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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: floo on November 21, 2015, 12:11:44 PM
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I wondered if there was any mileage in having a thread dedicated to the weather? Us Brits seemed to be obsessed by it as we have so much of it. ;D
Winter seems to have arrived with an Arctic blast. We had a bit of sleety snow last night, which had cleared by this morning, thank goodness.
Much though I enjoy the warm weather, I equally enjoy the cold weather. I wonder whether this winter is going to be one of those where we get limited proper cold weather, resulting in an 'explosion' of NHS-swamping illnesses as a result of nasties not being killed of as much as they might.
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I wondered if there was any mileage in having a thread dedicated to the weather? Us Brits seemed to be obsessed by it as we have so much of it. ;D
And thank goodness for it! We're in a tremendously fortunate position that the weather is extremely changeable so that we never get extended periods of any one thing, so it never gets boring.
Winter seems to have arrived with an Arctic blast. We had a bit of sleety snow last night, which had cleared by this morning, thank goodness.
Some sleet was forecast for the early hours; if any fell at all it was long gone by this morning, though it remains very cold and is expected to for a few more days.
Winter draws on.
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It's the forecasters that rile me; especially when they say such things as, "it will be a dry day, apart from occasional showers." In other words, "it will be a dry, unless it's wet." ???
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When the temperature drops below 5 or 6 I have to wear two layers of trousers. It's very inconvenient. :( Where's the nearest part of the world where it stays above 6 all year round?
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Thick frost here too, filling up the bird bath and the feeders in a minute.
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Quite mild here, overcast and showery - just been out on the motorbike without needing to wear any specifically wet weather/winter kit.
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Chilly, but bright - there was some frost first thing but nothing to write home about.
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Quite heavy drizzle and poor visibility here. Cold, but not bitterly.
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Miserable, grey, wet.
If I was listening to Leonard Cohen in the 70's I couldn't be more melancholy.
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Miserable, grey, wet.
If I was listening to Leonard Cohen in the 70's I couldn't be more melancholy.
Each to their own - I love weather like this. (Mind you, I like Leonard Cohen as well).
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It's looked like dusk all day here.
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It's looked like dusk all day here.
Same here - that never-quite-fully-light look even at midday. And we're still three weeks away from the shortest day.
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Incredible, we put the lights on to have breakfast by.
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After a miserably wet weekend the skies are now clear, and it has got noticeably colder over the last couple of hours - snow is forecast for tomorrow morning.
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What about a thread about the cost of veg?
Or even on the sugar tax...
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Unnervingly warm here today. I can't remember a December day when I didn't need a coat before. :-\
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It's not right :(
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Unnervingly warm here today. I can't remember a December day when I didn't need a coat before. :-\
Well, that's proof of global warming.......we're all gonna die!!!
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Well, that's proof of global warming.......we're all gonna die!!!
Pretty well all the predictions about the long-term effects of climate change involve the Bitish Isles becoming much colder and the climate what it should actually be without the warming influence of the gulf stream.
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If we don't acknowledge that global warming is more than likely a fact, and try to do something to mitigate its effects, we probably will die out eventually.
That assumes we have caused this. If we haven't then we are just driving ourselves into a hellhole for nothing; which will probably kill millions anyway.
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Pretty well all the predictions about the long-term effects of climate change involve the Bitish Isles becoming much colder and the climate what it should actually be without the warming influence of the gulf stream.
Bang goes our vineyards!!!
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That assumes we have caused this. If we haven't then we are just driving ourselves into a hellhole for nothing; which will probably kill millions anyway.
What hellhole?
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That assumes we have caused this. If we haven't then we are just driving ourselves into a hellhole for nothing; which will probably kill millions anyway.
The science seems to support that we are contributing but many of the actions that are proposed are made necessary by the questions of scarcity of fossil fuels and security.
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Well, that's proof of global warming.......we're all gonna die!!!
I didn't offer today's weather as 'proof' of anything.
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What hellhole?
The expense of worthless wind farms etc. and billions wasted in doing so. Bio-fuel which destroy rain forests and take up valuable land for crops and all the other efforts we are doing to try to keep the planet 'cool'.
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The science seems to support that we are contributing but many of the actions that are proposed are made necessary by the questions of scarcity of fossil fuels and security.
Dramatic climate change has occurred over a short period of time in the past whilst we were hunter-gatherers, so the odds are we are only contributing to it in a small way. I don't mind development for solar power but the utilisation of wind farms just for the sake of it in areas were they are not efficient is just stupid and wasteful. We have also closed down viable and productive gas powered plants, risking power cuts, in the name of something we have no real idea what is causing it, for useless wind farms.
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I didn't offer today's weather as 'proof' of anything.
You seemed to be disconcerted about it being too warm.
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You seemed to be disconcerted about it being too warm.
I am. Being disconcerted by something isn't especially scientific though.
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I am. Being disconcerted by something isn't especially scientific though.
That hasn't stopped the vested interests before.
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http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-temperatures-beat-saudi-10561146
It is really mild here in North Wales, it is warm in our lounge with the sun streaming through the window. We haven't got the heating on, which is very unusual for a day in December. However, one can't help feeling however pleasant it is, it isn't normal and rather worrying!
That's because you are still missing the difference between weather and climate. Individual weathet events are not indicative of climate.
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Some dreadful floods in Cumbria and about :(
Some people won't be enjoying Christmas in their homes :(
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I think global warming is responsible for our weird weather and we ignore it at our peril.
My post isn't about whether there is climate change. It's pointing out that individual weather events tell you nothing about climate, or climate change.
Al climate change supporting scientists would follow that difference, see link below. You are making the same mistake as people who argue that cigarettes are not dangerous because they had a grandparent that lived to 99 and smoked 40 a day.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html
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Dear Weather buffs :o
I was taken by a remark made by a scientist on the Jeremy Vine show regarding the floods, something about infiltration, to many paved over gardens, loss of allotments, less area for the rain to be absorbed.
Gonnagle.
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Whatever!
Having an excessively mild winter, so far, as we did last year, with some nasty storms thrown in is rather more than individual weather event!
It is better to take climate change due to global warming, seriously now, rather than regret we didn't further down the line when it is too late to do anything about it.
And in order to demonstrate climate change, don't you think that it would be better to examine that in the same way as climate change scientists rather than making statements they would dismiss as irrelevant?
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Personally I find the mild winter disconcerting because it means things will be thrown out of kilter. There will be winners and losers, no doubt, but I still find it troubling. Living in a farming area as I do it could mean more pests and diseases on crops, so more spraying. A late cold snap will affect the fruit harvest if trees have begun to bud too soon. Delicate creatures such as amphibians are very vulnerable...like I said, disconcerting.
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http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-temperatures-beat-saudi-10561146
It is really mild here in North Wales, it is warm in our lounge with the sun streaming through the window. We haven't got the heating on, which is very unusual for a day in December. However, one can't help feeling however pleasant it is, it isn't normal and rather worrying!
Floo I've got a rose bush in full flower in my back garden, it's a first for December.
I noticed my rose Hope, when I was putting out my sun lounger earlier on today.
ippy
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Our roses are in full flower too.
No sun lounger?
ippy
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Winter temperatures are a mystery. One night last week, it got progressively warmer through the night. I haven't figured out how it can get warmer when the sun is down.
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Winter temperatures are a mystery. One night last week, it got progressively warmer through the night. I haven't figured out how it can get warmer when the sun is down.
Warm air moving from the south and the development of cloud cover may be some reasons.
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Anybody heading out and about today and overnight should take a bit of extra care, as the UK is being bashed by Storm Frank (obviously named by a Brit, this one - Americans get Hurricane Wilbur or the like, we get Storm Frank ::) ) which means very strong winds and a great deal of rain in some places. Let's be careful out there, folks.
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Anyone notice how many colds are about? I've had about three different lots of colds in almost as many weeks :-\ fast as I get over one I get another bloomin one! >:(
I blame that on the mild weather.
I think we need a good cold spell to kill off some of the germs.
I always seem to pick them up in spring and autumn. ( although we seem to be stuck with the mild weather)
Also I am rather startled to have seen daffodils in December :o
Flowering daffodils too :o
And this morning I saw patches of primroses :o
Our seasons seem all mucked up, normally I like seeing these flowers, but at the right time of year...... Which isn't yet! ???
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Interest rates soon to go up,trust me= people losing homes,go out shopping and you might be shot or blown up,food banks bring them on and the weather well the best advice is cross your fingers :),but crossing your fingers does not seem to be working >:( .Sometime ago you can read it on here somewhere I said Gods judgment is on it's way to a Godless nation.
Wishing you a happy new year wont help,try crossing your fingers and your toes and anything else you think might help.
Remember there is worse to come. Have fun >:( remember to fall into the hands of God is not good.
~TW~
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Well just recently the Prime Minister has said the UK is a Christian nation, the Queen (& head of the CofE) mentioned Jesus while addressing the nation and the Secretary of State for Education has been trying to think of more ways to inflict Christianity on unsuspecting school children.
And TW'S god has decided to flood most of Northern England. For not being Christian enough. Apparently.
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They didn't vote Tory.
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What a pathetic little creep you are! >:(
It's his eschatology that makes him that way.
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And TW'S god has decided to flood most of Northern England. For not being Christian enough. Apparently.
I think the floods have more to do with 1) the dynamic nature of the earth's natural state and 2) human intervention in climate change.
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I think the floods have more to do with 1) the dynamic nature of the earth's natural state and 2) human intervention in climate change.
3) Too many people building on land that would otherwise absorb much more water and if there were less people then less would be affected.
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1) has something to do with it; 2) and 3) are essentially the same thing. So you're both right.
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So many flood plains have been foolishly built on over the years and that has caused so many problems!
True, and that's easily solved but too many people just don't like the solution, that's all.
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There seem to be lots of factors, including building on flood plains, but also removing trees and scrub on higher ground, which would hold back water (and the EU pay farmers to do this!); straightening of rivers higher up, which speeds up water flow; cuts to environment budgets - this is hotly debated now, as obviously the government don't want to admit that this has happened; climate change; and this year, probably, El Nino, which apparently is a whopper.
Ah well, every year, the politicians swear that they are going to spend more money on flood defences, and every year, it turns out that they didn't, and every year, there are floods.
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Ah well, every year, the politicians swear that they are going to spend more money on flood defences, and every year, it turns out that they didn't, and every year, there are floods.
And then there's the fact that the Tory government pledges to be the green party of environmental stewardship living up to European standards of clean, green and renewable energy, and then slashes subsidies for environmentally-friendly measures such as solar energy.
But God forbid this should be a political discussion. Who would want that?
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Ah well, every year, the politicians swear that they are going to spend more money on flood defences, and every year, it turns out that they didn't, and every year, there are floods.
Ironically, the last year has actually seen real-term increases - the problem with the figures that Labour quoted earlier in November was that they included the costs of the clean-up and remedial work, especially in Somerset, which may or may not prove to have been necessary, that had to beeen pumped in 11/12 months ago.
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And then there's the fact that the Tory government pledges to be the green party of environmental stewardship living up to European standards of clean, green and renewable energy, and then slashes subsidies for environmentally-friendly measures such as solar energy.
But God forbid this should be a political discussion. Who would want that?
Politicians lie. Not all the time, but quite often at crucial times. Vote blue to go green - that was a good one.
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Politicians lie.
What is this foolishness? When did this start?
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1) has something to do with it; 2) and 3) are essentially the same thing.
No they are not!!!
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Politicians lie. Not all the time, but quite often at crucial times. Vote blue to go green - that was a good one.
Doesn't blue and yellow make green?
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Anybody complaining about the unduly mild winter in many places so far will be pleased to know that the forecast predicts a cold start to 2016, with temperatures at or slightly below average for the time of year.
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Storm Henry is sweeping across the British Isles and by the evening many places are forecast to have gusts of between 70 and 90mph - worst in the north of England and Scotland -, so it pays us all to take a bit of extra care if out and about. Damage is almost assured and disruption expected, so be careful.
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I have nearly been blown over a few times on my walks today! When driving it was not easy to control the car when gusts hit it! The last time I remember it this windy was in 1987, when we had the hurricane, which wasn't a hurricane!
Having said that I haven't seen any damage, fingers crossed!
Got a bit chilly after 1630, so I put the sun lounger away and went in doors.
It's always a bit warmer here in the South East Floo.
ippy
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It was fairly windy in London yesterday but not unpleasant, temperature quite mild. I've just gone out to the front of the house and the sky is quite dark, the wind seems the same as yesterday (so far) and there has been some rain. It's not cold really.
Floo, I didn't know the hurricane of 1987 wasn't really a hurricane! I suppose it's all relative. By British standards it certainly was.
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When the sun was shining yesterday it was quite warm, in spite of the wind. It was 23C in my husband's study yesterday afternoon, without the heating on!
Well in our Orangery______
ippy
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Ehhhhhhhhhh?
A whacking great big conservatory that's big enough to grow an orange tree in and still have room for all of the family, kiddies too.
I'm surprised that one didn't know about these things.
ippy
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I know what an orangery is, I just wondered what you were getting at as I didn't understand your post?
Don't want to talk about it anymore.
ippy
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Dear ippy,
Don't want to talk about it anymore.
:P :P :P :P
Dear Floo,
Leave our ippy alone, his Orangery is a touchy subject, now what's this thread about, oh right! Weather, well here in Glasgow we have lots of Weather.
Gonnagle.
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Today ours is sunny, breezy and much cooler about 7C.
Floo it's a thank goodness for air conditioning here in the S E, phew.
ippy
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Dear Floo,
Ours is, and I kid you not, there's a lad out the back court who is building some kind of big boat, he is also asking punters if they have any spare sheep or goats, I think he knows something I don't.
Gonnagle.
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Dear ippy,
:P :P :P :P
Dear Floo,
Leave our ippy alone, his Orangery is a touchy subject, now what's this thread about, oh right! Weather, well here in Glasgow we have lots of Weather.
Gonnagle.
You're only jealous Gonners.
ippy
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Dear ippy,
True, but Floo got my joke, yours went straight over her head, see!! you have to enter the mind of your audience, Floo knows all about Noah and what the evil deity did. :P :P
Gonnagle.
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All I'm trying to do is have a gentle pull of the leg, doesn't look like it's worth the effort; mind you my wife has just got back from NZ and the NZ situation mirrors Wales in some ways, with the mountains mainly on the west coast pushing the warm air up to the cold where it condenses into rain just like Wales and she's had three weeks of rain in NZ in a similar way that the Walesonions have to sit there and bear it like the NZders have to as well and both for a lot longer than we have to here in Essex.
Not that I would want to exaggerate or labor the point to much but I thought it was worth making the point about the weather, being just that bit better in the home counties, such as Essex being the driest.
ippy
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Not that I would want to exaggerate or labor the point to much but I thought it was worth making the point about the weather, being just that bit better in the home counties, such as Essex being the driest.
Well, at least we in Wales have plenty of water to drink and grow produce with ;)
On a different, but still weather-related matter, I trust that no-one has sffered at the hands of Imogen.
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I trust that no-one has sffered at the hands of Imogen.
Not in a good many years ...
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Dear Sunshine,
Here in Glasgow, sunshine, I have the window open, no really it is sunshine, I am not hallucinating. :P
Gonnagle.
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Well, at least we in Wales have plenty of water to drink and grow produce with ;)
On a different, but still weather-related matter, I trust that no-one has sffered at the hands of Imogen.
What with You, Floo and Gonners I'n not playing this game any more, :P :P :P, one each.
ippy
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I have not been reading this thread, but a friend phoned me today to say that she had seen film news of Barton-on-Sea - from where you can glance across to The Needles - was on BBC news because of the gale force winds there.
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I'm 6miles from the top of an active volcano, fortunately it's not erupting ATM ( within the next 12 years max).
It sunny and 23c here like one of our summers.
Flowers very pretty
Just managed to escape the uk before Imogen, heard it was awful
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I think Spring might have finally sprung it is a lovely sunny day here, with quite a bit of heat in it. Mind you, knowing the great British weather, it might decide to snow tomorrow! ;D
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Too right! I read somewhere that snow is predicted for Easter.
Very pleasant here in London today.
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Lovely day here - went out on the motorbike this morning down to Balmaha on the east side of Loch Lomond. Not many tourists this early in the year so was able to give it a blast!
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Lovely day here - went out on the motorbike this morning down to Balmaha on the east side of Loch Lomond. Not many tourists this early in the year so was able to give it a blast!
I have no interest in your farting escapades!!! >:(
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Still hot though floo, at least it is here. I was out early this morning and it wasn't too bad but by the time I reached near home, it was boiling. I went into the cleaners and the lady was talking to me - I zoned out and missed everything she said ;D. When I apologised she said, "It's the heat".
Would be nice to be by the sea.
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It is quite pleasant here at the moment, not too hot, thank goodness.
It got up to 34 here yesterday, I hate to say it, but it was too hot for me, it made me feel very uncomfortable.
ippy
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It's horrible when there appears to be no air, muggy and humid. Yesterday and today very hot where I am, 26ish, but the breeze is lovely so not a problem. We've had some intolerable days and nights though.
I understand it was up to 34 in the Medway towns yesterday which must have been awful. Nice for being down at the coast.
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I have been back from SW France, where I have been for a couple of months, for a few days. There we had temperatures in the mid 30s for days on end. Usually accompanied by rather high humidity - on a few days though it was positively Mediterranean in its pleasantness.
My first thought on returning to England was that everyone had painted their front gardens green - but a neighbour did assure me that it was indeed grass (which in my recent experience was brown and crumbly).
I was looking forward to some familiar weather yesterday, a return to the temperatures of SW France. No such luck here in Worcestershire: it pissed down with rain instead. Today is much, much better.
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It got up to 34 here yesterday, I hate to say it, but it was too hot for me, it made me feel very uncomfortable.
ippy
It's not so much the heat that bothers me but the humidity. When we were in nepal, we would regularly bask in 35-37C in April and May and it would be great. Come mid-June, the temperature wouldn't change, but the humidity would - from about 55% to 95% - all down to the arrival of the monsoon. It would take until the end of July/mid-August to cool down to about 20C
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Too right.
Pleasant today if a little dull but it wasn't cold, nor was it too hot so no complaints.
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Here, which is the G61 postcode area to the north-west of Glasgow, it is snowing heavily right now and is about 2 in deep at present and settling.
If it keeps up, given we are about 200 ft higher than Glasgow itself so it does tend to settle here, and since there's not much traffic on local roads at this time of day, Mrs G could be stuck here tomorrow if she can't get to the main road to go to work (which means my valuable leisure time will be disrupted).
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S'about three inches deep in East Ayrshire: the pavements are covered, and the gritters have been round the minor streets in the town a couple of times.
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I agree humidity is very draining indeed.
Taking that issue a tad further, does anyone suffer from what a doctor I know once called 'high humidity headaches'or even nosebleeds? Until relatively recently, I had to be very careful during very low pressure weather periods, as my nose - broken in a rugby accident all of 42 years ago - would erupt with blood with absolutely no warning other than the nature of the weather.
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That sounds grim, Hope. Does it not happen now?
Very cold here tonight.
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I don't have that problem, Hope, but sometimes when I am in SW France in summer, and it is hot and very humid I get asthma attacks.
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I don't have that problem, Hope, but sometimes when I am in SW France in summer, and it is hot and very humid I get asthma attacks.
I'm off to the Canaries for a short break in three weeks. If it were up to me I would stay there until April, but my dear wife has other ideas >:(
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We haven't had this much persistent rain for a couple of years, I reckon. Fortunately we live at the top of the incline and the nearest river is well below us about three miles further East. It isn't too windy, thank goodness.
Anyone had problems with wind or rain from Storm Angus?
horrendous high winds and heavy rain here in the field I'm in .
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horrendous high winds and heavy rain here in the field I'm in .
Get out of the field man: find some shelter :)
No wind or rain here but very cold.
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Wet and windy where I am. Hopefully better from tomorrow though.
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Drove down the A1, very dark, but the rain held off until London, when it threw it down. Odd yesterday in Norfolk, as we were expecting gales and storms, in fact, quiet all day.
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Get out of the field man: find some shelter :)
No wind or rain here but very cold.
sorry, I'm sheltered but its rocking about like a ship on the ocean!
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That sounds grim, Hope. Does it not happen now?
Very cold here tonight.
Thankfully, its only happened once or twice in the last 5 years or so.
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Took me an hour and a quarter (or more) to do what is usually a 30-40 minute journey between Bridgend and Cardiff earlier this evening. In fact, it took me about 30 minutes to cover the last 5 or 6 miles. OK, it was around 5pm, but several roads that I could have used were/are closed due to flooding!!
Was over near Bridgend to do a Safe Use of Pesticides using Specilaised Equipment course for the day. Absolutely chucked it down most of the day, and trying to work out the swathe width (the spread of the spray from a nozzle) on the already soaking ground was all-but pointless. Just have to hope that Dec 13th, when I'm assessed, will be dry!
The specialised equipment was a 50-year old shunting diesel loco with a purpose-built spray boom on its back (purpose-built by one of the railway's volunteers).
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I have just looked out of my kitchen window and I can confirm that there is definitely weather here today.
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I have just looked out of my kitchen window and I can confirm that there is definitely weather here today.
I've just looked out of mine and can confirm there is darkness about.
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I've just looked out of mine and can confirm there is darkness about.
...about 4.40 here.
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Bright and quite cold in glorious SE London.
Not so cold but mainly cloudy in Greater Norwich.
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I wonder why the weather forecasts are inaccurate 9 times out of 10? We have billions of £s worth of weather technology above the Earth, yet it appears the forecasts are less accurate than they were years ago. I have heard the weather ships they used to have in the Atlantic, were better predictors of our weather. What do others think?
According to the weather forecast for our post code it is supposed to be sunny all morning, but no doubt as soon as I put my washing out it will pour as it usually does, we shall see! ;D
I wonder why peoples perceptions abour weather forecast results being wrong 9 times out of 10 - are wrong 97 times out of 100?
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Yeah. Weather forecasts cannot be innacurate nine times out of ten. Were that the case, they would be abolished.
They are wrong sometimes is all.
It's cold today. Brrrr. Nice and cosy indoors though.
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Yes it is the same here but weather does change during the day so that's fair enough. Also, just half a mile can make a difference to how much cloud and rain we get.
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Yes it is the same here but weather does change during the day so that's fair enough. Also, just half a mile can make a difference to how much cloud and rain we get.
But how often do they just come out and say it:
"Buggered if I know?"
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Most forecasts are based on large geographical coverage, and rarely take the various microclimates that exist throughout the UK - in fact throughout the world - into account. The only way you are likely to get the kind of forecast that takes it into account is to listen to radio and TV stations that have extremely limited geographical coverage.
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Most forecasts are based on large geographical coverage, and rarely take the various microclimates that exist throughout the UK - in fact throughout the world - into account. The only way you are likely to get the kind of forecast that takes it into account is to listen to radio and TV stations that have extremely limited geographical coverage.
Predicting weather is inherently a very very difficult task, but somehow they have to try and justify the huge amount they spend on complex computing systems - so they just have to show a brave face and say something that sounds credible while having some really good excuses up their sleeves :)
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Some factual analysis
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/accuracy/forecasts
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. . . of course, some countries have a more predictable climate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMUAd7OJc8
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Some factual analysis
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/accuracy/forecasts
Which tends to be absolutely bugger-all use when trying to decide whether to head for the coast or not.
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Which tends to be absolutely bugger-all use when trying to decide whether to head for the coast or not.
Ah yes, anecdote is always so much better than data
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Ah yes, anecdote is always so much better than data
Which typifies virtually everything you post NS - it might be 'technically correct' but of no practical use whatsoever'.
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A frosty start to our day, but now the sun is out it is very pleasant indeed. :)
Apart from snow, this is the beautiful sude of winter - cold, sunny and frosty, time for me to be a vision in fair isle and bobble hats.
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Apart from snow, this is the beautiful sude of winter - cold, sunny and frosty, time for me to be a vision in fair isle and bobble hats.
OH DEAR,
that image is going to be hard to shake(r) off.
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A bit nippy. -23C.
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Where I am at the moment it is -17 deg Centigrade. OK if you are not out in it for too long. I actually felt sorry for the traffic police this afternoon.
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I haven't been reading this thread, but hope it's okay if I drop in with a question: did anyone else hear the shipping forecast - either yesterday or Saturday - just before 6:0 p.m. when a man read the word 'good' every time it occurred. Quite funny!
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I haven't been reading this thread, but hope it's okay if I drop in with a question: did anyone else hear the shipping forecast - either yesterday or Saturday - just before 6:0 p.m. when a man read the word 'good' every time it occurred. Quite funny!
Saturday on BBC Radio 4 was the Day of Misrule and there was an underlying current of Twelfth Night throughout the day on the network. All the male announcers were obliged to wear yellow hose, cross gartered.
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I noticed anything below 14c when I go out my nose starts to run, a blooming nuisence.
I was thinking of establishing a new way of calibrating our winters, last winter here was a two scraper, we're up to a four scraper already this winter.
Scraper = the number of times the car windscreen needs to be scraped clear before driving off anywhere.
ippy
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I was thinking of establishing a new way of calibrating our winters, last winter here was a two scraper, we're up to a four scraper already this winter.
Scraper = the number of times the car windscreen needs to be scraped clear before driving off anywhere.
ippy
A car with a heated windscreen is a boon!
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A car with a heated windscreen is a boon!
I knew there would be a clever dick poster like you, but not such clever dick, what about the parts of your windows that are not heated, you're supposed to clear the lot before you drive away.
Whilst I'm sure none of us are that saintly and clear all of our window space before driving off but you would still be able to see that it's a scraper day even if you have a heated windscreen, so there, my scraper calibration idea would still stand.
You always get someone that tries to rubbish any perfectly sensible idea.
:P ippy
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I knew there would be a clever dick poster like you, but not such clever dick, what about the parts of your windows that are not heated, you're supposed to clear the lot before you drive away.
Whilst I'm sure none of us are that saintly and clear all of our window space before driving off but you would still be able to see that it's a scraper day even if you have a heated windscreen, so there, my scraper calibration idea would still stand.
You always get someone that tries to rubbish any perfectly sensible idea.
:P ippy
You did say "windscreen". That was the bit I was replying to. ::)
If you now want to add in additional bits then feel free.
Btw did you forget to add in the headlights which also need to be scraped? :-\
:P :P
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It has just started to snow, but it is not sticking, thank goodness.
Yes, those sticks can give you a right old scratch as well as damage your umbrella!!
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Within minutes of me posting about the snow falling, the sun came out and the temperature went up enough to give us a pleasantly warm afternoon, INCREDIBLE!
It's the sign of the end of the world so get reading your Bible, Floo, and pray to God It'll forgive you all your bad words against It. ;D
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It is snowing, although it doesn't feel cold enough!
Doesn't it always warm a little before it snows?
ippy
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Yes it does, my mum sasy,;"Too cold to snow today". Has to soften up a bit before falling.
Bright and cold here.
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It is snowing, although it doesn't feel cold enough!
Floo, I meant to say, have I told you before that Essex is the driest, (has the least rainfall),county in the U K, only I can't quite r ember if I had said how little rain we have here in driest of the dry Essex before, :P :P, and I thought it might be a good idea to remind you how little rainfall we get here, in Essex, have to go now, trying to get the sun loungers out of the shed.
ippy
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In spite of a stiff breeze it is quite warm today. :)
might I suggest dabbing it with some cold water Floo ;)
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Just come back from a few days in East Sussex & the weather was glorious. Still is today.
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:D I wished we had taken bathring stuff as it was so nice and warm. You can never tell how the weather will be but in future iwill keep some in car just in case.
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Wellies scarves & gloves in car as well as swimming costumes from now on.
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Wellies scarves & gloves in car as well as swimming costumes from now on.
sounds interesting, what time can you come round? :o
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High pressure on the way, should be fine for most. (Brought to you by Wigginhall productions, for a subscription send large cheque to WigginweatherInc., PO 372, Kaho'olawe, Hawaii.)
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sounds interesting, what time can you come round? :o
What you offering Sir? Snorkels extra.
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We had a frost this morning, but this afternoon is very sunny and quite warm. :)
Floo, is there any chance you could help us Essex lot, only we're running short of sun block down here and you must have some up there that wont be needed?
Regards ippy
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Well, I'm is SW France at the moment. I arrived yesterday to clear skies and 21 degrees, Today has been glorious.
I was really looking forward to the weekend - but then saw the meteo - rain, rain, followed by more rain. It will be fine again next week - when I have returned to England ...
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It is very sunny today with a bit of a breeze, which is drying my washing nicely. :)
We only need to put our washing out for about ten minutes or so at the moment, that's only if you can bear the heat outside for that long.
ippy
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It is a lovely sunny day, hardly any wind. I have got my washing dry in record time. :)
Could you send some wat___r
ippy
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I noticed on our allotment site that some potatoes and vines look frost-damaged, the spuds in particular completely blasted. Apparently, French and English vineyards have also been hit badly, with temperatures going down to -6 last week.
People have been planting spuds earlier and earlier, it used to be Good Friday traditionally, but you see people planting them in February, expecting a mild winter and spring.
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I am so cold, and I can't put the heating on as I'm waiting for a new oil tank and don't want to need a delivery before it's here. But it's been so dry too.
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More here about the vineyards.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39792774
There are two local to me, although one does have the cushion of also being a wedding venue.
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Dry, dry, dry. We are haring round to the allotment, all hosepipes throbbing like the best gristle.* Still, many plants are surviving pretty well. It amazes me how tough things like lettuce are - drought, frost, it just bashes on like a tank. We have an angelica which is magnificent right now, tall with massive seed-heads, doesn't seem to need water.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle
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The weather is as one would expect on a bank holiday Monday, WET!
Sorry to hear it Floo.
ippy
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We have had some heavy rain over night, and into the first part of this morning, which might have helped the garden a bit. It has been a remarkably dry year for our neck of the woods, although we have already seen more rain this month than in the winter! Our youngest girl and her family were going camping in Anglesey this weekend, but decided against it as the weather there is supposed to be very wet and quite windy.
Sorry about the rain Floo, I have been keeping away from travelling anywhere westward in the UK, so this time it's not me causing precipitation in your region.
Every holiday I've taken travelling anywhere westward in the U K I've been deluged with rain or sleet, much as the west is beautiful country
we no longer bother with it, we can be in France in about a couple of hours from here so there's very little to draw us to the west of the country.
If you ever have a drought there I'm prepared to make an exception and travel westward, for a small fee, and just the missus and I travelling in that direction with every certainty will break any drought.
ippy
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It has been a perfect day weather-wise here. Enough sun &strong breeze to dry washing in no time but I did mine very early and dried it indoors because I went to work today (do one Sat in four).
It's still bright and sunny, pleasantly warm & I feel mellow. Long may it continue.
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It has been a perfect day weather-wise here. Enough sun &strong breeze to dry washing in no time but I did mine very early and dried it indoors because I went to work today (do one Sat in four).
It's still bright and sunny, pleasantly warm & I feel mellow. Long may it continue.
Seriously Rob, every time we've taken a holiday in the westward parts of this isle, we've been deluged with all sorts of rain and sleet.
One year there was a country wide drought including the west country, there were stand pipes everywhere and as we were beginning to approach our destination the water was flooding the sides of the roads water was splashing everywhere, I reckon someone has put a curse on us, anyway it wouldn't be much different if someone had.
Another year we had a week there it rained for most of the time we were there other than four hours dry time on one day.
The last time it was very unwelcoming an overcast for a couple of days then it started to throw down hailstones to about two inches thick, we took a vote and all came home on the third day.
Much as the west is a beautiful place you'd have a job to drag me anywhere near there ever again, I can live quite well without so much wet weather; oh yes, as we went around the M25 north travelling eastwards, returning from that last time visit, the sun broke out and by the time we arrived home it was blazing hot.
Beautiful as it is in the west, you are welcome to my share of it; we do laugh about it now and offer our drought breaking expertise to all those living in the west, if it's ever needed and of course there would have to be a small fee involved; all of the above is the absolute truth, we can hardly believe it ourselves.
ippy
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It is really hot today, in the high 20s, too hot for my comfort. Still I did get the washing dry within an hour.
How? Did you hang it up in front of you and talk at it for 60 minutes?
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OK, that's way more than enough of this nonsense now - some cloud, a fall of 10° or so and a really good shower would be great, thanks.
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HA! HA!
34c here today Floo.
ippy
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Stupid weather. >:(
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Not 100% sure but I think I've just seen a cloud. Huzzah.
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I am wishing for snow, I don't do well in heat.
Floo, it's always good to have something to grumble about, it keeps us happy, only this time the grumble is, it's too hot.
ippy
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True but it really is stifling.Thank goodness for air conditioning in car & at work, that was all pleasant. Not so nice now I'm back at home ;D.
Snow sounds quite appealing!
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Be grateful we aren't in Phoenix.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40339730
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I have seen quite a number of people out and about in this extreme heat without wearing any head covering. Of course that is up to them, but it is shocking when young children aren't wearing hats either! :o
I suppose it is but little kids are fond of ripping hats off & releasing them into the wild! The people you saw may not have been out for long,we can all take a bit of sun exposure.
Wish there was more breeze.
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Be grateful we aren't in Phoenix.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40339730
By the time you get there, she'll be rising!
;)
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I used to find a glue gun did the trick.
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It's lovely here in the East Midlands today.
Cloudy all day with a cool breeze. The perfect antidote to the stifling oppression of yesterday.
I'm hoping this is extending as far as Shaker land to give my old pal some welcome relief from the heat.
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It is! I woke up this morning to a cool breeze blowing in and billowing out the curtains.
However.
The bad news is that tomorrow is going to be stiflingly hot again :(
The good news is that thereafter it's going to go back to sensible temperatures, possibly the high teens by Friday :) Also the possibility of rain Wednesday night into Thursday.
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Solstice pictures.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weatherwatchers/article/40251580/summer-solstice/
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Beautiful photos there.
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It's hot!
Even with air conditioning just seen a work colleague pass out and get taken to hospital by ambulance 😟
I hope they are ok.
Plus everyone who has hay fever seems to be suffering terribly ATM. Fortunately for me I don't, but lots do.
Supposed to be going to thunder tomorrow.
Damp down the pollen and freshen it up a bit.
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Currently 15 and drizzle.
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26 and humid. :'(
Possibly thunderstorms tomorrow. Pleeeaaaase.
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28C here
32 predicted
It's the nights that's the worst! Always hotter upstairs, I'm already surrounded by fans.
They are noisy! Specially the metal ones :o
Lol
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28C here
32 predicted
It's the nights that's the worst! Always hotter upstairs, I'm already surrounded by fans.
They are noisy! Specially the metal ones :o
Lol
Just give them an autograph and send them on their way!
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Just give them an autograph and send them on their way!
LOL
I should be so lucky 😉
Like on " it ain't arf hot mum"
Punka wallahs 😁
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26 and humid. :'(
Bloody luxury - could hit 30° by 5:00pm here >:(
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It's all too much!
Was thinking, i remember when I was a child being sick, i.e. vomiting, in heat like this. Was in Torquay with parents and sister in summer of 1976 and couldn't keep anything down for a day or two.
When I got in this evening I had something to eat and history repeated itself, you don't need the details. Good thing is it got rid of my headache though.
My old mum wasn't well over weekend, she was sure it was the heat. Seems OK now.
Hay fever not playing up atm thankfully.
Cooler tomorrow and rest of week but still pleasantly warm.
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Relief!
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It's thundering here and trying to rain ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Must be the worst start to the summer here as long as I can remember. Midsummer is always celebrated here on the weekend nearest to the 21st with the Friday as a day off. The weather is predicted to be cloudy and about 15°C. Not very good. We're meant to outside drinking beer, making bonfires and having barbecues.
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Might be OK ad_o. (My kids would have barbecues in the winter!)
Nice breeze today, wasn't too bad yesterday but today's better.
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Still no rain here though the cool breeze is welcome.
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No thunder or lightning here but around 3:40am rain heavy enough to wake me. Damp and muggy (26°) for the remainder of the day, says the Met Office.
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Stormy here all night, much lightning, some thunder and a bit of rain. Feeling for the people in Coverack this morning.
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Must be the crappiest summer here ever. Not a single warm spell so far.
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Rain gratefully received by gardeners. I'm so fed up with getting the hosepipe out every few days. Come on, God, more, more.
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Yup - my lawn is eager for more.
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I'd love a good thunderstorm - been ages since there was a decent one.
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I love storms in theory but weather like this always gives me a thumping headache. Can't focus or drive.
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Rain gratefully received by gardeners. I'm so fed up with getting the hosepipe out every few days. Come on, God, more, more.
The folks in the Lizard peninsula would not agree, I think. Too many overtones of Boscastle a few years back, I think.
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The folks in the Lizard peninsula would not agree, I think. Too many overtones of Boscastle a few years back, I think.
Yes, I thought that, although I believe the damage is less. Rubbish time of year for it to happen as well. Right as the tourist season is building up steam.
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Floo I know I've been rather unkind about your weather up there in Wales, but I was only joking and had I realised the curse you were drumming up for me would be as bad as it has turned out I really do think I shouldn't have been so unkind to you, and now most humbly request from such a warm hearted kindly person that must have such a fulsome beauty please do something about stopping this incessant rain just for me, please.
Yours sincerely, ippy
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Ippy
:D What do the farmers around your way think about it?
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Apart from a break of 3-4 hours yesterday evening it rained almost solidly for about 36 hours here, stopping only at about midday today.
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Just driven through a relentless downpour. Roads under water. Rumour has it some local farms could lose as much as 80% of the grain harvest.
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Ironically, here in the West of Scotland, it's been a lovely day: warm and sunny.
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Yep, last two days have been good
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Ippy
:D What do the farmers around your way think about it?
I don't know it's too wet to get out there to find out and I've lost my snorkel, we had two boys paddling their canoe in the middle of what should have been a road, in one part of the town, (North Essex).
ippy
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Ironically, here in the West of Scotland, it's been a lovely day: warm and sunny.
Thanks.
ippy
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:P Whereabouts are you? We are near the Cheshire border and haven't had much at all, the garden could really do with more.
My back garden has usually well drained soil but if you want a splash about at the moment just pop around.
I've acquired a new water but a couple of days ago and just as a thought I put it under the gutter outlet that takes approximately a half of the water falling on the whole my garage roof, it filled up in about one hour, I'm beginning to wonder if Floo's getting too powerful and does it involve me having to make some kind of donation? Worrying.
ippy
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Still throwing it down here. I forgot to get ketchup so we are having ketchup-less chips for dinner. Not risking going out again.
Ketchup-less chips. :o
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[Brando]The horror ... the horror.[/Brando]
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Pissing down here.
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Pissed down yesterday, but today looks more promising, so I'm off for a bike ride, being in the first week of a fortnight's annual leave. The weekend promises to be not bad, as well, though it's fairly disappointing for August.
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I'd love a good thunderstorm - been ages since there was a decent one.
Had good one whilst on holiday in Devon!
Drizzly later on in afternoon but quite warm earlier. Eldest daughter had barbecue which we attended, twas lovely! She told us she is going to America in January for about a year, with her firm. I'm really pleased for her.
I will have a couple more days off, foot and leg still not quite right but improving.
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Dull and a bit chilly for early September today, but dry.
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South West France - Aquitaine.
On 31 August summer was switched off. Until that day the temperature had been 33 degrees and above (with accompanying high humidity but no rain) for some time. There was a small amount of rain on Thursday but the temperature dropped to about 20 degrees.
Autumn is now on its way. There is unlikely to be a large leaf fall this year - many trees seem to have jettisoned their leaves during the drought and have few left.
I shall be back in the Midlands on Wednesday.
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Lucky them!
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It is blowing a gale in our part of North East Wales at present, although the sun is really warm.
yes , about 5500 degrees Celsius at its surface!
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Strange seeing a red sun high up in the sky, caused by desert sand caught up by the hurricane apparently. I thought it was Old Nick's Wormwood for a minute. ;)
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Yes, there are some incredible pictures of London, shrouded in a sort of yellow and red fog, I suppose dust from the south.
https://twitter.com/BowenBBC/status/919933543526084608/photo/1
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.... and some more here .... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41635906
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It might be the rapture - it's here in Technicolor!
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Pissing down.
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Pissing down.
TMI, But how's the weather?
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;D Also pissing down.
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The weather fairy must have read the post I made yesterday on this thread, and obliged. It is pouring down out there and set in for the rest of the day according to the forecast for our postcode. I am so thankful that there is no river in our neighbourhood, and we live on high ground, unlike our previous property, which was in a valley only a few yards from the river. :o
Sure sign of imminent winter, moved the revolving clothes line to winter position nearer to the house and stone footpath.
My wife is somewhat vertically challenged, so the line has to be in a lower position than where normal people would put it, on the good side, when it's in its winter position nearer to the house I don't have so many fights with the bloody thing.
ippy
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Snow started falling here on Thursday night - by Friday morning thre was abour an inch and a half's worth, and no wind. A sliight thaw was ended by sleet and hail showers throughout yesterday
This morning the place is an ice rink.
I wish someone would invent a long cane which deals with snow and ice......
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Light snow flurries around 7:40am here, but soon disappearing. A very cold and slightly slushy drizzle thereafter.
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Light snow flurries around 7:40am here, but soon disappearing. A very cold and slightly slushy drizzle thereafter.
which area of the country are you in , roughly ?
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Leicestershire. Frequently one of the hotter spots during a heatwave, but when it's cold, it's cold ...
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Leicestershire. Frequently one of the hotter spots during a heatwave, but when it's cold, it's cold ...
Thanks ,wall to wall sunshine here south Yorks 5c
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We are having bright sunshine at the moment, even though it is raining heavily.
lookout for the rainbow, it will be in the opposite direction to the sun .
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Mild here too, although its supposed to change overnight.
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We have plenty of the white stuff this morning, I had to be careful not to slip over when I went for my walk.
Many of the schools in our area are closed.
Floo I have actually put the sun lounger away in the shed now, I wouldn't want you to think I might be exaggerating how much better the weather is down here in the S E, Essex, mind I do live in north Essex.
Kind regards ippy
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In Leicestershire the Met Office has set the thermometer to fuck me, really?.
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Still no snow here; hard frost and the road has the look of something I don't want to be driving on.
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Snow and lots of it - 0° and according to the forecast likely to carry on snowing for the rest of the day.
Which is great as this is the only time my back garden looks like everybody else's.
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Same here - am concerned as my kids need to get home today and the drive will be mad.
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Well for crying out loud be careful :(
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I’m not the one driving. Am mildly cheered by the fact that the person who is used to live in Switzerland.
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Well that's a bonus I suppose.
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Very cold here but no snow - youngest grandson disappointed.
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Swiss friends refusing to drive. Looks like the kids get another night away.
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Very grey, gloomy and wet, although not really heavy rain, here this morning, so no walk today. Much milder though.
Having written that, I thought I'd better go and check out the front, and the sun is showing a bit, but it is still too likely to rain, so, reluctantly, I'll stay in and do all my physio exercises instead!
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First real snow for about two years here in the Vale of Evesham.
I'm not going for my usual Sunday walk and pub meal, so I've got to find some way of filling the day.
It also means that I shall not see my friends today - they may welcome the respite! ???
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I'm hearing the the roads are chaotic round here, cars sliding into ditches and all sorts. Am glad to have enough food in. Not sure if the kids are coming home - they are part of the way at someone else's house now. And the dog has decided he is definitely scared of the snow and is hiding inside.
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I've been up since 5:00am and it hasn't stopped for a minute.
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No cab service running. Kids stuck miles away.
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They're safe where they are though, right?
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Been raining here now turning to sleat. CFold night expected so doubtless turning to ice. Saw some trees damaged when out this morning.
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They're safe where they are though, right?
Yes, just tearful.
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Been raining here now turning to sleat. CFold night expected so doubtless turning to ice. Saw some trees damaged when out this morning.
We need the snow plough to come through here. If what is out there now freezes the road will be impossible to drive at all.
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Mild snow here. Looks like I am stuck in with Ben Hur :(
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Just made a snowman with my youngest. The end result was more Stephen King than Raymond Briggs.
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Just made a snowman with my youngest. The end result was more Stephen King than Raymond Briggs.
:)
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It is snowing heavier now. Looks like I am stuck in with Chuck for the afternoon.
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Rhiannon, I'm sure you must be feeling anxious. Sounds crazy, I know, but try not to worry. From what you say, they are safe and the Swiss person will no doubt be giving them words of comfort. You and your children are in my thoughts and prayers.
Humph, I love Ben Hur.... could watch it over and over, haha....
Well here, just north of Worcester, we have around 8ins and being in a cul-de-sac are well snowed-in.
I've been informed the two eldest grandchildren are loving it.... their first experience of snow. The other two are too young to know the excitement.
Floo, I had an experience on Friday trying to get somewhere in the first snowfall. It took me 45mins to do a 20min journey and then the weather closed-in and I had to turn back which took me another hour to get home.
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Thank you, SweetPea. :)
My eldest hated the first time she went out in the snow, she looked at me like I was off my head for taking her outside then burst into tears.
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Aww..... they all react differently. Apparently my granddaughter is quite excited whereas my grandson is over the moon and 'Dad', my son, has been in and out all morning with him.
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Everyone home safe! They found a friendly cab driver. Mince pies eaten, snowman #2 is on the way. :)
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Everyone home safe! They found a friendly cab driver. Mince pies eaten, snowman #2 is on the way. :)
Result :)
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Everyone home safe! They found a friendly cab driver. Mince pies eaten, snowman #2 is on the way. :)
Hooray!! Good news. Sigh of relief, eh..
I'm watching Ben Hur! Thanks, Humph.... :D
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Everyone home safe! They found a friendly cab driver. Mince pies eaten, snowman #2 is on the way. :)
Jolly good. :)
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Quite a heavy snowfall on Wednesday, tooped up by some flurries on Thursday. The whole shebang turned to ice then, and, since the temperature's -7 outside at the moment, I don't see the ice vanishing anytime soon.
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My sympathies, floo. Mind you, I haven't been out the door since Thursday....I wish someone would invent a long cane which deals with ice and snow! I could just about manage a hundred yards yesterday before I was unable to find a kerb which I KNOW is there.....
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I got into work ok this morning, I don't think that I could have taken any more daytime TV.
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Snowing again. It rained earlier so now everywhere is a soggy, cold mush.
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Well, at the moment I'm feeling slightly smug! I needed to go to the bank and pick up my prescription and I could have put it off until tomorrow, but by 12.0 o'clock the rain was gone and so I have walked down the road and done that. Fairly strong wind, but not freezing.
It's swimming this afternoon, but I go there and back by taxi.
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No further snow today, though what fell yesterday understandably isn't going anywhere as it's 0°. And the sun is out so everywhere looks charming. Could be a trickier proposition tomorrow, as the forecast predicts a low of -10° overnight.
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Well, at the moment I'm feeling slightly smug! I needed to go to the bank and pick up my prescription and I could have put it off until tomorrow, but by 12.0 o'clock the rain was gone and so I have walked down the road and done that. Fairly strong wind, but not freezing.
It's swimming this afternoon, but I go there and back by taxi.
JARGON ALERT: .....non VIPS SWITCH OF NOW...
Susan;
As a matter of interest, what kind of tip do you use in snow or ice?
I use the jumbo roller on my graphite cane, for what it's worth.
It's slightly betterr than the rest of 'em.
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Definitely stopithom weather here, thank goodness I'm retired and don't need or have to go out and the central heating system is all brand new, it's that wet through rain within five paces of stepping out and really freezing as well.
ippy
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I got into work ok this morning, I don't think that I could have taken any more daytime TV.
I too drove to work with no problems, I didn't have a very early start today& was there in no time. I think a lot of people hadn't turned out, judging from the traffic. The snow had cleared, it was raining. Later on there was sleet and a bit of snow which stopped fairly quickly. Brrrr, cold.
Floo so sorry to hear about your accident.
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JARGON ALERT: .....non VIPS SWITCH OF NOW...
Susan;
As a matter of interest, what kind of tip do you use in snow or ice?
I use the jumbo roller on my graphite cane, for what it's worth.
It's slightly betterr than the rest of 'em.
For the moment, I am still using my peripheral vision and so in my right hand I use a walking stick which is white. It is collapsible and has a clip,which is useful when putting it in a locker at the gym, plus my telescopic signal cane in my left hand. Since I have an age-related cataract in my eye which is causing some increasing impairment, I might well have to get a sweep stick, but not yet. When I do, I'll check with you about suitable tips.
Here on the south coast ice is not such a problem, but I go by taxi if I am in doubt.
Having to slowly regain my leg and hip strength after being knocked down, and having to deal with the added complication of that immobility showing up my extremely dodgy left hip - not a problem before hand because of my fitness, even though the pelvic cracks healed in a normal amount of time, means that my balance is not quite as good. this, again, is not a problem as long as I remember it!
So many people I know have fallen - in their own homes - and broken their hips, so I am absolutely going to make sure I don't do that.
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Somewhere in Shropshire reached -13° in the early hours; here it's barely above freezing during the day. However rain is forecast to set in tonight to wash away the snow and ice, and with it a modest rise in temperature.
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Quite mild here today. I came home early because a man was booked to fix roof tiles, I was hoping for his sake the weather would be OK so was pleased. Job done, roof is sound.
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Today has been a much warmer than of late. We were able to turn the heating off for a few hours.
About an hour ago I stepped outside the door and although it was very gloomy, it was dry.
15 minutes ago, I put on coat, hat etc locked the door stepped outside ... and there's a damp misty drizzle, so I'll try again later.
I can't manage walking in any kind of rain for more than a short distance.
I went to General Discussion to find this thread, but see that that board seems only to have a few posts on it. Can anyone tell me what has happened?
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Fine for me, all there.
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When you were at school, weren't you (directed at anyone "puzzled" by weather conditions) taught - possibly in 3rd form Geography about the consequences of the British Isles' location (on the eastern side of the second largest mass of water on the planet, at a latitude of about 50 degrees north, with no significant landmass to the west) on its climate and subsequent weather?
Cool summers and mild winters with rainfall and dampness at all times of the year.
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When you were at school, weren't you (directed at anyone "puzzled" by weather conditions) taught - possibly in 3rd form Geography about the consequences of the British Isles' location (on the eastern side of the second largest mass of water on the planet, at a latitude of about 50 degrees north, with no significant landmass to the west) on its climate and subsequent weather?
Cool summers and mild winters with rainfall and dampness at all times of the year.
Can you explain why whenever I even travel into a westerly direction it's as though someone is watching and the heavens open up, I've been to the west country on about a half dozen times and I can assure you it's just as though someone is watching my movements, one summer I went there an we had about two inches of hailstones fall and at the same time both my, young then, boys and my wife went down with mumps about as bad as it comes, fortunately I have had it before and the antibodys were still active.
Don't even suggest another holiday anywhere in the west of the U K to me or mine, yes even though, and I agree, there are some lovely places to visit. Precipitation is the theft of a good holiday.
Regards ippy
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Had snow today, horrible slippy slushy stuff. Meh.
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It's very cold around here now, rained earlier today. No snow yet.
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All that practice I had, all those years ago of sliding on ice in the school playground paid off this morning as I negotiated the black ice on our street. Stayed on my feet, even though I did slide gracefully down the road a few times. Safe indoors now. Very smug.
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Been snowing heavily here for the last couple of hours.
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I flew back to East Midlands from the Channel Islands yesterday. The air was clear and largely cloudless so we had a good view of the ground below.
What was particularly interesting was the very patchy nature of the snow, it appeared to be scattered rather than a blanket. On our approach to EMA much of - what I presume to be - Warwickshire and south Leicestershire was white but the airport was snow free. And my drive to Worcestershire was similarly patchy.
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All that practice I had, all those years ago of sliding on ice in the school playground paid off this morning as I negotiated the black ice on our street. Stayed on my feet, even though I did slide gracefully down the road a few times. Safe indoors now. Very smug.
I am such a wimp, won't even try to negotiate our pavement at the moment. Luckily I can walk in the road (relatively ice free) the few yards to the tractor access to the fields and then the dog and I are free. Last night we walked just as the sun set, the moon had risen over the village behind us and the snow was opalescent as the light faded. Absolutely magical.
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I am such a wimp, won't even try to negotiate our pavement at the moment. Luckily I can walk in the road (relatively ice free) the few yards to the tractor access to the fields and then the dog and I are free. Last night we walked just as the sun set, the moon had risen over the village behind us and the snow was opalescent as the light faded. Absolutely magical.
You need a pair of permagrips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCm8cCIzW18
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;D ;D You can't beat slapstick.
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Considering we were supposed to have had fog with very poor visibility today, it is quite pleasant, the sun is peaking through the clouds.
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Considering we were supposed to have had fog with very poor visibility today, it is quite pleasant, the sun is peaking through the clouds.
dont know what it's like where you are but I'm xperincing some very strong wind gusts at the moment , quite disconcerting with frequent snow blizzards also .
I'll probably stay fully dressed tonight just in case !!!!
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Snow started here last night, and has continued most of today. "Thundersnow" appears to be the term of the moment. A lot of roads are blocked, schools were closed early, and high winds are causing drifts. My back door has four steps. I can only access one of them; that means there's at least a foot of snow thetre at the moment...and it's still snowing quite heavily.
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Snow started here last night, and has continued most of today. "Thundersnow" appears to be the term of the moment. A lot of roads are blocked, schools were closed early, and high winds are causing drifts. My back door has four steps. I can only access one of them; that means there's at least a foot of snow thetre at the moment...and it's still snowing quite heavily.
sounds a bit severe !
It's sopped snowing here but the wind strength is increasing which means I'm in for a rough night !
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It's nice & bright here in occupied Kent, but the wind is nasty.
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It is snowing here today, but likely to turn to rain later.
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It is snowing here today, but likely to turn to rain later.
Send some rain up here, then, will you?
The roads are blocked here yet again with new snow this morning...they only got them cleared properly yesterday!
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Very icy rain here this morning! Yet general temp is not that cold.
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Been snowing constantly for the last 2 hours, and on the side roads it is lying on top of earlier snow. Wouldn't be able to get to the main road now, so it is just as well I wasn't planning to.
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It is raining now, but still quite cold, it is supposed to be much milder this evening.
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Snowing here too.
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Snowing here too.
heavy snow here at the moment , infact I've been stuck in it now since Thursday .
Fortunately I've got food for another 3 days and about 30 liters of water .
Forecast is for warmer conditions by about Tuesday so should be okay 👍
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Essex, supposed to be the driest county in the country, you wouldn't think so today, even our dog didn't really want to go for her walk today, I had to partly dry her down with an old towel, when I came back, before she drowned the house out, it's pretty bad when the dog doesn't want to go out.
ippy
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Snow's washed away, just a sea of mud.
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/Damp and grey first thing this morning but sun came out, so I was able to get out and walk for half-an-hour. Not longer, because it is swimming as usual this afternoon.
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/Damp and grey first thing this morning but sun came out, so I was able to get out and walk for half-an-hour. Not longer, because it is swimming as usual this afternoon.
finally freed my van from the snow today after heavy rain overnight
The water tap finally thawed so I filled my tank and found a supermarket just in case. Happy days 👍😎
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Bright and sunny here 8) , although just heard what I thought was a rumble of thunder! :o
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There was a bit of snow this morning when I went out but it cleared. Not long been in, flipping freezing.
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Fuck off, snow!
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Fuck off, snow!
I hate the stuff.
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currently I'm unable to move from my location , snow up to mid wheels depth, fresh water is being rationed because outside fresh water tap frozen . I've got food for about 4 days. current temp minus 5c !
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This'll be the fourth white stuff fall of the winter. Only a couple of inches so far this time; I've got off light.
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Fuck off, snow!
Ohhhhh I so agree with this. I realised that I am a Responsible Adult the first time I said ‘fuck off snow’ and not ‘yay, snow!’
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In addition of my normal disregard for the stuff, I am travelling - in theory - to Bologna tomorrow
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I’m supposed to be travelling two miles down the road but it doesn’t look likely. >:(
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Vale of Evesham is a snow-free zone.
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Fair amount of snow here (northern edge of Glasgow) overnight - no chance of driving today, since I couldn't even get as far as the local main road.
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The picture at 8.52 on the link of Shawlands in Glasgow is a what I have
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-43202018
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currently I'm unable to move from my location , snow up to mid wheels depth, fresh water is being rationed because outside fresh water tap frozen . I've got food for about 4 days. current temp minus 5c !
Keep in touch in case we have to get you rescued.
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As we live on just about the steepest hill in Nottingham I also detest the stuff - although I do find it entertaining watching the cars that use our road as a cut through struggle and slide to the bottom of the hill. Serves you right you bastards for ignoring the residents only access signs.
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A light sprinkle of
floopowder overnight; now still, almost clodless sky, sunny, not too cold. The Beast from the East is proving to be a wee. sleekit, cowran, tim'rous beastie from the eastie so far.
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Looking out on a blizzard now. >:(
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In addition of my normal disregard for the stuff, I am travelling - in theory - to Bologna tomorrow
looks like the weather there is similar to ours at the moment . Save yourself the trouble and money and spend your hols in the local pub instead . Sorted !
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Keep in touch in case we have to get you rescued.
thank you kind sir 8)
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looks like the weather there is similar to ours at the moment . Save yourself the trouble and money and spend your hols in the local pub instead . Sorted !
Even with the profusion of Italian restaurants in Glasgow, none get close to Bologna, and my local pub, while it has an estimable wine list, isn't a patch on what I will be having for half the price in an osteria if I make it
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Stupid weather.
I have Mr Tesco delivering to me tomorrow. Today I will have to make do with eating coal.
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Even with the profusion of Italian restaurants in Glasgow, none get close to Bologna, and my local pub, while it has an estimable wine list, isn't a patch on what I will be having for half the price in an osteria if I make it
let me know if you need a bagman
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London suburbs not too bad this morning - nice and sunny and very pretty. I tried to have a snowball fight but not much success with the powdery snow. About to brave the tube delays.
Drove the kids to school this morning and after I dropped them off, couldn't stop at the junction from a side road to a bigger road outside their school even though I had big tyres and was going slowly - it was going slightly downhill. Luckily there was nothing coming on the bigger road when I slid onto it. Stupid of me to not put the 4WD on in the snow I guess.
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Even with the profusion of Italian restaurants in Glasgow, none get close to Bologna, and my local pub, while it has an estimable wine list, isn't a patch on what I will be having for half the price in an osteria if I make it
Wha' needs the wine? Hae a dram.......
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Winter tyres help.
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London suburbs not too bad this morning - nice and sunny and very pretty. I tried to have a snowball fight but not much success with the powdery snow. About to brave the tube delays.
Drove the kids to school this morning and after I dropped them off, couldn't stop at the junction from a side road to a bigger road outside their school even though I had big tyres and was going slowly - it was going slightly downhill. Luckily there was nothing coming on the bigger road when I slid onto it. Stupid of me to not put the 4WD on in the snow I guess.
showing off by telling us how stupid you are , so middle class !
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Blue sky and sunshine here but very cold wind. I'm hoping this area will be a snow-free one between east and west.
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showing off by telling us how stupid you are , so middle class !
Or just making conversation. Lots of 4WD cars in London - nothing noteworthy but bloody useful compared to the slipping wheels of 2WD cars trying to reverse out of driveways and then drive forward down my road this morning.
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From the BBC website - Bologna looking very far away
BreakingScotland weather warning upgraded to red
Areas of Scotland will be upgraded to a red weather warning, the Met Office's most severe warning.
The red warning will be in place between Wednesday at 15:00 and Thursday 10:00 GMT.
The following areas are affected:
• Central, Tayside and Fife
• Southwest Scotland,, Lothian Borders
• Strathclyde
A red warning means that risk to life, widespread damage, travel and power disruption is likely.
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Now snowing heavily, and settling.
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Supposed to be going to a funeral this afternoon. White stuff has other ideas.... staying put in case the funeral ended up being miner. Buses have now been withdrawn from sevice, gritters stuck in main stree of my town....which wasn't supposed to be badly affected.
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The added issue with this is I was due to meet my wife in at Heathrow tomorrow as she is currently in London. We could end up now getting to Bologna and being stuck apart.
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We had a red snow warning some years ago when the temp when down to -17. I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do that I wouldn't normally do when it snows. Ring my mum and cry?
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We had a red snow warning some years ago when the temp when down to -17. I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do that I wouldn't normally do when it snows. Ring my mum and cry?
I think it's more to get people to stop making plans to travel at the time in case they get caught in it.
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I think it's more to get people to stop making plans to travel at the time in case they get caught in it.
Which is what I do anyway. Well, whatever.
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Which is what I do anyway. Well, whatever.
That's because you are sensible.
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The added issue with this is I was due to meet my wife in at Heathrow tomorrow as she is currently in London. We could end up now getting to Bologna and being stuck apart.
always a silver lining.... ;) you've just got to look for it .
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I thnk the warnings translate as follows:
Yellow - unless you really have to don't travel, and make sure you have enough food in
Amber - if you are not travelling to save lives, don't and make soup, lots of it
Red - Don't fucking travel, and make sure you are not the weakest person in your group.
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Or just making conversation. Lots of 4WD cars in London - nothing noteworthy but bloody useful compared to the slipping wheels of 2WD cars trying to reverse out of driveways and then drive forward down my road this morning.
my vehicle is about as much use as a greased pig on slippery surfaces , although I can make a cup of tea and get my head down if I get stuck
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always a silver lining.... ;) you've just got to look for it .
I appreciate the spirit. My wife and I spend too much time apart. Not getting to Bologna would ben annoyance, being stuck apart again would be deeply depressing.
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I thnk the warnings translate as follows:
Yellow - unless you really have to don't travel, and make sure you have enough food in
Amber - if you are not travelling to save lives, don't and make soup, lots of it
Red - Don't fucking travel, and make sure you are not the weakest person in your group.
I've got a tin of oxtail soup from Lidl , will I be okay ?
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You'll be fine! Soup is perfect.
Lots of snow here in Bromley, at least in my road. Seems to have stopped now. Looks good, not severe enough to stop driving which I did to work earlier & will be going back. The main roads are OK.
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I appreciate the spirit. My wife and I spend too much time apart. Not getting to Bologna would ben annoyance, being stuck apart again would be deeply depressing.
awww cute,
my wife and I have been apart for some 27 years now . I see her occasionally, in my nightmares .
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I want to know the meaning of "ben annoyance".
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I want to know the meaning of "ben annoyance".
be an
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Looks like all Scottish flights to London are off for today
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I want to know the meaning of "ben annoyance".
he's a navigator on Rif-Raff Air Lines , I think ?
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Bad luck, NS. FWIW I can't see my bloke either and he's only a 45 minute drive away.
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Looks like all Scottish flights to London are off for today
oh dear ! what about the train ?
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oh dear ! what about the train ?
currently fucked
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Bad luck, NS. FWIW I can't see my bloke either and he's only a 45 minute drive away.
Rhi, i'll be round in five minutes ;D
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currently fucked
nope, that will have to wait old chap.
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be an
Ta!
Not surprised - & glad - flights are off. Always err on side of caution is my motto. Not bad round here tho', going to drive (only other part of Bromley :D), back to work now.
Sorry about your bloke Rhi but absence makes heart grow stronger, so it's said. The mental image you have of him will have to suffice for now ;). NS don't talk to me about trains! I spent years commuting to central London until 14 or so years ago & at the first hint of snow (different types of snow), trains were cancelled at drop of hat.
Walter, glad you're f****d. Result!
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Trains in Scotland off till 10 tomorrow and a white out outside. Will make myself a ragu tonight and wave to Bologna.
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The BBC weather page appears to be broken. >:(
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Put on my winter tyres today, drove to Dartford feeling smug :)
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Dear Weather god,
Drove into work this morning, white knuckle drive, was sent home early, white knuckle drive, Pub shut!! I thought essential services were supposed to remain open >:( Seriously, anyone in the Glasgow area, stay indoors, do what the polis are saying, don't travel.
Gonnagle.
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Glasgow is shutting
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Glasgow is shutting
my lad who lives in Livingston has just sent a me video of his street , looks pretty serious
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Dear Sane,
I watched an artic, its load was going horizontal and the cab was vertical, the guy pulled out of it, watching it was frightening, how the poor guy driving it felt :o :o
Gonnagle.
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It is as bad here as I can recall - over a foot of snow today.
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The midgies hae their scarves oan.
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Dear Gordon,
I have drove in it twice today, it is not just the snowfall, when the wind gets up your visibility is at best 30 yards!!
Gonnagle.
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No Bologna
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No Bologna
So logna Bolongna? When do you get to go?
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So logna Bolongna? When do you get to go?
I don't
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I don't
Sorry to hear that.
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Very annoyingly, the snow arrived in the early hours - I was hoping it would hold off until this afternoon.today, so I have had to cancel tap dancing. I could get there and home again easily by taxi, but it is no good expecting the others to go out onto the roads.
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It’s worse today here too, although not as bad as when it really did get to -17. The supermarket is supposed to be delivering its bounteous goods of finest soon.
My mobile phone hasn’t been working properly for the past couple of days too.
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You'll like this one...... Ayr Crematorium's been shut. Apparently they can't guarantee the safety of those attending funerals, since the road's a bit iffy.
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The supermarket isn't delivering its boxes of bounteous goodies after all.
I don't think I swore at the store manager.
Ok, three kids at home, no food and I can't get off my drive...
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I don't
this might cheer you up mate , it certainly had me laughing
https://youtu.be/9yv_rl3MYKA
enjoy.
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We had a red snow warning some years ago when the temp when down to -17. I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do that I wouldn't normally do when it snows. Ring my mum and cry?
Red snow?! :o
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And my wife couldn't get any form of transport back today, and it's looking like tomorrow won't work either. I would go to the pub but they are shut.
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Red snow?! :o
Yes, red snow. Pinkish really, looks a bit blood stained. Caused by algae and has horrible scientific name that sounds like a sexually transmitted disease. Aristotle mentioned red snow.
I went out at 7am & it was snowing then but I kept to main roads, it was alright.Not many cars about. Just got in and house seems cold despite having good heating. My road has a big blanket of snow covering it & the trees look magical. I sure was glad of my Uggs today.
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So the van of loveliness didn’t come, so I went into ninja mode. I attacked the kitchen and produced home made bread, carrot and orange soup, a crumble made with some sad looking pears, and there’s a lentil ragu simmering on the stove.
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So the van of loveliness didn’t come, so I went into ninja mode. I attacked the kitchen and produced home made bread, carrot and orange soup, a crumble made with some sad looking pears, and there’s a lentil ragu simmering on the stove.
My bunnet is doffed.
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There's something to be said for this arctic weather - we've all just finished work at the mail centre about two and a half hours early, because the country's snow-bound, and no mail is moving anywhere. This happened once before, about 10 years ago, but that was in the depths of Winter, not, as now, on the cusp of Spring.
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Yesterday I went to a tobogganing slope which I last used about 27 years ago. We used to live there so it was easy to get to, now it's quite tricky as you have to get as close as possible by car.
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There's something to be said for this arctic weather - we've all just finished work at the mail centre about two and a half hours early, because the country's snow-bound, and no mail is moving anywhere. This happened once before, about 10 years ago, but that was in the depths of Winter, not, as now, on the cusp of Spring.
yes my girlfriend was very disappointed this morning , she was expecting a good 8 inches overnight
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yes my girlfriend was very disappointed this morning , she was expecting a good 8 inches overnight
:o :D Samantha?
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:o :D Samantha?
she lives on Mornington crescent you know!
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So she regularly uses the tube.
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So she regularly uses the tube.
I think she does but doesn't like to admit it in public :o
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yes my girlfriend was very disappointed this morning , she was expecting a good 8 inches overnight
Mu girlfriend says that's a limp joke.
And she thought your post was rubbish too.
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Snow is good.This week I was reminded of one thing I particularly like about it, which is it seems to have a soothing effect on the eyes, a bit like looking at the sky, or the rising sun. For some reason google only brings up websites that say UV light reflected off snow is harmful.
My theory is that provided you don't look at it too much, it can have a good effect because the light is directed upwards. It hits the upper part of the retina, which usually doesn't receive as much light as the lower half.
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Mu girlfriend says that's a limp joke.
And she thought your post was rubbish too.
my girlfriend is still hopeful, although she's got rather a lot of dampness to deal with at the moment . :o
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I think she does but doesn't like to admit it in public :o
Sometimes there are hold ups in tunnels, stop/start, but generally it's quicker.
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Sometimes there are hold ups in tunnels, stop/start, but generally it's quicker.
So I'm told , although observation of such can provide stimulating relief .
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If one has great patience and a long stayer temperament, not impatient to get it all over and done with.
Where I live the snow has gone and temperature far less cold. In fact back to normal.
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Thank goodness for the thaw. Our boiler had frozen, but the gas engineer had a clever trick to bypass the condensation outpipe. It is not much fun sitting around an electric fire in one room, while every other room is about 10 degrees.
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Thank goodness for the thaw. Our boiler had frozen, but the gas engineer had a clever trick to bypass the condensation outpipe. It is not much fun sitting around an electric fire in one room, while every other room is about 10 degrees.
so the bloke who came to fix your boiler had a degree in gas engineering . Sounds rather over qualified for that kind of work to me .
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I don't care if he had a Ph. D. in Etruscan tapestries, the guy done good, and we got warm. Good geezer, innit.
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I don't care if he had a Ph. D. in Etruscan tapestries, the guy done good, and we got warm. Good geezer, innit.
perhaps the fish monger on the shopping parade should be referred to as a marine biologist then?
anyway, glad you're warm again , current temp in my living space is 11.7C (if there's one thing I've learned it's the fact that you become accustomed to it after a while) wearing more clothes helps too ! ;)
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Now our water has been cut off, in the middle of London! This is like a 3rd world country, I guess it's good training for Brexit.
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Now our water has been cut off, in the middle of London! This is like a 3rd world country, I guess it's good training for Brexit.
hahaha ,you crack me up :D :D :D
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Dear Wigs,
Just been reading all about it, your privitised water supplies are a nice little earner for Johnny foreigner.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43133942
Last man to leave Engerland can he please turn out the lights oh and turn off the water.
Never mind we still have the BBC and Her Majesty, wonder what price the Tories have on those very British institutions.
Gonnagle.
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Yeah, but Gonners, after Brexit, your passport will be blue, and there'll be tons of American chicken. Who needs water?
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Dear Wigs,
Aye but we will be proper British again, we can wheel out all of Bernard Mannings old jokes, have you heard the one about the Englishman, the Scotsman and the Irishman, well apparently we will have a new border with Paddy, we, us Brits will pay for it and Paddy will get the contract.
We may have to rewrite some of those old jokes with us Brits being the thicko's.
Gonnagle.
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Dear Wigs,
Aye but we will be proper British again, we can wheel out all of Bernard Mannings old jokes, have you heard the one about the Englishman, the Scotsman and the Irishman, well apparently we will have a new border with Paddy, we, us Brits will pay for it and Paddy will get the contract.
We may have to rewrite some of those old jokes with us Brits being the thicko's.
Gonnagle.
Do you know why the Welshman is never mentioned?
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Do you know why the Welshman is never mentioned?
... because he writes the jokes?
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Quite springlike today! Last week's weather seems like years ago now.
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The roads were still dodgy here yesterday due to ice that hadn't quite melted at the side of the road and lying water from the thaw. Too wet to garden. :(
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Dear Thread,
On the subject of weather, there is a strange bright object up in the sky :P :P
Gonnagle.
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Breezy, chilly, quite a lot of cloud but some areas of blue sky - typical early-March weather, really.
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Same here StevenH.
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It was below freezing, with a very sharp wind, at 6,30 this morning (don't ask) but my car was completely free of frost and condensation. There is still snow lying around but it does seem to be going, now.
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Snow is good.This week I was reminded of one thing I particularly like about it, which is it seems to have a soothing effect on the eyes, a bit like looking at the sky, or the rising sun. For some reason google only brings up websites that say UV light reflected off snow is harmful.
My theory is that provided you don't look at it too much, it can have a good effect because the light is directed upwards. It hits the upper part of the retina, which usually doesn't receive as much light as the lower half.
Wrong the image is reversed when received on the retina at the back of the eye, your brain then turns this image through 180 degrees for you, I would have thought this was common knowledge.
Regards ippy
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Really nice today, snow all gone and sunny. I enjoyed it v much, weather-wise (even started thinking about min holidays).
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Really nice today, snow all gone and sunny. I enjoyed it v much, weather-wise (even started thinking about min holidays).
Mowed the lawn for the first time this year today and I was thinking of all sorts while I was mowing, how hard it must be north of Watford, with the midnight sun and I suppose you do have the bonus of seeing the northern lights, then the clocks go back tonight, all while I'm happily whistling the Italian national anthem, catchy little tune.
Regards ippy
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Mowed the lawn for the first time this year today and I was thinking of all sorts while I was mowing, how hard it must be north of Watford, with the midnight sun and I suppose you do have the bonus of seeing the northern lights, then the clocks go back tonight, all while I'm happily whistling the Italian national anthem, catchy little tune.
Regards ippy
Oh dear, Ippy, you've put your clocks back??
Well, I guess you're having a nice live-in.... ;)
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Wish I was too Sweet Pea! Completely forgot about the clocks & was grumpy when I got up - yet another hour might have made a difference. All sorted now.
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Mowed the lawn for the first time this year today and I was thinking of all sorts while I was mowing, how hard it must be north of Watford, with the midnight sun and I suppose you do have the bonus of seeing the northern lights, then the clocks go back tonight, all while I'm happily whistling the Italian national anthem, catchy little tune.
Regards ippy
Well, I do hope you remembered that the clocks went forward not bak!
Weather very pleasant here, but instead of marching off to do my three miles, I justwalked a hundred yards back and forth several times. I shall be a bit circumspect until I know more about the state of my heart.
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Well, I do hope you remembered that the clocks went forward not bak!
Weather very pleasant here, but instead of marching off to do my three miles, I justwalked a hundred yards back and forth several times. I shall be a bit circumspect until I know more about the state of my heart.
Why did I write back,? I'm familiar with the spring forward and fall back saying? must have got light headed with all of that southern fresh air while I was out in the Garden, it was 15 degrees here in deepest Essex yesterday.
Come to think of it nowadays when we buy our clocks mostly battery driven why don't the manufacturers make all of them radio controlled, all you need do is put the battery in place and away they go they only give the wrong time when the battery runs out, at the moment it only adds about £2 or £3 quid extra per clock to have them radio controlled, it's a no brainer in my book, it's not like you buy a new clock every week.
Kind regards ippy
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Why did I write back,? I'm familiar with the spring forward and fall back saying? must have got light headed with all of that southern fresh air while I was out in the Garden, it was 15 degrees here in deepest Essex yesterday.
Come to think of it nowadays when we buy our clocks mostly battery driven why don't the manufacturers make all of them radio controlled, all you need do is put the battery in place and away they go they only give the wrong time when the battery runs out, at the moment it only adds about £2 or £3 quid extra per clock to have them radio controlled, it's a no brainer in my book, it's not like you buy a new clock every week.
Kind regards ippy
Yes, we get so used to computers automatically putting the time forward or back, and of course Alexa works off that too, so the only things that need changing are the large kitchen clock and the gas boiler thing. My neighbour usually does that for me.
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It has been continuous drizzly rain all day here, so I've been stuck indoors. Trying to cope with walking in the rain is too complicated.
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On another forum on which I post, some posters in the south of England are saying they are having snow showers at present.
Bright sunshine and dry, 10 degrees here in deepest Essex, we're in the sauff.
Regards ippy
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We awoke to a winter wonderland. It is clearing now, thank goodness.
My bro from Brisbane is over here and he phoned me from Huddersfield and it looks like he's in a similar climate to yourself LR, it's not that much better here, webbed feet and all that, I've loads I want to do outside, blasted rain.
Regards ippy
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Just as I thought the snow was melting away nicely we just got another foot of snow yesterday.
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It is positively tropical today, compared with yesterday! :)
16c here today and there's a little gold thing showing itself LR.
Regards ippy
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We have been in Bath for a few days, raining every night, so footpaths are almost impossible to walk, thick mud everywhere. I slid down one of them arse over tip, ah well, all good fun.
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Here in Nottingham the weather is what our posters north of the border would describe as dreek.
And I bloody hate it. >:(
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I'm currently in North West Scotland: in the Torridon area to be precise (with the grandkids), and it is brisk but beautiful here with blue skies.
We were swimming in the sea this morning (in wetsuits!) at Little Gruinard beach.
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I checked a weather app on my iPad yesterday. The temperature was given for the Vale of Evesham as 10 degrees. It showed the same value for the Channel Islands and for the village in SW France where my second home is situated. I'm going there for a few days next week ...
My wife frequently told me that I was a SAD person (Seasonal Affective Disorder I hasten to add). This winter seems unending and I really do feel depressed about it. Is it my imagination or are all the usual signs of Spring several weeks later than usual this year?
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The signs of spring are there but the weather isn’t matching it. Yesterday evening was lovely but today has been cold, and now there’s a fog so thick I can’t see the fields behind my garden. It’s the kind of chill that sets right in. I’ve heard next week is warmer though. I’m hoping to get out and dig.
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I'm currently in North West Scotland: in the Torridon area to be precise (with the grandkids), and it is brisk but beautiful here with blue skies.
We were swimming in the sea this morning (in wetsuits!) at Little Gruinard beach.
Wow! I'm green!
Yes, it's been like November today, in middle earth. Agree, let's hope 'they' have it right for sunshine next week.
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It was damp and misty all day yesterday, and it still is. It's more like November than April. It's been a crap Spring so far this year - Facebook reminded me a few days ago that a year ago I posted photos of my first open apple-blossom; this year, the buds are only just starting to break, and it'll be weeks before we get any blossom. I hope it's warmer by Saturday - I want to go for another bike ride.
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Yes Steve. Still dreek here. Fed up.
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Beautiful here (on the shores of Loch Ewe) - bright sun, blue skies, stupendous views and no cloud - it's even starting to get a bit warmer now compared with when I got up this morning.
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Pleasant temps here but some rain. Typical April in many ways but not heavy rain. I like it how it is at present, not everyone would. People we employ (a couple +1) to clean & garden are in Australiafor roughly three weeks where the weather is v.good, not excessively hot. They went for three weeks, bfore Easter, visiting sister. I hope they are OK, one of them was not well before travelling. They will skype us over weekend & then I'll know, can't get them out of my head.
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The signs of spring are there but the weather isn’t matching it.
The trees in many places are not green. There is very little blossom of any kind. There is no oil seed rape flowering in the fields - and, most telling of all - no sign of Jersey Royal potatoes.
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The trees in many places are not green. There is very little blossom of any kind. There is no oil seed rape flowering in the fields - and, most telling of all - no sign of Jersey Royal potatoes.
Blackthorn is out, don’t expect to see hawthorn til the end of May. Irritatingly uniform clumps of daffs are all over the place. Winter cereals mostly here. I’ve seen bees and butterflies.
Probably just as well that the fruit blossom isn’t out though as it could get frosted.
Still horribly cold though. And grey. Meh.
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It seems things are going to get a lot better soon - about bloody time too.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/uk-weather-forecast-glorious-sunshine-set-to-hit-london-as-temperatures-predicted-to-hit-23c-a3812751.html
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Good!
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Yes, I’d heard that a couple of days ago. Real sunshine. 8)
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Therte is a well-known weather oddity in this country, which I don't think anyone has an explanation for (though I stand to be corrected), which is that there's nearly always a cold snap in the second week of April. Well, we're coming to the end of this year's.
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Wonder of wonders.
A clear sky ... sunshine with warmth ... a light breeze.
Consequence: Fourteen shirts drying on the line!
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Has anyone here got one of those app things which might give an indication of what the weather might be like here (new Milton) on Wednesday, 9th May?
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Sunny intervals and breezy; 17 & 9 degrees, on 9th May in New Milton, Hampshire. You going to a wedding Susan?
Snow is forecast for some areas over next few days but not where I live which will be sunny, light showers & breezes. Suits me. It's like that today.
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Sunny intervals and breezy; 17 & 9 degrees, on 9th May in New Milton, Hampshire. You going to a wedding Susan?
Snow is forecast for some areas over next few days but not where I live which will be sunny, light showers & breezes. Suits me. It's like that today.
Thank you very much. One of my granddaughters, partner and dog are coming to visit for the day and it will be nice if we can have a walk along the cliff top. It will be even better if we can have lunch sitting at one of the outside tables of the Beachcomber café.
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Thank you very much. One of my granddaughters, partner and dog are coming to visit for the day and it will be nice if we can have a walk along the cliff top. It will be even better if we can have lunch sitting at one of the outside tables of the Beachcomber café.
Sounds like a lovely day,Susan. I do hope it keeps fine for you, weather forecasts are so often inaccurate. However I would expect a bit of settled fine weather in May.
I don't think 12C is all that bad, LR. It's been 5c here today and supposed to be same tomorrow with rain but doesn't seem particularly cold.
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It’s 5 degrees here now and 4 during the day tomorrow. And my central heating has packed up. It’s perishing.,
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Chilly and windy in SW Herts, but no rain yet: heavy rain predicted. I've got to go to London in it! >:(
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weather forecasts are so often inaccurate
Would you mind clarifying this statement?
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A lovely day here in the west of Scotland: bright, blue skies and warm enough to dispense with jacket and bunnet.
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With no heating it’s so cold indoors that my breath is misting. Luckily the weather will warm up tomorrow. In the meantime I’m off to rummage in the shed for the last few logs of the winter’s store.
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I went out at 7am today and it was freezing, came home for lunch, still cold. Turned the heating up last night and just turned it up more so it's cosy when I get home again later.
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I’ve gone old school - hot water bottle. All we’ve got to keep warm. If this keeps up I’ll go out in the car just to get some warmth.
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The weather forecast for our area is more often than not inaccurate. I have heard it stated that when they had the weather ships in the Atlantic the forecast was more accurate than it is these days.
weather forecasts are so often inaccurate
I find these comments very interesting. My guess is that expectations of weather forecasts are generally rather high and because such forecasts are commonplace, everyday occurrences we do not consider the complexity of them. The "weather" - that is the physical experience of the activities of the world's atmosphere - is quite possibly the most complex activity that takes place on the planet. To observe, analyse and determine the future behaviour of the atmosphere and report it as expectations of future conditions requires possibly the most advanced and largest computer systems available interpreting millions of data points constantly.
My guess is that "they" get it right the great majority of times - perhaps 90% - and people simply don't notice this. The small number of times the forecast is not right assume a greater level of attention than they really merit.
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I’ve gone old school - hot water bottle. All we’ve got to keep warm. If this keeps up I’ll go out in the car just to get some warmth.
When you get in the car, Rhi, drive for 400 miles northwards - it has been a truly lovely day here.
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Fairly grotty, but not nearly as bad as the forecasts were predicting: they said heavy rain; it did rain much of the day, but only lightly, and it had stopped by late afternoon, and then the cloud largely cleared to give a beautiful evening.
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What an absolutely fabulous day! Even more so because I walked all the way to the Beachcomber. Yeah!! took me twice as long as it should, and I sat on a seat here and there or on a handy wall, but did not need my angina spray! :)
It was so quiet too. Not much traffic and I could hear all the bird song really well. I did have a taxi back home!
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Beeooteefulll.
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Averages out at 27c here, shorts sandals no socks of course and short sleeve shirt order of the day and pen for the occasional autograph hunter.
Regards ippy
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I don’t like it this hot. :(
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Me neither. And never wear shorts either!
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Hothothot! Lovelylovelylovely!
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Me neither. And never wear shorts either!
Nor me. It wouldn’t be fair on anyone unfortunate enough to see me.
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I hope you enjoyed your day today Rhi, thought of you as you were having a day out. Also Steven H who planned a long bike ride, hope went to plan.
It was certainly a gorgeous day, I enjoyed it too. Like LR, in shorts!
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Yes, I did, thanks. Went for a ride of just over 50 miles, to Knebworth House, Stevenage, Hertford, Hatfield, St Albans and back home. Photos currently uploading to Flickr - link to album to follow.
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I hope you enjoyed your day today Rhi, thought of you as you were having a day out. Also Steven H who planned a long bike ride, hope went to plan.
It was certainly a gorgeous day, I enjoyed it too. Like LR, in shorts!
We had a great time, thank you. Lots of living history, several hot knights around (in both senses of the word) and a fabulous falconry display to boot - the kids all got to hold various falcons and a barn owl - they are stunning creatures.
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I would love that! It sounds like a perfect day out.
Still hot here in Bromley.
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Lovely on Tuesday, 'orrible yesterday, lovely today. If it keeps that pattern up, it'll be 'orrible again tomorrow, and lovely on Saturday, which is when i head over to the 'Overdraught', in St Albans, for the monthly meeting of the Pipe Club of London, which is perforce held in the garden, thanks to the intolerant laws brought in at the behest of health nazis, so it's preferable if the weather is reasonably clement.
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Gorgeous here too, bit too hot for digging so as I have kids home in study leave we had a picnic in the garden under the birch tree. The lanes are lined with cow parsley foam, sexy hawthorn and the fields are blazing yellow under a hard blue sky. Nowhere finer than England on a day like this.
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Lots of sunny weather forecast, well about 10 days, just a bit dry now, hosepipes at the ready.
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Really, really lovely today, surprising as was chilly first thing when I got up. Soon warmed up, sunny with a little breeze. Not too hot.
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Lots of sunny weather forecast, well about 10 days, just a bit dry now, hosepipes at the ready.
Do it quick, before they slap a ban on!
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Heavy shower here, perfect to fall asleep to.
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Looks like there is going to be a lot of it about. Hoping that it doesn't do any more damage to my nephew's restaurant which got flooded with the last storms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44317432
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Hope he’s ok, NS. No storms here but I almost wish we’d had something just to break the weather, the humidity and pressure are awful, I’ve not slept and got a banging headache.
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How are people coping with this heatwave? I don't do well in temperatures higher than 25C and start praying for snow.
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I quite like it, but gardening is now devoted to watering. Our allotment looks like a desert. My wife went to Syon Park yesterday (big nursery), and she said all the plants on sale were withering. Rain dance now!
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I quite like it, but gardening is now devoted to watering. Our allotment looks like a desert. My wife went to Syon Park yesterday (big nursery), and she said all the plants on sale were withering. Rain dance now!
We could do with some rain, but once it starts it doesn't know when to stop.
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I don't think we have had rain in June, can't remember any. My wife has just gone off to water, bit of a chore now.
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I'm ok with the temperature during the day but nights are a problem. Yesterday is the warmest I remember in Glasgow since 1976.
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I wouldn't mind some rain. It's been very nice especially when there is a breeze which is the case today but sometimes a bit much. I've been so tired, glad to be off today but feel listless. A shower would perk me up.
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I'm up on the coast, absolutely gorgeous and a full seven degrees cooler than back home.
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Lovely! Ideal to be at the coast when the weather is like this. I enjoyed my week on the Yorkshire coast but there wasn't a heatwave like there is here and now, just warm and pleasant. We drove away from a heatwave to go to Filey.
I think we have had some brief showers this month wiggi.
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Ot.
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The weather here changed from pleasant to perishing. Beach deserted apart from a bride and groom having their wedding photos taken, bless them. Absolutely love it when it is like this, headed back over the dunes for hot chocolate and fresh doughnuts. Oh yes.
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Still scorchio here. Keep looking out for journalists trying to fry eggs on pavement/car bonnets.
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Heading home tomorrow which I’m not looking forward to. One reason I reckon I’ll end up living here eventually. Love the kind of weather most people don’t.
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Panic buying of plants to replace those shredded in the heat. £25 at Syon Park, bloody hell. But we got a winter savory, I like a nice unusual plant. Will it survive?
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How are people coping with this heatwave? I don't do well in temperatures higher than 25C and start praying for snow.
Praying?????????
By 'eck!
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Going on my past record where whenever my wife and I go to the west country the skies open up, a wet suit and flippers job.
Now if anyone is willing to finance us we would consider travelling west, anyone?
Regards ippy.
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First the weather causes a run on halloumi, and now there's a lettuce shortage.
Soon there won't be anything left that I can eat.
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First the weather causes a run on halloumi, and now there's a lettuce shortage.
Soon there won't be anything left that I can eat.
And no lager
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Praying?????????
By 'eck!
I must have been desperate! ;D
It is a little cooler at present.
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Seems pleasant today, still hot but the curtains are blowing gently. I feel better today too, less lethargic. Might even go out somewhere tomorrow.
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I am now becoming one of those desperate souls who searches weather websites in the hope of finding good news about a break in the weather. The BBC seem to think that the heatwave and drought conditions will continue through til the end of July; however, both the Met Office and Accuweather are favouring slightly cooler and wetter conditions from the 14th onwards. FWIW the BBC was rubbish at forecasting the cooler weather we had on the coast last week, and both the Met Office and Accuweather got it right.
My cat is almost comatose, it is like she is drunk on UV. She lies across the path and doesn't move, so still that a few times she's been given a nudge to make sure she is still with us. Today she has given up and retreated indoors completely, something she never normally does in summer, even if it is raining.
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Yes, it seems unrelenting in London, around 30 most days. And we know damn well that when we set off on our grand tour in August, it will be wet and chilly. Pessimist, moi?
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Don't you find you can do more if it's cooler, Wiggs? I took the Rhiannon Minors for a long coastal walk that would have been impossible in this heat, we'd have just been lying wanly on blankets in the shade. Which is what I'm planning on doing when I'm back this afternoon.
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I reckon a hosepipe ban is likely to be imposed, if we don't get rain in the next week, which isn't looking likely.
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Don't you find you can do more if it's cooler, Wiggs? I took the Rhiannon Minors for a long coastal walk that would have been impossible in this heat, we'd have just been lying wanly on blankets in the shade. Which is what I'm planning on doing when I'm back this afternoon.
Definitely. I stagger to the allotment, where there is no shade, sprinkle a few withered plants, then hit sofa, and footy. My wife goes for long walks, no thanks.
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Definitely. I stagger to the allotment, where there is no shade, sprinkle a few withered plants, then hit sofa, and footy. My wife goes for long walks, no thanks.
I have a young man working in my garden today. He hasn't stopped. Must be his youthfulness or something, I've barely been able to wash up.
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Ok, so maybe we could share some keeping cool tips. I'm going to start with one most people know - sticking a bowl of ice in front of a fan. Works on a similar principle to an air con unit.
I've also been told by a doctor that spraying bedding with cool water at bed time can help to cool the body, and is particularly useful for the very young and the elderly.
My eldest had some mild sunburn recently. We treated this by holding the area under a lukewarm shower for some time, followed by lavender compresses (made with lavender oil and water), and then a lavender lotion. Gone within two days and minimal peeling.
Mint has menthol in it which has cooling and anti itch properties. Mint actually works against nettle stings (unlike dock) and is also useful for prickly heat - just bathe with some cooled mint tea. Mint tea is really cooling drunk hot or cold, and made into a footbath is the best thing ever for hot, itchy feet and calves.
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I reckon a hosepipe ban is likely to be imposed, if we don't get rain in the next week, which isn't looking likely.
A hose pipe ban in Wales? Now that is serious.
ippy
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Ok, so maybe we could share some keeping cool tips. I'm going to start with one most people know - sticking a bowl of ice in front of a fan. Works on a similar principle to an air con unit.
I've also been told by a doctor that spraying bedding with cool water at bed time can help to cool the body, and is particularly useful for the very young and the elderly.
My eldest had some mild sunburn recently. We treated this by holding the area under a lukewarm shower for some time, followed by lavender compresses (made with lavender oil and water), and then a lavender lotion. Gone within two days and minimal peeling.
Mint has menthol in it which has cooling and anti itch properties. Mint actually works against nettle stings (unlike dock) and is also useful for prickly heat - just bathe with some cooled mint tea. Mint tea is really cooling drunk hot or cold, and made into a footbath is the best thing ever for hot, itchy feet and calves.
Menthol makes you feel cooler although it doesn't actually reduce the body temperature.
I don't really have any tips - I just get hot!
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Having a tepid bath/shower, and not drying yourself properly is nice. Of course, it lasts about 5 seconds.
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Having a tepid bath/shower, and not drying yourself properly is nice. Of course, it lasts about 5 seconds.
Going from the shower to the car and then putting the air con on might make it last a bit longer...
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Menthol makes you feel cooler although it doesn't actually reduce the body temperature.
I don't really have any tips - I just get hot!
Feeling cooler will do.
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Bad Newsthump.
http://newsthump.com/2018/07/02/hot-weather-lettuce-shortage-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-claim-experts/
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Go to your local supermarket and stand in the chilled food aisle. That always works for me.
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That sounds good. I've got to go out later, hair cut. Don't fancy it but hair needs a good tidy up.
Hotter than ever today, I slept late, had a shower and everything was in slow motion or so it seemed. Nothing is moving outside, not even a leaf.
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A half decent breeze here but my brain is foggy. Apparently it really is a thing that thinking ability and cognitive function gets affected by heat.
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A very few spots of rain here tonight but not the downpours originally forecast.
Though it's going to hold out at 25-26°C over the weekend and into the beginning of the week, the forecast predicts that by Tuesday we'll be back to a pleasant and comfortable 20°. Can't come soon enough.
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I like the Met Office long range forecast. Much nicer than the BBC one.
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Yes, marginally :D.
It is hot, hot, hot! Barbecue weather, my nephew is having one later.
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Also very dry. We are off for a few days next week, and are faced with some of our plants dying on our allotment. Ah well. Difficult to ask someone to help as it takes over an hour.
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I have just discovered that I am aestivating.
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Blessed clouds in Nottingham, oh the joy of shade.
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As soon as I put the washing out a huge black cloud passed over, which isn't unusual. Normally that is irritating, but in this heat it would have been great if it had delivered some of the wet stuff, but no such luck. We haven't had any for far too long!
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I like the Met Office long range forecast. Much nicer than the BBC one.
Interesting. The BBC now gets its weather information from MeteoGroup, a private sector weather information provider with customers all over Europe.
MeteoGroup, however, gets its information from national services - like the Met Office.
This seems to be an extension of the UK government's belief that the private sector is "more efficient" than the public sector. There appears to be a perception that the service being provided by MeteoGroup is not as accurate as that formerly provided by the Meteorological Office. Is this a potential Carillion?
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Blessed clouds in Nottingham, oh the joy of shade.
We had those yesterday, but they were just a stupid big duvet holding all the heat in.
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Interesting. The BBC now gets its weather information from MeteoGroup, a private sector weather information provider with customers all over Europe.
MeteoGroup, however, gets its information from national services - like the Met Office.
This seems to be an extension of the UK government's belief that the private sector is "more efficient" than the public sector. There appears to be a perception that the service being provided by MeteoGroup is not as accurate as that formerly provided by the Meteorological Office. Is this a potential Carillion?
The Met Office got dropped after the 'barbecue summer' fiasco, although I've no idea if there was a connection. I've certainly found the Met Office to be better than the BBC recently. But if Meteogroup use the Met Office then why the discrepancy?
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Blessed clouds in Nottingham, oh the joy of shade.
Likewise Leicester - broken cloud at any rate. In fact it's forecast to be a cloudy week, thank goodness. Who'd have thought a prolonged clear blue sky could be so boring?
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Me: It's still hot today.
Child: No it isn't, it's lovely in here.
Me: You are sitting in front of a fan.
Child: Oh yeah. ::)
Still stupid hot today, cloud doing no favours. Supposed to drop 6 degrees tomorrow.
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25°C here but feels more humid. "Feels like 21°C"? Er, no, weather people, it bloody doesn't. In ShakerWorld this will be a summer best forgotten :(
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No hosepipe ban yet but Scottish, yes Scottish, Water asking people to use water wisely.
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Severn Trent have too. Not a sign of a drop of rain on the horizon.
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According to forecast for my area we have to wait until 24th for rain. There will be showers on 24th and 25th and then back to like it is now.
Something wonderful happened not long ago - a light wind blowing all the trees, washing I put out on line when I got home and curtains by the open door. It's heaven.
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It is a bit cooler today, thank goodness, and there is much more cloud about.
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My neighbour has his lawn sprinkler most of the night. The majority of it seems to end up on my kids's trampoline. Pillock.
Enjoying the cloud and the cool...it ain't gonna last long though.
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My neighbour has his lawn sprinkler most of the night. The majority of it seems to end up on my kids's trampoline. Pillock.
Enjoying the cloud and the cool...it ain't gonna last long though.
A neighbour had a sprinkler on his front lawn the other day, most of it was landing on the pavement, what a waste of water.
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Enjoying the cloud and the cool...it ain't gonna last long though.
At least in my neck of the woods it's not forecast to get any warmer than 25°C and that's at the weekend. Otherwise 22-23° and a good deal more cloud seems to be on the cards - though I've heard that the middle of next week could see the onset of much more changeable weather. If "changeable weather" is a euphonium for "It might actually bloody rain for the first time in ages" I won't be unhappy.
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A neighbour had a sprinkler on his front lawn the other day, most of it was landing on the pavement, what a waste of water.
I would have thought that would hardly be a cause for alarm anywhere in Wales.
Wasn't rain invented in Wales?
Regards ippy
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Cooler, but still no ***** rain.
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I would have thought that would hardly be a cause for alarm anywhere in Wales.
Wasn't rain invented in Wales?
Regards ippy
HA!HA! We have lived in Wales since 1990, it doesn't seem to have anymore rain than the other places we have lived over the years, Derbyshire, Bath, Kent and Cambridgeshire. We could certainly do with it at the moment.
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You're not wrong! When it does rain I am going to stand out in it and enjoy.
It has been cooler today, pleasant. I went out at 7am and got home about five minutes ago and it is really hot again. Having a nice long drink of water as I type.
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HA!HA! We have lived in Wales since 1990, it doesn't seem to have anymore rain than the other places we have lived over the years, Derbyshire, Bath, Kent and Cambridgeshire. We could certainly do with it at the moment.
You're now living in Wales, did you get turfed out of those other places? We're quite fussy in Essex.
Regards ippy
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The Essex coast is very long and varied, plenty of interest, wildlife, places of beauty. Has lots of sun as well.
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The Essex coast is very long and varied, plenty of interest, wildlife, places of beauty. Has lots of sun as well.
And lots of good looking orange people too, now the places of beauty the places or the people in the places?
Regards ippy
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Like the Orange Man in the Whitehouse only Orange Women in white stilettos?
I wasn't thinking of Chingford or Loughton, more places like this which I intend to explore one day:-
http://www.visitessex.com/rochford.aspx
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Like the Orange Man in the Whitehouse only Orange Women in white stilettos?
I wasn't thinking of Chingford or Loughton, more places like this which I intend to explore one day:-
http://www.visitessex.com/rochford.aspx
Have a look at Finchingfield, Thaxted, Dunmow, the Great and Little Bardfields and Banardiston Quindon, Ugley as well, all North Essex and none of these are anything like the generally portrayed image of Essex, their's plenty more like these.
Regards ippy
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Barnadiston is in Suffolk.
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Barnadiston is in Suffolk.
My mistake, Barnardiston is very near to the border I haven't looked at a map yet but I think it may be a wavy border line where the road goes in and out of each county, a bit similar to the Swiss German border line, but then I don't know and as you say.
Regards ippy
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It is raining quite heavily at present, thank goodness.
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My mistake, Barnardiston is very near to the border I haven't looked at a map yet but I think it may be a wavy border line where the road goes in and out of each county, a bit similar to the Swiss German border line, but then I don't know and as you say.
Regards ippy
It's north of Haverhill, so very Suffolk, but I know well the wavy line that you refer to. Drove through Bures the other day, hadn't been there for years. The Belchamps too... I see hares all the time but that's the only place I've ever seen them boxing, and somewhere round there Unwins (think it's them) grow fields of sweet peas for seed.
And we can't not mention Castle Hedingham.
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Have a look at Finchingfield, Thaxted, Dunmow, the Great and Little Bardfields and Banardiston Quindon, Ugley as well, all North Essex and none of these are anything like the generally portrayed image of Essex, their's plenty more like these.
Regards ippy
That I will! Suffolk too (Barnardiston is in Suffolk). I imagine myself and husband slowly meandering through these places and further, in pleasant weather, in a few years time when we retire (if we last that long). Won't bother going abroad, we'll explore new places and places we've only visited briefly in the past, here in the UK.
It is raining quite heavily at present, thank goodness.
You're boasting LittleRoses! It's been cooler today and overcast now but hotter indoors than out. Oh I long for rain.
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No rain in Nottingham for decades now (prone to exaggeration I know) but my poor patch of land that passes for a lawn is now very forlorn and brown.
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We have had heavy rain overnight, it was still raining when I went for my daily walk before 7pm.
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You're so lucky, LR, cloud here but no rain and every time it is forecast they change it at the last minute to say it won't make it here. The countryside is like a tinderbox. Would so love a walk in the rain right now.
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We have had heavy rain overnight, it was still raining when I went for my daily walk before 7pm.
Jealous!
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Jealous!
I'll magic some in your direction. ;D
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I'll magic some in your direction. ;D
Please do.
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We have had heavy rain overnight, it was still raining when I went for my daily walk before 7pm.
You did say you live in Wales L R?
Regards ippy
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Thanks Littleroses, pouring down here now :D
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According to Accuweather Chris isn't coming so the heatwave will continue. Chris is going to Iceland instead. Am annoyed that Chris changed his mind.
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Thanks Littleroses, pouring down here now :D
Glad to be of service, ;D where do you reside?
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Glad to be of service, ;D where do you reside?
In the South West of England.
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In the South West of England.
We used to live in Bath in the 70s, our younger two daughters were born there.
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Surfaces in the Vale of Evesham are damp - we have light rain. The sky is rather grey but with some bright backlighting. It remains to be seen whether our yellow grass can quickly turn green.
Very high temperatures are forecast for the weekend.
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Lovely place, Bath. Makes me think of water right now, having been out since early this morning I could do with Bath, maybe have shower in a minute. We could do with a shower here! I'm envious of you, please pipe some water to Bromley too.
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Lovely place, Bath. Makes me think of water right now, having been out since early this morning I could do with Bath, maybe have shower in a minute. We could do with a shower here! I'm envious of you, please pipe some water to Bromley too.
I will do my best. ;D We have had more rain this afternoon. :)
You should be getting some of the wet stuff next week, if my vibes are right.
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Grrrrr, I am going green.
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I'm getting mightily sick of this boasting about rain. Bastards.
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Yeah >:(.
It's cooler now though, windows open. We have to wait until 23.45 for it to cool down but better late than never. Hopefully I will sleep like a baby (not that all babies sleep well).
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I'm getting mightily sick of this boasting about rain. Bastards.
Tell me about it.
Been a pleasant evening though and gorgeously cool now. Won't last though...
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Surfaces in the Vale of Evesham are damp - we have light rain. The sky is rather grey but with some bright backlighting. It remains to be seen whether our yellow grass can quickly turn green.
Very high temperatures are forecast for the weekend.
What a beautiful place you live in! The Cotswolds are wonderful.
Been a pleasant evening though and gorgeously cool now. Won't last though...
Same here, I'm enjoying sitting downstairs and being engrossed in something rather than just feeling lethargic because of heat. Will go up to bed soon though - hopefully I'll sleep well and have a good lie until late in the morning.
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I'm up with an unwell young person - got a vomiting bug in the house. Not ideal given how hot it is due to get.
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Oh I am sorry Rhiannon, I hope she/he's better now than when you posted. Is there a bug 'going round'? I vomited before I went up to bed & it was very unpleasant but it was just once - I thought, in my case, it was because I'd eaten some melon and grapes that were in fridge.I also had a couple of glasses of wine last night. Seem to be alright now but so much for my lie in - huh! I woke about half an hour ago & had to get up. Might go back again in a while.
It is very hot this morning. Wishing your young 'un well.
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Oh I am sorry Rhiannon, I hope she/he's better now than when you posted. Is there a bug 'going round'? I vomited before I went up to bed & it was very unpleasant but it was just once - I thought, in my case, it was because I'd eaten some melon and grapes that were in fridge.I also had a couple of glasses of wine last night. Seem to be alright now but so much for my lie in - huh! I woke about half an hour ago & had to get up. Might go back again in a while.
It is very hot this morning. Wishing your young 'un well.
Sorry that you aren't well too. Definitely a bug, eldest had it Weds, now younger daughter. It seems to have a quick incubation period and it lasts about 12 hrs...at least it is fairly short lived. Got to sleep some time after three I think. Keeping everyone hydrated is the thing and in heat and with a fever that is going to be a challenge. But I have some rehydration sachets to hand.
Bugger.
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Thanks, I'm OK now, not long up.
My nephew had a bug like your daughter's sometime year before last. He felt really lousy for a day and a night, then exhausted but better. We kept him rehydrated and cool.
I hope you don't catch it Rhi.
Nasty stuff, as you say particularly in this heat and, boy, is it hot this morning.
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Haven't had anything like this for years, used to be a regular occurrence when they were small. Am hoping I don't get it too but given the times I've had to clean the bathroom I'm not hopeful. But my eldest is better so she will be able to make drinks etc if need be.
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What a beautiful place you live in! The Cotswolds are wonderful.
We have got - access to the Cotswolds, the GWR is now extended to Broadway. The best (easily) cinema in the Midlands (possibly the whole country), riverside walks, access to the Heart of England Forest. The towns of Evesham, Stratford, Pershore and shopping at Cheltenham and Worcester.
And when I save up my pennies I can go to the big city and see and hear the CBSO and Mirga in one of the best concert halls in Europe.
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It has been warmer today, although it is quite cloudy we are not supposed to have any rain until tomorrow, fingers crossed.
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It has been warmer today, although it is quite cloudy we are not supposed to have any rain until tomorrow, fingers crossed.
It started raining about 30 minutes ago, although it was supposed to be raining all day, fortunately it is quite heavy. I hope it will last for the rest of the day.
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It started raining about 30 minutes ago, although it was supposed to be raining all day, fortunately it is quite heavy. I hope it will last for the rest of the day.
Shut. Up.
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Still hot in London, no rain. Supposed to be cooler tomorrow, but guess what, no rain. We have got used to going to the allotment every day to water. Most plants OK. I can't remember rain, what colour is it?
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Some reports that last rain in London was May 29th. I can't remember.
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Some reports that last rain in London was May 29th. I can't remember.
Hyde Park had a storm at the weekend I think. But it feels like it must be about that long here.
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Still hot in London, no rain. Supposed to be cooler tomorrow, but guess what, no rain. We have got used to going to the allotment every day to water. Most plants OK. I can't remember rain, what colour is it?
The bastards keep forecasting rain right up to the day before, then change it. Meteorological gits.
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Just looked at the 2 week forecast, hovering about 28 or 29, not a drop of rain. Rain dance now! At least when my hols start in August, it will pour down.
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Just looked at the 2 week forecast, hovering about 28 or 29, not a drop of rain. Rain dance now! At least when my hols start in August, it will pour down.
Not a lot different here, around 25-27, no rain. Can't you bring your holiday forward?
Think I might give my shamanic friend a bell.
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Ah, a glimmer of hope, I see that rain is forecast for 30 July. Only 2 more weeks.
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Wobbling between 22° and 25°C here all week - not exactly heatwave territory but not a sniff of rain.
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I won't, but I really feel like watering just a bit of my lawn so I can then walk on it barefoot.
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I had a good walk yesterday, in England's brown and pleasant land ...
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I was just reading about how water butts are contaminated with Legionnaires disease.
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I was just reading about how water butts are contaminated with Legionnaires disease.
I wouldn't've thought it mattered, as long as it's only used for watering the garden.
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No end in sight for a while. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-latest-heatwave-temperatures-rain-water-met-office-a8449521.html
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I wouldn't've thought it mattered, as long as it's only used for watering the garden.
I think it's an issue if a hose is used.
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After some very heavy spells of welcome rain yesterday it is now overcast, but according to our local forecast rain is not on the agenda today.
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I have just discovered that if you have a hosepipe ban it is still permissible to use it to fill a birthing pool.
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I think it's an issue if a hose is used.
It is if you create a spray and breath in the droplets. Similar to if you restart a garden fountain after a period of 'rest' or even a shower head that hasn't been used for sometime.
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It is if you create a spray and breath in the droplets. Similar to if you restart a garden fountain after a period of 'rest' or even a shower head that hasn't been used for sometime.
So that could include using it in a watering can with a rose, possibly.
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I have just discovered that if you have a hosepipe ban it is still permissible to use it to fill a birthing pool.
You can't fill a paddling pool, but a birthing pool might be an exception.
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You can't fill a paddling pool, but a birthing pool might be an exception.
It is, as is filling animal drinking troughs and removing graffiti.
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It is, as is filling animal drinking troughs and removing graffiti.
I doubt a hosepipe is necessary for removing graffiti.
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I doubt a hosepipe is necessary for removing graffiti.
But a pressure washer frequently is.
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I doubt a hosepipe is necessary for removing graffiti.
And yet it is an exemption, though only for public buildings
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So that could include using it in a watering can with a rose, possibly.
Possibly I guess, though I would think it unlikely.
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Supposed to be cooler today you wouldn't have thought so here in outer Essex, perhaps it is the sun shining on the righteous, now where did I put my halo.
I've three remote temperature gages out in the garden they're averaging out at 30c.
ippy
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Much cooler here in Nottingham.
All thanks and praise be to North Atlantic weather fronts.
Unfortunately the mercury is predicted to rise again tomorrow.
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Much cooler here in Nottingham.
... and not a million miles away it looks grey and cloudy enough for rain, though none is forecast.
Unfortunately the mercury is predicted to rise again tomorrow.
Hovering around 24°-25°C (which is the thick end of my comfort zone) until Monday which is predicted to be 27°C though I'm not setting much store by anything that far ahead.
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We're experiencing a heatwave at the moment. A bit too hot at just over 30c but I shouldn't really complain as last year's summer was really bad. Next week off work and it looks like the hot weather will continue then so I'll have to get the beers in.
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Cooler and overcast in the South West with dark clouds but no actual rain.
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Cloudy today, but still hot and dry.
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Grey and overcast (and, needless to say, bone-dry) but pleasant. Always nice to see the Met Office revise their predicted temperatures downwards.
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It's nice here too, cooler than yesterday.
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August is statistically the warmest month though not necessarily this year - it could be that July has seen the extremities of temperature; it's too soon to say.
In any case: I was in what passes for my garden last night thinking that there will come a point fairly soon when there's rain and cool breezes and a green lawn are back and autumn is unmistakably on the way ... any day you like. Seriously. I'm long overdue.
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The last big July heatwave I remember (2006 - I had a newborn - absolutely horrendous) was followed by a cooler and wetter August even though the papers had been filled with headlines about how August would be even hotter.
That said, Accuweather had been predicting a break here around the 28th with rain for the following days, and that's now changed to more of the same. Not supposed to be so hot though. And the met office is forecasting thunderstorms here for Friday.
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I'm seriously looking into rain dances. Try this:
https://sonocarina.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/how-to-do-a-rain-dance-native-american-rain-dance/
I'm just off to find some horsehair.
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I have seriously thought about contacting my shamanic friend for help, but as he lives up north somewhere he probably doesn't need to bother with rain dances. >:(
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The weather man said that we Essexionians should be going into the 33c's next week, blimey my poor old dog's black the wrong colour for that heat, I've been taking her out at around 7 when it's that bit cooler, next week I'll have to be emptying the watering can over her a couple of times during the day.
ippy
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I'm putting off going to bed because the bedroom is so hot! I don't particularly like having the fan on in the bedroom because to be effective it has to blow on me (us) and I don't want it in my face, also the whirring sound it makes is not conducive to sleep. A permanent ceiling fan would be ideal, I'll think about that for next year. So I will be staying up until I start to fall asleep on the sofa, don't have to be up early tomorrow or rather today.
Friday's forecast is reasonable, still warm but not so much. Like you we have 30+ temperatures predicted for early next week.
It is hard on animals. When we had a dog and cats we put an old shallow children's paddling pool in the shade of a tree in the garden, they liked that.
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Cool and cloudy here this morning. Nothing like the forecast. They've said rain later, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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Much cooler here too, long may it continue.
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We have had heavy rain most of the afternoon, the rain gauge is quite full. It is much cooler, which is a relief.
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Much cooler here too, long may it continue.
No rain though. :(
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Few spots. Rushed out to bring in the drying washing, rain stopped!
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Few spots. Rushed out to bring in the drying washing, rain stopped!
I deliberately left mine out on the basis that would make rain a certainty, but no.
Still, the school holidays are beginning...
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No rain though. :(
Not a drop but the forecast for Bromley says it will rain during the night & will be breezy. Back to hot tomorrow.
We have had heavy rain most of the afternoon, the rain gauge is quite full. It is much cooler, which is a relief.
Boasting again Littleroses! We're all jealous.
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IT'S RAINING! ;D
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Watched the weather forecast tonight unfortunately, talking about 33 next week. Damn and blast.
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Didn't actually rain at all over night despite the forecasts.
33! Hopefully not for me as I think I'll melt!
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The BBC are forecasting higher temps than the Met Office and Accuweather. Think I’ve mentioned this before but they were miles out when we were on holiday - it was far cooler (six degrees one day) than the Beeb predicted. I’ve noticed this since we’ve been back too, only not to such extremes.
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Yes, I am sad. Sorry.
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We have black clouds overhead, I hope it will rain again.
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We have black clouds overhead, I hope it will rain again.
Wouldn't a Welsh rain gauge need to be something like a converted grain silo L R?
Regards ippy
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There are three types of weather in Wales:
raining;
just stopped raining;
about to start raining.
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Wouldn't a Welsh rain gauge need to be something like a converted grain silo L R?
Regards ippy
HA! HA!
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There are three types of weather in Wales:
raining;
just stopped raining;
about to start raining.
Have you ever lived in Wales? We have lived here since 1990 and don't find it has a high rainfall.
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HA! HA!
Sorry L R, I should have resisted the temptation, but I just couldn't, must be these evil spirits we keep on hearing about.
Regards ippy.
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No rain last night as far as I know :(, slept very well. Temperature not too bad today or am I just acclimatising?
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It hasn't been too bad today - perhaps less humid? Even I've been out mowing the
lawn soil and doing other gardeningy things.
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Warm here but bearable. Make the most of it - from Monday to Friday looks horrendous, although beyond that there seems to be a break in the weather.
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28°C predicted here several days next week - not as bad as for some, but I'm still going to live, eat and sleep practically on top of the AC unit.
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Have you ever lived in Wales? We have lived here since 1990 and don't find it has a high rainfall.
Says the woman who has been crowing about her rainfall, whilst some of us sit in a wasteland akin to the Sahara.
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Says the woman who has been crowing about her rainfall, whilst some of us sit in a wasteland akin to the Sahara.
I was pleased we had some, having been so long without it! However, it looks as if it will be a good while before we have anymore. :(
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I was pleased we had some, having been so long without it! However, it looks as if it will be a good while before we have anymore. :(
33 c outside today, far to hot for me it's not that much cooler indoors.
ippy
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Not only here, Lapland as well
http://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2018/07/19/norway-arctic-heatwave-weather-finnmark-finland-lapland/
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Hottest day of the year - Santon Downham in Suffolk hit 33.3°C. The Met Office are advising people to stay out of the sun this week.
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Very steamy in London. And no rain for 8 weeks, all the commons and parks are a nice toasty brown colour.
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Very different here in Glasgow - been 20C (according to the car) for most of today but very overcast with episodes of light rain, and a tad humid but not excessively so.
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Very different here in Glasgow - been 20C (according to the car) for most of today but very overcast with episodes of light rain, and a tad humid but not excessively so.
Go away.
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28 in our flat today, better than I expected. About a week ago, we had 35. Still, the cold beer tastes nice.
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It is 28C out there and like a sauna! :(
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28 in our flat today, better than I expected. About a week ago, we had 35. Still, the cold beer tastes nice.
Same here, supposed to be 30 but it's not. High humidity though.
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Very though a little wind has arrived in the past ten minutes. Hope it lasts.
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Getting hotter now, as the sun moves to the front, currently 31. Beer!
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A good measure for me is to look at my car's readout, which is usually at least a couple of degrees hotter than the real temp on a hot day. It's saying 31 so I know it's below that. Cars have thermistors located at the front near the radiator and their readings are skewed by road/driveway temperature. They are more reliable on cooler, cloudy days.
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Yes, our car's been showing 33 or 34, so probably 31.
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26°C tomorrow here, which is an improvement of sorts. (It's been 29°C).
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The Met Office say rain tomorrow, but they taunt me with these promises then change it just as the wet stuff is supposed to fall from the sky.
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No rain forecast here until Aug 4th. Hope they are wrong!
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No rain forecast here until Aug 4th. Hope they are wrong!
I haven't seen any rain for the past couple of months.
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I haven't seen any rain for the past couple of months.
Had one brief shower but nothing otherwise. Living in a beige world these days :-)
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What is rain? :-\
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Had one brief shower but nothing otherwise. Living in a beige world these days :-)
The weird thing is that my lawn is still green, and where I had it cut (which happens very infrequently) it’s growing again, at least in places. The only beige bits are where I let the grass grow and set seed.
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The weird thing is that my lawn is still green, and where I had it cut (which happens very infrequently) it’s growing again, at least in places. The only beige bits are where I let the grass grow and set seed.
I don't have a lawn but everyone else's grass is straw like.
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I have three thermometers outside in my garden all slightly differing readings but the average was 34 c today.
ippy.
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We have had some much needed rain today, and might even get a drop or two more if we are very lucky. :)
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The Met Office say rain tomorrow, but they taunt me with these promises then change it just as the wet stuff is supposed to fall from the sky.
The weather bastards were lying. Changed to clear skies again. Rain forecast for the end of the week but I’ve decided this is just some new form of mind torture to play on the people of East England. Especially when they say ‘and temperatures near normal in the West with a cooling breeze’.
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I walked to town earlier - have to concentrate extra hard because of the contrast between shade and not shade - and there was a light breeze, cool enough to make the temperature pleasant. Helps being near the sea.
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I have discovered that freezing a 2 litre bottle of water and then standing it in front of a desk fan actually does cool the air down.
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I thought we all knew that? ??? I always thought the idea was to have two bottles on the go at the same time: one frozen in front of the fan and another one in the freezer freezing to replace the other one when it thaws out.
(Plastic bottles only, please, if you're minded to give it a bash).
Something I heard the other day: have two fans going simultaneously, one in front of you and one behind you. Apparently the circulation of air around your torso cools you down.*
* Might be cobblers. Haven't tried it for myself and have no idea if there's anything to it.
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I thought we all knew that? ??? I always thought the idea was to have two bottles on the go at the same time: one frozen in front of the fan and another one in the freezer freezing to replace the other one when it thaws out.
(Plastic bottles only, please, if you're minded to give it a bash).
Something I heard the other day: have two fans going simultaneously, one in front of you and one behind you. Apparently the circulation of air around your torso cools you down.*
* Might be cobblers. Haven't tried it for myself and have no idea if there's anything to it.
I 'knew it', but I hadn't actually tried it. It really does work, which I why I posted it.
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The big bowl of iced water in front of a fan is another one.
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The big bowl of iced water in front of a fan is another one.
Yeah but I want the ice for my drinks.
It's never been hot enough for me to bother fannying around with freezing bottles till now.
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I like Nesthumps option. Sleep w7th your hesd in the freezer.
Its too hor. I have a skip coming tomorrow that I have got to fill with concrete.....aargh!!!!
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I believe excessive heat causes typos. :) ;)
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I believe excessive heat causes typos. :) ;)
Its my tablet - its melted.
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Sunny but slightly cooler today, for which I am grateful.
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25°C today which is OK, but bracing myself for tomorrow :(
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Averaging out at 34 c in my back garden today 25/07/18
ippy
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Civilised 27 today. Going to climb again tomorrow, but only two more days til the weather breaks...
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Civilised 27 today. Going to climb again tomorrow, but only two more days til the weather breaks...
I hope so, SNOW, SNOW, GLORIOUS SNOW! ;D
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Supposed to be 35 in parts of London, but only 31 at home. Storms tonight, apparently, with rain!
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Supposed to be 35 in parts of London, but only 31 at home. Storms tonight, apparently, with rain!
Definitely not 32 here as forecast, but muggy. If it rains tomorrow I am going outside to lie in it.
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The temperature in my back garden is averaging out at 37.1
One sensor is on the fence in full sun 42.5 c
the second one is facing the former on the opposite fence 33.7 c
The third one is on the side of an outbuilding in the shade on the same side of the garden as the second one 35.3 c
The back garden is facing ESE app.
It'd be interesting to get these sensors calibrated somehow, I doubt there's anything like your friendly local thermometer calibration service posting leaflets through the door.
Anyway they're the readings they're giving me this afternoon.
Regards ippy
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It is like a sauna today, I feel most uncomfortable. :(
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Well, we have just had a short, quite strong, shower of rain. And it is quite dark. Still very muggy though.
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Woken by rain twice, about 3 am and again around half six, when I stood outside in my nightie for a bit grinning like an idiot. Like a sauna now though...hope to see some proper rain later.
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Last summer was, by my standards, a beautiful one of rain and more rain. i think though that I have figured out why my grass is still not only green, but positively lush in places. I heard from a neighbour that many years ago the village well was on my driveway, and I think I must have an underground water source running beneath my garden.
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A token effort at rain last night that wet the ground for perhaps 10 minutes and then disappeared. Forecast thunderstorms and overnight heavy rain nowhere to be seen. If you're in the East Midlands, marginally cooler today than yesterday - not great, but doable; tomorrow, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice - 21°C, back to the good stuff.
Weather people: you're a bunch of lying bastards.
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It is slightly cooler today, we are supposed to have thunderstorms this evening.
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So much for the promised thunderstorms: nothing overnight, and today is hotter than ever. Today is the day on which the highest-ever recorded temperature in Britain is expected to be exceeded. Talk of rain tomorrow and Sunday; we shall see.
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So far the weather bastards have been correct, a storm in the night and another first thing. Big ones not expected til tea time.
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So much for the promised thunderstorms: nothing overnight, and today is hotter than ever. Today is the day on which the highest-ever recorded temperature in Britain is expected to be exceeded. Talk of rain tomorrow and Sunday; we shall see.
We have had thunderstorms in the Midlands with some rain as well.
Not much though
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No rain yet.
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Ooh, my region has an amber storm warning now. How exciting.
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Amber? Southern twats. It was yellow here last night.
What happened? A slightly moist patio for about 10 minutes.
Enjoy your amber warning.
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I dislike thunderstorms, having had bad experiences of them since childhood. I was very nearly struck by lightning some years ago. I always take out the TV aerial lead whenever we have a storm, or one is threatened. I am not sure if that is necessary these days, but better safe than sorry.
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Still boiling hot in London, about 32 in the flat, but we are promised storms and rain, and a lot cooler.
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"Promises are like pie crust" - Christina Rossetti and just about everybody anywhere ever.
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Well, two lots of rain promised, two lots arrived.
And I'm not southern. Any more than the Midlands confers some honorary badge of northern-ness.
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Worn with
black pudding and whippets pride.
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Worn with black pudding and whippets pride.
Isn't this a form of transracialism? Transregionalism, perhaps?
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I was away in N.Devon for a fortnight this time last year. It was very hot but we had a storm in the middle of the holiday and a few showers. Wish I was there now but going next month so not long to wait.
Well, two lots of rain promised, two lots arrived.
Boasting eh? I'm still waiting, according to Met Office rain will come in half an hour.
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We should have had rain by now, it was cloudy, but is brightening up again. I don't know why they bother giving a forecast on-line for specific postcodes, it keeps changing throughout the day. ::)
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I was away in N.Devon for a fortnight this time last year. It was very hot but we had a storm in the middle of the holiday and a few showers. Wish I was there now but going next month so not long to wait.
Boasting eh? I'm still waiting, according to Met Office rain will come in half an hour.
Just got caught in a storm coming home. Am now soaked through. :D
Hasn't lasted though but the Met Office were spot on about a storm hitting now so hopefully they will be about the later rain that is due too.
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Just watching people rescuing brown trout from drying river, (online), well done to them.
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Raining again. Oh yes.
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Yes, water + gravity = rain, lovely stuff, at last.
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Wonderful wet stuff falling from the sky accompanied by loud banging noises! I'm delighted, keep
going out in the garden.
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I can hear all the slugs screaming in delight. Ah well.
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Dry here - just watching the evening horse racing and it is hammering down at both York and Newmarket.
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I can hear all the slugs screaming in delight. Ah well.
But there are things that eat slugs who will also be pleased.
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I quite like slugs.
Admittedly not as much as snails, brought up on Magic Roundabout as I was (Brian was my dad's name), but even so.
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I rescue snails. Slugs aren't so easy to pick up.
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Snails have handy carrying cases. On my late-night walks with the dog in damp weather, slugs are a trickier proposition.
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Snails have handy carrying cases. On my late-night walks with the dog in damp weather, slugs are a trickier proposition.
Some kind of slug scoop plus suitable receptacle.
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Still nothing. Aaaaargh.
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Still raining...roads starting to flood. The farmer behind me was wise working through the night to get the harvest in. With the force of the rain there will be crops down, and hailstorms were only a few miles away earlier.
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Rain overnight - not the stair-rods thunderstorms they forecast, but still rain - and now overcast, breezy and 20°C. Relief isn't the word.
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Rained a bit overnight - a short heav burst this morning but clear now - heavy rain expected tomorrow. A relief indeed.
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Cool breeze following a heavy downpour today... feels normal again. For now.
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Exactly same here, I was up early and it was pouring down. Great! Now the wind is whipping the tree branches around & all is well (wish it would last), S'posed to rain again later for a few hours.
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More rain overnight. Today (Friday) has been fresher - this morning it was sunny, but not nearly as hot as of late, thanks to a stiff breeze (and the rain during the night probably helped, as well). By early afternoon, it had clouded over, and tried to rain, but that didn't come to much. All in all, a very welcome relief. (I'm in Hemel Hempstead.)
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Heavy overcast, fairly strong wind, chilly for July, and steady rain - not heavy, but it's been going on for quite some time, and looks set to continue for some time to come. I wouldn't normally welcome such weather, but it's a pleasant relief after recent weeks. The light but steady rain is much more beneficial to gardens and plants generally than a torrential but short downpour would be (and torrential downpours are always short).
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This is the first time I have touched my computer in three days. I am now in SW France where the sun is shining in a cloudless sky.
I spent a significant portion of Thursday at the Eurotunnel terminal in Kent. My departure was five hours late, I arrived in France far to late even to think of making my way to the hotel where the bed I had paid for would be waiting. I slept in the car several times during the 900km journey (... err not while it was moving) and have laid the most hideous curse imaginable on Eurotunnel.
The grass in my garden here is the same colour as that in England but when I awoke following my first night in my French home I found that water had fallen from the sky while I slept. There has been no more, though.
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Been raining most of the day here in suburban Bromley (London Borough but Kent to H), blowy too. I got up late so don't know what time it started. Good! Not looking forward to the next few days though when the weather will once again heat up.
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Yes, surprised to see two weeks' sunny weather forecast, but not as hot.
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24-25°C by next weekend. I'll manage.
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That sounds cool (& I mean "cool" literally). Funny to think of those temperatures as manageable, normally they would be considered hot. I'll settle for that though after what we've been through. In less than two weeks I'll be in North Devon, what's the betting it will be raining every day :)?
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We're off to the Cotswolds, gumboots ready.
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Feels like rain here...
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It has just started raining here, I hope it is set in for a while. :)
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We’re only getting a shower, if that.
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Please stop boasting.
Here (in Lot-et-Garonne) no cloud has been seen for many days and yesterday the temperature was 36 degrees. It could be higher today and it is accompanied by relatively high levels of humidity.
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Please stop boasting.
Here (in Lot-et-Garonne) no cloud has been seen for many days and yesterday the temperature was 36 degrees. It could be higher today and it is accompanied by relatively high levels of humidity.
I thought of you when watching the weather forecasts for Europe this week. We didn't get the rain in the end but it is cooler today. and by the end of next week the temperatures are supposed to be something called 'average'.
One of my kids was in Paris during the last heatwave when the weather was 40 degrees. Her muppet teacher had them performing outside in the afternoon and then was surprised when some of his pupils ended up in hospital with heatstroke. (Other events on that trip included boys trying to climb into the girls' bedrooms via the balconies and striking French lorry drivers setting fire to the Eurostar tracks. I aged about ten years' in a week.)
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Sunny and averaging out at 33 c in my garden today.
Regards to all, ippy
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Yes, hot again, we seem to be getting used to it in the 30s. Ah, but holidays coming up, cool and showery? We've had one wet day in 9 weeks, (London).
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Considerably cooler here today. Quite pleasant especially in the shade.
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An OK 25°C today - nice when a breeze gets up.
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It is a much more bearable 20C at present, thank goodness.
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An OK 25°C today - nice when a breeze gets up.
Same here.
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A bit cooler here too at a pleasant 25C after three weeks of 30C. At a beer festival. Nice!
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Baking again in South-West Herts.
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Very hot in the South West.
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36C (according to my car 's instrument panel) again in SW France.
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Poor bugger :(
On another thread in a different place somebody remarked that summer in Britain 2018 has been an outlier - heatwaves are random things which can occur unpredictably any summer; I've endured several in my lifetime - but in decades to come, long after most of us here are dust, this could be the new normal, with global temperatures inexorably rising.
I fear for a future I won't see :(
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In c.2060, today's kids and teenagers and 20-somethings will be reminiscing fondly, and telling their brats and grandbrats about, the summer of '18, the way we do about '76. (75 was exceptionally hot, as well, but it was outshone by the following year, so no-one remembers that.)
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In c.2060, today's kids and teenagers and 20-somethings will be reminiscing fondly, and telling their brats and grandbrats about, the summer of '18, the way we do about '76. (75 was exceptionally hot, as well, but it was outshone by the following year, so no-one remembers that.)
I don't reminisce fondly about 1976. Hate hot weather.
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Me too.
It's something to endure, not enjoy. I don't understand those who claim the latter.
Book me a one-way ticket to Svalbard for the remainder of my days. I like the climate, and the flora and fauna are interesting at least.
If climate change goes the way of the predictions, as seems likely, it won't affect me - I'll be ashes - but in advance I tremble for the animals of the world. As usual, they will cop the worst of our stupidity.
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In this country I also find it disagreeable. In fact earlier this afternoon I was scurrying about the garden from one patch of shade to another to avoid that yellow, merciless object.
However when abroad I suddenly love warmer weather.
Go figure.
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I don't reminisce fondly about 1976. Hate hot weather.
Agree completely.
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Agree completely.
Warm weather's O K with me anything up to about 23-24 c anything more than that I'm begining to side with you.
Regards ippy
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I've been sitting outside this evening and it was cold enough to need a cardigan. First time since May I think.
I know we are in for a few hot days yet but the year's turning.
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After a pleasant cooler start to the day, it is beginning to warm up now.
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Mid day it's averaging out at 33 c here.
Phew!
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Averaging out 35 here today, two minutes of that's enough for me, can't be walking the dog, poor dog's a black one, I'll be walking her out after 7 tonight when it's a bit cooler for her.
ippy
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Only another day and it'll be 10 degrees cooler. Oh yes. 8)
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Looking forward to Thursday. After day upon day of 35C and cloudless skies ... storms are forecast!
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Incredible news ... rain tonight from about 6pm. And then temperatures of about 28C instead of 36C.
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Incredible news ... rain tonight from about 6pm. And then temperatures of about 28C instead of 36C.
It's mad, isn't it? 30 and baking sunshine all day today, 23 tomorrow, and Thursday it'll be 18 with torrential rain all day. 18! The nights haven't been that cool lately.
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After a very sunny start to the day it is now overcast and much cooler, about 18C.
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Averaging 37.7 in my back garden today, unusual for me looking forward to some cooler weather.
ippy
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Ippy, I really think you need to get a better set of thermometers.
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Ippy, I really think you need to get a better set of thermometers.
Yes it does seem to be like that I did refer to calibration in another post because these temperatures seem to me to be rather high, I feel inclined to agree with you.
My back garden faces app SSE from the house, with 2 m high fences on both sides and the sun is in the garden all day plus something I hadn't thought about until living here for a few months my place is a bungalow and they don't shade the garden anywhere near as much as a house with a first floor usually they're about a 9 m high sun shade as opposed to app 3.6 m bungalows worth of sun shade.
The garden is no doubt about it a sun trap, having said that the sensors I take my reading from I wouldn't have thought were any more than about one or two degrees out.
Just had a look outside I have an old mercury thermometer showing 89 f and one of the sensors I use is nearby this is showing 33.1.
I like things to be accurate I'll be checking, more for my own satisfaction, if I find a discrepancy I'll let you know exactly how much but going by the old technology comparison I've just made I don't think the readings will be very far out.
Sod the thermometers it's bleeding hot out there, too hot for me.
Regards from ippy
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Yes it does seem to be like that I did refer to calibration in another post because these temperatures seem to me to be rather high, I feel inclined to agree with you.
My back garden faces app SSE from the house, with 2 m high fences on both sides and the sun is in the garden all day plus something I hadn't thought about until living here for a few months my place is a bungalow and they don't shade the garden anywhere near as much as a house with a first floor usually they're about a 9 m high sun shade as opposed to app 3.6 m bungalows worth of sun shade.
The garden is no doubt about it a sun trap, having said that the sensors I take my reading from I wouldn't have thought were any more than about one or two degrees out.
Just had a look outside I have an old mercury thermometer showing 89 f and one of the sensors I use is nearby this is showing 33.1.
I like things to be accurate I'll be checking, more for my own satisfaction, if I find a discrepancy I'll let you know exactly how much but going by the old technology comparison I've just made I don't think the readings will be very far out.
Sod the thermometers it's bleeding hot out there, too hot for me.
Regards from ippy
Are they in full sun in the shade? What height are they at? What is the surface below them? All things which can affect the measurements.
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Ippy, I really think you need to get a better set of thermometers.
Never mind the thermometers, my old barometer (from car-boot sale) dipped to 1008 this week. First time it's been below 1010 since May. Windy and wet suits me after all this time.
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Are they in full sun in the shade? What height are they at? What is the surface below them? All things which can affect the measurements.
This is not wrong. A few weeks ago I bought a weather station (not the most high-end model in the world but I've always wanted one - weather + gadgets; what's not to love?) and placed the sensor outside. Even at the height of the heatwave the base unit was recording temperatures more suited to the surface of Mercury - the sensor isn't supposed to be in direct sunlight.
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Are they in full sun in the shade? What height are they at? What is the surface below them? All things which can affect the measurements.
There's three sensors spread out in various places in the garden I go for the average reading of all three one on the fence doesn't get the sun till after twelve noon at the earliest, the second one is on the facing fence behind my greenhouse in the shade soon after twelve noon and the third one is on the side of my workshop nearer to the house in the shade from about twelve onwards
The old mercury one is close by the second sensor in the shade both of them.
I've had this weather station with it's three sensors for some years now, it even shows the phases of the moon, barometer showing tendencies up or down, radio controlled clock, humidity, it's not a cheep and cheerful jobbie.
Everybody ignores me and walks off at home here if I try to relate any of the info it gives?
There's a lot of well sheltered reflected heat here it's always just that degree or so warmer any time of the year out at the back of the house and oh yes all sensors are residing atop grass and general garden greenery too.
I will be cross checking the accuracy of the sensors, just to keep myself happy, regardless of anyone else.
Regards ippy
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Official temperatures are of "air temperature" not direct radiation temperature. They should always be made in the shade, preferably in a Stevenson screen, a white painted box with downward sloping slots.
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There was a thing recently wasn't there, about a weather station in Death Valley that isn't accurate because it records radiated temperature.
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Official temperatures are of "air temperature" not direct radiation temperature. They should always be made in the shade, preferably in a Stevenson screen, a white painted box with downward sloping slots.
Yep.
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Sky's just gone a weird murky colour. Think a storm is coming...
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Grrrrr ....
Thick black clouds last night ... The temperature dropped noticeably, the air was definately cooler.
BUT
No storms and not a drop of water fell from the sky. The world remains brown and parched.
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Steady rain here but no electrical storm.
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Light rain last night, cooler today. Much happier :)
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No rain, but overcast and 22°C. That'll do nicely :)
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No rain, but overcast and 22°C. That'll do nicely :)
Same just down the road here. Although a light shower this afternoon. I was gardening so stayed out in the drizzle just to enjoy the experience. :)
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My eldest daughter phoned yesterday and demanded to know if I had put my washing out. She is on her hols down south, her tent got very wet when there was a sudden downpour, as did her belongings, which were outside it. It is a standing joke that it always rains if I put my washing out! I was not to blame yesterday, but as I am about to put some out in a few minutes I might be today. ;D
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It has happened.
At last.
At ten minutes past midnight there was a huge rumble of thunder and rain - much rain - fell from the skies onto the parched landscape of Lot-et-Garonne.
This morning, the sky is a comforting grey and the temperature only 20C - mercifully we shall be spared the 36C afternoons of the past weeks,
The next wonder will be the brown earth turning green again.
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It has happened.
At last.
At ten minutes past midnight there was a huge rumble of thunder and rain - much rain - fell from the skies onto the parched landscape of Lot-et-Garonne.
This morning, the sky is a comforting grey and the temperature only 20C - mercifully we shall be spared the 36C afternoons of the past weeks,
The next wonder will be the brown earth turning green again.
It'll happen surprisingly quickly, two days of rain here and everything went greenish again. It's been raining here all morning. Got my windows wide, the smell is wonderful.
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It is pleasantly cooler today, we had some heavy rain during the night.
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It was only 4C when I went for my daily walk at 6.45am. That made a change from all that awful heat. I even needed to put a fleece on for the first time in weeks.
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Yes, feels a bit chilly today. Wish I'd worn a jumper.
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Very overcast this morning, we had rain overnight, but it is much warmer than yesterday.
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It has been raining actual rain all day today.
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We have just had a very heavy downpour. So far no sign of the thunderstorms, which are forecast, thank goodness, as I dislike them so much.
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It's 10,15 in the evening, here in Lot-et-Garonne (9.15 in UK) and the satellite tv pictures are beginning to break up, an ominous sign! Strms are predicted overnight together with heavy rain.
Today has been glorious with temperatures in the mid 30s and a cloudless sky. I had lunch, with friends, on the terrace at a nearby restaurant. The meal and company were each delightful. Well, now I have to pay the price of enjoying myself - if the storms live up to the forecast there will be little sleep!
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It's been raining steadily for quite a while here, very nice indeed, has brought temperature down.
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Overcast today, hopefully we will get some more rain.
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Somewhat overcast here too, sun trying to peep out behind the clouds. Pleasant temperature. Husb & I still on leave, nice-do-as-we-please day before returning to work tomorrow.
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Roads flooding here. :-\
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It is a very sunny evening here and none of the hoped for rain. :(
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The rain we could have done with a few weeks ago - well, it's here now in a bun dance.
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It is a very sunny evening here and none of the hoped for rain. :(
We got it instead. It's been wet and chilly here all day.
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It has rained all day, it is only about 12C at present and quite breezy.
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It has rained all day, it is only about 12C at present and quite breezy.
Floo there's lots of these little water droplet things falling from the sky over here in Essex they started dropping down here at about 1130 this morning?
Regards ippy
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Greetings from SW France (again).
It was quite cool over the weekend but Sunday was sunny and I had a nice lunch on the terrace with friends.
Today we are promised( ???) 35 degrees again. Shall be heading north for the Channel Islands at the weekend and then back to England. I have only caught glimpses of weather conditions there. Is Great Britain overrun with polar bears?
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It is raining here and looks set in for a good while. No doubt instead of longing for the wet stuff we will be wishing it would cease! ::)
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Raining quite a bit here, has been for quite a while & looks as though it will continue. It felt really good when I went to the car park at work and when I got out of the car at home, I wanted to stand still and get wet. Won't last of course but we can enjoy while we can. I'm jetting off tomorrow, back next Wednesday, late. Weather supposed to be mixed where I'm going but warm.
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Raining quite a bit here, has been for quite a while & looks as though it will continue. It felt really good when I went to the car park at work and when I got out of the car at home, I wanted to stand still and get wet. Won't last of course but we can enjoy while we can. I'm jetting off tomorrow, back next Wednesday, late. Weather supposed to be mixed where I'm going but warm.
Hope you enjoy it!
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Ta. Storms are predicted there tomorrow which don't bother me, the rest of the time scattered showers but warm. I'll have a good time regardless of weather.
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It is very Autumnal today.
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We had a slight frost this morning, the first of the season. It is very bright and sunny now. :) :)
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Dull and a bit chilly here in Herts today.
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Chilly and overcast.
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Chilly and overcast.
16c down here in deepest Essex L R, you know every time the temperature goes to 14 or below outside I know it as soon as I go outside I have to keep drying my nose every now and again, annoying.
Regards ippy
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It was a pleasant start to the day with bright sunshine, the second I put my washing out it clouded over, which is par for the course! ::)
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Same here (apart from the washing).
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Today is fine here, with that slightly melancholy feel typical of early autumn.
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It is quite pleasant today, the sunny is shining. :)
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Today is fine here, with that slightly melancholy feel typical of early autumn.
Still 16c during the day here, heating on in the evenings now.
Regards L R, ippy.
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Beautiful day for an anti-brexit march in London. Flickr photo album to follow.
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It isn't as pleasant as yesterday, there is a stiff breeze.
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Very sunny here and hardly any breeze.
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Still 16c during the day here, heating on in the evenings now.
Regards L R, ippy.
Erm, Ippy....I am not LR ???
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Sitting in the sun today, quite hot. Burning in fact.
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Went for a five mile walk this morning. Clear blue sky and warm sunshine. I was overdressed.
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We had a walk and a picnic on the local hills with daughter and her family.
It was glorious. By the time we had reached the top we were down to one layer of clothing. The views were spectacular and eldest granddaughter decided we were on top of the world. :)
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Erm, Ippy....I am not LR ???
Beg pud H W, I was busy and took a quick look should have been more carefull.
Regards ippy
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It is very sunny, but there is also a chilly wind.
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Ditto her - it's chillier than it looks from indoors.
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It certainly is!
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Although it is quite a lot milder today, it is windy and we have had some torrential rain.
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Wet and windy here. The weather's pretty bad, as well.
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It's snowing here!
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I'm off on a bike ride to Hertford within the hour, so I hope it doesn't start snowing here. I reached my unambitious annual mileage target for this year of 1,500 miles recently, so now I'm going for 1,600. This ride will help.
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We haven't got a frost today, unlike yesterday, but the wind chill makes it feel well below zero.
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Started out cold but dry, but was raining from about mid-day. However, after the rain started it wasn't quite as cold. I went for a bike ride to Hertford - 42.13 miles. My total mileage for 2018 so far is 1567 miles; hopefully I can knock of the last 33 miles to take it to 1600 before the end of the year.
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Started out cold but dry, but was raining from about mid-day. However, after the rain started it wasn't quite as cold. I went for a bike ride to Hertford - 42.13 miles. My total mileage for 2018 so far is 1567 miles; hopefully I can knock of the last 33 miles to take it to 1600 before the end of the year.
You are doing brilliantly for one so very old. :P ::)
I don't get on well with bikes since my arthritis began to bite when I was in my 30s. :( In the 80s when we lived in Cambridgeshire I decided to have a spin on my middle daughter's bike around the riverside park just by our house. I managed to fall off it in front of her and her school friends, much to her consternation! Her friends rushed to my assistance, whilst she tried to pretend I wasn't her embarrassment of a mother. ;D I haven't ridden a bike since.
Getting back to the subject of this thread, it is sunny today, a bit warmer than yesterday, and no wind.
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You are doing brilliantly for one so very old. :P ::)
;D
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;D
Seriously though, I do mean that as a sincere compliment. :)
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Seriously though, I do mean that as a sincere compliment. :)
Thank you!
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LR and me being nice to each other? Must be Christmas.
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LR and me being nice to each other? Must be Christmas.
I love you really even when I want to hang you from the church steeple by your dangly bits. ;D
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Another lovely day, mild temperature and sunshine. Light breeze. I bet it pisses down on Saturday, when I want to go for another bike ride.
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The sun is shining and there is no wind, very pleasant. :)
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It is the shortest day of the year today, and miserable weather too. It is raining and the visibility is very poor.
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We hardly have the heating on at the moment, it's so mild. 14 today I think. Oh dear, not good for some plants which need a cold snap.
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We hardly have the heating on at the moment, it's so mild. 14 today I think. Oh dear, not good for some plants which need a cold snap.
It is only 5C here in our part of North Wales.
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It started snowing at about 10.45am and is sticking. This wasn't supposed to happen according to the on-line weather forecast for our postcode!
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Damn cold.
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It's snowing here.
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It is much warmer today, about 5C, positively tropical compared with yesterday, but very gloomy.
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We have a winter wonderland this morning. I hope it doesn't last too long. Apparently all the schools in our county are closed.
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Windy, very wet with a bit of sleet in the mix.
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I can't believe how warm it has been today, especially as there was a frost first thing. I heard a place in West Wales had a temperature of 20.3C, which is a record for February. A year ago we were shivering as we had snow, courtesy of the 'beast from the east'.
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Yes, 20 in London today, still winter.
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It is much cooler today and we have a monsoon out there at present.
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A monsoon? Really?
There is not much wind in the Midlands, where I live - and that's not all that far from north Wales.
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A monsoon? Really?
There is not much wind in the Midlands, where I live - and that's not all that far from north Wales.
The rain gauge showed about 2 inches of rain. Your weather is often not the same as ours in North Wales, as I know for a fact, one of our daughters lives down in the Midlands. Besides which, another of our daughters lives only six miles from us, her weather can be very different to ours too.
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Spring has sprung, it is pleasantly warm outside. ;D
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It is very pleasant here in Nottingham, too LR. Contrary to the weather forecast of mainly cloudy, it is in fact mainly sunny. I am pottering in the garden.
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It is very pleasant here in Nottingham, too LR. Contrary to the weather forecast of mainly cloudy, it is in fact mainly sunny. I am pottering in the garden.
This morning's weather forecast suggested it would be cloudy here too, but they were wrong. In fact I don't know why they bother, more often than not unless they are looking out of the window they don't appear to know what the weather is doing. On-line they give a prediction for a fortnight ahead, but change it every couple of hours. :o
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This morning's weather forecast suggested it would be cloudy here too, but they were wrong. In fact I don't know why they bother, more often than not unless they are looking out of the window they don't appear to know what the weather is doing. On-line they give a prediction for a fortnight ahead, but change it every couple of hours. :o
Yes, don't know why they do that.
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Sunny intervals and showers, it is much colder today too.
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It feels like summer today. :)
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Beeooteeful - and the wind seems to have died down at last.
On my bike ride on Monday, it was pleasantly warm, but not blazingly hot, as the wind kept the temperatures down. The sun was just as strong, though, and I ended up beetroot-coloured.
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It is sunny again today, but the breeze is quite fresh, it doesn't feel as warm as yesterday.
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We are having some much needed rain today, but I suspect it won't know when to stop. ::)
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When the hell are we going to get somedecent summer weather? It's been windy every day for over a month now, and cloudy and cool, and yesterday pissed down, and today isn't much better, and the 14-day weather forecst says that it'll continue "unsettled" (as weather forecasters say when they mean bloody awful) at least until the end of June. >:(
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Weather has been good here on the whole, warm and sunny. A bit of rain, like yesterday, refreshing but not heavy and still warm. Today is intermittently sunny and very breezy but temperature good (18 degrees). Looking forward to going out later.
I saw the forecast last night and apparently it will be cooler next week. Today there will be a lot of rain in the country but not too much where I live, just a shower, but the breeze will escalate in most places. We're still only at the beginning of June, probably have flaming weather from next month, like last year. Must admit I don't care one way or another but would be nice to have balmy weather when I go away.
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Praise to Chthulu for the rain, as our allotment was becoming parched and rock hard. Rain dance worked.
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Praise to Chthulu for the rain, as our allotment was becoming parched and rock hard. Rain dance worked.
Unfortunately, Chthulu now seems to be working overtime. Perhaps he needs to be put back to sleep again. We'll call him up again to try and kill off Trump and Bolsonaro some time later this year.
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I'm busy building a boat. I'm looking for volunteers to go around and collect two of each animal for me.
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I'm busy building a boat. I'm looking for volunteers to go around and collect two of each animal for me.
make sure you stock-up on biodegradable poo bags , you don't want to be blamed for messing up the planet .
Apparently somebody did that once before but sent a pretty rainbow to say sorry . So that was alright then ::)
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I'm busy building a boat. I'm looking for volunteers to go around and collect two of each animal for me.
Don't forget it has to be seven pairs of the "clean" animals. Should be pretty clean before the actual Flood at this rate....
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Bit windy today but no rain.
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Bit windy today but no rain.
see a doctor love !
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Don't forget it has to be seven pairs of the "clean" animals. Should be pretty clean before the actual Flood at this rate....
Or seven animals. The text is somewhat ambiguous, I believe.
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Or seven animals. The text is somewhat ambiguous, I believe.
Noah's Ark?
Let's not get into that . (as the hyena smirked to his partner)
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Kuwait city has apparently recorded the temp of 63 degrees Celsius under direct sunlight (52.2 degrees in the shadows). This could be the highest temp ever recorded on the planet, if confirmed. The world record presently stands at 56.7 degrees C in Death Valley, California in 1913.
https://www.skymetweather.com/content/global-news/kuwait-city-makes-claim-of-63-degrees-celsius-wmo-yet-to-declare-it-as-new-world-record/
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We are having some much needed rain today, but I suspect it won't know when to stop. ::)
It didn't. ::)
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Ridiculous rain in Edinburgh
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Bit muggy today but not unbearably so. Cooler now than earlier, nice and sunny.
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Quite hot today. No wind. Day off instead of Friday, don't feel like doing much& didn't wake when husband went to work earlier, happy being a dozy couch potato.
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Hot yesterday as it has been for a while. Temps going down next week but will still be reasonably warm here.
I'm off to Filey today for a fortnight, looked at fourteen day forecast and we'll have some rain for three days mid week but the next week, none. Quite warm throughout (if forecsat proves to be accurate).
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Hope everybody is enjoying the warm weather 8)
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I was hoping for snow during the heatwave. Thank goodness it is considerably cooler today, the garden is being well watered as it has rained since late last night.
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It's wet here too but still warm.
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It's wet here too but still warm.
OOH! Robbie,
got any pictures?
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Where I am currently, SW France, it was 44 degrees on Thursday - and about 38 in the middle of the night. Yesterday we had dark clouds and about an hour of rain which reduced the temperature ... but it was still rather warm. Overnight rain and today overcast with a bit of very light rain has dropped the temperature to about 20 degrees.
Most people have their doors wide open in an attempt to replace the hot air inside their houses with something a little more comfortable. However, many older houses have very thick stone walls and these act as heat sinks, still retaining the warmth captured earlier in the week.
The sun is due to return tomorrow, but without the Saharan .. err .. reinforcement.
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One thing one can almost guarantee with UK weather is that once it starts to rain it doesn't know when to stop. ::) It has been raining almost nonstop for about 36 hours.
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One thing one can almost guarantee with UK weather is that once it starts to rain it doesn't know when to stop. ::) It has been raining almost nonstop for about 36 hours.
You live in Wales Floo, so?
Kind regards to you Floo, ippy
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You live in Wales Floo, so?
Kind regards to you Floo, ippy
I don't think it rains anymore here in Wales than it does anywhere else. We have lived in many different places North and South of the UK in our nearly 50 years of marriage, when it rains it rains wherever you are.
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Couldn't you get them to use some kind of code - like give three rings, hang up for a few seconds and then ring again?
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I don't think it rains anymore here in Wales than it does anywhere else. We have lived in many different places North and South of the UK in our nearly 50 years of marriage, when it rains it rains wherever you are.
Our local Horticultural Society is always pushing dry gardens for us Essex lot due to the fact that we average out the same amount of rain as Jeursalem Israel, formally Jordan.
Speaking in my best train spotters tone of voice, 'what about that precipitation after the air has picked up all of that moisture on its journey over the Atlantic it then gets pushed up higher as it rises over those Welsh mountains into that colder air etc etc'.
That's why it's so dry over here in poor old Essex, the Welsh keep on pinching all of that water before we can get our hands on much of it, thinking about it shouldn't wales be compensating the English for all of that rain of ours you keep on pinching?
Regards ippy
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Couldn't you get them to use some kind of code - like give three rings, hang up for a few seconds and then ring again?
Good idea but your good idea doesn't spike those automatic dialling machines the promo companies use, when these machines only pick up answer phone they, after so many calls scrub the ans/phone number off of their list.
Regards ippy
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It is a day of sunshine and showers today with just a gentle breeze.
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Lovelt sunny, breezy day today. Yesterday, when I went for a 40+ mile bike ride to Hertford, it pissed down from mid-day onwards. Typical.
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Bright and breezy today.
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Woolly pully weather, here is SW France. Temperature is down to mid 20s in the late afternoon, now.
Getting acclimatised for my journey north next week, I understand that the cool atmospheric conditions are being countered by columns of hot air in the Westminster area.
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Sunny and then heavy showers as soon as I contemplate putting the washing out! :(
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Bit of a change from yesterday's Indian summer to thunder storm.
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The rain was torrential when I went out for my walk, but thank goodness there wasn't the promised thunderstorm, they do my head in. :o
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This doesn't look fun
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/weather/uk-weather-forecast-rain-warnings-in-place-as-britain-braces-for-hurricane-lorenzo/ar-AAI2qwC?ocid=ientp
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This doesn't look fun
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/weather/uk-weather-forecast-rain-warnings-in-place-as-britain-braces-for-hurricane-lorenzo/ar-AAI2qwC?ocid=ientp
hmmm!
Thanks for that , Saney . I think it might be wise for me to seek a more sheltered area for a few days !
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hmmm!
Thanks for that , Saney . I think it might be wise for me to seek a more sheltered area for a few days !
Yep! My wife was in Pune in India last week and they had flooding where over 20 people drowned! Batten down the hatches!
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It is sunny here at the moment, but we are supposed to have very heavy rain this afternoon.
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Yep! My wife was in Pune in India last week and they had flooding where over 20 people drowned! Batten down the hatches!
that is horrendous !!!
Coincidentially I have two hatch like skylights on my roof and was up there about three weeks ago reapplying silicon sealant to one of em after a small leak . It seems to have done the trick so far and has resisted the latest storms/winds . I just hope I've done enough for the next few days worth .
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It is sunny here at the moment, but we are supposed to have very heavy rain this afternoon.
same here too , it's like a gentle summers day !
Do I stay here where I am or seek shelter just in case ?
I'll decide later I think !!!!
(Famous last words) 😱
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It is raining very heavily now, and feeling rather chilly too.
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It is raining very heavily now, and feeling rather chilly too.
yep !
Heavy rain here too and it's coming through the skylight .
Right now there's nothing I can do about it other than move things that could get damaged like clothes and stuff
It's a bit of a nightmare to be honest
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yep !
Heavy rain here too and it's coming through the skylight .
Right now there's nothing I can do about it other than move things that could get damaged like clothes and stuff
It's a bit of a nightmare to be honest
I hope you get your skylight fixed soon.
We have had some very heavy rain during the night, it is a bit brighter at the moment, but the near and far hills have clouded up again, so we will be getting another deluge soon by the looks of it.
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We had a wet, chilly start to the morning and I succumbed and put the heating on. The sun is out now and I have switched it off. I am right old meanie when it comes to central heating even when the snow is on the ground. I am always switching it off and my husband switching it on. ;D
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It rained earlier, but is pleasantly sunny now. For once it is actually doing what the weather forecast for our area predicted.
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The sun is shining brightly, but it is bucketing down with rain, there is a fantastic rainbow out there at present.
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The sun is shining brightly, but it is bucketing down with rain, there is a fantastic rainbow out there at present.
did you know?
no one else sees the same rainbow as you , in fact each of your eyes sees a different rainbow . How good is that ?
you're welcome .
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So far it has been a gloomy, but a mild morning, the sun is trying to come out at the moment. It is predictated that we will have heavy rain for the next couple of days.
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Dull, but warmer than yesterday, when it was damn cold. Dry so far.
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It is raining very heavily here and is likely to do so for the next 24hrs. I am so grateful we don't live right next to a river as we did at our previous properly, and our present house is at the top of the rise.
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Wet and windy, but not cold.
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The rain is torrential, I could have had a swim in some of the puddles when I when for my morning walk, however it isn't windy so my umbrella didn't blow inside out, it is also quite mild.
Our poor vicar daughter has a burial at 10 am I advised her to put on a wetsuit and scuba diving gear. ;D
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grey and gloomy here, but not cold. I looked up weather for here and Synthetic Dave announced, 'Precipitation zero,' so although it is windy, I put on trainers, scarf, coat, visor, hat, gloves, walked a few yards … and discovered it was drizzling. Not much, but I really need it to be dry, otherwise there are two many difficulties to cope with. So back to the house, hang up coat etc. I think it might be worse tomorrow, so I think I shall have to go to the gym instead of trying to walk.
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According to the Met Office, it should be sunny in Bournemouth tomorrow.
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According to the Met Office, it should be sunny in Bournemouth tomorrow.
It should be sunny here in North Wales too, but much cooler.
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Damp and grey, bit chilly, heavy rain at times.
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At last it has stopped raining, the sun is trying to peek through the clouds.
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Been quite bright and pleasant today.
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It was rather chilly when I went out for my morning walk just before 7am, but very pleasant at the moment now the sun is shining and there is very little wind.
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Lovely day - did my usual round-the-town walk and fortunately did not need to rest on any of the seats - they were probably wet from the rain yesterday! But did have to pause to stand still for a few minutes every now and again.
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The temp fell to minus 4c last night and was only plus 4c in my van this morning when I got up 😳
Bit of a shock 😱😝
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A very frosty but sunny morning. I hope the car is defrosted by the time I have to go out in about an hour or so.
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It is a lovely sunny morning. :)
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It is snowing here, but not sticking, thank goodness.
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A very sunny day and reasonably mild. :)
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It's been very pleasant here as well.
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Wet and windy today.
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Wet and windy today.
tena have a pad for that !
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The Avon has broken its banks in so many places that this part of the world might well be renamed the Sea of Evesham.
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Very wet and windy first thing when I went for my walk, the wind has dropped a bit now and it isn't raining quite so hard.
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A lovely sunny day with very light winds. :)
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A lovely sunny day with very light winds. :)
Hamleys have got a kite for that
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Hamleys have got a kite for that
When I was a young kid, no more than about five, my two crazy uncles made me a kite out of bamboo and brown paper, it was bigger than me. They decided to fly it in one of our fields in a very high wind, I demanded to be allow to fly it too, which they stupidly let me do. I went up with the kite, and they have to grab me by my feet to bring me down. I was bribed with sweets not to tell my Mum of my adventure! In fact where sweets were concerned I did quite well, as I got very good at blackmailing them. "I will tell Mummy of you", was one of my frequent refrains. Daring me to sit on the electric fence got me a huge bag of my favourite sweeties. :o ;D
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Hmmm?
The electric fence , now I get it ! ⚡️⚡️
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Beautiful winters day in Edinburgh. Clear, sunny, cold, not a breath of wind and yet...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50376070
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Gloomy, breezy and quite chilly today.
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A cold start to the day, I had to put my thicker jacket on when I went for my morning walk before 7pm. I then had to defrost the car before driving down to the supermarket. It is lovely and sunny now though. :)
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Woken up by wind early this morning - wind as in weather. Is certainly noisy, could hear something rattling and investigated, just a bathroom window. Husband still fast akip, I intend to go back to bed in a while, still feels like the middle of the night.
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So had snow, sleet, rain hailstones and thunder this afternoon
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I hope no was on this forum has been flooded out of their homes? We are fortunate our property is on a rise, quite a distance from a river, unlike our previous home, which was only yards away from one!
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I hope no was on this forum has been flooded out of their homes? We are fortunate our property is on a rise, quite a distance from a river, unlike our previous home, which was only yards away from one!
I don't have the answers for those poor devils in south Wales with the flooding however I do know where I would be very pleased to see a lot of the UK's tax money going and not only used for putting the victims back on their feet, as much flood prevention needed as well as for anywhere else flooded in the UK.
ippy.
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Still crap, but remaining very mild: we haven't had any really cold weather this winter.
Priti Patel on the floods: "The whole of government is working and empathising with the individuals that rightly have been affected." Apparently, the flood victims deserve it!
She has also repeatedly said that she wants to lead a crackdown on "counter-terrorism".
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We have had some very gusty winds today, but lovely sunshine as well.
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Dry, but damn cold.
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After a miserable start with torrential rain, it has been a lovely day with warm sunshine, I was able to turn the heating off for a while.
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You really are brave! Yes was quite a nice, sunny day today but not sufficiently so to turn my heating down :D. No floods near me at the moment nor likely to be even if the River Ravensbourne overflows.
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You really are brave! Yes was quite a nice, sunny day today but not sufficiently so to turn my heating down :D. No floods near me at the moment nor likely to be even if the River Ravensbourne overflows.
Brave? I don't like it too warm, in summer I am wishing for snow if the temperatures go much above 20C.
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Here in Florida, where Spring brings rain that greens up the green, that strived to remain through the winter, in the most brilliant way. Green has always been my favorite color, but in nature, it is the green than emerges at this time of year that is my favorite. I would post a picture I took earlier today, but I'm not sure how to do it here.
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Brave? I don't like it too warm, in summer I am wishing for snow if the temperatures go much above 20C.
I am the same. I could not survive in Florida if I didn't have air conditioning. I did all the years growing up, and my blessed grandmother did into her late eighties, but I can't imagine how, now.
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I am the same. I could not survive in Florida if I didn't have air conditioning. I did all the years growing up, and my blessed grandmother did into her late eighties, but I can't imagine how, now.
Air conditioning in houses in the UK is not common, as we haven't really needed it, however with global warming it might be needed in the future. :o
It is a pleasantly mild day today with no breeze.
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Air conditioning in houses in the UK is not common, as we haven't really needed it, however with global warming it might be needed in the future. :o
It is a pleasantly mild day today with no breeze.
The same is the case with our Northern relatives who have never had air conditioning. Seems now they can't live without it. And, then, there were my grandparents who lived in the house my grandfather built them 1937. I never had A/C (or an indoor bathroom at first!) It was a "shot-gun" style home common in the South where an open front and back door would allow the natural breeze to clear the whole house in a few minutes. I grew up in the more modern concrete-block, single-story home that was never built for a good open-window cross breeze. And, I do remember hot, sweltering nights. I suppose acclamation is the key, regardless of where we are.
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The same is the case with our Northern relatives who have never had air conditioning. Seems now they can't live without it. And, then, there were my grandparents who lived in the house my grandfather built them 1937. I never had A/C (or an indoor bathroom at first!) It was a "shot-gun" style home common in the South where an open front and back door would allow the natural breeze to clear the whole house in a few minutes. I grew up in the more modern concrete-block, single-story home that was never built for a good open-window cross breeze. And, I do remember hot, sweltering nights. I suppose acclamation is the key, regardless of where we are.
In the case of most if not all terraced housing the straight through to the back door has more to do with maintenance, when you open the front door and walk straight through past the stairs straight across the kitchen and without needing to turn to either way straight out of the back door, think about it, as if you were carrying a ladder.
In about 1960-62 I was doing some work in a small terraced house in Tottenham North London, a straight through hallway etc as I've described above the person living there at the time, at the finish of their days work they brought their pony home and walked it straight through the house into their back garden, I could hardly believe it but there it's another use for being able to go in a straight line from the front door the the back door.
Regards, ippy.
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One minute the sun is shining brightly, the next it is tipping down with rain, there is a very brisk breeze too.
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Wet, windy, chilly, and 'orrible. I've got the electric fire on.
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Very sunny, but the fresh breeze makes it feel cooler than the outdoor thermometers would indicate. I got all my washing dry. :)
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Not a breath of wind here - beautiful day.
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Quite gloomy, but mild with no wind.
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It has been very sunny today, but with a very strong wind.
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It is pleasantly warm with very little wind.
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It is pleasantly warm with very little wind.
Mine is hairy with quite a lot of wind just now.
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Good weather here. Perfect for the start of my holiday. Three weeks off work, so going for walks, eating good food and maybe a bit of whisky tasting.
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It was dull all morning, but very mild with hardly any breeze, it is brightening up a bit now.
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Of course
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52849367
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I think we must have had at least a month's worth of much needed rain this morning.
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In the case of most if not all terraced housing the straight through to the back door has more to do with maintenance, when you open the front door and walk straight through past the stairs straight across the kitchen and without needing to turn to either way straight out of the back door, think about it, as if you were carrying a ladder.
In about 1960-62 I was doing some work in a small terraced house in Tottenham North London, a straight through hallway etc as I've described above the person living there at the time, at the finish of their days work they brought their pony home and walked it straight through the house into their back garden, I could hardly believe it but there it's another use for being able to go in a straight line from the front door the the back door.
Regards, ippy.
I enjoyed reading your story, ippy. (Sorry for my delay. I'm still trying to figure out the lay of the land here, so to speak. :) )
We're overcast here and heavy rains are predicted. The third named tropical storm is moving in the Gulf. First time I can remember three named storms before hurricane season is officially here.
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Very wet and windy today, it feels like winter rather than summer. :(
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No rain here yet though it's overcast and getting darker after being dull all day so expecting a sudden downpour. Had pleasant bike ride with my 'household' & picked up couple of bits of shopping on way back.
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We had sun earlier but it is gloomy now, no wind, thank goodness.
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Heavy rain and thunder right now. Exciting!
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It is bright sunshine here at present, we had a storm last night, I detest thunderstorms with very good reason. :o
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Weather here has been consistently gorgeous. Just enough rain to keep everything lush, green, and blooming, and not too hot (for Florida.) The crepe myrtles are blooming now. There are five of them. Three have white blooms, one is a graft of white and dark pink, and the other is all dark pink. The cats are loving the back porch now. It's screened in, so they can enjoy the heat, the fresh air, the birds, squirrels, and the one raccoon visitor (oh, and our ferrel cat friend) without physically going outside.
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Quite a breezy day, which got my washing dry by lunchtime. :) I am not looking forward to the predicted heatwave, I will be wishing it would snow.
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Bit of a heatwave at the moment. About 30C for the next 7 days.
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Unpleasantly warm today, but I got my washing dry in record time.
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Unpleasantly warm today, but I got my washing dry in record time.
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Similar here, about to get mine in. I was at work and temp not unpleasant in my office. Feels like there might be a storm later. My old man's mowing lawn, it certainly needed it.
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Sunshine and heavy showers today, with a breeze. The temperatures are in the high teens, so much more bearable than the last few days.
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We're now experiencing highs near 100º F. But, we do still get rain, which helps all that is green and oxygen giving. (The humidity-plus-heat is murder, though if you have to be out in it for long.)
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It isn't raining at the moment but it doesn't look as if it will be long before it does. I must keep an eye on my washing,
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Just had a good downpour, a gully washer my grandmother would have said. This 4th of July, I would be happiest if it went on all night long. Even with my pups now gone, I still so dislike all the fireworks neighbors shoot off. (It was awful when they were alive. Had to give one doggie xanax on the 4th and New Years.)
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It is a lovely sunny morning but quite breezy, it is supposed to get much windier later on. I hope I can get my washing dry before it blows away.
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Nice today. The forecast is for stormy weather with heavy rain for a few days, followed by a heatwave for at least a week, probably starting on Sunday.
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It is now raining, it waited until I put my washing out before it started to bucket!
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A bit of sunshine, a breeze, and quite a lot of cloud.
I wonder why the weather forecast and the actual weather events don't seem to coincide?
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Weird day. Cold to start. Then like boiling a frog, temperature climbed. Brief bit of cloudy sun. Then thunder and lightning
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Boiling in Bromley today, thank goodness for air con at work. I hope your storm comes down our way NS. S'psed to be cooler tomorrow.
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My washing is jinxed, I can almost guarantee when I put it out it will rain, even if the sky is blue! It wasn't supposed to rain today, but within minutes of me putting it out this morning it bucketed! >:( Our eldest girl will no doubt phone in a while and blame me if it has rained on her washing, assuming she has put some out! ;D
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I have been here is SW France (midway between Bordeaux and Toulouse) now for three weeks. In that time there has not been one drop of rain and occasionally the temperature has been close to 40 degrees. And it looks set to continue!
The best time to do anything is first thing in the morning and then to ... retire and watch the world do, well, not a lot, from whatever shade you ca find.
Humidity is variable but when it is high it means sleepless nights and a continuing sense of exhaustion.
I cannot recall it ever being like this before.
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It is cooler than yesterday with a fresh breeze, it is much more comfortable, thank goodness. :)
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Hot again. Yesterday, I went for a short bike ride, but was unduly knackered when I got home, because of the heat.
What I posted on Facebook:
Short ride yesterday, though the heat made it feel much longer (mind you, it is fairly hilly).
Why does Garmin think Bullbeggars Lane in Potten End is called Catalina Road? Has anyone else noticed that sort of thing with their Garmin? When I'm approaching BB Lane on the left, it always says "Catalina Road Ahead"! There's a Catalina Road near Heathrow Airport, apparently, postcode TW6, but that's some way from Potten End...
https://www.strava.com/activities/3896182443
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Unpleasantly hot again here, we had a thunderstorm lasting well into the night, which kept me awake. Thunderstorms and I don't get on.
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Thunderstorms and I don't get on.
Why am I not surprised by this admission?
I have been subjected to high temperatures (higher than those in north Wales) for four weeks now. I would love to have a thunderstorm with lots of rain. The rain would be refreshing and restorative. The electrical discharges would remove the positive ionisation from the atmosphere and make existing more comfortable.
Who knows? The ground might even turn green.
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I read that thunderstorms will happen here tomorrow - can't wait - with intermittent rain for the following few days but high temperatures will persist. It's pleasantly warm right now but the temp will go up as the day progresses. I start work at 9.30 today and we have good air con there (I have not so efficient air con at home but we cope).
When the rain comes I will go outside and stand in it.
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Why am I not surprised by this admission?
I have been subjected to high temperatures (higher than those in north Wales) for four weeks now. I would love to have a thunderstorm with lots of rain. The rain would be refreshing and restorative. The electrical discharges would remove the positive ionisation from the atmosphere and make existing more comfortable.
Who knows? The ground might even turn green.
I don't get on with thunderstorms, due to very bad experiences in my childhood when lightening caused damage to our home. I was very nearly struck by lightening in 2002 when on a visit to my home island.
I insist on our TV aerial lead being removed whenever we have a storm, just in case.
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That's interesting, LR.
For the most part, storms provide a demonstration of natural forces at work. Sometimes, as in your case, the forces can cause damage.
The only time I suffered from a storm was a few years ago, here at my French residence secondaire. A lightning bolt hit a tree, some distance away and there were several subsidiary strikes. One hit the corner of a house opposite mine and the discharge - via my satellite dish - fried my Humax set-top box. I had a new one sent by Amazon from England. I understand your caution.
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Huge localized storms last night in North Lanarkshire and Perth. North Lanarkshire is only 15 miles or so from where I am but while friends there got no sleep due to the noise, and have several roads blocked with rain, there was nothing here
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Another blazingly hot day, so I went for another bike ride. As I arrived back in Hemel, it was clouding over, and then we got thunder and lightning, followed by TORRENTIAL rain - some of the heaviest I've seen - and I was still a mile from home! I got soaked.
https://www.strava.com/activities/3902845433
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Don't rub it in Micawb. I've gotta wait til tomorrow.
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The sky has gone dark here in Lot-et-Garonne and its characteristic blue is replaced with grey. Suddenly there is a vertical streak of light and a long rolling noise. What on earth is happening? Cars need their headlights on and people rush from their cars to their front doors.
Water has started falling from the sky. It's just like those places along the valley road where farmers are spraying their maize - but it's everywhere and not coming from pipes.
Some of the old people are nodding sagely. Yes, they have seen it before, when they were much younger - months ago. They stand in a small group, talking wildly. One turns to the rest of us.
Yes. It is raining.
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Still very hot in our part of the SE ... when the rain arrives I'll strip off and dance wildly in the garden :)
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Hot and humid again today, we had a huge banger and flasher of a thunderstorm last night. Fortunately it doesn't appear to have caused any damage in our neighbourhood.
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Lucky for some. We had a direct lightning hit on a telegraph pole 15m from our house. Our land phones were damaged and we couldn't even get a signal with a backup telephone. We're relying on What's App at the moment. Fire brigade was called and checked the telegraph pole. Internet connection wasn't affected though. My wife was outside the front door at the time. I told her what probably saved her from being the focus of a direct hit was her thinking to herself, "then again, maybe there could be a God". ;)
Three Kcom vans are here right now, and the engineers are in the process of repairing said pole.
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Still very hot in our part of the SE ... when the rain arrives I'll strip off and dance wildly in the garden :)
Likewise here in our part of the SE. We had a sprinkle of rain during the night but still looks dry as a bone this morning. And non of the flashy, bangy stuff yet.
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Overcast and cooler today, and dry so far.
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Overcast and cooler today, and dry so far.
TENA pads?
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TENA pads?
::)
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Here there is a thunderstorm, in which there has been continuous thunder for at least 30 minutes. Now the rain is coming down sideways.
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At sunset last night we had a yellow sky, something I hadn't come across before as far as I can remember. Apparently thunderstorms can cause this phenomena.
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At sunset last night we had a yellow sky, something I hadn't come across before as far as I can remember. Apparently thunderstorms can cause this phenomena.
Still over 35 c today here in deepest Essex, my wife tells me that there was a raging storm earlier this morning, never heard a thing, I'm next to dead once I put my head down to sleep.
I think this ability of mine to sleep soundly every night even through thunder storms etc, must be due to my having lived such a pristine blameless life witch in turn bestows upon me such a clear conscience freeing me of so many worries all of you wicked people out there have to deal with on a daily basis no doubt, I'm not sure why but my wife doesn't agree with me on this?
Regards L R, ippy.
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The Devil looks after his own ...
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'witch' being the operative word!
Still hot here, we had a little rain and thunder earlier but not enough.
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'witch' being the operative word!
Still hot here, we had a little rain and thunder earlier but not enough.
Jealousy!
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Another humid night. It is overcast this morning with a bit of a mizzle, but slightly cooler than yesterday, thank goodness.
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Wet and 'orrible. No wind. Cool.
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Wet and 'orrible. No wind. Cool.
TENA pads ?
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TENA pads ?
You've already done that joke.
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You've already done that joke.
for you , it was worth another outing :P
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Moderately rainy today, nice & refreshing.
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Slightly fresher, overcast, it rained overnight, we are supposed to have thunderstorms later.
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Intermittent heavy showers.
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We have had a bit of light rain, but so far none of the thunderstorms that were predicted. The sun has just come out, it is quite pleasant.
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There was a very big downpour an hour ago which lasted about twenty minutes. It was lovely. No rain now though, sun is out again.
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Been so overcast all day that been tempted to put on the lights. Some rain earlier but just very dreich.
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We had very heavy rain during the night, it is brightening up a bit now.
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Our Very Heavy Downpour only penetrated a couple of inches - the soil is still dry under that.
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The towns and villages all around here seem to be going under water one after the other, Chelmsford had boat trips around the town centre a couple of days ago, I'm beginning to wonder what we have done here, only I plumbed in and twinned up two water buts together at the end of our garage about three months ago and they've only managed to collect about two to three inches of water?
Regards to all ippy.
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The towns and villages all around here seem to be going under water one after the other, Chelmsford had boat trips around the town centre a couple of days ago, I'm beginning to wonder what we have done here, only I plumbed in and twinned up two water buts together at the end of our garage about three months ago and they've only managed to collect about two to three inches of water?
Regards to all ippy.
....make the collecting holes bigger or fix the leak?
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....make the collecting holes bigger or fix the leak?
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I wish it were as easy as that Seb, the connection is via a pair of inch and a half tank connectors with a section of the same sized pipe running between the two buts, the guttering and down pipe is all brand new and as clean as a whistle I put it up myself and it has plenty of slope I'd say about an inch in twenty five feet, where a quarter of an inch in twenty feet should be more than enough, so no it's not the materials at fault.
There's a village about three miles away from here and friends of ours there were holding their breath for risk of flooding at the sheer amount of water there was in a recent downpour, but apart from the odd few large spots of rain from time to time we seem to be left out of this rainy weather and would like to have some of it just to check the plumbing of these rainwater goods but I don't know when it's going to happen?
It could be a plot? Who said that!?
Regards Seb, ippy.
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WET! :(
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Misty continuous rain today you could walk about 100 to 150 meters in it before getting wet.
ippy
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Bright sunshine today with a strong breeze.
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We have little droplets of water falling from the sky today but not as much of it as I would like to see.
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We have had some very heavy rain today, the rain gauge filled right up, I am so glad we don't live yards from a river as we did at our previous property. It is very windy too, but the sun is peeping through at the moment
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Our Horticultural societies place at Hyde Hall Essex, has a display with examples of dry gardens and has notes saying we need examples of these gardens because here in Essex we have the same average rainfall as Jerusalem, that town in the Middle East.
I can remember thinking surly it can't be as dry as that here but when I read about the rainfall mentioned by lots of other members I'm beginning to wonder, it's still as dry as a bone here, we had some rain here overnight and a touch of more misting here this morning and now we're largely in full sun here at 1630.
We should certainly be planning to flood more of those Welsh valleys to assist us here with our water supplies and perhaps some of those Scottish valleys too, it'd be quiet a bonus if the authorities would do this to help England out.
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Our Horticultural societies place at Hyde Hall Essex, has a display with examples of dry gardens and has notes saying we need examples of these gardens because here in Essex we have the same average rainfall as Jerusalem, that town in the Middle East.
I can remember thinking surly it can't be as dry as that here but when I read about the rainfall mentioned by lots of other members I'm beginning to wonder, it's still as dry as a bone here, we had some rain here overnight and a touch of more misting here this morning and now we're largely in full sun here at 1630.
We should certainly be planning to flood more of those Welsh valleys to assist us here with our water supplies and perhaps some of those Scottish valleys too, it'd be quiet a bonus if the authorities would do this to help England out.
GET LOST!!!!!!!! :P :P :P
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Dull dreary dreich
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Wet and windy here. But I've got the pads and the Rennies.
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GET LOST!!!!!!!! :P :P :P
I was only thinking of about a half a dozen valleys or so didn't want to look greedy.
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I was only thinking of about a half a dozen valleys or so didn't want to look greedy.
How thoughtful of you. ;D
We had a very windy night and a millennium's worth of rain. However, on my morning walk I didn't see any damage or trees down.
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How thoughtful of you. ;D
We had a very windy night and a millennium's worth of rain. However, on my morning walk I didn't see any damage or trees down.
Very windy, little damage and still no significant amount of the wet stuff, it's still seriously dry in this part of the U K, no kidding.
Regards, ippy
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I have put the washing out so I can almost guarantee it will rain! ::)
Our next door neighbour called yesterday to tell us some of the roofing felt from our garden shed had come off in the storm. They could see it from their landing window, one cannot see it from the ground, the shed is at the side of our property. We will have to find someone to fix it, or at least our eldest girl will, she is in charge of our home, thank goodness.
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Pishing down
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Dry all day so far.
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Dry all day so far.
Me too, but I'll probably have a glass of wine with dinner.
It's pissing down outside though.
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Me too, but I'll probably have a glass of wine with dinner.
It's pissing down outside though.
Come the day of judgment!
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A gloomy morning with drizzle and cooler than it has been.
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First rain for weeks. Temperature down several degrees from yesterday ... but the sun is due to return tomorrow.
I have decided to stay another week here in Aquitaine - all I have to look forward to on my return to the UK is two weeks solitary confinement while under house arrest.
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Sunny today, but quite cool. There is a fresh breeze so I should get my washing dry.
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Had some rain but not but filling quantities yet, no doubt there'll be plenty of the stuff when I no longer need to collect it.
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Clucking 'orrible - wet and windy.
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Chilly here, currently at 3C, dry but a bit misty.
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Wet, blowing a gale. It can just clear up sharpish as I've got to go out for my flu jab.
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Beautiful sunny fresh autumnal day here
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The forecast for here was strong winds and rain, but during the last hour I have been out doing my up-and-down-the-Close walk and it has been quite mild, only one strong gustof wind and turned to blue sky and sunshine.
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Wet, blowing a gale. It can just clear up sharpish as I've got to go out for my flu jab.
At last those water buts of mine are nearly full, I got up at about half past two just to check that the bathroom was still OK and it was poring then as it still is now just past mid day.
ippy
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Horrible wintery day
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Sunny, but windy and cool.
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It is pleasantly sunny after a hard frost first thing this morning.
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Some light snow overnight
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Chilly, light breeze, raining, fairly miserabubble.
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Overcast and cooler than yesterday.
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Overcast and cooler than yesterday.
Sleet, wind, snell and driech.
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Thundersnow in Edinburgh
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-55184493?__twitter_impression=true
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Snaew,
Snell,
Driech;
Murder.
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Cold, drizzly, overcast, and miserable. At least there's no wind.
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It is pleasantly sunny at the moment. :)
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Scottish gritters
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/12/11/scotland-names-all-their-gritting-lorries-and-its-a-puntastic-delight/?fbclid=IwAR0H1v4abgz7sZKSgslaZXbnWVuLmmI0omvADW3MwMFOuJ-cpfmEY8Yl7gY
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some rain but not 2 cold.
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It's been a Spring tide on the coast. Lots of sand and pebbles flung about recklessly by nature in the last 24 hours.
I was aware that Spring tides aren't related to the season but wasn't sure how they came to be known as "Spring Tides".
Apparently it is because the tide "springs forth" when the earth, sun and moon are lined up in a row during a full or new moon.
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A miserable day, wet and windy!
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Quite bright today, but very chilly, however our postman was wearing shorts!
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They do, all year round. Tough people.
Cold, dull, drizzly today but virtually no traffic. It took me 10 minutes door to door to get home from work. Nice to be home in the warm.
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Been very icy since Boxing day; occasional snow flurries have added to the ice. Not very deep, but murder to walk on, and no-one's invented a long cane that 'does' ice.
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There was no frost this morning, but it feels very cold as there is a northly breeze.
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Documentary filming today in Glasgow
https://youtu.be/pRcA93dEsjE
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Windy and damn cold early afternoon; now the wind has dropped and it's a lot milder.
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Bright but chilly as there is a cold breeze.
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Very eerie in centre of Glasgow with lockdown and a heavy fog.
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Beautiful day: not a cloud in the sky, not a breath of wind, bright sunshine, absolutely freezing. There was a severe frost overnight, and the grass in the front garden is still frozen. Since the sun has already moved off it (the front garden faces North-East, so is in shadow by late morning), I think it'll stay frozen all day.
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Meanwhile in Spain...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55586751
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Lovely sunshine but it is not yet warm enough to clear all the snow, which fell yesterday.
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Lovely sunshine but it is not yet warm enough to clear all the snow, which fell yesterday.
Oddly for such a southerly country, Spain (the interior at any rate, away from the moderating influence of the sea) can have exceptionally bitter winters. I read a book about British volunteers in the civil war a few years ago, and the description of their sufferings in the depths of winter made me want to put another jumper on.
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Oddly for such a southerly country, Spain (the interior at any rate, away from the moderating influence of the sea) can have exceptionally bitter winters. I read a book about British volunteers in the civil war a few years ago, and the description of their sufferings in the depths of winter made me want to put another jumper on.
We have just seen this item on the news and were surprised that a country, we always regarded as warm, had so much snow.
No doubt the climate change deniers will have a field day! ::)
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It is much warmer today and the snow is clearing. I needed to unzip my jacket when I went for my early morning walk.
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Oddly for such a southerly country, Spain (the interior at any rate, away from the moderating influence of the sea) can have exceptionally bitter winters. I read a book about British volunteers in the civil war a few years ago, and the description of their sufferings in the depths of winter made me want to put another jumper on.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
The Spanish mainland - while not being particularly large - is still large enough to demonstrate the principles of continental climate effects.
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The temperatures are higher, but there is a brisk wind, which makes it feel quite chilly.
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The temperatures are higher, but there is a brisk wind, which makes it feel quite chilly.
It was quite odd when I woke up in the middle of the night to here the strong winds. It's been so calm over the last couple of weeks
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Much milder. Light breeze. Dry.
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A miserable day, heavy rain but not too cold. I feel sorry for our Vicar daughter, she has a burial this afternoon, I suggested she wore a wet suit!
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Stay safe, everyone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55715806
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It is mild but raining heavily. I am so glad we don't live close to a river as we did at our previous property.
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Wet and 'orrible. It was very windy last night, no doubt thanks to Storm Christoph, and is fairly windy now.
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We had snow overnight, but most of it has now melted, it is very sunny but windy.
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First substantial snow in centre of Glasgow.
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We had a smattering of snow last night, which settled, however the pleasant sunshine we have this morning had melted it all. :)
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Scottish gritters, salt of the earth
https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/08/snowcially-distanced-and-lord-coldemort-join-scotlands-gritters-14045236/
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We had a sprinkling of snow overnight, but that has gone as we now have pleasant sunshine.
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Beautiful day - blue sky, warm sunshine, light breeze.
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Beautiful day - blue sky, warm sunshine, light breeze.
The calm before the storm.
I'm here to rain on your parade!
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Wet and the wind is getting up.
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Wet 'n' 'orrible. Disappointing - I hoped yesterday's lovely weather would be the start of a pleasant spell.
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Wet 'n' 'orrible. Disappointing - I hoped yesterday's lovely weather would be the start of a pleasant spell.
I did warn you ;)
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We had a stormy night, but the wind is easing now and the sun is shining.
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Bright, breezy, tolerably warm.
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Torrential rain, windy. Horrible
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Mixed cloud and sunshine, mild, strong wind but I've done ten laps up and down the Close and it was really quite pleasant, especially wearing my winddproof gear.
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Sunshine, showers and the wind is getting up again.
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Cloudy, breezy, and chilly. Rain earlier.
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Mild, sunny, breezy.
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Brief but quite heavy hail with sun shining
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Very sunny, mild, but still windy.
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Very sunny but feeling rather cool. I was amused to see the girl (17) next door sunbathing wearing a bikini, I hope she doesn't catch a chill.
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Lovely here. Warm in the sun. Warmer tomorrow but then snow possible Sunday/Monday
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Lovely sunny, cloudless day so far, in marked contrast to dull, cold yesterday.
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It's lovely and bright today. Not yet been out to test the temperature.
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We had a hard frost first thing this morning, but it is very sunny now and warming up a bit.
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Snow this morning, sun this afternoon, hail now
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It's quite nice here, bright. Was cold earlier.
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Damn cold. It's a curious fact, demonstrated by annual statistics, that there's nearly always a cold snap in the second week of April give or take a few days, and here it is.
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Damn cold. It's a curious fact, demonstrated by annual statistics, that there's nearly always a cold snap in the second week of April give or take a few days, and here it is.
Certainly is cold. Clear blue sky, bright sunshine, but open the window and a blast of cold air blows in. Wind was less strong yesterday so I did my 20 laps up-and-down-the-Close, but not today!
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Pleasantly warm and sunny, I got my washing dry in double quick time. :)
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Pleasantly warm and sunny, I got my washing dry in double quick time. :)
Lucky you, wet and cool down here in Sussex :(
Still we need the rain (so the gardeners say!)
Good to see you again.
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Lucky you, wet and cool down here in Sussex :(
Still we need the rain (so the gardeners say!)
Good to see you again.
Thanks. :)
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Mild but gloomy.
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Far too hot for comfort, I prefer snow to a heatwave.
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Ot.
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Unpleasantly hot again. :(
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Pleasantly hot again.
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Another unpleasantly hot day here, still at least I get the washing dry very quickly.
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Another gloriously hot day here. Hardly any breeze. Got some beers in the larder and ciders in the fridge for tonight after work.
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Apparently drink too much alcohol in hot weather is very unwise.
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Another fantastic hot day, but with a bit more breeze than of late.
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Too hot again, I am looking forward to next week when it is supposed to be cooler.
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Apparently drink too much alcohol in hot weather is very unwise.
Hmmmmmmm
This calls for some experimentation, methinks.
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Hmmmmmmm
This calls for some experimentation, methinks.
I am with you on that ;D ;)
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Cooler today with a breeze, much more tolerable. :)
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Ditto here - loved the hot weather, but it is a pleasant change.
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Much cooler today, I have put on trousers instead of shorts. The sun is only peaking through the clouds.
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Light overcast, light breeze, dry after some rain overnight, warm but not hot.
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I am in south west France now - and it is hot and rather humid. Not too bad if you are lazing around but causing some discomfort if you are active. Rain is possible tomorrow but then the forecast is for more hot weather.
Interestingly (perhaps) this part of France - inland from the Atlantic and between Agen and Toulouse is frequently the hottest area in the country.
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A pleasant day, sunny but not too warm. :)
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Thunder, lightning, pouring rain
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Sunny, breezy and periodic drizzle.
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Here in south west France - at a latitude roughly the same as that of Rimini on the Adriatic - cloudy, damp (but not raining) dull and rather cool.
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Wet and windy.
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Torrential rain plus thunder.
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Torrential rain plus thunder.
Heard the thunder but rain hasn't reached city centre yet
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Heard the thunder but rain hasn't reached city centre yet
it has now
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It's still chucking it down: worst rain I ever seen - hearing that a few local roads have been closed due to flooding.
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Cloudless blue sky here in Aquitaine. Warm, calm evening.
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Spent the last five days at Wickham Festival. It pissed down on three of them and the mud was spectacular.
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The sun is shining and there is a bit of a breeze, my washing dried very quickly this morning. :)
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Two days ago peak of 34 C. Cooler than that yesterday (with a short shower and thunderstorm). Warm this morning (car thermometer said 23 C) with some fluffy cloud.
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Overcast with occasional drizzle, no wind.
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Miserable day, topped off with torrential rain
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The weather here in Aquitaine has not been brilliant - we've no rain recently, but not much sun either. A cold wind, reduced the temperature during the week making carrying a sweater in the evening a wise move. But things are now looking up ...
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In Worthing it was grey and miserable and damp for much of the day, but we are now being treated to a glorious sunset. Which is quite cheering.
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Overcast, no wind.
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Oh, you're back. I was beginning to think you'd left again.
Scattered cloud, intermittent sunshine, light breeze.
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Oh, you're back. I was beginning to think you'd left again.
Scattered cloud, intermittent sunshine, light breeze.
Ehhhhhhhh? I haven't been away. ::)
Cloudy, mild, a slight breeze.
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Oh, you're back. I was beginning to think you'd left again.
Scattered cloud, intermittent sunshine, light breeze.
Reading this makes me think of this poem.
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/naming-of-parts/
After a hazy start here it really is lovely now.
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Lovely sunshine and a gentle breeze, my washing is drying well. :)
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It's official ....
Winter is here ... Summer has ended
This morning:
My central heating boiler fired-up for the first time since July
Winter drawers on.
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Big delivery of rain today.
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It's official ....
Winter is here ... Summer has ended
This morning:
My central heating boiler fired-up for the first time since July
Winter drawers on.
Since July?
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Yes. Since July. 8) I have a graphical reord of the boiler'a performance on my Netatmo app since 20 July.
... To be clear, however, I must also admit that the house was not in occupation for much of that time/
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Damn cold and wet. Got my winter overcoat out, and gloves. Will have to buy a new wooly hat.
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Beautiful day here in Glasgow at moment but....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-59419772
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Damn cold and wet. Got my winter overcoat out, and gloves. Will have to buy a new wooly hat.
My winter coat's zip won't do up!
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Storm seems to have gone down east coast
No more thanna breeze here but one friend on east lost a chimney, and another lost power.
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Storm seems to have gone down east coast
No more thanna breeze here but one friend on east lost a chimney, and another lost power.
A friend in Nairn says it's blowing a hoolie up there, and a lot of trees down.
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Just looked out the window - it's snowing.
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Burns called it 'craneuch cault'...He's right. Still, this is 'Saltire Sunday, the Sunday closest to St Andrews' day.....
Wish my kilt was longer, as the kirk can be pretty draughty.
Don't even think about asking.
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Bit of a winter wonderland this morning due to overnight snow.
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In Florida there may be falling iguanas
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/29/us/falling-iguana-warning-south-florida/index.html
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Lavverley.
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It's snowing!
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It was snowing here too earlier! Only lightly, and not settling, but it was certainly damn cold. Now making feeble attempts to brighten up.
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Rain!
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Rain indeed:
So lay down your umbrellas
Strip off your plastic macs
You've never felt the rain my friend
Till you've felt it running down your back
So the next time you see rain, it ain't bad
Don't complain it rains for you
The next time you see L.A. rainclouds
Don't complain it rains for you and me
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Torrential rain right now - just sitting watching it, with a whisky for company.
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When is February going to end?
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When is February going to end?
We've just had the nicest and warmest three days of the year here on West Coast of Scotland, particularly Saturday.
Wednesday to Sunday, it's meant to pish down though.
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Hot again, though not as much so as yesterday. We're in for the summer's second heatwave next week.
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Another beautifully hot day. A very large stand of rosebay willowherb on Gaddesden Row, near Hemel Hempstead, this afternoon.
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Well, here we are on Monday morning, the start of two days at least of mega-heat, if the Met Office is right. At the moment (7:20) the sky is more or less clear, bright sunshine, no breeze, warm but not yet hot. Here is another flower photo, of a Buddleja davidii or butterfly bush which arrived in my garden from who knows where. It's normally mauve or purple, but I've got a white-flowered form, which is fairy common.
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Hope you folks in more southern parts are being careful in this hot weather - it is 29C here, which is bad enough, but it must be uncomfortable in those places where the temperature is 35C+
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34 degrees. So far so good: kept curtains and windows closed, cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom, will open doors tonight to cool the house down. Its like a mini lockdown, though will be going out in a bit.
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Not so bad here on the south coast - 29 degrees. There's been a fair bit of high cloud cover during the day which has helped, that and the slight breeze off the sea.
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It was hottest in mid-afternoon. at about 13:00 I went outside. It wasn't too bad in the house, but when I stepped through the front door, I hit a wall of heat. Now, at 22:30, it's still hot, but not as bad as that. Apparently, 100F (38C) was reached somewhere in Suffolk, and tomorrow may top 40C (104F) in places. (I assume BBC News meant shade temperatures, though they didn't specifically say so.)
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The Great British Bake-off.
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Well, here we are on Monday morning, the start of two days at least of mega-heat, if the Met Office is right. At the moment (7:20) the sky is more or less clear, bright sunshine, no breeze, warm but not yet hot. Here is another flower photo, of a Buddleja davidii or butterfly bush which arrived in my garden from who knows where. It's normally mauve or purple, but I've got a white-flowered form, which is fairy common.
The purple form is beautiful, but the pestilential mauve variety which has invaded everywhere, especially alongside railways, I really hate. Can't stand the smell, and it brings on my rhinitis. My sister used to have asthma attacks because of one in our childhood garden.
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Not so bad here on the south coast - 29 degrees. There's been a fair bit of high cloud cover during the day which has helped, that and the slight breeze off the sea.
Already 33 here in Bristol, and about 26 in my flat.
Soaked a shirt in cold water and put it on to cool down when I came home yesterday. Something of a shock to the system but it seemed to help.
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Already 33 here in Bristol,
Here in Bristol?
We are citymates.
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Here in Bristol?
O⁸
We are citymates.
I had an idea we were.
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I had an idea we were.
What area do you live in?
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What area do you live in?
Montpelier
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It's fairly uncomfortable here at present - according to the internet the temperature is 30C here in Bearsden, but the humidity is 70% (compared to 28C and 46% humidity 50 miles away in Edinburgh).
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Here in Herts, IT'S RAINING! ;D A great relief after the last two days. Tomorrow is going to be much cooler, cloudy, and wet. I took a vacuum bottle of semi-frozen apple juice to work. Delish!
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Thank goodness the weather has returned to more or less the British normal for this time of year. I was hoping for snow when we had that dreadful heatwave.
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Thank goodness the weather has returned to more or less the British normal for this time of year. I was hoping for snow when we had that dreadful heatwave.
It did get a little bit warm didn't it!
We've just had some rain here which was not in the forecast, but very welcome.
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It is dry and sunny at present, but rain is predicted for the next few days, our garden could do with it.
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I hope that prediction applies to Hertfordshire as well - mine could do with it too.
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I hope that prediction applies to Hertfordshire as well - mine could do with it too.
Sadly your area hasn't any rain predicted at all! :o
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62323048
I was shocked when I read that weather forecasters had been sent abusive e-mails and tweets during the heatwave! :o
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62323048
I was shocked when I read that weather forecasters had been sent abusive e-mails and tweets during the heatwave! :o
Climate change deniers, who accuse the rest of us of being naive stooges of an international plot, while being naive stooges of the oil, car-manufacturing, and alrline industries. They should ask themselves "cui bono?" ("who benefits?").
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We have had light rain on and off most of the day. It is about 21C, there is a moderate breeze.
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How are people coping with this awful heatwave? I have my walk early as usual, then stay in for the rest of the day.
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It hasn't been as bad here, being further north, compared with more southern parts of the UK - but it's been hot enough for me!
Currently 24C outside, but 31C in St Albans (where I had my secondary school education).
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Yeah, yesterday was just a beautiful summer's day in Glasgow. I'm at an open air concert tonight so will enjoy it.
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I am glad Bonny Scotland is rather cooler. :) It is about 30C in our part of North Wales. Not much higher than 20C is better for me.
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Rain started, some thunder, no lightning so far
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Nice display of lightning around midnight, and pretty heavy rain on and off since then. Constant rain nin East Ayrshire since around five o'clock this morning, and very humid.
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Apparently there was some loud thunder here about 2.30am - I slept through it, since my ears were sans hearing aids.
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A bit cooler today and some much needed rain. No thunder as yet, thank goodness.
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It was hottest in mid-afternoon. at about 13:00 I went outside. It wasn't too bad in the house, but when I stepped through the front door, I hit a wall of heat. Now, at 22:30, it's still hot, but not as bad as that. Apparently, 100F (38C) was reached somewhere in Suffolk, and tomorrow may top 40C (104F) in places. (I assume BBC News meant shade temperatures, though they didn't specifically say so.)
All temperatures used in official weather statements refer to air temperatures measured in structures such as Stevenson Screens which exclude direct radiation. The temperature could be notably higher in direct sunshine.
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Sunny but quite a bit cooler than it has been, thank goodness. We have had much needed rain in the last few days.
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I don't like the humidity. My office is a pleasant temperature thankfully.
We could do with some rain.
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We had rain overnight, it is rather cloudy, 19C outside.
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We have some extremely heavy rain first thing this morning for which our garden was very grateful. We haven't had rain that heavy for much of the year.
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Bloody freezing. It snowed overnight on Sunday-Monday, and is still lying.
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No snow here - but there is freezing fog, and the car says it is -8 outside.
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-4, and no water since six this morning...the whole town's in the same boat
(not one that floats, obviously)
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-4, and no water since six this morning...the whole town's in the same boat
(not one that floats, obviously)
Properly cold. Yesterday you could just wrap.up warm - today wet cold.
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It's -9 outside, with a heavy overnight frost.
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It's -9 outside, with a heavy overnight frost.
Though it is, if you are wrapped up warm a beautiful day.
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Bright, breezy, chilly.
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Bright, breezy, chilly.
dark, windy, wet
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dark, windy, wet
Which continued
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64118732
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It will be of little consolation to you but it has been dark, windy, and wet down here on the South coast too.
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Nicer day after horrible night
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Yet another bright, sunny, still, brass monkeys day. Forecast to get a lot warmer by Monday.
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The World (well UK) Turned Upside Down. BBC weather map from early this morning
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Dreich.
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Lovely day here after a number of driech days.
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Today's weather is being controlled by the lights in my living room. When it get's too dark and I switch on the lights, it get's lighter and stops raining, and when I switch them off because the sun is shining, it gets dark and starts to pour.
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Very windy night, never really seemed to slow up.
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It's still pretty wild - up at Balfaffray, which is quite elevated, doing the school run and it's blowing a hoolie right now.
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Only really calmed down in last half hour
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Beautiful spring! day.
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Dull, damp though not actually raining, light breeze, cold. Winter is having a final fling - which is good news for my apple harvest, as a late (but not too late) cold spell means the blossom will be late, and therefore less likely to be (literally) nipped in the bud (where the expression comes from, of course) by a late frost. It's also an "on" year for my biennial-bearing trees, which is all but one of them.
All the same, I'd like it to warm up soon.
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Sun splitting the streets but chilly.
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Sun splitting the streets but chilly.
And same again, even sunnier
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And same again, even sunnier
Lucky you. Grey skies, damp, cold. For days.
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Another lovely day today though we had a couple of inches of snow yesterday evening which had some Indian families and students out in George Sq building snow men (small ones) when I passed through it at 9.30pm
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Ooh err
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64919199
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Light cloud, hazy sunshine, little breeze, a bit chilly but a great improvement on the last few days.
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Dull dark sleety snow
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Now quite heavy snow
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Bright, breezy, warmish. I'm planning a trip to that London on Saturday; if it's like this, I won't complain.
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Still 25° in Glasgow
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Heavily overcast, raining, no breeze.
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Pishing down.
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Looks as though it may be here soon: dull and overcast.
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Been pissing down all day here in Hemel Hempstead.
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I am in Lot et Garonne in SW France.
I arrived yesterday after driving from northern France through rather dull and occasionally rainy skies.
But when I arrived the sun was shining - as it has been all day today. Temperature to day 30o.
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I doubt I will get much sight of the Sturgeon supermoon tonight.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66376331
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Lovely August weather
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66381122
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Wetnorrible.
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Light cloud cover, little breeze, pleasantly warm.
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Have lights on as it's quite so dark.
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Currently wet on the cycling roads
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Currently in SW France. For several days now the mid-afternoon the temperature has been in the mid 30s.
Any chance of a swap?
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Beautiful day today - summer has finally returned, just in time.
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It's raining!
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Here too, with a touch of thunder
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The rain soon stopped again, but it's cooler and fresher than of late.
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The rain soon stopped again, but it's cooler and fresher than of late.
Chucking it down now.
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We had a scattering of huge raindrops earlier but now back to full sunshine. Slightly cooler.
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Storm Agnes looks fun! Let's hope ot doesn't reverse and become Senga
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66909872
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Switched the light on and off 3 times in last 20 minutes as sun and dark rain alternate.
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Meanwhile in New York, floods
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/new-york-declares-state-of-emergency-as-flash-flooding-leaves-parts-of-city-underwater/ar-AA1hrG4n
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They're writing songs of unseasonably warm weather, but not for me.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67028073
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/warnings/weather
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Not a day to go out here without your Drooko
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And in many places even the Drooko will be insufficient
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67035351
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Beautiful day (sorry, not sorry) down here on the South Coast. Been out for a coffee on the pier. Watched the wind surfers and kite surfers. Even a few souls venturing in for a swim. Although to be fair there is always a few souls whatever the weather.
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Let us hope Babet does not make a feast of it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/67122268
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Let us hope Babet does not make a feast of it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/67122268
Little Red Babet
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67144619
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Met Office Weather Warning map for tomorrow
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Let us hope Babet does not make a feast of it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/67122268
Neat cultural reference.
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Brrrr
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6229828/cairngorms-snow-falls-mountains/
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Pishing down
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Pishing down
And also at the other end of these Isles.
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And also at the other end of these Isles.
Come now, I'm only in the north bit of the middle. Apparently it's quite nice in Lerwick.
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Wet in Herts.
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Ciarán on its way
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67258915
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What a miserable day!
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Dull and damp, but not cold or raining.
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Yep,
Dull and damp, but not cold or raining.
Same in Glasgow.
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After a few sunny winter days, pissing down
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After a few sunny winter days, pissing down
Likewise.
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Likewise.
Ditto.
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Back to cloudless skies, sunshine and no breeze worth mentioning, after yesterday's grottiness.
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Not as wet so far today as was expecting. Did have a good rainbow though about 15 minutes ago.
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Is there snow on the way? Well, as somebody-or-other said, "When a headline takes the form of a question, the answer is always no".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/67478908
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Is there snow on the way? Well, as somebody-or-other said, "When a headline takes the form of a question, the answer is always no".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/67478908
or the answer is always snow?
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Atrocious weather this morning, but brightened up in last hour.
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Beautiful cloudless sky, bright sunshine, light breeze, absolutely brass monkeys.
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Same here but darkness has fallen
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Beautiful, cold day
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Ditto. Light breeze. At this time of year, clear skies = brass monkeys.
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or the answer is always snow?
As Hugh Dennis bashfully informed us, it's sometimes too cold for snow (he studied Geography at university, and seems ashamed of it, since this is supposedly not a 'cool' subject).
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Just looked out the window - it has snowed overnight, and very pretty it looks too.
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Just looked out the window - it has snowed overnight, and very pretty it looks too.
Yes, it's light enough not to be a problem, and cold enough not to just turn to slush.
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Yes, it's light enough not to be a problem, and cold enough not to just turn to slush.
Though what looks to be not a problem obviously is a problem only 6 miles away.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67599649
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Dull, misty, very still, damn cold. Probably not quite freezing at the moment (15:32), but near enough for last night's hard frost to still be on the grass in the front garden.
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'Let's be careful out there'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67644950
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The weather according to my new weather station.
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Not quite snow as in White Christmas
Dreich, Dreich, Dreich,
Dreich
It won't be long before we'll all be there with dreich
Dreich
I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with Dreich
Dreich
I long to clear a path and lift a spade of dreich
Dreich
Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of dreich
Where it's dreiching
All winter through
That's where I want to be
Dreichball throwing
That's what I'll do
How I'm longing to ski
Through the dreich-ch-ch-ch-ch
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Was a bit blowy overnight. Not sure why we've switched to the Danish name for this storm as opposed to the Irish ones. How are you meant to keep them in order!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67784134
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Quite a lot of weather
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67810913
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It remains on the blowy side
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I'm dreaming of a mild Christmas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67817500
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More weather arriving
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67823805
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Gerrit out!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gydzw7p6po
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Wet and indeed windy
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Wet and breezy, but still remarkably mild.
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Wet and breezy, but still remarkably mild.
Lovely, if suitably chilly, today. After the storms, wind died down, but weather warning for tomorrow.
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Wet and breezy, but still remarkably mild.
Since I wrote that, about three hours ago, the weather has changed remarkably. The breeze has more or less disappeared, the clouds have disappeared, and we have sunny, cloudless weather.
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It's just started snowing here.
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It's just started snowing here.
Pretty heavy too
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Very heavy now - glad I don't have to go out today.
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Wet here - light breeze, mild temperature.
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Utterly miserable here. Cold and wet,
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Stay safe from the 'small but potent' Henk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67861206 >:(
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Wet and windy here, no doubt thanks to Henk.
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Major flooding incident in Nottinghamshire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67878565
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Beautiful chilly sunny day
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Heavy frost last night - it's absolutely freezing here.
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Heavy frost last night - it's absolutely freezing here.
And foggy, which has been rare this winter
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Snow. On the Ground. In Worthing.
I mention this because this is the first time this has happened since we moved down here in 2019.
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Snow. On the Ground. In Worthing.
I mention this because this is the first time this has happened since we moved down here in 2019.
Been a nothing day here. Ground is wet even though it hadn't rained. Not as cold as yesterday.
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Dull, dry, not much wind, damn cold. Tried to snow earlier, but it didn't come to anything.
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Chilly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67958376
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Brief flurry of snow this morning but gone now.
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Bright and sunny, no breeze, nippy but not too bad. Going out to prune my Buddleja soon.
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Blazing sunshine, -4.
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After glorious sunshine and blue skies yesterday, we have grey and cold on top of cold and grey.
I find I am singing "In the Bleak mid Winter" to myself.
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Having reached the dizzy height of 0, temperature falling.
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Just come in from picking grand-daughter from Brownies - car says it is -4C currently.
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What a lot of weather!
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68043800
Glad to be in Barcelona
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As Jocelyn is about to hit Glasgow
'With Storm Jocelyn about the batter the city, it's worth remembering that this isn't the first Jocelyn to barrel into Glasgow. That honour goes to Bishop Jocelyn, who, in 1174, was confirmed as the fourth Bishop of Glasgow.
At some point between the years 1175 and 1178, Jocelyn obtained from King William the Lion a grant of burghal status for the emerging settlement of Glasgow, with a market every Thursday. The grant of a market was the first ever official grant of a weekly market to a burgh. Moreover, between 1189 and 1195, King William granted the burgh an annual fair, today's Glasgow Fair holiday, increasing Glasgow's status as an important settlement. As well as new revenues for the bishop, the rights entailed by Glasgow's new burghal status and market privileges brought new people and new traders and businesses to the settlement.
The new settlement was laid out around Glasgow Cross, down the hill from the cathedral and old fort of Glasgow, but above the flood level of the River Clyde.
Today, Jocelyn is remembered by Jocelyn Square, outside the High Court, which used to be called Gaol/Jail Square.
Pic: The official seal of Bishop Jocelyn'
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Meanwhile at GB News
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Scorchio!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-68119951
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Miserable, horrible day
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Wet enough already before the warning
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68198324
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And has continued wet and windy but sonehow not quite a storm. Certainly has sounded like it.
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I've just rec a yellow warning of snow...
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There's a nasty nip in the air, as the sailor said when he saw the kamikaze aircraft approaching his ship.
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Had been thinking it was one of the nicer days we've had here. But then that's not true elsewhere
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68253098
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Had been thinking it was one of the nicer days we've had here. But then that's not true elsewhere
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68253098
And now not nice here
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After a few days hinting at spring, back to dreich
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Bloody blustery
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Gloriously gusty
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Weirdly windless.
The forecast says that we're finally going to get some decent weather in April.
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My wife, Kathleen, is enjoying the notoriety
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c06l031py3mo
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The first sign of summer as the Cricket County Championships start and there is rain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68651278
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Bright intervals. warmish, windy.
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Spectacularly ugly day raining horizontally in 50 mile gusts
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And another filthy day .
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Very windy all day - the rickety fence between my back garden and next door's is wobbling fit to collapse - but otherwise very changeable: bright and sunny one minute, raining the next, hailing the next. Just had a brief but very heavy downpour.
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Well that was a thundertorm and then some last night.
I don't recall seeing so much lightning in the UK before.
Very tired today!
This photo was taken at Brighton last night judging by the comments on FB it woke up most of the South coast.
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More weather in lots of places
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckr5eg11j9yo
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And more weather on way
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cll451q4l55o
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40 shades of grey
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Dull, damp and chilly.
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More weather warnings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cljjrndg90eo
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Wetnorrible.
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Flood warnings, and travel disruption. Been raining pretty consistently here since 3pm yesterday.
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Sunny and pleasantly warm here.
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Sunny and pleasantly warm here.
To be fair, it isn't at all cold here
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And the rain continues. Horrid miserable weather.
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Dreich. (Is that pronounced "drike" or "dreek"?)
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Dreich. (Is that pronounced "drike" or "dreek"?)
Dree-ch with the ch as in loch
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First meal on balcony of the summer. Vaguely missing the calm of early lockdown.
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First of June, and I'm wearing a thick jumper. ::)
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Very fresh breeze today
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Dull and wet. What a surprise.
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Dull and wet. What a surprise.
June's coorieing down all over.
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Today is purest grey.
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Bright and sunny. Light breeze.
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Snow yesterday in the Cairngorms
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsscotland/snow-falls-in-scotland-in-june-as-temperatures-set-to-remain-low/ar-BB1nCuTr
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Another miserable day.
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Another miserable day.
Ditto here - and the 10-day weather forecast doesn't give much hope of an improvement soon. A week tomorrow looks promising, but then it's back to cloud, rain and cold.
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Ditto here - and the 10-day weather forecast doesn't give much hope of an improvement soon. A week tomorrow looks promising, but then it's back to cloud, rain and cold.
I blame Sunak
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I blame Sunak
During a speech before one of his General Elections, Harold Wilson mentioned various Labour achievements, and finished by referring to the warm, sunny weather that day: "And we even bring good weather with us!". He obviously intended it to be taken as a joke, but the crafty old sod was probably hoping that his audience would subconsciously associiate good weather with Labour.
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During a speech before one of his General Elections, Harold Wilson mentioned various Labour achievements, and finished by referring to the warm, sunny weather that day: "And we even bring good weather with us!". He obviously intended it to be taken as a joke, but the crafty old sod was probably hoping that his audience would subconsciously associiate good weather with Labour.
Crafty old sod is not a description one could give to Sunak.
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Just put on the light as it's so dark.
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Beautiful day here in Herts - summer has arrived at last.
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I have just put the washing out, it was lovely and sunny, but has now clouded up. If I did my washing in drought stricken area, they would never have a drought again! :o
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Still warm and sunny - not a cloud in the sky.
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It is much cooler and we have had some drizzle. My husband dug me out of bed, just before 5am, to look at the fantastic rainbow.
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Broken cloud, windy, warmish.
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We had light drizzle this morning, light winds and it is cooler than yesterday. It isn't raining at present, so I have risked putting the washing out, and await the monsoon!!!!!!
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Dreich for March.
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Dull and chilly. I've got the plug-in heater on.
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Cool and breezy.
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It's brightened and warmed up somewhat now.
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And obviously British Summertime continues with rain delays at Wimbledon
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Utterly miserable day here. Can imagine a few people might decide not to make it to the polling station.
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Windy, but we haven't had any rain yet.
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Glencoe today
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It has been raining heavily today.
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It has been raining heavily today.
Pleasant currently but I wouldn't mind a few torrential showers to welcome the huge sectarian walks around the area today
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Pissing down.
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It is very sunny and warm today, I got my washing dry in double quick time. We are supposed to have very heavy rain tomorrow.
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Cloudy, warmish, dry.
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Nicest day in ages. Lovely evening.
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We had an unusually long winter (we still had snow at the end of April) but the summer has been quite nice now. We hardly had spring at all. It skipped straight from winter to summer. Quite pleasant now. 20+ most days.
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Heavy rain!
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Overcast but dry.
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The lovely day has has gone away
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Pissing down.
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Pissing down.
And the details
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c2q0x3vx0d2o
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Very windy, but sunny, my washing is drying well. :)
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Sunny and warm at the moment, but there is a weather warning as we are supposed to have very heavy rain, which could cause flooding problems for some people. :o Fortunately for us are on higher ground and not close to a river.
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We have been forecast heavy rain here, but all we have is grey drizzle.
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Spectacularly miserable
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After a very wet night and early morning, it has brightened up a bit now, thank goodness.
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Spectacularly miserable
And it's St Swithin's Day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cn4vrn7nml0o
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But now a lovely evening.
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It is very pleasant here too and quite warm. :)
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Muggy, overcast, hint of rain.
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Warm, cloudy with a bit of a breeze, however I got our bedding dry very quickly so I am a happy bunny. :)
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Beautiful - sunny, light breeze, warm, almost hot. Been out n the front garden, pulling up Great Willowherb, which is a weed n theory, but which I let grow there because it' a beautiful, stately plant. However, it needs keeping under control, so I removed some that had strayed too far.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/6475/epilobium-hirsutum/details
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Even beautifuller - hot, sunny and windless.
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Sunny and very warm. Only the second time I have worn shorts this year. All change tomorrow by the looks of it.
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Muggy, and overcast again.
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Too hot and humid, can't sleep.
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Too hot and humid, can't sleep.
Yep, didn't even get a sunny day out of it.
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An unpleasant very warm night. It is still warm this morning but is supposed to rain very soon.
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Dull and heavy drizzle. Not sure we're getting our money's worth out the 'hottest days in the world' of late.
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Cloudy and breezy, it is cooler 21C .
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Cloudy but dry, light breeze. Moderate temperature.
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Here (for a few weeks) in SW France somewhere between Bordeaux and Toulouse.
Daily mid afternoon temperatures in mid 30s, highest so far 37 degrees. The world looks incredibly beautiful - though whether not it will continue to do so should this hot spell not be interrupted is another matter!
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It is 25C, I hope it doesn't get any warmer although I got my washing dry in double quick time.
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Beautiful hot, sunny day, with a warm breeze to keep the temperature pleasant.
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A bit cooler today. 18°C and overcast. I like warm weather but it's a bit of a relief really, as when it's hot and muggy I have trouble going to the toilet, if you know what I mean. Anyway, summer holiday starts now. Four weeks off and next week predicted to be hot and sunny.💪
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Cloudy, warm, muggy. No breeze worth talking of.
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Warm, sunny and breezy.
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Hooray! It's raining! ;D
Not very heavily, but hopefully it'll continue all day, and get heavier - the garden needs it.
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Sunny, but cooler than yesterday. There a breeze which is drying my washing quite well. :)
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The rain didn't last long, and wasn't heavy, so probably no use to the garden. It's now broken cloud and warmish. I've got the sprinkler going in the back garden for a few hours, and this evening, when I switch it off, I will be planting my new rambling rose, 'Rambling Rosie'. which was delivered an hour ago. It's now in the sink in its pot, in water..
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A nothing day. Overcast, a little wind, but no rain.
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Quite chilly wind this morning
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Cloudy, cooler than yesterday, there was drizzle earlier.
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Wet and grey again
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Wet and grey again
Now pishing down
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Hasn't really stopped raining since yesterday evening
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Warm, cloudy with a moderate breeze.
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I have just had an e-mail from our youngest daughter and family who are in Orlando, Florida and experiencing Storm Debby!!!!! They are ok and hopefully the storm will be over very soon.
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I have just had an e-mail from our youngest daughter and family who are in Orlando, Florida and experiencing Storm Debby!!!!! They are ok and hopefully the storm will be over very soon.
Hope all are well.
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Hope all are well.
We haven't heard anymore from them, hopefully it hasn't got any worse where they are.
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More feckin rain
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Pissing down
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Well, when I got up this morning the road surfaces were wet. It had clearly rained during the night. The air was fresh and it felt very comfortable.
By mid morning it was clear that things had not changed. The temperature rose into the 30s and now a possibly uncomfortable night beckons.
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I put that washing and within 15 minutes it started a light drizzle! It is cooler today and a moderate breeze.
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Blustery day, making it very changeable
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Sunny and breezy here, had a lovely walk to the Church of the English Martyrs. It has a sort of copy of the Sistine chapel ceiling. A little incongruous in Worthing but hey ho:
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Started off pleasant, now so wet it looks like fog.
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Light rain for the last few hours.
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Woken up a couple of times in the night by the wind.
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Sunny and hottish with a brisk breeze.
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I got two lots of washing dry in double quick time today, it is sunny, very warm and a moderate breeze.
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Overcast and dull, but warm and still. Heard distant rumbles which might have been thunder earlier, when I was in the garden. Hope it was - I love a good thunderstorm!
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There is no such thing as a good thunderstorm, imo. I was terrified of them as a child, I would crawl out from under the table when assured that the bangs I was hearing were mines being exploded on the beaches, not a storm. Even in my adulthood I am still phobic about thunderstorms, having been nearly struck by lightning when I was on holiday in my home island about 20 years ago.
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I was nearly struck by lightning about 30 years ago, but I still love them. I was walking in torrential rain alongside some woodland when there was a blinding flash and a deafening crack at the same instant. The lightning must have hit one of the trees.
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Sunny but rather cool.
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Sunny and warm. Light breeze.
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Cloudy and breezy.
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Grey as an earl
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Grey as an earl
Now with added smir
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Now with added smir
Which has changed to pishing down
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Very windy and it is now raining!
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Having been cloudy and coolish all day, we've now got a lovely, sunny, warm evening. Moderate breeze.
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Chucking it down, again
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Sunny, but the wind is getting up again.
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Sunny, breezy, warm.
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Friend's just taken this photo. It's a bit brighter where he is than here but it's about 15 miles away from me.
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And we have a weather warning for the next 2 days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/warnings/weather
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And we have a weather warning for the next 2 days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/warnings/weather
So far, so miserable but not quite weather warning worthy, though I know a couple of friends who have switched on their heating.
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Warm and sunny here on the South coast, though the breeze is quite bracing.
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Another weather warning, though not for West of Scotland, though we are due possible thunder tomorrow
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cje2yelp227o
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It isn't quite so windy as it was earlier, but it is still very breezy. Fortunately we don't appear to have had any storm damage in our neighbourhood, thank goodness.
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Chucking it down
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Pissing down, and likely to remain so for hours yet, which is good news for the garden - we haven't had significant rain for ages. I've had the oscillating sprinkler on a few times, but the natural stuff is better.
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Pissing down, and likely to remain so for hours yet, which is good news for the garden - we haven't had significant rain for ages. I've had the oscillating sprinkler on a few times, but the natural stuff is better.
Pleasant day at moment, and might be like that for rest of day which is good news since we've had lots of significant rain with another downpour for a few hours overnight.
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Pleasant day at moment, and might be like that for rest of day which is good news since we've had lots of significant rain with another downpour for a few hours overnight.
spoke too soon. Raining
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The sun is shining, rather breezy, my washing is drying well. :)
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Holy flying urinals, Batman!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgr4l3yedlo
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Wet n'orrible again. Very glad to be going to Portugal at end of week.
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Mostly cloudy with a few patches of blue, dry, windy. Temperature thin jumper.
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Pleasant autumnal morning but raining again
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Breezy, fairly warm, one minute it is very sunny, the next there is a lot of cloud.
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Thunder and lightning some of it very loud, bright and close, for half an hour or more around 3 am, but not much rain or wind.
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It was very foggy first thing this morning, it is now raining but very mild.
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I am currently in Jersey, where I arrived a couple of days ago.
My journey here from the Lot et Garonne was accompanied by cloudy - sometimes rainy - weather for almost the whole journey. Although there was a high point when - like a huge arch - a magnificent rainbow framed the road on which I was travelling (A83).
Summer was switched off on 31st August. Up to then it had been very dry and sunny with temperatures sometimes in the 30s but from 1st September onwards it has been - well - autumnal.
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I was always terrified of thunderstorms as a kid in my home island of Guernsey, of which we had plenty. When I heard a bang I would hide under the table assuming it was another storm. When I was assured it wasn't, but a WW2 mine being exploded on one of the beaches, I was relieved!
It is quite breezy with a bit of drizzle here in North Wales today.
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We had torrential rain earlier, from time to time it was so heavy it was like a waterfall. :o
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Rather sadly, I fear that some of the magnificence of the sunset in the posts I put up last night are due to this.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/portugal-asks-europe-help-wildfires-rage-2024-09-16/
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Looks like intended trio to Douro valley for the next couple of days off due to fire, and effects on transport.
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Dull and windy, but dry so far, today. Going to get interesting tomorrow1 (X = me, approx.)
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We have a thunderstorm and torrential rain at the moment.
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Very overcast, heavy rain. My road, which has a slight gradient, has been converted into a river.
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Now 14:25. The rain has stopped, but it's still very dark.
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A beautiful autumn day today. Sun shining and a cool 13°C. Would have loved to have gone running today but I'm a bit bunged up. Had cold symptoms for over two weeks now.
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A beautiful autumn day today. Sun shining and a cool 13°C. Would have loved to have gone running today but I'm a bit bunged up. Had cold symptoms for over two weeks now.
You checked if it's a Covid variant?
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You checked if it's a Covid variant?
Yes. It was. Initially it went as quick as it came, but I made the mistake of going back to a normal routine straightaway before I'd fully recovered. Own fault.
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It feels very autumnal today, it is much cooler, quite windy and raining on and off.
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Dull, windless, a bit chilly, dry.
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BBC weather app gone a bit apocalyptic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kjrp2rngzo
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BBC weather app gone a bit apocalyptic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kjrp2rngzo
I noticed. The web site is predicting wind speeds of 15,909mph across the country. Take cover!
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Hopefully they will fix it very soon.
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Miserable, dark and wet
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Sunny but windy.
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It is very misty, the torrential rain is like a waterfall. :o
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Wahey! I'm back n!
Lovely sunny, warm day today, after overnight rain. No breeze to talk of.
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Wahey! I'm back n!
Lovely sunny, warm day today, after overnight rain. No breeze to talk of.
Good that you're back. Good weather here as well after a wet start.
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Weather bomb on its way to those of us in Scotland.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3dn4053jo
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Good that you're back.
Thanks. Good weather here as well after a wet start.
Ditto here.
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Wet and very windy, but mild.
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Wet and blustery. Fairly mild temperature.
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The wind is beginning to get up but so far it's not been very weather bomblike.
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Quite blowy now
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Light cloud cover, dry, very still, a bit chillier than of late. 16:15: quite remarkably still - not the slightest breath of wind.
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Another still, calm day, but sunny, not cloudy - typical autumn day, and why it's my favourite season. I'm taking a break from digging up my lawn to grow vegetables. It's a few years since i grew my own food, since I gave up my allotment, but now that I'm retired, I've got time, and I don't need a lawn.
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Autumn in full swing here. Quite cold in the morning and about 5-10°C during the day. When all the leaves change we call that "ruska", which refers to the different colours of the leaves. That time is almost over though, as most of the leaves have already gone. Nice time for being in the forest. Lucky enough to live a stones throw from a large forest with lots of trails.
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Autumn in full swing here. Quite cold in the morning and about 5-10°C during the day. When all the leaves change we call that "ruska", which refers to the different colours of the leaves. That time is almost over though, as most of the leaves have already gone. Nice time for being in the forest. Lucky enough to live a stones throw from a large forest with lots of trails.
After a burst of torrential rain this morning it's lively. Chilly but no wind. The trees seemed to have turned later this year and the leaves are now falling quickly but may be late overall. It is an odd year as I spent September in Porto but I feel the dark much more this year in part because of that.
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Heading into a beautiful, sunny, still evening. Dug my first veg. bed, of four, for a four year crop rotation.
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Heading into a beautiful, sunny, still evening. Dug my first veg. bed, of four, for a four year crop rotation.
The rain it falleth, again, feck.
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Mild, no breeze but very cloudy.
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Mild, no breeze but very cloudy.
Ditto - yet another mild, still, dry autumnal day.
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Only shades of grey.
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It was sunset at 4:31pm, not that we have seen any sun for the last few days. There is no wind, but it feels cooler today.
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It's a foggy day in Glasgow town. Was foggy when I got up 2 hours ago, much thicker now.
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The dull, misty, still weather - which was rather lovely n a melancholy, autumnal way - has finally ended - today is bright, sunny, breezy and a bit chilly.
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Beautiful morning here
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Rained overnight, started out dull, now brightening up. Light breeze, Mild.
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There was a fog early this morning, but it soon cleared, it is now sunny and reasonably mild.
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Bit of weather on way
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c98dgl2rx8lo
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It's snowing heavily, and settling.
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We haven't had so much snow for a very long time! :o
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More weather warnings issued
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/warnings/weather
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Storm Bert on the way, can Ernie be far behind?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg7q6wnwxo
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It is quite sunny today and the snow is melting fast.
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Beautiful, sunny late-autumn day here in SW Herts. No breeze worth talking of. just been out collecting dead leaves from a footpath in a net bag, to rot down over the next year or two to make leafmould, which is an excellent soil conditioner and mulch. I've now got four bags full, and will get more before I've finished.
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Started snow heavily about an hour ago.
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Heavy rain and strong winds, but much milder.
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A beautiful sunny day. Snow and about -5°C. Rather annoyingly it should warm up again next week and lots of rain. Here's a photo I took this morning outside my apartment building before my run.
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Heavy rain overnight, judging by the ground. Now overcast and windy.
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With much chaos and at least one fatality (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn9x4py5990t?post=asset%3Ac0c7bd91-b2c6-439d-b166-bbf906ff6aec#post), could we not have come up with a better name than "Bert (https://images.app.goo.gl/UXbdSMPNL65vJJwY7)".
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How about 'Putin'?
It was raining first thing this morning, by lunchtime it had brightened up a bit, but it is still very windy.
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Now Conall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxvlkql232o
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How about 'Putin'?
;D
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We had a very hard frost this morning, it is taking quite a while to melt even though the sun is shining.
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We had a very hard frost this morning, it is taking quite a while to melt even though the sun is shining.
Same here
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Cold and frosty overnight, now bright, sunny, cloudless and windless.
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Sunny and reasonably mild.
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Storm Darragh on way
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cd60v5d744lo
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Mild, but very wet and the wind is getting up! :o
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Wet and blustery. I'm well outside the danger area for storm Darragh, but no doubt the outer edge of it is casing the conditions.
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We have had rain and strong winds all day. So far we have been fortunate, apart from our metal garden bench blowing over, we have had no other problems. Our amber storm alert has been reduced to yellow a few minutes ago.
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Winds gusting up to 54 knots this morning. All rowing cancelled for the weekend.
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Still wet and windy. Just been out - the rain is turning to sleet.
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Fogginessabounds
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Dreich.
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The fog remaineth
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No fog here, only shades of grey.
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No fog here, only shades of grey.
50?
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50?
I was thinking more of this:
https://youtu.be/D9ZxRjItD1o
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Stygian gloom prevails, again.
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12C, a bit of sunshine and a light breeze.
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Been blowing a gale all day.
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The wind is getting up again here.
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Broken cloud, sunny at the moment, no breeze worth talking of, very mild.
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We had very heavy rain in the night. There is a gentle breeze, the sun is out now and there is a clear blue sky. They are giving wind warnings for Saturday and Sunday.
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We had very heavy rain in the night. There is a gentle breeze, the sun is out now and there is a clear blue sky. They are giving wind warnings for Saturday and Sunday.
Beautiful day here now
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Lovely here too. i was out in the garden earlier, removing the dead yellow loosestrife, wearing just a thick jumper and tatty jeans. (And shoes and socks, obv.)
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Bleedin' 'orrible
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Strong gusty wind and drizzle.
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Bright and breezy.
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Went for a row this morning. Bracing, but not too bad. We did have trouble docking though.
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Bright and breezy.
But brass monkeys, and now overcast.
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A very thick fog, it is hard to see the properties just across the road from ours.
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The sun is shining in Worthing. The first time in over a week. Still cold though.
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The fog has gone and we have some sun, which makes a pleasant change. :)
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Windy again
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Windy again
And staying that way with added shite
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70876zl926o
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Filthy, miserable day.
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Grey but not as grey as yesterday. The clouds have more definition.
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Edinburgh's Hogmanay party cancelled
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c785k44yj12o
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mild but wet.
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We had a very windy night. Today it has been much less windy, with some sunshine and drizzle. We have a weather warning in place for snow and ice in the next few days.
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Beautiful chilly sunny day
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A very frosty start to the day, but now we have pleasant sunshine and light winds.
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A very frosty start to the day, but now we have pleasant sunshine and light winds.
Ditto here.
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Dull, dry, very still. absolutely bloody freezing.
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What is left of the snow is frozen solid, in a way that I can't remember happening before, nor can our neighbours. Walking or driving people have to be extremely careful.
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Snow in Worthing. This is most unusual.
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Beautiful. cloudless sky, not a breath of wind, absolutely bloody freezing.
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Sunny, clear blue sky, no wind, but very cold.
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Same here. I love days like this.
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When I did the school-run with the grandkids this morning, the car said it was -6C.
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Fkn freezing.
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Once again - sunshine, blue sky, no breeze, very cold.
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Cold, we had a clear blue sky at the start of today, but it is now clouding up.
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Fhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cdjdd28edg3o
Rare 'UFO clouds' spotted in UK skies
Layers of dark cloud illuminated red around the edges
The pictures are gorgeous.
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Those photos are interesting.
We have a hard frost this morning, it is cloudy, but no wind.
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Dull, dry, very still, a bit nippy.
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Drizzle, no wind, a bit chilly.
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Storm Eowyn on way, bloody Lord of the Rings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c3d5kxg4pyjo
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Storm Eowyn on way, bloody Lord of the Rings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c3d5kxg4pyjo
The weather warning neatly avoids Hemel Hempstead - we're going to miss all the fun.
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Raining. Mild. Light breeze.
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Schools closed here tomorrow.
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Schools closed here tomorrow.
lot of restaurants shut as well
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Got an email overnight to say that the local Tesco supermarket won't open today, and I'd imagine other retail in the area will follow suit, and all public transport cancelled.
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Moved the car into the under building car park, this morning, had to dodge the large bins being blown across the road.
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Good idea - starting to get a bit wild out there now, judging from the way the trees are getting blown about. We're staying in!
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Though Hemel is outside the amber warning area, it's surrounded by it on three sides, so I thought the weather might be a bit playful, but we've got clear blue sky, sunshine, no breeze worth mentioning and mild temperature.
Later - Getting quite windy now, so maybe we are getting some effect from Eowyn.
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Getting pretty wild now - my son just phoned to say they were without electricity.
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Quieter now, been unpleasant
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Just started snowing - heavily too.
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Just started snowing - heavily too.
Only very light in town at moment
ETA - bit heavier now
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Mair weather
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23np9mx5k3o
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Some friends in Northern Ireland lost their electricity with Eowyn on Friday. They've just been told that they will get it back Monday 3rd Feb.
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Drizzle, no wind thank goodness.
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Damp mild, still.
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Damp mild, still.
It reads like the effects of the eye of the storm to me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone) (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)We) We might be getting that effect more often now, given the likely-hood of storms starting in the Atlantic and moving over to the UK (& France and Spain?).
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Bright, sunny, cloudless blue sky, slight breeze, a bit nippy.
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We had a frost overnight, it is now sunny with a slight breeze.
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Still, dreich.
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Beautiful early-Spring-like day - no breeze, bright sunshine, cloudless sky, bit nippy early on but now almost warm (n0t quite).
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Breezy, very cloudy with drizzle from time to time.
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We had a ground frost last night but the sun is shining now and it feels much warmer.
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Dull, wet, cold. No breeze.
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Cloudy, drizzle and a light breeze.
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Cloudy and a wind chill.
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Sunshine here for the first time in I don't know how long, but still bitterly cold.
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https://liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/weather-warning-for-snow-and-ice-as-cold-snap-leads-to-freezing-rain-forecast/content.html (https://liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/weather-warning-for-snow-and-ice-as-cold-snap-leads-to-freezing-rain-forecast/content.html)
Nearly through February now and the weather is still gloomy.
So now, we're getting more time to see the gloom.
Weather warning for snow and ice as cold snap leads to freezing rain forecast
Up to 5cm of snow may accumulate over the North York Moors and Northumberland,
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A brisk wind, cloudy and chilly.
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Dull and damp. Light breeze. Mild.
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Light rain, the wind is getting up, but it is much warmer than is has been, it is 14C at present.
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Positively balmy
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It is warm here, but the weather is supposed to get much colder as the week progresses!
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Another sunny day. Hosepipe ban at this rate
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Sunny but rather cold.
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Another beautiful day
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Overcast and chilly.
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And another beautiful day. Lambent light
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And another beautiful day. Lambent light
Écoute et répète
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A pleasant day, the sun is shining, the sky is blue, no wind and quite warm. Spring has sprung. ;D
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A pleasant day, the sun is shining, the sky is blue, no wind and quite warm. Spring has sprung. ;D
Again beautiful here but beware fool's spring
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/19/spring-equinox-on-thursday-could-bring-warmest-uk-day-of-2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/19/spring-equinox-on-thursday-could-bring-warmest-uk-day-of-2025)
(I suppose I could quote it, but link is readable already.)
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Warm today but not as nice a day
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Sunny, a bit of a breeze but it is supposed to rain later.
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Overcast and chilly.
Ditto.
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It is pleasantly sunny today. :)
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It is pleasantly sunny today. :)
Not in West Hertfordshire, it ain't!
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Lovely in Glasgow. Friend who runs a garden centre was very grateful for some rain at weekend
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Overcast, we had a bit of light drizzle earlier, and there is a moderate breeze so quite cool, compared to yesterday. It is supposed to be sunny and warm tomorrow.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/alien-hopes-crash-to-earth-glowing-spiral-uk-spacex-rocket (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/alien-hopes-crash-to-earth-glowing-spiral-uk-spacex-rocket)
Well I, for one, shall welcome our Spiralling Glow-y stuff (crashing to the ground).
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The sun is shining and I hope to get my washing dry.
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Water shortages
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx208nj454ro
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And now proper rain
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Although the sun is shining the moderate breeze is making it feel chilly.
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Changeable. It started off bright and sunny, with a light breeze, then clouded over, ad now t's sunny again.
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We have just had a shower of rain.
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Toasty next week
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cvgeg8n156no
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Bright sunshine, but breezy
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Beautiful day.
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Dear Thread,
A thread about the weather, very British dontcherknow, I love being British, now could some please explain this game Cricket to me.
In cricket, "silly mid-off" refers to a close-in fielding position on the offside (the batsman's right-hand side) and forward of the wicket, very near the batsman, hence the "silly" label due to the high risk of being hit by a hard-hit shot.
What! eh! English yer awe crazy but I love you❤️
Gonnagle.
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This thread is about the weather, NOT cricket! ::)
It is sunny here today, no cloud, but breezy.
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Dear Roses,
Sorry ::)
https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/9545b843-4a89-4980-ae6a-228c624ce2e7
Gonnagle.
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Stiff breeze. Otherwise luvli.
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Taps aff
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It's been a lovely day here today - even I smiled!
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You see - Jesus wants you for a sunbeam ;)
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Another beautiful morning
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Brite n breezee.
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Bit colder but beautiful
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Warm but breezy. My washing is drying well. :)