Stormy Weather II

[DracoM]

Dry after overnight rain, now damp, grey, and CHILLY.

[Serial_Apologist]

Was rather muggy down here, as well, yesterday. Went down town in my motobility scooter, whilst wearing mask. Interesting to see how many people were wearing masks, actually, and were not. I know the law says only inside but there were people that were wearing masks outside. I wore mine in the more busier parts of town, as did other people.

Half of the customers in the W Norwood Co-op this morning weren't wearing face masks - most of them children. One feels so sorry for staff at these places, who have to balance between politely requesting people to show elementary consieration and not provoking irrational aggression.

The Co-op appears now to be the only source for my vapes - the Sainsbury's branch across the street having completely re-vamped what until today had been their cigarettes etc "enclosures", replacing with off-license, for all to see. No more hidden away ciggies or vapies, folks! Again - like yesterday's experience at that Hammersmith pub - I'm guessing staff would have had no say in this. Suck it up or get another job.

But hey! It's another beautiful day. Deep blue skies, courtesy Walter Wall, just a few cirrus sheaves edging down from the NW, humidity low enough to see for miles. Not even particularly hot.

[Joseph K]

Half of the customers in the W Norwood Co-op this morning weren't wearing face masks - most of them children. One feels so sorry for staff at these places, who have to balance between politely requesting people to show elementary consieration and not provoking irrational aggression.

The Co-op appears now to be the only source for my vapes - the Sainsbury's branch across the street having completely re-vamped what until today had been their cigarettes etc "enclosures", replacing with off-license, for all to see. No more hidden away ciggies or vapies, folks! Again - like yesterday's experience at that Hammersmith pub - I'm guessing staff would have had no say in this. Suck it up or get another job.

But hey! It's another beautiful day. Deep blue skies, courtesy Walter Wall, just a few cirrus sheaves edging down from the NW, humidity low enough to see for miles. Not even particularly hot.

Didn't know you vaped - I gave up vaping in February.

Beautiful day here.

[cloughie]

Didn't know you vaped - I gave up vaping in February.

Beautiful day here.

We’ll have rename him Serial_Vapologist!

[oddoneout]

Half of the customers in the W Norwood Co-op this morning weren't wearing face masks - most of them children. One feels so sorry for staff at these places, who have to balance between politely requesting people to show elementary consieration and not provoking irrational aggression.

The Co-op appears now to be the only source for my vapes - the Sainsbury's branch across the street having completely re-vamped what until today had been their cigarettes etc "enclosures", replacing with off-license, for all to see. No more hidden away ciggies or vapies, folks! Again - like yesterday's experience at that Hammersmith pub - I'm guessing staff would have had no say in this. Suck it up or get another job.

But hey! It's another beautiful day. Deep blue skies, courtesy Walter Wall, just a few cirrus sheaves edging down from the NW, humidity low enough to see for miles. Not even particularly hot.

I assume you are meaning those that fall into what one might call the teenager group of children, as those under 11 don't have to cover up.
Very very hot here today and, despite low humidity, feeling muggy - possibly due to the southerly wind.

[Serial_Apologist]

Didn't know you vaped - I gave up vaping in February.

Beautiful day here.

I remember you saying, Joseph. Well done!

I took up vaping as soon as they became more easily available, having given up the smokes after some 45 years when I had a minor heart attack in 2013. They're as much an aid to cogitation for me as anything else. If the 10 Motives brand get withdrawn - and the number of outlets selling the menthol type seems to be reducing day-by-day - that might be my moment to join the ex-vapologists (thanks, cloughie ).

[oddoneout]

I remember you saying, Joseph. Well done!

I took up vaping as soon as they became more easily available, having given up the smokes after some 45 years when I had a minor heart attack in 2013. They're as much an aid to cogitation for me as anything else. If the 10 Motives brand get withdrawn - and the number of outlets selling the menthol type seems to be reducing day-by-day - that might be my moment to join the ex-vapologists (thanks, cloughie ).

A subset of escapologists?

[BBMmk2]

Half of the customers in the W Norwood Co-op this morning weren't wearing face masks - most of them children. One feels so sorry for staff at these places, who have to balance between politely requesting people to show elementary consieration and not provoking irrational aggression.

The Co-op appears now to be the only source for my vapes - the Sainsbury's branch across the street having completely re-vamped what until today had been their cigarettes etc "enclosures", replacing with off-license, for all to see. No more hidden away ciggies or vapies, folks! Again - like yesterday's experience at that Hammersmith pub - I'm guessing staff would have had no say in this. Suck it up or get another job.

But hey! It's another beautiful day. Deep blue skies, courtesy Walter Wall, just a few cirrus sheaves edging down from the NW, humidity low enough to see for miles. Not even particularly hot.

Perhaps Sainsbury’s is telling smokers something?

A very hot day today. 34C!!!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Perhaps Sainsbury’s is telling smokers something?

A very hot day today. 34C!!!!

Indeed! - 32 C on my north-facing wall now - 90 F in the old money - which also probably means that inside a properly positioned Stevenson's Screen it would be a degree of so higher than that.

Back in the pre-climate change age we would have thought 30 C - the old 86 F - usually high, perhaps to be experienced once in every four years. Higher temperatures than this are more easily reached in larger land masses at our latitude, such as Canada or Russia, for examples, purely because of distance from surrounding seas and oceans, which take longer to heat up or cool down, and never reach the same temperatures (water temperatures) as air over land masses. In fact is is usually quite difficult to arrange the set-up to make it as hot as this in the UK: hot air rises (convection), to be replaced by cooler air, sucked in from from our surrounding seas and oceans (sea breezes); the moistness of that incoming air tends to de-stabilise the rising air, which then kicks off as inland showers or thunderstorms, in turn sucking in further cooling air faster, and eventually following that with Atlantic-borne weather systems, and a rapid return to normal middling British summer weather. In other words a British heatwave tends to bring about its own demise pretty rapidly; and this is what is going to happen tonight. To secure the more prolonged hot conditions depends on blocking patterns, in which long distance circulations around big high pressure systems to the east and big low pressure ones to the west gradually draw up warmer and warmer air of southern subtropical or Mediterranean origin, and the weather does not break until the jet stream is re-invigorated. The same applies to prolonged cold, of course.

[DracoM]

Just watch out for Sunday - www.yr.no predicting temps up here of 12-14 for day time!!!!

[oddoneout]

Oof, too hot! Stepping out the back door at 6-30 this morning was a bit like walking into a tumbledryer - high twenties and an appreciable warm breeze. Just got more and more through the day. Now 34 in the shade, and the wind is windy, not a breeze, and noticeably warmer. The garden has just given up, everything flapping like limp bunting and tender growth crisping to destruction. It will stay hot overnight and the likelihood of any wetness in the foreseeable future is zero as far as I can see. There is vague mention of the possibility of thunderstorms, but if they happen I suspect we'll just get some son et lumiere rather than precipitation.

[Pulcinella]

Just watch out for Sunday - www.yr.no predicting temps up here of 12-14 for day time!!!!

Out of interest, do you use their new website?
I've just tried it, and am not sure that I like it.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oof, too hot! Stepping out the back door at 6-30 this morning was a bit like walking into a tumbledryer - high twenties and an appreciable warm breeze. Just got more and more through the day. Now 34 in the shade, and the wind is windy, not a breeze, and noticeably warmer. The garden has just given up, everything flapping like limp bunting and tender growth crisping to destruction. It will stay hot overnight and the likelihood of any wetness in the foreseeable future is zero as far as I can see. There is vague mention of the possibility of thunderstorms, but if they happen I suspect we'll just get some son et lumiere rather than precipitation.

There are some very high-based storms heading north out of France at the moment, and possibly coming in your direction. It's still a question whether or not they'll skirt us here to the east: there's some nice elevated convection taking place as of now - the sorts of clouds Salvador Dali often put into his paintings. Just now, while dead-heading roses, I was reminded of experiencing 37 C in Hanover while on holiday there in the early 1970s in a similar strong wind to today's. It was like standing in front of a gigantic fan heater, and without air conditioning at my girlfriend's parents' house there was no escape. Moving air does not cool the body down at over 29 C. There was a massive thunderstorm during the afternoon which flooded the centre of that city - we just managed to find shelter in a little cafeteria - bringing the temperature down to a very humid 25 C.

[DracoM]

Out of interest, do you use their new website?
I've just tried it, and am not sure that I like it.

No, I still use their previous one - perfectly serviceable IMO.
Many farmers up here use it as the most accurate - as far as UK can ever be accurately forecast...!!

[Joseph K]

Heavy thunder here in East Staffordshire, bits of rain starting. It's been a hot day...