The Weather

[st albans fox]

42 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Honestly, soon we'll have young kids, when they're drawing, asking, "have you got a brown pencil to do the grass with?"

Colour blind kids already do this 😄

[Parafox]

13 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

Terrifying the amount of wild fires we're seeing. Those on France and Spain look absolutely horrendous. 

They are but, I'm not "terrified". I mean I still get sleep and can watch TV whilst being quite relaxed. I'm not sitting in a corner, shaking and chewing my nails.

 

Alarmed and concerned about the way things are going, yes.

Edited 28 July by Parafox

[Trav Le Bleu]

10 minutes ago, Parafox said:

They are but, I'm not "terrified". I mean I still get sleep and can watch TV whilst being quite relaxed. I'm not sitting in a corner, shaking and chewing my nails.

 

Alarmed and concerned about the way things are going, yes.

Wait until Burbage Common looks like a portal to hell.

 

(I understand that Barwell might well be already.)

[Parafox]

9 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Wait until Burbage Common looks like a portal to hell.

 

(I understand that Barwell might well be already.)

Well at least once all the grass gets burnt off we'll be able to see the dogshit that people can't be arsed to pick up.

 

We nearly bought a house in Barwell many years ago but once we took a look around... nah.

Edited 28 July by Parafox

[leicsmac]

On 28/07/2026 at 07:34, Trav Le Bleu said:

I can't understand how we're not in a drought.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg35n7yny3o

 

Just a day early, mate. 

 

Isn't it a wonderful world?

[Rubbersoul]

Wildfire not far from where I’m based and not far from Sizewell. Looks pretty bad from the stuff I’ve seen 

Edited 30 July by Rubbersoul

[Sampson]

Just seen. The wild fires in Suffolk. Was only a matter of time before the wildfires come to the UK  

[Foxdiamond]

Reports of the excess deaths related to the heatwaves. My brother in law died at 60 recently. Seems he had cardiac arrest and was very dehydrated so suspect the heat contributed 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Rained a bit for about 3 minutes just now.

 

We've reached the stage where I post on the internet about this

[ramboacdc]

It was raining when I left Leicester this afternoon. Once I got home to South Derbyshire it was like it hadn't happened 🤣. 

 

Hopefully at least doust stuff a bit so we dont get any fires. I heard that Shepshed had a bit of a fire going on. 

[Foxdiamond]

Down this way only rain since early June was the 15min on Sunday. Well and truly baked again

[EastAnglianFox]

 Rain, we have rain in Norwich!!

 

Will it pass the 1mm threshold so I can finally say we’ve had an official rain day in July

 

yes I am this boring away from the forum also 

 

[FoyleFox]

We had rain for a couple of hours today in NW Leics. OK, it was more like heavy drizzle but 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Satellite view of drought

From a BBC piece.

[st albans fox]

11 hours ago, EastAnglianFox said:

 Rain, we have rain in Norwich!!

 

Will it pass the 1mm threshold so I can finally say we’ve had an official rain day in July

 

yes I am this boring away from the forum also 

 

The rainfall radar looked convincing 

 

[Rubbersoul]

It actually bloody rained! 20 minutes or so of proper pouring rain! 

[worthosoriginals]

On 26/07/2026 at 09:45, Zear0 said:

Saves me having to water the tomatoes at least

Fnaaaaaaaar

[st albans fox]

Some evening rain looks likely for gods own county 

 

not down here though 

[Foxdiamond]

29 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Some evening rain looks likely for gods own county 

 

not down here though 

Was jealous of the rain at Leeds at the Hundred. Absolutely parched here. 

[EastAnglianFox]

Back into the 30’s today here in Norwich, plenty of low black cloud rolling in which just makes it even more frustrating.

 

Pissing me off that a neighbour thinks he’s being clever by turning his garden sprinkler on just after midnite, then off it goes just after 4am.

 

Never been so close to snitching on somebody in my life 😂😂

 

 

 

 

[JonnyBoy]

22 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Back into the 30’s today here in Norwich, plenty of low black cloud rolling in which just makes it even more frustrating.

 

Pissing me off that a neighbour thinks he’s being clever by turning his garden sprinkler on just after midnite, then off it goes just after 4am.

 

Never been so close to snitching on somebody in my life 😂😂

 

 

 

 

You have to admire the graft 

[Foxdiamond]

40 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Back into the 30’s today here in Norwich, plenty of low black cloud rolling in which just makes it even more frustrating.

 

Pissing me off that a neighbour thinks he’s being clever by turning his garden sprinkler on just after midnite, then off it goes just after 4am.

 

Never been so close to snitching on somebody in my life 😂😂

 

 

 

 

Your neighbour is a rat

[Trav Le Bleu]

9 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Your neighbour is a rat

A water rat.

[Free Falling Foxes]

41 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Back into the 30’s today here in Norwich, plenty of low black cloud rolling in which just makes it even more frustrating.

 

Pissing me off that a neighbour thinks he’s being clever by turning his garden sprinkler on just after midnite, then off it goes just after 4am.

 

Never been so close to snitching on somebody in my life 😂😂

 

 

 

 

Four or five summers ago, we were having weather similar to this with scorched and brown grass everywhere - except a mates front lawn.

It was green and luscious. It really stood out compared with everybody else's.

He watered it regularly despite requests to conserve water.

As a mate, I tried to have a calm conversation about it but he became quite animated defending his choice to nurture his grass.

Not seen him this summer but would guess it's the same.

 

[st albans fox]

50 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Back into the 30’s today here in Norwich, plenty of low black cloud rolling in which just makes it even more frustrating.

 

Pissing me off that a neighbour thinks he’s being clever by turning his garden sprinkler on just after midnite, then off it goes just after 4am.

 

Never been so close to snitching on somebody in my life 😂😂

 

Write to the water authority and ask them to take a drone image of your neighbourhood to work out if anyone is abusing hosepipe use. 
presumably you’re not on water meters there?