Stormy Weather II

[LezLee]

The perfect Forth or the augmented Forth?

Sadly, the imperfect Forth and the segmented Forth since my neighbour built an extension!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sadly, the imperfect Forth and the segmented Forth since my neighbour built an extension!

[BBMmk2]

The heatwave cometh!

[cloughie]

The heatwave cometh!

Lovely blue skies here!

[DracoM]

Really?
Well, oop 'ere, like the 'drought' and 'heatwave' last year in t'sarf, we waited, we expected, we were largely disappointed / fulfilled.
This time?
Well, here, as I moan on, it is grey,. drizzling/mizzling, clouds so low the tops are in fog, rain on the horizon. So.........roll on 'heatwave'......
.........maybe?

www.yr.no - the system we use here - is predicting rain/cloud until 1500hrs, then cloud / sun / then...........? And so far, it's spot on.

[Joseph K]

Nuages gris, nondescript.

[LezLee]

Assorted grey clouds, white fluffy clouds, blue sky. Windy as usual. 17° but feels colder.

[DracoM]

Yep, colder, AND yet, in Leeds, not all that far away, at Test match it is BRIGHT SUN!!!

[BBMmk2]

Lovely blue skies here!

Bet that makes a change!

[oddoneout]

Temperature climbing as predicted. Too hot outside the back door so the fact I'd decided to put away the parasol doesn't matter, although the newly pricked out hosta seedlings needed rescuing. A very big two day BH event coming up at work, so the excessive heat forecast for Sunday isn't welcome, especially for the costumed characters. Monday is supposed to be somewhat cooler - I hope so as that's very much the busiest of the two days.

[DracoM]

Just getting glimpses of sky behind clouds - temp rising a bit.

[Joseph K]

Nuages gris, nondescript.

… since turned into a very fine day, not too hot, sunny.

[gurnemanz]

I do find these local weather reports interesting - maybe I should get out more, especially in the current sunny conditions - but it is slightly less exciting if contributors don't divulge where they are writing from.

[oddoneout]

Oh the irony. Late last night I stubbed my toe on the logbasket in the kitchen, which I had brought in only a few days ago when the temperature in the evenings was getting a bit too low to be comfortable for just sitting in the living room.
Now the temperature outside is up to 30 in the shade outside the back door, so high twenties in the garden proper. It's a day for juggling the light breeze from the west facing front of the house until midday and then shutting down and drawing the nets to shade out the sun from the bedroom. At least the drawing in of daylight hours helps to reduce the cumulative effects of the sun somewhat.

[Serial_Apologist]

A very reasonable 18C at 9.15 this morning encourged me out for a long ride up into the N Downs - a circular trip to a little hamlet called Finklestone, 615 feet above sea level, where the White Bear pub sports a full scale model of a polar bear out front. I was miffed to arrive there at 10.30, having calculated my arrival to be after opening time, but which, come to think about it, ain't bad for a 75 minute 10 mile mostly uphill journey, for a 73-year old going on 74!

On the return leg I dismounted by the village church at Addington, where a funeral was about to proceed, and wheeled my bike along a rough path fringing the wooded ridge separating London's great southern conurbation from open countryside - a popular locale for dog walkers - stopping off at the outdoor cafeteria which is part of the West Wickham Rugby Club for a coffee and oatmeal biscuit, and the chance to chat with two friendly ladies discussing on where to spend this year's holiday break together. Last year it had been York; this year they were deliberating New York! I had to inform them it might not be so easy taking their dogs with them - two cocker spaniels and a golden labrador!!

I was home by 12.30 - a 22-mile ride in total - rewarding myself by breaking open a can of lager and bottle of lemonade for a refreshing and well deserved shandy. Last year I only managed to get as far as that café before turning back defeated at the prospect of no longer being sufficiently strong for the entire distance, which I had done at least once a year since moving here in 2004; so I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself - and my legs aren't even particularly tired! The shade temperature here has reached a pleasantly warm 26C.