A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own.

[Wombat]

Not a bloody drop here on the Sarf coast.  I did hear a muted rumble in the distance while I was out fighting to bail out the stupid little pond wot I should never have made, at the top of the garden.  I could have done with a cataclysmic downpour to wash the filthy stinking mess of stagnant water and leaf mould that was stuck to me.

Pond no longer exists, so garden a bit safer for new residents with silly small children when they move in.  There is still a much larger pond farther down, but one of them has already fallen in that during a visit, so he knows its there. 

[ElyDave]

Rain - hooray!

I went out and stood in it for a bit.

Whilst it is entirely welcome, I may now need to re-empty the water but that had been emptied in preparation for moving it next to the other one and linking them. Ho hum.

[spesh]

Not a bloody drop here on the Sarf coast.  I did hear a muted rumble in the distance...

Whatever rain there is must be very localised - 30 seconds to a minute's worth in Pompey and a few desultory rumbles and that's it. 

On the plus side, the temperature has dropped to a tolerable level.

[T42]

Early evening now and it's 34°C outside with the air like treacle.  It got dark overhead here a couple of hours ago and we braced for a storm, but now it's cleared again and there's a high white haze that'll hold the heat in nicely overnight unless it clears.

[Wombat]

Not a bloody drop here on the Sarf coast.  I did hear a muted rumble in the distance...

Whatever rain there is must be very localised - 30 seconds to a minute's worth in Pompey and a few desultory rumbles and that's it. 

On the plus side, the temperature has dropped to a tolerable level.

I'm actually a bit North of you, in Purbrook, and Portsdown Hill often affects the weather. C'est la vie.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

It's raining a lot here today and it's coming through the office wall above several of the windows and dripping onto the windowsills. We've put a plant under the drips nearest to where we sit, and asked facilities manglement to bring us some snorkels.

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's raining a lot here today and it's coming through the office wall above several of the windows and dripping onto the windowsills. We've put a plant under the drips nearest to where we sit, and asked facilities manglement to bring us some snorkels.

Time for some spin class:

[Torslanda]

Saddle height is all wrong!

[Pingu]

It's summer - Mrs P has switched the heating on 

[Basil]

Come on rain.  Where the hell are you?  I'm sweating a cob off here. 
I'm ready.  I mowed the lawn this evening and everything.

[Kim]

Come on rain.  Where the hell are you?  I'm sweating a cob off here. 
I'm ready.  I mowed the lawn this evening and everything.

Try lighting a barbecue.  If that doesn't work you might have to consider washing the car.

[Basil]

Petrichore.   Yes I had to look it up.
Smells different here than it used to in Birmingham.
In Brum it was definitely aluminium aluminium.
Here it's different.  Soil?

[Kim]

Petrichore.   Yes I had to look it up.
Smells different here than it used to in Birmingham.
In Brum it was definitely aluminium aluminium.
Here it's different.  Soil?

More plant oils less motor vehicle detritus?

(Birmingham currently smells mostly of uncollected bins.  It's been about a month now.  If they don't collect ours this week I'm going to have to start sneaking rubbish into empty student house bins.)

[Basil]

Crikey.  Is that strike still on?

[Kim]

Crikey.  Is that strike still on?

I think they're pulse-width modulating it, but not particularly intelligently.  A couple of missed collections ago I watched the lorry get halfway down the street before the crew climbed in and they sodded off.  Suspicious they keep starting every morning according to their normal schedule, and down tools leaving some areas completely ignored.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-bin-strike-extended-until-13346690 refers.

[spesh]

Until 13346690? 

Now that's what I call being determined not to budge in negotiations! 

[Kim]

Until 13346690? 

That's Thu, 04 Jun 1970 11:24:50 GMT unisex spaceadmin time.

[Basil]

unisex spaceadmin time.

That has never failed to make oi larf. 

[T42]

Nice weather at 8 am so missus went for a jog to next village, came back drowned-ratsville but grinning.  I'm not even going across to the workshop without waders. Welcome to summer.

Yesterday, the weather lady-person on France Info remarked that extremely hot spells - we had 34.5° yesterday - alternating with heavy storms and flooding would get more frequent, more extreme and longer in the next few years. Feels about right.

[andrewc]

It's absolutely tipping down in Liverpool & has been for most of the night .  It's also been cold enough to wear a jacket going to work & a cardie in the office.   Global _warming_ ?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Increased intensity of rain is one of its predicted effects.

[Basil]

And the eventual failure of the gulf stream which will lead to cooler temperatures in the British Isles despite the average global warming.

However, I think Andrew was only tongue in cheek jesting.

[jsabine]

I've always thought 'global warming' is a bit of a crap term - sounds too cuddly, especially on a damp November day. 'Climate disruption' is much closer to the mark.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Climate disruption, that is a good term. Even climate change can easily be interpreted as "we're going to have a Mediterranean climate".

[ElyDave]

was going to go out early this morning, woke to torrential rain overwhelming the guttering.

Hmm, maybe this afternoon