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Typical British summer: 65F, overcast, rain never far away, everything looking very green. Quite pleasant if you're used to it. :)

Not much has got across the Pennines. A brief heavy spell yesterday refilled 1 and a bit water butts. But apart from that it's been overcast, threatened rain but kept dry in eastern parts.

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Typical British summer: 65F, overcast, rain never far away, everything looking very green. Quite pleasant if you're used to it. :)

Not much has got across the Pennines. A brief heavy spell yesterday refilled 1 and a bit water butts. But apart from that it's been overcast, threatened rain but kept dry in eastern parts.

And we're the ones with the hosepipe ban! :crazy:

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Typical British summer: 65F, overcast, rain never far away, everything looking very green. Quite pleasant if you're used to it. :)

Not much has got across the Pennines. A brief heavy spell yesterday refilled 1 and a bit water butts. But apart from that it's been overcast, threatened rain but kept dry in eastern parts.

And we're the ones with the hosepipe ban! :crazy:

Yes, ironic isn't it? A shortage of rain in Manchester!

Edited by Bev Stapleton
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29°C in Tel- Aviv but what kills us is the humidity: 80%. I spent this afternoon on the beach.

Same temp here, at least now at 10 PM after it has cooled down. It's dreadful, but knowing what high humidity is like, and not having it here, it's hard to whine that much.

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Surprisingly pleasant here, given that it's the first day of August in south-central Indiana. We actually shut off the AC yesterday evening and still have the windows open this afternoon. I'm drinking coffee, reading Robin D.G. Kelley's HAMMER AND HOE, listening to the Ahmad Jamal Mosaic, and keeping tabs on the Yankees-Rays game via Internet radio. Nice way to spend a Sunday, with some fresh air in the house for a change, as opposed to the ol' AC-chilled stuff.

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Typical British summer: 65F, overcast, rain never far away, everything looking very green. Quite pleasant if you're used to it. :)

Not much has got across the Pennines. A brief heavy spell yesterday refilled 1 and a bit water butts. But apart from that it's been overcast, threatened rain but kept dry in eastern parts.

Was in London yesterday. Seemed like I'd gone to another climate zone! Sunny, about 5-7C warmer, humid, parched rain-starved grass. Seemed like the contrast you normally find when going over to France.

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The heat wave is now entering the 5th week. Every day it's H33-35C L26-27C. I've started using an umbrella after feeling rather wobbly a few times. The crickets are deafening in the trees outside.

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As so often, the promise of a warm, dry June never materialised into a gorgeous summer. Odd days of sunshine but rarely lasting a whole day.

Last Thursday was the most miserable weather day in history - poured with rain until the early morning and then grey clouds just glowered all day! I can cope with rain - there's music for rain. But nothing that enhances steel-grey skies.

Sunnier today but cold, windy with lengthy periods of cloud blotting out the sun. I feel autumn a-coming.

Bev

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Insufferably hot. I've decided to stay indoors for a while. Several people I know have been complaining of heat fatigue and lethargy. The hospital out patients departments are being kept busy with a steady stream of heat stroke patients.

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Clearly, summer's over! According to my computer it was 7C outside first thing this morning and a touch of frost is forecast for tonight. Time they put the August Bank Holiday back to early August!

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Clearly, summer's over! According to my computer it was 7C outside first thing this morning and a touch of frost is forecast for tonight. Time they put the August Bank Holiday back to early August!

7C? The lowest temperature here was 28C, in the middle of the night !

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Clearly, summer's over! According to my computer it was 7C outside first thing this morning and a touch of frost is forecast for tonight. Time they put the August Bank Holiday back to early August!

There was some wind yesterday - blew my garden parasol right out of the garden table!

At least there were large stretches of sun; as of lunchtime we are back to grey again!

Any political party that promises to organise sun in the daytime and rain/cloud at night gets my vote. More efficient too - less evaporation, less outside man-hours lost to bad weather.

Edited by A Lark Ascending

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