Heatwave?

[RogerS]

What heatwave ?? Living where I now do is bliss! Clothes? Sorry....does not compute

 

[Lons]

A bit cooler here at 26c Roger but thats nice and comfortable. A bit sticky at night for sleeping though.

If you're in the altogether, an 'orrible thought, be careful the flies don't chew on your exposed bits.

 

[RogerS]

Well been three weeks now. Frightened them off by now. They know when they're beaten @
!

 

[Steve Maskery]

We've had weeks of 30+C, many days nudging 40. The ground is parched and there are hosepipe bans in place. Wildfires too, (but not near to us.) I think I have lost my new orchard
At least there is a little respite on the horizon:


S

 

[Doug]

I’ve been routering in fixings on a flat roof from about 11:00 this morning, it’s been quite warm.
Gonna make a 6:30 early start on gluing down the rubber tomorrow see if I can avoid the worst of the heat.

 

[Cabinetman]

We've had weeks of 30+C, many days nudging 40. The ground is parched and there are hosepipe bans in place. Wildfires too, (but not near to us.) I think I have lost my new orchard
At least there is a little respite on the horizon:

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S

That’s nudging 99 degrees Fahrenheit, we had that one day a fortnight ago – pretty impossible to work in it’s been upper 80s here this week and with a fan on its just about bearable but I wouldn’t like to be doing it all day.
Sorry to hear about the trees.

 

[duke]

Please do not send your weather my way, we have only had three consecutive days of 27 to 29 C highs.

 

[duke]

We've had weeks of 30+C, many days nudging 40. The ground is parched and there are hosepipe bans in place. Wildfires too, (but not near to us.) I think I have lost my new orchard
At least there is a little respite on the horizon:

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S

Is your water supplied by a well or provided for by the municipality Steve?

 

[Steve Maskery]

Is your water supplied by a well or provided for by the municipality Steve?

There are two supplies in the village. Ours comes from a source up in the woods but there is also a Town supply. I'm thinking of having that switched on.
S

 

[Mike G]

I’ve been routering in fixings on a flat roof from about 11:00 this morning, it’s been quite warm.
Gonna make a 6:30 early start on gluing down the rubber tomorrow see if I can avoid the worst of the heat.

Kneeling on hot rubber is.......erm............memorable. Very wise to avoid it.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

May I please make the distinction between British (maritime) heat and intra-continental (drier) heat?
Presently, Northumberland is bathed in 28-32°C warmth and strong sun. We are complaining.
I spent two full summers in Edmonton, Canada, at temperatures at least that, and more like 10° above. It was bearable.
Why? Edmonton was drier than mostly anywhere in Britain, being several hundred miles from the coast, with the Rockies as a barrier. Your body could sweat and cool down.
Here, nowhere is that far from the coastal influence and - excepting big cities with their unique concrete-caused microclimates - the (relatively) higher humidity makes heat more unpleasant as the option of sweating to cool is reduced.
This is a gloriously sweeping generalisation and wide open to challenge from various counter-indicating locations, but as a general observation, it holds.
I was in Delhi and then a hill station outside Dehra Dunn a few years ago when the monsoon arrived. 37°C and 110% (RELATIVE!) humidity - at midnight. It was like trying to breathe soused cotton wool and daytime - at 45 to 47°C - was just an endurance test.
Sam

 

[Lons]

Quite so Sam. We found Singapore humidity almost unbearable. I'm not compalining about the weather though Sue is whinging like mad and the dog doesn't know where to put herself

 

[Lons]

...................Ours comes from a source up in the woods but there is also a Town supply. I'm thinking of having that switched on.
S

Any bears around Steve? You know what happens in the woods. i'm not sure I'd want to drink the water.

 

[Woodbloke]

Quite so Sam. We found Singapore humidity almost unbearable.

Same here. Landing at Changi aeroporto (wonderful place btw if you haven't been) and stepping out into the humid mugginess of Singapore (3deg above the equator if memory serves) was an 'experience' especially as we weren't used to it. Great place though for a weeks stopover on the way to NZ - Rob

 

[Spectric]

Here is something to bear in mind, years ago I remember an outdoor activity club that had a nice club house that provided accomodation and where suddenly a lot of the people were becoming sick and lets say the toilet was in high demand ! First yell was food poisoning but they soon realised they had not all be eating the same stuff or in the same place, next day someone thought the water had an odd smell / taste and upon investigation they found a dead sheep in the tank that supplied them with spring water on the hill behind.

 

[Lons]

Same here. Landing at Changi aeroporto (wonderful place btw if you haven't been) and stepping out into the humid mugginess of Singapore (3deg above the equator if memory serves) was an 'experience' especially as we weren't used to it. Great place though for a weeks stopover on the way to NZ - Rob

Yes we did the same a couple of times on NZ and OZ trips. Also tried Kuala Lumpur which I wasn't impressed with but our favourite stopover by far has been Hong Kong. I could wander around the street markets of Kowloon for weeks.

 

[Lurker]

For the past two days I’ve been getting up early to do stuff and then not very much at all for the rest of the day.
My water butts are fairly full and I am just watering a few plants I want to save and have pretty much given up on the rest for the duration.
Off to the seaside tomorrow for a few days.

 

[Raymedullary]

Yep and we are all going to die ffs.
Last time we were given these warnings we cycled over the Gospel pass (highest road pass in Wales)
Needless to say we survived and we are well past the first flush too

 

[Woodbloke]

.... our favourite stopover by far has been Hong Kong. I could wander around the street markets of Kowloon for weeks.

Except HK is now owned by the PRC and somewhere we'd rather not visit. When administered by the Brits, most definitely - Rob

 

[RogerS]

Just wondering if there is some clever glass that you can get it to reflect sunlight when it's really hot - like now (unless, of course, you have the benefit of personal air cooling ) but you can then tell it to let the infra-red through in autumn/winter etc ?

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Yes. Pilkington's site is a mine of information on this topic.

I hope you have shallow pockets and long arms, Roger?

Sam

 

[RogerS]

Yes. Pilkington's site is a mine of information on this topic.

I hope you have shallow pockets and long arms, Roger?

Sam

Thanks Sam but at first pass, their glass is 'fixed' as in permanently keeping out solar rays etc.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Ah. I was thinking of the outer pane I.R. reflective, inner pane NSG TEC™ glass with a conductive coating that heats up when electricity flows through it. This provides radiant heating.
Bespoke, but probably hugely (think Ecclestone only?) expensive.

 

[Steve Maskery]

A hosepipe ban has kicked in here, now.
S

 

[Lurker]

Some academic has deduced that painting your windows with yogurt cuts the temperature down three degrees.
I think I’ll stick to closing the blinds for the half dozen days of the year when it’s really hot.

 

[Lurker]

A hosepipe ban has kicked in here, now.
S

W had assumed water went a long way out there Steve, the locals don’t wash that often do they?

 

[Steve Maskery]

W had assumed water went a long way out there Steve, the locals don’t wash that often do they?

Ouch!
S

 

[duke]

May I please make the distinction between British (maritime) heat and intra-continental (drier) heat?
Presently, Northumberland is bathed in 28-32°C warmth and strong sun. We are complaining.
I spent two full summers in Edmonton, Canada, at temperatures at least that, and more like 10° above. It was bearable.
Why? Edmonton was drier than mostly anywhere in Britain, being several hundred miles from the coast, with the Rockies as a barrier. Your body could sweat and cool down.
Here, nowhere is that far from the coastal influence and - excepting big cities with their unique concrete-caused microclimates - the (relatively) higher humidity makes heat more unpleasant as the option of sweating to cool is reduced.
This is a gloriously sweeping generalisation and wide open to challenge from various counter-indicating locations, but as a general observation, it holds.
I was in Delhi and then a hill station outside Dehra Dunn a few years ago when the monsoon arrived. 37°C and 110% (RELATIVE!) humidity - at midnight. It was like trying to breathe soused cotton wool and daytime - at 45 to 47°C - was just an endurance test.
Sam

If you have spent any time in Ontario it can get pretty hot and humid. Working in the shop off and on for the last two days I would have to change into dry clothes.

 

[Doug]

Kneeling on hot rubber is.......erm............memorable. Very wise to avoid it.

Yes not a pleasant experience, fortunately the rubber & trims etc were finished just after 10 am Saturday though the rubber was pretty warm by then, did some running around till 3pm by which time the sun was off the walls I needed to lead flash.



Though as you can tell from the photo the sun was still streaming down when I’d finished.
There’s a 1.5x1m triple glazed skylight to go in yet but after getting that rubber up there & the roof watertight I’m having a few days off down sarf at a place called Wateringbury, ironically

 

[AndyP]

We were often taken to Wateringbury as kids to fish in the Medway. I hope it is still as pretty now as it was 50 years ago.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

If you have spent any time in Ontario it can get pretty hot and humid. Working in the shop off and on for the last two days I would have to change into dry clothes.

Hudson's Bay to the north, Great Lakes to the south? I respectfully claim 'maritime' influence m'Lud, ergo.the humidity you mention.
By comparison, Edmonton is bereft of "open water" for hunnerds o' miles in each direction (even with prarie sloughs) and it's drier.

 

[Alasdair]

Here is something to bear in mind, years ago I remember an outdoor activity club that had a nice club house that provided accomodation and where suddenly a lot of the people were becoming sick and lets say the toilet was in high demand ! First yell was food poisoning but they soon realised they had not all be eating the same stuff or in the same place, next day someone thought the water had an odd smell / taste and upon investigation they found a dead sheep in the tank that supplied them with spring water on the hill behind.

Many years ago when I worked with my dad (general building and joiners) we changed the water tanks that caught a spring and fed a local farm. The day after we had the new hilltop tank fitted and water running to the farm we had the farmer complaining that we had done something wrong as his water "tasted funny". we took him up to the tank to show him the decomposing sheep and pigeon skeletons that we had fished out the old tank. He said we ruined the taste by giving him clean water...