Airedalejoe
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4 hours ago, hillbilly said:
Am glad you have had it average as it has been Sh(t3 here.Not only has no farmers made any hay in July but none has been made so far in August with nothing on the horizon either!
Same here, worst summer in living memory.
Apart from a couple of very light showers at least dry but with a strong wing blowing garden furniture around.
Still a mud bath on paths I walk the dogs, akin to mid winter.
5 hours ago, plymsunshine said:What's everyone's thoughts on August 2023 so far on a scale of one to ten. I'm struggling to place it tbh
1/10. Most days below average temps, Very wet. Similar to July.
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Another damp cloudy day, countryside is as wet and muddy as mid winter here, people are well and truly fed up now, at least the ones that venture out are. Think the current temp of 16 is the high.
Worst summer here by a long shot now. So many wet days, so many below normal temps.
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5 hours ago, reef said:
The simple fact is that many more warm records are being broken than cold, so they are more likely to be reported.
Not to mention places reaching 45 or 50C or having a heat index of 81C are much more dangerous. If it drops one night to 14C in Sardinia it's not exactly newsworthy is it?
And as soon as you mention "left-leaning" or "woke" as above you lose all credibility I'm afraid.
I'd agree but it was a sub zero temperature which beggars belief in August, I presume someone has made a mistake.
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On 15/08/2023 at 20:20, richie3846 said:
The BBC have convinced themselves that they are not biased, but sadly, a great deal of their output appears to lean heavily towards tabloid reporting such as this, where they omit the facts which don't suit the sensational reporting style. They also over represent more extreme woke and left wing views, and often omit views which are the opposite to this, as they seem to think they are too extreme, but don't consider the extreme left to be extreme. To my mind, this indicates they have lost their ability to judge where the centre ground is, and sadly I've had to abandon them as a source of information, because I don't trust their ability to give balanced and representative accounts of events.
It's not just the bbc, it's all msm.
If it wasn't for Kirkcaldy weather in here I'd never know that there are always places setting new cold records!
A few weeks ago the record heat in Sardinia was all over the news. Until I read Kircaldy's Tuesday report I'd never have known there was some record cold!
Makes you wonder why it only seems to go one way.
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Currently 16c and raining))
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The cold and wet summer continues. Another abysmal day, barely scraped 15c and very heavy persistent rain.
Definitely the worst of this century here, now surpassed 2012.
I can't remember a summer as bad as this and I'm 60!
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Highest I can see is Cordoba at 42, which you'd expect.
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False surely, all I can see is a high of 39c for Valencia today.
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Totally cloudy day and 22c. Massively overhyped hot spell.
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The extremely poor summer continues, cold with heavy rain.
After a wet and muddy end October till end April, a cold washout summer is hard to take.
I remember a cold icy 10 days in December when the ground was frozen, another week where it dried up in either February or March then we had a sunny warm week in June but other than that, horrendous for my daily dog walk over the fields.
Can't decide whether it's worse than the washout summer of 2012 but given the immediate outlook I think this one will be the worst of the current century.
Our June was also nowhere near the warmest on record and that period in May/June where the west had great weather? Was mostly very poor here.
Must be due a change in fortune!
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Thought it couldn't get worse than yesterday but Sunday rolls in and says 'hold my beer'.
13C, incessant heavy rain, absolutely abysmal.
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5 hours ago, Sunny76 said:
Why is it so difficult to get a good thunderstorm or night time one? Nothing so far this summer.
Keep them for me!
Last Saturday, sat at home midday, weather abysmal as usual and without warning the loudest crack I have ever heard, directly overhead. At same time I got an electric shock up my arm from my iPhone which was plugged into the wall. iPhone sparked too! Don't know if the house was struck with lightening or it was a thunder 'rip'. Scary.
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How about this tropical paradise?! The abysmal weather continues and the weekend gets even worse!
Looking forward to the Met office saying how warm July has been here))
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31 minutes ago, In Absence of True Seasons said:
The vast majority of those honestly look like typical hot weather temps for high summer in the Mediterranean, Southern Europe and North Africa. It's July. Such places get very hot in July.
I'm sorry but for somewhere like Croatia, South Italy, or North Africa (as well as South France and South Spain etc), 35c or so isn't 'extreme' lol. It's just an above average temp high summer day, nothing more, nothing less. It's like us getting 28c in London. It's above average, certainly warm, but also certainly nothing to even bat an eyelid about. One can claim its uncomfortable form a personal standpoint but the hysteria around the reporting on this is outrageous, to be frank.
Admittedly, that is hot weather to be working in for labourers etc, but that has always been the case for such countries, the same as for labourers in the USA where it regularly gets over 35c in Summer. But we are talking from the context of people holidaying...
I've been to Turkey twice, went to Egypt as a child on family holiday, and been to Morocco as well. All three of those places, I had weather of 35-40c and in Egypt, 40c+ nearly daily. Some of these holidays were 15+ years ago too, Egypt nearly 20 years ago. There was no hysteria, or people supposedly cancelling their holidays. I'll tell you what their was - Brits abroad in the pool, having a pint at the pool bar, Brits sunbathing, snorkelling at the beach, and saying too eachother in passing "Coorrr, bloody hot innit!" with a laugh.
Yup, Crete in the late 80's and a temp of 44! Was like a furnace but everyone just cracked on and no one was terrified! Lot of money to be made nowadays by terrifying everyone about everything.
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6 minutes ago, Alderc said:
Despite the full sun of today official max temps suffering due to the cooler surface conditions being advected this way from under the clag laden areas. Barely sneaked 20C so far.
Sounds perfect, another grey day here with temp struggling to 13C.
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Woke to wet ground so we've obviously had showers.
The cold grey continues, through to at least the weekend.
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Not a chance the temperature map is correct for my location!
From memory, same as last month.
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26 minutes ago, NEVES SCREAMER said:
Try the breeze now. 13c. It's like Reykjavik out there.
Swap you, 10c here!
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The cold weather continues, temperature barely scraping 9C today. Full cloud cover and everything still wet and muddy.
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1 hour ago, northriding said:
As do the lawns I tend to during the spring. Soils are struggling to get much above 10C, seed germination has been frustratingly slow, and any new grass plants which have sprouted are yet to reach their second leaf stage.
Over the 15 years I've been doing this, on average, from seeding to second leaf stage in spring would take 14-21 days. But this spring, I'm looking at 5-6 weeks for a similar measure of growth.
Nature doesn't lie, and those localised sunshine amounts from the Met have to be inexact at best.
Exactly!
Not the first time I've wondered about these charts, putting it bluntly they bare no resemblance to the actual weather where I live.
It's been a mud fest since end October/beginning November. Mild spells have been few and far between and sunshine really lacking.
To those that think it's been bad in the SE, try NE England for really poor weather))
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9 hours ago, stainesbloke said:
Much of central and southern Britain has had a really crap spring. It’s been a lot better for most of northern England northwards.
It hasn't here. It's been abysmal.
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13 hours ago, damianslaw said:
Really? Must be some sea fret in the NE, that is cold. We hit about 16.5 degrees and I would describe today as the first proper warm feeling day, namely because it has felt warm under cloud, a sign the colder season now saying bye fully.
Nope, no sea fret just cloud. Scottish thread is even colder, 6 degrees! Looks like we're about to enter our 7th month of November as forecasted weather looks very poor most of next week!
I noticed frogs in a mating frenzy toward the end of March which is the latest by far I have ever seen, it's normally February.
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Another abysmal day for time of year with max temp a chilly 7c!!
Will it ever warm up?
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Total opposite here, rain has eventually relented after what seems an age, cold with it too. Everywhere is very muddy and wet. Praying for dry weather. We have the North Sea rain generator to thank yet again.
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Record Breaking / Abnormal Weather Events Globally
in Hurricanes, Cyclones and Extreme weather worldwide
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Don't let them get you down. You post it all, hot, cold, wet and dry. Certain members don't like any mention of record cold as it doesn't fit the narrative.
It's always great seeing extreme weather reports from other parts of the globe that msm would never cover.