mike57

A major storm has passed just to our south, heading out into the North Sea south of Bridlington. Continuous lightning, around 20 flashes a minute for a good 20 minutes visible from here, and a constant distant rumbling My guess is Hornsea got a direct hit.

Continuos lightning and and a constant rumbling now. I just counted 20 flashes in one minute. Just started raining but not hard. Checked radar and it going to miss us heading out to sea just south of Brid by the looks of things

Sis in law said it was thundering in Hull, and getting closer about an hour ago

Just looked at the radar, thunderstorms in the East Riding, yay, right at the sw corner, but there is hope, still 60 miles away from us but look to be heading NE.

This graphic I think shows how year on year maximums of got considerably higher. Blue years are less than 30c anywhere in UK, and general trend is upwards. This is covering whole of England, max temp each year.

Well we are still missing the worst of it here, 6c lower than Leconfield, which is 20 miles away. But humidity is very high, any outside tasks reduce you to a sea sweat in minutes. I have jobs which need doing at home but its too hot to even contemplate doing them. My problem is I was born in 1957 and there were years growing up in the 60s where we never even reached 30c, even in London where I was born. The current climate 'flip' seemed to manifest itself around 2000 - 2003. If you had said to people back in my childhood that we would get 40c in a heat wave, (well 104F as it was then) you would have been dismissed as crazy, and that the 40c would be felt as far north as Doncaster area the I think crazy would be replaced by something worse. And the same would go for a sustained 30c+ heatwave in September lasting 5+ days. I know the current thinking is average temperatures have risen by 1.5C, but the problem seems to be that peak temps have gone up by more than that. Add to that the recent few years have been noted for blocking patterns which seem to risen in both frequency and length, so the weather get stuck. Again growing up in say the 60s heatwaves were shorter and quickly replaced by a change to cooler conditions, the old saying, about a British summer, two fine days and thunderstorm, reflected the faster changing patterns. I suspect there id about 'global warming' that we will discover in the next 20 or so years, and I dont expect it to be good news.

I think the inverters might be an issue for a longer warranty. I use inverters in industry for motor applications and its very rare to get more than a 3 year warranty. By the nature of what they are they are the bit most likely to fail. Any longer warranties would probably be insurance based, and might work out quite expensive. The economics of solar look pretty bleak to be honest with long payback periods unless you can get subsidies.

This spell also raises the question, what temperature would have been acheived if this set-up had occured in July? My guess is well north of 40c. I hate to say this but I predict that the current 40c record will be broken again in the next few years. Also just noted that Aultbea, on the NW coast of Scotland is currently showing 23.9c, that would be pretty exceptional even in high summer.

Thanks for that link, this is what I have been looking for. SWMBO wants our bedroom redecorating soon, so my thought is to do aircon at the same time, aircon is also on SWMBO wish list, and mine as well. Probably do it over this winter. Whilst running costs are a consideration there comes a point where you just have to suck it up because of discomfort. Our bedroom faces SW with a low horizon, so in the summer gets full sun right up until sunset. I have put solar film on the window, which is quite large, and this helps. In high summer we have some extra reflective boards to further reduce heat, but over the last few summers they are not proving to be enough. Passive measures can only go so far.

I have made bug meshes for our windows A simple wooden frame which fits in the window frame when the window is open. The mesh is a fine stainless mesh off Amazon, cost around £30 for enough for two windows, fine enough to keep all but the smallest things out (Thrips are the main one that get through), certainly mozzie proof. The wire that forms the weave is fine enough not to obstruct the air flow. Also keeps larger animals in or out, our cat has to have 'mouth check' before being allowed back in as she bring prestents home, and our neighbours cat would visit given the opportunity, she has the nickname Six Dinners. The wing nut and washer connect it the window catch when in place to ensure it stays put. Obviously each window is a custom job, we have 4, two front and two back so you get a chance of a through draft. They have proved invaluable over the last few years. Seriously thinking about a screen door for the front door, which faces North so coolest area around the house. We are going to have to look to other counties going forwards for how we design our houses, the southern USA. Spain etc. Even without A/C there is a lot that can be done, but I think winter project will be to get A/C in one room, our bedroom, so that when the 40c record is broken again in a few years we will have one comfortable room to retreat to.

Well the sea fret has come in hereon the east coast and temps down to 19c but very humid. This was the view out of our back garden about 20 mins ago Better than heat and sun...

16c here this morning but humidity must be close to 100%. Sun now out. Hopefully a sea breeze will kick in later, but very little breeze now. I am doing a major home office reconfiguration to introduce new hardware and bin old stuff. I am sweating like a pig. Another unfortunate consequence of heat is I tend to get the s**ts, but at least I am now WFH until next Thursday so should be out of the worst of it.

Well got on a train home in Manchester, it was stifling and that without using NSFW words. Just got off at Seamer which is a couple of miles outside Scarborough and it's pleasant. An on shore breeze and although warmer than I would expect my guess is that its may be 17 - 18c, well within my comfort zone. There is a hint of sea fret. A remarkable difference.

Well I've been over in Chorley today, and it feels like someone has left the doors to Hell open. Now on an air conditioned train back home. Bempton has been 22 today, a bit over my personal comfort zone but not too bad so can't wait to get home. What I find concerning is that when I grew up in 60s there were years when we never made 30, now we are getting heatwaves in September, and not one day but a multiple day events. I think something in the climate has flipped, as the changes even since 2000 have been significant.

Cooled down more than I expected last night, early start this morning as I am in the NW today. On the way to the station in the car the outside temperature was hovering around 10c. Whilst I know they are not very reliable it felt about right.

Dropped away to 16c here now from 25c this afternoon, with a very light onshore E breeze. I think later in the week the humidity will make evenings/nights unpleasant

Hottest day of the year so far here. Forecast for midweek is cooler here as easterly will kick in, but then turning unpleasant again on Friday with heat and humidity. Had hoped we had seen the last of the hot weather this year. Hopefully that's it, but not enjoying the new normal climate.

A grey and drizzly day at the coast today. Late morning bike ride produced a force 3 E wind, with persistent drizzle for the last half hour. Very misty. Looks like I could be hiding in the heat haters thread Sunday and Monday.

A nice day today, 18c winds E force 3. Very little cloud, but the onshore breeze has raised a line of instability where it hits the cliffs, which are around 400ft at this point.

Sunday temperatures here have downgraded by 1c, hopefully that trend will continue, now at Mike57 happiness zone +3

Oh no, I spoke too soon, Sunday is currently forecast 24c feels like 27c here, but then cooling down here as winds back easterly. Inland I suspect may not be so lucky.

More cloud and less rain than yesterday. 16c and light N wind at lunchtime , force 2-3. The storms over the last two days have been all around us but nothing overhead. Back to lunchtime rides now the humidity has dropped.

Another fresh and pleasant day on the Yorkshire Coast, after last week's humidity. With the end of August in sight we should have done with heat. It can get warm in September but usually only a day or two, and quite unusual in our location as the sea moderates our temperatures. So hopefully I will see you all in other threads, but for everyone's sake I hope we don't meet in this one again. We are off to France for our holiday at the end of September, staying on the edge of Paris. Obviously the potential for heat is greater, that's why we delay our holiday until the end of September. So far the years that we have been at that time we haven't had a hot enough day to cause us to change plans. Hoping for a proper Winter this year, but I am prepared to be disappointed.

Been some thunderstorms again in East Yorkshire today, with a funnel cloud spotted, with a good picture in the Yorkshire and E England discussion.

We had power dip as well and a couple of distant rumbles, storm tracked south of Brid and dissipated at sea by the look of the radar. Saw some very distant lightning yesterday evening around 11pm, to the east, out to sea, no thunder, too far away.