Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:12 am
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Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:38 am
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:06 pm
Terrific thunderstorms ongoing here...
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Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:03 pm
Currently 34C outside and sweltering. However, have just taken delivery of a portable air con unit which is pumping cold air around the living room and reducing the internal temperature at a rate of knots. Lovely.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:21 pm
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:38 pm
Yeah, it looks like it's proper kicking off in West Wales.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:47 pm
Bought a cheap indoor/outdoor temperature display thing. Tells me that it's 29 outside, 31 in my sitting room.
Just got home and opened windows, so hopefully it drops a bit.
Just got home and opened windows, so hopefully it drops a bit.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:24 pm
Wish it would head up here, my boy is desperate to see a thunderstorm but every time we get forecast one it doesn't arrive!
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:30 pm
Just like Ireland’s RWC trophy.Slick wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:24 pmWish it would head up here, my boy is desperate to see a thunderstorm but every time we get forecast one it doesn't arrive!
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:31 pm
We rarely get them here, this is the 6th this year! Had a fantastic night one recently, all the Gower lit up nicely...
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:54 pm
Flash flooding in Aberystwyth, meanwhile 34 °C here outside and barely lower inside.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:27 pm
34 and humid as fuck.
Cold alcohol is likely the only solution
Cold alcohol is likely the only solution
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:42 pm
I was right
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:04 pm
Another drink and it’s 2 degrees cooler.
Come on everyone- it’s working - now do your part!!
Come on everyone- it’s working - now do your part!!
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:26 pm
I’m in. We’re all in this togetherYmx wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:04 pm Another drink and it’s 2 degrees cooler.
Come on everyone- it’s working - now do your part!!
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:27 pm
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:31 pm
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:40 pm
Sat in the living room drinking Cremant de Loire with the electric fan going, watching Bettany Hughes' enormous boobs tell us about ancient Greece.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:44 pm
Frankly, if this doesn't kill Covid then nothing will
Currently 29 degrees (at 10.45pm) and 62% humidity
Currently 29 degrees (at 10.45pm) and 62% humidity
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:00 pm
19deg and 73%Saint wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:44 pm Frankly, if this doesn't kill Covid then nothing will
Currently 29 degrees (at 10.45pm) and 62% humidity
Forecast is teasing 50% chance of thunder lightning at 5am. Tomorrow is going to be another today though.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:11 pm
I would kill for 19 degrees at the moment - right now I'm not quite sure how I might actually sleep tonight
The local forecast is teasing rain and thunder at around 10% tomorrow, but Wednesday looks a near certainty. But I don't recall any UK forecast ever showing rain and 23 degrees before.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:28 pm
Amazing storm happening somewhere off to the south of me at the moment (Southport). Non stop lightning.
Otherwise a comfortable 19 degrees here
Otherwise a comfortable 19 degrees here
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:58 am
I was in the Hunter Valley yesterday - a balmy 11C during the day and 4C at night
Felt right at home
Felt right at home
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:46 am
Ask the people of Florida and Texas for an opinionSaint wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:44 pm Frankly, if this doesn't kill Covid then nothing will
Currently 29 degrees (at 10.45pm) and 62% humidity
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 5:01 am
That was the worst night of sleep I've had in a loooonnggggg time. Temperate in the flat didn't get below 28°. Fan helped, but it's very noisy, and then one of my smoke alarms decided to blast a quick noise at 4am.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 5:29 am
Its not forecast but very much feels if ww are about to have the mother of all thunderstorms here in Sussex
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:43 am
Bit of haze early this morning has burnt off and endless blue skies with the sun screaming down. Gorgeous for sitting around doing nothing. I'll be enjoying the AC in work. Blinds all down and windows cracked at home, we'l see this evening how effective that was.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:46 am
In spite of no room being below 26 °C overnight, slept very well though.
Rain this morning, didn't help. No breeze at all outside so air just not circulating in the night and first thing and now heating very quickly with the moisture from the rain making it even more humid.
Rain this morning, didn't help. No breeze at all outside so air just not circulating in the night and first thing and now heating very quickly with the moisture from the rain making it even more humid.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:08 pm
Well that shot up quickly, 35 degrees already, gulp.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:28 pm
Just home and my thing says it's 42° outside!
The thermocouple is stuck out the window in direct sunshine. Pretty intense out!
The thermocouple is stuck out the window in direct sunshine. Pretty intense out!
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:32 pm
Blimey. What’s the official number of degrees?Nols wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:28 pm Just home and my thing says it's 42° outside!
The thermocouple is stuck out the window in direct sunshine. Pretty intense out!
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:52 pm
It's hit 35 °C here, Heathrow will probably be hottest in the country yet again
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:02 pm
Forecast says 100% humidity in Edinburgh tonight 
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:02 pm
Fog!
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:13 pm
32, I think. You're supposed to put thermometers in the shade to prevent exactly that, but this has been sitting in uninterrupted sunshine since like 8am.
Dropped to "only" 33 now that the sun has gone around the house.
Just shows strong sunlight is. I was a sweaty mess after a gentle 25 minute walk home from work.
Thunderstorm warning for tonight. Christ, I hope it happens.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:26 pm
+1000Nols wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:13 pm32, I think. You're supposed to put thermometers in the shade to prevent exactly that, but this has been sitting in uninterrupted sunshine since like 8am.
Dropped to "only" 33 now that the sun has gone around the house.
Just shows strong sunlight is. I was a sweaty mess after a gentle 25 minute walk home from work.
Thunderstorm warning for tonight. Christ, I hope it happens.
Fuck this weather.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:45 pm
Still at 33 degrees here. Near 6pm
Zero breeze.
Zero breeze.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:55 pm
Temperature scarcely dropping here, still nearly 35 °C. There were some promising looking thunderstorms over western France but don't seem to be heading our way.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:59 pm
34deg despite rain this lunchtime humidity is just 45% I made the dog a cooling collar which she loves, makes a huge difference.
Re: UK is melting
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 5:03 pm
By opening specific windows and creating flow I got the bedroom down to 19deg last night shut bedroom window but kept spare open. Woke up a 4am it was back to 24 because of us and the retained heat from the day. Tonight is going to be worse as it's forecast to be 5deg hotter a bedtime tonight compared to last night.