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"Severe weather warning"

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  1. steveo
    Member

    yet another washout summer... wasn't like this when I was a kid, global warming my....

    Posted 5 years ago #
  2. paulmilne
    Member

    Nothing here in Dunbar yet ...

    Posted 5 years ago #
  3. fimm
    Member

    Something strange is happening. There's water falling out of the sky...

    Posted 5 years ago #
  4. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    The cat is utterly nonplussed.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  5. chdot
    Admin

    According to online weather stations 8mm in Bonaly and 2mm in Shandon.

    First rain for 3 weeks.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  6. chdot
    Admin

  7. bill
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  8. spytfyre
    Member

    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 5 years ago #
  9. chdot
    Admin

    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’.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  10. jdanielp
    Member

    The BBC forecast claims that the humidity was ~70% this afternoon, which seems far too low given how sticky it is feeling :(

    Posted 5 years ago #
  11. unhurt
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  12. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  13. unhurt
    Member

    You sweated on his floor then you left with his mop? Insult to injury.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  14. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    The cat just spent a full minute with his head inside one of the trainers I was wearing. Mysterious creatures.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  15. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats maybe your trainers a bit big if cat can get us head in whenever you are wearing them!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  16. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    'Was'. Currently in sheepskin slippers. Cat afraid of these when not on my feet, seems to think they might turn on him.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  17. Frenchy
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  18. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats, ah, was as in I had taken off to put me baffles on. Rather than as as in was. I see now

    Posted 5 years ago #
  19. jdanielp
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  20. gembo
    Member

    hardly any puddles on WoL Path this morning.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  21. Frenchy
    Member

    How's thon new surface trial thing going?

    Posted 5 years ago #
  22. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  23. unhurt
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  24. gembo
    Member

    @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

    Posted 5 years ago #
  25. unhurt
    Member

    Some rain out there now in Stockbridgia!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  26. Rosie
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  27. Arellcat
    Moderator

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  28. jules878
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  29. paulmilne
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  30. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    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.

    Posted 5 years ago #

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