The 2018 summer and thunder thread
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anonymous said:
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If I were the age I am now back in 1976 I can be certain that I would be moaning just the same, probably more. But I was five years old and ony vaguely remember it. I probably did moan about it though even at that tender age.If I/we[*] wanted this hell every day, I'd/we'ed move to Spain or Greece, but I/we don't. I like the goldilocks climate of the UK, not too hot and not too cold but just right, most of the time anyway, unless we are rudely interupted by invading Spanish plumes or Eastern Bloc blocking.
68 degrees Fahrenheit is a perfectly acceptable upper temperature.
[*] the collective posters who also think it is too damned stinking hot.
Thankyou4calling said:
Interesting.I cycled along the Thames from Maidenhead to Windsor yesterday evening and the water level is very low with just a trickle coming over the weir at Bray lock.
Looking at the normal water line which is the lower limit of bankside vegetation and overhanging trees, I'd say the level is about 300mm down.
That doesn't bode well as the Thames is the primary source of all big the reservoirs from Datchet down to Kempton, No idea what the reservoir levels are but there has been little or no noise about a water shortage (for the London area) only a polite please stop watering your garden type annoucements.
colin_p said:
Interesting.
I cycled along the Thames from Maidenhead to Windsor yesterday evening and the water level is very low with just a trickle coming over the weir at Bray lock.
Looking at the normal water line which is the lower limit of bankside vegetation and overhanging trees, I'd say the level is about 300mm down.
That doesn't bode well as the Thames is the primary source of all big the reservoirs from Datchet down to Kempton, No idea what the reservoir levels are but there has been little or no noise about a water shortage (for the London area) only a polite please stop watering your garden type annoucements.
Very wet spring in the South means we are ok, levels are above average despite the extremely low rainfall. I cycled along the Thames from Maidenhead to Windsor yesterday evening and the water level is very low with just a trickle coming over the weir at Bray lock.
Looking at the normal water line which is the lower limit of bankside vegetation and overhanging trees, I'd say the level is about 300mm down.
That doesn't bode well as the Thames is the primary source of all big the reservoirs from Datchet down to Kempton, No idea what the reservoir levels are but there has been little or no noise about a water shortage (for the London area) only a polite please stop watering your garden type annoucements.
colin_p said:
Interesting.
I cycled along the Thames from Maidenhead to Windsor yesterday evening and the water level is very low with just a trickle coming over the weir at Bray lock.
Looking at the normal water line which is the lower limit of bankside vegetation and overhanging trees, I'd say the level is about 300mm down.
That doesn't bode well as the Thames is the primary source of all big the reservoirs from Datchet down to Kempton, No idea what the reservoir levels are but there has been little or no noise about a water shortage (for the London area) only a polite please stop watering your garden type annoucements.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-situation-local-area-reportsI cycled along the Thames from Maidenhead to Windsor yesterday evening and the water level is very low with just a trickle coming over the weir at Bray lock.
Looking at the normal water line which is the lower limit of bankside vegetation and overhanging trees, I'd say the level is about 300mm down.
That doesn't bode well as the Thames is the primary source of all big the reservoirs from Datchet down to Kempton, No idea what the reservoir levels are but there has been little or no noise about a water shortage (for the London area) only a polite please stop watering your garden type annoucements.
This is updated every month. Reservoir levels are good at the moment in the south.
colin_p said:
That is good news, the reservoirs are in a goodly state filledness.
The Thames is low though so if they need topping up it could spell bad news for those PH'ers who have motor launches or big cabin cruisers cos it might not be deep enough.
They’ll just have to use their other boats down on the RivieraThe Thames is low though so if they need topping up it could spell bad news for those PH'ers who have motor launches or big cabin cruisers cos it might not be deep enough.
colin_p said:
The Thames is low though so if they need topping up it could spell bad news for those PH'ers who have motor launches or big cabin cruisers cos it might not be deep enough.
We went down the Thames a few weeks ago and thought they would have started getting people in water saving mode but no, the lock keepers were quite happy using 600m3+ of water to send a 1/4 tonne rowing boat down stream.Canals are more of a problem and I've heard a stretch of the Oxford canal is starting to struggle for water at the moment.
Visited Abingdon at the weekend - there appeared to be little or no current on that stretch of the Thames at the moment though the level is still OK, maintained by the weir & locks downstream at Culham. Quite a contrast to earlier this year when the moored boats were leaving a visible wake 
Kennett and Avon was emptied by an idiot: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-44...
Excellent video of a storm sell (literally) exploding in to life above an island (off Cuba). Then shock waves form.
https://twitter.com/KBente242/status/1021522698059...
https://twitter.com/KBente242/status/1021522698059...
Puggit said:
Excellent video of a storm sell (literally) exploding in to life above an island (off Cuba). Then shock waves form.
https://twitter.com/KBente242/status/1021522698059...
Awesomehttps://twitter.com/KBente242/status/1021522698059...
djc206 said:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-s...
This is updated every month. Reservoir levels are good at the moment in the south.
A little bit out of date now; published mid-July for June status.This is updated every month. Reservoir levels are good at the moment in the south.
We will need to wait for mid-Aug for impact of continued zero rainfall (for most) in July.
If overheard conversations from work anything to go by, a number of people busy watering their gardens to death in anticipation of hosepipe ban - how f
king stupid is this self-serving, entitled behaviour?JonChalk said:
A little bit out of date now; published mid-July for June status.
We will need to wait for mid-Aug for impact of continued zero rainfall (for most) in July.
If overheard conversations from work anything to go by, a number of people busy watering their gardens to death in anticipation of hosepipe ban - how fking stupid is this self-serving, entitled behaviour?
They seem to update around the 12th of the month. Winter was so wet we really won’t have any issue this summer down here but that’s a very short term outlook.We will need to wait for mid-Aug for impact of continued zero rainfall (for most) in July.
If overheard conversations from work anything to go by, a number of people busy watering their gardens to death in anticipation of hosepipe ban - how f
king stupid is this self-serving, entitled behaviour?Yes that’s pretty moronic. If we get a dry winter then they’re just ensuring that we have a hosepipe ban all of next summer and their precious lawns will be left to die anyway.
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