Stormy Weather II

[Joseph K]

Hot and sunny but also more cloudy here today.

[Serial_Apologist]

I think I will now set the Rain Drum to work which I brought back from Mexico a few years ago. The Mexicans swear by it and who knows, it may work. Watch this space.

Only if you know how to swear in "Mexican", Pianorak!

[greenilex]

Mexico is swearing by AMLO at the moment - thrilling times in Latin America.

Is this a device to conjure rain? Or a musical instrument? Or both?

[teamsaint]

Another belter today, by the look of it.
I’m off to Lepe beach. :cool1:

[Pianorak]

Is this a device to conjure rain? Or a musical instrument? Or both?

Both - but they come in all shapes and sizes. Best to google. The one I have is about 4 ft long and looks something like this:

https://thehumo.com/products/wooden-rain-drum-rainmaker-tambor-de-lluvia-de-madera

[BBMmk2]

Absolute scorcher yesterday! Tiny bit cooler today methinks!

[Serial_Apologist]

Absolute scorcher yesterday! Tiny bit cooler today methinks!

Absolute shower very much needed in these parched parts (pace Terry Thomas) - mini conifer, the second to go, and even one of our two Perovskias, have copped it, and the Ceratostigma Plumbaginoides in a nice porcelaine pot, nestled among much self-sown Nigella, has suddenly become incontinent after happily carrying on unattended ever since acquired a year ago. It seems the SW is getting the highest temperatures today; here it maxed at just under 29 C for the second day running. It's too hot for my usual daily 3 mile walks, let along a bike ride: roll on Tuesday!

[french frank]

It seems the SW is getting the highest temperatures today;

My Weather app says it's 31º here atm.

[Serial_Apologist]

My Weather app says it's 31º here atm.

Then it possibly peaked at 32 or 33 a couple of hours ago - or 90 degs Fahrenheit in the old money - as was being predicted by some of the more informed posters on UKweatherworld. It's a great forum, by the way, mixing up fully equipped proper weather professionals and generally knowledgeable people with those who just have a £4 thermometer on a N-facing wall, and a range of thread subjects analogous to ours, though the jargon is more technical than the musical jargon to be found on this forum. I just look in on there daily.

[DracoM]

Cloud coming and going, coming and going, some ominous, and still lurking, plenty of sun, brisk N/NW breeze - BUT not a DROP.
Bah!

[Petrushka]

Yet another scorcher, around 29C here. A slight cooling off is forecast for mid-week but warming up again for the weekend. Light rain promised for week after next. We shall see.

[Beef Oven!]

Bit cooler today on the Bodrum peninsular - 36 degrees with a light breeze. Wall to wall blue sky.

[Serial_Apologist]

Bit cooler today on the Bodrum peninsular - 36 degrees with a light breeze. Wall to wall blue sky.

I got A Level Geography at school, but had to look Bodrum up!

A light breeze at 36 C - any breeze - feels like standing in front of a giant fan heater - as I well recall when I was in Hanover in 1973. The weather broke that afternoon with flash flooding and some of the loudest thunder I've even known.

[Lat-Literal]

I got A Level Geography at school, but had to look Bodrum up!

A light breeze at 36 C - any breeze - feels like standing in front of a giant fan heater - as I well recall when I was in Hanover in 1973. The weather broke that afternoon with flash flooding and some of the loudest thunder I've even known.

I did a long time ago - he does mysterious things in Turkey.

Have got b----y London tomorrow, crowded rooms, waits and young professionals poking around the eye. You have your choices on the potential for panic attacks. Go by train alone or have your insistent 88 year old mother accompanying you by taxi as no one else will. It's the latter this time round but I'm not having it as a routine. There are so many complex issues it is unbelievable but the definition of schizophrenia probably hovers around whether your parents are with you or not and in which way. Or whether to go with the flow and be ordered professionally where to be or state your preference of future location, no doubt encountering some conflict, before clearing off on your own to a holiday. One where the wide world of others is never escaped but, on balance, easier than being joined by a mild friend with individual requirements. I cannot believe I am in this position. So much effort was put in with people in the past. I'll be asking about the possible impacts of altitude and water and driving but I'm increasingly going for the petulantly atypical - balloons, speed boats, motorbikes?

[Beef Oven!]

I got A Level Geography at school, but had to look Bodrum up!

A light breeze at 36 C - any breeze - feels like standing in front of a giant fan heater - as I well recall when I was in Hanover in 1973. The weather broke that afternoon with flash flooding and some of the loudest thunder I've even known.

Funny enough, I am using an electric fan as I type, approximately 2.30 am - air conditioning makes me ill - much prefer an old American electric fan!