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

[Mr Larrington]

Weather, if you would be kind enough to decide what you're going to do that'd be just peachy.  Because I'm not going to play “replace the front door” if you’re going to rain on me, am I?

[Mr Larrington]

Mid-afternoon.  Mid-August.  In a room with a west-facing window.  I've got the light on

[Kim]

Same, but that's because barakta is a troglodyte.

What's notable is that the window is closed (ventilation, for the prevention of), and that I'm sitting here adding bugs to computer programs, rather than riding a bicycle or whatever.

[Mrs Pingu]

Melting. Not even left for France yet.

[Mr Larrington]

And from what them Pingus have recently posted in Mr Zuckerberg's Walled Garden, they’re going to be melting² in the next day or two.  Meanwhile it’s forecast to be 38 C in Chicago on Thursday, which is when I get there.  In mid-afternoon.  Deep joy.

[Beardy]

I went into the garden after lunch to cut the grass and generally potter about.  I couldn’t get the lawn mower to start, so wandered about with the pruning saw to cut down some overhanging branches. I lasted about 45 minutes. It’s just too damn hot to be out there 

[Mrs Pingu]

We walked to the local Aldi last night for supplies, there was a whole family out in their front garden/allotment, digging in this heat. Feck that for a game of soldiers, I thought.

Pingu burned his bare feet hanging out some washing on the balcony this arvo. 52C according to his bike pooter.

[Mrs Pingu]

It's so hot I decided we should have rosè with our pizza tonight, instead of red (the bistro does not have any biere worth drinking, sod off with your Heineken). That never happens.

[Pingu]

Red warnings of canicules here tomorrow 🔥

[Wowbagger]

Looking SW across the Thames and Southend Pier towards Kent.

I got caught in that a few minutes later.

[Mrs Pingu]

About 4pm the sky clouded over and some of those mammatus clouds appeared. 'Great! It's going to pish with rain and then it won't be 35C anymore', I thought.
Nah, it's all gone away now without doing anything.

[Pingu]

Said hot mammatus action:


IMG_5288_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[T42]

Summer ended yesterday afternoon with the traditional mum & dad of a thunderstorm. Temperature dropped 6° in half an hour. Ran round opening all the windows to get some cool air into the house then went round again closing them shortly after as the wind got up and started blowing twigs off our willow.  Dark as the inside of a cow, too.

Don't think it's stopped raining since, and we just had another dose of donner & blitzen with a side of deluge.

Rats. I want my canicule back.

[Auntie Helen]

We just had a whopper of a storm. Really glad I worked from home today and didn’t cycle in else my return journey would have been in a velomobile bathtub.

[Mrs Pingu]

Plateau d'hautville seems to be escaping all the storms so far. Today we drove over the hill to ride up the Grand Colombier and it was cooler (yay!), it rained lightly some of the way up (I was in heaven) and 2 km from the summit a very Scottish chilly stiff breeze appeared. 1km later the sun came out.
Forecast is still claiming thunderstorms for here later, we will see.

[Pingu]

Plateau d'hautville seems to be escaping all the storms so far...

There was a good lightning show tonight.

[Mr Larrington]

BBC's forecast for today was 30 Celsius.  It hit 40.  It's still 38 at 7 pm.  I'm hugging the aircon unit.

Edit: Just after 8 am, it's pissing down and thundering.  If this scuppers my plan to go up the Gateway Arch in St Louis in a couple of hours I shall be Displeased.

[Cudzoziemiec]

We've just had about 15 minutes of rain so heavy I failed to hear the rice boiling over ( ). Now it's stopped raining and we've got thunder with sunshine.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Why is it so cold? It’s August ffs.

[Kim]

Why is it so cold? It’s August ffs.

See also:  June, July

[rafletcher]

Well after 2 days in which there were short but monsoon like thundershowers, today is dry, but definitely autumnal, with a high of 17C being forecast. Definitely back to school weather.

[Beardy]

And the rain is coming down.

Lots of it.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Watching the BBC weather, I was surprised to be told that this year’s summer is not actually cooler than average and that only 2015 has broken the trend of hotter than average summers.

This article spells out the problems we face and our lack of preparedness. We have to assume now that there’s no realistic prospect of concerted action to prevent climate change; we leaders we choose have no such intentions.

[T42]

Watching the BBC weather, I was surprised to be told that this year’s summer is not actually cooler than average and that only 2015 has broken the trend of hotter than average summers.

This article spells out the problems we face and our lack of preparedness. We have to assume now that there’s no realistic prospect of concerted action to prevent climate change; we leaders we choose have no such intentions.

We don't choose our leaders: the real ones in charge are unscrupulous characters who carved their ways up to lead global corporations. They tell the patsies we get to elect what to do.  Slight difference in the case of Russia, China, Norks etc but they're playing from essentially the same score.

[Mr Larrington]

The Weather Channel are extracting hours of fun from Hurricane Idalia's impending waste-laying of Florida.  My chum Nik lives pretty much where it’s supposed to make landfall but

• he lives in his van, and
• he's currently in Oklahoma City