Weather July 2010

[Hans J]

Sorry Mark - I mean 'nuts' ..exactly : walnuts

[iann]

Hot weather to the west, south, and east, but the drought is over here.  The hosepipe ban is still in place though

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hi,
Heatwave here in France; We've got between 30°C and 37°C for 3 weeks now. Not drought fortunately: it rained twice. Watering the plants quite everyday but some didn't like those heavy temperatures...By the time I'm writing still 26°C on my balconies ( midnight )
The hottest July for many years I think...What about forthcoming August?
Jean-Patrick

[angie]

Hi,
Heatwave here in France; We've got between 30°C and 37°C for 3 weeks now. Not drought fortunately: it rained twice. Watering the plants quite everyday but some didn't like those heavy temperatures...By the time I'm writing still 26°C on my balconies ( midnight )
The hottest July for many years I think...What about forthcoming August?
Jean-Patrick

Hi Jean-Patrick, I am already dreaming about sitting in my garden at midnight with the warm air and perfume of all my plants drifting past.
Wish my dream would come true.
Angie

[Maggi Young]

Angela, I can lend you an electric fan heater and an extension cable.........
oh, and a waterproof canopy!


 

[Paul T]

Hans,

You're starting to sound more like my climate in summer, although we get those sorts of temperatures for a couple of months in the middle of summer.

Paul, two months of such heat... oh my!  Is it dry heat or humid.  We've been in what I call "pea soup" weather, the air so thick, humid and soupy that it takes an hour or two in the morning for the sun to "burn through" the haziness.  Can't wait for fall to arrive

McMark,

Usually very dry in summer (doesn't rain for weeks, and very low humidity).  We had humidity levels in single digits during this last summer at a couple of points, which is almost scarily low.  Usually that sort of extremely low humidity is when we get the massive bushfires in the Eastern states of Australia.  It sucks the moisture out of everything, be it plants, animals, or people. 

[angie]

Angela, I can lend you an electric fan heater and an extension cable.........
oh, and a waterproof canopy!


 

Thanks Maggi...that's nice of you , its nice to dream. Its not too bad today,  no wind so I am happy.

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

Some real pea soupers here lately. When I went to work yesterday morning I could only see one dot at a time on the road's central line. I think they're about 10 metres apart and at one stage I nearly left the road altogether even though I know it as well as I know my own hands. It was pitch dark of course and the car lights almost totally useless, as if shining through thick dust. This morning I couldn't see the gum trees which are only 50 metres from the house, even though they're 20 metres in height.

[angie]

Hi Lesley, I get a lot of pea soup days here as I stay close to the sea, sometimes only a few miles away it could be sunny and we are in thick mist. Maggi could be sitting in her garden with a cool drink and I could be freezing here
I also hate driving in those conditions, you seem to stare at the fog, I never know if I am better driving with full beams or dipping my lights, so usually when its bad I don't go out.
Its windy here today but sunny.

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

We're near the sea too Angie, though we can't see it from the house. We live on the brow of the dip between two high hills which run out to the sea and the fog comes rolling over the dip in great cotton wool clouds. I see St Andrews lived up to its windy reputation for the golfers.

I don't like the thought of you freezing while Maggi is enjoying a cool, relaxing drink in her sunny garden. That's most unfair. Mind you, she probably doesn't have much time for such non-activities, with all the problems and trouble we give her.

[angie]

We're near the sea too Angie, though we can't see it from the house. We live on the brow of the dip between two high hills which run out to the sea and the fog comes rolling over the dip in great cotton wool clouds. I see St Andrews lived up to its windy reputation for the golfers.

I don't like the thought of you freezing while Maggi is enjoying a cool, relaxing drink in her sunny garden. That's most unfair. Mind you, she probably doesn't have much time for such non-activities, with all the problems and trouble we give her.

Lesley thats true but Maggi loves us all 

Angie

[fermi de Sousa]

We're finally having a "normal" winter - rain!!! and frosts alternating it seems!
We've been as low as -4^oC and have had 123mm of rain in the last two months!
With full rain tanks we're more likely to survive a hot summer! (we're not on "town" water out here!)
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Congrats, Fermi.  That must be a relief.

[Giles]

No rain for 2 months....

[Ragged Robin]

Giles, incredible, how come you missed all the rain last week?

Hope your Magnolia are OK