Scorchio...

[Mrs Pingu]

I'm cold. Wearing trousers at home for the time in ages, under a fleecy blanket and a cat.

(Yes, I know, the not scorchio thread is that way > )

[quixoticgeek]

I'm in Paris for a few days visiting a friend. We just walked out of the pharmacy to find a deep dark sky.

By the time our taxi arrived it had started to rain. Great big drops of rain. Within a minute or two the roads are like streams.

We're now home, and getting a wonderful sound and light show from all the thunder and lightning.

And there's fucktons if rain falling. Temperature has dropped. It's lovely.

J

[Jurek]

Could desperately do with some of that here.

[quixoticgeek]

Could desperately do with some of that here.

It has now progressed to "bucketing it down".

Lots of lightning. All very close.

Drains are not entirely coping.

J

[Kim]

I went to the post oriface earlier.  When I left the house it was warm and muggy.  By the time I got to the Raddlebarn River (which was fast-flowing and foamy, with the 4x4 drivers dodging the floating fridges^[1]) I was gloriously soaked to the skin (for those not familiar with Silly Oak, this is about a two minute ride).  By the time I'd locked my bike up a few minutes later, I was actually cold.

The address on the parcel I was carrying would have been chromatography if it hadn't been laser printed.  And that's just from the time it took to extract it from the trailer, put a mask on and walk the 10 metres or so to the door.

It's calmed down and had a bit of light rain since, and is now warming up and drying out.


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[Cudzoziemiec]

By the time I got to the Raddlebarn River (which was fast-flowing and foamy, with the 4x4 drivers dodging the floating fridges^[1])
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You mean the fridges weren't actually floating, because they were weighed down by Bojo or pieces of Bojo?

[Wowbagger]

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.

[andrewc]

Mostly cool & overcast in Liverpool, but no rain. 

[quixoticgeek]

Lots of rain in Amsterdam today. At one point this morning it was very heavy. After that it calmed down to just a steady flow for most of the rest of the day. Has stopped now.

The plants on my balcony are very happy.

I wonder how long it will take for the grass in the park to go green again.

J

[Pingu]

Jumper on this evening.

[Mr Larrington]

Still using fans in the Great Hall & Estate Office, though the latter is down to a chilly 28 degrees when I switched the Babbage-Engine off just now.

[TimC]

The Suffolk desert (or at least my bit of it) is in no danger of losing its place in the competition to be the next Death Valley. We did actually see some raindrops today, but not enough as to be entitled a 'shower'. More a kind of intermittently leaky tap. My patio changed colour for a while as the layer of dust accumulated some H2O, but by sunset was back to its now-customary shade of brown. The temperature, however, has moderated and is now a mere 19C outside. Positively chilly.

[T42]

Here no scorchio no more.  Pissing down, 18°C, and due to go on doing it. Bleh.

[Jurek]

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.

[JellyLegs]

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.

[Mr Larrington]

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.

And the wind was blowing from the perfect direction to ensure a damp bed again last night   Window wasn’t wide open like last time but the rain still managed to find a way in chiz.

[rafletcher]

Still no real rain in a quickly browing leafy Bucks. Temperatures moderated and pleasant. Hosepipe ban from next Weds. Hope it's lifted in time for the summer-to-winter wheel change and bi-annual wash and polish on the car come October/November.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I almost had to put my socks on yesterday.

[Mr Larrington]

Next scheduled sock day is still more than a month away

[nicknack]

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.

[Wowbagger]

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

[Wowbagger]

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.

It's often like that. It probably accounts for the fact that Southend is pretty much the driest large town in the UK.

[Canardly]

Very little rain the night before last. Nothing else since. 23 Deg C atm and muggy.

[TimC]

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).

[TimC]

It is actually spitting right now (the sky, not the cat). I can hear wet tyre movement on the road at the front, so it might even be a significant amount. Of course, this happened as I was preparing to go for a ride...

Edit: it is actually properly raining. Maybe one of those thousand-year events,, Wowsa.

Oh. It stopped. Before I had a chance to take a piccy.