What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Jul 22 - 08:26 AM

20 c in west cork ireland

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jul 22 - 08:30 PM

27C in Bude today. Getting humid by evening, but we sat outside until almost midnight. The real heat is supposed to kick in tomorrow. It'll be big watering of garden followed by pink Prosecco followed by salmon arrabbiata...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jul 22 - 05:20 AM

This morning the temperature has shot up from an overnight low of 12.6C to 26C by 10.15. The Widemouth Bay Doctor* (aka the sea breeze) normally kicks in from the west during late morning to knock the temperature rise on the head, but there's a stiff E. breeze this morning that should fight it off. At this rate the Bude all-time record high of 32.3C could be busted, if not today, tomorrow.

*with apologies to the Fremantle Doctor...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 22 - 03:29 PM

This week the highs in this part of Texas are predicted to be up to about 42.7 C (I converted it for you - good thing the Internet has a lot of apps for that). That's 109^oF.

Stay quietly indoors, only go out in the early morning or after dark, unless you're a glutton for punishment and want to stand in the heat for a few minutes at midday to see what it really feels like. Stay hydrated.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stanron
Date: 17 Jul 22 - 05:51 PM

When it gets too hot I do the wet shirt thing. Soak it in warm water, wring it out and put it on. Don't use cold water. The shock can be almost painful. One go can last up to four or five hours. Probably less in Texas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jul 22 - 07:05 PM

Well we made 30.5C today, 87F in old money, but tomorrow will be hotter. The sun beamed down at UV 8, but I managed to pick my broad bean crop, shell them, blanch them and get them in the freezer, four kilos of shelled beans. I'm bloody knackered but I do have a killing tan...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 07:03 AM

At noon today it's 31.9C in my garden. My sensor is in the shade and it transmits to an indoor unit. I got a 32.0C in August 1995. The all-time Bude record is 32.3C.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 07:13 AM

At 12.10 it's 32.5C. The Bude all-time record has (unofficially) fallen!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 08:33 AM

With the small increase of temperature the atmosphere can hold 4 times the water which is bad news for floods. Also drought conditions can/have worsened which is bad news for wild fires.

In the US over the last 5 years the disaster costs have increased 10 billion dollars year after year. There will come a time when insurance money and/or tax money can no longer maintain current relief response.

This morning we are at 75 F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 09:19 AM

It's 36C (96.8F) here in my village in Norfolk. The sun is very strong. I feel so sorry for all the workers, teachers and even the schoolchildren. My husband has just rung me. He's held up in his car on the way to his afternoon/evening cleaning job due to roadworks and a diversion. Imagine sweeping floors and cleaning toilets, plus towing heavy wheelie bins around in this heat! Luckily his hay fever is over and he's quite alright in the heat.
I do hope people have made provision for all their animals. Rabbits in hutches, dogs chained to a kennel etc.
Early this morning my shepherdess neighbour erected a huge canopy to shelter her sheep from the hot sun, and has ensured they have plenty of water in several troughs.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 11:28 AM

"With the small increase of temperature the atmosphere can hold 4 times the water..."

Huh?

It's been hovering at 35.8C for over an hour (it's 4.25 as I post this). That's three and a half degrees C higher than Bude's previous all-time record high. That's a scary statistic: usually, records are broken by skinny little fractions of a degree...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 12:44 PM

We made exactly 36 degrees by 5 PM. Going down now!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 06:01 PM

Hope some of you Brits saw Bude mentioned at the end of the ten o'clock news. My reading of 36.0C was corroborated!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 12:38 AM

I got up half an hour ago (at 5am) to the sound of rain!! RAIN!!! All our gardens here were like the Sahara desert, with lawns turning to dust. Now a good downpour is in progress. I actually opened my front door and stood outside in the rain just to enjoy it all the more. (I'm fully dressed of course). The smell of the wet earth is so lovely.
The forecast is for intermittent rain all day today. Hooray!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 01:01 AM

Well thats not a dry heat.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 01:51 AM

Scratch a cynic and there is a disappointed idealist underneath.
Were pretty good individually but selfish ignorant leaders will be elected or rule over groups of selfish ignorant people.
Nature is going to ultimately win and our species will justifiably lose.
You may as well look at the coming cummulative compounding catastrophes as entertainment at this point. There will be much to amuse you.
The cooperative hope we hoped for will happen but probably on another planet or moon. Earth has grown weary of us. It looks to me like we will go out in a spirit of hopeful rebellion.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 04:32 AM

Well we got a brief shower yesterday morning then the sun beamed out for the rest of the day and we got 29C. In a typical summer of the past that would have been our hottest day. Yesterday, 34 recording stations beat the UK temperature record, and the hottest spot beat it by 1.6 degrees C. That was Coningsby at 40.3C.

We've had less than a quarter of an inch of rain here in Bude since late June, and we've had a lot of hot, sunny, windy weather that has parched everything. It doesn't feel much like our Cornwall climate. There's hardly any rain in our forecast for the foreseeable future.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 08:22 AM

I will do some spot watering with a wheel barrow today.
The hose won't reach.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jul 22 - 08:33 AM

Here comes some more rain and thunderstorms, and
I will have to drive on the turnpike. Carefully.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jul 22 - 01:27 PM

Another severe thunderstorm watch in effect where I'm staying.
Wish I could pass it on to Stilly,
since it is forecast to bring cooler temperatures in its wake.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 28 Jul 22 - 07:45 PM

We were on holiday in Suffolk and Cambs during last week’s hot spell. Reached the max on Tuesday 19th when it was 41c in Peterborough. Thought it might be a bit cooler by the coast, so drove to Hunstanton on the Norfolk coast, but it was still 39c there.
On Sunday 17th we had got caught up on the M14 in a gigantic traffic jam, thanks to an accident further up. It took over an hour to move about 2 miles. I was in the front passenger seat with car window down: it was 37c then, so II got a well fried left arm!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 22 - 05:42 AM

While we have some heat, with heat-related thunderstorms,
thankfully the nights are cool and somewhat dry.
It makes a world of difference for sleeping.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Aug 22 - 06:44 AM

We had 12mm of rain in July (under half an inch), our average being 71mm (just under three inches). Every month this year so far has had below-average rainfall. I haven't totted up my numbers yet, but the average maximum temperature for July was well over 3C above the average. We had three days above 30C, which is a vanishingly rare event here, including our record-destroying 36C on the 18th. I can't record sunshine hours but I give each day a score out of five, five being a day with almost, or completely, unbroken sunshine. I have still to total up those numbers too, but it's been a pretty sunny month. The month fizzled out with two days of murk, drizzle and mugginess. Sun's out again today!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Aug 22 - 06:54 PM

Well I've done my numbers, all collected from my garden. I'm pleased that they generally tally very well with the numbers at the Bude meteorological station, three miles away, bearing in mind that the Bude one is coastal at sea level (just about) and that mine is half a mile inland, much more sheltered and is 120 feet above sea level (safe from the worst tsunami that the Bristol Channel can throw at us!)

Our average maximum for July was over four degrees Celsius above the 30-year average, 23.4C as opposed to 19.3C.

The bulk of the UK has had the driest July ever recorded (records go back to the 1830s). We've also had the highest-ever recorded temperatures, with 46 recording stations beating the UK record that was set only three years ago. The UK beat its record by 1.6C and Bude beat its own record (set in 1976) by 3.7C and the all-time Cornwall record by 2.1C (smashing the Devon record to boot).

Every county needs its resident meteorological geek... ;-)

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 10:14 AM

11 inches (27.94 cm) of rain fell overnight in southern Illinois.
Deadly flash floods are expected. Hundreds are still missing in Kentucky.

The US has a fair bill pending regarding global warming but the exponential cost of increased disasters does not seem to be taken into account.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 11:31 AM

For the next month or more it will continue to be the smoking lands around Mt. Doom in Mordor.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 12:27 PM

We might get a dribble overnight tonight, but after that it's dry and sunny for the foreseeable future and heating up again. Cornwall is bone dry. Yellow grass everywhere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 02:37 PM

I'm waiting for a rerun in the UK of something I heard of decades ago, seen in (I *think*) California, and reported on the wireless over here:

* A bright green lawn, with a notice on it saying WET PAINT;

* A bright green dog, who clearly hadn't read the notice before rolling on said lawn.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 05:27 PM

Things in DC are very very lush. It is not a brown August. We just had a Sunderstorm of thunder, sunshine and wind that lowered temperatures by 20 degrees.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 05:51 PM

We are getting very worried in the southern half of England. We've been dry for months, and hot and almost bone-dry for six weeks. The forecast is for no rain for the foreseeable future and the weather map shows a huge blocking anticyclone just starting to build in. By the middle of next week we are back in the low or mid-30s as continental Europe heats up again and we get a bit of their hot air. We just don't get summers like this.

A few days ago we got 4mm of rain overnight. Since then it's been sunny and windy, a great recipe for drying us out even more.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Aug 22 - 02:25 AM

There was a serious field fire yesterday at Belaugh (pronounced bee-lah). It's not far from my village, and the smell of smoke was very strong. Everyone hurriedly shut all their windows. Sirens were screaming as many fire-tenders arrived. Fortunately they put the thing out quite quickly. The farmer had already harvested his crop, but all the straw went up in flames. Rain! Rain! We need RAIN!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 09:07 AM

The heat has broken here,
although rain is still hard to come by.
The forecast muttered something about
the possibility of hail,
but I will believe that when I see it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 09:26 AM

Sorry, I should have spelt that Bylaugh (pronounced 'beeler')
It's 30C here at the moment, and I feel so sorry for all the workers. Various couriers have visited this street today to deliver things, and they all looked half-dead. I always rush out with a freezing cold can of Diet Coke, but once swallowed, how do they survive later?
And the poor wildlife. My bird-bath water evaporates after an hour or two. It's getting very serious, this heatwave and lack of any rain.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 01:55 PM

The dog days of summer is named after the constellation Canis major since it's overhead right now in the northern hemisphere.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 05:01 PM

It's not overhead. The dog days start with the heliacal rising of Sirius (i.e., when it rises in the east just before the Sun). Canis Major is nowhere near the elliptic. The dog days run from early July to around the second week in August. I explained this a couple of weeks ago. I can't remember which thread now. Unlike you, I looked it up first.

The temperature here reached 32.2°C here today. We've been here for 35 years and today was the second-hottest in all that time. The hottest (and hottest ever recorded for Devon and Cornwall) was a mere three weeks ago when we reached 36.0°C. In the last month we've had five days above 30°, which is ridiculously unprecedented round here.

Sounds feeble compared to Maggie's reports, I know!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 06:33 PM

Ecliptic, dammit, not elliptic! Grr. Its path through the heavens keeps it well to the south of the Sun's path (the ecliptic), therefore closer to the southern horizon.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 06:36 PM

you spelled damn it wrong :*/

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 06:46 PM

No I didn't, and if you ever criticise my spelling you'll simply get my antennae waggling in your direction.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 07:55 PM

It's raining it's raining it's RAINING!!

A soft, gentle, steady rain, the sort that soaks everything.
And there's a glowing pink sunset at the same time.
Wish I could send this to Stilly in Fort Worth, Texas.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Aug 22 - 07:35 AM

Its a nice cool almost crisp morning in the 60s.

Just kidding Steve. First and foremost I am about defending freedom of expression and art. Spell with abandon, a love of life and joie d'vivre but its better to live that way.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Aug 22 - 05:50 PM

Checking your facts and being careful with your spelling go a long way towards setting you free.

We made 33.6°C in Bude today. Had it not been for July 18, that would have slaughtered Bude's all-time record by 1.3°. Instead, it fell 2.4° short of the new July 18 record. We could get even closer tomorrow...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 07:24 AM

"Wish I could send this to Stilly in Fort Worth, Texas"

I looked for you in DFW but you must have been in Love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 02:05 PM

After a heat wave that had Berkshire Mountain natives gasping like fish,
there has resumed the sort of weather for which
the Tri-State (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut) denizens
come to spend the summer:
clear dry days with a breeze to keep flying insects at bay,
bright sunshine that isn't too hot,
and cool -- sometimes, downright chilly -- summer evenings
at mountain-valley (sometimes mountainside) altitude.

It's the weekend, so the landscape outdoor workers are out,
like so many worker bees,
mowing the grassy lawns and verges like there's no tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 06:35 PM

We got to 34.2°C today, the second-hottest day ever recorded for Bude, and a full 2°C hotter than the 1976 record. Beaten only by July 18, four weeks ago, in a separate heatwave...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 10:15 AM

I suggest we shop for rain barrels and water testing.
The Yanzee is at historic lows. The Colorado river has stopped flowing before the sea, India has little snow pack for their rivers. Germany has rivers so low shipping traffic is being limited. The Hoover dam water intakes are now above the historic low water levels.
The global effect is dire already.

If we don't hit our target to reduce warming we will lose the same amount of water as current annual usage by evaporation and other causes.

The future of global warming is now here ahead of time.
Avoid the shortage crises and take remedial action now.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 01:31 AM

The long-range forecast promised us rain here in the East of UK. Yesterday we had thunder rolling on and on to the west, but nary a drop of rain. However, later, sitting on The Bench in my front garden, I felt a drop of rain. After two minutes of a few more stingy drops, everything stopped and the sun came out. It's teasing us.
But later I went over to Lenwade (next village) to play bingo and they actually had puddles (!!) in the streets. Not fair!

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 02:49 AM

We had a rain shower that lasted all of 30 seconds on Monday and another like that yesterday lunchtime. One of the thunderstorms did come our way later in the day and we had a couple of hours of fairly heavy rain before it started to ease off.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 03:14 AM

Two hours of heavy rain John! Excellent. As I type this, it's raining quite steadily here now, and there are puddles in the road outside my bungalow. Whoopee! Actually, doesn't having to do without something for ages make one thrilled when it eventually arrives? I think many people were suffering from Appreciation Deficit Disorder.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 04:06 AM

It's gone all normal and dreary now, though we still haven't had the rain to put things on a normal footing. The day before yesterday we had a spectacular but brief thunderstorm that yielded 9mm in ten minutes. That's three-quarters of July's rainfall in ten minutes! The mozzies are biting well...

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 10:00 AM

The weather folks are gleefully predicting this is the last of the triple-digit days for a while and supposedly a moderate chance of rain every day for the next week. Hopefully some of that will land here; my lawn is straw and my house is ready to crack open from the dry foundation. We had about 2.5 months of most days over 100^o days.