Groovychook Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Rained all day long yesterday. Much brighter start today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Quite overcast but with lovely warm mizzle this morning. Sunny now and getting warmer. Â I need to get a new weather station. My outside sensor stopped working during the last spell of hot weather. Can anyone recommend a replacement? Don't want to spend a fortune so it would need to be fairly basic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 It's been baking hot here for a few days. Picked a foolish time to paint the summerhouse I'm wilting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Please tell the good weather to hang on - we're on our way home! Been mid 30s with incredible thunder and lightning today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 It's meant to last until this afternoon, when we're due cloud with the possibility of a bit of drizzle... The garden desperately needs a spot of rain though, sorry mullethunter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Picked a foolish time to paint the summerhouse I'm wilting! I can beat that I'm fitting a 7 bay fence in a south facing garden with no shade digging post holes into rock hard clay 2 days to dig 9 holes is embarrassing. 4 days in the last month I've walked of a job just after dinner because of the heat never done that before in the last 30+ years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Sounds like hell! Hope you get some of the cloud that we're forecast... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Oooh we have wet stuff! Saves watering the beans! Although at the moment I doubt it's sunk in much. There's a huge patch coming across the Atlantic that seems to be heading directly for us - don't think it will bypass us this time unless it rains itself out over the sea! Slightly cooler in the mornings but it was a case of throwing all the covers off last night - even the sheet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 We've had rain too but not enough to give the garden the watering it needs... yet! I's overcast at the moment but doesn't look like a rainy sky. Much cooler yesterday and this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 No rain here today, but it has been increasingly cloudy and humid; I understand that we're due rain tomorrow... goodness knows we need it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Even Scotland has had it dry since Sunday. We have had more than our share of rain so now the farmers are making the most of it today. Make hay while the sun shines before it goes away again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 We had a spot of rain last night - not enough to even begin to make a difference, but it is slightly damp and humid this morning. Â They harvested early here; took the first of the rape in 3 weeks ago, barley and wheat in too, some hemp still in the fields, but they've now started to get 2nd crops in, and there have been 2 crops of hay this year too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 What a welcome home! Heavy showers and ramping up for gale force winds  Forecast to be nice next week - I hope they're right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Warm, blustery and changeable rain-wise here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Ditto but the sun is out now - and windy. Not as bad as I thought though. Although the doors are rattling with the windows open! And yayyyy don't need to water the veg today! The stupid pigeons are sitting in puddles in the middle of the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 We've been down in Hatfield at a ceramics exhibition; incredibly blustery, with marquees rattling about. Several tents belonging to overnighting exhibitors blew away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Very gusty winds and heavy showers this afternoon but spells of brief sunshine too. What a change from last weeks heat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Double rainbow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Sounds like hell!Hope you get some of the cloud that we're forecast... hell would have been preferable got the cloud Friday along with the rain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 It turned out better than I thought. I think we are quite fortunate to live here - the worst seems to go round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 The most amazing weather here today, and really very warm still; just finished mowing the lawn while supper cooks. Â Thunder predicted for Saturday morning, I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Lovely here today too. 23 degrees here today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Hot, hot, hot in Oxford.......but I, too, heard the forecast of rain and thunder coming in from Thursday Bank holiday weather! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 HOT! So hot that my school has installed the special timetable. All afternoon lessons canceled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Hey, aren't you lucky! Â WE have rain here now, not masses, but it's steady at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
