Author Topic: A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own. (Read 285734 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2225 on:** 08 October, 2022, 03:24:36 pm »

Quote from: ian on 27 September, 2022, 01:39:37 pm

Quote from: rafletcher on 27 September, 2022, 12:37:14 pm
I fail to comprehend this obsession with shorts - is it a macho thing? I blame the Postmen.

I'd get into all sorts of trouble if I wore a dress, regardless of the modesty of the hemline.

Shorts? Pah! Shorts are for sissies. I'm in a mankini till January. Well, it shortens the queue in the post office.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2226 on:** 11 October, 2022, 08:17:00 am »

First time this year of having to scrape the windscreen, ambient around 2C.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2227 on:** 16 October, 2022, 06:46:47 pm »

Great excitement here! A bit of rain, some wind, but no thunder or lightning, followed by a sudden POP! the lights go off and immediately come back on again, followed by a cacochorus of burglar alarms. Probably not as many as in Silly Boke, but definitely more than one.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2228 on:** 16 October, 2022, 06:52:17 pm »

And it just happened again. In fact lights are on in all the houses but some, not all, of the street lights are out. I guess one phase has blown?

Don't know really.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2229 on:** 16 October, 2022, 06:54:54 pm »

WE have had a little rain. It seems that there is quite a bit forecast for this evening.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2230 on:** 16 October, 2022, 07:00:30 pm »

Big splatty drops on the Fast-Appreciating Future Classic's windscreen on the N. Circ approaching Walthamstow but tailed off to manky drizzle by the time I got home.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2231 on:** 16 October, 2022, 07:20:29 pm »

Why does it feel colder indoors when it rains? I'm normally perfectly happy with the indoor temperature at 18°C, but now it's started raining, it isn't warm enough. I've noticed this before.

PS Our roof doesn't leak.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2232 on:** 16 October, 2022, 07:26:18 pm »

How much does your humidity increase when it rains? Assuming it's 18C whether it's dry or rainy, that makes a massive difference to how warm it feels.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2233 on:** 16 October, 2022, 07:28:11 pm »

Alarms stopped. Maybe someone got home.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2234 on:** 16 October, 2022, 07:28:56 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 16 October, 2022, 07:20:29 pm

Why does it feel colder indoors when it rains? I'm normally perfectly happy with the indoor temperature at 18°C, but now it's started raining, it isn't warm enough. I've noticed this before.

PS Our roof doesn't leak.

In addition to humidity, there's wind. And, in daylight, lack of it.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2235 on:** 16 October, 2022, 07:29:12 pm »

The inside humidity has remained pretty constant (source: Davis weather station).

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2236 on:** 16 October, 2022, 07:31:58 pm »

And the wind speed overall doesn't seem to have changed. It doesn't feel at all windy inside...

Canardly · « **Reply #2237 on:** 17 October, 2022, 02:46:59 pm »

The local reservoir was visited on yesterday's ride. I have never seen it so low. We really do need significant rainfall this winter. The local sailing club was using an old buried road as the slipway due to the water level having receded so far.

T42 · « **Reply #2238 on:** 17 October, 2022, 02:53:20 pm »

23°C just now.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2239 on:** 17 October, 2022, 03:45:38 pm »

Still shorts & T-shaped shirt weather for cycling to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles today. B'ain't be natural, so it don’t!

Jurek · « **Reply #2240 on:** 18 October, 2022, 02:40:53 pm »

Last time I wore trousers that were approximately as long as my legs was back at the beginning of the pandemic.

Basil · « **Reply #2241 on:** 18 October, 2022, 02:43:16 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 18 October, 2022, 02:40:53 pm

Last time I wore trousers that were approximately as long as my legs was back at the beginning of the pandemic.

My my. Haven't you grown?

Canardly · « **Reply #2242 on:** 20 October, 2022, 10:16:03 am »

Quite a storm this early am and lots of the much needed wet stuff.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2243 on:** 20 October, 2022, 10:24:52 am »

Tipping down in E17 since bedtime, albeit that thanks to a Mr I Rankin of Scotlandland, that was around 3 am.

Beardy · « **Reply #2244 on:** 20 October, 2022, 10:49:35 am »

I do like rainfall, especially heavy rainfall. Even more so when I’m safely undercover and I can hear the tattoo of the rain on the roof.

citoyen · « **Reply #2245 on:** 20 October, 2022, 11:04:28 am »

Quote from: Canardly on 20 October, 2022, 10:16:03 am

Quite a storm this early am and lots of the much needed wet stuff.

Same here.

Apparently, neither my coat nor my over trousers are particularly waterproof.

Picked up three copies of the Metro when I got to the station, two of which will be used to stuff my shoes and hopefully dry them out a bit by the time I set off home this evening.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2246 on:** 20 October, 2022, 11:55:09 am »

Really feeling quite warm here today, with reasonably heavy rain (though no doubt not enough to get Thames Water to lift their hosepipe ban) and the odd flash of lightning, but that was mainly to the East and North of us.

cycleman · « **Reply #2247 on:** 20 October, 2022, 06:25:21 pm »

Fair amount of rain here in Slough today. Some quite heavy

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2248 on:** 31 October, 2022, 01:33:56 pm »

Every day this month the temperature has reached 16°C. The highest temperature my device has recorded is 22.5°C, on 29th. I feel confident that this is unprecedented for a UK October.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2249 on:** 31 October, 2022, 02:51:02 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2022, 01:33:56 pm

Every day this month the temperature has reached 16°C. The highest temperature my device has recorded is 22.5°C, on 29th. I feel confident that this is unprecedented for a UK October.

Not according to Google - 29.9C in Gravesend in 2011. The average might well be the highest though.