So hows the weather?

[Skyweir]

wonders what ... baking hot temps to a Brit actually is

Glorious here today .. met new clients, alpaca, horses, chooks and dogs .. sitting in the sun in the car .. yep warmer than being outside of the car but I had to take my jacket off on ourrounds today coz just tooooo hot

Today top of 15C but sunny and clear blue skies

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Well, I saw France and Germany are expecting temps of up to 38C, so that's pretty hot by anybodies standards, let alone European ones.

Problem is, like we're not geared for cold, Europeans aren't geared for the heat, so they suffer more.

--A

[Lazy Luke]

Well you can boast all you like about your high temps,
today here is a very English summer cool.

[Skyweir]

Cough up your temps Lazy

And yes true .. 38C is definitely warm .. 40C+ is hot

A 40C+ heatwave of several weeks duration is killer temp .. used to hate working patrols during heatwaves or just the dead of summer .. and getting tasked to .. havent seen old Mr Roberts for several weeks and his letterbox is overflowing and theres a nasty smell coming from the back of the house

[Lazy Luke]

Cough up your temps Lazy

I don't own a thermometer. Besides, I can't recall anyone ever
asking me for the right 'temp' so on princible, def not.

It's now baking hot again - like a frikkin oven!

[Skyweir]

Hah .. an oven set to what temp

You dont have weather reports up north that inform you of max and min temps expected?

[Lazy Luke]

You dont have weather reports up north that inform you of max and min temps expected?

Phew, what a scorcher!

I had to catch a bus in town today and it was chocka.
The road to the bus station was bottlenecked by an ambulance.
Some poor bugger lay flat out on the pavement under a leanto
being administered oxygen. I've never seen that happen before.
Ironically, a fire engine was bumper to bumper with the ambulance -
(a coincidence, obviously.)
Numbers don't interest me, sweat ran off the end of my nose -




horses for courses.

[Skyweir]

[MsMary]

Nice I wish we had those temps here .. it was mildly warmer today .. 12C Max 4 min .. not as cold as it has been

That would be cold-ish for where I currently am, but it's only moderately cold for a New England winter (where I spent this past winter). We had temps as low as 20 this past winter.

But I believe you have hotter summers than south Florida US, no? At least from the complaints I heard from my Aussie friends.

[Lazy Luke]

Much cooler today - warm and sunny and breezy - nice beer garden (club soda)
weather for some lively rocking rolling.

[Skyweir]

Yes MsMary we had a scorcher last summer. But thats not entirely unusual.

Winter came early and cold for us -5C last night. As soon as the sun goes down freezing kicks in

I dont honestly think I could survive northern hemisphere cold too, too cold. Brrrrr

[Skyweir]

Plus ageing makes me sooo less tolerant of the cold

[Skyweir]

Well we are now enjoying upper 20sC and 30sC but today the wind is atrocious ..

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Hot, very hot. Drought conditions, and they say proper rain unlikely til at least December, maybe Jan. Meh.

--A

[Skyweir]

bleh .. we are going to get a little rain 🌧 throughout the night. Weve had a bit this Spring .. everything is greening up a treat

[Sorus]

CA is on fire again. Some rain would be welcome. We had record heat last week, which did not help.

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Yeah, seen there's evacuations etc.

Only going to get worse...

--A

[Sorus]

This is the new normal, and that is horrifying.

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Yeah, tell me about it. Water restrictions going into effect here, and they're talking about a "water crisis."

Of course, infrastructure has been allowed to decay these past 10-15 years, so we're not well positioned at all.

--A

[Sorus]

Infrastructure is a big part of the problem here too.