The Great British Weather

I didn't cycle to the office today as it was supposed to rain this afternoon..

I had the same thoughts...lots of headlines saying "first extreme heat warnings issued" but the temperatures involved don't seem that unusual or extreme.

I read somewhere the warning scale for heat was tweaked last month which is why it's the first amber... Can't find a link now though

Edit - created as of June 2021.

https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2021/06/18/why-the-met-office-is-launching-a-new-extreme-heat-warning/

I remember weeks of stonkingly hot weather interspersed with massive thunderstorms when i was a kid - this doesn’t feel too unusual.

The cold and wet weather we had in early June was a bit odd though.

Yep - it's a just new thing - like when they started naming storms.

The general idea is - put this Amber warning up and people might look out for elderly neighbours / relatives a bit more - and thereby reduce the number of deaths you get everytime the temperature gets towards the 30s a few days in a row. If it achieves that - it's a good thing.

Also - if they advertise it a day or so in advance I might be prepared enough to get the fan out of the attic the day before rather than waiting till I'm a sweaty mess at midnight and unable to sleep.

The recent news over "wet bulb temperatures" was scary though. The idea that plenty of places could experience temperatures where water cannot evaporate due to humidity at 35 degrees or less - and that no human can survive for long in that situation. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/30/canada-temperatures-limits-human-climate-emergency-earth
It's really starting to sink in how absolutely fucked we are.

Epic thunder around London right now..... all the decibels

https://map.blitzortung.org/#9.99/51.5185/-0.0146

Copping it in Greenwich

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Misty AF on the Norfolk coast, there's a boat in that photo not too far out. Warm and loads of seals about though, which is nice.

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"Started as a nice gravel roll thru the forest to a pub… Soaked now, torrential rain just after leaving the pub, proper tropical storm. Roads flooded, forest clay unridable with our tires had to cut out onto the road. Underpasses under the north circular starting to flood."

from a mate out east. It was dry here but it's pissing down now. Love a British summer.

Apparently we (east Cheshire) were supposed to be having a bit of wet n thunder this weekend, not a bit, dry n sunny.

muggy as fuck down here in Brighton.

All the habitable rooms are south facing in the flat but because it's built like a bomb shelter with really thick walls the sun doesn't usually drive up the heat too much indoors if you have the blinds angled to keep it from shining right in.

but this humidity just crawls in and fills the whole place like a bad fart. Today is the first day so far where I've had the windows open, fan on and still felt like the heat was still too much.

Here in Highgate all cool, all the pissing down downflows to others living downer.

Most London summers, living in a basement flat has been a bonus (cooler than the street and the flats above, can go into the garden if I want the heat). Rain like this, though...

Currently pissing it down…

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Instant downpour in SE24. Central, east, northeast London, heads up, deluge heading your way.

All over the place in new cross today. Windy and clear this morning, overcast, then heavy rain, cleared up and now it’s sunny and chucking it down

Ah, good to wake up to perfect week-end weather.

I just rode to the station in full wet weather gear, now on the overground quietly steaming with a pile of wet goretex. Summer, ffs.

My heating's on.

On a train now, direction dark stormy clouds

My heating's on.

It's 11.30 in the morning, in August. Need the light on as it's a bit dark.

Thanks Obama.

Pretty damn warm tonight.

Glorious couple of days coming! Mrs Y even got a touch of sunstroke at SlamDunk fest yesterday. Don't know why I bother buying her caps, she never wears them!

Bloody sweating buckets working outside yesterday. Also had to drive 60 miles in a car with no aircon.
It’s as hot as we’ve had it all year here in the far south-west.