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16 minutes ago, andymusic said:
thunder and lightning here now with some thunder spots of rain
Whatever activity there was on that front has now passed away to the north of me and the sun is coming out again. And the temperature’s going up. Again….
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Raining again here. Quite heavy but not torrential. Garden is loving it! Luckily the chap got his tractor going at about 5:15 this morning and finished all the silage cutting before the rain started. Will now need to it dry out before baling it though.
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Skies here now looking a lot different from yesterday:
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Must get some more activity out of this, surely?
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28 minutes ago, Sky Full said:
It’s clouding over rapidly from the south west here and the sun is disappearing. No sign of rain yet but you never know…..
Just had a short sharp shower which lasted about 5 minutes, and there is distant thunder somewhere to the west. Radar showing showers over the coast near Pembroke and more rain might make its way here later, I think.
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15 minutes ago, Sky Full said:
Raining quite heavily here now. No thunder though.
The rain stopped almost as soon as it started. I can still hear distant thunder though.
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Raining quite heavily here now. No thunder though.
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15 minutes ago, Marcus_surfer said:
I just heard a distant rumble of thunder coming from the south - looks like it’s near Carmarthen.
EDIT: loud clap of thunder now - might be headed my way after all!
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31 minutes ago, Wetterfrosch said:Hello all,
Just arrived at this forum after 4 years of lurching. Didn't go below 21.5C in the night here in Dyffryn Nantlle and reached 31.5C in the last hour. May well have peaked as high cloud now making sunshine hazy. Keep yourselves (and your pets) safe and hydrated.
Welcome! Good to hear from you especially as you can stop lurching now!
It’s clouding over rapidly from the south west here and the sun is disappearing. No sign of rain yet but you never know…..
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It’s clouded over rapidly here and the sun is almost invisible now. Very muggy and still very warm but no sign of rain as yet.
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A tiny amount of rain is forecast to fall in most parts of Wales over the next 24 hours. This is the most amount I can find which is forecast by the UKMO:
Other models are showing much less than this and some areas may stay completely dry. Also depends on whether you catch a thunderstorm which may appear almost anywhere over the next 24 hours. An area of thundery rain is currently showing on the radar over North Devon heading north towards Carmarthenshire….
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Outside thermometer is reading 27.5C in deep shade with a light (very light!) breeze. At 08:40…..
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Here’s the forecast surface temperature map from the UKMO for 2:00pm covering Wales. Quite surprising how the steepest temperature gradient seems to follow the Wales / England border quite closely! Also note there is almost a 10 degree C difference between parts of the south coast and the north coast - you won’t see that very often!
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11 hours ago, snefnug said:
9th august 2003 our wedding day in Llanarmon, 10th August, hottest day of year! But don’t know what temp was, all I remember was the heat, hotter than our honeymoon in Galicia.
I was somehow left off the invitation list to your wedding
so I went to my niece’s wedding in London instead! It was a very hot weekend everywhere though. And they had a chocolate fountain 
. Had to take a fan up to the hotel bedroom to try and sleep that evening. I can’t remember it ever feeling so hot in the UK by night and by day. Until today.
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Phew! What a scorcher….
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Finally gave in and opened the windows upstairs because the air in the bedrooms is uncomfortably hot. It’s probably just the same temperature outside now but I want some kind of air movement to try and make it bearable indoors. Ground floor not too bad though as we’ve kept all the windows and doors shut and we have very thick walls! Hope it’s going to cool down over the next couple of hours……and I never thought I would say those words.
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Still showing 32C on my outside thermometer in deep shade despite a light breeze. It’s hard to walk around outside. They decided that today was the right day to cut the silage in the field behind us but the tractor has now broken down in the middle of the field. The poor chap driving it has had to walk back in blistering heat, no doubt to wait for help to arrive. Doesn’t look like it’s run out of diesel, though, so maybe he’ll have to leave there tonight. Don’t know why they chose the hottest day of the year - ever - to do this work. It must be hellish.
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Here’s the projected air temperature chart for Wales at 5:00pm today from the UKMO:
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Turned out to be a cool and comfortable night after all. The air temperature dropped fairly quickly and I had no trouble sleeping. It’s a lovely start this morning with wall to wall strong sunshine already pushing temperatures up again but thankfully we won’t see the serious heat forecast for the south and east of England. I remember being in London for a wedding on the 9th and 10th August 2003 when the temperature reached 38C officially but it was 39.9C on my car and it was pretty much unbearable. You had to stay on the shady side of the street to manage walking at all and sleep was almost impossible overnight. I know it’s common to have these temperatures in Mediterranean and tropical countries but they do have a lifestyle which accommodates the heat. Almost all public places in Southern Europe are air conditioned these days but then they get much more then a couple of hot days every summer!
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It’s only going to get down to around 16C in the early hours and until then it’s going to be uncomfortably warm upstairs. Will have to sleep with the window wide open and hope the mozzies don’t get me! Tomorrow we can look forward to 33C max according to one forecast so I’ll not be doing any work outside. Or inside, for that matter!
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Hazy skies here most of the day but the gradually increasing temperature has now reached the hot and uncomfortable stage. Humidity feels very high but the wind speed has also increased during the day - to the extent that one gust turned the patio umbrella inside out and I had to tie it down! Had the windows and doors closed most of the day to keep the cool air in but the first floor rooms still warmed up unpleasantly and have now opened a couple of windows to let the wind blow through. It’s probably not cooler air but it feels fresher! What I can’t stop thinking about is that the temperatures in the south east and London area for tomorrow are forecast to be 10 degrees above those that I am experiencing here. That’s going to be dangerous for some people.
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As it now looks like Monday will bring the peak temperatures I would like to change my guess to 37.9C at Heathrow on Monday.
For Wales, 32.9C at Cardiff airport sometime on Monday…..
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On 11/07/2022 at 08:33, snefnug said:
Up at 5 this morning. A surprisingly cool early morning so watered raised veg beds and pots on terrace. I love technology when it is used efficiently! My aqua pump pond fountain thing, connected to hosepipe, empties out bath in 10 minutes flat into water butt and my Bosch water pump battery charged pump gives me enough power to use hose reel to water properly. Before these gems it was an eco pump (hand pump siphon thing) and chugging watering cans around. I’ve got three Waterbutts and with the bosch pump I can move water between the butts as necessary. In the meantime, solar panels whacking along, solar buddy heating hot water tank and this is the week the solar battery gets installed,(I hope). Temps shot up from 14 at 5am to 20 degrees now, at 8:30. Will do half sitting outside while cool enough then in. Absolutely gorgeous day in this little part of Paradise. I love that word paradise, original meaning from Iranian of enclosed garden or orchard.
Sounds like you’ve really got the water situation sorted there and some great ideas for me to think about! It’s a cloudy morning here today with some early drizzle but it’s very welcome, tbh. Still warm but much more bearable. Let’s see what the rest of the week brings…..
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18 hours ago, kold weather said:
I used to live S.Essex which is one of the driest spots in the country so it wasn't that unusual for the grass to go yellow, even in modest warm summers.
However I've never seen grass go quite that dead looking before, then again 0mm rain in about 40-50 days will probably do that, even if the temps aren't too extreme.
I remember going to Wales and in mid July and returning on the hottest day of the year and the grass was reasonably green still in Wales, soon as we drove about 20-30 miles into England suddenly the grass turned yellow, and then a little further inland to brown.
Amazing summer, if slightly let down by yet another less than impressive August (they've often been the lesser summer month in recent times, and only Aug 2020 had anything even approaching memorable.
I also think this August will be fairly poor, with the large caveat that anything that comes from the SW/S/SE could well be much warmer than normal due to sustained heat over W.Europe and the Bay of Biscay.
I also lived in S Essex, at one time, not far from Maldon which I believe still holds the record historically for being the driest place anywhere in the UK. I didn’t really notice how dry it was when I lived there, but just took it for granted. Here in Pembrokeshire we get a lot of rain and I admit I have often looked on with envious eyes at the weather being enjoyed in the south east of England - sunny, 25C+ and dry - while we have been under cloud or misty drizzle and struggling to reach 15C! However, as I look out now on hillsides of green meadows, and a garden which remains green and healthy, with plants which are managing to find plenty of water in the soil without my help, I realise that I wouldn’t swap this beautiful countryside for sunny Essex or anywhere else in the south east. Our copious rain is what makes this area so resistant to drought although, if the present hot dry spell continues into August, eventually even Wales will run short of water. ?
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Summer 2022 Chat
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The clouds associated with the front have all moved away to the north and the sun is out again. Now 27C by my thermometer and yet it is forecast to be 10C cooler tomorrow. That’s going to be a blessed relief, tbh. We didn’t reach the furnace temperatures experienced by those in central and eastern England but it was plenty hot enough for me! I will always remember this brief Portuguese / Spanish plume as the record breaker of 2022. Will we see another hot spell in August? Theres plenty more of the summer left to enjoy…..