Stormy Weather

[gurnemanz]

I played a couple of sets of social tennis this evening at our club here in North Wilts and conditions were perfect - no sun , no wind, not too hot, not too chilly.

[Mahlerei]

Hi marthe

Garden is pretty dry and husky doesn't like the sun too much. She stays cool by stretching out on the wooden floor. As for the buns, when it gets too hot they get bottles of frozen water in their hutches.

I guess age has something to do with it, but these days I find high humidity particularly difficult to cope with. As a youngster my parents and I often spent time in Mombasa, which has extremely high humidity all year round, and it didn't bother me at all. At night ceiling fans at the Mombasa Club helped one sleep. It's a wonderfully relaxing sound, that swish-swish up above.

http://www.mombasaclub.net/

[marthe]

Hi mahlerei,

The Mombasa Club looks lovely. I see that it's near Fort Jesus. I've never been to Africa, let alone Kenya, but worked with someone from Kenya whose family lived in Mombasa. Her father had some association with a museum at Fort Jesus. M. and her brother had grown up in East Africa but had gone back to England for higher education. We worked together at the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon site overlooking the Thames estuary.

I agree about the humidity and the diminished ability to cope with it as one gets older. We actually prefer fans to AC, but most Americans are wedded to their AC when its HHH (hazy, hot and humid)!

Poor huskies suffer in this hot weather. They shed like crazy leaving fluffs of husky hair on everything! I'm glad that the buns are enjoying ice water. We did the same thing for our buns when we had them many years ago.

Best wishes,
marthe

[Mahlerei]

Hi marthe

Yes, the club sits in the shadow of Fort Jesus. I do remember a somewhat basic museum there, but I'm going back to the mid-1970s now. I daresay the club has AC now, but back then it was just ceiling fans. If you were lucky enough to get a room facing the sea there was a breeze as well. Happy days.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

had a skype conversation with my chum in Phoenix yesterday .... spent the morning unloading pumps into his warehouse and got really hot and not cooled down five hours later, sweating in the air conditioning ... must say the overhead fans were indispensable to sleep there even with the a/c on ... but my goodness it was dry ...

chill and grey in the middle kingdom, hope the blue skies and warmth currently enjoyed in Nottingham spread eastwards ... certainly by tomorrow .. we have a bandstand concert!

[BBMmk2]

Ah, that sounds go there, Jazbo!! I love doing bandstand concerts. The one in Eastbourne one of the best in the South!

It a hot day down here. Un fortunately my jamming partner cant make our usual session today, so be having one myself later!!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a vastly underestimated pleasure imv brassbanbmaestro ....

[Serial_Apologist]

S-A, high humidity indeed! The promised showers haven't materialised but here's hoping... . I'm sure the folks who are attending the Newport Folk Festival this weekend are hoping for good weather! I love to see your forecasts of our weather coming back across the pond! Someday I'll figure out the celsius temps that fall between 0 and 40. How long did it take you to mentally change over when celsius was introduced? Farenheit was still in use back in the 70s when I lived in England. Metric was just looming on the horizon then.

It's a good website for weather, that BBC one, Marthe, as well as for weather worldwide; very easy to follow.

Yes indeed; I've never completely accustomed myself to Celsius/Centigrade. Somehow equating 86 F on a hot day to 30 C just doesn't feel right. Nowadays I'm just about used to it for our temperatures, which don't vary much from season to season here, from winter minima around - 6 C (22 F) to summer maxima of 32 C (90 F). The only difficulty arises outside those polarities. The esiest way to convert is, get a piece of graph paper; plot Celsius temperatures along the bottom line, left to right, from, say - 25 C to + 40 C; and Fahrenheit up the left hand side, starting from - 10 F at the bottom and going up to 110 F at the top. Plot where O C, 10 C and 30 C intersect with 32 F, 50 F and 86 F; draw a straight line diagonally linking these meeting points, and continue the line beyond, in both directions. Then you can read off the conversions at any point along the line. QED!

[Serial_Apologist]

Hi marthe

Garden is pretty dry and husky doesn't like the sun too much. She stays cool by stretching out on the wooden floor. As for the buns, when it gets too hot they get bottles of frozen water in their hutches.

I guess age has something to do with it, but these days I find high humidity particularly difficult to cope with. As a youngster my parents and I often spent time in Mombasa, which has extremely high humidity all year round, and it didn't bother me at all. At night ceiling fans at the Mombasa Club helped one sleep. It's a wonderfully relaxing sound, that swish-swish up above.

http://www.mombasaclub.net/

I'm the same with humidity, Mahlerei. I find heat increasingly hard to cope with as I get older: it puts me on edge and seems to upset my digestive system, though this could be psychsomatic in my case. Usually I manage to acclimatize after about a week, to the point when I miss the heat when it is gone! - but humidity is strange in its effects: at not even particularly high temperatures it can stifle, whereas when it is cold it seems to penetrate every pore.

[BBMmk2]

Humidity! That my worst enemy! My asthma dont half cause havoc!

[amateur51]

Humidity! That my worst enemy! My asthma dont half cause havoc!

Totally agree BBM. I had to get off the tube train I was travelling in one very humid day last Summer & get 'up top' with my puffers - horrid experience, not being able to breathe properly

[salymap]

Wish you breathless lot better. I just get headaches or neuralgia in the sun. Goodness knows why.

One thing about this topsy turvy summer is that yesterday's visitor collected quite a few apples from the bottom of my garden, which we shared. They are at least two months early, Very odd.

[Serial_Apologist]

Wish you breathless lot better. I just get headaches or neuralgia in the sun. Goodness knows why.

One thing about this topsy turvy summer is that yesterday's visitor collected quite a few apples from the bottom of my garden, which we shared. They are at least two months early, Very odd.

This is happening around the country this year, due to the early dry spring, I head it said on the Farrrrmers' programme the other morning.

[BBMmk2]

Would have something to do with the lunar cycle?

[marthe]

Hot , dry, and breezy here in Newport, RI. No humidity at all. I'm home from work now and going out to the garden to give my poor, parched plants a drink. Later this evening we're off to an anniversary party. We'll have to take the back roads so we don't get stuck in folk festival traffic!

S-A, many thanks for your centigrade/farenheit conversion chart...now all I need is some graph paper! My father taught chemistry and was always trying to get us to learn the conversion. I wish I'd sat up and payed a bit more attention.

Saly, our crab apple trees are laden with ripening fruit. Soon it will be time to do a daily sweep of the terrace so that we don't have swarms of flies and wasps attracted by over-ripe fallen apples.