There was a report on PM on Radio 4 tonight about this. Apparently, it's called "Summer".
(It was very funny. They had a mock expert explaining how people would start wearing things called 'short sleeved shirts', and we mustn't look directly at the sun...).
Enfield MPS @MPSEnfield 2 Jul
Two burglaries overnight where open windows were used to get in. Even in hot weather make sure your windows are closed. JJBoroughCommander
What fettling task has those consequences ???
One person do the its hotter than x comparison will get a slap.
So complain of snow, complain of heat....
Why not just write them down and then take the 2mm off later? One fewer thing to do at once :)
I have been eating salad. This is Not Common.
Why not just write them down and then take the 2mm off later? One fewer thing to do at once :)
I could barely even manage that. My multitasking centre had gone offline. Just reading the tape was a challenge.
We have waited a long time to see an entire week of 'Big Sun' on the forecast! And people are complaining about the heat ALREADY??
I am never too hot.
Loving this weather, absolutely loving it!!!!!!!
We have waited a long time to see an entire week of 'Big Sun' on the forecast! And people are complaining about the heat ALREADY??
I am never too hot.
Loving this weather, absolutely loving it!!!!!!!
We have waited a long time to see an entire week of 'Big Sun' on the forecast! And people are complaining about the heat ALREADY??
I am never too hot.
Loving this weather, absolutely loving it!!!!!!!
We have waited a long time to see an entire week of 'Big Sun' on the forecast! And people are complaining about the heat ALREADY??
I am never too hot.
Loving this weather, absolutely loving it!!!!!!!
Me too - it's ace :thumbsup:
Anyone complaining about the heat within my earshot will receive a brisk slap upside the head and a short lecture on their being a colossal divvy.
We have waited a long time to see an entire week of 'Big Sun' on the forecast! And people are complaining about the heat ALREADY??
I am never too hot.
Loving this weather, absolutely loving it!!!!!!!
Some of us find heat hard to cope with. Coupled with working outdoors in a physical job, then yes, I'm too hot, and likely to complain.
If it were low to mid 20's, I'd be fine. Any nearer 30 and I'd mostly like to lie down in the shade and sip cool drinks. Sadly, I have to work for a living, so that's out.
Don't worry. It will be pouring down next week. It will be a week of torrential rain, high winds, possibly a bit of snow and hail. Some shall think it the beginning of the Second Coming.
I will be on holiday in the UK.
We have waited a long time to see an entire week of 'Big Sun' on the forecast! And people are complaining about the heat ALREADY??
I am never too hot.
Loving this weather, absolutely loving it!!!!!!!
Me too - it's ace :thumbsup:
Anyone complaining about the heat within my earshot will receive a brisk slap upside the head and a short lecture on their being a colossal divvy.
It's all right for you lot. On Thursday here, it's gonna rain >:(
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/heatwave_zpsbakiidhb.jpg)
It's all right for you lot. On Thursday here, it's gonna rain >:(
35 today. I did a 55km ride. With cake.
http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/daily/news-wire/soaring-temperatures-jam-prince-street-bridge
36 deg C at Heathrow yesterday and I was just a few miles down the road at Henley. I reckon more people were wasted by dehydration and heat than by alcohol. That must be a first.
36 deg C at Heathrow yesterday and I was just a few miles down the road at Henley. I reckon more people were wasted by dehydration and heat than by alcohol. That must be a first.
This morning was lovely but the haar had come in by the time I left the dentist, so I guess I'll be finding a jacket for my next trip out. :(
I understand that 15% of electricity produced in this country this afternoon will be from solar.It'll be handy for the air conditioning.
I understand that 15% of electricity produced in this country this afternoon will be from solar.
I understand that 15% of electricity produced in this country this afternoon will be from solar.
It's going to struggle. The theoretical capacity of UK solar systems is a bit ofer 20% of our current demand, but looking at the numbers, all but 1% of the grid generation seems to be accounted for by non-solar methods: -
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
I understand that 15% of electricity produced in this country this afternoon will be from solar.
It's going to struggle. The theoretical capacity of UK solar systems is a bit ofer 20% of our current demand, but looking at the numbers, all but 1% of the grid generation seems to be accounted for by non-solar methods: -
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Does that actually track small-scale feed-in generation (which must account for most of the UK's solar capacity), though? I'd have thought it would simply appear as a reduction in demand...
Talking of storms, I stood at the top of the stairs at midnight last night, looking eastwards out of the landing window and watched 30 minutes of electric awesomeness as a storm lit up the clouds towards London. I saw very few actual bolts of lightning but every 5- 10 seconds the clouds were lit up or profiled by flashes from within. The cloud bank didn't look to be very far away and I could see stars on my side of it. Didn't hear a thing though.
It were great.
The lightning must have been a long way away and diffused by overcast cloud. Flashes every few seconds for half an hour, with barely a sound. Outrageous thunder came in the end, though. Funny how you can get to middle age and still experience weather conditions in your home town unlike anything you've seen before.
I had quite a lot of flashy stuff with little sound around 1am today in our corner of NW Outer Londonton.
My Broadband failed at 01.15 so I switched off my computer and went to bed.
Broadband worked when I got up.
Talking of storms, I stood at the top of the stairs at midnight last night, looking eastwards out of the landing window and watched 30 minutes of electric awesomeness as a storm lit up the clouds towards London. I saw very few actual bolts of lightning but every 5- 10 seconds the clouds were lit up or profiled by flashes from within. The cloud bank didn't look to be very far away and I could see stars on my side of it. Didn't hear a thing though.
The display had me thingking of all those apocolyptic alien invasion films where the Mothership emerges slowly from a giant cloud with it's attendant ligthing display.
It were great.
We're down for 11mm between 11pm and 12am. That's going to be interesting if it happens (81% chance).We keep being promised rain, but not getting any, or not getting enough to be any use. However, its drizzling here in Nades, right now. Its only about 20 right now, but we've had over 43 in the shade early last week. No proper rain since May.. Pascal and I used a petrol post-hole borer yesterday evening, at 700mm deep, the soil was still rock hard and bone dry, a little worrying for all his trees, which are beginning to look a bit sad. Usually within a day or two of arriving here, I am spending entire days on the tractor cutting the grass, but this year we have not cut it at all. Its beginning a "green up" a bit right now, though.
We're down for 11mm between 11pm and 12am. That's going to be interesting if it happens (81% chance).We keep being promised rain, but not getting any, or not getting enough to be any use. However, its drizzling here in Nades, <SNIP>
<The Fast Show: Chanel 9>
Buono estente.
Apparently, we've got nimbo cumulos forecast for later this weekend.
Boutros Boutros Ghali.
</The Fast Show: Chanel 9>
I realise that the elderly may not be included in this, but is anybody else a bit baffled by what looks like hysteria over 35⁰, when at the end of next week many will choose to jet off in seek of such temperatures?
What are the design features of a 35⁰ country?
There certainly wasn’t the hysteria in 1976
There certainly wasn’t the hysteria in 1976
2003 is more comparable, I think.
I remember a fair bit of media concern in 2003.
The heatwave broke in France the night before PBP03 and I was very grateful. A 100km ride above 35 degrees the previous day completely wiped me out and I expecting to have to become nocturnal to have a chance to get to the finish line. PBP03 was a lot of fun in normal temperatures.
Media concern in the UK about the UK (I know France was badly hit)? I certainly don’t recall it, not to say it didn’t happen. And I’m not looking forward to the temps much myself, it just seems the press have gone to town.
I remember a fair bit of media concern in 2003.
The heatwave broke in France the night before PBP03 and I was very grateful. A 100km ride above 35 degrees the previous day completely wiped me out and I expected to become nocturnal to have a chance to get to the finish line. PBP03 was a lot of fun in normal temperatures.
I don't remember the heatwave of 2003, but I do remember one more recently (last 5 years or so as it was at this address) where I was heading out for a ride to be back home by 7:30 and it was already hitting 30C.
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BTW I've been in hotter, in the Algerian desert, and the water was falling out of me as quickly as I could put it in, call it media hysteria if you like but it is not a scenario to dismiss out of hand.
We were working from home last week, but we're back to normal 3 days in the office this week.When I last commuted by bike (~28 mile round trip) Going in at 06:00 was great.
As the office has air conditioning I'm not upset!
The only thing concerning me is the ride home. It's not far, but if the road surface starts to melt... ???
Any suggestions?
I'm trying, and failing, to work out where I was and what I was doing in 2003.
I have no recollection of a heatwave.
There used to be the Furnace Creek 508 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnace_Creek_508) too. Even in October DETH Valley can be pretty warm, though the descent of Towne Pass (~1500 m ASL) to Stovepipe Wells (3 m) must have been quite fun.
44C in Stovepipe Wells atm.
I'm trying, and failing, to work out where I was and what I was doing in 2003.
I have no recollection of a heatwave.
I know I was working in a call centre in Chester, but also have no recollection of a heatwave. Either the offices had decent aircon or the heatwave didn't make it there. Or both. ???
I realise that the elderly may not be included in this, but is anybody else a bit baffled by what looks like hysteria over 35⁰, when at the end of next week many will choose to jet off in seek of such temperatures?
And yet people will be jetting off to these temperatures, and they won't spend their time in houses with verandas and shutters, they'll be out lying on the beach.
It's a bit hot. It's not armageddon.
And yet people will be jetting off to these temperatures, and they won't spend their time in houses with verandas and shutters, they'll be out lying on the beach.
It's a bit hot. It's not armageddon.
And yet people will be jetting off to these temperatures, and they won't spend their time in houses with verandas and shutters, they'll be out lying on the beach.
And what humidity?
And how many of those will get sun stroke. or suffer heat exhaustion? Every summer tourists from the UK suffer heat related illnesses when they goto warmer climates.QuoteIt's a bit hot. It's not armageddon.
People will die due to the heat this week. For those people, that's pretty fucking significant.
Trains will stop running cos the rails will buckle.
Roads will be closed cos the tarmac melts.
Water networks are going to struggle with increased demand.
Power grid is going to have a mixed bag with the heat effecting transition lines and transformers, but the big increase in solar output.
It's not Armageddon. But it's pretty fucking significant. Sure we're going to have only 2-3 days of it, and most ca be easily repaired.
But this is definitely indicative that it's going to happen more often.
J
I don't want to scare you, but there are old people in hot countries too :o
At least we don't have mosquitoes in most of the UK, which make sleeping in the heat even worse. Meanwhile, 90% of new USian homes have aircon, which makes outdoors even hotter (as well as increasing energy use and CO2). PV-powered aircon, anyone? I think it would just about work, in power terms, on a clear day, assuming a house or bungalow. Flats might not have the roof to volume ratio.
I don't want to scare you, but there are old people in hot countries too :o
Yep. Who are acclimatised to it. And who live in buildings designed to handle the temperatures.
J
I think they are probably not aedes mosquitoes with accompanying malaria risk. Not yet.At least we don't have mosquitoes in most of the UK, which make sleeping in the heat even worse. Meanwhile, 90% of new USian homes have aircon, which makes outdoors even hotter (as well as increasing energy use and CO2). PV-powered aircon, anyone? I think it would just about work, in power terms, on a clear day, assuming a house or bungalow. Flats might not have the roof to volume ratio.
We have some nasty bastards here in TEH FENZ, very recognisable stripy gits. Apparently in the south east and east anglia we are now getting forrin mossies as well. We need better control of our borders I tell you!
I realise that the elderly may not be included in this, but is anybody else a bit baffled by what looks like hysteria over 35⁰, when at the end of next week many will choose to jet off in seek of such temperatures?
There certainly wasn’t the hysteria in 1976, a heat wave and drought I worked through (in a bloody great tin shed in WH Allen’s in Bedford. We got water coolers and salt tablets.) And maximum temps were similar. Maybe forecasting wasn’t as accurate, so there wasn’t the doom laden premonitions. But, yes, there will be excess deaths as a result of the heat, in 1976 Wikinaccurate says something like 20% over a 3 week period. We’re getting 3 days this year. And we’ve had similar low 30’s spells over the last couple of years with barely a mention. I’m not really sure why this event has triggered the outpourings. That said I’m not one for great heat, and thankfully it looks like (unlike today) there will be some breeze around.
Ah yes, humidity. That well known humidity hotspot that is the UK.
(https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Most-Humid-Cities-Europe-scaled.jpg)
Tomorrow it will be 37⁰ in London and 20% humidity.
In Hanoi, same temp. but 80% humidity.
Having spent 8 months in SEA Asia, and all of it in rainy season, I feel reasonably qualified to talk about humidity.
UK isn't humid when it's hot. If you've never felt like your face was covered in lard you really don't know what high temp/high humidity feels like.
I realise that the elderly may not be included in this, but is anybody else a bit baffled by what looks like hysteria over 35⁰, when at the end of next week many will choose to jet off in seek of such temperatures?
At one office in Cambridge, temperatures just over 32C produced office temperatures of 40C.
If it were 40C outside, I'd refuse to go in to that office.
Any tower block of flats is equally badly designed, with even less air flow to dissipate heat.
People are not physiologically adapted to coping with such temperatures. People will die.
Now it's evening humidity has dropped down to just 45% here. I don't know where the numbers for the pretty map come from. Do they take into account climate change in recent years?
I'm happy to be wrong about all this. I'd be over joyed for it to be a couple of days of Summer™, where everyone eats icecream, and enjoys the weather.
But the reality is, infrastructure in the UK will fail. People will die. I would love to be wrong about this. Really want to be.
It isn't just a few days of summer, it is exceptionally hot weather for the UK. Those temperatures would not be exceptional for Central and Southern France, or indeed Spain, and as far as I am aware plenty of British people opt to holiday there, and indeed retire there.
It is going to be an uncomfortable couple of days for everybody, and yes, some elderly people will be picked off by it, just as they are by a cold snap in January. We need to be aware of this, certainly, but the absolute hysteria is not, in my honest opinion, warranted.
As I've said, many people will jet off in search of these temperatures at the end of the week.
I've had heatstroke. At 4000m in the Himalayas. I know what the sun can do.
I think most people get it, without the 24h scrolling images of red maps and apocalyptic warnings.
I probably won't commute to work tomorrow.
I realise that the elderly may not be included in this, but is anybody else a bit baffled by what looks like hysteria over 35⁰, when at the end of next week many will choose to jet off in seek of such temperatures?
At one office in Cambridge, temperatures just over 32C produced office temperatures of 40C.
If it were 40C outside, I'd refuse to go in to that office.
Any tower block of flats is equally badly designed, with even less air flow to dissipate heat.
People are not physiologically adapted to coping with such temperatures. People will die.
I realise that the elderly may not be included in this, but is anybody else a bit baffled by what looks like hysteria over 35⁰, when at the end of next week many will choose to jet off in seek of such temperatures?
At one office in Cambridge, temperatures just over 32C produced office temperatures of 40C.
If it were 40C outside, I'd refuse to go in to that office.
Any tower block of flats is equally badly designed, with even less air flow to dissipate heat.
People are not physiologically adapted to coping with such temperatures. People will die.
Yes they will. The elderly, as per my post.
Everybody else is well able to survive mid to high 30⁰.
It was 40⁰ on the Tour yesterday. As far as I know none of the people racing for 6 hours, often at full exertion, died.
I realise that the elderly may not be included in this, but is anybody else a bit baffled by what looks like hysteria over 35⁰, when at the end of next week many will choose to jet off in seek of such temperatures?
At one office in Cambridge, temperatures just over 32C produced office temperatures of 40C.
If it were 40C outside, I'd refuse to go in to that office.
Any tower block of flats is equally badly designed, with even less air flow to dissipate heat.
People are not physiologically adapted to coping with such temperatures. People will die.
That penultimate sentence is entirely untrue.
I realise that the elderly may not be included in this, but is anybody else a bit baffled by what looks like hysteria over 35⁰, when at the end of next week many will choose to jet off in seek of such temperatures?
At one office in Cambridge, temperatures just over 32C produced office temperatures of 40C.
If it were 40C outside, I'd refuse to go in to that office.
Any tower block of flats is equally badly designed, with even less air flow to dissipate heat.
People are not physiologically adapted to coping with such temperatures. People will die.
That penultimate sentence is entirely untrue.
OK, I'll expand on it, to satisfy you.
When people live in a particular climate, they become adapted to that climate. Their body changes how it responds. People living in a cool climate like the UK are not accustomed to hot weather; equally, people visiting from a hot climate (say, Australia) find UK temperatures difficult, far too cold. It isn't a matter of comfort, they shiver in what we consider balmy temperatures.
I remember a ridiculously cool Christmas in Australia one year; we were wearing thick wool jumpers because the temperature was 25C.
Was it the phrase 'physiologically adapted' that upset you? Will you be satisfied with 'acclimatization'?
I grew up in Africa (1200-1350m altitude) but the most I ever knowingly experienced was 37-38C. It wasn't until visiting the Alps/Chamonix area a few yeas ago that I felt what 40C was like. Punishing heat when out in direct sun.
[23.5C Inside: 29.5C Out]
I grew up in Africa (1200-1350m altitude) but the most I ever knowingly experienced was 37-38C. It wasn't until visiting the Alps/Chamonix area a few yeas ago that I felt what 40C was like. Punishing heat when out in direct sun.
[23.5C Inside: 29.5C Out]
I think my first experience of similar (feeling, if not actual) heat to today’s was a visit to New York one summer. And perhaps when I went to Ras al Khaimah. In both cases the humidity was brutal. Walking out of JFK in the afternoon was like being hit with a hammer.
Looks like the “Laughingly named Accuweather” is actually quite accurate. The bedroom clock (which incorporates a temp readout) has been brought down (bedroom 26C, lounge 24C) and is currently sat in the shade next to me on the lawn. 31.5 and slowly climbing.I'd always assumed the 'accu' bit was short for 'sometimes accurate'.
The Bear-o-drome is a mid terrace with an East facing garden. Our tactic is to use the window blinds on the east side until the sun moves mostly south then swap to the blinds on the west side. We leave the windows open behind the blinds (all of the windows for airflow in fact) to allow for the heat build up between blind and double glazed unit to dissipate.
Inside the house it's still very reasonable but get within a foot of the open back door and the heat tries to claw the moisture out through the pores of your skin.
Speaking of bizarre temperature distribution, my feet are cold.
Which Sainos?
The one by the Billet?
It's not a very nice ride up there tho - you probably know some sexy back route on quiet streets.Which Sainos?
The one by the Billet?
Yes. Might be a touch further away than the one in 'stow Central but it's about four times the size and has better bike parking ;D
Train commuters can rest assured that track is free of speed restrictions until rail temperature exceeds 64C. But that's for straight track, it can be lower on curves, at switches and so on.London Overground were running at normal speeds through the underground sections last week in the afternoons, but slowing down to around 10mph once they were back out in the sunshine.
Would they have track laid to NR standards or does TfL have its own?Train commuters can rest assured that track is free of speed restrictions until rail temperature exceeds 64C. But that's for straight track, it can be lower on curves, at switches and so on.London Overground were running at normal speeds through the underground sections last week in the afternoons, but slowing down to around 10mph once they were back out in the sunshine.
Parts of it are shared with NR traffic.Would they have track laid to NR standards or does TfL have its own?Train commuters can rest assured that track is free of speed restrictions until rail temperature exceeds 64C. But that's for straight track, it can be lower on curves, at switches and so on.London Overground were running at normal speeds through the underground sections last week in the afternoons, but slowing down to around 10mph once they were back out in the sunshine.
It's not a very nice ride up there tho - you probably know some sexy back route on quiet streets.Which Sainos?
The one by the Billet?
Yes. Might be a touch further away than the one in 'stow Central but it's about four times the size and has better bike parking ;D
They're currently filming the Nike World Cup commercial at my workplace, I've never seen it so busy as it was at 07:00 this morning (I've since gone home). Ronaldo is expected to put in an appearance at some point, a couple of his body doubles have already been seen.
42 degrees in a shady part of my garden.
Just noticed it's a cool 21°C downstairs in the living room.
No real surprises - playing with infrared therm. ;)
COOKING EGGShttps://www.scienceofcooking.com/important_cooking_temperatures.htm
145°F/63°C -- Egg whites begin to thicken
150°F/ 65°C--Egg whites become a tender solid although ovomucin yolk cords will coagulate much higher. The yolk protein starts to thicken.
158°F/70°C-- Egg yolks set.
165°F/73°C-- Whole egg sets. If eggs are cooked at 212F for too long they get rubbery as proteins continue to coagulate and water is pushed out from between protein molecules.
In case anyone's wondering... ;)QuoteCOOKING EGGShttps://www.scienceofcooking.com/important_cooking_temperatures.htm
145°F/63°C -- Egg whites begin to thicken
150°F/ 65°C--Egg whites become a tender solid although ovomucin yolk cords will coagulate much higher. The yolk protein starts to thicken.
158°F/70°C-- Egg yolks set.
165°F/73°C-- Whole egg sets. If eggs are cooked at 212F for too long they get rubbery as proteins continue to coagulate and water is pushed out from between protein molecules.
Mum was in Teheran during the war.In case anyone's wondering... ;)QuoteCOOKING EGGShttps://www.scienceofcooking.com/important_cooking_temperatures.htm
145°F/63°C -- Egg whites begin to thicken
150°F/ 65°C--Egg whites become a tender solid although ovomucin yolk cords will coagulate much higher. The yolk protein starts to thicken.
158°F/70°C-- Egg yolks set.
165°F/73°C-- Whole egg sets. If eggs are cooked at 212F for too long they get rubbery as proteins continue to coagulate and water is pushed out from between protein molecules.
My uncle drove a tank around North Africa for a while. They cooked eggs on the hull.
In case anyone's wondering... ;)QuoteCOOKING EGGShttps://www.scienceofcooking.com/important_cooking_temperatures.htm
145°F/63°C -- Egg whites begin to thicken
150°F/ 65°C--Egg whites become a tender solid although ovomucin yolk cords will coagulate much higher. The yolk protein starts to thicken.
158°F/70°C-- Egg yolks set.
165°F/73°C-- Whole egg sets. If eggs are cooked at 212F for too long they get rubbery as proteins continue to coagulate and water is pushed out from between protein molecules.
I wonder if the transition from shaded tunnels to exposed stretches is a problem point? Not just in London, obviously.Parts of it are shared with NR traffic.Would they have track laid to NR standards or does TfL have its own?Train commuters can rest assured that track is free of speed restrictions until rail temperature exceeds 64C. But that's for straight track, it can be lower on curves, at switches and so on.London Overground were running at normal speeds through the underground sections last week in the afternoons, but slowing down to around 10mph once they were back out in the sunshine.
I suspect that the standard will be exactly the same for both.
Roads will be closed cos the tarmac melts.
Trains will stop running cos the rails will buckle.
Roads will be closed cos the tarmac melts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-royal-air-force-halts-flights-base-heatwave-melts-runway-sky-2022-07-18/
Ok, gotta say, I forgot about melting runways...
As long as the QRF runways don't melt we'll at least have fighter response...
J
Roads will be closed cos the tarmac melts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-royal-air-force-halts-flights-base-heatwave-melts-runway-sky-2022-07-18/
Ok, gotta say, I forgot about melting runways...
As long as the QRF runways don't melt we'll at least have fighter response...
J
I tried the Beeb advice of closing all the windows and blinds in the morning to trap the cool air. which sort of worked. It's still a bit cooler than outside but very sticky. Brought the bunnies into the kitchen mid afternoon they are obv not evolved to deal with this heat as they would be underground in the wild.
The camp bed under the stars tonight beckons!
30.6 degrees in the remote command centre. Still, not quite as bad as the base on Venus.Yep, it's definitely Ventisit weather. I'd probably have borrowed the seat pad from one of the bikes if I weren't flopped on the dining room bed with a book and a headache.
Just got up and discovered the joys of having a damp, sweaty arse. Probably more unpleasant for the chair.
I see that Cavendish came close to another record... 37.5°C today.
Last time I was there I appeared to be the only one mad enough to be driving a convertible with the roof down :D
30°C at 8.10am.
30°C at 8.10am.
31°C at 8.47am. That puts us 2h 30m ahead of yesterday...
I'm almost tempted to go into the office for the aircon...but not that much.
I'm almost tempted to go into the office for the aircon...but not that much.
I wouldn't bother, one of my colleagues has emailed me complaining that the office is too cold!
33°C at 9.40am30°C at 8.10am.
31°C at 8.47am. That puts us 2h 30m ahead of yesterday...
32°C at 8.58am.
Grant Shapps (if that is his real name) says millions of miles of roads will need to be resurfaced.
There are 247,500 miles of road in GB, and I doubt NI has the other millions.
Grant Shapps (if that is his real name) says millions of miles of roads will need to be resurfaced.He's probably including the drives and roads on the Tory estates.
There are 247,500 miles of road in GB, and I doubt NI has the other millions.
34°C at 10.24am33°C at 9.40am32°C at 8.58am.30°C at 8.10am.31°C at 8.47am. That puts us 2h 30m ahead of yesterday...
Aaaasrgh! Telephone appointment with GP this morning. He has asked me to attend in person at 11:20.
Bugger. 🔥🥵🔥🥵🔥
33°C at 9.40am30°C at 8.10am.
31°C at 8.47am. That puts us 2h 30m ahead of yesterday...
32°C at 8.58am.
35°C at 11.13am.34°C at 10.24am33°C at 9.40am32°C at 8.58am.30°C at 8.10am.31°C at 8.47am. That puts us 2h 30m ahead of yesterday...
These posts could have been copied almost word for word from the Covid thread.Apart from the ones that come from the Wordle thread.
Went for a walk on the Downs yesterday evening. Goat Gully (no, Roger, it's an actual valley inhabited by a herd of Capra aegagrus)
36°C at noon.35°C at 11.13am.34°C at 10.24am33°C at 9.40am32°C at 8.58am.30°C at 8.10am.31°C at 8.47am. That puts us 2h 30m ahead of yesterday...
We are currently 3°C higher than the Met Office's prediction for this time.
Its the hottest day ever in the UK and there is a guy in next doors garden attacking stuff with a pick axe at midday! He's retired and does odd jobs for people. Why the hell he is choosing to do this one today I have no idea.Maybe hoping to hit a water main...
The popular St Michael’s Hill pizza outlet, Beerd, has closed operations this Monday and Tuesday to protect staff during the heatwave, with temperatures in Bristol expected to reach 36 degrees.https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/popular-pizza-outlet-closes-doors-amid-heatwave/
The decision was taken in order to ensure the welfare of kitchen staff.
Paul Kemp, owner of Beerd, commented that his “priorities changed” after working for a pub company that ‘didn’t care about the adverse impact on team members in any capacity.
I'm thinking of getting up at about 5am and going to meet the high tide for a swim. And then hunker down in the house.
I'm planning another swim around 5.45 as well.
Isn't that odd - that Whitstable is on the opposite shore to Southend yet our high tides coincide? ;)
OMG. It just rained. Only for a couple of minutes. Weirdly the sun was shining. Probably not enough to cool the pavements and roads, but it's a start.
OMG. It just rained. Only for a couple of minutes. Weirdly the sun was shining. Probably not enough to cool the pavements and roads, but it's a start.
Enough for petrichor? I'm looking forward to that.
Aaaasrgh! Telephone appointment with GP this morning. He has asked me to attend in person at 11:20.
Bugger. 🔥🥵🔥🥵🔥
Bad luck. Telephone appt due in half an hour, I hope he doesn't want me to attend for prodding, I do not wish to leave my darkened house.
Having scoffed at me taking the turbo fan upstairs to bed last night, husband appears to have stolen it for his office next door.
Over 40 at Heathrow now, which is a lot of Fahrenheit (for tabloid headline writers).
Charlwood, Surrey, records 39.1°C, highest recorded UK temperature.Presumably that's a weather station for Gatwick. (I seem to recall a Stevenson Screen lurking by the side of the road at the end of the runway).
My work lappy (at home) is doing likewise.
My laptop is now too hot to type on...
J
Fill the bath with lukewarm water and work in there. Just don't drop it and... be very careful if you have Zoom calls!My work lappy (at home) is likewise.
My laptop is now too hot to type on...
J
Good job I clock off @ 15:00
I've just turned off the lappy.
The room immediately feels cooler.
Rain has reached Bristol. Presumably heading east.
You haven't missed much. It lasted a few minutes and lowered the indoor temperature not at all.Rain has reached Bristol. Presumably heading east.
Ventusky says it will fizzle out before it reaches East Kent.
Chiz.
Hopefully rain here soon…
With our call handlers now answering 400 calls an hour, our Gold Commander has a message to Londoners about the #heatwave.
“We are seeing an increase in the number of patients experiencing heat exposure"
“Sustained demand on our 999 and 111 services as a result of the heatwave"
London is not accustomed to heat like this.QuoteWith our call handlers now answering 400 calls an hour, our Gold Commander has a message to Londoners about the #heatwave.
“We are seeing an increase in the number of patients experiencing heat exposure"
“Sustained demand on our 999 and 111 services as a result of the heatwave"
https://twitter.com/Ldn_Ambulance/status/1549422159877050370
London is not coping with the heat.
J
Water networks are going to struggle with increased demand.
Just nipped out to the chemists. Doesn’t feel as icky* as yesterday, but that’s likely because there’s quite a lot more breeze today.
* Technical term robbed off of The Velvet Underground
This has always struck me as a bit odd .
Water networks are going to struggle with increased demand.
https://twitter.com/holly/status/1549396607925456897
Severn Trent asking people to reduce their water usage...
J
Roads will be closed cos the tarmac melts.
Just nipped out to the chemists. Doesn’t feel as icky* as yesterday, but that’s likely because there’s quite a lot more breeze today.
* Technical term robbed off of The Velvet Underground
Not to be confused with:
Ickey adj. tending towards guanopsychotic moonhowling conspiraloon territory.
For example: "I read a really Ickey article today about low-frequency radio transmitter sites actually being for weather control."
I do wish people would stop blaming the heat, the rain, covid, and cosmic rays for failures in the health services to cope. The reason they can't cope is sustained under-investment and endless political dibbling. It's not like this is a surprise hot spell that absolutely no one knew was coming.A friend's son-in-law recently had open heart surgery. Coming round in intensive care, the machine that bleeps started bleeping. Nurse comes over and doesn't know what to do, cos she's actually a midwife sent to cover ICU in absence of anyone with appropriate training. Then later the only painkiller they can give him is two paracetamol, because there's no with appropriate pharmaceutical training. And the reason they have no staff is because of lack of funding for cover when anyone's off, compounded by Brexit sending loads of the previous trained staff overseas.
Trains will stop running cos the rails will buckle.
This has always struck me as a bit odd .
Water networks are going to struggle with increased demand.
https://twitter.com/holly/status/1549396607925456897
Severn Trent asking people to reduce their water usage...
J
Where else in the world of commerce, would we sell someone a product, take money off them for it, and then ask them not to use it?
...
Trains will stop running cos the rails will buckle.
https://twitter.com/AvantiWestCoast/status/1549399301268414464
J
Over 40 at Heathrow now, which is a lot of Fahrenheit (for tabloid headline writers).
Isn't 40.1°C satisfyingly 104°F?
36.7°C is the highest my machine has recorded. Now down a touch from that.
My nephew recorded 40.3°C yesterday in Chelmsford. I'm never confident about the accuracy of cheap thermometers. I used to have a maxi-mini thermometer which, on the day of the infamous "frozen elephant" WARTY, recorded -10°C a few minutes before we left home. That day, the two official weather stations nearest our ride, Andrewsfield and Wattisham, recorded the highest between them of -2.8°C. Some considerable time later, I retired my maxi-mini thermometer because when I tested it in iced water it read -2°C.
I have some confidence in my current setup, a Davis Vantage Pro, which is used extensively by meteorologists for automatic weather recording. I think it records temperatures accurately, but of course I live in a built-up area with a south-facing rear garden so there's no way I can set my machine up to comply with the Met Office's preferred standard of "in the middle of a lawn at least 10m square" or whatever it is. I can think of a few occasions when it has recorded a higher temperature on a given day than anywhere else in the country, usually when the official maximum isn't too far away - Gravesend being a good example of somewhere that often seems to record high temperatures.
Heathrow has a habit of recording the highest temperature anywhere because it's got probably the biggest expanse of black tarmac anywhere in Europe. This makes a difference. FoE locally are haranguing the council for replacing old-fashioned light-grey paving stones with black tarmac, given the climate change implications of very hot days..
Spent most of today in thick leggings, chasing field fires across this corner of East Anglia for the fire service. Just discovered how much fitter this cycling lark has made me and also reminded me how hard work field fires are - 30 minutes there make a 300km audax seem like a breeze if my aching legs now are anything to go by. Temperature reached 39.odd locally according to the BBC.
Thunder in Furryboottoon!It never came to anything, despite the BBC saying all day that it would. We did have an impressively windy patch pass over for about 30 mins though.
Spent most of today in thick leggings, chasing field fires across this corner of East Anglia for the fire service. Just discovered how much fitter this cycling lark has made me and also reminded me how hard work field fires are - 30 minutes there make a 300km audax seem like a breeze if my aching legs now are anything to go by. Temperature reached 39.odd locally according to the BBC.I imagine most heritage railways are running diesel only this week. Even in normal conditions, lineside fires are very common from glowing embers (they use spark arresters in the chimney of steam engines, but some embers can find their way out of the ashpan).
I imagine most heritage railways are running diesel only this week. Even in normal conditions, lineside fires are very common from glowing embers (they use spark arresters in the chimney of steam engines, but some embers can find their way out of the ashpan).
Problem is that atm if we open all the windows/curtains the house will fill with mozzies/moths/bugs in general...
Assuming they're not worried about the track bending...Don't most of the heritage railways use the old style track with fish-plates and expansion gaps rather than continuous welded? If so I would expect it to be less vulnerable to expansion induced buckling.
Limited to 25mph too (all the time, not just in the heat).Quote from: KimAssuming they're not worried about the track bending...Don't most of the heritage railways use the old style track with fish-plates and expansion gaps rather than continuous welded? If so I would expect it to be less vulnerable to expansion induced buckling.
The first 'high speed' (it is narrow gauge, so high speed means 60mph and a tilting train) rail line in western australia used continuous welded rail, with special clips that allow it to move.Quote from: KimAssuming they're not worried about the track bending...Don't most of the heritage railways use the old style track with fish-plates and expansion gaps rather than continuous welded? If so I would expect it to be less vulnerable to expansion induced buckling.
:thumbsup:Spent most of today in thick leggings, chasing field fires across this corner of East Anglia for the fire service. Just discovered how much fitter this cycling lark has made me and also reminded me how hard work field fires are - 30 minutes there make a 300km audax seem like a breeze if my aching legs now are anything to go by. Temperature reached 39.odd locally according to the BBC.
Kudos for firefighting.
It's cooled down by 4 degrees indoors but needs another couple to be really comfortable. The problem is, it's not just the air that's warm - the walls, floors and furniture take much longer to cool. The clothes in my wardrobe were noticeably warm to the touch.Flatus must have had a dressing-up session while you were sleeping.
I checked them for stains, so it's all good.It's cooled down by 4 degrees indoors but needs another couple to be really comfortable. The problem is, it's not just the air that's warm - the walls, floors and furniture take much longer to cool. The clothes in my wardrobe were noticeably warm to the touch.Flatus must have had a dressing-up session while you were sleeping.
Once had a couple of cans of Fizzy Pop explode in a fridge that had decided to be a freezer, because it was crap. Cleaning CokeTM-flavoured slush out of a fridge at 1 in the morning is not recommended. Doubly so if you have to be up at 5 >:(
Also yet to put in an appearance is the our-favourite-telco engineer. The job was being "prepared for allocation" last night, but progressed to "ready for allocation" at audax o'clock this morning, followed shortly by an "the engineer has been allocated". I'm not sure if the Openreach API has the ability to return "engineer is off sick with COVID-19" or "engineer diverted to deal with embarrassing fire", so anything's possible.
The Mouse is still here. Feisty. Just get out of the door, it's wide open. LMC doesn't have any teeth so she just gums them into ignominy while Bad Cat watches. She got repeatedly punched on the nose by a kung-fu mouse once and is now actually as scared of them as my wife. To this day we lament not managing to video that fight, it's been one of the highlights of my life so far.
Meanwhile, the morons two doors away are having 100% paving installed around their house, so it's even hotter and brighter in summer.
Meanwhile, the morons two doors away are having 100% paving installed around their house, so it's even hotter and brighter in summer.
Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites • Clouds burst as nation hits 40C (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/19/google_oracle_cloud/). Safe, or at least not the D**ly M**l.
The microsith experiment with submerged data centres is starting to look like a Really Good Idea.
Aircon aside, one of the coolest places on a hot day is under a large tree. It's not just the shade, it's the constant transpiration from the leaves.
The microsith experiment with submerged data centres is starting to look like a Really Good Idea.
Give it another few years and there will be a lot more submerged data centres - mainly those in places like Lincolnshire.
The microsith experiment with submerged data centres is starting to look like a Really Good Idea.
Give it another few years and there will be a lot more submerged data centres - mainly those in places like Lincolnshire.
I just spent about 45 minutes in the sea with some friends, then we had a drink in one of the few establishments that serves on the beach, followed by an ice cream from a parlour across the road. Very continental!
Now, there are some quite dark clouds building up to the south and west. i'm crossing my fingers, but the Met Office gives it only a 10% chance of doing anything.
I've a feeling that our children won't be googling the location of the last potato on earth.
I've a feeling that our children won't be googling the location of the last potato on earth.
No need.
He is here (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tory-minister-rejects-call-for-maximum-workplace-temperature-citing-blast-furnaces/ar-AAZHW0t).
My son is a chef. He said it is 44C in the kitchen (actually that was on Saturday).
Malthouse is kind of right - it is difficult to define a temperature range that works for all workplaces. Law does need fiming up and clarifying though.
The microsith experiment with submerged data centres is starting to look like a Really Good Idea.
Give it another few years and there will be a lot more submerged data centres - mainly those in places like Lincolnshire.
I had a customer for years on the Suffolk / Norfolk border. He was the data centre manager and for years he was worried about it flooding what with it being about 0.1mm above seal level.
It burnt down ...
Also yet to put in an appearance is the our-favourite-telco engineer. The job was being "prepared for allocation" last night, but progressed to "ready for allocation" at audax o'clock this morning, followed shortly by an "the engineer has been allocated". I'm not sure if the Openreach API has the ability to return "engineer is off sick with COVID-19" or "engineer diverted to deal with embarrassing fire", so anything's possible.
Or even “engineer has executed HCF instruction”?
Forecast to hit 28C here. Thought we were done with this nonsense for this year.
BBC app say 55% chance of rain practically now, but it’s only ever right when I need to ride somewhere.
On the subject of "other countries are designed for it", there was a really good episode of 99 Percent Invisible a few years ago about how air-conditioning has killed vernacular architecture, and ultimately creates more problems than it solves. Well worth a listen.That was very interesting and not only in the ways I thought it might be. :thumbsup:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
On the subject of "other countries are designed for it", there was a really good episode of 99 Percent Invisible a few years ago about how air-conditioning has killed vernacular architecture, and ultimately creates more problems than it solves. Well worth a listen.That was very interesting and not only in the ways I thought it might be. :thumbsup:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
Its weird here. Silent apart from birdsong outside. This time of the year there should be the noise of combines and bailers all around the village but apparently everything is too dry. Not enough moisture in the wheat and barley and the bailers cant make a bail that passes the minimum weight due to the lack of moisture. First time I can remember this happening.
Maximum temperatures today forecast to be less than half of what we had on Tuesday here.
Next year won't be good for bakers.Its weird here. Silent apart from birdsong outside. This time of the year there should be the noise of combines and bailers all around the village but apparently everything is too dry. Not enough moisture in the wheat and barley and the bailers cant make a bail that passes the minimum weight due to the lack of moisture. First time I can remember this happening.
Speaking with a couple of local farmers, there is all sorts of wired stuff going on. Crops where the ear is exceptionally dry and needs harvesting but the stem is still a little green and is binding on the way through the combine. And Contractors refusing to cut and bale fields because they are so dry and the ground is fairly flinty so they assess the risk of a spark and fire as just too great. There were more combines out yesterday after a light shower Wednesday night so hopefully all goes well over the next few days.
Next year won't be good for bakers.
Maximum temperatures today forecast to be less than half of what we had on Tuesday here.
What, -155ºC? ;)
Next year won't be good for bakers.Its weird here. Silent apart from birdsong outside. This time of the year there should be the noise of combines and bailers all around the village but apparently everything is too dry. Not enough moisture in the wheat and barley and the bailers cant make a bail that passes the minimum weight due to the lack of moisture. First time I can remember this happening.
Speaking with a couple of local farmers, there is all sorts of wired stuff going on. Crops where the ear is exceptionally dry and needs harvesting but the stem is still a little green and is binding on the way through the combine. And Contractors refusing to cut and bale fields because they are so dry and the ground is fairly flinty so they assess the risk of a spark and fire as just too great. There were more combines out yesterday after a light shower Wednesday night so hopefully all goes well over the next few days.
We’ve had no significant rain in Suffolk in July. I understand the official figure so far is 1.2mm. In fact, I think it’s about 4 weeks since we had a proper rain shower!It's Suffolk, and dry?
We’ve had no significant rain in Suffolk in July. I understand the official figure so far is 1.2mm. In fact, I think it’s about 4 weeks since we had a proper rain shower!
Waterproof!Rain held off till night. Autumn is almost here.
You lucky bugger!
Our neighbour (a lawyer) is celebrating the impending hosepipe ban by watering the garden like there's no tomorrow. Literally, within moments of the ban being announced the first thing was to leave an open hose running into the boundary hedge, it's been maximum sprinkler since then.Name one other commercial service where you take money from your customers and then tell them they cannot use the service.
Obviously can't do anything but disapproving looks until the ban takes effect.
Our neighbour (a lawyer) is celebrating the impending hosepipe ban by watering the garden like there's no tomorrow. Literally, within moments of the ban being announced the first thing was to leave an open hose running into the boundary hedge, it's been maximum sprinkler since then.Copper nails in the dark.
Obviously can't do anything but disapproving looks until the ban takes effect.
Our neighbour (a lawyer) is celebrating the impending hosepipe ban by watering the garden like there's no tomorrow. Literally, within moments of the ban being announced the first thing was to leave an open hose running into the boundary hedge, it's been maximum sprinkler since then.
Obviously can't do anything but disapproving looks until the ban takes effect.
Our neighbour (a lawyer) is celebrating the impending hosepipe ban by watering the garden like there's no tomorrow. Literally, within moments of the ban being announced the first thing was to leave an open hose running into the boundary hedge, it's been maximum sprinkler since then.
Obviously can't do anything but disapproving looks until the ban takes effect.
Once they've saturated the soil there's no point, even then it will just percolate away and evaporate rather quickly.
I do periodically give the garden a watering in the evening, we did lose a couple of trees the other summer when I decided to let things fend for themselves. I don't understand the people who put sprinklers on for hours every day.
In Swindon, men wear shorts and women wear sun tops if the sun is out. This is completely unrelated to temperature. It happens in winter when it's below freezing. I have even seen bare feet and flipflops when it has been sunny with snow flurries.
It's not going to be anywhere near those temperatures round here but I still bet it'll be taps aff.
It's not going to be anywhere near those temperatures round here but I still bet it'll be taps aff.
Deliberate slip, taps for tops? 8)
It's not going to be anywhere near those temperatures round here but I still bet it'll be taps aff.
Deliberate slip, taps for tops? 8)
Accent. I'm in The North.
Almost certainly cooler outside at this time, I'd have thought.
Almost certainly cooler outside at this time, I'd have thought.
Which is why I’m on my balcony, slumped in a Helinox, in my boxers. A glass of red to hand & a history of 20th century Berlin to amuse me.
My mother has bought a 200L water butt for the garden. She's going to fill it up with a hosepipe, then water the garden with a watering can.... apparently this will evade any hosepipe bans.. :facepalm:We do sometimes fill the water butts from a hose. And then fill the watering can. I don't think it makes us use any more water, but saves trekking through the house with the can (kitchen at front of house and no outside tap).
I could do the sink - Ecover or Bio-D w/u liquid should be harmless to plants (soap, undiluted pH of ~5.5 - rather different from detergent).Should be fine. We save the washing up water (like you, Bio-D or Ecover or similar) in the bowl for tipping on the borders during hot spells and have done so for many years without noticeable detrimental effect. Only time we don't is if the water has been left very greasy - this is rare as very little meat gets consumed in our house.
I put this together a few weeks ago ...Nice... unfortunately our bath and shower are in the middle of the house so much more difficult to route the waste water out, hence bucket and bailer technique.
It collects the bath/shower water. If I'd applied a bit more effort it would capture the basin water as well
I wonder if this year people will start looking at grey water capture in houses more seriously.
I think I just heard thunder…
Already hotter than yesterday. This is the last day, though. Hoping for biblical thunderstorms tomorrow.
Watching the BTCC from Snetterton. The infield looks like it should have an Intrepid BBC Reporter in a safari jacket striding across it, intoning solemnly about famine.
I think it was washing up water, rather than drought itself, that killed the rowan tree in our garden in 1976.My mother has bought a 200L water butt for the garden. She's going to fill it up with a hosepipe, then water the garden with a watering can.... apparently this will evade any hosepipe bans.. :facepalm:We do sometimes fill the water butts from a hose. And then fill the watering can. I don't think it makes us use any more water, but saves trekking through the house with the can (kitchen at front of house and no outside tap).
We are now in a regime of washing up water on the garden, and I made a bath bailer by cutting down an empty 5l container.
Friends of mine have reported hearing thunder. Both live within 2 miles of my house. I've heard nothing, but it's very humid and cloudier than it was. 29°C now.I thought I heard thunder around 1400ish o'clock PM.
Friends of mine have reported hearing thunder. Both live within 2 miles of my house. I've heard nothing, but it's very humid and cloudier than it was. 29°C now.I thought I heard thunder around 1400ish o'clock PM.
Raining now.
ETA: Thunder now 1454.
It's not reached E14 yet.Is E14 to temperature as R17 is to speed?
Proper rain here. (E17)
Puddles n' everyfink.
I actually used fast wipe, probably the first time in the last few years.That probably belongs in NSFW...
Could desperately do with some of that here.
By the time I got to the Raddlebarn River (which was fast-flowing and foamy, with the 4x4 drivers dodging the floating fridges[1])You mean the fridges weren't actually floating, because they were weighed down by Bojo or pieces of Bojo?
[1] This statement may contain lies or traces of lies.
I went for a swim at Old Leigh today. There appeared to be a lot of rainy activity towards the Isle of Sheppey, on the other side of the estuary. None fell on this side.
It got biblical at work yesterday roundabout 15:00, just as I was leaving to go home.
We had thunder, lightning and industrial quantities of rain.
By the time I'd got home ~14 miles away, it was clear to me that not a drop had fallen where I live.
I went for a swim at Old Leigh today. There appeared to be a lot of rainy activity towards the Isle of Sheppey, on the other side of the estuary. None fell on this side.Oh jolly good. The garden might not be completely dead when we get back from the IoW.
I went for a swim at Old Leigh today. There appeared to be a lot of rainy activity towards the Isle of Sheppey, on the other side of the estuary. None fell on this side.
It must have just missed you on all sides. About 25 miles NW of you, we got 30 minutes of heavy but not torrential rain with accompanying thunder and lightning at around 3pm. Just what the doctor ordered, not too heavy that it ran straight off but heavy enough to do some good.
24°C here again, inside and out. I'm still wearing Very Little around the house.
TimC, your reference to Death Valley is an interesting one in that in the past week or two they've had massive floods, which I saw described as "the third once-in-a-thousand-years event in the past 3 years." Obligraun: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/death-valley-floods-climate-crisis
24°C here again, inside and out. I'm still wearing Very Little around the house.
TimC, your reference to Death Valley is an interesting one in that in the past week or two they've had massive floods, which I saw described as "the third once-in-a-thousand-years event in the past 3 years." Obligraun: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/death-valley-floods-climate-crisis
Haha, yes I saw that! A friend of mine recently completed an ultra marathon in Death Valley, so stuff about the place keeps coming up in my SM feeds. I rode through DV in 2019, and frankly it didn't feel as hot as it has here recently - the benefits of very low humidity (and November).
TEMPERATURE (C)
HEAT COOL MAX MAX MIN MIN
MEAN MEAN DEG DEG >= <= <= <=
YR MO MAX MIN MEAN DAYS DAYS HI DAY LOW DAY 30 0 0 -20
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2022 01 9.1 3.4 6.1 379.3 0.0 15.3 01 -0.5 06 0 0 1 0
2022 02 11.7 5.3 8.4 278.5 0.0 15.6 16 2.0 11 0 0 0 0
2022 03 12.5 5.3 8.6 301.3 0.0 19.2 23 0.3 21 0 0 0 0
2022 04 15.1 6.2 10.4 239.1 0.0 21.1 12 -0.7 03 0 0 2 0
2022 05 19.6 10.6 14.8 109.5 0.5 24.9 06 5.5 09 0 0 0 0
2022 06 22.1 12.6 17.3 43.6 12.4 31.4 17 8.6 02 1 0 0 0
2022 07 26.3 15.7 21.0 2.2 83.4 36.7 19 12.6 04 4 0 0 0
2022 08 27.4 16.5 21.6 0.0 65.0 31.7 14 12.2 06 6 0 0 0
2022 09
2022 10
2022 11
2022 12
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17.6 9.2 13.2 1353.4 161.3 36.7 Jul -0.7 Apr 11 0 3 0
No-one has suggested where the council is going to find several thousand cubic metres of water.
No-one has suggested where the council is going to find several thousand cubic metres of water.
With or without jobbies?
Yesterday's forecast reckoned we'd have about 8 hours of solid rain today, starting at about 3am. Of course, we've had none and it looks pretty much like we won't get any at all despite the forecast still showing loads.
With busyness this morning and granddaughters arriving at 5 I had an hour and a half to run from 2:45 to 4:15. The measured temperature was 26 but with solar radiation it felt a lot hotter. I was very slow.
34 according to the bike computer; 26 according to the BBC. Who are probably closer.
In Sunny Yorkshire it was 26 degrees by the time we started the first Rugby session of the season at 1030. I'm sure I'll look back on it with wonder come February.
Quite windy, but nothing exceptional, and 5C below the promised 22C. Well done, Meteo. Wrong again.
Was 23°C in Amsterdam today. In the first week of April...
Wtf.
J