Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

Withe everyone seemingly referring back to 1976, I've checked by records of the time, and found it not to have been as bone dry as this one: there were more thunderstorms about, and they were more geographically spread across the whole country. I remember the day when the temperature exceeded the 90 degrees Fahrenheit mark (33 degs C), and I cycled deep into the countryside, and watched thunder clouds piling up against the sunset, almost transfixed. I only just made it home - the lightning and thunder was truly awesome - but that was the only time I can recall getting soaked right through, and really delighting in the cooling experience of it.

[BBMmk2]

That’s interesting, SA. Thank you! It’s going to be around 30C today hereabouts!

[Serial_Apologist]

That’s interesting, SA. Thank you! It’s going to be around 30C today hereabouts!

It was horrendously hot and humid when I emptied the rubbish this morning, so I'm staying indoors until I need to go outside again - probably after 6 pm, when I should pop upstairs and water neighbours' pot plants, including a hanging basket of Petunias and Bizzie Lizzies, and two ground containers with tall sunflowers now displaying. The family concerned will miss this - as indeed they did last year, leaving the rest of the block to benefit thereby! They drove off to north Norfolk yesterday, well aware of the highest temperatures anywhere being there. The "experts" are talking of a few possible 36-37 degrees C tomorrow in E Anglia, maybe 35 for central London, which will mean 33 C here on the Crystal Palace mountain! Fortunately I'm well stocked with lager and lemonade in the fridge. Friday night into Saturday looks likely to bring some relief everywhere, with general rain following in the wake of any thunderstorms, and winds going to a normal south-westerly until around Thursday a week tomorrow, when the Azores High is expected to throw another ridge across the country.

[teamsaint]

So, with 35 degrees ( whats that in old money?) and a train strike, seems like tomorrow is a perfect day for a business trip to central London

Anyhow, apart from being a bit humid, its lovely here today, hot , just enough cloud from time to time cover to give relief.

Interesting bit on the radio yesterday about the Environment agency dealing with stranded fish in drying up and de oxegenated rivers and lakes.

[Serial_Apologist]

So, with 35 degrees ( whats that in old money?)

35 C = 95 F.

Interesting bit on the radio yesterday about the Environment agency dealing with stranded fish in drying up and de oxegenated rivers and lakes.

Many of our native flora and fauna are finding considerable difficulty in adjusting to our version of global warming, as compared in that instance with some fish we saw in central Africa on one of Attenborough's wonderful programmes, which bury themselves up to the head in the drying out mud of the dry season, and sort of "hibernate" it out until the next rush of water resuscitates them.

[teamsaint]

35 C = 95 F.



Many of our native flora and fauna are finding considerable difficulty in adjusting to our version of global warming, as compared in that instance with some fish we saw in central Africa on one of Attenborough's wonderful programmes, which bury themselves up to the head in the drying out mud of the dry season, and sort of "hibernate" it out until the next rush of water resuscitates them.

Wow, fascinating fish knowledge , S-A.

[Serial_Apologist]

Wow, fascinating fish knowledge , S-A.

As long as I don't have to come back as one of those; it can't be much fun, effectively being buried in body-hugging concrete for six months!

[BBMmk2]

32C today!

[Lat-Literal]

They are saying on the radio that it is 36.5 degrees in Surrey ie here or hereabouts. If we are a part of the "South East fortress", it is walled to prevent all public transport access to a sandy beach. The need to cross London blocks northern travel. Eight days of rail strikes on South West trains until and including 1 Sep blocks western travel. It's shingle of nothing.

[vinteuil]

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https://www.thetrainline.com/en/train-times/ebbsfleet-international-to-paris

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris-Plages

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[oddoneout]

It was horrendously hot and humid when I emptied the rubbish this morning, so I'm staying indoors until I need to go outside again - probably after 6 pm, when I should pop upstairs and water neighbours' pot plants, including a hanging basket of Petunias and Bizzie Lizzies, and two ground containers with tall sunflowers now displaying. The family concerned will miss this - as indeed they did last year, leaving the rest of the block to benefit thereby! They drove off to north Norfolk yesterday, well aware of the highest temperatures anywhere being there. The "experts" are talking of a few possible 36-37 degrees C tomorrow in E Anglia, maybe 35 for central London, which will mean 33 C here on the Crystal Palace mountain! Fortunately I'm well stocked with lager and lemonade in the fridge. Friday night into Saturday looks likely to bring some relief everywhere, with general rain following in the wake of any thunderstorms, and winds going to a normal south-westerly until around Thursday a week tomorrow, when the Azores High is expected to throw another ridge across the country.

They should be OK if they can get to the coast - anything up to 10 cooler by the briny than inland.

[Lat-Literal]

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https://www.thetrainline.com/en/train-times/ebbsfleet-international-to-paris

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris-Plages

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I guess so - but how to get to Ebbsfleet?

One also has to be a jogger/joggeur:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHmOJDO_pG4

(It does for waves on rocks what Albatross did for birds)

Also, I am more of a Marseille man than a Paris man, by virtue of being, on occasion, cantankerous.

[BBMmk2]

They lied! They said things which didn’t come about! Thunderstorms! I love a good thunderstorm. More hot weather! 26C!

[DracoM]

Up here, last night, ominous stillness, not a leaf stirring, great weighty, thundery cloudscapes, stiifling heat and then...........nice semi-orange moon and then nowt. Not a drop.

And this a.m.? Pretty well cloudless, jolly breeze, looks wonderful............quite warm, but.....none of that promised rain yet.

[Lat-Literal]

They lied! They said things which didn’t come about! Thunderstorms! I love a good thunderstorm. More hot weather! 26C!

They have been consistently wrong. Promised thunderstorms in the London area around Midday. Didn't happen. The most I found was the slightest drop of water at around 5am when I was removing more brown plants from the garden. Not sure if it was dew from the rooftop or not. I am hoping it isn't a leak. It was weird - so slight most wouldn't have even noticed it.

Up here, last night, ominous stillness, not a leaf stirring, great weighty, thundery cloudscapes, stiifling heat and then...........nice semi-orange moon and then nowt. Not a drop.

And this a.m.? Pretty well cloudless, jolly breeze, looks wonderful............quite warm, but.....none of that promised rain yet.

Semi-orange moon on to a blood moon tonight at around 8.30pm, I think. Expected to last for 83 minutes which is the longest in many years. Astronomically and astrologically it is an unusual arrangement. Mars will be viewable, probably to the right. That is unless "the thunderstorm" coincides. Then nothing will be seen which is nature's way of adding insult to injury.

https://astrologyking.com/lunar-eclipse-27-july-2018-blood-moon/

(The longest total lunar eclipse this century is going to have an incredibly powerful influence on private lives and a blood moon conjunct Mars is generally considered an omen of war)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5015skRvqs8