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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    Posted · Edited by Soaring Hawk
    Think I’m hallucinating

    I’d like to report rain from the blob that nw radar had passing directly over my location a short while ago. But I can’t.

    Nothing has reached ground level here since a very short, sharp shower on 31 July. 

    Currently 29C, heavy cloud, WSW wind has picked up to an occasional brisk breeze, which is most welcome after two days with minimal leaf movement.  Humidity recording as dropping significantly but still feels uncomfortably sticky. 

    Hoping for something from the larger and more interesting rain enroute according to radar. 

    Edit: Don’t believe it- the sun has come out. Dark clouds are literally vanishing as I watch. 

    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    1 hour ago, c00ps said:

    Does this summer surpass 1976 for sunny warm weather in your experience? 

    Absolutely it has!   In 1976 I was living in Vancouver in beautiful British Columbia. It was claimed at the time that we’d had the wettest summer for 100 years. (Haven’t searched for verification of that, although I remember it seemed to rain all the time that summer).  

    I would receive photos of UK based friends and family looking remarkably brown and healthy and even some of water queues at standpipes :blink2:

    The water shortage was particularly shocking because we didn’t get much news about Blighty, so to see people I went to school with holding large pots and pans out in their streets really stunned me. The photos appeared surreal on on sorts of levels and definitely not the green England I remembered, with the washed out yellow landscape more akin to Malta, where we lived shortly before moving to Canada.  

    This summer is the first time I’ve been able to get a sense of what the famous 1976 may have been like.  

    Currently 28C in my bedroom - it’s definitely felt hotter than yesterday here, with max of 33C recorded in my garden. 

    Longing, fantasy dreaming type longing for Wednesday and a few days of chilly but oh so comfortable low to mid 20’s. 

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    8 hours ago, c00ps said:

    I've been saying this to anyone who listens, especially people with family members that are vulnerable. If you can get an air conditioning unit get it. For £200 you can keep a large area cool and make life so much more comfortable. I've never looked back since getting mine. Helped little one no end brining room temp down from 30oC to 23oC.

    That sounds like a great idea. But. What’s the betting an air con unit now costs eleventy billion pounds? And only available strictly cash from the back of a Mafia drug dealer’s lorry..

    5 hours ago, Crepuscular Ray said:

    Absolutely. My parents are under orders to stay inside when possible, open windows only on the shaded side of the house, keep all the curtains shut, drink lots of water and do nothing strenuous. Dad (89, with a pacemaker and increasingly frail) is fighting me (obviously, I am only his daughter and know nothing) but then admits defeat after about ten minutes in the garden.

    Only 25.5 °C in the bedroom? It's not been below 29 in mine for weeks!

    Haha CR, our Fathers sound like they’re cut from the same cloth. Mine was, as a concession to the heat, today wearing a short sleeved white shirt. With a vest underneath it

    You definitely need to come out to the countryside for a sleep. Only 25.5 again in my bedroom tonight. God...

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    2 hours ago, Blazerblue said:

    Feeling lousy this morning. No sleep last night hasn’t helped. The Beeb and meto saying 24c top temp tomorrow for here, but netweather saying much higher! I’m hoping the Beeb n meto are right, with northerly breeze. No recovery here for grass or trees as we didn’t get nearly enough rain over the weekend. Roll on autumn I can’t take much more of this incessant heat.

    With you @Blazerblueon the feeling lousy and unable to sleep last night. After midnight it was 23 C with 78% humidity in my garden and 25.5C in my bedroom.  Today I’m at my Father’s house as part of my regular care routine. It’s 30C in the shade on his weather station, no breeze at all and feels so humid that I’m seriously concerned about him. As I have been throughout this long hot few months. He’ll be 96 in 4 weeks time and until this heat started has managed well to live well in his own home.  In the last 6 weeks though he’s suffered headaches and dizziness, loss of appetite, no energy and breathlessness too - all symptoms that older adults and those with health problems are struggling with.  He’s exhausted and his poor old heart will be under strain in this heat - not affecting his forensic mind and memory though!  For obvious reasons I’d welcome average temperatures (and some regular rain for farmers). 

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    20 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

    Now that the rain has gone, it's as if everything is in HD.

    Exactly what I was saying earlier to my, somewhat nervous, passenger while driving and gazing around in wonder Ed!

    Heavy rain around 6am, although it didn’t last long. Sunny with a few fair weather clouds against incredibly intense blue sky. The countryside looking amazing, trees greener etc. A stunningly beautiful crisp day, if somewhat windy atm. 

    Currently 19C with expected max of 25

    Wind: WSW 10, gusting 17

    Pressure 1016. Humidity 65% Visibility excellent :)

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    14 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

    Thanks SH - I have anxiety which usually manifests as health anxiety (what used to be called hypochondria), and I therefore tend to catastrophise if I feel unwell or am concerned about symptoms.  I'm seeing a therapist at the moment and have had CBT in the past which has helped me eliminate the more outlandish worries, but some situations still concern me, I'm afraid.

    Anyway, back to our regional weather - if UEA's weather station on Wunderground is accurate, we've had just under an inch of rain here which, after what we had on Friday evening, has refilled our rainwater collection butts, topped-up our wildlife pond (sounds rather more impressive than it is LOL) and damped-down the dust.  I seem to have developed a reputation on here recently as a moaner regarding warm weather; in fact the Met Office forecast for the region over the next 4-5 days sounds very pleasant - sunny and warm summer weather without the extreme of heat and humidity of last week.

    You are most welcome. I sensed there was anxiety in your post so broke a self imposed rule and asked for physical symptomatic input on how to phrase my reply. (My clinical background is mental health, not the medicine that he deals with).  I hope the therapy helps build on the CBT and understand how easy it is to feel concern with anxiety issues. It’s hard for those who have never experienced anxiety to understand just how challenging it can be to understand what can be an exhausting and debilitating condition and find coping mechanisms to deal with it, so congratulations with the progress you’ve made and I’ll bet your openness helps others too. 

    Wow your rain outcomes sound impressive to me! The only noticeable difference here is that the bird bath hasn't evaporated since refilling it on Friday. Refilling has been a daily ritual lately. 

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    On 28/07/2018 at 11:38, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

    I'm rather concerned about the effects on my health of trying to sleep last night.  Our central hating control has a digital display showing the temperature inside the house, and it was at 30C when we settled down.  In addition, though th external temperature had dropped to 18C, the dew point had been around 95% earlier when I last checked Wunderground.  I was initially unable to sleep, but dozed off for around an hour or so.  When I woke up, the temperature had dropped to 29C, but I felt rather "out of it" and slightly light-headed.  After around 30 minutes laying on top of the bed, I cooled-off enough to sleep for a couple or three hours, but, even now, I have a headache and I'm not thinking clearly.  Could I have experienced heat stroke overnight?

     

    On 28/07/2018 at 11:56, Blazerblue said:

    @chrisbell-nottheweatherman If it persists then obviously see a doctor. Don’t over exert yourself, maybe cool water on a cloth on your forehead too to lower body temp.  Overheating to the best of my knowledge won’t leave lasting problems. Drink plenty and take it easy.

    @chrisbell-nottheweatherman I hope this reassures you  - I asked my other half (a doctor) as you seemed concerned - that you won’t have suffered neurological damage and it is more likely to have been very mild symptoms of heat exhaustion rather than heat stroke.  

    Blazerblue’s advice is spot on and as it warms up again during this week remember especially to drink lots of (non alcoholic) fluids.

    I definitely will need to drink more water as I had headaches and light headed episodes too and got told off for not drinking enough! 

    I hope you feel better now

    Light shower this morning and a fine drizzle for a short time about an hour ago. Was hoping for more rain but seem to be under a giant umbrella here

     

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    3 minutes ago, Blazerblue said:

    It’s not coming this way  I feel like I’m burning from the inside out.  can’t take this anymore 

    I always read your posts Blazerblue because you live not far from Laxfield which was my beloved home for 10 years. I know Halesworth and whole area well and imagine your dog walks when you mention them.  Can understand your pain, especially today which is horribly hot in your area.  (My son reported 37.5 in Norwich earlier.). Don’t know about you but I’ve found today worse than yesterday because lack of even a small breeze where I live.

    The 10 minutes of rain just now is the most my village has had since early May. At least it beats the very few droplets on 26 May, which was the last time there has been any precipitation, but won’t help our farmers or gardens.  Still, we live in hope that later today and especially Sunday will deliver some ‘proper’ rain.  If Sunday’s promised rain happens I shall dance in the garden with very minimal clothing :D as I expect will most of the village! 

    Good luck Suffolk! 

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    MetO says 26 for my nearest station although that seems a lot cooler than it feels and temp in my garden reading at 29c. No rain unfortunately from last night’s anticipated stormy weather. Now day 62 without rain and May 26 only gave a smattering enough to dampen conservatory roof. Last significant rain shower was early May. 

    Chatting to local farmer early this morning when out with my dog; he’s really stressed and said his water levels for livestock are now “dangerously low” and his winter feed has taken a big hit because there is no grass. 

    Please rain ? 

    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    1 hour ago, Surrey said:

    Quite the opposite, as the fronts slowly make there way over and mix with the heat hey presto storms.

     

    It is really good to see so much activity breaking out to our west and south already..Was not really expecting this as most of the the high res models I have been posting don't have anything breaking out till earliest 9pm.

     

    Slowly that line out west will make eastward movment expect more thunderstorms to break out as the evening goes on with the greatest risk midnight on wards..

     

    As ever though some will miss out some will get a deluge .. 

    Area in red most at risk tonight 

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    After 3.5 hours sleep last night, driving to Norwich (29.5c at Baldock 10:15; 33.5c as I drove north on A11 towards Thetford at 11.15 but lower at 32.5 once I got to outskirts of Norwich. That coincided with a brisk breeze for which I was truly grateful. Left my car with son (it’s his now ) and sampled the hell of a very delayed train with NO air conditioning from Norwich to Cambridge, except it terminated at Ely because the announcer said “it is a very, very poorly train”.  I rather suspected he’d then muttered something about ‘it was fuc**d’.  Or that may have been just the voices in my head by then. 

    Train to Cambridge was at least cool but managed to be slow enough to miss train from there to my nearest town. The next one was, unsurprisingly, cancelled.. Waiting for almost an hour squeezed on hideously overcrowded boiling platform, as at least 6 trains had either been cancelled or had broken down, with cross, sweaty crowds and suddenly realised was having murderous thoughts towards people, young people who can cope with extreme temperatures, that continue to claim this summer heat is great, fantastic etc. 

    Finally, nearly 5 hours after I started idiotic idea of using public transport on hottest day, arrive home to my oven of a Devil designed house in Hell, with garden shade temperature still at 31c :shok: (sunny here) and find that we are likely to get blasted thunderstorms, strategically timed to ensure no one in that red area sleeps tonight.  Dehydrated, headache, swollen feet and dizzy. God. Where’s the gin....

     

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    2 hours ago, Katrine Basso said:

    It's getting so hard to keep cool in the heat that I even resorted to listening to thunder and lightning YouTube videos as it is the nearest thing I have to the real thing.  My outside temperature according to my garden thermometer is 29 °C  (in the shade) but the Thurrock Weather website (stationed in Tilbury) has it at 31.8 °C .

     @Katrine Basso Definity empathise with your YouTube preference!  I’ve been obsessively staring in glazed and slightly hysterical fashion at March blizzard photos in Scottish and North regional threads today. 

    Hit 30C here (shade) nearly three hours ago. Which in fairness we’ve had more than  a few times since May, although that was before my house turned into a permanent award winning Devil designed des res in a sought after area of Hell... :shok:

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    10 minutes ago, twiglet98 said:

    I'm not far away, on the Cambs/Herts border.  No rain since I think the 4th week of May* and the green on my lawn is all bindweed or dandelions, the grass is brown and parched, with lots of bare patches.  It's heavy limestone boulder clay, my lawn and the footpaths around farmland here are crazed with cracks up to 10 cm wide and easily 25 cm deep.   This morning it clouded over and there was a very gusty moment, enough to break twigs off the willow tree and blow the sunflowers sideways.

    BBC Cambridgeshire reported last week that the City Council are asking residents to water the young street trees, with hosepipes, watering cans or whatever they have to hand.  No comment from the water company!  The Hand Car Wash bays seem to be as busy as ever...

     

    *ETS I took photos of the puppy learning to walk through puddles on 26 May and I'm sure there's been no rain since then.

    I’m pretty certain from your comments Twiglet that May 26 must be the last time it rained here. Your garden sounds identical to mine; grass isn’t growing but the dandelions certainly are and the footpaths around my village have similar cracks too. 

    My young Labrador spends a lot of time standing or carrot bobbing in his paddling pool and I haven’t let him out without his cooling coat for weeks. I’m only walking him through the woods at Weston Hills once it cools a bit in the evening as our farmland walks have no shelter and it’s miserable after about 15 minutes in the strong sun. 

    Today was more pleasant but it’s very warm tonight, hence still not asleep. Must try harder...night night

    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    The utter bliss of a shade temperature of only 22C today!  Sunday was so hot that visiting family and I dared to venture outside around 9pm and, looking for something to do other than moaning about the heat, had to eat cheese, olives, crackers and drink wine and beer until nearly 1am.  We were forced to do it as house was unbearable. No, really..

    Cannot remember when it rained last. Recall taking photos of a very lively lightening show on May 27th but unfortunately only a few drops of rain fell, enough to make conservatory roof look even dirtier but no help to the parched ground. The front and back grass is yellow and patches of cracked earth have pushed through the burned grass - I think someone was asking about whether anyone else had that?

    @Dami can you remember the last time it rained? I think you may be one of the nearest nw members to me. Unless anyone lives in Baldock/Stotfold or even Biggleswade.  Definitely not this month, I don’t remember any in June and not sure when/if there was anything in May but that seems too long! (maybe it’s heat related sleep deprivation). My sister, who lives in Australia, is asking because there was mention on their news about our heat wave. 

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    SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

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    Into week eleventy billion (ok, so have lost track of how many weeks, due to sleep deprivation) of this unrelenting heatwave and am giving up the will to live because of west facing garden and sadistically designed house. With all bedrooms on west side of house. Sat outside all evening because it was relatively cool at 22C (at 23:30) after another shade high of 29 degrees. No idea how hot it was in the sun, except awful. Kitchen is 24C even with fan on, where my poor young lab has to sleep and my bedroom is currently 26.5C despite curtains closed all day and fan on highest setting.  Don’t know how others in our region feel but I’m desperate for forecasted mid 20’s on Tuesday and been having increasingly desperate fantasies about rain for more than two weeks now.  Is it an age thing I wonder?

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