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are they same sensors as MetOffice?
Weather Underground is any personal weather station that uploads to their site. They do try and hide the less reliable ones - which can get difficult with local variations.
And the badge awarding thing for reliability appears to have fallen over (lost mine at the weekend, but so did the other local sites).
Met office uses proper "verified" weather stations. Generally at airfields or specified locations. A personal weather station in Cumbernauld managed to get verified a few years back, but was completely off-line last time I checked.
This need for verification is also why the records being reported in the press are subject to checking etc.
Can't have some bloke with a Garmin on a picnic table claiming a "hottest ever".
Driving home from work today started at 38°c when I got home and parked in the shade between mine and nextdoor to open the gate the temp has gone to 40°c getting very breezy now.
Going to have a light tea tonight and hit the pool again.
New record of 40.3C in Lincolnshire
The UK's record temperature has been broken again after the mercury reached 40.3C in Coningsby in Lincolnshire, according to the Met Office.
The provisional figure, as of 16:00 today, surpasses the earlier peak of 40.2C recorded at Heathrow.
Temperatures are still at that same high this afternoon at the London airport, as well as in St James's Park in the capital.
Kew Gardens was 40.1C as of 16:00, with Northolt at 40C and Cambridge
Car was parked in undercover in a multi storey car park today, showed 36° when I started her up.
Had to go to the supermarket
Hit 40 while I was driving
But said 39.5 when I got in
i used to ride my bike in Houston summers.
I can't imagine doing that - not from the heat so much as the drivers. I served my sentence in Houston and ran every day. But I did get up at silly o'clock to do it.
still export a load of kWh to the grid over it’s lifetime.
Are you doing that from the goodness of your heart? AAUI you dont get paid for that any more?
i lived in the heights (if that means anything to you) so could essentially ride along the bayous to a big park (i forget it’s name) only streets o used were pretty quiet.
“served my sentence”. like it. we’d meet expats who thought it was great!
That Garmin says 42.2 now, it's been in the shade all afternoon, but not isolated from the breeze.
i lived in the heights
Yes - had mates there. I was in The Woodlands. The expats who enjoyed it seemed to be the sort who enjoyed playing the caricature Englishman - racing green sports car etc.
For a heating connection - we had mahoosive ceiling fans, as I'm sure you did too, and they really reduced our AC usage. Never seen them in the UK though!
I took refuge in our living room this afternoon, TdF on the telly and it’s a very comfortable 26degs thanks to shutters on the windows and 18 inch thick stone walls. It’s like a fan oven outside.
Never known heat like this in the UK. Making life quite unbearable. Would a summer of this stop folk driving their monstrous SUVs around?
However the idiots I’ve seen lately idling their cars to keep their AC running deserve a key down the side of their vehicles
Or petrol bomb through a window so that they're proper hot!
However the idiots I’ve seen lately idling their cars to keep their AC running deserve a key down the side of their vehicles
One today had his window open so he could smoke in there too 🙄
problem is, those who can afford big SUVs can probably also afford full Aircon, so probably not bothered!!Would a summer of this stop folk driving their monstrous SUVs around?
It's just started raining in big lumps. No cooler, just going to make everything sticker later.
You see that now outside the posh school near ours - a 1k line of mostly SUV's parked up, idling away presumably with A/C on full blast. We do we allow this shit and at what point is it okay to take action?
Walked out of the office and hit by the heat. Car said it was 39.5 degrees, only dropped to 37 by the time I got home. Not looking forward to 20 degrees overnight if the forecast is correct, but hopefully dropping away tomorrow evening. Asthma kicked off again big style. I could not deal with this regularly that's for certain.
We have a max 1 minute idling rule here.
Think it's a 200-250 quid fine.
I'm sat in a street cafe in Winchester, sweating like a fishmongers window, trying to persuade myself that I do want to eat at some point and I do want to sweat more by the walk up the road to my accommodation...
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR
Full MemberWhat’s the betting that it’s just a slightly warmer than normal summers day, or rains?
They can barely predict what the weather will be tomorrow, never mind days in advance
This has aged well
sweating like a fishmongers window
Genius! Chapeau sir😂
Been hiding in the AC workshop office all day doing some online training. We got pulled of sites by 11am by the boss.
Mrs text earlier to say she had to bring all the chickens in doors as we have already lost 2. One of the last older ones is still in the front room, but the younger ones are more than happy pottering about outside. Reckon we were up to 40 here in N.Cambs
Would a summer of this stop folk driving their monstrous SUVs around?
You can get convertible Range Rovers now so no worries.
Imagine being in India/****stan/etc. where this is just the new normal but plus 5 deg C and between to and three months and with very limited resources to mitigate :/
"You can get convertible Range Rovers now so no worries" lol indeed.
A mate just bought a "Defender", to me it looks utterly ludirous and not much smaller than an actual tranny van. They drive it a few miles down a highly densily populated area to work and back and that's about it. When they look back, what will our children's children think of us.
fricking nanny state sending out teams to fight the fires.
Making life quite unbearable
This is a good one
Urban fires breaking out very scary. Peak idiots BBQ time coming up!
Salad is this weather sounded like a good idea but perhaps the whizzed up chilli in the dressing wasn't. I'm surprised I had anything left to sweat.
The whole of south Lpool felt like it was a massive BBQ yesterday withh a fine, almost mistlike smoke slowly drifting south. All feels very "last days of Rome" to me.
You can get convertible Range Rovers now so no worries
Very good!
Urban fires breaking out very scary.
Next door but one's shed burned down at 3am yesterday. Firefighters said they reckon the evening sun went through Jam `Jar on a shelf and set it smouldering with the magnifying effect.
We have a max 1 minute idling rule here.
Think it’s a 200-250 quid fine
That sounds sensible, where is it?
Earlier in the thread:
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsST Full Member
What’s the betting that it’s just a slightly warmer than normal summers day, or rains?They can barely predict what the weather will be tomorrow, never mind days in advance
And yet it could not have been more precise - the thermometer in my car hit 40 degrees this afternoon.
Next severe weather warning we will get the same shit all over again......"the weather forecasts are never right, they don't know what they're talking about blah, blah, blah", we always do.
Edit: Hadn't see imnotverygood's post above ^^
Gone from sultry high 30's and clear blue sky to completely overcast and 30mph wind in about 15 minutes. (Lewes area near Brighton) Looks like we might get a few thunderstorms tonight
Salad is this weather sounded like a good idea but perhaps the whizzed up chilli in the dressing wasn’t. I’m surprised I had anything left to sweat.
Not the best day to use up tne leftover chicken to make a curry....🥵
Dropped from about 38 down to 32 here now, which is very hot still by UK standards, but it feels almost cool after that!
getting a bit fed up of permanently sticky hands and fingers 😕
Had to do a measuring survey today,
Usually rains when I do one , just to make things that much more of a PITA.....
Thought at least today I wouldn't have to worry about that.
Today didn't fail to deliver, it absolutely pissed down in Exeter early this afternoon !!
Not the best day to use up tne leftover chicken to make a curry….
Hot curries are a great idea in hot weather - makes you sweat, cools you down. If they were rubbish for high temperatures, not sure they would have caught on as well in India.
Revs - can you come and do a survey up here in Bedfordshire please
When they look back, what will our children’s children think of us.
They’ll think “bunch of selfish ****s” before heading to the local Thunderdome for the evening
When they look back, what will our children’s children think of us.
They'll think , wow what cool cars you had back then grandad. As they listen to the artificial V8 sound being piped through the speakers of their soulless EV boxes 😉
Never known heat like this in the UK. Making life quite unbearable. Would a summer of this stop folk driving their monstrous SUVs around?
Nope, folk will just crank up the aircon a touch more to compensate
they like a curry in India as well? #everydaysaschooldayHot curries are a great idea in hot weather – makes you sweat, cools you down. If they were rubbish for high temperatures, not sure they would have caught on as well in India.
Yeah we exported curry to them about 15 years ago
Well that was mega! Never felt heat like that! Thank God it's cooling down by the second now. Have every window wide open to flush the hot air out of the house.
So. This is what global warming feels like? Scary enough for us? At any point are we willing to forgoe a whole load of our luxuries to avert disaster?
Thought not. Carry on.
(I'm as bad as any of us btw, despite being a right environmentalist in concept. In reality, I'm as bad as the rest of you).
Oh crap - London’s on fire 😟. Maybe the utter cock womble near me who lit a bonfire this afternoon will see the news and think twice next time. But then again if you are stupid enough to do that in the first place…..🙄
mahoosive ceiling fans
i had these in the yukon, too. run them in one direction for winter and the other for the summer.
our house was about 80 years old. creaky and as leaked heat and cold like a sive.
That sounds sensible, where is it?
Sweden, but i think they have similar rules in several places in Scandinavia.
Why the hate for air con? We heat our houses for 9 months a year. I'd have no problem cooling mine for a month in summer if we got warmer summers.
Some of the extra electricity from aircon would be offset with less on heating if the climate warmed anyway.
So. This is what global warming feels like? Scary enough for us?
Or it could just be a freak summer/2 days 🤷
Or it could just be a freak summer/2 days 🤷
It isn't and it's not. Temps have been slowly creeping up for a long time now, like decades.
Spain has had record temps off and on, over the last few years, UK now, and other Eu countries.
Might only be a degree or two on random years but the trend is upward, there's litereally no denying it, unless you're a reporter from the daily Express.
Some of the extra electricity from aircon would be offset with less on heating if the climate warmed anyway.
With climate change we will likely see warmer summers AND colder winters. It's not necessarily one offsetting the other.
Or it could just be a freak summer/2 days
Getting perilously close again to 'don't trust experts' - as a lady on local radio was only saying a couple of days ago, 'it's all scaremongering, we had a hot summer in 1976 and didn't make a fuss'
People with decades of experience in climate modelling and HPC's the size of planets crunch the numbers and tell us this is what global warming looks like and we should prepare for this to become a more regular occurrence. Other public health experts advise us on keeping safe during it. But Beryl from Banstead thinks the experts are up their own arses and the media gives her a platform.
For a brief few weeks in 2020 scientists were the new rock stars. JVT was on T-shirts. And now, consigned back to the dustbin of good old British common sense.
Or it could just be a freak summer/2 days 🤷
Really?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/19/britain-heatwave-1976-crisis-summer-heat
Or it could just be a freak summer/2 days 🤷
You won't be laughing when your caravan melts
Outside for the first time today, down from 41 to 30 and it feels really pleasant compared to 3 hours ago.
With climate change we will likely see warmer summers AND colder winters. It’s not necessarily one offsetting the other.
We haven't though. Summers for the past couple of decades have generally been a washout apart from the odd one and winters have definitely not been colder
Or it could just be a freak summer/2 days 🤷
It could be, but the trouble is they are getting more common and more freakish.
Our raw material bulk store tank farm at work is usually kept at 27-30c and is obviously warm to work in at any time of year. Today it was actually cooler when you came into it from outside and I had to keep checking the thermometers were reading correctly. Very strange feeling.
Really. Really?
What summers in what specific regions?
You really need to look at the bigger picture and look at the actual temperature data rather than blindly pontificating summer was a washout becouse you have a wet one.
Outside for the first time today, down from 41 to 30 and it feels really pleasant compared to 3 hours ago
Been out most of the day, it's been glorious. Unless you're vulnerable, you really should have embraced our fabulous 15 minutes of fame summer
https://www.statista.com/statistics/610124/annual-mean-temperature-in-uk/
Of course it varies year to year but there's a clear trend; average temperatures have increased by about 0.75C over this period.
Another piece of data, can't work out how to display the plot but if you plot summer and winter from this, the trendline shows summers going from about 15 to 17, and winters from 4 to 4.75
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/aug/31/weather-cold-summer
You're getting confused between weather and climate
You’re getting confused between weather and climate
He isn’t. He’s trolling.
He isn’t. He’s trolling.
Not entirely imo. He does definitely have a bit of the "it's all a conspiracy by the so-called experts" attitude about him, it was also evident on the covid thread, but he knows that he lacks the ability to challenge the science so he goes for the "I'm taking the piss" strategy.
Doesn't totally fool me though, I think he is probably very nearly as daft as he appears to be.
Doesn’t totally fool me though, I think he is probably very nearly as daft as he appears to be.
Speaking of daft, if only you both spoke the same language, you'd know for sure 😉
Knowing str in real life he is far from daft (apart from his misguided football allegiance)
Knowing str in real life he is far from daft
Maybe so but that's not what is on display here.
Been out most of the day, it’s been glorious. Unless you’re vulnerable, you really should have embraced our fabulous 15 minutes of fame summer
High 30's are not uncommon in southern spain for example, in peak summer, but anyone 'out all day' would quite rightly be called a lunatic there, never mind the UK where we are less acclimatised.
Extreme heat warning doom
I guess 76 was "extreme" at the time, lol.
It's summer time, it gets hot here, so what?
Staggered at the 1980 onwards generation who have been raised to be professionally scared of their own shadow. lmao.
Knowing str in real life he is far from daft
Thanks for confirming that he's a troll then.
Knowing str in real life he is far from daft (apart from his misguided football allegiance)
🤣🤣 Cheers pal
professionally scared of their own shadow.
Skin cancer rates amongst ex-pats in spain are worringly high compared to Spaniards, there is a reason for that, but let us not get bogged down in facts and logic. LOL!
Speaking of daft, if only you both spoke the same language, you’d know for sure 😉
Did you know that if you put half a dozen Nobel Prize winners in the same room together but they didn't all speak the same language they would just sit there looking gormless and unable to easily and freely communicate with each other. How daft is that, eh?
If only there was a way for everyone anywhere in the world to easily and freely communicate with each other.
Skin cancer rates amongst ex-pats in spain are worringly high compared to Spaniards, there is a reason for that, but let us not get bogged down in facts and logic. LOL!
Agree, nature punishes the stupid... Ask Darwin?
lmao.
High 30’s are not uncommon in southern spain for example, in peak summer, but anyone ‘out all day’ would quite rightly be called a lunatic there, never mind the UK where we are less acclimatised.
No sunstroke, no adverse reaction to the lovely weather. It's been fab. Soaked up some sun, had some cold beers in a great beer garden. Didn't stay inside being miserable and afraid. Hope everyone else had a lovely day 🤷