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Like a soup of mist the last few days with barely any wind today -- clothes on the line wouldn't dry kind of day.
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Just heard the weather forecast on R4, and it was completely and utterly wrong.
Glorious cloudless skies here.

Touch of gardening to do, then a bike ride :D
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Mick F wrote: 3 Sep 2021, 8:31am Just heard the weather forecast on R4, and it was completely and utterly wrong.
Glorious cloudless skies here.

Touch of gardening to do, then a bike ride :D
You are harsh on rhe forecasters again methinks.
The Met Office forecast I saw said the SW could be bright and sunny.
Indeed a look at the satellite image shows the SW to be pretty much the only area of the UK poking out from under the extensive cloud sheet. Pen Lleyn could brighten too they said.

It's bone dry here on the west Wales coast. Though not burned because we had enough rain in July to keep the surface growing and green.
Groundwater and river levels are however really down.
Overal the finest summer for decades.
Very productive.
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Gardening and cycling sounds like you are better.
So that's a positive.
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Met office are correct, and the BBC online forecast is correct too, but the chap on R4 said it was would to be cloudy and cool except for Wales and Northern Ireland. Rain in Scotland.

Glorious out there now.

Off on a ride soon. :D
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How was your ride Mick F?
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:D
Only 17odd miles, but very enjoyable indeed.

From the village, crossed the bridge into England, then up into the hills and turning south into Tavistock, then over the hills to back home ................. via the Rising Sun for a couple of beers!

I'd earned them. Gardening and brushcutting, then walking the dog ........ then cycling.
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Dark blue line is the temperature. The sudden increase was when I was taking a breather in Tavistock town centre.
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Had to come in from brushcutting. Far too hot to work doing that. Temp must be about 20degC even before 10am.
Crystal blue skies.
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........ and still the heatwave goes on.
Hottest day of the year here yesterday, I reckon.

Went to pick Mrs Mick F up from Plymouth station at 17:45 and the car said it was 26degC.
Scorching out there now and it's not even 10am.

She's been Up North for a few days, and the weather there was pleasant I understand, and cloudy a couple of times. She said she should have taken warmer clothing.
Not a bit like it has been down here.

Same subject but from September 1982.
Two young daughters (one still at play-school age) and we moved from Plymouth to Helensburgh. Girls were in little dresses, but we'd been there only a few days and we needed to buy warmer clothes for them, thicker coats ........... and wellies! :shock:
Meanwhile, the weather back in Plymouth was still balmy.
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Hottest day? I’d agree with you there Mick. I was shifting stuff around the garden and also had to drive 60 miles in a car with no air-con. I’d like to have fitted a bike ride in but was pretty drained by late afternoon.
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Hi,
Mick F wrote: 3 Sep 2021, 8:31am Just heard the weather forecast on R4, and it was completely and utterly wrong.
Glorious cloudless skies here.

Touch of gardening to do, then a bike ride :D
Where you get the valleys and hills you tend to get your own mini climate too!
I will swap mine for yours if you want, you can have the ice and snow that we get most years, that's what comes from living on top of the hill.
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First half decent day for a long while.
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Despite the online "facts", the weather changed at about 3pm today.
The sun has gone, the winds have got up, and the weather is changing.
Temp has dropped somewhat.

Clouds (if there were any) were coming from the east for the last week.
This afternoon - midday perhaps - the breezes got up and cloudy skies are now coming from the SSW.
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Mick F wrote: 7 Sep 2021, 6:22pm Despite the online "facts", the weather changed at about 3pm today.
The sun has gone, the winds have got up, and the weather is changing.
Temp has dropped somewhat.

Clouds (if there were any) were coming from the east for the last week.
This afternoon - midday perhaps - the breezes got up and cloudy skies are now coming from the SSW.

An old farmers weather tip is " When the wind changes 180 degrees in one day then a big change in weather is coming." But when you look at the isobar pressure map you can see why this makes sense.
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Today started cloudy but still warm.
Ideal day to cut the grass. Not blistering sun like we've had for nearly a week!

Trouble is, there's thunderstorms on their way, and it's raining now.
Lightning down in the South Hams and over in France.
We can hear the thunder, but not seen any lightning.

I'm keeping an eye on the progress on here:
http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m ... ;dl=2;dc=0;
If we see any lightning at all, I'll be disconnecting the router, so we'll be off the air.

One day, during a storm, the landline telephone lit up! It was dead after that.
We've lost about three routers in the last dozen years due to lighting. Our landlines come across open fields, so they are vulnerable to inductive pulses ............ and they wreck the router and the landline phone.
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V.hot ( 79F) and almost windless here in W'Lanc's yesterday, these sheep and goats were seeking shade at about 11am, it got even warmer when the slight mist had started to burn off an hour or two later in Southport. I'm finding I dislike heat more as I get older, low 60's F suits me better nowadays. It's going to be about 82F here today, I'll maybe have a short ride in the evening instead of going out during the day.
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