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Mr Larrington · « **Reply #400 on:** 19 July, 2022, 02:06:25 pm »

Balmy 31.5 in the Great Hall, in spite of the GBFO west-facing window

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #401 on:** 19 July, 2022, 02:08:37 pm »

Keeps going up ...

Bedroom is now over 33°.

Am struggling to concentrate on work.

J

Jurek · « **Reply #402 on:** 19 July, 2022, 02:38:04 pm »

Just reached 42°C here.

Giraffe · « **Reply #403 on:** 19 July, 2022, 02:41:58 pm »

38º outside atm; with 'thermal management', i.e. curtains and blinds closed during the day and then windows and doors open when outside is cooler than inside*, it's 12º - 14º lower inside.

*might be a challenge tonight as not only might there be a 'tropical' night but the coolth starts later and later.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #404 on:** 19 July, 2022, 02:47:11 pm »

Our inside temperature has risen to 28° now, from a starting temperature of 26 very early this morning. The outside temperature has now dropped to 35, and the barometric pressure has dropped steadily over two or three days. But the thunderstorms that were being forecast for late tonight/early tomorrow have now disappeared off the radar, which is a right sod.

Kim · « **Reply #405 on:** 19 July, 2022, 02:53:53 pm »

Looks like the temperature peaked at 39C here. 25C in the stuffy dining room. Regular readers will be pleased to hear that my feet are still cold.

rafletcher · « **Reply #406 on:** 19 July, 2022, 02:58:47 pm »

Similarly the nearest Wunderground station to us (about half a mile) peaked at 39, now down to 36.

T42 · « **Reply #407 on:** 19 July, 2022, 02:59:53 pm »

This morning I opened up the Inlaw Paw's old room on the north side to let in wonderful 15° air and used a series of 3 fans to blow it through the top floor, opening my office window on the south side to let it out again. Everything's shut up now since around 7 am and the inside air is still cool. 35.2° out / 26° in.

We're due a max of 27° on Thursday so yrs trly will be buggering off bikewise. Ah, summer!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #408 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:05:49 pm »

Working outside today, near Eye, Suffolk. It is this: Fucking hot. Especially if a chap is lugging great bits of kit around.
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We got sent a gang of blokes to help us. They piled out of their van, dressed in Lots of Clothes, of Many Layers.

Listening to them speak I deduced they were FORRINS hailing from ABROAD. Further chatting with them and I learnt they come from the Phillipines, which Her Majesty's BBC tells me is not quite as hot but a lot more humid.

We got stood down at about one so that we didn't melt.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #409 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:08:18 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2022, 12:04:02 pm

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).

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #410 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:09:09 pm »

My laptop is now too hot to type on...

J

Jurek · « **Reply #411 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:16:02 pm »

Quote from: quixoticgeek on 19 July, 2022, 03:09:09 pm

My laptop is now too hot to type on...

J

My work lappy (at home) is doing likewise.
Good job I clock off @ 15:00

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #412 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:17:32 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 19 July, 2022, 03:16:02 pm

Quote from: quixoticgeek on 19 July, 2022, 03:09:09 pm

My laptop is now too hot to type on...

J
My work lappy (at home) is likewise.
Good job I clock off @ 15:00

Fill the bath with lukewarm water and work in there. Just don't drop it and... be very careful if you have Zoom calls!

Jurek · « **Reply #413 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:24:12 pm »

I've just turned off the (ancient, work) lappy.
The room immediately feels cooler.

Giraffe · « **Reply #414 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:33:38 pm »

39º now and still no cloud at all. Probably top 40º which. in a garden surrounded by trees, is some going.

ElyDave · « **Reply #415 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:38:33 pm »

office cooling down as the sun goes off the windows to the front of the house (South West facing) which will start to warm up now I'm sure. Office down to about 32, with about 37 in the shade in the back garden. I don't think we've peaked here yet.

Quote from: Jurek on 19 July, 2022, 03:24:12 pm

I've just turned off the lappy.
The room immediately feels cooler.

That's the problem with my office - small space, laptop and two large screens

PaulF · « **Reply #416 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:42:31 pm »

Admittedly it was in direct sunlight but the last good reading on my digital thermometer was 48.8^o before it crashed - it's only rated to 50^o. In the shade it's a balmy 41.5^o

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #417 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:42:59 pm »

Rain has reached Bristol. Presumably heading east.

Giraffe · « **Reply #418 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:46:37 pm »

Please send some immediately (not via Evri!).

Wowbagger · « **Reply #419 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:47:42 pm »

Shit! This is awful - and very close to home...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/grass-fires-wennington-dartford-heath-temperatures-heatwave-london-fires-b1013345.html

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #420 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:48:08 pm »

Mild petrichor, of a dusty, concretey, dirty urban variety. Still satisfying though. And I'm sure I just heard someone whoop, like it was the monsoon breaking the dog day droughts.

citoyen · « **Reply #421 on:** 19 July, 2022, 03:59:30 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2022, 03:42:59 pm

Rain has reached Bristol. Presumably heading east.

Ventusky says it will fizzle out before it reaches East Kent.

Chiz.

farfetched · « **Reply #422 on:** 19 July, 2022, 04:02:21 pm »

It only got up to 37.5 here in Eindhoven (NL) - don't know what all the fuss was about

Jurek · « **Reply #423 on:** 19 July, 2022, 04:15:08 pm »

Filling the bath with cool water and taking regular dips is the guaranteed south east London solution.
ETA - it is surprising how often the process has to be repeated in order to be effective.

Jaded · « **Reply #424 on:** 19 July, 2022, 04:25:06 pm »

Hopefully rain here soon…