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"Severe weather warning"
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Nothing here in Dunbar yet ...
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Something strange is happening. There's water falling out of the sky...
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The cat is utterly nonplussed.
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According to online weather stations 8mm in Bonaly and 2mm in Shandon.
First rain for 3 weeks.
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Possibly this may count as "severe weather warning":
I noticed that they are staring to harvest wheat growing along Clifton Rd (west of Ratho). In the past two years they harvested it in September (which it very late compared to what I am used to). However most of the fields this year have winter wheat (which you tend to harvest earlier then spring wheat) and I am not sure if that was the case in previous years as well.
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recently I had an idea - water a picture into the brown dry grass and watch to see if it grows green - could do this on Harrison Park West where the ex-tennis ground has produced very dry brown grass.
How cool would it look to have an aerial photo of a green bike?Posted 6 years ago # -
Interesting fact -
Man on radio just said ‘we are expecting 15mm of rain this week’ - seems useful, BUT - ‘we are also expecting 15mm of evaporation’.
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The BBC forecast claims that the humidity was ~70% this afternoon, which seems far too low given how sticky it is feeling :(
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I am done with this heat. Ended. It can stop now. Proper Scottish summers, all is forgiven, please come back.
Tent overnight outside Falkland was roasting. So warm there was no dew - woke up to visit the facilities at 4am and the ground was dry & warm. Not a hint of damp on the flysheet. It's no right.
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Stopped to see a guy for a chat on the way home from running. Looked down and I had pooled sweat on his floor. Asked for a mop and left sheepishly.
Totally tropical.
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You sweated on his floor then you left with his mop? Insult to injury.
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The cat just spent a full minute with his head inside one of the trainers I was wearing. Mysterious creatures.
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@iwrats maybe your trainers a bit big if cat can get us head in whenever you are wearing them!
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'Was'. Currently in sheepskin slippers. Cat afraid of these when not on my feet, seems to think they might turn on him.
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Looked out the window last night just before heading out. Sky was grim and I was utterly convinced it was going to start raining as soon as I stepped out the door, so I put a waterproof jacket on.
Got to the bottom of the hill and it was still dry. So heading up the hill into town, I decided to try and get there before it started raining. I arrived just as it started to rain, utterly drenched in sweat.
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@iwrats, ah, was as in I had taken off to put me baffles on. Rather than as as in was. I see now
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I took shelter from last night's downpour in The Fountain after emerging from the surprisingly enjoyable Skyscraper at Cineworld. Unfortunately, minutes after sitting down with a pint, it became apparent that it was also 'raining' inside as the pub suffered a leak from one of the flats above.
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hardly any puddles on WoL Path this morning.
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How's thon new surface trial thing going?
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Today we seem to have had the weather I'd expect from 1400km south of here. Hot, hot, hot and thunderstorms at night. Quite enjoyed it, but we're now at 411ppm. This isn't going to end well.
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I used to fear for my niece's future. Now worried for my own. (And, you know, the rest of us (humans) and them (everything else alive).
Some lightning out right now, btw! Very S European, constant rumbles, flash after flash. Rain now on.
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@frenchy the ultitrec has bedded in. More forgiving than the gravel in this current dry spell, drains better than the mud in the rain.
It was maybe not brilliantly laid and the horses were ridden on it too soon. But it is bearing up. Three months of warm summer weather may not be considered much of a test?
@iwrats/unhurt heading south with trepidation tomorrow
And as Nick Drake sang
It's a pink moon
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Some rain out there now in Stockbridgia!
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Some lightning out right now, btw! Very S European, constant rumbles, flash after flash. Rain now on.
Amazing, isn't it? I've never seen anything like it in Edinburgh.
My Romanian flatmate, who moved in in January, has been highly unimpressed, both by the snowy winter and hot summer. "Everyone complains they're melting, and I tell them, it's just summer," she says.
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That was a super thunderstorm south of Edinburgh with a lot of sheet lightning. There's another more active cell in the North Sea to the east.
It's so warm that the footway outside my house is already drying.
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I was in my way home when I realised sheet lightning all about.
Is cycling in these circs extremely stupid? A massive lightning conductor on wheels?
And then the stair rods started. Am home safe, but completely and utterly drenched.
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Do rubber wheels mean you are safe and lightning proof, or is that just wishful thinking? I have a short ride home in Dunbar just about when the thunderstorms are forecast to be passing over.
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Do rubber wheels mean you are safe and lightning proof
Lightning is a spark jumping a kilometre or two through air. Not sure it would even notice a strip of rubber in its way.
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