Heat

It is currently 32.2C with a breeze, and an astonishing 19% humidity. It is supposed to be around 34 today, and 36-37 tomorrow.
Kind of imagine this breaking with the mother of all thunderstorms.

But since I don’t do heat, I’m inside. So, time for Netflix and biscuits, then? ;-)

19% humidity doesn’t sound like impending thunderstorm, surely? Or did you mean 91%?

I meant after the second day of increased heat.

I wanted to walk a little to stretch my legs. I got as far as opening the front door before rethinking that idea.

http://heyrick.ddns.net/ – it’s updated every five minutes (and the rain sensor should now work).

I meant after the second day of increased heat.

I guessed that. But unless the humidity rises quite a bit…which can happen, of course.

@ Rick

It is currently 32.2C with a breeze, and an astonishing 19% humidity. It is supposed to be around 34 today, and 36-37 tomorrow.

Lucky you! Although here in the south of UK weather is lovely too today, but I have a pile of work/code to finish so just looking at it from my window lol

/me goes to make another cup of coffee, logs out and back to code… :(

36-37* is starting to get up there. It’s not hot enough for thinking about survivability at least. Nice low humidity so you can shed heat. I prefer cool weather personally, but have to deal with temps up near 50* in summer. It’s meant to be mid-winer-ish here but the temperatures have been consistently in the mid to high teens during the day. I’m worried what this summer will bring.

Topped 37C today. Whoo. [that’s touching 100F for people who prefer the weird measurement]

Still predicting in the 30s for the coming week, but now AccuWeather reckons there will be a lot of (potentially violent) thunderstorms. Could see that coming…

Dammit. All the work I did with the brambles so far with only minor scratches, and I end up getting a deep splinter (the fatty bit below the thumb) walking through the barn door. It looked nasty, so out came the Stanley knife and tweezers to open up the wound so I could pluck it out.

If that’s making you squirm, I “disinfected” it afterwards by putting a good gloop of hand wash solution (85% ethanol) in my other hand, slapping it on, and rubbing it around. Because I’m a man, I grimaced. Otherwise I might have made a sound not unlike a cat in heat. I did exercise a few choice words in three languages.

<sigh>

There’s four and a half months left of this year, more than enough for me to survive the virus pandemic and instead die of a tiny splinter ;-)

Because I’m a man, I grimaced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8yfdjd38CA

Aww hell.

I think the brutal heat is about to end brutally.

Gone from ~35°C to ~25°C in the space of seconds, it was like a wave, preceding a relentless wind that has stripped half the leaves off the walnut tree, sent the deck chairs into the next town, and turned the fields into a Saharan dust storm.

It seems to be following the Mayenne river (as it often does) but is creeping ever closer. Looking at the diagram on AccuWeather, this is one big storm.

25.2°C here in my back garden on the Wirral presqu’ile.

However, coming storms are predicted to dump months-worth of rain with flood warnings.

Mark you, the Daily Express, which Google provides links for for some unaccountable reason, has been predicting heat waves every week now for ages.

Its other over-arching preoccupation seems to be Death in Paradise, for some other unaccountable reason.

I don’t remember having expressed interest in either, though as a child I used to do the Sunday Express skeleton crossword.

Anyway, still sunny and dry for the moment!

The sky was darker than the video indicates (more like the photo). The camera was obviously trying to fix reality.
https://youtu.be/uP6IrWyquVc

Thankfully that one seems to have passed by, but there are thunder heads building in all directions so…

Mark you, the Daily Express,

For overseas readers, it’s basically the Daily Mail for stupid people. It is right wing populist, and at one point regularly ran either anti-migrant headlines or headlines about how bad the EU is.
Apparently it’s a little less overtly xenophobic now, having had a new editor come along. But it was pretty horrific during the referendum, and may well have influenced a good number of people.
[I have a friend in the West Country that frequently backs up some of the nonsense he says by quoting entire paragraphs of that paper, like he simply believes it because, well, because it speaks to his inner prejudices so he won’t look for any alternative opinion]

Unfortunately the British press is partisan. You’re either right wing Tory scum, or random leftie scum. There’s not a lot of in between. It’s a lot like UK politics, actually…

[“random leftie” because the Conservative party is so right at the moment that only the brick-and-boot nutters are further to the right, and only just; so pretty much everything is left wing when compared to the likes of Priti Patel]

There used to be a site that highlighted actual Express front pages: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205545/http://expressbingo.org.uk/

which Google provides links for for some unaccountable reason,

Yes, it’s a clear example of American manipulation into our democratic process. I went to UK Google, entered “thunderstorm” and tapped on News.

Daily Express, Cheshire Live, Manchester Evening News, Daily Express, Sky News, MET Office, Daily Express, Book Club Chicago (huh!?).

Why no Guardian? Telegraph? Independent?

I searched for “thunderstorm theguardian” and up came a story, 9 hours old (older than the two Express stories, younger than all the rest) so why wasn’t it in the list?
I read The Guardian, I don’t read The Express.

It’s other over-arching preoccupation seems to be Death in Paradise,

Haven’t you figured it out yet, John? It’s about fear. Fear the migrants. Fear Europe. Fear the deadly heatwaves. Fear the killer thunderstorms. Fear snowmageddon.

As for the weather report, as I understand it, the only credentials that the weather forecaster has are ones he gave himself. The forecasts themselves are likely fairly accurate once you understand that he is forecasting the weather on Venus, not Earth.

I should add, the Daily Express spams the feed in the Google News app with “your car insurance can be invalidated for this simple reason” articles every freaking day.
The only reason I’ve not told the app to stop showing me stuff from that site is because it’s a little morning game I have – how far do I need to scroll until I get to the car insurance article?

For overseas readers, it’s basically the Daily Mail for stupid people.

Slight typo there, I’m sure you meant “stupider” (w.r.t the Daily Mail, which isn’t a high benchmark)

which isn’t a high benchmark

I’m not sure they put benchmarks on bars so low that slime mould can’t limbo dance under them.

I went to UK Google, entered “thunderstorm” and tapped on News. […] Daily Express

To be fair, I thought that the Express’s other main preoccupation (aside from the ones that you’ve mentioned) was the next Extreme Weather Event To Hit The UK, The Like Of Which We Haven’t Seen For A Generation? On that basis, Google seems to be on the money.

Wow.

Didn’t miss that one.

Rain like a monsoon.
Endless lightning like a disco.
Much of it being cloud to ground.
Oh my, the noise. I’m surprised the windows are still glazed. I’m surprised I still have hearing. I’m surprised I wasn’t hit. It felt like everything else was.

FFS. I’m going to bed now.

Hope you guys don’t get this. It’s moving north. It isn’t friendly.

Didn’t even rain here in Greenock; flooding a bit further east.

Sitting out in the mild pre-storm rain with tea and a slightly soggy doughnut.

It’s quite pleasant. A welcome change from the >30°C it has been.

We are on orange alert for thunderstorms this afternoon. Oh joy.
https://vigilance.meteofrance.fr/fr/ille-et-vilaine

$#!+, that was close. I think it might have hit the HV line running across the field. Yup, the main trip switch has clicked out (everything is off except the fridge). I’ll leave it off for now.
Linky still working. Impressive. ;-)

Now back outside to finish my tea before the real rain arrives.

It was quite odd last night here (around midnight). We had the all-around-disco effect that Rick mentioned – white flashes from all sorts of directions. But, it was so far away that it was totally disconnected from anything else – there was a good 30ish second delay on thunder, and sometimes it wasn’t even clear which thunder belonged to which flash. It was certainly rumbly and flashy, but no actual rain here, and it is already hot again today making work, erm, unlikely.

Must… test… webbrowser… and… reply… to… emails… and… build… computer… nope. Time to go and sit back down in the lounge and melt quietly.

The indoor temperature has dropped from its peak of 28°C to a mere 27°C. I have done my bit for the government today (half price food at the pub) and look forward to tonight when temperatures outside should drop from 31°C to 20°C. No thunderstorms yet here. No work being done at the moment …

We’re getting beautiful spring weather here right now. While it’s nice, I’m sure the problem with that is obvious.