yesterday which was nice, but still blooming warm.
I'm planning an early ride to Suffolk today, see if its any cooler over there.
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Gave in trying to sleep in the bedroom last night and relocated to the sofa bed in my office downstairs. When I checked it was 31.8 degrees upstairs...
That fat bolus of heat just sits up there, even opening all the windows doesn't seem to prove any encouragement for the air to move at all. It just sits there like a fat man on a sofa with an infinite supply of Pringles.
Downstairs, opening the windows and patio door creates an actual cool(er) breeze.
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Cool and overcast this morning but you can feel it's going to be really hot later. Getting sunny now. Summer as it ought to be!
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Gave in trying to sleep in the bedroom last night and relocated to the sofa bed in my office downstairs. When I checked it was 31.8 degrees upstairs...
That fat bolus of heat just sits up there, even opening all the windows doesn't seem to prove any encouragement for the air to move at all. It just sits there like a fat man on a sofa with an infinite supply of Pringles.
Downstairs, opening the windows and patio door creates an actual cool(er) breeze.
Hot air rises, or at least it's supposed to. It should sidle up the Grand Escalier, into the Great Bedchamber and out of the Velux window. Hopefully broiling a few pigeons on the way out. So why doesn’t it? Bain't be natural.
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It's just that it fails to move. Open all the windows, turn on the fans, and nothing happens. Downstairs, open windows, a magic breeze. The Asbestos Palace had a well-insulated attic, cavity wall, insulation, double-glazing etc. There's an actual thermocline as you ascend the stairs.
That said, it was still north of 26 degrees downstairs this morning. I did wake up expecting to be face-to-face with one of the garden foxes as I left the patio door open all night.
Currently heading towards 30 degrees in the Remote Command Centre. I am so glad I paid more for the insulated ceiling...
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It's currently 32C. I'm off to Tesco - I hope their air con is working...
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Last time I looked it was 35° outside. It's a pleasant 29° in my office. We have four fans going shuttling air around this floor, so with all the windows shut the O2 & humidity are getting evenly distributed, more or less.
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Lacking as I do any means of taking the temperature of the Estate office I can only note that, while I managed five and a half hours of keyboard-bashing on Friday, today I gave up after three and a bit.
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I think upstairs rooms get hotter both because hot air rises and because they have solar gain for a greater proportion of the day.
A low sun won't shine on shaded rooms downstairs.
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Having a black slate roof probably doesn’t help…
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Our house used to get very hot. We have just replaced the south-facing flat roof of our extension with a very well insulated pitched roof(2 layers of 200mm) The difference is huge and very welcome. Well worth the expense.
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Gave in trying to sleep in the bedroom last night and relocated to the sofa bed in my office downstairs. When I checked it was 31.8 degrees upstairs...
That fat bolus of heat just sits up there, even opening all the windows doesn't seem to prove any encouragement for the air to move at all. It just sits there like a fat man on a sofa with an infinite supply of Pringles.
Same problem here last night. Exacerbated by the fact that we couldn't even have the windows open because of a swarm of bastard flying ants. Not that having the window open would have helped anyway, thanks to the total lack of breeze. Bedroom thermostat was showing 32ºC at 1am. Still showing 29ºC this morning.
I pointed my little handheld fan at my face, but it was just blowing hot air at me.
Unfortunately, the boy nabbed the downstairs sofa bed. Was tempted to fill the bath with ice and sleep in there.
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I had to move from my office bed (which I can stretch out on and is vaguely comfortable) last night because the remote command centre wasn't much cooler than upstairs to the sofa. Now, if it's the evening and I sit down in front of the TV, the cosy embrace of that sofa will despatch me immediately to the land of sleep. The moment I need to actually sleep on it, it's a contraption of infinite tortures, the Torquemada of living room furniture. And now many cushions do we have? Good god, they never tell you about the cushions before you get married. She'll buy cushions. How many? All of them.
About 5am, I slunk back upstairs to the hotbox. I see the cat has already claimed my side of the bed.
We can't properly open the window because the 'cats might fall out' and about 8am the power tools start up or there will be a chorus of 'stand clear, lorry reversing; stand clear, lorry reversing' or that weird asthmatic noise that some of them make. I may actually go up there later today and murder everyone involved in whatever they're doing up there. Any judge would understand. I snapped and now they have drill bits in their brains.
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Sounds a bit grim down south..
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Sounds a bit grim down south..
We had about 20 minutes of light rain earlier. It stopped and now the sun is burning off the cloud cover. Going to be another scorching afternoon by the look of it.
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We had about 20 minutes of moderately heavy rain soon after 7am. My real rain gauge recorded 1.8mm, the automatic one on the weather station 2.4mm. I'm puzzled by this as i'm accustomed to the automatic one under-recording.
On Sunday I wrote the following on the "Have you been out today?" thread:
I went out twice today. The first time, I left home at 7.50am and it felt wonderfully cool after yesterday's sweltering heat. Then I felt something most unexpected - something cold and wet hitting my forearm. The sun was shining brightly and I couldn't see anything resembling a cloud, so my first reaction was that I had been shat upon by a bird. But then more raindrops fell - big, fat ones. As I looked more carefully through the early morning haze, I could make out some clouds, but not the sort I would have expected to deliver some rain. Over the next 3 minutes I got pretty wet, but then normal service was resumed and I was dry again within another 5 minutes. When I got home, 70 minutes and almost 10 miles later, I checked the rain gauge. There was a little moisture at the bottom, but nothing I could measure.
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and about 8am the power tools start up or there will be a chorus of 'stand clear, lorry reversing; stand clear, lorry reversing' or that weird asthmatic noise that some of them make.
I can cope with that. It's when the power tools are kicking up allergens first thing in the morning that's the bigger problem. Antisocial strimmer bastards. Can't they do it at night when it won't bother anyone?
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We can't properly open the window because the 'cats might fall out'
We have the opposite problem. We leave the back bedroom window open to get a through draught. Our cat generally returns via that route around 4am (the 4ft vertical leap from the log cubbyhole to the overhanging roof dispatched with nary a moments hesitation), wanders into our room, leaving the door open behind her, before settling into wherever is today's favourite sleeping spot.
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We're currently at 30C. We had brief rumbles of thunder earlier, accompanied by a light shower, but it's still very humid.
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No rain here, maybe 20 miles north of Reg, but getting bloody humid and you can feel it building up to something, very tropical
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and about 8am the power tools start up or there will be a chorus of 'stand clear, lorry reversing; stand clear, lorry reversing' or that weird asthmatic noise that some of them make.
I can cope with that. It's when the power tools are kicking up allergens first thing in the morning that's the bigger problem. Antisocial strimmer bastards. Can't they do it at night when it won't bother anyone?
It's just the general never-ending racket. Having lived in other countries, the constant need to hit houses and drill holes in them seems to be a majorly British pastime. Just standing outside, there's a constant echo from hundreds of these projects, people hammering away on projects that will, in ten years' time, hold the same level of affection as pebbledashing.
OK, I confess we had The Asbestos Palace refurbished, mostly because it was a late 60s time capsule. And I have some sympathy because it was a six-week project that took 6 months (because they drank tea till 11am, then had to go collect something and oh look, it's 3pm time to knock off). But my sympathy evaporates in the heat, because (a) I don't like to wake up before 9am (early mornings are the sign of barbarianism) and (b) it would be nice to use my garden and lovely balcony without an accompanying chorus of power tools.
The hobbyists are the worst or the worst, some friends of ours have a lovely house but the bloke (and it's always a man) next door is engaged in a never-ending series of home improvements, so every weekend that's what they wake up to. They're mostly resigned to it now, there's evidently no endpoint to his endeavours.
We are supposed to be getting a downstairs bathroom built and the driveway redone. I've developed a purposeful amnesia regarding this project.
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34° here & climbing.
When we first came to France, shortly after J. Caesar Esq., we lived in a new tower block away south of Paris. There's nothing like reinforced concrete for conducting the racket of a percussion drill, and with 11 brand-new storeys of four to six flats each there was always someone putting up a shelf or screwing their kids to the wall. The first 6 months were bloody murder.
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As a small Mr Larrington in Hong Kong we lived on the 15th floor of a tower block overlooking Repulse Bay. Property-developing bastards started demolishing the historic hotel next door. Largely by hand. None of yer wrecking balls or outsize bulldozers for those lads, no, it was pneumatic drills and sledgehammers. For more than a year’s worth of skool holibobs. The bastards.
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We're currently at 30C. We had brief rumbles of thunder earlier, accompanied by a light shower, but it's still very humid.
It got incredibly humid here yesterday just before it went ape-shit.
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As a small Mr Larrington in Hong Kong we lived on the 15th floor of a tower block overlooking Repulse Bay. Property-developing bastards started demolishing the historic hotel next door. Largely by hand. None of yer wrecking balls or outsize bulldozers for those lads, no, it was pneumatic drills and sledgehammers. For more than a year’s worth of skool holibobs. The bastards.
Yeah. First year we were in our tower we thought we had an avant-garde flute-player for a neighbour, but it turned out to be a tower crane that lacked grease. Great views we had, though.
Oh aye, the first time we had MrsT's folks to stay we came home one day from a trip into Paris in around 32°C. The air in the flat was a lot cooler but it was a bit stuffy so the Inlaw Paw obligingly opened the windows, swelter swelter.
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I can normally keep it below 24 deg C indoors if I let gulps of cold air in early in the morning then close all windows and blinds. There was no cold air this morning and it's 25.5 and rising. I'm sleeping in a tent on the lawn at the moment.
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I are haz an envy of Rogerzilla's tent on lawn.
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I did think about getting the tent out, but I'm not sure it will be any cooler. Also have the problem of finding a flat enough part of the lawn to pitch it on...
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I was thinking of moving to the summer house at the top of the garden, which has a sofa and nestles in the shade of a giant tree, but that's closer to Ground Zero and will just entice them to start up the pneumatic drills.
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As a small Mr Larrington in Hong Kong we lived on the 15th floor of a tower block overlooking Repulse Bay. Property-developing bastards started demolishing the historic hotel next door. Largely by hand. None of yer wrecking balls or outsize bulldozers for those lads, no, it was pneumatic drills and sledgehammers. For more than a year’s worth of skool holibobs. The bastards.
Yeah. First year we were in our tower we thought we had an avant-garde flute-player for a neighbour, but it turned out to be a tower crane that lacked grease. Great views we had, though.
Oh aye, the first time we had MrsT's folks to stay we came home one day from a trip into Paris in around 32°C. The air in the flat was a lot cooler but it was a bit stuffy so the Inlaw Paw obligingly opened the windows, swelter swelter.
We had builders in last week re-laying a patio, after a morning of them wheeling barrows of mortar past my office window (bungalow) I went out to the shed. Next time they went past I shouted "stop" in my most commanding voice. And jumped out with a can of GT85.
I can normally keep it below 24 deg C indoors if I let gulps of cold air in early in the morning then close all windows and blinds. There was no cold air this morning and it's 25.5 and rising. I'm sleeping in a tent on the lawn at the moment.
I have thought of this as well, closing my bedroom windows about 3pm seems to work to some degree
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I did think about getting the tent out, but I'm not sure it will be any cooler. Also have the problem of finding a flat enough part of the lawn to pitch it on...
keeping cool wasn't my idea at all, just lack of camping this year.
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My Shropshire correspondent (ie my brother) reports "I've never seen such continuous lightning!"
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24 deg C atm and humid.
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I don't think I've ever experienced a thunderstorm with such a high thunder and lightning to rain ratio. Three hours of the former and about 5 minutes of the latter.
Temperature's on its way back up again now. It reached a low of 20.8C
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https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_dynamic_maps3.php# Live lightning map,
Sounds like what we had last night in Liverpool. Lots of lightning & thunder, but apart from a 10 minute downpour, not much rain.
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Storm seems to finally be passing over here, started around half 10 last night...
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We can't properly open the window because the 'cats might fall out'
We have the opposite problem. We leave the back bedroom window open to get a through draught. Our cat generally returns via that route around 4am (the 4ft vertical leap from the log cubbyhole to the overhanging roof dispatched with nary a moments hesitation), wanders into our room, leaving the door open behind her, before settling into wherever is today's favourite sleeping spot.
We adopted our very young cat after it climbed in through an open velux. Somehow he climbed the wall, got over the eaves and found the opening. We were awakened by a loud thump as he hit the floor at the foot of our bed. Dover beach..
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Forecast is for 33C today. We're at 25C already and the humidity is beginning to increase.
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The cats do come and go via the window in my wife's office, as it provides an extended rooftop for lounging and they can jump across onto the opposing garden terrace. That's fine in summer, in winter, my wife gets a cat knocking on the window everything 30 seconds. Like vampires, you shouldn't invite them in. Well, not unless they have booze and snacks.
No storms here, just more promised hotness.
I did find an old pair of fold-out sofa beds in the summer house that we bought about thousand years ago when we lived in flatland for guests to sleep on. Cheap covered polyurethane foam. Made a bed out of those by the patio window downstairs.
Very pleasant, the temperature in the mid-twenties, a cooling breeze and they're more comfortable than all the several hundred-pound mattresses I've slept on. For karmic balancing, some cryptic invertebrate ate my little finger, so now it's covered in itchy little bites (why do they only start to itch when you notice them?) right on the knuckles. As my wife sympathetically pointed out, in response to my proffered distress, it could have been a 'little something else.'
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30°C and outside humidity 59%. I have just dug some taters. Warm work.
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Haar's rolled in from the North Sea. Might not make 20 today; not really a day for the Durham/Northumberland coast experience - looks like 15c and 50m visibility along there :D
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Chief meteorologist Steve Ramsdale said in these areas “exceptional rainfall totals could be seen of 60 millimetres in an hour with a very small chance of 150 millimetres of rainfall in three or four hours”.
Crikey, Penfold!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/12/uk-weather-met-office-warns-of-storms-and-exceptional-rainfall
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Flipped back to tropical mode now.
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33 degrees in the shade atop the North Downs.
Finally heard the iMac fan (for the first time ever, at least at volume)! Probably not a day to max out the GPU with some graphical manipulations, this office isn't in need of a fan heater at present.
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Uttoxeter: ridiculous lightning last night, about half an hour of torrential rain, about 4" of water in the builders' buckets this morning. We've got a fair proportion of our house open to the elements at the moment, since we're midway through having an extension built.
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Watched CoreTemp breaking records this morning, maxing out at 77°, for a Tj. Max of 100°C. Previous max was 73°.
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I'm not sure I trust CoreTemp, since it routinely tells me that the box in here is running at 11° when it's been idling overnight. If it was that cold in here I'd be wearing trousers. And a jumper. And socks. And have the heating on. At the moment it's wavering between 19° and 26°, which are also Clearly Bollocks. It usually settles at 61° when working hard jibbling video files. The laptop seems to do 74° whether idling in an air-conditioned room or doing six months of Windows updates on a day like today.
Got very dark in E17 about 3:30 pm but didn’t do anything interesting like rain or thunder.
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We keep being promised thunderstorms but they don't happen.
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I mentioned elsewhere that I bought a fan last Thursday.
It has been running round the clock since then.
Thankfully it only draws 26W.
We topped out at 36°C in the shade here today.
I sense that my sensor might be over-reading by a couple of °
Indoor temp never dropped below 27°C last night.
It's currently showing 28°C - as is outdoors.
Promise, from the Norwegians, of rain tomorrow.
ETA - I have found that dousing my hair under a cold shower and sitting in front of said fan is mostly optimal.
I'm reliably informed by another forum member that sitting with your feet in a bowl of cold water (or paddling pool) is equally effective.
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still no rain, my Garmin registered 30C at 10am, it's only gone up since then. No rain, I've been having two showers a day for the last week and my eyeballs feel parched. Living room fan currently indicating 31C
I've been carrying an extra bottle of plain water with me on the bike and using it to douse my torso for a bit of evaporative cooling.
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Wait, what's that noise? Rain! Thunder! Yay!
Oh. It's Neil Young & Promise Of The Real doing “Mother Earth” :'(. Thanks for nothing, DJ Random.
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The end of the world has arrived in west Cheshire. It's apocalyptic.................. I've seen nothing like this, ever...........
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We’ve had a bit of thunder, a short lived fierce wind with a bit of rain. It’s now 26C and I’ve put a T shirt on.
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The end of the world has arrived in west Cheshire. It's apocalyptic.................. I've seen nothing like this, ever...........
Blimey!
You're in for some.
According to Ventusky.
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I've taken my socks off. That doesn't happen very often...
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I've taken my socks off. That doesn't happen very often...
Paddling?
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The end of the world has arrived in west Cheshire. It's apocalyptic.................. I've seen nothing like this, ever...........
Yes, you do seem to be getting a bit of a zapping ! Watching the live map with the expanding circles on is like watching something about a nuclear attack.
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This corner of Londonton
has not yet had precipitation.
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TV weatherbod was showing some coming to your side of London’s famous London overnight, Helly. Here in the east we're getting naff-all. Again.
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I went outside and padded about for a couple of minutes on the tiles, looking for bats. Now the socks and slippers are back on. Normality has resumed.
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See lightning in the sky whilst peering out the window into the gloom. Check weather radar online. Nearest storm over 40 miles away in English Channel. Desert conditions continuing then. I expect a hosepipe ban soon.
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When I went to bed the forecast had changed to predict 4vor 5 hour from 6am during which heavy rain with thunder was probable. It hasn’t happened of course and now the probability of rain has been reduced to 10% or less. At least the maximum temperature forecast for today is a mere 27 deg.
And before I finished writing that sentence, it has started raining.
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See lightning in the sky whilst peering out the window into the gloom. Check weather radar online. Nearest storm over 40 miles away in English Channel. Desert conditions continuing then. I expect a hosepipe ban soon.
Saw a report on KentOnline yesterday that certain parts of the county were expected to run out of water yesterday, but it didn't happen here. They're saying the reservoirs still have decent levels and it's just a question of being able to process the water quickly enough to keep up with demand.
We had a smattering of rain this morning - not enough to slake the garden's thirst though. Ventusky is reporting rain in your neck of the woods right now, but it will have passed over here and be on Margate within the hour.
Looks like there could be proper storms coming our way by this afternoon though.
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Thunder and rain reached us about 8 yesterday evening but was frankly disappointing.
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It's about 22C at the moment and very overcast. We're due heavy rainshowes, which will be good - means I won't have to do as much watering this evening... :thumbsup:
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A storm would be nice. I almost got struck by lightning once (true fact, right next me to, left a disappointing 2p-sized circle of melted tarmac rather than a giant crater) so I'm likely immune to future smiting (this is why I perform bad deeds with impunity).
It does feel a bit fresher out there for now and – I don't get my hopes up (they might just have gone off to collection some louder machines and tools) – no sounds of construction. Windows and doors wide. Cone in cool(er) air and make yourself at home.
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A storm would be nice. I almost got struck by lightning once (true fact, right next me to, left a disappointing 2p-sized circle of melted tarmac rather than a giant crater) so I'm likely immune to future smiting (this is why I perform bad deeds with impunity).
It does feel a bit fresher out there for now and – I don't get my hopes up (they might just have gone off to collection some louder machines and tools) – no sounds of construction. Windows and doors wide. Cone in cool(er) air and make yourself at home.
She says it was just a warning shot - don't push your luck!
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It was pretty awesome and everyone thinks I'm lying, but it blasted me off my BMX (falling off wasn't unusual admittedly, even without heavenly intervention). The day had gone greeny-grey, the sort of dark bilious cloud that promises something spectacular inclement for Britain. Knowing that of course, that you should not shelter under a tree, I didn't. There was a moment of pure static electricity and then boom I was lying in the road, all I could see was the colour purple (the colour, not the movie), and everything reeked of ozone (OK, I didn't know what ozone was then). And there, next to me, that tiny circle of melted, glassy tarmac. Which was a bit disappointing.
And actually, it turns out, it's not even that rare to get struck by (or nearly struck by) lightning. Nor do you get super powers.
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A storm would be nice. I almost got struck by lightning once (true fact, right next me to, left a disappointing 2p-sized circle of melted tarmac rather than a giant crater) so I'm likely immune to future smiting (this is why I perform bad deeds with impunity).
It does feel a bit fresher out there for now and – I don't get my hopes up (they might just have gone off to collection some louder machines and tools) – no sounds of construction. Windows and doors wide. Cone in cool(er) air and make yourself at home.
The family annals state that a great aunt of mine was killed by a lightning bolt some time around her 10th year.
Yes, just found her in the family tree: Hannah Walker - 15/1/1888 - 27/8/1898.
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The end of the world has arrived in west Cheshire. It's apocalyptic.................. I've seen nothing like this, ever...........
Blimey!
You're in for some.
According to Ventusky.
We did............
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=86532.msg2527412#msg2527412
At 0600 this morning, I took the dog out as usual. The world felt like a different place, I didn't feel that I knew it, or trusted it any more. It felt somehow malevolent, that something more was lurking over the horizon, over my shoulder, somewhere unseen. And I'm a scientist, not given to 'feeling the vibe' as it were. Yes, I know, that the storm couldn't really hurt me, but it really didn't feel like that at the time. No wonder the dog was clearly scared stiff. I still need a stiff malt.............
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It's about 22C at the moment and very overcast. We're due heavy rainshowes, which will be good - means I won't have to do as much watering this evening... :thumbsup:
Rumbles of thunder in the Fens, and the wind has dropped
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It was pretty awesome and everyone thinks I'm lying, but it blasted me off my BMX (falling off wasn't unusual admittedly, even without heavenly intervention). The day had gone greeny-grey, the sort of dark bilious cloud that promises something spectacular inclement for Britain. Knowing that of course, that you should not shelter under a tree, I didn't. There was a moment of pure static electricity and then boom I was lying in the road, all I could see was the colour purple (the colour, not the movie), and everything reeked of ozone (OK, I didn't know what ozone was then). And there, next to me, that tiny circle of melted, glassy tarmac. Which was a bit disappointing.
And actually, it turns out, it's not even that rare to get struck by (or nearly struck by) lightning. Nor do you get super powers.
One Roy Sullivan, a ranger in Shenandoah National Park and amateur Gene Hackman impersonator, was struck by lightning seven times. He eventually shot himself utterly to DETH.
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I'm not sure I trust CoreTemp, since it routinely tells me that the box in here is running at 11° when it's been idling overnight. If it was that cold in here I'd be wearing trousers. And a jumper. And socks. And have the heating on. At the moment it's wavering between 19° and 26°, which are also Clearly Bollocks. It usually settles at 61° when working hard jibbling video files. The laptop seems to do 74° whether idling in an air-conditioned room or doing six months of Windows updates on a day like today.
Better than nowt. My antiquated mini-tower usually trogs along at ~40°. I reckon my 77° was caused by Adobe CC pushing the CPU load up to 100% and keeping it there while it admired its navel for 5 minutes. As soon as I killed it the temperature came down.
Meanwhile, MF* predicted savage thunders and marauding winds last evening, but looking at a map of precipitable cloud water and blitzortung.org suggested that they were talking through their sombreros, and they were.
* Météo France but that too.
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A lovely bang and clap torrential downpour for an hour or so, oh the relief. I had already had two showers by 9am today. Damn gutters need cleaning again!
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The worse bit of the current outbreak of scorchio is that the swimming pool is closed, so I'm in the 'home gym' (sounds more thrilling than it is, an exercise bike and rowing machine) every day.
At the moment, the amount of sweat I generate during an hour's workout is something to behold, and thoroughly and exquisitely disgusting.
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Someone turned on the humiditron again.
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See lightning in the sky whilst peering out the window into the gloom. Check weather radar online. Nearest storm over 40 miles away in English Channel. Desert conditions continuing then. I expect a hosepipe ban soon.
Ventusky is reporting rain in your neck of the woods right now, but it will have passed over here and be on Margate within the hour.
I must have blinked.
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The current forecast is for a 6pm thunderstorm of up to an hour’s duration. High tide is a few minutes after 8pm. I hope to break my swimming duck for 2020.
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First rumbles over E14... but still a distance away. Room where I normally work back up to 30.5 again, it's not dropped below 28 for days now despite curtains being closed during the day and windows open at night.
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Thunder and torrential rain finally here atop the North Downs. Cue frantic closing of windows.
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M25 junctions 7 to 8 look a bit damp, judging by some pics I've just seen on fb.
Lots of thunder here and at last a few raindrops. Not enough to make anything wet though.
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Stopped now. Ho hum.
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M25 junctions 7 to 8 look a bit damp, judging by some pics I've just seen on fb.
I haven't seen the photos, but if I remember correctly it is steeply downhill all the way from Junction 8 to Junction 7.
So ideal for white water rafting.
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M25 junctions 7 to 8 look a bit damp, judging by some pics I've just seen on fb.
Lots of thunder here and at last a few raindrops. Not enough to make anything wet though.
I live near junction 8 (give or take a couple of miles) so the rain that rolled through here would have hit it a few minutes before.
Certainly knocked the stuffing out of the temperature, it's now 20 degrees outside. In about four days, my house might have cooled down to something similar.
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Well, 8 mins of proper rain is better than nothing.
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I'm gonna have to shut my window - it's fucking freezing here. Haar-tastic.
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Mid-20's here, murky and windy all day, but only rained for about half an hour in the afternoon
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Rain? not a sign, although for the last 5 hours the BBC forecast gave us a 50%+ chance of it. Replaying the rain radar it looks like it got to within about one mile south of us.
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Rain? not a sign, although for the last 5 hours the BBC forecast gave us a 50%+ chance of it. Replaying the rain radar it looks like it got to within about one mile south of us.
Didn't touch us at a couple of miles ESE of you, though it did look very murky to our west round about 4 o'clock.
I was quite looking forward to the three or four hours of heavy if not torrential rain the Norwegians were promising. (Mind you, they forecast a couple of hours of that for yesterday too. Not a drop.)
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The M5 was closed, it was 30C, then it started raining and people got all "continental".
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/party-m5-drivers-trapped-storm-4421068
I'd hardly call her performance "impressive" but partying sounds like a good use for a closed motorway.
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I'm gonna have to shut my window - it's fucking freezing here. Haar-tastic.
No haar but wall to wall grey. I originally shut the windows as I'd had enough listening to bloody juvenile seagulls whistling but now I'm under a fleece. Bit of a change from yesterday afternoon.
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Oh and, it's quite annoying not being able to replenish my chocolate stocks from Willie's Cacao when they won't despatch due to the heatwave down south, that we're not having.
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Looks like I'll be sleeping between the sheets tonight instead of on them.
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M25 junctions 7 to 8 look a bit damp, judging by some pics I've just seen on fb.
I haven't seen the photos, but if I remember correctly it is steeply downhill all the way from Junction 8 to Junction 7.
So ideal for white water rafting.
Misc closures on the M25 and M23 where they join. Chaos all around according the the traffic report on the radio
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blitzortung.org
I've just yesterday put myself on their waiting list for a Station Kit to build up and and become a monitoring station on their network!
Yet more antennas on the roof!
GPS, E-field probe and H-field loops!
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The heavens have opened in E12! :thumbsup:
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Flashes and rumbles in SS2 but no rain yet.21°C wuth 86% humidity. Bloody horrible!
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The heavens have opened in E12! :thumbsup:
And that's it, all over.
I do enjoy the smell of summer rain.
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I stuck my head out the door a few minutes ago and I could smell the petrichor, which was all teh more tantalising as we haven't had any rain.
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One colossal thunderclap in E17 about 15 minutes ago, since when nothing.
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Looks like I'll be sleeping between the sheets tonight instead of on them.
Nope. Its not the heat, only 20c at 10.30, it's the humidity. :( I need 24 showers a day.
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Sounds like it may actually be raining at last :thumbsup:
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In the past half hour the temperature has dropped from 21°C to 20°C, but the humidity has risen from 86% to 89%.
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Still 26C here. No rain. Occasional distant rumbles from roughly Essex-wards. The rain radar showed stuff coming this way several times this evening, but it evaporated before it ever got here.
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Sounds like it may actually be raining at last :thumbsup:
Drivers were caught by flash flooding on the M25 after "biblical rain and hail" fell in the UK.
(https://www-standard-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/m25-shut-flash-flooding-vehicles-stranded-a4524396.html?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.standard.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fm25-shut-flash-flooding-vehicles-stranded-a4524396.html)
We seem to have missed that. Hope all are OK.
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Looks like I'll be sleeping between the sheets tonight instead of on them.
Nope. Its not the heat, only 20c at 10.30, it's the humidity. :( I need 24 showers a day.
Some years ago, I spent a year working in St Vincent and the Grenadines. We used to measure the daily humidity in shirts. On a scale of 1-4, per day.
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Finally, some rain last night, 22.5mm in an hour here in west London. And raining hard again now.
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About an hour of light rain round about 6pm last night, then a single flash of lightning and clap of thunder a couple of miles away about 10.
The couple of hours of moderate rain the Norwegians think I should be experiencing at the moment aren't happening, so I hope this post triggers them to start.
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We certainly had a fair bit of rain from here in the shadow of the Chilterns around 9pm through to the early hours. A bit of thunder early on, and later lots of lightning with rain, but no thunder at all. Now it's hazy, overcast, and a steady light rain. Around 21C. Haven't checked the gardening trugs (our usual rain gauge) but suffice it to say I'll not need to water the squash and tomatoes this afternoon. ETA around 40mm of rain fell in about 16 hours.
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M25 junctions 7 to 8 look a bit damp, judging by some pics I've just seen on fb.
I haven't seen the photos, but if I remember correctly it is steeply downhill all the way from Junction 8 to Junction 7.
So ideal for white water rafting.
Misc closures on the M25 and M23 where they join. Chaos all around according the the traffic report on the radio
My son and his girlfriend drove down to Poole from east Kent yesterday afternoon so were very fortunate to miss that. He sent me a pic when they were on the M3, where he said the rain was heavy enough to bring traffic almost to a standstill.
We finally got some proper wet stuff yesterday afternoon - it was like someone emptying a very large bucket, very heavy for a very brief spell, then completely stopped and the sun came out for a gloriously warm early evening. Reminded me of family summer holidays in the south of France where that kind of thing seemed to happen a lot.
Properly chilly and overcast today. What a blessed relief!
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I didn't get a picture as I was on a call, but that deluge was heavy. As there are no storm drains on the street above ours and it's a very steep hill, our driveway and the street outside turn into a deep river and our garden terraces turn into waterfalls. Always fun. The alleyway down the side of the house turns into a narrow swimming pool. Fortunately, the steepness means the water drains pretty quickly and goes on to flood everyone at the bottom of the valley.
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We've got the chilly and overcast bit, and it did rain at some point in the early morning, but not to any great extent - puddles are noticeably absent.
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I didn't get a picture as I was on a call, but that deluge was heavy. As there are no storm drains on the street above ours and it's a very steep hill, our driveway and the street outside turn into a deep river and our garden terraces turn into waterfalls. Always fun. The alleyway down the side of the house turns into a narrow swimming pool. Fortunately, the steepness means the water drains pretty quickly and goes on to flood everyone at the bottom of the valley.
Did the floating tent survived the deluge?
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Yes, it's still there. Levitating serenely above all that nature can throw at it.
Squirrels can still, and probably do, shit on it though.
The first deluge we encountered when we moved here was an oh shit! moment, rivers of water cascading everywhere – the street behind us is at the level of our roof and we're all about half-way up a 25% hill, and there's no storm drainage. So gravity rules when it comes to heavy rain. But we haven't washed away yet.
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I'm not sure I trust CoreTemp, since it routinely tells me that the box in here is running at 11° when it's been idling overnight. If it was that cold in here I'd be wearing trousers. And a jumper. And socks. And have the heating on. At the moment it's wavering between 19° and 26°, which are also Clearly Bollocks. It usually settles at 61° when working hard jibbling video files. The laptop seems to do 74° whether idling in an air-conditioned room or doing six months of Windows updates on a day like today.
Better than nowt. My antiquated mini-tower usually trogs along at ~40°. I reckon my 77° was caused by Adobe CC pushing the CPU load up to 100% and keeping it there while it admired its navel for 5 minutes. As soon as I killed it the temperature came down.
Meanwhile, MF* predicted savage thunders and marauding winds last evening, but looking at a map of precipitable cloud water and blitzortung.org suggested that they were talking through their sombreros, and they were.
* Météo France but that too.
Testing new fanless job's performance on video file jibbling. Peaked at 102 :o. How hot can they get before the magic smoke escapes?
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Central Heating's on :thumbsup: ;D
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Pissed it down big time about 1730 today. Stopped just after 1800. Roads were dry by the time I road home at 1900.
Temp has dropped a bit, humidity is above 60 now...
J
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A grey day in which it threatened to rain, and did a little, but still plenty warm enough to sit outside in Penny's garden. At one point we could make the sun's shape out through the clouds, but it didn't last long.
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Central Heating's on :thumbsup: ;D
Flurries of snow/sleet here. :thumbsup:
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The patio was damp on one side of the house, but not the other when I woke this morning. Driving to Cambridge, a drizzle, but not enough to trigger the auto wipers
Bah, humbug in respect of rain forecasts. I've not even needed to resort to trousers
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The roads of E17 appear damp at the edges this morning, suggesting it has rained in the night. And last night was the first time any of me has been under, rather than next to, the duvet in weeks.
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Dampness noted in Suffolk. Not significant enough to be recorded as rain. In-bedroom temperature down to 25C.
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Tipping it down in the shadow of the Chilterns.
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Same here.
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My nephew's neighbour in Chelmsford has reported 60mm rain falling in 30 minutes this afternoon.
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My nephew's neighbour in Chelmsford has reported 60mm rain falling in 30 minutes this afternoon.
A 120mm/hr rainfall rate even for just half an hour would likely cause a lot of flash flooding.
ETA: Rather like this: https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-weather-chelmsford-flooding-traffic-4428998 :D
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Finally got some proper rain, but it only lasted for about 10 minutes.
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My nephew's neighbour in Chelmsford has reported 60mm rain falling in 30 minutes this afternoon.
A 120mm/hr rainfall rate even for just half an hour would likely cause a lot of flash flooding.
ETA: Rather like this: https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-weather-chelmsford-flooding-traffic-4428998 :D
Looks like we only just dodged that one, we cycled through Chelmsford around 15.00 today. We were treated to rather heavy rain for about 30 minutes c 16.00 but fortunately we were safely ensconced in Blackmore Tea Rooms at the time
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Just gone biblically dark and windy, with lots of people off-stage shaking sheets of plywood. I think it may be a gym session this evening rather than out on the road.
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Considering putting the heating on. In August. :-\
It's been chilly all week here, particularly in the mornings - whilst my north-facing spare room was nice and cool to WFH in the warmer weather, I'm definitely having to layer up now.
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On the plus side, I've got drenched so much this week even on short wanders outside that I've finally resorted to ordering some waterproof trousers. They're due to arrive tomorrow, so if we have the warmest, driest September on record, I'm going to take all the credit. ;D
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On the plus side, I've got drenched so much this week even on short wanders outside that I've finally resorted to ordering some waterproof trousers. They're due to arrive tomorrow, so if we have the warmest, driest September on record, I'm going to take all the credit. ;D
Me too. I bought a pair yesterday for winter storm dog emptying expeditions.
That's 'winter storms', not 'storm dogs'.
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Today I gave in and switched shorts for jeans and stole the cat's fleecy blanket to drape over me at my desk.
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Heating clicked on this morning.
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Frosty windscreens in't North this morning.
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Heating clicked on this morning.
Ditto - but I soon put a stop to that . . . don't want to line the pockets of the gas supplier before I really need to :hand:
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Put on long trousers this morning for the first time since June. Feels weird.
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Swallows are gathering. Lucky buggers..
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Swallows are gathering. Lucky buggers..
I wonder if they'll have to self isolate when they return?
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Swallows are gathering. Lucky buggers..
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=128.msg2535087#msg2535087
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Swallows are gathering. Lucky buggers..
I wonder if they'll have to self isolate when they return?
They'd have to be bats.
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Swallows are gathering. Lucky buggers..
Oh, great. Shortage of coconuts next week.
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29 is forecast for next Mon and Tue in London and probably the South East.
:(
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Yea! 25c out here in leafy Bucks for mon and tues. Lovely.
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Yep, we're gearing up for high demand again, fortunately the kids are back in school so there shouldn't be as many paddling pools being filled.
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Forecast to hit 28C here. Thought we were done with this nonsense for this year.
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Forecast to hit 28C here. Thought we were done with this nonsense for this year.
You'll be eating your words when you're sliding about on ice, and freezing your nads off in three months :D