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Re: The Weather
« Reply #575 on: July 17, 2018, 01:48:29 PM »
It is, as is filling animal drinking troughs and removing graffiti.

I doubt a hosepipe is necessary for removing graffiti.
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« Reply #576 on: July 17, 2018, 01:57:04 PM »
I doubt a hosepipe is necessary for removing graffiti.
But a pressure washer frequently is.
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Re: The Weather
« Reply #577 on: July 17, 2018, 01:57:54 PM »
I doubt a hosepipe is necessary for removing graffiti.
And yet it is an exemption, though only for public buildings

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« Reply #578 on: July 17, 2018, 02:36:13 PM »
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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Re: The Weather
« Reply #579 on: July 17, 2018, 02:59:39 PM »
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.

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« Reply #580 on: July 17, 2018, 03:02:28 PM »
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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« Reply #581 on: July 17, 2018, 03:11:11 PM »
Much cooler here in Nottingham.
... and not a million miles away it looks grey and cloudy enough for rain, though none is forecast.
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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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« Reply #582 on: July 17, 2018, 03:36:33 PM »
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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« Reply #583 on: July 17, 2018, 04:34:17 PM »
Cooler and overcast in the South West with dark clouds but no actual rain.

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« Reply #584 on: July 17, 2018, 10:58:06 PM »
Cloudy today, but still hot and dry.
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« Reply #585 on: July 18, 2018, 01:28:23 PM »
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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« Reply #586 on: July 18, 2018, 01:36:30 PM »
It's nice here too, cooler than yesterday.

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« Reply #587 on: July 18, 2018, 01:44:28 PM »
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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« Reply #588 on: July 18, 2018, 01:48:55 PM »
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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« Reply #589 on: July 19, 2018, 09:07:32 PM »
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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« Reply #590 on: July 19, 2018, 09:57:43 PM »
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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« Reply #591 on: July 20, 2018, 12:08:07 AM »
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.

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« Reply #592 on: July 20, 2018, 12:46:26 AM »
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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« Reply #593 on: July 20, 2018, 09:32:43 AM »
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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« Reply #594 on: July 20, 2018, 04:41:43 PM »
Much cooler here too, long may it continue.
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Re: The Weather
« Reply #595 on: July 20, 2018, 06:46:50 PM »
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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« Reply #596 on: July 20, 2018, 07:53:50 PM »
Much cooler here too, long may it continue.

No rain though.  :(

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« Reply #597 on: July 20, 2018, 08:28:13 PM »
Few spots. Rushed out to bring in the drying washing, rain stopped!

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« Reply #598 on: July 20, 2018, 08:59:53 PM »
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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« Reply #599 on: July 20, 2018, 09:25:19 PM »
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.

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