The Weather Thread (Sponsored by the Autumn Equinox 2015)

[Jimmy Floyd]

Part of me has always wondered if having a secure network of friends and family, cultural roots in the locality, and a mature flexible economy are actually worth this shit and whether simply uprooting and becoming a golf caddie for 3 euros a day in Portugal - but getting sunlight - is actually the way to go.

[Manc]

Moon looking wild.

[Queenslander]

Just temp gunned my couch and letter box at 430pm. :cool:

https://i.ibb.co/7njqbhk/20201204-162924.jpg (https://ibb.co/tqQ93RL)
https://i.ibb.co/Zgft6Zm/20201204-162856.jpg (https://ibb.co/ykNGn3S)

[Spikey M]

It's fucking snowing here.

[Queenslander]

Farking lager weather atm

Edit: Ill be doing temp gun updates over the summer for my own ammusment

[Spikey M]

Just make sure you're checking the Chinamen as you come across them.

[Giggles]

The windscreen of my van is gunning at 0.5.

[Baz]

Did you own a “temperature gun” before Covid?

[Manc]

A touch of snow in Yorkshire. A White Christmas (is this still PC?) may be on the cards.

[Queenslander]

Just make sure you're checking the Chinamen as you come across them.

They're on their own.

Edit: Actually Id love to go out to Sunnybank and gun some *beeps*

[Queenslander]

Did you own a “temperature gun” before Covid?

I breed pythons like a pervert.

[Queenslander]

The windscreen of my van is gunning at 0.5.

:D

[Kikó]

I breed pythons like a pervert.

What does that mean? You shag them?

[Spikey M]

"Fresh developments in the case of The Queensland Prowler today..."

[Queenslander]

What does that mean? You shag them?

Temp gun helps with maintaining the heating equipment.

[Queenslander]

"Fresh developments in the case of The Queensland Prowler today..."

:D

[Luca]

Snakes :sick:

[Queenslander]

Snakes :sick:

https://i.ibb.co/S32WS7M/received-400964121253666.jpg (https://ibb.co/z41jdHB)
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[Lofty]

Do you breed rare morphs for profit? My mate does that, supposed to be decent coin in it.

[Queenslander]

Just localities and yeah the money is very good.

[Shindig]

I'll be honest, domesticating a land of deadly spiders and snakes is the most Australian response.

[Baz]

Unless it’s this spider (https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/queensland-man-spends-year-with-insanely-huge-spider/news-story/50af7ec7f7fd562c7e1e14fd4329a66e).

[Baz]

It’s snowed!

[Baz]

Building a snowman without gloves is cold. So I’ve given up.

https://i.imgur.com/inXCIVT_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/12/beast-from-the-east-weather-might-return-next-week-says-met-office

:moop:

[Kikó]

It's -1 here and meant to be snowing later today. Woop. :moop:

[Waffdon]

I’ll probably get it quite bad. It’s not snowed for two weeks and there is still some snow laying in places. We’re meant to get it from 3pm right through to 7am today and then more tomorrow throughout.

[Disco]

Opposite here, double figures when I got up this morning.

[Alex]

Best snow we've had in years up here today, I would say. The general decrease in road activity seems to have left the roads in a particularly treacherous state too. I went for a walk to the shop earlier and the few people I saw out in their cars were getting themselves in all sorts of trouble.

[Spikey M]

It's been disgusting here. Hasn't stopped raining all day. Garden is waterlogged and the dog keeps walking mud through the fucking house. :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Have you told it to stop being a twat?

[Manc]

Best snow we've had in years up here today, I would say. The general decrease in road activity seems to have left the roads in a particularly treacherous state too. I went for a walk to the shop earlier and the few people I saw out in their cars were getting themselves in all sorts of trouble.

Presuming you're Yorkshire way? Has only just died down here. Snow is thick af.

[Alex]

Presuming you're Yorkshire way? Has only just died down here. Snow is thick af.

Aye. Wakefield. I think it stopped a couple of hours ago but it's been at it pretty solidly all day up to that point.

[Waffdon]

We got about a foot of it overnight but rain took over most of the day. Still a couple inches but mostly slush underneath the layer on top

[Spikey M]

Snow, sleet, rain and gale force winds today. :moop:

There is no weather worse than ice cold rain.

[Disco]

It was like that all night here but nice and sunny now, time to do nothing in it.

[Shindig]

Rain's washed most of ours away which is grand. The place was iced all the way to the shops on Saturday.

[Manc]

I can't now remember a time when it wasn't snowing.

[Spikey M]

We're meant to get a pasting from 4am until June according to my weather app. Which means only one thing;

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4f/b9/1d/4fb91d4dad59f96178d160e05e3f9ba1.png

[Shindig]

Waterlogged. I bet the river is fucking BREACHED.

[Giggles]

We’re on a snow promise next week but it’ll be like Spikey above yet again.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Round here it just says '0 degrees and dark' for the next week. I might quit my job and stay at home under the duvet for the full 168 hours.

[Shindig]

Nah, just wear a coat indoors like a pro.

[Spikey M]

I thought you lot were perma-topless?

[Shindig]

Fat Geordies, aye. I'm too skinny to get away with that. And there's no value in a storage heater next to a draughty window.

[Kikó]

It's been constantly rain and snow here for a week and the foreseeable. It's fucking shit.

[Alex]

I can't now remember a time when it wasn't snowing.

There's a certain charm to it when it only happens once or twice a year isn't there. Any more than that and it's just tedious.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's been constantly rain and snow here for a week and the foreseeable. It's fucking shit.

There's a day in March each year when, usually quite out of the blue, you feel the sun on the back of your neck for the first time - a warm sun, I mean - and that is the best day of the year.

[Spikey M]

There's a day in March each year when, usually quite out of the blue, you feel the sun on the back of your neck for the first time - a warm sun, I mean - and that is the best day of the year.

It's a good day, but it's not the best. The best day of the year is when you're out and about and it gets hotter than you were expecting it to get and nothing in the world will do but a pint in a beer garden with a burger and chips.

[Kikó]

Tit Tuesday is always great as well. When the summer wardrobe is collectively accessed is glorious.

[Queenslander]

It feels like 40 plus to be honest.

https://i.ibb.co/L18Lkmj/Screenshot-20210207-132628-Weather.jpg (https://ibb.co/vkH7wpy)

[Spikey M]

It is actually snowing here, surprisingly. The ground's too wet for it to settle though.

[Spikey M]

Been years since I last saw snow like this. Settling fast now.

[Queenslander]

Man it is still 34* at 7:22pm.

[Giggles]

We have no snow again. That said, I’m off tomorrow so it would be wasted.

[Shindig]

Just a sprinkling for us.

[Spikey M]

Snow is an utter bastard when you have to go anywhere in it, but it has made the kids days today. Making snowmen, snow angels, having snowball fights over the fence with next door. It's been a good day.

It's still snowing now though. Hasn't stopped all day.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hang on, you actually have snow on the ground? Here it's just been in the air.

[Spikey M]

It didn't settle in the streets, but we have about 5 inches in the garden.

[Raoul Duke]

We've had loads here. Probably 2-4 inches settled and it's still been going all day. City looks lovely :wub:

[mo]

Had decent snow two weeks ago on the sunday, a flurry a week after and nothing today, but is apparently meant to snow quite heavily Thursday/Friday. Don't think we'll get a Snow Day though :( .

[Spikey M]

It managed to settle on the pavement and roads overnight and it's still going strong now. What a glorious win for Team Work From Home this is.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We only have a bit of weird powdery stuff, like someone has dropped a load of cocaine out of a low flying plane.

[Kikó]

We've got a proper layer. Looks fantastic.

[Shindig]

Been snowing since last night and it's thick.

[Spikey M]

We only have a bit of weird powdery stuff, like someone has dropped a load of cocaine out of a low flying plane.

I said to the Mrs that it was really powdery yesterday. It made snowman building a bit of an arse. I think it's because *puts boring weather nerd hat on* it's coming from Scandinavia. They get dry, powdery snow over there and it's the legitimate reason why they're able to just plough the shit out of the way and crack on, rather than us just being shit.

Our snow is normally the wet stuff that melts and re-freezes and it's practically impossible to plough which is why we don't generally have them and why "THE COUNTRY GRINDS TO A HALT EVERY TIME THERE'S A SINGLE FLAKE OF SNOW!!!1" *takes boring weather nerd hat off*

[Jimmy Floyd]

If the hat's on the hatstand, wear it.

[niko_cee]

I said to the Mrs that it was really powdery yesterday. It made snowman building a bit of an arse. I think it's because *puts boring weather nerd hat on* it's coming from Scandinavia. They get dry, powdery snow over there and it's the legitimate reason why they're able to just plough the shit out of the way and crack on, rather than us just being shit.

Our snow is normally the wet stuff that melts and re-freezes and it's practically impossible to plough which is why we don't generally have them and why "THE COUNTRY GRINDS TO A HALT EVERY TIME THERE'S A SINGLE FLAKE OF SNOW!!!1" *takes boring weather nerd hat off*

Last time we had snow we had some of that weird non-sticky won't roll into a ball shit and there was a specific explanation as to why that was the case (something about how the water freezes).

[Spikey M]

Last time we had snow we had some of that weird non-sticky won't roll into a ball shit and there was a specific explanation as to why that was the case (something about how the water freezes).

It's the type of snow they get in the mountains, although we should be relatively safe from the Avalanche risk.

[Waffdon]

There’s about 3/4 inches here but we’re now back at amber and yellow warnings until Wednesday which means there will be fuck all more. We’ve had snow warnings every week for nearly a month and it ended up flooding instead.

[Giggles]

It’s snowing. Dark Sky says it’s only got around 12 minutes left in it though.

[Kikó]

Pelted it down again :
https://i.imgur.com/lSsq7F7.png

[niko_cee]

It's just relentless sleet here. The absolute worst kind of weather.

[Spikey M]

Day 3 and it's still snowing alot. The pavement has become it's usual icy mess. It can fuck off now.

[Waffdon]

https://pasteboard.co/JNxyrmt.jpg

Up to my shins in the grass. Not bad, probably the worst I’ve seen it as living just off the beach meant getting fuck all and never having a snow day in my life.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The forecast says seven degrees on Sunday. We will all say 'I was there'.

[Spikey M]

Every time we have snow round here I manage to be on holiday. Going right back to March 2013 when we were in Cuba. Since then we missed the 2018 "bEaSt" by being in The Canaries and even last years single day of snow by being at Centre Parks.

I always thought I liked snow and felt a bit hard done by about it. I was wrong. It's fun for a day but this is absolutely shit. Having the kitchen in the extension off the lounge, with no door in between, doesn't help. It's absolutely fucking freezing. The heating is no match for it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Let me tell you, the current bullshit is nothing compared to 2018 and the mighty Beast. We shall never see its like again.

That year went on to be one of the great summers as well. Here's hoping.

[Raoul Duke]

My weather app reckoned it was gonna get down to -12 at some point this week but it looked like it's eased off now. It's not even snowing any more, just cold enough to keep everything mostly in place

[Waffdon]

The issue is usually after the snow. It’s always quite moderate temperature wise when it’s snowing. We’re due ‘feels like’ -10 tonight and tomorrow

[Spikey M]

Let me tell you, the current bullshit is nothing compared to 2018 and the mighty Beast. We shall never see its like again.

That year went on to be one of the great summers as well. Here's hoping.

2009 - 2010 was the big one. I was sat in a -19c Birmingham for that. May nothing like that ever happen again.

[Waffdon]

Thunder snow :drool:

That was sensational. Whole place came to a stop for what felt like weeks. Dundee United had a game called off for like 6 weeks in a row because it was a danger to walk to the ground heh

[Baz]

Thought Spikey was talking bollocks about the fluffy snow but have now experienced it. Apologies.

[-james-]

It's been absolutely pelting with snow here since last night. Not sure I've ever seen the likes of it before in Glasgow.

[Spikey M]

Thought Spikey was talking bollocks about the fluffy snow but have now experienced it. Apologies.

:D

It's really weird. 5G snow.

[Waffdon]

It's been absolutely pelting with snow here since last night. Not sure I've ever seen the likes of it before in Glasgow.

Videos of the cars in Glasgow has been fun to watch

[Magic]

Ok it's pretty mental now, like almost 2ft in a day...

[Waffdon]

The main road in Broughty Ferry is a disgrace :D

[Kikó]

https://i.imgur.com/QcJ53sY.png

Yep

[Shindig]

Just when I think ours is starting to melt, it dumps a fresh layer.

[Spikey M]

Roughly another foot over night. :moop:

[Kikó]

1359776863841845249?s=19

I've never seen that temperature in my life.

[Giggles]

That was one of the warmer ones in 2010.

[Shindig]

Just -5 here. :moop:

[Magic]

That was one of the warmer ones in 2010.

Exactly. Trust Kiko to be false and dramatic.

[Kikó]

Hark at you for talking about false and drama.

[Baz]

My boiler decided to switch off overnight. What a night to choose. Back on now but can’t get warm today.

[Waffdon]

Boiler has broken and it’s -8. :D

[Baz]

Boiler has broken and it’s -8. :DItll be the same as mine - condensate pipe frozen.

Mine goes to my guttering so I’ve tried pouring some boiling water in there but it seems to be frozen further down the pipe and can’t access it from the loft, so sorta scratching my head. Will try blasting it with a hairdryer from the outside tomorrow cos wasn’t enjoying being up a ladder in the dark with a kettle in one hand and a torch in the other. Cold night tonight!

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've encountered various cold scenarios before and have never found a better remedy than simply putting on all the clothes I have, at the same time.

[Waffdon]

I would hate to be a cold tattie. I don’t understand why everyone isn’t wearing shorts in the house all year round.

[Shindig]

Yep. Three layers and a coat. Although it's only because the storage heater will never heat the front room up.

[Manc]

A fucking coat? Get a grip.

[Shindig]

If you saw what my hands were like a month ago, you wouldn't be saying that.

[Spikey M]

https://errorstatistics.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/article-page-main_ehow_images_a07_qg_i2_science-projects-handson-experiments-800x800.jpg

[Kikó]

I always wear two pairs of jeans. [/Boom]

[Shindig]

https://errorstatistics.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/article-page-main_ehow_images_a07_qg_i2_science-projects-handson-experiments-800x800.jpg

Those as some proper coalminers hands. :cool:

My fingertips went read and had some ulcers. It was a scary week, lads.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-55950942

I love that he just took out a scoop from the front windshield and that was enough.

[Spikey M]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/62/26/8d/62268dddfde0b2a05d08f2e791cae5cb.jpg

[Spikey M]

Soz.

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-55950942

I love that he just took out a scoop from the front windshield and that was enough.

I mean how is that not instant "banned from driving" territory?

[Disco]

I'm sure we've all done the peeping through the gap in the condensation thing but that is a different level.

[Boydy]

Finally got some snow here today.

[Spikey M]

Ours is finally starting to fuck off. Still -2 though.

First day above freezing for more than a week tomorrow and some good old fashioned British rain.

[Shindig]

Yeah, what's left is some pretty sketchy ice. There's some snow still on the exposed bits which actually feels good to stroll along.

[Kikó]

Just cold today but tomorrow will start to warm up and raining so last day of this snow cover:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuHCqvwWYAQem6B?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Raoul Duke]

I went for a walk on a lake earlier

[Spikey M]

It's called swimming lad.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's called swimming lad.

Not when Jesus or Raoul does it.

[Raoul Duke]

Not when Jesus or Raoul does it.

We've never been seen in the same room :sherlock:

[Queenslander]

That western sun is punishing.

https://i.ibb.co/mDygwxt/20210222-161818.jpg (https://ibb.co/GxMNLhk)


https://i.ibb.co/dkBgbLR/received-3815561741816010.jpg (https://ibb.co/c2JLbCj)

[Baz]

I like how you took two readings - one for Yevrah and Mike, and the celcius one for the rest of us under 40s.

[Shindig]

I like how you just carry that thing around. Does it give off warning sounds when you reach Chernobyl levels?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's so he can check any shrimp on any barbie.

[Queenslander]

I joke with my brother about how mental I must look when I temp check the road and the footpath.

Im already a senile old man.

Edit: It's actually a really handy tool when cooking with charcoal.

[Giggles]

That's bordering on can weather.

[Spikey M]

The weather this past week had been peak early Spring stuff. Lots, lots more of it please.

[Waffdon]

18c :cool:

Probably snow next week

[Kikó]

It's glorious today.

[Baz]

It's glorious today.

[Spikey M]

It is. :cool:

Predictably it's turning to shit for the bank holiday.

[Waffdon]

We’ve got snow nest week :lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'll be doing a barbecue soon :cool:

[SvN]

Trying to work out if it will be nice enough for a BBQ at 7:30 when the kid's in bed.

[Spikey M]

From shorts and T-shirts to snow in 24 hours. :cool:

[Waffdon]

Yeah, I was caught off guard when hurrying out of bed to the barbers. 1c and 20mph winds with a hint of snow (dunno how, it’s been clear blue skies all day) and there I was stood outside for 30 mins in shorts and a polo shirt and stiff nips

[Kikó]

Pics.

[Baz]

Pics.

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[Lewis]

I've got a sun tan from all the mooching about I've been doing.

[Pepe]

Wearing shorts to work today. :drool:

[Don]

Fuck off.

Skies are clear blue like a summer's day here but this cunting arctic wind is fuelling my long COVID circulation problems.

[Spikey M]

It's weird out there today. Trees are in bloom, the sun is out in a cloudless sky and It looks like we should be getting the paddling pool out... but it's fucking freezing.

Edit: snap

[Offshore Toon]

Looks like there's barely any wind for the next three days so lets av it. :drool:


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

[Shindig]

Snow doesn't belong in April.

[Manc]

Anyone else getting snow?

[Shindig]

We had some before. It's just not British,

[Spikey M]

It somehow snowed here whilst being 7c earlier. :cab:

[Foe]

It’s been flipping between sunshine and snow for about a week here.

There was a 15c swing overnight last Sunday I think.

Makes for difficult temperature control during mooching.

[Queenslander]

30 today with a low of 12 tonignt. :(

[Spikey M]

That sounds perfect.

[Queenslander]

That sounds perfect.

Summer is over now I was hoping for another couple of weeks.

[Don]

Would have been nice to have a full-blown heatwave for my week off but I'll take this intermittent sun. Looks like back up to 15 degrees sunshine from next week onwards :drool:

[Baz]

Bike ride tomorrow. Pray for clear skies and a hen do at the pub beer garden.

[Manc]

Is anyone else experiencing minor storm conditions? Absoutley dreadful.

[Shindig]

It's been torrential all day and, I shit you not, snow's forecast.

[Spikey M]

The weather has been utter shite this year. Fucking frost in May? And now a storm comes rolling through like it's October. Fuck off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

20 by the weekend, have faith.

[Shindig]

We'll get 12. Curse our cleaner air and greener fields.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wind here has uprooted a small tree in our garden which is now lying flat on the ground and triggering the garden light sensors.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Load of hail here now.

[Spikey M]

Got the barbecue out today. It's not really warm enough, but I've never made it through to May without having one before. This Weather is a disgrace.

[Yevrah]

God is annoyed that we crushed his virus.

[Manc]

Currently 21 degrees. :happycry:

[Spikey M]

This weather is amazing but the night times need to fuck off. British houses weren't designed for this weather.

Our bedroom having massive, west facing, bay windows is a particular pain in the cunt. The sun pours in from 2pm until gone 9pm at this time of year. It's easily 30+ in here even with the windows open and the curtains shut all day. :happycry:

[Don]

Stfu.

[Spikey M]

I guess you could say it's like a sauna in here.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yep, every day at the moment I'm coming home to a sweatbox and there is no way to alleviate it as the windows don't open properly.

Great in the winter, mind.

[Shindig]

Yeah, my landing's the hottest spot in the house and it's the one window I can't open.

[Spikey M]

My cunt neighbour (of solo firework display fame) has lit a bonfire just in time for the rain to turn up. This has caused an unreal amount of smoke and we've now got to have the windows shut. :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It was meant to be thunderstorms and rain here. Instead it decided to be 29c.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's coming. Shitting it down here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's here now but not too much.

[Spikey M]

Is it going going to stop pissing it down at some point? My weather app says no.

Anyone got a spare boat?

[Queenslander]

We got 25* at midday today which makes up for sub 10* just before sunrise.

[Don]

I'd be pissed but between work and Euros, there ain't no real purpose to sun so as long as it stays muggy and I can mince about in shorts we good. Get this shit out the way for some record-breaking August highs hopefully.

[Don]

I hope you cunts who complained because the heat made you softer than you already were are happy now. 14 fucking degrees on the summer solstice. Fucking fuck the fuck off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Going to smell all the beautiful flowers that are in bloom?

[Spikey M]

I hope you cunts who complained because the heat made you softer than you already were are happy now. 14 fucking degrees on the summer solstice. Fucking fuck the fuck off.

Just think, if your dad wasn't a deviant you could be basking in the Iranian sunshine right now.

[Yevrah]

While I'm riding the moaning horse, this weather has now reached ludicrously shit levels. It's fucking July next week.

[Shindig]

https://www.woodentoyshop.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/800x600/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/o/cord_h2a.jpg

Back into the 20s next week. I was actually chuffed to see rain for the first time in what felt like weeks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57805391

I drove home through a couple of these earlier. Absolutely mental. Went from dry to completely flooded in the space of 200-300 yards. At one point I lost all visibility for about ten seconds as the wake from cars travelling in the opposite direction was washing over the windscreen. Then went for about a mile in first gear trying to chop my way through the standing water as it continued to lash it down. After crawling over my Thames crossing of choice, I saw why it had been so slow, as on the other side of the bridge the 'landing' area was completely submerged, and a Suzuki saloon seemed to have capsized. At that point it was every man for himself trying to cut a route through about two feet of water around the stricken Japanese chugger. Next thing I know, there's an ambulance car behind me with the blues and twos on, I pull aside to let it past, only for the damn thing to plough into a huge body of water at high speed and end up almost beached.

Low gears and low speed are your friend.

[Spikey M]

I'm sure there must have been worse summers than this, but I'm struggling to recall one. Absolutely shit weather for 6 months now, bar a few days here and there.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Oddly enough it should turn as this week goes on. Weekend glorious.

[Baz]

Yeah and I’m at a fucking baptism on Sunday. 27 degrees of glorious sunshine and I’ve gotta wear a shirt and tie in a sweaty church.

[Waffdon]

The weather in May was just rain but it’s been good for June and this next week is just sun and 24/25c which is lovely. Always feels warmer too as no wind now I’m not on the coast

[Lewis]

March and April were top drawer, and most of May seemed to be as well. Maybe that was our lot.

[Baz]

What a day today is. The sun is BLAZING, the tunes are BANGING and the beers are BELTING. Have a good one boys. If you don’t finish today without sunburn/tan you’ve gone wrong somewhere between waking up and going to bed.

[Manc]

Sweltering. Get me in the Rhine.

[Baz]

I’m hoping to have contracted sun stroke by 3pm so I don’t begrudge going inside to watch rugby.

[Shindig]

27 degrees. The breeze does nothing :D

[Spikey M]

It's not that hot you tarts

[Shindig]

Look, we take what we can get up north.

[Spikey M]

This weekend has been amazing, but tonight can fuck off. :moop:

[igor_balis]

It's not that hot you tart.

[Spikey M]

It's not that hot you tart.

Night time should be cool. Anything above 20c is out of order.

[Offshore Toon]

Yeah, it's gonna be an every window and door open and all fans on kind of night.

[igor_balis]

Night time should be cool. Anything above 20c is out of order.

Yeah you're right of course. Anything much warmer than freezing is suboptimal for me in bed, so combined with my hangover I'm anticipating losing about a stone in sweat tonight.

[Manc]

Over it.

[Lofty]

We are reaching peak scorch on the tart-o-meter.

[Boydy]

I'm melting. I can't handle this.

[Spikey M]

How is Northern Irelands maximum temperature record only 31c? There's places inside the Arctic Circle that get above that in summer.

[Giggles]

I'm loving it. I'm making bales this evening and then rehydrating with amounts of booze.

[Spikey M]

Making bales? As in of Hey? I did not expect that of you :D

[Pepe]

Play bales or show bales?

https://i.redd.it/tqmg4cz3rdez.jpg

[Baz]

The intermittent clouds are a bit of a godsend today.

[Giggles]

Making bales? As in of Hey? I did not expect that of you :D

I was reared in the country.

[Boydy]

How is Northern Irelands maximum temperature record only 31c? There's places inside the Arctic Circle that get above that in summer.

Because we're a small area surrounded by the north Atlantic, I'd imagine.

Hitting the 20s is what we'd normally get on a nice day so reaching the high 20s regularly and 30+ in some places is unusual (and horrible). We're not built for this.

[niko_cee]

Back to absolutely peak 24/25 here today, with a bit of sea breeze. Perfect.

[Giggles]

73 square ones :cool:

[Spikey M]

Why were you making them? Bit of cash in hand or do you own a farm you've not mentioned?

[Giggles]

I’ve a field now, obviously a small one because there was only 73 on it. I wanted it cut and the brother in law wanted some bales to feed his cattle over the winter so it worked well as nobody needed to pay anyone. I’m absolutely fucking baked though, sprayed my head with factor 50 and it didn’t make a pick of difference. 31° here at the minute.

[Giggles]

It’s also very difficult to get a square baler these days apparently. They were all I ever seen as a young fella.

[Spikey M]

Swish. What made you get a field? Are you setting up your own Barley farm for Giggles Brewery?

[Giggles]

It’s at the back of the new gaff, about an acre. I’d thought about the barley, I’d love to do it, but I’ve no means of malting it without getting into big enough spend. So I’ll convert most of it into garden and vegetable plots in time for spring.
I can get brewing grains locally that were grown about 10km away anyway.

[Disco]

You can do round bales sooner after it's been cut is the main reason I would think.

[Giggles]

Think it’s just handiness for handballing them around over the winter. Can just fuck one into the shed rather than having to pull bits off with a grape.

[Disco]

True, although you've lost me with 'grape'. I suppose the bigger ones you also don't have to move them at all because you can just pile them up outside and they're fine.

[Giggles]

That’s the too long I spent up in Boydy country still in my head. I mean a sprong, though it’s most likely a fork over there in most parts.

[Boydy]

I've never heard that term before but assumed that was what it was from the context. I don't spend much time in the company of farmers though.

[Giggles]

I've never heard that term before but assumed that was what it was from the context. I don't spend much time in the company of farmers though.

I was mostly in the sticks in Down and Armagh so it was as country as it gets. Hi.

[Manc]

Temperature has finally dropped off and there's a cool breeze. Scenes.

[Giggles]

Yep it’s lovely.

[Disco]

What a word Sprong is, I feel like even without the context I'd have a decent idea of what that was.

[Yevrah]

I'm loving it. I'm making bales this evening and then rehydrating with amounts of booze.

I remember when I went on Safari in Kenya in my 20s and decided to rehydrate with booze. I have never slept better in my life. A day in 35 degrees plus and 4 bottles of Tusker later I was out for the count.

[Giggles]

I’d 6 bottles of home brew and slept like a baby.

[Spikey M]

Booked to take the kids to the Zoo tomorrow without checking the weather :face:

Thunderstorms all weekend apparently.

[Yevrah]

What the fuck?

[Yevrah]

It's the same here. What in the actual fuck?

[Spikey M]

It's the British way. For every 4 days of sun, we get 8 weeks of flooding and an asteroid.

[Giggles]

You always seem to have class weather over there.

[Spikey M]

You always seem to have class weather over there.

The Last 2 or 3 summers have been outstanding. This year has been pretty poor. Although the rest of the country seems to have done better than the east for some reason.

[Disco]

I had outdoor things to do for three weekends in a row and it pissed with rain every single day, the next weekend was lovely but I had a stomach bug and spent most of it sweating and throwing up. Now I'm better and have more outdoor things to do it's going to fucking rain again.

[niko_cee]

Just had a fairly epic electrical storm here, along with reasonably (although not damagingly) big hail stones.

[Yevrah]

I took my duvet out if its cover last week (because why would you need one of those) and have woken up absolutely fucking freezing this morning. Still, it’s not raining as it was supposed to be.

[Giggles]

The rain has come here but unfortunately not accompanied by a temperature drop. It's fucking awful.

[Yevrah]

It's weird, the forecast (which I was completely unaware of until Spikey broke the news of his zoo trip in the rain) was meant to be bucketing down all weekend and while it did rain, that definitely didn't happen.

I'm meant to be playing golf tomorrow (should be hilarious, I'm so bad) so if it could hold off a bit longer that would be useful.

[Spikey M]

The forecast was completely wrong here too. Had a couple of showers but otherwise was fine all weekend. Shit today though. Cold and grey. It's fucking July. :moop:

[Yevrah]

It looks ok ish here now and the forecast now says almost no chance of rain today, with highs of 24. I'm on annual leave from tomorrow, when it looks like it's pissing it down again. Brilliant.

[Kikó]

I think all the rain ended up in London. The thunder and lightning was pretty epic for hours.

[Spikey M]

Stratford Station looks mental.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/tv/climate/london-weather-tube-station-flood-ve97a1cf7%3famp

[Baz]

It has begun. Thunder, lightning and absolutely bouncing down with rain. Weather app says it's not going to stop until Friday either.

Really wish I'd cut my grass this morning. :doh:

[Manc]

Yorkshire appears to have completely missed this. I've had the thunderstorm warning for days now, yet nothing.

[Boydy]

Think I just heard some thunder here.

[Spikey M]

Yorkshire appears to have completely missed this. I've had the thunderstorm warning for days now, yet nothing.

It's been mental down here, but we've had nothing but some distant rumbles 10 miles to our west. Glad too because those floods and that hail looked brutal. Like something out of Asia / The US.

[Giggles]

Think I just heard some thunder here.

It's always hard to know there.

[Spikey M]

:D

[Boydy]

You joke but this happened today:
https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/belfast-searches-after-telephone-bomb-warning-hoax-40693791.html

[Manc]

The storm had finally arrived.

[Waffdon]

This weather :drool:

26/27c in a few hours. We love global warming

[Manc]

This storm has caught me off guard. Every window (skylights) open in the gaff. That fresh air though. :cool: