The Great British Weather

Today is flying ant day in NE London. Swarms of them from about an hour ago.

Flant thread

Yep down here in SE as well, or so I am told.

Precipitation!
Grey clouds about 20 minutes ago, drop in temperature. Luckily it held just long enough for me to replace a pinch-flatted inner tube.

rain stops play
ha

It's just too hot and sticky to do anything this morning.

How did this happen?

Motorbiked in today - feel like a need another shower now i've arrived.

Eurgh.

It's freezing here in se24.

Hot as fuck over here.

Warming up now.

Fascinating telly this...

People watch people watching TV.

Proper Brit now if you think it is hot today.

If you could cycle as fast as me you'd know how hot hot was.

I’ll race you tonight if you’re brave enough - Jubilee Park, 1915 race start. Loser buys the beers after.

What's the race? I have an SS MTB with vert ramp tyres fitted... #stillsmokeyou

dafuq is Jubilee park?

Cocks away please boys.

Leyton. I’m on singlespeed too.

Boys? I’m in my last year of v40 races.

Anyway, cock out is the best way of keeping cool in current weather conditions.

Leyton

Still no idea.

cock out is the best way of keeping cool in current weather conditions.

That's what I said! But the officers were having none of it.

It rained in north London last night, but prior to that I believe the last rainfall would have been one day of heavy rain towards the end of May.

I googled for a few seconds, but couldn't find any website hosting historical precipitation records. :(

Walking the dog in the park now. Will give it a go.

This any good? https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/index.html Though it looks like it only has data up until the end of May at the moment.

Will have a look, ta!

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/datasets/Rainfall/date/England_and_Wales.txt

Driest June since 1925! :O