bloody weather!

[turbobloke]

Jimbo. said:

...
Veolia Water sources most of its water from groundwaters, which are still at low/very low levels...

As do East Surrey Water and South East Water. However the trend is upwards in terms of groundwater levels, hardly surprising. So much so that the Environment Agency will no longer be updating the public on the drought on a weekly basis as of end-June, also hardly surprising. There was a drought briefing published on 05 July however.

[loafer123]

Some good news on the front of the Sunday Times in that the MetOffice are predicting the wet weather will continue into the first week of the Olympics.

This is obviously a clear indicator that it will be hot and sunny.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Bimey, it just rained. And I mean RAINED. Was showing 50+mm/hr on the raindar.

There's some real heat over Mid/S Europe right now so it would only take a day or 2 for our weather to switch around completely to 30 degrees or more.

[mondeoman]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Bimey, it just rained. And I mean RAINED. Was showing 50+mm/hr on the raindar.

There's some real heat over Mid/S Europe right now so it would only take a day or 2 for our weather to switch around completely to 30 degrees or more.

jet stream wont let it,

[Hooli]

dandarez said:

I referred to 'green' teachers brainwashing the young.
Here is a response to the current inclement weather on a forum by one teacher with the username horseypie... god help his/her Year 6, he/she can't even string a sentence together correctly let alone put a full stop at the end of a sentence, but then adds a comma after Worcestershire!

That's called global warming - its a warning. Any idiots on here you can't see that should speak to my class of year 6 children who can explain it to you if it's too hard to understand
horseypie, Worcestershire,

These morons are allowed to ruin kid's educations? FFS that explains everything wrong with the UK.

[deeps]

Haha, funny thread! When we in the UK have lowered our carbon footprints enough, or at least offset our footprints on the carbon exchange, we won't get any more of this horrible weather, you'll see. If only more people would drive electric cars we might actually get some proper summers again.

[MorrisCRX]

assuming piss take.

[CBR JGWRR]

Jimbo. said:

CBR JGWRR said:

Borghetto said:

Our local water company Veolia Central still think's we're suffering a drought. Weather forecast is for a months rain tomorrow, but we can still not use hosepipes.

Edited by Borghetto on Thursday 5th July 20:36

FFS...

...in response to what? Veolia Water's hosepipe ban still being in place, or the author's ignorance of the fact that Veolia Water sources most of its water from groundwaters, which are still at low/very low levels...

First one.

Is that not obvious?

[turbobloke]

MorrisCRX said:

assuming piss take.

That's the new carbon reality! Where 'carbons' are concerned, it's all Alice in Wonderland on acid. And we pay!

[Puggit]

Bloody raining again

[rohrl]

turbobloke said:

That's the new carbon reality! Where 'carbons' are concerned, it's all Alice in Wonderland on acid. And we pay!

Do you ever get bored of going on about the same thing?

[turbobloke]

rohrl said:

turbobloke said:

That's the new carbon reality! Where 'carbons' are concerned, it's all Alice in Wonderland on acid. And we pay!

Do you ever get bored of going on about the same thing?

About as bored as replying to vacuous non-comments of a personal nature avoiding anything topical? Less than that.

[Happy82]

deeps said:

Haha, funny thread! When we in the UK have lowered our carbon footprints enough, or at least offset our footprints on the carbon exchange, we won't get any more of this horrible weather, you'll see. If only more people would drive electric cars we might actually get some proper summers again.

What's the wading depth of a Nissan Leaf?

[Mr GrimNasty]

mondeoman said:

Mr GrimNasty said:

Bimey, it just rained. And I mean RAINED. Was showing 50+mm/hr on the raindar.

There's some real heat over Mid/S Europe right now so it would only take a day or 2 for our weather to switch around completely to 30 degrees or more.

jet stream wont let it,

LOL. The jet stream wobbles all the time and could move tomorrow. But It wouldn't be necessary for its fundamental position to shift for the winds to come in from the necessary direction to heat us up - just for the pressure systems to introduce an appropriate wind direction/air segment. But OBVIOUSLY it would make it more likely if the Azores high established and the Jet Stream sat further north.
But the current position is not a bar to a heat wave.

[thinfourth2]

Happy82 said:

What's the wading depth of a Nissan Leaf?

In completely pure water It might be able to drive around completely submerged

[Gene Vincent]

Apache said:

How comes it is fair through the week yet, without fail, clouds over nicely on friday for the weekend?

If you live near industrialised areas that has been the case since the Industrial Revolution... not new at all.

As to references to this being extreme weather, you are entirely wrong, in my lifetime here in the South of England I've seen snow in June (30 years ago), flash floods (20 years ago) 3foot of snow in December and 16 degrees C on Xmas day, my father recalled the winter of '47 to me and '63 and he told me about the lack of summer in one of the years in the 50s, my uncle Ted (103 this year and going strong!) recalls the summer around his 14th birthday when it rained every single day and crops rotted in the fields so that's early 1920s.

We've had a good spring here, the summer is a bit of a wash out so far, but come August it'll warm up and the sun will shine.

The jetstream will move north again and this early summer failure will pass into a warm and sunny autumn.

Extreme weather is just weather...

[Puggit]

Apparently this week will be so cold and miserable that there is a high chance of snow on the Scottish Mountains

[Puggit]

Gene Vincent said:

We've had a good spring here, the summer is a bit of a wash out so far, but come August it'll warm up and the sun will shine.

You also live in Berkshire, right?

I remember May being fairly good - but April was diabolical!

[Borghetto]

CBR JGWRR said:

Jimbo. said:

CBR JGWRR said:

Borghetto said:

Our local water company Veolia Central still think's we're suffering a drought. Weather forecast is for a months rain tomorrow, but we can still not use hosepipes.

Edited by Borghetto on Thursday 5th July 20:36

FFS...

...in response to what? Veolia Water's hosepipe ban still being in place, or the author's ignorance of the fact that Veolia Water sources most of its water from groundwaters, which are still at low/very low levels...

Great timing Jimbo - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18764953

]

Edited by Borghetto on Monday 9th July 10:35

[Gene Vincent]

Puggit said:

Gene Vincent said:

We've had a good spring here, the summer is a bit of a wash out so far, but come August it'll warm up and the sun will shine.

You also live in Berkshire, right?

I remember May being fairly good - but April was diabolical!

I understand what you're saying about April, but it didn't snow, which it has in the past, not even a frost, there were April showers and warmth, great for crops.

My nearby farmer (arable) was crying out for rain to get his crops a good start, his fields look like producing his best crop ever, he now needs ripening and drying weather over the next 6 weeks.

He'll most likely get it.

Glastonbury is quite often a quagmire... I was there in '83 and damned near drowned!