blandy Posted May 12 Moderator Share Posted May 12 8 minutes ago, mjmooney said: I'd enjoy it for about a week, then I'd have had more than enough. It’s weird how people are so different. I think my scale is out of kilter, because anything below 22C is “cold” to me. Anything above 40 is “on the warm side” and in between those two is “nice”. I did find working in 48 degrees “a bit uncomfortable”. Living in the north of England is okay, but gimme a better climate and I’d be happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dog Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 14 minutes ago, Nor-Cal Villan said: Definitely not a ginger! We get 90-100 90+ degree days per year here, sometimes even more I pray for Nor-Cal. That's heat to make a cactus welp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 (edited) 10 minutes ago, T-Dog said: I pray for Nor-Cal. That's heat to make a cactus welp. You’d be shocked by how well we thrive in it as I said before, it’s dry, so if you have shade (and we do, Chico is called City of Trees for a reason) even 110 can be alright. You just adapt: for example, my wife is a distance runner, so she does her training very early in the day during summer. Same with the plethora of cyclists around here. Chico is extremely flat but just to the east are foothills that lead to mountains (we are in the area where the Sierra Nevada range becomes the Cascades), so we can & do escape to altitude when it’s blazing After living the first 30 years of my life in humidity (NC & TX) I would not trade the higher temps/drier climate we have here. It’s not even close, take the dry heat and not even think twice about it Edited May 12 by Nor-Cal Villan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: I'd enjoy it for about a week, then I'd have had more than enough. Yeah but you’d have aircon so could escape if necessary and sleep soundly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted May 12 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12 3 hours ago, Nor-Cal Villan said: I used C to preempt the inevitable complaining This is just the opening act. Will be extremely warm until around Halloween. At least our weather is extremely predictable Pretty warm but it's no 1976. Phwoar. What a scorcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 3 minutes ago, sidcow said: Pretty warm but it's no 1976. Phwoar. What a scorcher. Check back in 4-5 weeks. It’s only May 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted May 12 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12 Just now, Nor-Cal Villan said: Check back in 4-5 weeks. It’s only May 12 It's just a joke. The UK Summer of 1976 was extremely hot, massively unusually hot for the time. Now most old gammons use it to dismiss global warming and say any heatwave we get is nowhere near as bad as 1976....which has been subsequently beaten a number of times especially in the last 15 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 3 minutes ago, sidcow said: It's just a joke. The UK Summer of 1976 was extremely hot, massively unusually hot for the time. Now most old gammons use it to dismiss global warming and say any heatwave we get is nowhere near as bad as 1976....which has been subsequently beaten a number of times especially in the last 15 years. I know it’s legendary. You guys were suffering from that while it was the Bicentennial over here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted May 12 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12 (edited) Dry as a bone all day here. Went a bit cloudy and had a couple of patters of rain then back to blue sky again. I know they had rain in Acocks Green that's about 2 miles away. Guess we just missed it. Mrs Sidcow is still in the garden trying to see the Northern Lights. I don't think they actually exist. Sky is clear, bugger all up there. Edited May 12 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 13 VT Supporter Share Posted May 13 (edited) Got the four year old to look after again tomorrow. Oh well, at least with this nice weather we won't be stuck inside the house, we can go to the park or just relax in the garden. (Checks tomorrow's weather forecast): Edited May 13 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Normal service resumed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 10 VT Supporter Share Posted June 10 Jeez, it's the middle of June, and it's cold. Not just 'less warm than you might expect', or 'pleasantly cool', but actually cold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 10 VT Supporter Share Posted June 10 Was lovely in Minehead at the weekend. OK there was a sea breeze but it was pretty much constantly sunny and as soon as you got out of the wind it might well have been height of summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 6 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Jeez, it's the middle of June, and it's cold. Not just 'less warm than you might expect', or 'pleasantly cool', but actually cold. I was looking at my dog this morning, curled up tight in a ball on his bed looking very cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Jeez, it's the middle of June, and it's cold. Not just 'less warm than you might expect', or 'pleasantly cool', but actually cold. Watch it skip all the nice weather of mid 20s and just go straight to 35+ degrees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 10 VT Supporter Share Posted June 10 And I just realised that it's all my own fault, for getting my car's a/c fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 Summers over folks. Enjoy the wash out until the new year. I think we have had about a weeks worth a pure sunshine the whole year. On plus is my hayfever hasnt been bad at all this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 I love it when the sun rises about 4am as it feels like a lie in when the alarm goes off at 6:30am. When it’s dark and raining though it feels too early when the alarm goes off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 Apparently it's past 1000 dead now. Quote Hajj pilgrimage deaths: Over 500 pilgrims die of heatstroke as Mecca's temperature soar over 50°C Sweltering heat amid soaring temperatures has claimed the lives of a whopping 550 pilgrims during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca. At least 323 of the dead were Egyptians, diplomats have said. Talking to AFP, the two Arab officials said that the pilgrims succumbed to heat-related illnesses. “All of them (the Egyptians) died because of heat” except for one who sustained fatal injuries during a minor crowd crush, one of the diplomats said, adding the total figure came from the hospital morgue in the Al-Muaisem neighbourhood of Mecca. Temperatures in the Muslim pilgrim city touched 51.8 degrees Celcius on Monday, according to the National Center for Meteorology. Most of the rituals of the Hajj, an annual pilgrimage that Muslims are obligated to make at least once in their lifetime, are held outside under the direct sun. Pilgrims are often exposed to extreme heat as they walk around the Kaaba in circles. https://www.firstpost.com/world/hajj-mecca-pilgrims-die-of-heatstroke-saudi-arabia-13783779.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 I knew it was bad but this looks absolutely unreal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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