Summer 2022 Chat

[Wold Topper]

1 minute ago, RebsAbbo said:

You’ve just written exactly what I was about to say to @Aleman!!!

A lot fresher than expecting, had windows & doors open for 10 mins to get some air in the house, but of course you have to be prepared for visitors…(ignore the magazine he/she/they are standing on!)

Have stayed critter free tbh, must be my socks

[RebsAbbo]

1 minute ago, Wold Topper said:

Have stayed critter free tbh, must be my socks

Though you were only wearing your pants tonight, with a towel over your head

[SnowBear]

24.5c at 10.45pm in Colchester. 

[Wold Topper]

4 minutes ago, RebsAbbo said:

Though you were only wearing your pants tonight, with a towel over your head

No silly, i am wearing a towel with my pants on my head

[Dbarb]

Really is an awful night for sleeping I don't remember anything this bad. I can't imagine what it's like in London living in tower blocks.

[Weather Enthusiast91]

Went up to 36 Celsius over here. To be honest when I went out it didn't feel as bad as I thought it was going to be, and the relatively low humidity helped.

I wouldn't like those kind of temps to go on for longer than a few days though as it will get a bit much. A nice dry and sunny 20 - 27 Celsius is my summer preference.

 

Edited July 18, 2022 by Weather Enthusiast91

[Gazarhya]

Currently 28.4 here, dropped about a degree in the last hour.

Finally brought myself to open some windows, although it's not far off the same temperature inside as out, it's 20% less humid outside.

I'm probably on, say, stage 5 of 10 stages of cooling.

Fans *are* deployed, but not pointing at me.

Ice is available and standing by.

Spray mist bottle location is known, but not ready for action.

I still have the Duvet on the bed....

 

Tomorrow will probably be a different story.

[Don]

15 minutes ago, Wold Topper said:

Have stayed critter free tbh, must be my socks

After the heat today and tomorrow, I would have thought everyone's socks would keep the critters away?! 

[Wold Topper]

Just now, Don said:

After the heat today and tomorrow, I would have thought everyone's socks would keep the critters away?! 

Good point

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

23.7C still.
 

[NEVES SCREAMER]

4 minutes ago, Wold Topper said:

Good point

Ha ha. Nice bit of bullying behaviour there . 

[Cold Winter]

20.9c here after a max of 35.6c. Quite the drop, didn’t think it’d be as fast but I’m not complaining!

[Arctic Hare]

22.6 °C here as I type. A very light SE breeze, barely noticeable unless you stand right out in the open but welcome nevertheless!

[Summer of 95]

Shawbury apparently reached 35.5 according to Roger Brugge's site which would be a new record if confirmed. Wonder what Preston Montford or other sites in Shropshire (they do exist) made? Tomorrow seems really up in the air as far as being hotter or not is concerned, it depends how quickly the breakdown comes.

Anyone remember the pre-2006 era when hot spells often used to break down from the N rather than W? The cooling was more dramatic, often with big storms but it didnt concentrate the hottest temps in the east/southeast so much 

[CongletonHeat]

[danm]

Still about 28°c here. 

As much as I love the heat, I wouldn’t like these sorts of temperatures for more than a couple of days even if all our homes were air conditioned. You just can’t do much outdoors for any length of time. It’s great to experience for a couple of days and to try and break records, but if I had to pick a summer temperature it would be 27°c with low humidity.

Edited July 18, 2022 by danm

[Stationary Front]

4 hours ago, NEVES SCREAMER said:

2006 was good June July. The rest was rubbish

 

You have forgot the September of that year, very sunny and warm and hottest on record I think

[MP-R]

1 minute ago, Stationary Front said:

You have forgot the September of that year, very sunny and warm and hottest on record I think

But also quite wet. Wetter than the August here.

I rate 2005 more highly than 2006. 

[Barry12]

Feel sorry for shetlanders, 14c and rain even when its reaching 40c in the mainland, would hate to live their personally!

 

UK town dodges heatwave with top temperature of 14C

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Residents and holidaymakers in the Shetland town of Lerwick donned rain hats and jackets on the day much of the UK was coping with a heatwave.

 

I checked the temperature record  for Shetland- it reached 27.8c in August 1910 somehow though.

[Don]

4 minutes ago, Barry12 said:

Feel sorry for shetlanders, 14c and rain even when its reaching 40c in the mainland, would hate to live their personally!

 

UK town dodges heatwave with top temperature of 14C

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Residents and holidaymakers in the Shetland town of Lerwick donned rain hats and jackets on the day much of the UK was coping with a heatwave.

 

I checked the temperature record  for Shetland- it reached 27.8c in August 1910 somehow though.

I personally would prefer that to 40C heat, albeit it would be nice for it not to be raining!  I could live in the Shetlands, although would prefer to live in the Highlands.

Edited July 18, 2022 by Don

[Barry12]

2 minutes ago, Don said:

I personally would prefer that to 40C heat, albeit it would be nice for it not to be raining!  I could live in the Shetlands, although would prefer to live in the Highlands.

yeah maybe not extreme as 40c but t-shirt weather at least, 14c with rain and wind most of the year, apart from winter when it will be the exact same expect a few degrees colder, would be so dull.

[Don]

Just now, Barry12 said:

yeah maybe not extreme as 40c but t-shirt weather at least, 14c with rain and wind most of the year, apart from winter when it will be the exact same expect a few degrees colder, would be so dull.

That's why I would rather live in the Highlands where the seasons are more varied!

[Evening thunder]

Evening heat is one difference between the interior of the country and nearer to the coast like in the SW. Temps fall away faster here even with some distance from the coast. It dropped below 25C here at 8:40pm while the interior of the country was well into the 30s. That's after a far hotter day inland there too (e.g. 36-38C rather compared to only just exceeding 30C here, after cooler day and night the day before as well).

I'm not sure many people around here realise how much worse conditions are for sleeping in regions like the Midlands compared to here.

It clears here tomorrow so just the one properly hot day for us too.

Our house was actually reasonably pleasant at 24-25C. The temp dipped to 21.1C around 10-11pm. Now however the wind has picked up and it's risen to 27.5C as some of that 31-32C 950hpa air moves in and makes it's effects known! 

[Aleman]

These temperature drops in North and East Yorkshire are remarkable. Leconsfield Sar was 18.3C at 11:00pm. That's 5.9C colder than the same time last night and a drop of 17.1C in the 5 hours from 6pm's 35.4C. However, I also note that Topcliffe has risen from 19.6C at 10pm to 21.1C at 11pm so the downward trends might not continue.

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Edited July 18, 2022 by Aleman

[James1979]

still a balmy 25.2c.  Bed beckons and a record breaking day ahead. Again.