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[Zear0]

41 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Then they had to walk uphill to school and uphill home again!

Barefoot

[Grebfromgrebland]

On 08/07/2026 at 21:38, Trav Le Bleu said:

Fully fed up with this now. I found myself gasping for breath today. It seems people have decided they're not going to go out shopping when they can get some poor sod to deliver it.

 

Absolutely no contingency plans from Royal Fail, sorting offices with no air-con or even opening windows and vans don't either.

 

This keeps up much longer I swear I'm going to suffer some physical damage.

I really feel for you air con in work vehicles should be mandatory as temperatures can reach between 40 and 60 degrees. It's not safe for work.

[Ecdysiast]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Luxury!

Who remembers the insect ladybird plague of the same year? Millions of the fkrs

 

 

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

 

Work van yesterday. Same temps today.

Edited Friday at 13:58 by Trav Le Bleu

[worthosoriginals]

3 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Then they had to walk uphill to school and uphill home again!

You were lucky to have a hill, we had to walk up sheer cliff faces in skis

[Md9]

Last night was not great again for trying to get to sleep. Last few nights I had been alright compared to the one the other week but last night it was just awful. 

[st albans fox]

9 minutes ago, Md9 said:

Last night was not great again for trying to get to sleep. Last few nights I had been alright compared to the one the other week but last night it was just awful. 

Will be a breeze this evening as the temp drops away so if you get your windows opened and get that through the building then your night will hopefully be more comfortable 

[Ecdysiast]

We had to walk through Dante's Inferno in a duffle coat holding hands with Nigel Farage to get to school, only for Boris Johnson to send us home again because the staff were having an alcohol fuelled orgy to mark the end of term

 

[Foxdiamond]

3 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Will be a breeze this evening as the temp drops away so if you get your windows opened and get that through the building then your night will hopefully be more comfortable 

Really hope we get a strong cooling breeze in my neck of the woods. 

[FoxesDeb]

5 hours ago, Rubbersoul said:

Just seen news about wildfires in Southern Spain. 11 deaths & 18 missing including British nationals. 
 

I hope you’re all safe @FoxesDeb

Thanks, yes me and mine are all good, it's just all a bit surreal. Still plenty of smoke and ash around, and a constant flow of planes filling up with water from the sea near me.

 

My local FB groups are filled with posts from desperate people who haven't heard from their friends and relatives since they said they were leaving their homes, lots of people here are British, Dutch and Belgian immigrants. It will take a long time for the area to recover from this, we're just hoping the authorities can get it under control before it gets dark and the aircraft have to stop flying. 

[Md9]

31 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Will be a breeze this evening as the temp drops away so if you get your windows opened and get that through the building then your night will hopefully be more comfortable 

Feels a bit more breezier in the garden this afternoon that this time yesterday so I am hoping it is a bit better tonight. 

[Corky]

5 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Those battling the fire in Spain can take comfort in the fact it was 30 degrees for a few weeks in 1976.

The only Net Zero back then was net zero moaning as people just got on with it.

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, Corky said:

The only Net Zero back then was net zero moaning as people just got on with it.

This is a superb example of Poe's Law. Bravo. 

[SpacedX]

21 hours ago, Parafox said:

The storm of 1987 which Michael Fish famously discounted.

The truth is actually more nuanced and involved that the popular myth that he "discounted" it. He didn't. On the lunchtime BBC weather forecast that day he famously said:

"Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she'd heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't." Those words have often been interpreted as him dismissing the storm that later that night. Actually, he was correct since a hurricane is impossible given our latitude and sea temperatures. There were hurricane force winds, and he certainly didn't predict the severity of it, anticipating that the brunt of it would be in France. Modern meteorologists generally regard the episode as an understandable forecasting failure given the limitations of weather models and observations available in the eighties, rather than simply a flagrant or flippant dismissal.

[SpacedX]

2 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

Thanks, yes me and mine are all good, it's just all a bit surreal. Still plenty of smoke and ash around, and a constant flow of planes filling up with water from the sea near me.

 

My local FB groups are filled with posts from desperate people who haven't heard from their friends and relatives since they said they were leaving their homes, lots of people here are British, Dutch and Belgian immigrants. It will take a long time for the area to recover from this, we're just hoping the authorities can get it under control before it gets dark and the aircraft have to stop flying. 

My sister's house is about 2 miles north of the Los Gallardos fire, in Bédar. They haven't been allowed back. 

[FoxesDeb]

5 minutes ago, SpacedX said:

My sister's house is about 2 miles north of the Los Gallardos fire, in Bédar. They haven't been allowed back. 

Yes the reports name it the Los Gallardos fire because that's the municipality, the actual fire started much closer to Bédar and that is sadly where the deceased people lived from what has been shared locally.

 

I'm glad your sister is ok, and hopefully her friends and neighbours are too. If she needs anything, anything at all, even just a lift back home when she is allowed to return, send me a dm and I'll share my number. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

One of my earliest memories is a family holiday in Penmaenmawr in the summer of 1976. Stayed in a caravan site on the lower slopes of Penmaenmawr mountain and one night the next mountain over had a wildfire. The whole mountain seemed to be on fire so that it looked like (as I remember) an erupting volcano.

[kenny]

6 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

 

Work van yesterday. Same temps today.

That looks like our hire car jn Albania. How is that still going???

[kenny]

47 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

One of my earliest memories is a family holiday in Penmaenmawr in the summer of 1976. Stayed in a caravan site on the lower slopes of Penmaenmawr mountain and one night the next mountain over had a wildfire. The whole mountain seemed to be on fire so that it looked like (as I remember) an erupting volcano.

Been up and down the quarry in that mountain many times. Cracking part of the world, love working there.

[st albans fox]

14 hours ago, SpacedX said:

The truth is actually more nuanced and involved that the popular myth that he "discounted" it. He didn't. On the lunchtime BBC weather forecast that day he famously said:

"Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she'd heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't." Those words have often been interpreted as him dismissing the storm that later that night. Actually, he was correct since a hurricane is impossible given our latitude and sea temperatures. There were hurricane force winds, and he certainly didn't predict the severity of it, anticipating that the brunt of it would be in France. Modern meteorologists generally regard the episode as an understandable forecasting failure given the limitations of weather models and observations available in the eighties, rather than simply a flagrant or flippant dismissal.

Infact the damage across se England was caused by a sting jet behind the storm where the winds thousands of feet up in the atmosphere descend to the surface for s short time.  Back then this was poorly understood and non forecastable. That morning certainly increased our appreciation of such a feature. a pretty rare event. 

 

and the arrival of the less hot air air with that cooler breeze is wonderful this morning. Hopefully a few days of summer weather we can enjoy !
 

[Free Falling Foxes]

I shivered a little around 10:30 this morning, even had goosebumps appear.

I was sitting in a shady area of our garden, with just shorts on, when a breeze gently wafted by.

 

I even went brrrrr.

 

I assume my body has been used to 30+ degrees for days so a temp of 23 plus a little 'chill factor' from the breeze came as a bit of a shock.

 

[SpacedX]

7 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Infact the damage across se England was caused by a sting jet behind the storm where the winds thousands of feet up in the atmosphere descend to the surface for s short time.  Back then this was poorly understood and non forecastable. That morning certainly increased our appreciation of such a feature. a pretty rare event. 

 

That's right and the 1987 storm served as the primary case study for meteorologists to first discover and formally define the phenomenon. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

We had a pre-match BBQ today and people were saying they were cold. It was 21°C.