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Iceland Met have lowered the risk level from red back down to orange.
Looks like a dud to me. Ah well, there's always Yellowstone....
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Spent most of last night wandering around York city centre - in a t-shirt. Never felt cold or even slightly chilly. If 'lagging' isn't required outdoors, heating most certainly isn't required indoors.
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The exception was the weekend of my wedding (21st) when a big Atlantic depression made itself very felt!
All weddings are followed by a big depression - Atlantic or otherwise.
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Looks like an awesome crop of elderberries, blackberries, damson & sloe this year. Hedgerow gin, here we come !!
If 'we' disappear from these forums sometime 12 months hence, it'll be due to acute liver failure... Anyway not only are the elderberries stupidly early but when I picked mine their quality was perfect - huge,fat black berries weighing the branch down, not one of those years where you're stood looking at them and wondering of they're ready or going to be enough. Next week I'll be harvesting what looks to be up to 3Kg (dried weight!) of First Gold hops - they too are a month forward.
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I do think that people have been lulled into the false belief that Autumn is already here.
Oh it is - you've only to look out the window to see that.
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Been out on me mo'bike for a good part of the day, wearing jeans, t-shirt and leather jacket. Maybe 15C out, god knows what the wind chill works out to at the ridiculous speeds I attain. But I never once felt even remotely chilly, and returning to the unheated house felt like walking into a sauna. Y'all ought to get out more instead of huddling on the sofa moaning that it's cold - leave that to me when it's too warm!
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Must say we are going through a great spell of weather at the minute, nice and cool around 16-18c although would like it a bit cooler.
It's about as good as it gets for August, especially considering how bad things could be right now. Looks like the incoming rain is about 2 hours from me. My, I am being spoiled!
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My ale is still fermenting nicely, so it cannot possibly be cold...
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Picked elderberries and blackberries yesterday for wine.
Me too - 3 gallons in the 'john! Up here, that's a good 4 weeks ahead of time... incredible. Can only mean one thing - Ice Age II this winter
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perhaps she can dig the garden as well to work up a sweat?
Good idea. I got mine to mow our massive lawn - poor thing's asleep now but I'll wake her up soon... it's time for her to make me supper.
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Im quite enjoying August TBH..fresh and breezy a few heavy downpours in the mix and some cool nights its the kind of weather I missed when I was in Canada this weather does not happen over there.
It's all good. If the weather of June and July had continued unbroken up to the present time (which is what a lot of the complainants appear to have hoped would happen), I reckon most folk would be wishing to see the back of it. There are exceptions, as always.
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Constant howling N or NW winds, temps of 16-17 by day, showers appearing from nowhere- it really has been October....
Yes - for me it's actually put a good few Octobers to shame. All that's missing is the much earlier nightfall of October. Can't have your cake etc....
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Well today is absolutely awful - freezing cold, no sunshine and lots of persistent, autumn-like rain (as opposed to short-lived downpours).
I can't wait for this Octoberish, summer-wasting crap to go away.
Too bad for summer-types. Personally, I think it's great.
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I recon a large number were cut in half by those stupid polluting wind turbines that now infest our land and seas.
More than likely. I rode past three of the buggers about 15 miles from here the other day and couldn't believe how colossal they are. Damn things would fetch jumbo jets down if they flew low enough.
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Or, re phrased, how did I know that your post, LG, would be dismissive of and sarcastically sceptical about any link between the weather/climate and humanities actions...That too is a great shame.
How did you know I'd respond to that post - after all there's an awful lot of similar ones I could have chosen.
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I have just had strict orders to light the Fire by the other.. Indoor temp 17.8c.
You need to put your foot down, PM. Been out all afternoon and the first thing the missus did before making me dinner was put the radiators on. That lasted all of 30 seconds. She's got plenty of cardigans an' stuff for that nonsense.
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How did I know that 'climate change' would be secreted in there, somewhere? Knocks almost everything you post is like a subliminal message for such nonsense - which is a great shame because they are otherwise largely interesting.
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Went for a high-speed blast on me mo'bike a little while back, and could feel the chill thru' my jacket.... a far cry from from August 1995 when I thought I was going to pass out and then liquify inside me leathers. I know which scenario I'd rather have...
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The wind is making having doors and windows open a bit of an issue here this evening, still very warm inside naturally and quite comfortable out still for t-shirts rather than jumpers (unless you get one of them there showers making a close call on you).
I reckon having the windows open makes naff-all difference when it's warm/hot. At least the current supressed temperatures means goon and insect activity outside is also somewhat reduced.
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Back on topic lol...chilly one for some tonight, certainly a higher chance of single fig maxes, especially so in more rural areas as winds drop calm.
Great - I'll now start to think about opening the bedroom window.
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How about you just sleep on top of the quilt?
Technical reasons.....
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I always find 7pm sunset being the barrier between 'decent' and 'indecent'. 7pm or later means you can get home and be making dinner before the sun is gone whereas much before that you're struggling and darkness begins to infect the working day. We've lost an hour and you know the vice is now tightening but its still ok for now - after work you still feel like you have time to do other things. Not so in a month or so.
Don't you have electricity at your drum, Bott's? Me - I'm agog with the way the daylight is evaporating right now, but can barely wait 'til it's dark at 4pm.
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Hazelnuts in my garden are ready now !! They're usually still a bit milky/mushy in August. That's at least 2-3 wks ahead of normal.
Got a hazelnut tree in my garden smack in the middle of some elder - they're huge but not quite ready. I'll leave them for the squirrels anyway. But the elderberries are blacker than a blind cobbler's thumb and fit for bursting! Must make wine this week while I have time on my hands, otherwise I've blown it.
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Missus wanted the heating on this evening. I just thought she was trying to be funny. But she's chucked a thicker quilt on the bed, so that's me kippin' on the sofa then.
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The changing daylight hours thread
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Don't like Xmas one bit, so I see it as an island of despair in a sea of joy! It is the thing which spoils the winter season, for me. Meanwhile, it's still unacceptably light top and bottom but we're getting there.