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8* this morning
Rain and wind all day.
Has summer just taken a fag break?
I wanted to light the wood burner yesterday.
Sad times.
Rain and sub 16 degree temps forecast all week do not a happy cyclist make.
I did light the wood burner 🙁
Oh well 🙁
I sat indoors in shorts and t-shirt yesterday with the window open watching the TdF. It was freezing.
Dunno what you're talking about, it looks like a normal summer up here in Manchester...
I went on my first "winter" ride in July yesterday. Soaked through and shivering at the end of it.
It was beautiful weather on saturday evening when i went out for a run though, so only 50% complaining about the weather this weekend
Dunno what you're talking about, it looks like a normal summer up here in Manchester...
London yesterday full of really miserable looking tourists (shell-shocked looking) and the weather was..
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Went to an outdoor wedding on Dartmoor on Saturday...
Couldn't have lucked out any more on the weather!
Weather on Saturday, glorious and sunny, sat outside the Old Gate having a beer, Sunday 13degs and raining.
Heating on here.
Spent the weekend near Aldeburgh, biblical rain overnight on Friday, big waves crashing onto the beach on Saturday & the sea the colour of builders tea! Cleared up on Saturday afternoon but back to normal on Sunday. The sound of rain on a caravan roof is usually quite soporific but not when it hammers all flippin' night!
Cambridge Folk Festival next weekend so praying for an about-turn in the weather---pleeeeeaaasssse not another wet one--
folks, this is Britain.
Weather like this in July is perfectly normal.
Sorry.
folks, this is Britain.Weather like this in July is perfectly normal.
Precisely.
It's not though. We had a month's rain in one day on Friday alone.
Saturday - sunny, went for a cycle
Sunday - grey - windy - forecast of rain - went for a cycle - it rained.
Still enjoyed it. Rule 5.
Rockplough - Member
We had a month's rain in one day on Friday alone.
what's your point?
edit: average uk rainfall for July is something like 100mm*. that is a lot to fall in one day, i don't remember Friday being particularly wet...?
(an event like that would usually make the news)
(*and it's quite variable, as you'd expect)
Puffer training innit
Sorry, it's all my fault.
It is [b]bogging[/b] out there. Should go for a ride, but can't face it (and have too many other things to do anyway).
Supposed to be warm again next week...
It's not though. We had a month's rain in one day on Friday alone.
Yeah that's never happened before.
[i]Weather like this in July is perfectly normal.[/i]
It is, as is complaining about it 😆
(an event like that would usually make the news)
Only if it was the south of England. 😉
If you don't like the weather in Britain, just wait for a few minutes.
It is, as is complaining about it
😀
Warm when the sun comes through though.
(an event like that would usually make the news)
It wasn't hyperbole. The only reason I know is it did make the news.
[url= http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33662965 ]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33662965[/url]
and?
if the average rainfall is around 100mm, that would be about 3mm per day.
3mm per day, for the whole of July would be weird. One day with a lot of rain is not.
Winter is coming.
<scottish accent>
The nights are fair drawin' in!
</scottish accent>
and?
You said it's 'perfectly normal' weather. It's demonstrably not. But whatever floats your boat (this rain most likely will).
It's demonstrably not
[i]Very little rain fell over the UK during the first three weeks of the month. With dry ground and high temperatures, a number of wildfires were reported across southern England, including the London area. The prolonged heat led to numerous Heat-Health Watch warnings from 13th to 23rd, mainly across the South East.
Later in the month, the weather broke down with a lot of showery activity, some of it thundery, giving some very large rainfall totals over localised areas. On 23rd, lightning strikes disrupted train and tram services in Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. There was flooding reported in parts of Nottinghamshire on the 23rd, around Glasgow on the 25th and West Yorkshire on the 30th.[/i]
This is the historic report for July 2013...
You know its a shit summer when 14C and two hours of sunshine has you commenting on how nice the weather is!
In Glasgow we've just had extended daylight hours to mark the summer, the temperature has barely moved since April.
The thing is, I don't mind it feeling like January... if it is actually January. But we went out yesterday and up on the open exposed moorland it was truly horrible. You couldnt see a thing as it was like riding through a cloud, it was really windy, the rain was horizontal, but it was warm enough to ensure you were sweating your arse off in a waterproof. Horrible!
She??
How very sexist.....
You said it's 'perfectly normal' weather. It's demonstrably not. But whatever floats your boat (this rain most likely will).
You're talking about a single storm. He's talking about that it can rain in July, that said it's not unusual to get storms in July.
Looks like it's brightening up over there.
*Dons Speedos*
*gets strangest boner*
*Tries not to dry heave*
*barfs*
*twerks*
This is the historic report for July 2013
Heavy rain in July isn't unusual. A July this wet is. Anyone who is particularly interested e.g. me, sadly, can look up the reams of data on the subject. There's little point in arguing the toss on here. If you think it's normal, so be it.
Heavy rain in July isn't unusual.
Make your mind up.
A July this wet is.
Well we're below average to date.
[i]Anyone who is particularly interested e.g. me, sadly, can look up the reams of data on the subject. There's little point in arguing the toss on here[/i]
I'd be interested (honest)
We need Stoner, he collects all sorts of weather data
I was in North Yorkshire from Friday for the weekend, saw very little rain, was in shorts for all of the weekend and sat out Saturday night - admittedly with a firepit till at least 10, may have been a bit later, but the fog* was a problem by then.
*Beer fog.
Drac, that would seem to indicate that "things" are pretty normal then? 😀
Seems that way.
James Madden, the fauxcaster of inExacta (co-conspirator with Nathan Rao for the "SIX MONTHS OF SNOW, COLD, BLIZZARDS!" headlines) Weather predicted a heatwave. The opposite was bound to happen.
That summary pre-dates the rain we had dumped on us this past week.
You also have to take into account that I live in Scotland and am a miserable bugger at the best of times.
That summary pre-dates the rain we had dumped on us this past week.
But it didn't dump on the whole of the UK.
You also have to take into account that I live in Scotland and am a miserable bugger at the best of times.
I'm not surprised I've heard it rains all the time up there.
In winter low pressure systems track across the British Isles. In summer they track further north. On Friday and Sunday weather systems tracked to the south, through the channel. That is why a. the weather was carp and b. why it was carpest in the south and best in the north. It also explains why the wind wasn't warm and from the south west.
Rockplough, unfortunately I think you may have had the best weather on Sunday as well!
The news story linked to was about London.
where, depending on sources, a whopping 40mm* of rain fell on Friday 25th July.
truly we are experiencing the end of days.
(*probably less)
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Admittedly, its a bit damp today.
Saturday: Getting burnt bobbing on my board off Woolacombe.
Sunday: Evacuating children from a tent disaster. Taken out by the '20mph' winds.
Anyone want to recommend a decent family tent for 5?
and?
You said it's 'perfectly normal' weather. It's demonstrably not. But whatever floats your boat (this rain most likely will).
It demonstrably is. It's been very dry for some weeks down here, we had a months-worth of rain on Friday, and it was pretty wet most of yesterday, but we've had entire summers fairly recently that have been far wetter here in the South-west, with flooding; I bought a Barbour Stockman four or five years ago just after my birthday in July, and wore it out to the car, it was raining so hard.
Last summer was glorious, and it's not been too bad this year, really.
More importantly, is it going to be windy / rainy on sunday for ride london?!?
As Stoner isn't here to post shiny graphs (where's he gone?) here's what he probably would have posted; rainfall near the Malvern Hills:
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From [url= http://www.malvernwx.co.uk/ ]Malvern Wells Weather[/url]
It last updated sometime on Sunday, but suggests that other than right at the end of the month we've not really had much at all...
He's got his top off here in the south today.
slowoldman - Member
I sat indoors in shorts and t-shirt yesterday with the window open watching the TdF. It was freezing.
Plus, of course, you were so bored you thought you might stare at the wall instead, just for the novelty value.
Chilly on the foldie this morning lads.. 6mins I had to endure the bitter wind off the Thames to get to work..
#thermalsout
phiiiil - geographically is that data gathered?
I'm bike packing from Montrose to Skye. Three days of pretty constant rain so far. I'm having a wonderful time. #posting from the pub.
She's back and she's proud down here in sunny Deb'n..
My first off-road ride since winter this afternoon and it was scorchio! 🙂
One notable thing here in south Wales is how astonishingly windy it's been for weeks (months in fact, probably since April). There have only been a few day's gap of calm, normal weather before the wind starts rising again, leading people to feel it's colder than it should be.
Not afraid to say that even for the west of Scotland this summer has, without parallel, been utterly shit. Not one chance for a BBQ so far, feels like winter already.
/abroad
Another fine day here, 31 deg. Been wavering from 28 to 33 all week. Might drop to 28 again when we head home. Looks like we picked a good fortnight for the jollies.
/abroad
Parts of Scotland have seen almost double their normal July rainfall.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33695251
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Had a decent surf at Praa this morning and a good dog walk on Crantock this avo! Lovely warm sunny day!
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Not so bad today
Bbc reporting our area has had 225% of average July rainfall.... 🙁
Yup it was chilly last night, slept under the duvet, must have been 20 degrees.
Rain has cooled it down nicely, high of 32 expected today.
If it helps it's utterly bollicks here in Sweden too . Lots of people gets July off work and most have been sat indoors going mad . Well perhaps that's just me.
In contrast , my mum lives in Southern Spain and she can't go out because it's 45c. Ho hum
But it hasn't been utterly bollocks. We Just had a wet and windy weekend.
It depends where you live in the UK awhiles. Where are you?
Sheffield.
Up here in Dunblane we have been 3-5* cooler than the average temp for the last month (or more), with twice the rainfall, according to Wunderground.
Summer has just not started here.
Well at least I got to test my nice new waterproof jacket yesterday. It lasted almost 2 hours before staring to leak in