The 2018 summer and thunder thread
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Faust66 said:
Summer? I loathe this time of year.
Bloody wasps, screaming kids everywhere, fat idiots with no shirts on as soon the temperature hits the giddy heights of 15c, f
king fair weather drinkers outside the pub so you can’t get a seat if you’re a smoker, cretins in crappy Audi A3s (normally) sharing their dubious ‘taste’ in music with everyone inside a 1 mile radius, people with an IQ that barely exceeds the ambient temperature going on and on about “it’s lovely outside”, mosquitoes, flies, barbeques (yeah, I’d love to come and catch botulism in your garden whilst your ill-mannered brats scream and shout), more wasps, fat bloaty women with vast patches of sunburn wobbling around in inadvisable choices of clothing, festivals, smelly wheelie bins, Wimbledon, horrible close humid nights when you can't sleep as the air feels like soup, hearing 'In the Summertime' by Mungo Jerry or that twice-treble damned 'Alright' song by Supergrass constantly, wasps, constantly being pressured to 'do something outside as it's a nice day' (I'll stay inside, in a nice dim room, with a book and a decent single malt away from everyone, thanks), people blathering on about their epic summer holiday in Majorca, getting stuck in traffic on boiling hot days with no air conditioning in your car, heat in general, the endless, endless comments about heat waves and "it's another summer of 1976"...
No, no and no. I care not one jot for your summer!
Winter is coming.
You're doing summer wrong. As a boating enthusiast who lives within sight of the sea in Dorset I'm rather looking forward to summer.Bloody wasps, screaming kids everywhere, fat idiots with no shirts on as soon the temperature hits the giddy heights of 15c, f
king fair weather drinkers outside the pub so you can’t get a seat if you’re a smoker, cretins in crappy Audi A3s (normally) sharing their dubious ‘taste’ in music with everyone inside a 1 mile radius, people with an IQ that barely exceeds the ambient temperature going on and on about “it’s lovely outside”, mosquitoes, flies, barbeques (yeah, I’d love to come and catch botulism in your garden whilst your ill-mannered brats scream and shout), more wasps, fat bloaty women with vast patches of sunburn wobbling around in inadvisable choices of clothing, festivals, smelly wheelie bins, Wimbledon, horrible close humid nights when you can't sleep as the air feels like soup, hearing 'In the Summertime' by Mungo Jerry or that twice-treble damned 'Alright' song by Supergrass constantly, wasps, constantly being pressured to 'do something outside as it's a nice day' (I'll stay inside, in a nice dim room, with a book and a decent single malt away from everyone, thanks), people blathering on about their epic summer holiday in Majorca, getting stuck in traffic on boiling hot days with no air conditioning in your car, heat in general, the endless, endless comments about heat waves and "it's another summer of 1976"...No, no and no. I care not one jot for your summer!
Winter is coming.
gashead1105 said:
I'm with you on loathing wasps. However last year there seemed to be pretty few of them, and those that were around seemed rather slow and dopey. I found that rather concerning actually... hopefully this year they are back to their normal hateful selves
Huge bloody queen wasp (I assume - might've been a hornet I suppose: shudder) kept dive bombing me on Sunday afternoon when I was working on my car.Sealey half inch ratchet handle makes short work of a wasp/hornet!
1-nil to me so far this year.
Martin350 said:
Faust, there's always pretty girls in skimpy clothing for you to ogle from behind sunglasses to cheer you up! 
True enough (silver lining and all that) but I live near Nottingham.
Trust me, once all the students have left Uni for the summer this place is lacking eye candy (unless you like the larger lady. And by large I mean 'would technically be classed as a small moon if placed in orbit' kind of woman).
Ah well, stand down - it was always touch and go for Friday in to the weekend, and it looks like the warmth will stay in Europe.
No obvious sign of a warm spell - we're heading in to a spell of low pressure systems with short settled spells. Typical spring like weather.
There are signs of a cool easterly in a few weeks too.
No obvious sign of a warm spell - we're heading in to a spell of low pressure systems with short settled spells. Typical spring like weather.
There are signs of a cool easterly in a few weeks too.
Puggit said:
Off to southern Netherlands tomorrow - temps in the low 20s 
2nd half of April is looking exceedingly good. Get those BBQs cleaned up early - so you don't miss out.
Putting an offer in on the boat tomorrow... hopefully the surveyors will hurry up in time to use it with your forecast. No pressure... 2nd half of April is looking exceedingly good. Get those BBQs cleaned up early - so you don't miss out.
jjones said:
they lied.
No, they were slightly out. It will be in the low 20s in the Netherlands today. Not far out.ECM predicting high pressure starts to bring warmth from Saturday. GFS predicts Atlantic lows - as it always does. I'd give 70/30 to the ECM, but it may end up with eastern areas doing well and western parts getting the wet.
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