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HarvSlugger yo Harv, depends on a lot of things it think, age and life experience included.. My north and west facing kitchen, with its tiles is a coolish (right now) 22C, ditto all east facing rooms that have had their curtains closed all day. I cannot sensibly sleep or function if the bedroom temperature is anything higher than that, and even as it is , its a sheet only affair, even the cat is too hot to sleep in the house. I was brought up and lived in East, West and Central Africa as a child/adult, and depending on the humidity, or lack of, depended on whether you had the air con on and could actually sleep. So Ethiopia and Uganda dry air, little humidity, no air con, unlike Nigeria, where you couldn't function really without it, as the humidity levels were through the roof. Back in UK, in 70’s and 80’s with single glaze windows, drafts, sparsely heated houses you learned to wear the wardrobe in winter and love the coolness in summer, which is why our house in the Ceiriog Valley ticks all the boxes in terms if that, but zero boxes in terms of double glazing/internal thermal insulation, air source heat pump stuff. Guess its all age related.

jeems! It is HOT!, I am wilting, my pot plants that all had a good watering yesterday are wilting, my red kuri squash that had a fantastic watering yesterday evening are wilting. I really do not know how peeps in cities and urban areas with added Urban heat can even survive, let alone want more.

Wetterfrosch oooh gosh, no lightning here, just a longish burst of heavy rain. Happy that it means that I don’t have to think about watering the herbaceous beds. There’s enough ground cover and unruly thug plants (very pretty thugs) to keep the moisture in. So just the veg patch and the many many pots and languishing plants waiting to be planted out. .. Today has been mostly cloudy with spitty rain, and a rather cool wind. So might spoil meself and light the logburner this evening. Rather hoping the coming return of heat isn't too hot or too humid, an acre of client’s lawn and a 200 yard drive verges to mow this week.

Hurrah! Some decent rain at last.

Wetterfrosch gone cloudy here. Temps currently 27c and sauna humidity levels. Thank heavens for a slate walled house single glazed sash windows and closed blinds and curtains. I feel for some of the folk in the super insulated houses in the village.

An hour later (8 am) and boy have temperature and humidity levels shot up!

Another beautiful cool and clear sunny morning. We’ve had some overnight rain, judging by the damp state of the cat when he leapt onto the bed at dawn. Currently around 16c, but set to rise to 26-28 during the afternoon, so off into the garden now with a cup of tea, for a bit of deadheading. Mad Ruth next door is laying out humungous amounts of bird food, so in addition to squirrels, we now have Jays, rooks and magpies visiting, not to mention a squadron of pigeons. Overhead, the swifts and martins are out zooming around the skies. Perfick!

How interesting! Currently absolutely chucking it down. Nothing in forecast, nothing on radar, washing out getting a re rinse……

A lovely mizzle morning, with a very fine misty rain. When we first moved to this valley and this house 32 years ago in August, what mesmerised us was exactly that - the very fine cooling mizzle and the herons flying over the trout farm across the river. The trout farm is no more, and the herons, sadly, far far fewer.

Very benign if very windy day again. Wind was stronger and hotter this morning and has eased down to a rather nice coolish breeze and temperature. It’s been mostly cloudy, with higher humidity at lunchtime. More ‘light rain’ “its spitting” in the forecast for during the night, probably evaporate on its way across from Ireland.

Rather jolly blinking windy or what? Have been out to water pot plants, poor things have been wind blown dry, in spite of the rainshowers over the last couple of days. More ‘light rain’ in forecast, but not enough i guess. At the moment i think its all over @Harveyslugger’s house……

Lovely lovely lovely lovely rain! Not a lot, but enough to cool the night temperature a bit and water the plants. I planted out two David Austin Desdemona roses and a tree peony yesterday so Pluvius, God of Rain, is watering them in.

cheese dunno how the cows and sheep would answer that. But as a person living in an area largely populated by cows and sheep, ewe could always moohve,…

Crepuscular Ray ooer, what happened? Did dog survive?

For all the hoohah re high temps on Wednesday and thunderstorms, yesterday in this part of God’s own, was very pleasant if a bit windy. Humidity was not too high, the sun shone, the rain held off and no signs of overnight rain.