we've still got time!
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
#prayforsummer
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
three months of record rainfall following seven months of below average rainfall
hmmn
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
Today was nice. I got a little sunburnt while gardening in Hackney.
― mmmm, Thursday, 5 July 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
today = shit though.
― mmmm, Friday, 6 July 2012 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
Nice weather for ducks
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 6 July 2012 09:21 (twelve years ago) link
sense of smugness at having pre-emptively rejected every festival going this weekend :)
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 6 July 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
yday was nice, lovely evening. you take what you can get now in these end times.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 6 July 2012 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
you take what you can get now in these end times
Oh great, looting has started and no-one told me...
― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Friday, 6 July 2012 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
the bbc has a 10 day forecast now
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643743
it looks like much the same as recently, but warmer
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 6 July 2012 09:57 (twelve years ago) link
hot and wet but not in a good way
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
oh, i like that average-weather chart down the bottom, that's a neat corrective to fantasy summers past.
― swaggy dog story (c sharp major), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:05 (twelve years ago) link
Not really - it just proves that this is much worse than actual summers past. That chart says the average rain for June is 45mm. We had well over double that last month. The met office report for June:
The weather was dominated by low pressure over or close to the UK, with associated weather fronts. These brought rather cool days, some very large rainfall totals and also some strong winds early in the month. There was an almost complete absence of warm, settled spells.
The UK mean temperature was 0.3 °C below the 1971-2000 average and it was the coolest June since 1991. Daily maximum temperatures were well below normal, particularly in many central and eastern areas, with few warm days. Almost all areas were much wetter than normal, especially across much of England and Wales, southern and eastern Scotland and Northern Ireland. It was the wettest June across the UK in the series from 1910 (wetter than June 2007), and the equal-wettest June in the England and Wales series from 1766 (shared with June 1860). Only the far north-west of Scotland was drier than normal. Almost all areas were duller than usual, and it was provisionally the second dullest June in the series from 1929.
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
xp Oh, that must be a London-only thing. The Met office has some nice graphs compared to past averages too:http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/anomalygraphs/
I find this thread funny because my personal idea of how summer is different now than during the 80s is p. much the opposite of everyone else's. It may be wet this year but it's still not cold. I find summer too hot these days and don't remember doing so as a kid (admittedly probably because I wasn't quite so fat as a kid).
― put a fillyjonk on it (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
If we were at primary school now we wouldn't even be considering this the summer - that was basically the six weeks off school, which hasn't even begun yet. Worth bearing in mind next time someone at work starts off on rose tinted reminiscing.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 July 2012 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
time was we used to learn our timetables in class and not worry about what the temperature was, now its all concept games to learn the real values of integers and how they relate to the physical world around us, just last week the little woman's son from her first marriage was left alone on the beach at rhyl to learn the true meaning of sunburn, wouldn't have happened when i was locked underground by my abusive old dad
― coal, Friday, 6 July 2012 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
I have a really vivid ie possibly inaccurate memory of it raining every single day in June 1990 and being utterly enraged wondering what kind of god would allow this
otoh there were World Cup games every evening so it wasn't a big deal, it was just the PRINCIPLE
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC 1990 was a scorching summer but then I was in London/Oxford.
Matt DC - Scottish schools used to break up at the beginning of June and not reconvene until mid-August. No idea whether they still do but they were bumper summers for sure.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:31 (twelve years ago) link
that's a neat corrective to fantasy summers past.Not really - it just proves that this is much worse than actual summers past
Not really - it just proves that this is much worse than actual summers past
um. my point was that it gives us actual summers past to compare to, not whatever imaginary version we hold to (which could be positive or negative).
― swaggy dog story (c sharp major), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:51 (twelve years ago) link
and that having it right on the page with the forecast means idle curiosity might lead people who, like me, think "well 21 degrees is cold for july" to discover that actually it's not far off the average.
― swaggy dog story (c sharp major), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
in other news, the Heath was utterly gorgeous yesterday afternoon, and surprisingly uncrowded.
― swaggy dog story (c sharp major), Friday, 6 July 2012 10:56 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC 1990 was a scorching summer
I remember July/August post-end of term as being really, really hot and sunny and I was filled with resentment because I spent most of the time working in Fads (decorating shop) or having driving lessons.
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 6 July 2012 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
last evenings london forecast = rain clearing away early in the morning, dry with sunny spells and abt 22c
today irl = like being inside a greenhouse in december
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 6 July 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
August 1990 saw several places in Scotland have their hottest day on record. I certainly remember Dundee being almost Mediterranean like.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 6 July 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/aug1990/ 37.1C at Cheltenham.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 6 July 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
tomorrow according to the Met Office it will be wet and 19c tops.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 6 July 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking tipping it down in Manchester, on and off, for the whole day, mostly when I step out of the office. Going to housewarming BBQ tomorrow, oh daer.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Friday, 6 July 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Beautiful sunshine in London at the moment after being pretty grey and drizzly for most of the day. I think we've missed the worst of it so far this year.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 July 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I remember that now. I thought it was '87 or '88 though but I often find out my childhood memories happened 2 years after I thought they did.
I spent all day whining about it being too hot to my parents, who were trying to have a barbecue and were distinctly unsympathetic, and then when it was declared the hottest day evar on telly I felt vindicated. We didn't live in Cheltenham but it was not very far away and my Nan lived there so it was clearly incontrovertible proof that it had been too hot in our back garden for a barbecue
― put a fillyjonk on it (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 6 July 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's looking nice in london now
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 6 July 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
The entire stock of a Liverpool chocolate factory melted and at Stansted Mountfichet Castle, Essex a waxwork knight melted into a puddle.
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 6 July 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
it's had a nice habit of raining while you're at work then clearing up come the evening
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 6 July 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
in london that is, if you live in manc i don't know how roo feel
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 6 July 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
I'll take that for now.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 July 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Raining so hard here now...not sure I'm going anywhere today.
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Saturday, 7 July 2012 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
the forecast for the next month is pretty bad
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_weather.html
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 July 2012 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
Met Office, uhhhh, Schmet Office
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 July 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I think once the jet stream shifts downwards (as it has done this year) then that's it - you basically get 'unsettled' weather for the whole summer. It's just a question of making the most of any brief dry/sunny spells.
The forecast for today showed very heavy rain showers coming in from about 11 or 12 onwards. I set off at 9.30 on a bike ride, hoping to get a couple of hours in before the rain came. At 10.15 near Theydon Bois I was nearly drowned by a 15-minute cloudburst - it was like someone emptied a bath over my head. The road was an inch or two under water and I could barely see anything - I only knew when cars were coming towards me because they had their headlights on full.
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 7 July 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
the met office rainfall radar is neat
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/se_latest_radar.html
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 July 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
tho obviously it is better for following southwesterly rainfall bands where you can estimate their arrival quite accurately wrt the wind speed, rather than the sort of chaotic squally showers of recent times
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 July 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
This is exasperating. If there was any light at the end of the tunnel it wouldn't be so bad - if they said "you've got two more weeks of this shit and then the sun will officially put his hat on" I could live with that.
― Özil Gummidge (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 8 July 2012 08:04 (twelve years ago) link
It's warm and sunny in Cardiff right now, not expecting it to last though.
― nate woolls, Sunday, 8 July 2012 08:40 (twelve years ago) link
some tropical monsoon shit going on over lewisham right now
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 8 July 2012 08:59 (twelve years ago) link
the sky has actually broken
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Sunday, 8 July 2012 09:00 (twelve years ago) link
If it was 3pm and I was watching Carry on Abroad or something this'd be perfect Sunday weather. As it is I'm lying in bed with a horrible hangover ruing agreeing to DJ at some shitty venue on Brick Lane where I got shouted at for 'playing old fucking shit' by the bar owner despite it being a disco/funk/surf/shoegaze night, rather than going to rhythm factory and seeing FlyLo (hanging out with Venus Williams) or Actress in Peckham, so FUCK THIS RAIN.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 8 July 2012 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
Venus Williams went to XOYO?!?@?!?!>!
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Sunday, 8 July 2012 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
actress is good music for when you're having coffee on a grey damp shit fucking sunday morning in london
― libor pains (nakhchivan), Sunday, 8 July 2012 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
i just hope people recognise that this is all the ConDem's fault when we get to the next election
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 July 2012 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
Taking you up on that, nakhchivan. Ran a few errands, and am now sitting here damply, like a dog. Still something about the regular swish of traffic outside that isn't entirely unappealing, but it's near as high summer ffs!
― If you live in Thanet and fancy doing some creative knitting (Fizzles), Sunday, 8 July 2012 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
not that we don't moan phatically about the weather in lieu of whatever more purposeful discourse happens in other countries....but months of this is actually very dispiriting
i don't think i have seen a shadow for weeks now...everything is murky, half-lit
― libor pains (nakhchivan), Sunday, 8 July 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link