The Weather

[st albans fox]

2 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

It's just common sense, no? If it's hotter outside than indoors why would you want to let the warmer air in? Here in Spain we have the doors and blinds closed all day in the summer, they are only opened first thing in the morning before the sun comes up and then not again until night time when it's cooled down enough that the air outside is cooler. If we want daylight we open the blinds but put the air-conditioning on 

Hmmm

this particular bit of common sense just won’t go in 

[LCFCJohn]

13 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

It's horrible, and I think you'll always get an element of 'it'll never happen to me' on anything like this. 

 

I was annoyed the other day as there was something on FB about the police warning about these very dangers and the comments were littered with stuff like 'why aren't you catching criminals', 'let kids be kids' and 'I used to jump off a 50ft cliff into 6 inches of water and it never did me any harm' and all that total bollocks, and I imagine if you live in a household where that's the sort of thing that gets said then the risk goes up quite a bit

Yeah, people think it won’t happen to them. Another one yesterday as well in Lancashire

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx211k9rl5lo

 

We should never judge without knowing what has happened in each case and the parents may well have seen the news from Monday across the country and said everything they could. It’s just shocking how it happens so often and in this case, a day after there has already been 4 published cases across Sunday/Monday. 
 

My daughter is only 3 and she seems quite cautious at this age anyway as well as being quite advanced with how she questions and thinks about things for her age. Perhaps the way is to educate them with shocking truths about what could happen. We did this already with road safety to be fair. She ran off when we were walking and I quickly caught up with her and grabbed her arm to stop her. Obviously this started a tantrum of ‘you grabbed my arm’. So we just said if you run in the road you will get squashed by a car and mummy and daddy won’t see you anymore and be very sad and it seemed to work to be fair! Brutal truth!

[Trumpet]

21 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

So how did it go?

Was alright actually. The house was about 25c inside, which felt notably cooler than outside. The problem was having the doors open all day with the moving of things that let the warm air in.

[Corky]

22 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

My wife completely gets this but I used to work with a bloke that would always come back from going for a walk on a hot day with a proper sweat on and EVERY TIME open the window we'd kept shut all morning to let a lovely blast of hot air into the office and say 'oh, that's better' 

We have a couple of ladies at work who struggle with the heat and the air conditioning so insist the best way to cool down is to open a window "to let a breeze through" despite it containing 32°C air.

[whoareyaaa]

Need to live near the coast would be much more bearable 

[st albans fox]

 

2 hours ago, Corky said:

We have a couple of ladies at work who struggle with the heat and the air conditioning so insist the best way to cool down is to open a window "to let a breeze through" despite it containing 32°C air.

Do you work at a garden centre in St Albans ?

[grobyfox1990]

2 hours ago, whoareyaaa said:

Need to live near the coast would be much more bearable 

I live on a coastal island in the English Channel. Trust me for the 360 days of sideways rain and force 6-8 winds, the cool breeze of these days doesn’t mean you should live here for the weather.

[VLC86]

Cracking storm this, woke up thinking someone was smashing my house up.

[Libertine]

11 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

Cracking storm this, woke up thinking someone was smashing my house up.

Absolutely mental. Never heard thunder like this in my life.

 

(In LE3)

[Trav Le Bleu]

It's Biblical! Even Noah would be impressed.

[Free Falling Foxes]

The God's are angry with Leicester. 

[Soar Fox]

Sounds like a warzone

[Trumpet]

Woke at 1am to lightning here. No thunder or rain, just non stop lightning for over an hour. 

[stretch1965]

We had continuous rain, thunder and  sheet lightning at at Desford from 3.30 for nearly 2 hours.  Quite the storm

[Raj]

Thunder bolts and lightning very very frightening in east lestah at 4ish- woke us all up!

[leicsmac]

That was like monsoon season in the Far East again. Spectacular. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Two hours or so of pretty heavy rain in west Leicester in the night.

 

Struggling to remember a storm with so much lightning but the volume and time between the strikes and the thunder made me think the worst of it was to the south so some folk were really getting it

[kenny]

1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Two hours or so of pretty heavy rain in west Leicester in the night.

 

Struggling to remember a storm with so much lightning but the volume and time between the strikes and the thunder made me think the worst of it was to the south so some folk were really getting it

Blaby was terrifying, scariest storm ive ever witnessed. Some much lightning was weird as well as the sheer volume of the thunder.

[leicsmac]

Hopefully that volume of lightning strikes hasn't caused too much actual damage. Apparently every strike delivers around 1 gigajoule of energy, which is quite a lot. 

[VLC86]

1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Two hours or so of pretty heavy rain in west Leicester in the night.

 

Struggling to remember a storm with so much lightning but the volume and time between the strikes and the thunder made me think the worst of it was to the south so some folk were really getting it

I’m south Leicestershire and it was definitely overhead at some points. Wish I’d have got up and had a look out of the window now.

[Stuntman_Mike]

4 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

The God's are angry with Leicester. 

Even Zues is KP out.

[st albans fox]

13 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Hopefully that volume of lightning strikes hasn't caused too much actual damage. Apparently every strike delivers around 1 gigajoule of energy, which is quite a lot. 

Lightning maps don’t distinguish between cloud to cloud and cloud to ground 

most recorded lightning is cloud to cloud 

 

electrical storms are amazing 

but as you say, they can be v dangerous 

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

4 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

The God's are angry with Leicester. 

Tame! 

[leicsmac]

5 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Lightning maps don’t distinguish between cloud to cloud and cloud to ground 

most recorded lightning is cloud to cloud 

 

electrical storms are amazing 

but as you say, they can be v dangerous 

 

Absolutely, though it sounded like a fair few hit the ground last night. 

 

Some of the numbers on the energy that even a garden-variety storm (not a hurricane or typhoon) releases compared to what humans can generate is quite unbelievable. 

[goose2010]

unreal in LE10 as well, not heard anything like that since the last time I was in Florida!