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  • greenilex
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1626

    Yesterday it was dry and sunny for our midday anti fascist demo at the Bargate - a great big heartwarming success - but I left my phone in the cafe and got completely soaked going back for it in the afternoon.

    Feels like late autumn here, not at all like July. Suppose we have a kink in the jet stream again...

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    • BBMmk2
      Late Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 20908

      Is El Nino at work, still?
      Don’t cry for me
      I go where music was born

      J S Bach 1685-1750

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      • Pulcinella
        Host
        • Feb 2014
        • 10907

        Well, the wind has dropped here, and for once the forecast shows no rain, so this might just be the afternoon for a bike ride.
        A surprising 19.42 kWh on the Sunny Jim meter yesterday (it seemed gloomier than that), but June's total was lower than April's, though slightly better than last year's August and September totals.

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        • Petrushka
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12242

          The wind has dropped here too and it's a pleasant sunny morning though with plenty of threatening cloud lurking about. Reasonably warm but nowhere near July standard. The past week has felt more like late September or early October and due to the rain and thick cloud the evenings have been much darker than one would expect at this time of year thus reinforcing that impression.
          "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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          • DracoM
            Host
            • Mar 2007
            • 12965

            Big wind oop 'ere, fleeting sun, louring clouds, washing out. I am an idiot.

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37636

              Cool summer temperatures are rather analogous to sitting on the floor; when autumn comes one doesn't have so far to fall.

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              • LeMartinPecheur
                Full Member
                • Apr 2007
                • 4717

                We've managed to have lunch outside, and coffee, and a quiet read here in E Cornwall. First time this year.

                Must be something to do with leaving the EU I guess
                I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                • BBMmk2
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20908

                  Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
                  We've managed to have lunch outside, and coffee, and a quiet read here in E Cornwall. First time this year.

                  Must be something to do with leaving the EU I guess
                  Steady on! :)
                  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

                    This must surely be the worst summer on record. As I write it's absolutely pouring down yet again. It isn't cold and the strong wind from yesterday has gone but the constant heavy rain, lack of sunshine and low temperatures mark this summer out as already a complete write off. We've only had perhaps a couple of days since June 1 with temperatures exceeding 21 degrees and hardly any completely dry days at all.

                    Whatever has happened to the glorious summers of my youth and early adulthood? It's not just looking through rose tinted spectacles; my diaries bear witness to those great summers. What has happened to the prolonged hot, sunny weather we had in the 1960s and 1970s? The last truly great summer we seem to have had was 1995 and even that wasn't a patch on 1975 or 1976. Tolerating a very long winter in the hope of a good summer seems to be no longer something we can do.

                    Depressing and dire. Think I'll play some music to cheer myself up!
                    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      Not much of a summer at all, Pet, agreed! The long balmy days, where have they gone?
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37636

                        Low cloud, drizzle, muggy but not cold just about sums up how this summer's turning out this year. At least the grass is a lovely lush green, the woods and bits of countryside London forgot to build on smell great after any rain, and only the potted plants outside need any watering.

                        By the way, I've no idea what's happened to the BBC weather website: it didn't update beyond 2 pm when I went to bed last night, and today I can't get any charts up at all!

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                        • mangerton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3346

                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          Low cloud, drizzle, muggy but not cold just about sums up how this summer's turning out this year. At least the grass is a lovely lush green, the woods and bits of countryside London forgot to build on smell great after any rain, and only the potted plants outside need any watering.

                          By the way, I've no idea what's happened to the BBC weather website: it didn't update beyond 2 pm when I went to bed last night, and today I can't get any charts up at all!

                          This must surely be the worst summer on record. As I write it's absolutely pouring down yet again.


                          Petrushka wrote that yesterday. I copied it to save me typing it again, as it sums up the situation here perfectly. This must be one of the wettest weekends Dundee has had. There's been a steady downpour here all day, and for most of yesterday. At 9.00 pm last night, and the rain was as heavy as I've ever seen it. The road outside was flooded, and the water was running down hill in torrents.

                          SA, I wouldn't be overly concerned about the lack of BBC weather charts. The BBC weather forecasts recently have been a disgrace. Yesterday Scotland was to be "cold and damp". See my remarks above.

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37636

                            Originally posted by mangerton View Post

                            This must surely be the worst summer on record. As I write it's absolutely pouring down yet again.


                            Petrushka wrote that yesterday. I copied it to save me typing it again, as it sums up the situation here perfectly. This must be one of the wettest weekends Dundee has had. There's been a steady downpour here all day, and for most of yesterday. At 9.00 pm last night, and the rain was as heavy as I've ever seen it. The road outside was flooded, and the water was running down hill in torrents.

                            SA, I wouldn't be overly concerned about the lack of BBC weather charts. The BBC weather forecasts recently have been a disgrace. Yesterday Scotland was to be "cold and damp". See my remarks above.
                            The Countryside forecast predicts it settling down midweek, then getting really warm at the weekend.

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                            • mangerton
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 3346

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              The Countryside forecast predicts it settling down midweek, then getting really warm at the weekend.
                              Yes, but for where? Weather forecast on R4 at 5.57 tonight again lumped "N Ireland and Scotland" together. So weather in Yell and Enniskillen will be the same. Yeah, right.

                              The forecaster also said "temperatures between 16º and 23º", so not much of a difference there.

                              I'm paying £146 a year for this drivel!

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                              • DracoM
                                Host
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 12965

                                Absolutely shovelling it down oop 'ere. Fells invisible, wind driving.
                                Back to Desmond?

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