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    European Heatwave

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by chrcoluk

    Indeed, some of them were actually technically droughts but the media and loads of people were calling it "pleasant".

     

    Countries that have that type of weather for long periods of time have big problems, in america its common for people to have fitted air conditioning and africa with its vast deserts isnt so nice either.

     

    Friend of mine manages a large farm in america, and in the summer they have lots of livestock been killed by the heat, when the temps stay at over 90F for weeks on end.

    Doors open or shut in a heatwave?

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    I think the answer to this is dependent on any wind.  Ultimately also if the air outside is hotter or cooler than inside.

     

    Rule of thumb I apply is.

     

    If its cooler outside but sunny, open windows, doors but keep curtains shut.

    If its cooler and windy even with it been sunny also open curtains.

    If is hotter, keep windows and doors shut, if its sunny also shut curtains.

     

    The tough one is.

     

    What if its hotter but also windy (something that never happens here in leicester).

    European Heatwave

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by chrcoluk

    you guys forgot already the 2 very hot summers that just past the previous 2 years?

     

    also I am really interested in why people want 40C temperatures? it just makes everything miserable, death risk, sweat etc.

    31st March General Weather Chat

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    I usually only post in the summer moaning about heat and no wind.

     

    Well the last few days for the standards of leics in central england this has been highly unusual.

     

    Wind is whistling and weather very changable, had showers and sun all in one day.

     

    Usually when I look west I see clouds in the distance going from south to north, but today they coming straight from west to east.

     

    I bet given its windy here it must be like a hurricane near the coasts.

    Have you turned your heating on yet ?

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Temps are just about right for me now, maybe still a bit too hot, but now I am not sweating and also can sleep under my covers.

     

    Its defenitly not cold I am sitting here at 2.30 am with no top on and its still feeling warm.

     

    My perfect temps are probably still another 3-5C lower, but what we have now is tolerable enough for me.

     

    I will be gobsmacked if anyone is turning their heating on with these temps, its not winter weather.

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    Hot days in August

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by chrcoluk

    Are you seriously suggesting Leicester has its own climate of drought and wall to wall sunshine??

     

    no just that very frequently clouds from the west are 5-10 miles west of leicester and dont move any further east.  This has been the case the last 2 summers where I observe the weather a lot, not sure about winter where I stop caring so much.  It tends to either move across to the south west of the country and then suddenly swing northwards so going up over wales, west midlands etc,  Or go diagonally up across the country in a north east direction but leics is almost consistently just below that diagonal line.

     

    and we have had rain, but compared to derby we getting a lot less.  About an hour or so ago had a short shower whilst the sun was still shining, so was both at same time, but previous to that was sunny all day.

     

    Not sure why people think an entire region must always have the same weather, even the bbc news reporter said yesterday its not unusual to see one street get heavy rain and 2 blocks away dry.

     

    Temps have dropped off a lot now tho so looks like the night will be pleasant.

     

    room temp is 26.1C compared to pre bertha about this time was about 29-30C.

    11th August General Weather chat

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by chrcoluk

    1am when I looked outside was a light wind (very rare here to have 'any' wind)

    this wind made the air very plesant and wasnt really hot like the past few weeks

    up above I seen broken up clouds moving east as well O_o usually its north not east so seems for once we getting atlantic air here and feels so much cooler and plesant.

    its dry tho

     

    someone in derby reported downpours all night, amazing how derby and leics get such different amounts of rain to each other.

     

    looking outside just now I Cant tell the wind direction anymore as all clouds are gone is blue sky.  there is still some wind but it seems barely a breeze now, defenitly lighter than was at 1am.

    Hot days in August

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by chrcoluk

    And yet it's fine for you to be lumped in with East Anglia? You're a lot closer to Birmingham than Norwich.

     

    As for that radar image you posted, if the clouds are moving north then you must have got all that rain over Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire. Or did it just magically appear out of nowhere?

    derby is further west than leicester, most atlantic weather ends about 10 miles west of leicester. we usually "just miss it" as i posted before I often see it out my window to the west visible but not overhead.  we didnt completely miss this bertha but only was on the outskirts with the bits sticking out to the east.  The worst of it went over manchester according to that radar.

     

    and no its not right I am lumped in east anglia either, the met needs to break it down to smaller regions.

     

    e.g. what happens if a north sea storm hits sheringham, cromer etc. do they put all of norfolk on weather alert and that suddenly means norwich is affected as well?

    Summer 2014 thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    It feels this summer's had much more warmth and sunshine overall than 2013 in my neck of the woods. I've recorded 18 days of >25C so far, with only 4 days in July having a max of <20C and 0 days so far this month!

     

    I installed my weather station last September so can't compare statistically; however I seem to remember July 2013 having more cool days than this year, but wasn't the 2013 heatwave more intensive? I'm sure there were more days in the high 20s/low 30s than this summer.

     

    As I've posted elsewhere, I'm still hoping for another day of temps in the high 20s/low 30s this summer so I can record the first 30 on my station - having 'only' managed 28.9 so far. :p

     

    Here july was nowhere near as bad as last year, july in 2013 was brutal.

    But august 2014 is defenitly hotter (Worse) then august 2013.

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    Hot days in August

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    depends on many things, for one ITV class it as part of EA in their local stuff, BBC do not IIRC, I am border of EA and all my news and weather is captured in the EA area details, proximity to a border can mean a lot too.

    leics is officially eastmidlands, but the met have the border line too far to the west on their map

     

    also I think lumping all of the midlands together .like they have isnt good enough as the weather wont be the same across that huge area.

    Hot days in August

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    another image, note the clouds are moving north not eastwards.  see how leicester is on the cloud that sticking out but not the main bit (its sunny here now).  yet derby birmingham manchester etc. are not, so yes it can be quite different weather between west and east.

     

     

     

     

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