Emz by the Thames
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6.c here just before 5am, that's a pretty chilly night considering the heating has been off for a few weeks now and we sleep with the windows open.
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My birthday is July the 18th and I'm pretty lucky in that there have been some cracking storms in the UK on my birthday over the years.
I grew up in Jeddah and although it doesn't rain much - when it storms...it storms, strobe lightning, flash floods, the lot. People just used to watch the storm clouds build in the distance in anticipation of what will happen next, like it was a social event. We had a corker one day - never known a storm like it. Exciting for the first hour for a 7 year old that's not seen rain for a year, then pretty frightening when it won't stop, or move on after a while like storms seem to do here. We lived in pre-fabs and part of the roof caved in an the whole place flooded, generator failed. We lived near a storm drain but things have got worse for Jeddah as these powerful storms and been fatal in recent years, mostly due to flash floods.
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3 hours ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:
Just me?? This feels like the looooongest "Spring" in history. Even longer than January!!
Not just you, I've just got home, it's 9.c and damp and I've put the heating on!!
The allotment is really behind because of this cool, wet spring. I put the potatoes in last weekend but the ground is wet and cold. It was 0.6c in the polytunnel on Monday night, not exactly growing temps so haven't planted any seeds - unprecedented considering it's May on Monday.
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There's no weather.
Polytunnel got down to 0.6.c Monday night.
When does spring start?
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Thundering away just now.
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Took a break from packing/renovating to go to my allotment yesterday afternoon because it felt so warm, but as soon as I got to the top of the hill, that very cold strong breeze hit me...brrrr!
To get to April 20th and have nothing planted is quite unusual. The ground is constantly cold and wet. Got my cucumbers and chillis on the windowsill of my old flat because the nights are still too chilly for them to be moved to the allotment...and next week looks abysmal temp wise. It's going to be a late harvest at the allotments this year, definitely.
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First thunder of the year for me around 4.30pm - about 3 miles away but still felt it though my feet and it made me jump!
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9 hours ago, lottiekent said:
Good luck with your move, hope it all goes smoothly
Thank you, the most exciting part is because I'm moving from a flat to a little terraced house, I can put a weather station on the shed roof, I've wanted a weather station for years! Not looking forward to 3 months of renovation which we will be doing much of it ourselves,
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Going to have to change my forum name as I'm moving from Wycombe and the crazy squirrels in the big tree outside that entertain us. Expect weather reports from the River Thames from me from tomorrow as I'm moving to the Berks border. Team Moorhen maybe?? Team Squirrel signing off...
(p.s I promise lots of nice rivery weather pictures. To be honest, I can't see much of the sky from my flat but that changes tomorrow!)
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Snow and Ice warning for central Southern England has just popped up for tonight.
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No cloud here, clear skies, two hours on a freezing hilltop with a load of pot-smoking pensioners...and we didn't see anything
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Chance of seeing it tomorrow night too say Meto. I'll be in rural Oxfordshire tomorrow night, wonder if its worth a look up?
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Amazing aurora photos all over Scotland and parts of Ireland tonight on Twitter. Even seen very faintly as far as Kent!
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2 hours ago, Shane said:
I used to be a fan of cold weather, but a £400 electricity bill in December (storage heaters...) has me looking in fear of a prolonged cold spell. Living in a flat with single pane windows is no fun (landlord wont change them and already gave me a warning for using shrink-wrap to do homemade glazing.)
So for the 1st time in my life i am really hoping any cold spell is short.
Same - £420 for our 2 bed flat despite us only putting the heating up to 20.c a couple of times, mostly 18/19.c even on coldest nights and only in the living room and bedroom, no heating at all in kitchen, box room, bathroom or hallway where it' pretty much always somewhere between 14.c and 17.c. We think our ancient and seemingly uncontrollable immersion heater is using up a lot of electricity - still we'll be out of here by summer. I can't ever seem to get truly warm. We had a bereavement over Christmas so this winter will be remembered for being utterly cold and sad, never wanted spring so much.
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25 minutes ago, 80sWeather said:
We purchased a de humidifier two years ago to keep the humidity down during winter months and yes it makes the house feel warmer and you save money on heating too.
Definitely, would really recommend everyone takes humidity into account when heating a room. And of course the laundry setting makes drying clothes indoors easier and quicker. I still have to wipe the windowsills every morning, but it's also definitely reduced our mould and mildew issues too.
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Minus 9 here at 6.30am, 16.c indoors but felt colder. The guy downstairs has gone away this week so the flat below is unheated, making our floors very cold. What with the cost of heating, we decided to not let any of our 3 wall heaters go above 19.c and to not let the humidity rise above 80 as damp, cold air is harder to heat. It's been quite a battle to maintain a comfortable environment since the cold weather arrived and the windowsills are sopping with condensation. Dare I say it but I'll tale 11.c and rainy at the moment.
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Hello all.
Keeping an eye on the mad forum as I have a lot of events in December...not to mention cost of heating concerns.
But what I came here to say was the fog has been unreal here in November - every time I've looked out my kitchen window I see fog rolling around the hill and valley, blocking out the sun one minute, moving back into the valley the next, it's been quite extraordinary.
A November fog index would be off the charts!
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18 hours ago, claret047 said:
I don't know if it can be attributable to climate change but when I visited my allotment today after an absence of about a week and noticed the following:
1) My raspberries are still heavily cropping and I picked loads of them with a lot more still to ripen
2) I set a couple of rows of broad beans in late September/early October, and I notice that they now have blossoms on several of them. A couple are also infested with blackfly. I set them in Autumn rather than spring as I had read somewhere blackfly would not be a problem with an autumn sowing,
I don't know what will happen with the beans as there is the question of pollination at this time of the year. Is anyone else experiencing ther same issue?
Kind Regards
Dave
The nasturtiums on my plot seems to go to seed after the July heatwave - and now I have flowering nasturtiums everywhere. The xmas potatoes in bags on the polytunnel are wilting because they are too hot. I clearly dropped a handful of french bean seeds while packing up as they are currently 10cms tall! We had our final raspberries about 2 weeks ago. Feels all a bit odd, doesn't it? I've got to strim again tomorrrow.
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It's still bearable temp wise in the flat as long as I put a hot water bottle under the blanket on the sofa - but with real humidity problems of a very small flat, I can smell the mildrew/mold kicking off so reluctantly it will go on for an hour or so tonight for the first time since April.
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Quite a last minute yellow weather warning for rain over most of England/eastern Wales overnight.
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21 hours ago, Gizzy said:
Anybody like me and just need the bedroom window open every night, even in the depth of winter ? Not because I am warm but because its so nice to feel the cold on my face as I am tucked under the quilt.
Also lovely to hear the rain when nodding off or waking me up in the early hours.
The only time I close it is when I get up on a morning or it stats closed if it is blowing a gale.
Have always slept with the window open because my flat has humidity issues and hits 80 if we sleep with the window shut. Also....I just love sleeping with the window open! (especially when it rains).
But...sleeping with the window open in current times means the flat is really cold by the morning - and as we are not turning the heating on currently, it means the flat gets too cold and has no way of heating up again. So we open the window for a few minutes before bed, then close it for the night and mop the the humidity by putting the dehumid on in the morning.
But I really miss sleeping with the window open.
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Insane storm, passed to the right of us but a couple of fantastic c2gs right in front of us. Was walking on a golf course when the storm was still far to the south in Hampshire but the epic distant rumbling meant we knew we were in for a treat. And it certainly delivered. Best storm of the year in October - who would have thought it!
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2 minutes ago, East Lancs Rain said:
Our house suffers from high humidity and dampness too, though im usually ok with it as long it’s below 70%.
Currently 16.2°C with 61% humidity in my bedroom, the heating has been off for most of the day and I’ve had the window open for a while though. Outside it’s 12.1°C.
Yes, we've noticed that the moment it hits 70%, we get a bit of a sniffle and the room starts to smell a bit like Pot Noodle - yuck. Our compact dehumidifier is pretty good at taking it back below 70 quickly though, especially its wet laundry setting.
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65% humidity (thats normal for our awful flat) but 20.c..pretty good considering its currently just 11.c outside and no heating or appliances on.
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SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion
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Quite surprised to find wet ground here this morning. The strong breeze of the last few days has made a lot of seedlings unhappy at my allotment and I lost 2 sunflowers. Meh Weather not Net Weather.