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19 minutes ago, ANYWEATHER said:
So where is the 20c isotherm then..
It looks to me that on the first one it's over N Africa and on the other two it is east of the Med and doesn't appear south of Europe.
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My solar panels have recorded their lowest July output since they were installed 9 years ago, just over10% lower than the usual average output. Only two years, 2017 and 2020 are anywhere near as low.
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1 hour ago, Sunny76 said:
Yeah, and yet we will be told by others its ‘normal weather of July’ or ‘this was July in the 1960s’
I personally don’t want 1960s weather. It was vile.
I don't remember the weather of the 1960's being vile, except the first two months of 1963 which were horribly cold, and at least then we very rarely had to put up with temperatures of over 32C, or 90F as it was early that decade.
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1 hour ago, NEVES SCREAMER said:
Contrast to Chritchurch South Island NZ. Deep mid winter. Close to the Antarctic. Today max 15c. Sunny. Light breeze. You couldn't make it up. You really couldn't.
Christchurch, NZ is about 43 degrees south, hardly "close to Antarctica". That's roughly the same latitude as Toulouse in southern France is in the northern hemisphere.
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1 hour ago, FetchCB said:
Since then I have moved 120 miles from London to Peterborough and the climate in the last 6 yrs or so feels very much like London did 20 yrs ago. Long spells of dry, warm to hot temps.
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You must have taken a roundabout route - Peterborough is about 75 miles from central London. 120 miles would take you to Nottingham.
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14 hours ago, CreweCold said:
Yeah and I hope the coming winter is colder than 62/63
No thanks! 8 or 9 weeks of temperatures below freezing for long periods and just above on a few days. Waiting for the school bus in the cold and having a couple of inches of snow around the New Year which was "topped up" by the odd light shower in Jan and Feb but it hung around until early March.
Ice on the inside of the bedroom window many mornings - the result of no central heating or double glazing. Sitting in the living room with the fire going so you were warm on the front but anything not in direct line of the heat from the fire was distinctly chilly. The death toll for those without the resources to keep themselves or their children warm would be awful - there are many struggling now without having to cope with arctic temperatures for a long period.
The country couldn't cope with 6 or more weeks of bitter weather now as we are so reliant on food and heating being readily available and very few people have fireplaces which would enable them to burn wood etc if their heating/electricity failed.
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13 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:
Interesting! Thank you. Is it cheaper to run?
I have forced air heating in my bungalow which was built in 1971. All the bungalows on the cul-de-sac where I live had that heating but many have had it removed and replaced with radiators. Personally I find it very efficient and the only moving part is the fan, and of course there is no water involved. The current boiler was installed in 1999 and replaced the original which was still working but the electrics were a bit iffy.
Very often it gets a very thorough annual service as they are thin on the ground and trainees with instructers turn up to get shown how to deal with a warm air boiler.
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About 6 miles east of Nottingham - heavy rain here and just had a rumble of thunder to the south.
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59 minutes ago, Radiating Dendrite said:
True, but then a home insulated like an electric blanket is not the best thing come our ever warming summers.
Insulation works both ways. Good loft insulation stops you losing heat but it also stops the heat in the attic on hot sunny days heating your ceilings and thus the rooms below.
Similarly wall insulation reduces heat transfer from the outer brickwork to the inner and then into your rooms. Of course it doesn't make much difference if you allow the sunshine through your windows to heat up the interior of your home.
We really should be considering exterior shutters or blinds on south facing windows to keep the worst of the heat out.
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7 minutes ago, kold weather said:
People just trying to deny the obvious.
There can be no denying Coningsby however, not exactly renowned for its urban heat effect afterall.
Would I be right in assuming the weather station is on the RAF Base? Hopefully not close to the runway.
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18 hours ago, Beverley Lass said:
A huge 7.3-magnitude earthquake has hit Fukushima, Japan - triggering a tsunami warning as tremors were felt as far away as Tokyo.
Terrified witnesses have said buildings were left shaking following what felt like two quakes, with the second lasting for around two minutes.
Parts of the Japanese capital have endured power outages as a result.
It is not yet clear if any people were injured following the quake, or the scale of damage caused.
From a seismic monitoring site it would seem there were two earthquakes about 2 minutes apart. The first was 6.5 at Lat 37.67 Long 141.67 and the second 7.3 at Lat 37.70 Long 141.59, very close together. They were at different depths.
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2 hours ago, stainesbloke said:
Think that was the one where my hometown by the Thames suffered extensive and very damaging flooding, with hundreds of families evacuated. It seemed to blow a constant gale for weeks and it just poured with rain. Was that when the coastal mainline in Dorset was washed away? Grim.
No coastal mainline in Dorset. The line washed away was at Dawlish in Devon.
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I have seen reports that the lava has now crossed the path. It is currently too foggy to see anything, but when I went back a few hours there was very obviously fresh lava at the leading edge approaching the footpath area and a lot of fresh lava in the area behind.
By the time the fog came down it hadn't started to run down into the area behind the western dam.
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7 hours ago, Midlands Ice Age said:
Latest updated overview this morning..
Still lots of lava being ejected, but now at 10 minutes intervals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba_7x2FaasY
I think you will find that lava is flowing from the crater all the time although we can't see it from the camera angle. At intervals a gas bubble forms in the magma and rises up towards the surface.
This pushes the magma above it more quickly upwards which is why the flow from the crater rapidly increases. When the gas reaches the surface you get the eruption of lava thrown into the air.
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2 hours ago, shunthebartlett92 said:
Yeah 6c and cloudy is pretty rubbish! cold but not cold enough for any snow, and very drab overhead.
Aren't you lucky - it's dull and 4C here.
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It's been snowing here for a couple of hours and now settling. Grass and roofs turning white(ish).
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1 minute ago, Delka said:
according to radar and lightning maps something might have just popped south of Nottingham, finally kicking off? rather rapidly too!
Yes there have been several rumbles of thunder in the last 5 to 10 minutes
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Have just heard a gentle rumble of thunder just to the south of me.
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5 hours ago, Snowy L said:
10.30 and we have only just got rid of the cloud now. West of the region looks cloudy until at least midday. How can forecasts get things so badly wrong just 12 hours out.
Been sunny here since at least 6am this morning.
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37 minutes ago, Sunny76 said:
Where did all that water go from october 2019-Mid March 2020?
Most of it went into the sea. After all, once the resevoirs are full all the extra rainfall that caused so much flooding carried on downstream.The ground was saturated as well and couldn't hold any more.
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1 hour ago, knocker said:
This photo was taken by a friend. We would be grateful if anyone can identify the bird.
I'm no expert but looks like it might be a young Wood Warbler, Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler from the shape of thr end of the tail.
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1 hour ago, DiagonalRedLine said:
Good heavens. At least up to 22*C above average in some places!
Those anomolies are in Fahrenheit.
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I am 72 years old and I have never seen 30cms of lying snow where I have lived in this country, let alone that much in 24 hours.
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8 minutes ago, ChezWeather said:
Another potent looking shower just east of Nottingham, the second one that's rolled thorough that area today
Yep. Between 5 and 10 claps of thunder, some quite close, and a brief but heavy hail shower. Had several showers the last couple of days but not much rain as my water butt which I had half emptied topping up the pond has only just filled up. Since it receives water from half the roof plus the garage it shows how brief the showers have been.
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Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland Felled
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If you look at the pictures of the tree before it was felled and then compare the height of the stump and the length of the trunk of the felled tree below where it first branches out, it seems to me that quite a length of the trunk has been removed and has disappeared.