"Yellow rain warning as heatwave dissipates" according to the Met Office. My garden could certainly do with some rain but of the colourless variety please.
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We have a six month old puppy, called Bertie. A cross breed.Lovely little thing. BBMBertie, I think I’ll call him on here!
Another hotty here, today!Don’t cry for me
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I'm sure you'll cheer him up BBM!Originally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
Much more comfortable here today - the midday temperature (25 C) a couple of degrees down on yesterday's, and gone is the humidity of the past week.
It's a shame the weather is due to break down this coming weekend, but for me and a lot of others it will come as a relief.Comment
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A shame, perhaps, for those starting school holidays, but a relief for for the rest of us (it is currently 26.2C in our kitchen).Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostI'm sure you'll cheer him up BBM!
Much more comfortable here today - the midday temperature (25 C) a couple of degrees down on yesterday's, and gone is the humidity of the past week.
It's a shame the weather is due to break down this coming weekend, but for me and a lot of others it will come as a relief.
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It could even be that we are in for an awful lot of rain this weekend, if heatwave breakdowns in other parts of the world currently are anything to go by. Sunday could be a major washout for Wales and England, especially south of the Humber.Originally posted by Old Grumpy View PostComment
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I've checked the temperature on my weather app at 28º, 29º and 30º (now) and each time when I've looked at the wind speed/direction for the 'feels like' temperature, it's been 1 degree higher on each occasion which surprised me. Is that usual? Does it make a difference whether it's hot weather or cold weather? Wind chill and wind heat factors?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Either very humid or very dry can be dangerous in hot weather: high humidity because the body cannot get rid of sweat - the one way for the body to maintain its temperature - low because the sweat can dry out faster than the body is able to reproduce it, leading to overheating, possibly heatstroke and even death. This doesn't seem to be discouraging the masochists out there insistent on maintaining their daily vigorous exercise régimes, whether running, jogging or cycling. I'm not sure what the ideal range for comfortability in hot weather is - probably somewhere around 30-40 % relative humidity, which is about the norm regardless of temperature or season in this country, although humidity levels tend to rise in the latter part of afternoons and into evenings. I did once read somewhere that over and above a certain temperature, which I think was 29 C or 84 F, winds no longer have the effect of cooling the body - though I would imagine the mere presence of wind would have the psychological effect of it seeming to. However, the highest temperature that I have ever experienced was 37.5 C, and although it was accompanied by a Force 5 strong breeze the effect was far from a cooling one, more of standing in front of a giant fan heater and having ones face and other exposed parts scorched. Cycling behind buses in this hot weather is rather like that, by the way.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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... indeed so. I spent a year of my life in Douala, West Africa, and two years in Riyadh, Sa'udi 'Arabia. I cannot recommend either climate - but the very hot and very dry of Riyadh much preferable to the hot and relentlessly humid Douala -Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
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Yes, and probably because one is less aware of temperature in very dry air, whether it be high or low. I well remember diners enjoying drinks on the terrace of a hotel where I was working in Switzerland one evening when the air temperature was Minus 10 Celsius! It was flat calm, mind you!Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... indeed so. I spent a year of my life in Douala, West Africa, and two years in Riyadh, Sa'udi 'Arabia. I cannot recommend either climate - but the very hot and very dry of Riyadh much preferable to the hot and relentlessly humid Douala -
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South of the Humber - well that's OK thenOriginally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
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Though York is, of course, prone to flooding.Comment
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Definitely less hot today, thankfully! Currently 16.Comment
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Most pleasant here too, with the temperature today down to normal for mid-July (22 C), a moderate easterly breeze coming off the N Sea, and enough solar strength through the slowly thickening high cloud sheet to tempt one out for an hour's sunbathing later this afternoon.Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
Thankfully the weekly St Sprees spree this morning was undertaken without trouble - hats off to the supermarket staff and delivery persons for achieving almost full shelves even as late as 11.45 am, with only lettuce in short supply - given the high probability of heavy rain first thing tomorrow. Cirrostratus is gradually invading the sky ahead of tonight's convective rain band, approaching the south tonight and tomorrow morning from France, where, from looking at beach-located webcams, skies are already very threatening (lumpy elevated altostratus heralding high-based thunderstorms which are already over the Brest peninsular - earlier some wit on UKWW reported "mammatus seen off Brest"
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Definitely much cooler, to the extent of bare arms not being that comfortable. The chance of rain has been put back yet again which, coupled with large scale excavations(including uprooting small plants) of the veg beds by the blackbirds means a spell with the hose this evening, in addition to the usual pot plant tending.Comment
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Hazy but strong sun all day. Peaked at 27C and still 25 at 5pm. Met Office radar shows a solid belt of rain passing over Wiltshire tomorrow morning. Seems to be no doubt that a fair amount will fall, yet strangely the highest predicted probability is 90%. I suppose their computer doesn't like 100%.Comment
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