Author Topic: A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own. (Read 284239 times)

Pingu · « **Reply #2100 on:** 11 July, 2022, 06:06:52 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/11/uk-weather-met-office-amber-warning-extreme-heat

ElyDave · « **Reply #2101 on:** 11 July, 2022, 06:52:29 pm »

Yep, I finished work and had a shower before dinner this evening. My office was unpleasant this afternoon.

chrisbainbridge · « **Reply #2102 on:** 11 July, 2022, 06:52:48 pm »

Was planning a long commute home before I hit the bike shed at which point it became a very steady short commute home.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2103 on:** 11 July, 2022, 06:54:04 pm »

Absolutely suffering in the heat here. Not.

Actually it is close to normal summer temps, but with wind. About 17C today.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2104 on:** 12 July, 2022, 02:07:13 pm »

30°C here at the moment. I thought it was the highest of the year, but I look back and find that my machine recorded 31.4°C on 17th June. That was the day we were driving back from Shrewsbury and the car registered a perfectly credible 35°C on the M25 in the environs of St. Albans.

Canardly · « **Reply #2105 on:** 12 July, 2022, 02:17:33 pm »

28 deg C here and just had a gentle but short shower. Humidity high.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #2106 on:** 12 July, 2022, 04:58:51 pm »

Warmish but overcast and windy here.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2107 on:** 12 July, 2022, 08:42:06 pm »

Still 25°C here. There might be a midnight swim. It will be my third night swim in a row.

mattc · « **Reply #2108 on:** 12 July, 2022, 10:55:17 pm »

Quote from: Canardly on 12 July, 2022, 02:17:33 pm

28 deg C here and just had a gentle but short shower.

Saving water 👌

Jurek · « **Reply #2109 on:** 13 July, 2022, 10:36:21 am »

My alarm goes off at 05.25
Monday, the weather station was showing 15°C at that time
Yesterday, it was 18°C
This morning it was 22°C
I leave the house at ~05:50
The sun is not above the horizon at this point in time.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #2110 on:** 13 July, 2022, 10:55:36 am »

I'm in the office, over in the we(s)t today. It's cool and there are grey clouds looming...wishing I'd brought a coat!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2111 on:** 13 July, 2022, 12:29:46 pm »

33.8 in the Estate Office atm - up from 31.2 when I switched the Babbage-Engine on a couple of hours ago. Almost time for the blessed (relative) cool of Downstairs...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2112 on:** 13 July, 2022, 08:27:06 pm »

After my swim last night, at 12.30am the temperature in my garden was 23.7°C.

It has now dropped to 19°C. Curiously, the Met Office claims that at present in Southend the temperature is 23°C. Normally the two concur pretty accurately.

ian · « **Reply #2113 on:** 13 July, 2022, 11:37:56 pm »

Working al fresco at the moment. Still 35 degrees though. Though the view over Tuscany is nice.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2114 on:** 15 July, 2022, 05:32:01 pm »

Last weekend we went to a wedding, the bride and groom travelling from their home in Kuala Lumpar. Out of interest I looked up the weather for there. Highs of 32/34C, lows of 22/24C. Like Monday here. Except those figures are for 365 days of the year.

ETA And more scaremongering from the Graun, this time about the heat and the thousands it may kill. Forgetting that it advertises holidays to Mexico and Florida where, guess what, the weathers exactly like we’ll be getting next week

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2115 on:** 26 July, 2022, 05:34:31 am »

It rained. It might still be raining.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2116 on:** 26 July, 2022, 05:58:55 am »

Quote from: rafletcher on 15 July, 2022, 05:32:01 pm

Last weekend we went to a wedding, the bride and groom travelling from their home in Kuala Lumpar. Out of interest I looked up the weather for there. Highs of 32/34C, lows of 22/24C. Like Monday here. Except those figures are for 365 days of the year.

ETA And more scaremongering from the Graun, this time about the heat and the thousands it may kill. Forgetting that it advertises holidays to Mexico and Florida where, guess what, the weathers exactly like we’ll be getting next week

Funnily enough, if the weather is like that all the time in Kuala Lumpur, then vulnerable people are likely to die all the time and there will be no peaks and troughs. Here, those likely to die from extremely hot weather will only do so when it’s extremely hot. And those off on holiday to hot places are a self-selecting group who are unlikely to go there if they can’t stand the heat.

It’s a bit like northerners complaining when the south gets bad weather (eg strong winds) that are less strong than occur up north: they are more damaging down south because flimsy building don’t get tested as often, builders might well get away with cutting corners and maintenance might well happen less often.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2117 on:** 27 July, 2022, 09:01:35 am »

MEt office has confirmed; it has been a manky July in the Hebrides.

26% of the normal average sunlight for July.

JellyLegs · « **Reply #2118 on:** 31 July, 2022, 03:37:07 pm »

Well, for the first time in several months, proper rain and several hours of it. It was raining when I woke up and only stopped about 2pm. It was always going to be so though, as I am on Day 1 of my hollibobs in Devon.

TimC · « **Reply #2119 on:** 01 August, 2022, 12:23:02 am »

Rain was forecast for today in Suffolk. It failed to turn up.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2120 on:** 01 August, 2022, 10:59:15 am »

My brother tells me that the 5mm that fell in July was the driest since Essex Water Company records began in 1960. This is somewhat skewed in that, since he retired, he's been keeping his own records at home about 3 miles away from the site of the 1960 - 2010 records.

I recorded 1.4mm at ground level, 1.2mm on the roof.

JellyLegs · « **Reply #2121 on:** 01 August, 2022, 12:11:33 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 01 August, 2022, 10:59:15 am

My brother tells me that the 5mm that fell in July was the driest since Essex Water Company records began in 1960. This is somewhat skewed in that, since he retired, he' been keeping his own records at home about 3 miles away from the site of the 1960 - 2010 records.

I recorded 1.4mm at ground level, 1.2mm on the roof.

I can well believe it. I am normally Essex / Herts borders and I don’t remember any more than a few spots of rain in July (or June come to that), certainly not enough to wet the ground.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2122 on:** 02 August, 2022, 02:30:32 pm »

Very odd feeling today, like waiting for a thunderstorm, but k owing full well it isn’t coming. Overcast, warm and windy, and a pleasant 26C.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #2123 on:** 02 August, 2022, 02:37:42 pm »

I put together a bike around the 20th of June and it has never been ridden in the rain yet despite being out 5 or 6 days a week, including commutes.

What I really don't want is the sewage infested downpours we had around this time last year.

ElyDave · « **Reply #2124 on:** 02 August, 2022, 07:41:47 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 02 August, 2022, 02:30:32 pm

Very odd feeling today, like waiting for a thunderstorm, but k owing full well it isn’t coming. Overcast, warm and windy, and a pleasant 26C.

very humid here when I went for a lunchtime ride, I've been expecting rain all day