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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    Doing the housework at 5am before this furnace of a flat gets unbearable. Not sure which is going to be worse, our flat or my partner's office which is the attic of a Victorian building...with no air-con. Request to WFH turned down.  One colleague handed in his notice after the last heatwave saying the company has no duty of care for it's employees. Opposite in winter where the employees in the attic work at their desks in coats and gloves - it's Dickensian! Going forward, firms are going to have to take things like air con much more seriously.

    17.c here currently from a low of 15.c overnight - comfortable sleep at least.  Quite eerie that there are hardly any trains due to reduced Chiltern Line services.

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    The heat haters club 2022

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    Cancelled my birthday party tomorrow for the health and safety of  my loved ones. It's currently 22.c outside and 29.c inside the flat. In heatwaves, we don't use the oven, tumble dryer or put the TV on. I live on a heat island with a tarmac car park and an A road in front of me and an apartment block that heats up and stays hot. It's going to be a horrible couple of days.

    I don't hate heat, I went to primary school in Jeddah! But the red sea, cool buildings and AC everywhere is not comparable to 40.c here.

     

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    4 hours ago, lassie23 said:

    The government should set out free cooling zones everywhere where you can get cold water and sit in aircon rooms. Better still, free cornetto  zones. Or will that just encourage people to go out in the heat to get free ice cream? I don't know I'm not doris bronson who makes up the rules, thankfully. 

    Find your nearest M&S Foodhall, it's so cold in there today the staff are wearing gillets. 

    It's too hot in my flat already - I'm dreading the next few days.

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    15 minutes ago, Dami said:

    20c when i headed out for the school run.  Nice breeze though that comes and goes. Poor Daughter got to do PE today as they missed it on Wednesday. If it had been raining they would of forgotten about it. She suffers in heat like my hubby does and last time it hit low 20's on a PE day she had the beginnings of heat stroke. Have told her to cream up, drink up and speak up if it gets too much. Also to wear her hat. Have promised her a mint magnum when she's home.

      

    My niece is on a field trip, they are in a dorm hostel in central London and they said it's so hot that the children are sleeping on the floor with damp towels for pillows! Unsurprisingly, a request to sleep on in Hyde Park was nixed by the teachers!!

    Looked out my window just now to see two foxes drinking out o the bird bath - it's gonna be a hot one.

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    Spring and Summer weather moans

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    1 minute ago, stainesbloke said:

    Yeah, you could sit in an air conditioned Tesco cafe for a few hours and it’ll all be over. Would be nice to have it a bit less hot but for much longer. Around 23-27°C all summer with lots of sunshine would suit me just fine 

    I've learned a good tip - go to an M & S Foodhall  - they are positively arctic on hot days!

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    Spring and Summer weather moans

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    I love hot, sunny weather, a large part of my childhood was spent  in Saudi Arabia so temps in the low 30s were a norm for me. However, we also had air conditioning, ice cold water dispensers - even in the classroom,  shady buildings designed for hot weather and swimming pools!

    When it hits 30 now, I'm stuck in a flat with no balcony, sat on a heat island with an A road and a tarmac car park in front and it's absolutely unbearable. My two days in the office are boiling as there's no air conditioning of any sort and lots of people feeling ill and disagreeing about the windows being open or not. The allotment has no shade.

    Last year, during the Meto's extreme heat warning in July, a combination of consecutive hot days, a bit of dehydration from  my birthday weekend, a tumble dryer making the flat even hotter and the dehumidifier not working (humidity over 75)  meant I suffered heat exhaustion in my own living room which was really frightening.  My partner dashed home and put me in an airconditioned car and I drank a litre of cold water he'd bought en route but it took 20 minutes to stop feeling horrendous. I dread it getting over 30.c now to be honest, many of our living and working spaces aren't suited to it.

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    Spring and Summer weather moans

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Team Squirrel

    A couple of weeks until the solstice - and my allotment is really suffering, there hasn't been any prolonged sunny, warm spells to kick off the growth in the plants. In fact some have started to rot owning to the cool days and heavy, frequent showers.

    ...and STILL we've all got dreadful hayfever!!

    Spring and Summer weather moans

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    Got down to 5.c in the polytunnel at some point in the last 48 hours - nothing is going to grow with temps getting that low.

    I hate it when the evenings are so light yet the temps don't match, it seems like such a waste of light evenings. I gave in and put the heating on yesterday. Heating hasn't been on for 6 weeks but a combination of a chilly flat full of damp, drying clothes, the flat downstairs being empty and unheated, being caught in a shower and getting my clothes soaked...and I had to put it on as I was shivvering. Quite a depressing thing to do at this time of year.

    Rant over. I'd take an uncomfortable heatwave over this dirge.

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    Nice to see a little rain falling now - but it's not enough by any means.

    Early May and already our allotment is so dry that I've made the decision to leave a couple of beds empty that would usually have nasturtiums, mixed salad, leftover seedlings etc.

    As other allotment holders will know, most of June and July is spent watering, especially if we have few storms. To be deep watering  in May only to be met with dust-like  beds a few days later is hard work, especially if your plot is quite a distance from the taps! I am worried about the crops out in the surrounding fields now.

    Makes me wonder if our changing climate will change allotments. At the moment, most allotments allow you to grow both produce and flowers. The trouble is, lots of people grow non-edible plants, cut flowers etc. The main reason for this seems to be that we, like lots of people at our allotments live in a flat, so the allotment is our garden too. But endlessly watering display plants like some people seem to spend hours doing at my allotment, I get the feeling that may soon be a thing of the past.

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    Storm Eunice - 18th February

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    So an hour ago I jumped in the car and drove to work before anyone else got there, stuffed the laptop and files in the car and drove home. Stuff it. I'm not taking holiday either.

    On route, I was listening to 3 Counties Radio who were interviewing a roofer who was trying to get to work at a central London building site. He was at the station where he was told no trains and no replacement services - yet he was still trying to find a way to get into London to work on a roof at his bosses insistence! Madness.

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    Storm Eunice - 18th February

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    Despite both office and home being in a red warning zone, I have to go into work. Why? Too short notice to arrange WFH and we're only 5 miles from the amber zone anyway, apparently.  If we want to stay at home, we have to take a day's holiday today. I don't know what the point of warnings are to be honest.

     

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    Storm Eunice - 18th February

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    1 minute ago, Nick L said:

    There HAVE to be red warnings this morning, but I fear the UKMO will wait until tonight.

    Hope not. The issue with this is that if they expect people to stay at home tomorrow, we really need to know by about 4pm today max  so that preparations to work from home, cancel work journeys on Friday etc, take work computers home etc the night before.

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    Storm Eunice - 18th February

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    Still not sure if an outdoor survey planned for Friday morning should go ahead (in a former dairy farm).  If it was a yellow warning yes, a red warning no, but an amber really is the middle ground for cancelling stuff. Tricky.

    I still remember the Burns Day storm in particular as our school shut abruptly and I walked home at 2pm with debris flying in all directions, including the huge metal weather vane, which missed me by about 2 metres, cartwheeled down the road and was instantly squashed by a car. I do fear flying debris a bit now. The remains of the weathervane is still in my dad's shed!

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