Stormy Weather II

[DracoM]

OK, now ask the golfers in the Open about wind, eh?

[Sir Velo]

Tops in grey mist, mizzle, edge to boisterous westerly, BUT fleeting blasts of sun sometimes after scudding clouds.

Remind me, which side of Svalbard are you on?

[BBMmk2]

A hot day today! 24C!!

[DracoM]

Rodding it down here, grey, more on the horizon, wind that in the night has blown over almost all my hollyhocks.

[oddoneout]

Noticeably hot rather than just warm by 9-30 this morning. There's a strong wind which is stripping the moisture out of the plants - and we didn't have that much rain in the first place the past couple of days, so back to hosepipes down the garden to keep the veg alive and probably twice daily pot watering - to cool the plants as much as anything.
Arable farmers will be facing the prospect of having to cool grain crops they harvest.

[Sir Velo]

Rodding it down here, grey, more on the horizon, wind that in the night has blown over almost all my hollyhocks.

Have you ever considered moving?

[DracoM]

Not in a million years, mate. Love it here.

I note the weather partly to balance the sometimes eccentric weather forecasts offered by BBC which seem to us 'up here' to be bizarrely and sometimes even comically off what we are actually experiencing, and because I walk most days and so notice it and see what farmers have to deal with here in such conditikons. Hence the fact that many here have abandoned BBC and use www.yr.no

Yes, it's upland country, and yes it is open to fierceish western systems, and yes, it can be darley, but.............
it's extraordinarily beautiful and life-enhancing.

Is that answer enough?

[Serial_Apologist]

What for me is dispiriting about the hot weather we're experiencing this year, as compared to last, is the high humidity levels. I can't imagine how awful it's going to be on Thursday, when the temperature is predicted by even the normally cautious BBC to reach 36C in and around London. The last time we had this, back in 2001 (I think), it was like walking out into an oven. I was unable to sleep without first putting my pillows into the deep freeze compartiment of my fridge and taking a lukewarm bath.

Starting from tomorrow, I'm keeping all windows and curtains shut, in the hope that the coming 3-day wonder will not have had the time to fully penetrate my inner sanctum.

God help us if this is to be the future, every summer...

[Bryn]

A little cooler in Devon this week. I am sorely tempted to head that way for a few days.

[BBMmk2]

I think I’ll have to play RVW’s Sinfonia Antarctica today, to try and counteract the current weather. Or maybe reverse psychology perhaps?!?!?

[DracoM]

But isn't this a bit like 'the summers we used to know'? Or is that the Enid Blyton end of things?

My memories [aha! a la recherche du temps perdu etc etc, eh? ] are often of hot summers. The spate of wet, moody, dank things we've had mostly over the last few years have tended to darken those memories. BUT with the 'heatwave' of last year and the current 'heatwave', it DOES remind me of the 60's and even some 70's. Summers are meant to be hot, aren't they? Or at least less cold than and a bit hotter than autumns.....!!

[Serial_Apologist]

I think I’ll have to play RVW’s Sinfonia Antarctica today, to try and counteract the current weather. Or maybe reverse psychology perhaps?!?!?

As with similar such music by Sibelius ("Tapiola" especially), the Antarctica would have an opposite effect in my case! I have found Honegger's Fourth Symphony to have a wonderfull "cooling" effect, however, especially the first movement. So far this hasn't been needed, as I've managed to keep the flat cool by keeping doors, windows and curtains shut as much as possible. I just now went to check the thermometer which I've placed just outsdie a window on the north facing wall of our block of flats, and could immediately feel the heat trapped between curtains and window.

Hopefully I can keep things this way until Friday, when the extreme heat is predicted to drain away. This Saturday I'm invited to a garden party in Sutton, and it is expected to rain all day. Just our luck!

[Mal]

I think I’ll have to play RVW’s Sinfonia Antarctica today, to try and counteract the current weather. Or maybe reverse psychology perhaps?!?!?

Liszt Dante symphony? Holst Mercury?

Hot tea is supposed to work... the internal heat tricks the body into thinking it's even hotter, generates more sweat.

Then again...

Google made me rethink...

Latest theories suggests this only works on dry days. As it's hot and humid here the sweat will probably not evaporate...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/

[DracoM]

Gentle Sweat helps to cool.

[Serial_Apologist]

I did a brief stroll around the block, hoping to see some evidence of the thundery breakdown concentrated over the Cherbourg peninsular, and there it was: bubbly cloud popping up in the waning twilight. The air is incredibly warm for this late in the evening. Half an hour later, and what a development! - storms with continuous lightning right across the Channel breaking out widely along the Devonian/Cornish Riviera, across the breadth of Somerset, and now starting up in S Wales! The chain of storms over the Channel has reached Portsmouth as I write. Are we going to be woken up during the night? Present evidence suggests they are right, and the system will bypass the Home Counties to the west.