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  • Petrushka
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12242

    Yet another scorcher here too. BrummieSimon's prediction of a 'dismal July' was as laughable as Michael Fish's 'no hurricane' in 1987. Thank goodness!
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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    • mangerton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 3346

      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
      Gosh!

      ..............and not one person has added a message to the thread.

      You must all be outside, sunning yourselves.
      Sorry! I was out sunning myself with some friends. In fact, I've only just got back - but then, the sun sets much later here at this time of the year.

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37636

        I'm just wondering where the lady forecaster at BBC London was just now when she predicted one or two "heavy showers breaking out, possibly thundery, later on today" when right now she would see the one we are in the middle of by just looking out through one of their lovely big windows at Langham Place. Our regular gardening team, here to cut the grass, have been marooned inside their van for the past half an hour - just as well I advised them not to stay out in it, given that lightning hit a couple of nearby trees a few minutes ago.

        Oh, one of them seems to have decided after all to risk it out there with the rotary!

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        • Petrushka
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12242

          Another 30 degree scorcher up here. More or less wall to wall sunshine the whole day. Forecast is for it to cool down a touch tomorrow and Sunday and then start picking up again. Looks like it could be the second Summer in a row when it's better in the Midlands and North than in London.
          "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25202

            very warm here again today.

            Clouds of flying ants overhead about 10 minutes ago !! Bloody things are everywhere !!!!!

            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
              Looks like it could be the second Summer in a row when it's better in the Midlands and North than in London.
              "Second"? I've experienced 54!

              Oh! You mean the weather!
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37636

                The good ole BBC has released timelapsed footage of the first of the violent thunderstorms that crossed here in S London this afternoon. Unfortunately the speeding up has obliterated the cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, of which there were many, but the intensity of the rain is apparent from the curtain's obscuring the horizon 9 miles distant. As the rain curtain moves away south-west (to the right) the Crystal Palace TV mast together with the other one a couple of miles further south comes into view. About three quarters of the way across the shot from the left you can also see, just to the right of the two cranes in the foreground, the round skyscraper on the south bank which I've unaffectionately nicknamed the thermos flask.

                Enjoy!

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26524

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  "Second"? I've experienced 54!

                  Oh! You mean the weather!


                  Around 10 to 3 this afternoon, it was basically sleeting outside my office. It was too heavy and thick to be just rain.

                  And was I supposed to cycle off for a 3pm meeting? Yes

                  Actually we postponed till 3.15 and it was a dry ride past St Paul's at that point!
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Sleeting, Cali? Goodness! In July!! We just had a few specks of rain, nowt much, unfortunately have to admit, not doing the ground much good? Playing havoc with my chest, breathing probs etc. Having
                    double my inhalers, and if it persists

                    STEROIDS!!

                    What? No beer????
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • Petrushka
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12242

                      Another blisteringly hot morning here. If it continues like this it must surely be one of the finest July's for years.
                      "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                      • amateur51

                        Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                        Another blisteringly hot morning here. If it continues like this it must surely be one of the finest July's for years.
                        Those of us from the apparently meteorologically-challenged South remember July 2012 as the month of the Olympics ... and what a fine July & August that was, in the South (cue Sir Edward! )


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                        • Anna

                          And what a wonderfully sunny and warm start to the Glasgow Games it's been, showing Glasgow at its best (not that I've ever been there but I'm sure it's a beautiful city and even more beautiful when the sun shines) I watched the swimming and wished I could glide into a cool pool .... Incidentally I hadn't realised Tunnock's Tea Cakes were so iconic! But hasn't there been a fallout between them and Mr. Salmond?

                          Here, since Sunday at over 26° it's gradually got hotter day by day, only rain we've seen was an hour on Sunday evening so (I'm not complaining about having a proper Summer) I'm looking forward to it being cooler tomorrow as I need to spend a couple of hours gardening in some degree of comfort.

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                          • EdgeleyRob
                            Guest
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12180

                            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                            Sleeting, Cali? Goodness! In July!! We just had a few specks of rain, nowt much, unfortunately have to admit, not doing the ground much good? Playing havoc with my chest, breathing probs etc. Having
                            double my inhalers, and if it persists

                            STEROIDS!!

                            What? No beer????
                            Same here BBM,struggling a bit walking the dogs,but mustn't complain.

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                            • BBMmk2
                              Late Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20908

                              Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                              Same here BBM,struggling a bit walking the dogs,but mustn't complain.
                              Good havi9ng this weather but when it p[lays on your health.......
                              Don’t cry for me
                              I go where music was born

                              J S Bach 1685-1750

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                              • jean
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 7100

                                I'm glad we've had good weather for the Giants, but it's too hot for me!

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