UK to bake in 33C amid extreme heat warning

[filthyfox]

6 hours ago, Greg2607 said:

Beavers are part of the solution.... hopefully they quickly establish in the UK. 

Its spelt Belvoir!

[filthyfox]

Anyway, at 2000 this evening it was bloody gorgeous sitting in the garden watching the sun go down.

Similarly 0800-1000 is pleasant.  Between these times its a wee bit too hot Jimmy!

Reporting from Weymouth

[The Horse's Mouth]

Loving it, having to talc though 

[Jaspa]

Night time is phenomenal. Huge moon, Saturn right next to it, Jupiter lit up and the odd meteor flying in.

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, filthyfox said:

Anyway, at 2000 this evening it was bloody gorgeous sitting in the garden watching the sun go down.

Similarly 0800-1000 is pleasant.  Between these times its a wee bit too hot Jimmy!

Reporting from Weymouth

I sat in our garden in Hinckley 2 hours ago. Honestly such a joy. Birds quietly twittering and settling down then, so still and calm. No breeze, no disturbance (no fukking pigeons hooting). Just a warm and pleasant end to the day.

[leicsmac]

6 hours ago, Parafox said:

Yes to the opening sentence but I think that's a generational thing but I think the concern now is the effect on food production and the difficulties encountered when there's a prolonged period of excessive heat, rather than complaining about the heat. I agree, people do go "ooh, it's just too hot", and I agree, it's uncomfortable particularly in cities and central areas away from the coast. But there are bigger things to be concerned about with the world's climate. 

I for one, am not looking forward to 30-40 deg summers every year

The amount of people who can't or won't see the big picture like this and instead just go "oh, isn't it so nice that it's hot? Let's grow some grapes!" actually comes pretty close to terrifying me.

 

The casual lack of regard for the future is insane. As I've said before, it's the person not wanting to stop smoking because that lung cancer won't be here today, only on the part of an entire species.

Edited 12 August 2022 by leicsmac

[Bellend Sebastian]

Currently in Devon where they've had more rain than most of the country and it's still parched. 

 

Field on fire about a mile away from where we're staying as we speak.

 

Cannot imagine they've got the resources to deal with this if this becomes a thing on any scale.  Getting a fire engine down the lanes is going to be a problem for starters

 

 

[Greg2607]

There was fields on fire around Market Bosworth yesterday afternoon.  It's going to be a very regular occurrence in the near future. 

 

for people thinking that this is a year of weather anomalies, it really isn't.  This is the future, right now.  We've passed the tipping point I think.  Eco-system breakdown is right upon us and happening now. 

 

If you think the cost of the Ukraine war is driving prices right now, you haven't seen anything for what the wars and famine will bring from crop failure and water system failure.

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Greg2607 said:

There was fields on fire around Market Bosworth yesterday afternoon.  It's going to be a very regular occurrence in the near future. 

 

for people thinking that this is a year of weather anomalies, it really isn't.  This is the future, right now.  We've passed the tipping point I think.  Eco-system breakdown is right upon us and happening now. 

 

If you think the cost of the Ukraine war is driving prices right now, you haven't seen anything for what the wars and famine will bring from crop failure and water system failure.

 

Covid and the current Ukraine conflict is going a couple of rounds with Leigh Wood.

 

While outside prime Mike Tyson has just about finished his warm-up.

[Free Falling Foxes]

I was looking at some aerial photographs of  'Britains parched landscape'. Indeed, there are vast areas that resemble desert like conditions.

But it then occurred to me; travelling around you see lots of dry grass ect but the trees, by and large are still quite green.

These aerial pictures emphasis again just how 'de forested' we are as a country. Which is, of course, bad in so many ways.

We need a 'Plant a tree in 23' like we did back in 73.

[Trumpet]

1 hour ago, Greg2607 said:

There was fields on fire around Market Bosworth yesterday afternoon.  It's going to be a very regular occurrence in the near future. 

 

for people thinking that this is a year of weather anomalies, it really isn't.  This is the future, right now.  We've passed the tipping point I think.  Eco-system breakdown is right upon us and happening now. 

 

If you think the cost of the Ukraine war is driving prices right now, you haven't seen anything for what the wars and famine will bring from crop failure and water system failure.

I don’t entirely disagree. Climate change will ensure this kind of weather has a better chance of developing, but what we’ve experienced this summer is pretty exceptional and has involved a weather set up we seem to get a handful of times per generation. I wouldn’t expect it to be as sudden as this being the new normal overnight, but completely agree we’re heading that way.

[Greg2607]

2 minutes ago, Trumpet said:

I don’t entirely disagree. Climate change will ensure this kind of weather has a better chance of developing, but what we’ve experienced this summer is pretty exceptional and has involved a weather set up we seem to get a handful of times per generation. I wouldn’t expect it to be as sudden as this being the new normal overnight, but completely agree we’re heading that way.

albeit, it has happened during an El Nina cycle (which is typically cooler) rather than an El Nino one which is typically hotter.... that's the scary thing. 

Edited 12 August 2022 by Greg2607

[SpacedX]

13 minutes ago, Greg2607 said:

albeit, it has happened during an El Nina cycle (which is typically cooler) rather than an El Nino one which is typically hotter.... that's the scary thing. 

ENSO is immensely complex, but during a La Niña, the pressure over the equatorial Pacific is high, creating stable conditions and less convection. These pressure changes translate into the global circulation, affecting both Hemispheres with time. The current pressure pattern forecast from ECMWF model shows a La Niña high-pressure system remaining in the North Atlantic and Europe. Current global ocean analysis reveals the continuing presence of cold ocean anomalies in the tropical Pacific. This is across the ENSO regions, with the easterly region also having some warm anomalies mixed in.

 

This is significant because the impact of the La Niña phenomenon on the weather in Europe, depends upon when the current La Niña of the Central Pacific type is changed to the Eastern Pacific type. This change often gradually brings warmer air, milder temperatures and also less precipitation to Europe. 

 

The cycling through warm El Niño and cold La Niña conditions in the eastern Pacific could be increasingly weakened by climate change

 

 

[Trumpet]

10 minutes ago, Line-X said:

ENSO is immensely complex, but during a La Niña, the pressure over the equatorial Pacific is high, creating stable conditions and less convection. These pressure changes translate into the global circulation, affecting both Hemispheres with time. The current pressure pattern forecast from ECMWF model shows a La Niña high-pressure system remaining in the North Atlantic and Europe. Current global ocean analysis reveals the continuing presence of cold ocean anomalies in the tropical Pacific. This is across the ENSO regions, with the easterly region also having some warm anomalies mixed in.

 

This is significant because the impact of the La Niña phenomenon on the weather in Europe, depends upon when the current La Niña of the Central Pacific type is changed to the Eastern Pacific type. This change often gradually brings warmer air, milder temperatures and also less precipitation to Europe. 

 

The cycling through warm El Niño and cold La Niña conditions in the eastern Pacific could be increasingly weakened by climate change

 

 

Is there anything you don’t know? I say this in the most complimentary way. 

[SpacedX]

26 minutes ago, Trumpet said:

Is there anything you don’t know? I say this in the most complimentary way. 

Yes huge amounts, which is why I find science is so compelling (because it's about discovering what you don't know or challenging what you think you do) - and precisely why I avoid the 'lawn bowls', 'Love Island', 'Hip Hop', 'Golf' 'Cryptocurrency' 'Hair Products', 'Investments, Stocks and Shares' threads like a plague pit and post complete bollocks about football. (I studied climatology, which helps, that's all).

Edited 12 August 2022 by Line-X

[Parafox]

Like many others, we have bought a kitchen bowl so that when we rinse stuff or prep veg under running water it gets saved in the bowl and then we use it to water the garden. Also have 2 water butts collecting water from run off from the shed roof (when it rains).

[yorkie1999]

21 hours ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

Loving it, having to talc though 

??? Talc

[The Horse's Mouth]

Just now, yorkie1999 said:

??? Talc

Talcum powder

[SpacedX]

6 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

Talcum powder

So what you are basically telling us is that you shove liberal quantities of it up your crack and sprinkle it around your bollocks. 

[Unabomber]

12 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

??? Talc

How does a man not know about this  

[The Horse's Mouth]

6 minutes ago, Line-X said:

So what you are basically telling us is that you shove liberal quantities of it up your crack and sprinkle it around your bollocks. 

I don't put it up my crack pal that sounds like a bit of a fetish 

[yorkie1999]

16 minutes ago, Line-X said:

So what you are basically telling us is that you shove liberal quantities of it up your crack and sprinkle it around your bollocks. 

Which is alright till you fart…great party trick though.

Edited 12 August 2022 by yorkie1999

[Paninistickers]

4 hours ago, Trumpet said:

Is there anything you don’t know? I say this in the most complimentary way. 

I agree. Mr @Line-Xis a fascinating, super intelligent and often funny poster. 

 

Me and him.often clashed on the covid thread and despite his bulging brains and reasoned, fact based arguments, he read the whole thing totally and utterly wrong. He doom mongered that it was the black death mk II (wrong!) Others thought from the get go it was a glorified sniffle (right!) 

 

kinda refreshing that brains aren't everything 😛😛😛

[Parafox]

3 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

I agree. Mr @Line-Xis a fascinating, super intelligent and often funny poster. 

 

Me and him.often clashed on the covid thread and despite his bulging brains and reasoned, fact based arguments, he read the whole thing totally and utterly wrong. He doom mongered that it was the black death mk II (wrong!) Others thought from the get go it was a glorified sniffle (right!) 

 

kinda refreshing that brains aren't everything 😛😛😛

Erm... unless you had relatives or friends or in my personal experience, patients that died as a result of Covid.

Do you really believe that Covid is a brief episode of an illness that will "go away" and will no longer be a threat to life? 

What an unbelievable and ignorant post. Check the figures. You clearly know very little about the whole world wide impact and the actual facts about the disease.

Ignorance is bliss. 

Unbelievably stupid post.

Edited 13 August 2022 by Parafox

[leicsmac]

21 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Erm... unless you had relatives or friends or in my personal experience, patients that died as a result of Covid.

Do you really believe that Covid is a brief episode of an illness that will "go away" and will no longer be a threat to life? 

What an unbelievable and ignorant post. Check the figures. You clearly know very little about the whole world wide impact and the actual facts about the disease.

Ignorance is bliss. 

Unbelievably stupid post.

I'm deeply hoping that above post was mostly tongue-in-cheek tbh.