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WNW force 4-6 at lunchtime, and 12c, with well broken cloud and sunshine. I only rode 7.5 miles today as I had to get back, but a pleasant autumn day here. Quite cool this morning, 5c at 7am.
My sort of weather
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A much nicer day at lunchtime, sunny with temperatures of 14c and a Force 2 SE wind. A nice fresh feel. Quite a cool start this morning, with a touch of frost on the car windscreen, however air temp was around 5c
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Well quite a change this lunchtime. After a wet morning from the cold front moving south lunchtime produced a force 2 SW wind with temperatures at 13c. The last mile of my ride was wet, the rain started again, and it was 100% cloudy, BUT, the horrible warm humid air of the last few days seems to have finally moved away to annoy someone else, and it felt a lot fresher. Hopefully we now see a proper autumn.
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3 hours ago, Mark Bayley said:
Definitely a risk of the first ground frost!
I hope so, fed up with this unseasonal humid warm weather.
First bike ride since holiday produced a W force 4 with temps of 17c but with dew point at 15c at lunch time it felt really humid. Mostly cloudy.
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We got back to Yorkshire today after a week in Paris. Felt very humid but only 18c at the coast when we got back at about 4pm. Last Monday afternoon we had 30c in Paris Hid in our hotel from lunchtime until the evening. Cooled down Tuesday with some rain and rest of week has been OK, around 20c each day. I wonder when the weather will finally turn colder at the coast, question is are we looking at the new normal?
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12 hours ago, A Face like Thunder said:
I was watching the 'Saving lives at Sea' programme from last night, with the Whitby RNLI inshore lifeboat saving two fossil hunters who had been cut off by the tide just south of Whitby pier. At first, all seemed fine, with a clear blue sky and little in the way of waves outside the harbour, but this quickly changed as the incoming tide, wind direction and swell combined to make a lifeboat rescue impossible, despite the best efforts of the crew, with the lifeboat filling dangerously with water and the engine failing to restart as the boat moved towards the giant rocks close to the pier. In the end, the boat got going again and the fossil hunters were rescued by a Coastguard crew abseiling down from the cliffs above. All very dramatic and gripping and all of course recorded on body cams, and what wonderful guys those RNLI and Coastguard crew members were. Well done to all involved! And well worth watching if it's ever repeated.
Living at the coast we hear and see the coastguard helicopter quite regularly. People don't realise how a subtle change in weather conditions coupled with tides make a huge difference to the actual conditions. We ended having to call the coastguard out late one evening when a woman insisted on looking for a lost dog in the dark and unsuitably dressed or prepared. It all ended well with her and the dog rescued by the coastguard, she did get a bit of a lecture off the coast guard and her husband was less circumspect and doubled one of body parts if you know what I mean.
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Well even hotter today in Paris. Looks like a cool down tomorrow. Officially beyond Mike57 and MrsMike57 comfort zone today, 28c, only saving grace is that dew point is 7c.
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We are currently on holiday in France, stay near Paris on holiday, and it is hot today. We moved our holiday week back a week a few years ago because of heat, looks like we will be moving yet another week later in future.
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Lunchtime ride produced winds SE force 3-5 and 18c. Skies were clouding over while I was out, started in sunshine, quite cloudy by the time I got back.
Cloud has continued to thicken through the afternoon and there is now some very light rain, Breezy, but not yellow warning winds (we are right on the edge here), we will see what happens later as wind is still picking up, but based on forecasts and our local climate I would say we will miss the worst of Stom Agnes.
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A spell of heavy rain this morning, which had largely cleared by lunchtime, had a shower while I was out, force 2-4, temps 16c at lunchtime. Its cleared up this afternoon. sun now out temps up to 18c.
Yellow warning for wind torrow here, so far faorecast for us is +50mph gusts, so marginal for a yellow warning, but I can see that even a small change iin the track of the low could make quite a difference.
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Not a bad day today, 19c at lunchtime, mainly sunny, wind S force 4-5. A pleasant ride.
Grass is still growing, had to cut it again this weekend, hopefully a couple more cuts then I can 'winterise' the mower.
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A much better day, wind has moderated from yesterdays gale to a SW force 3-4, sunny and temps at 17c Full 10 miles cycled
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Very windy at lunchtime but rain had stopped. Force 7-9 S winds curtailed bike ride to just over 8 miles, not cold, 17c and overcast. Had the winds of this strength been SW the ride would have been cancelled, but there is enough shelter from southerlies to allow progress, but every field gate or hedge gap is an adventure when its blowing that hard,
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8 hours ago, A Face like Thunder said:
High Mowthorpe? I had to look it up, near Malton I understand. Must be someone there who is keeping official weather figures.
Its an Agriculture and Enviromental agency, used to be pari of the Ministry of Agriculture but now a private concern, but the Ministry connections probably account for the presence of a weather station. It really is in the middle of nowhere, nearest villages are Duggleby and Kirkby Gridalythe which are just over a mile away, and both of which are small. Because of its location on the high Wolds at about 170m asl it has featured in the daily weather extemes before.
When I go to Malton I usually go up the Wold Valley and through the Luttons and Duggleby, so go quite close, and the whole area feels very remote. I think Duggleby's claim to fame was being one of the last villages to get TV reception due to its location in a hollow.
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Well bike ride was dry but accompnied by a force 6-8 SSW wind, not the worst direction as there is some shelter from hedges on a good bit of the ride. Temperatures were 16c. Sky looked very autumnal
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Yes a very autumnal morning at the coast, it looks like I will get a fairly dry interlude for my daily exercise, Forecast for the rest of the week looks to be quite unsettled. But seeing as I was complaining about heat and humidity I wont complain.
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Well another day dodging the 'heat" bullet on the Yorkshire Coast. Mainly overcast with low cloud and some sea fret. 17c
We went down to Beverley this morning and it felt significantly warmer and sun was out.
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Temperatures on the Yorkshire Coast have been reasonable today, around 19c, but yet again humidity is the problem with dewpoints around 16c. I managed to do the jobs today that got left last weekend, the hottest one being cutting the grass. Just wish we could be done with 'summer" now.
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Another OK day today. Lunchtime ride produced 19c, sunny intervals and a force 3 SW wind. A 'not' day, not too hot, not too windy and not raining.
Hoping the heat forecast for the weekend doesnt make it to East Yorksire, at the moment looks like we could be right on the boundary. I have quite a bit to do this weekend including things left over from last weekend which were abandonded due to the heatwave.
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16 minutes ago, Derecho said:
I also went for a bike ride on the Wolds this lunchtime! Perfect weather for it haha.
How far did you get? its good cycling country, plenty of quiet roads, just gets interesting when the wind blows as the higher parts are very exposed. I do a ride every day even when wet or cold, as my job is sedentary.
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Well, the nicest day for over a week, fine sunny and dry, with a fresh feel. Winds NNW force 3-4. Lunchtime bike ride was actually enjoyable. Temps at 17c.
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38 minutes ago, Tom Quintavalle said:
If Climate Change results in the U.K. being on the northern side of the Jet Stream for 2 Months of the Summer, as far as I'm concerned, "bring it on"!!
I think the postion of the jet stream with respect to the UK is crucial for the impact of climate change. The meandering 'Omega block' is probably the worst outcome for heat haters as it bottles up the heat and humidity, and the resulting anti cyclone with decending air further adds to the heat, what we now see described as a heat dome.
Another unknown is the Gulf Stream, without it our climate would be similar to that experienced in Northern British Columbia.
Apart from the fact that the highest temperatures experienced during summer have increased more quickly than average temperature the other change that seems to be occuring is an increase in blocking patterns.
Take the recent heatwave, it was was much slower to move away than first forecast, and models seem to underestimate temperatures on the whole. So we are in a time of change, and probably not for the better as far as the residents of this thread are concerned.
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9 hours ago, SakuraOwl said:
Meaning we will see the autumn colors for much longer & the transition will be very noticeable.
Got me thinking, because I experienced 'fall' in Pennsylvania in the USA one year, and their autumn colours are far more vivid than ours. The part of the state I was in, the Poconos is very well wooded, but the colours just seemed more vivid.
Anyway I found this article on line which does explain the process
Why do leaves change colour in autumn
WWW.KEW.ORG
Chris Clennett, Garden Manager at Wakehurst, reveals why and how leaves change colour in autumn.And my take away is that a more continental climate will produce brighter colours, i.e. warm temps followed by a sudden switch to cold. On the other hand a slow transition with no proper cold prodeces less colour variation but the colours last longer.
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Well the heat finally seems to have relented here. Its been a wet day, but temperature now down to 15c. My only concern now is that there appears to be a possible spike in temperatures next weekend. Not what I wanted to hear, last Saturdays plans were abandoned and moved to this coming Saturday owing to the heatwave.
Our holidays are coming up at the start of October, a week in Paris. Currently temperatures are way too hot for us in France, but in past years 1st week October has been survivable, however this year seems to be another exceptional year (i.e. the new normal?) so I am wondering what we will get. Any European travel southwards is always a balancing act between daylight hours and miserable temperatures. Obviously a hot beach holiday isnt our cup of tea, apart from being heat haters we like to explore, look, hear and experience, I can go to Bridlington Beach 5 miles away if I want sand, or Reighton gap a similar distance the other way. Because we live in rural area some big city experiences make a nice change, but not if they come with HEAT.
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Yorkshire and E England regional discussion
in Yorkshire & E.England Weather Discussion
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Just wondering what the storm impacts will be, forecast on here is showing wet, but more worryingly 69mph gusts from an easterly gale Friday afternoon. This would potentially be damaging on the east coast. Particularly with the trees still in almost full leaf.
Met Office is making more of the rain, but max gust ~50mph which is a normal storm and not cause for concern.