The official 2014 warm sunshine and BBQ thread...

[knight]

Puggit said:

Bill said:

Are there signs the continent (France specifically) is likely to cool too?

Not as much as the UK - we're off to France too in August

I'm off to France on 10th august for a week, hope it stays hot

[knight]

I've been painting doors and garden furniture all morning, ran out of paint so I was going to walk to the local DIY shop for some more, I got to the end of the drive, turned right towards the main road and saw the sky was nearly black! I decided to drive and after five minutes it was raining heavily with strong wind and some thunder and lightning, it's still very dark now but the rain has lessened but there is still the odd rumble of thunder

[VEA]

Well that didn't last long.

[Silver940]

Almighty rain storm and thunder over Hook at the moment

[Puggit]

Silver940 said:

Almighty rain storm and thunder over Hook at the moment

I can hear it

[Silver940]

I'd just got back from my lunchtime pedal, might buy a lottery ticket tonight!

[VEA]

I might have jumped the gun a bit there... Pissing it down now. Road is already flooded...

[Silver940]

Second wave of thunder and rain here in Hook now. Just in time for me to follow it down the M3!

[Bill]

Looks like it's heading our way, which is typical as I'm selling tea and cake at a Worzels gig this evening and stocked up on ice creams as it'd be a big seller

[v8250]

knight said:

Puggit said:

Bill said:

Are there signs the continent (France specifically) is likely to cool too?

Not as much as the UK - we're off to France too in August

I'm off to France on 10th august for a week, hope it stays hot

Well folks, it's a lovely 32degs here in Annecy/Sevrier at the moment. My son's just caught a cracking perche from the lake so looks like fish for supper this evening Depart tomorrow evening, returning to a hopefully sunny West Berkshire...

[Puggit]

Silver940 said:

Second wave of thunder and rain here in Hook now. Just in time for me to follow it down the M3!

Second storm swerved around us too

[gubbabump]

was nice today, then pissed it down!!! thought my new bbq would've been delivered; gotta collect on sunday from depot. So to bring it to the bbq side of things - I never seem to get on with charcoal briquettes, The bloody things don't seem to light or anything??? I cover in lighter gel and nothing!! but if I use a few bags of the lumpwood charcoal bag things im up and goin in minutes!!!

any tips, think ill get one of the chimney starters too.

[Bill]

Rumbles started here, hope it holds of until the burgers are done.

[Sonic]

gubbabump said:

was nice today, then pissed it down!!! thought my new bbq would've been delivered; gotta collect on sunday from depot. So to bring it to the bbq side of things - I never seem to get on with charcoal briquettes, The bloody things don't seem to light or anything??? I cover in lighter gel and nothing!! but if I use a few bags of the lumpwood charcoal bag things im up and goin in minutes!!!

any tips, think ill get one of the chimney starters too.

They cost about £15-20 from any decent garden centre or even at B&Q.

[v8250]

Classic alpine summer weather this evening. Beautifully sunny all day then sensing the gathering thunder clouds around 20mins ago...now have the biggest of thunderstorms outside...it's pissing down with the night sky really lighting up and some big big lightning hitting terra firma very close by.

[knight]

We're going nowhere near the Alps so we shouldn't have an alpine storm!

[Bill]

We are

[MG CHRIS]

MG CHRIS said:

Puggit said:

DrDoofenshmirtz said:

It'll be lovely all week with a return to thundery downpours on sat/sun...clearing up again on Monday.
/predictable

Yup - this is what the charts indicate!

Typical nice all week then when your of work raining. Hope it doesn't effect south wales much on sat want a dry track day.

Update on this fantastic day and weather 26c all day outside for 9 hrs yep pretty red right now.

[grumpy52]

Bonus !!!!!!!
A mate rang today, are you hot ?
What do you think !
I'll be round in twenty mins
He turned up with a mobile air con unit !
He was checking an empty building where he is estate manager and the last Tennant had left three behind.
Nice and cool now !

[Puggit]

Not sure you'll need the aircon this week, but still good

A cooler week, with the South only reaching mid 20s, and a north/south divide around the M62 corridor. North of the M62 will be sub-20oC and sometimes wet. Summer continues south of the line, but sleep will be easier to come by!

A breakdown is never far away, so can't guarantee summer will continue, but for now it's