Summer!!!! weather 2012

[Neil]

 Your chance of rain is the same as mine, but it is raining here 

[David Nicholson]

For those of you who are yearning for summer, try this unbearable heat and see if you still need it. We just had 5 days with temps over 100 Fahrenheit and this is what's in store for the next 5.
Happy 4th July Folks!!!!!

What you need Alan is a cool pint of Timothy Taylors

[Maren]

Alan,

looking at your weather, I rather stay with mine. One can always put on another layer and my central heating makes less noise than air conditioning.

I'll put on my coat and hat and go out to breathe the air. It's so nice and fresh after rain.

[angie]

For those of you who are yearning for summer, try this unbearable heat and see if you still need it. We just had 5 days with temps over 100 Fahrenheit and this is what's in store for the next 5.
Happy 4th July Folks!!!!!

Could we not just split our temperatures.
I would die in that heat, well maybe I need to take that back.  I might get used to in if I stayed there, just would have to get rid of my insulation before I move.
My friend said that her mum that lives in Oklahoma has been having it really hot and they have had a bad storm and all her appliances have now to be replaced, she said they took a big power surge. We are all getting drowned here and you are all cooking over there, not really fair is it.

Everytime the weather comes on TV I look away. I don't want to get depressed anymore.

Going down to Tatton Park flower show soon and I hope the weather will be better down their.

David next year don't put that shading on, good job you are at the other end of the country or I would be down there washing it off 

Angie 

[alpines]

Believe me Angie, you wouldn't. Even Sherba can't stand this heat and she can work in the garden when it reaches 90, but we had 109 degrees one day last week and it is savage. Plants are dying, water is in short supply and we can't even let our cats outside.
Last year we had our wettest year on record in Kentucky and this year looks as though it could be one of the driest.

But I guess the weather will always be as controversial as politics over here. Neither of them do much for the population!!!

[angie]

But I guess the weather will always be as controversial as politics over here. Neither of them do much for the population!!!

Never a true word said  .
I think you are right, if and when we get it warm its hard to keep gardening. Just back from feeding my fish in the polytunnel and all the plants are hanging on the ground with all the rain and mist. Even the robin was sitting in my greenhouse keeping dry.

Angie 

[Casalima]

The other day we got up to 40ºC and it was 28ºC at 11 in the evening (= still evening because nobody would dream of having already gone to bed at that time!!), but the last few days have been very dreary. And this is the forecast:

[TC]

We got quite a surprise today.  Thunder in Ayr at lunch time so we headed up the coast about 50 miles,  When we arrived at the Cloch lighthouse opposite Dunoon, the temp. was 25c. and sunny.   This after weeks of rain and temps. about 16c.  A very pleasant afternoon watching porpoises playing about in a mirror calm sea.

This evening, in a fit of enthusiasm, I decided to cut the grass and trim a hedge.  Of course, that brought on the rain again.  The drive is covered in clippings so I will have to clear them in order to get the wheelie bin round.  I suggested to my dear wife that she may like to help.  The reply was " you did it, you clear it up". The division of labour is absolute.!

[annew]

I've just had to put in a request to my husband to put in some stepping stones so I can get across the lovely new moat around my potting shed. I'm fed up of it overtopping my welly-shoes.

[Maggi Young]

Pity you are not a member of parliament, Anne - you could have applied for payment to have it done.

Are you sure you want stepping stones?  A drawbridge is attractive......

[Martinr]

A month's rain in two days!!!! Well it's started...the quaint babbling brook thorugh our garden is a brown raging torrent full of debris, the water has taken over the lower patio and the bottom foot of the rockery now (in 17 years it has only made it onto the patio once and then only just). Level still rising. I can't even go and hide in the greenhouse as that entails crossing the brook and the water is now only an inch below the bridge

[Maggi Young]

Sounds bad, Martin - will the house be safe from the water?

[Martinr]

Maggi, we'll be OK, still 5 feet below the house. Lower down the village is a mess though with, until half an hour ago, only one road open and a number of houses are flooded. At the moment the level has dropped a couple of feet but if the rain gets heavy again it'll come straight back up

Attached shows our poor village shop

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-18736121

[angie]

Martin thats some amount of rain. What a shame for all the folks that have had water damage, I suppose its just not water damage it's the mess the mud leaves. Hope its stopped raining with you.

Angie   

[Martinr]

Angie, you are so right, it is the muck that causes many of the problems long term although water on its own will ruin wooden flooring and carpets. Water level has now dropped several feet.

The village made the BBC 10 o'clock national news last night so,,,,,,,,should I be charging tabloid fees to talk about this now