The 2020 summer optimism and BBQ thread!

[Bill]

The Don of Croy said:

The end to a fab summer, no? Aside from the oppressive heat, no hosepipe ban, no Covid, still using my soft top until it gets SORN on 01 Oct, heating only been on once this past week...

Who could have predicted this bizarre year?

Great in the south (apart from the 2 week staycation in August )

[magpie215]

Lovely day on the Fylde today sun and light winds....shorts and tee weather.


Downhill from here back in longs tomorrow judging by the forecast.

[MartG]

magpie215 said:

Lovely day on the Fylde today sun and light winds....shorts and tee weather...

Yup, though it looked a little hazy from a distance...

Pic taken by drone above the summit of Grit Fell. Fleetwood mid-right, and mouth of the Lune at right side




Fullsize image https://imgur.com/a/z2gF464

[colin_p]

Sit rep: East Berks - Getting dark the sky is so leadenly grey and grim, lovely.

Now that Pug is an international travelling man of mystery, does anyone have any startling facts about this alleged super wet and super windy hit we are about to experience.

Is it going to be anything close to the October '87 level event?

[SeeFive]

colin_p said:

Sit rep: East Berks - Getting dark the sky is so leadenly grey and grim, lovely.

Now that Pug is an international travelling man of mystery, does anyone have any startling facts about this alleged super wet and super windy hit we are about to experience.

Is it going to be anything close to the October '87 level event?

I have a fact, making weather things quite interesting for us, but maybe not the rest of you.

This weekend, we stay in a number of yurts with the kids, a grandkid and 2 yappy dogs. Friday till Sunday.

FML.

[Puggit]

SeeFive said:

I have a fact, making weather things quite interesting for us, but maybe not the rest of you.

This weekend, we stay in a number of yurts with the kids, a grandkid and 2 yappy dogs. Friday till Sunday.

FML.

[Puggit]

colin_p said:

Is it going to be anything close to the October '87 level event?

Noooo - just miserable.

Glad to see you're still with us!

[mcelliott]

About to get battered by storm Alex here in Guernsey.

[Bill]

Likewise. Hammering it down here. Yay.

[MartG]

Quite pleasant here in Lancashire today, though there were a few bands of rain passing through...

[colin_p]

A few things...

SeeFive - how is the Yurting going?

Moderate hoying of rain here in East Berks and only moderate winds, so far.

Anyone getting a good hee-hoying of intense rain and wind, Bill?

Shirly it is time to fire up the winter thread?

[Bill]

colin_p said:

A few things...

SeeFive - how is the Yurting going?

Moderate hoying of rain here in East Berks and only moderate winds, so far.

Anyone getting a good hee-hoying of intense rain and wind, Bill?

Shirly it is time to fire up the winter thread?

Blowing a hooli and very wet overnight, but disappointingly no trees down or massive floods.

There's been photo evidence of snow, so I'd say it's a go!

[Puggit]

colin_p said:

Shirly it is time to fire up the winter thread?

Cough

[SeeFive]

colin_p said:

A few things...

SeeFive - how is the Yurting going?

We have had some fairly biblical rain and quite strong gusts at Port Solent this morning. Will have to check out the solar and electronics built into the patio umbrella as that got blown all over the place even though it is shut down tightly and fixed to a very heavy base.

The saving grace is that the weather has gone pretty quiet now and I am still at home - we don’t check in to the yurts till 3pm today - well some of them will, I will be even later into this evening as I am working.

Sounds like I should find a reason to pull an all nighter at work

[Bill]

Only the yellow wind and rain warnings to contend with then!

Unless the orange area spreads!

[SeeFive]

I think we are over the worst of it (famous last words). The forecast is pretty calm in terms of more wind around here but there are some heavy showers predicted and longer periods of light rain throughout the weekend.

[camps up] oh, this weather. Don’t know whether to pack flip flops or wellies

[colin_p]

SeeFive said:

I think we are over the worst of it (famous last words). The forecast is pretty calm in terms of more wind around here but there are some heavy showers predicted and longer periods of light rain throughout the weekend.

[camps up] oh, this weather. Don’t know whether to pack flip flops or wellies

Where are these yurts?

Met office AMBER alerts out in the wild west...

[Puggit]

colin_p said:

Where are these yurts?

Met office AMBER alerts out in the wild west...

Doesn't matter where they are - it's going to rain a lot everywhere. It's going to rain biblical amounts in the amber...

[SeeFive]

colin_p said:

Where are these yurts?

Emsworth, Hampshire, just a little east of where we live. Will get a sitrep on ground conditions soon as the missus has just left to go there. My money is on deep mud!

[PositronicRay]

Storm Alex.