UK Heatwave 2018

[6Foot2]

Further evidence that this office, like much of this area, is under the control of the Reptilian Elite*

It's 27 degrees in here - admittedly cooler than it has been - and I'm left as the sole complainant.

As usual.

These people are vegetables**

*Possibly the Reptilian Underachieving

**Vegetable/Reptile hybrid

 

I find it mildly amusing that we have a member writing about the lack of water falling from the sky whose user handle is a homonym for 'Rain Man'

 

[CookieMonsterjb]

Very grateful to have fake grass in this heat!

[Dos_Box]

Once more, XKCD is on the case - https://xkcd.com/

 

[hardtailstar]

Sun was back yesterday and it appears to be staying until the middle of next week.

[6Foot2]

Sun was back yesterday and it appears to be staying until the middle of next week.

 

It was never far away.

 

Well, about 93 million miles...

 

[hardtailstar]

It was never far away.

 

Well, about 93 million miles...

 

 

Well it went away for the weekend!

[HTCPCP]

Can tell it's a bit cooler now, 'Great' northern have turned the heating off on the trains... Presumably saving up for when the weather heats up?

[Arthur]

Climate change brings the UK’s hidden past to the surface

 

In southern Wales’ Vale of Glamorgan, archaeologists flying over a prehistoric settlement they had previously studied got a surprise: the ghostly outline of a Roman villa on the ground inside the older settlement’s boundaries. “We know of Roman villas built within prehistoric settlements elsewhere,” the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales wrote in a published statement, “but this is a new example.”

 

Other new discoveries have been popping up across the British Isles over the last few weeks. An atmospheric high pressure system parked over Scandinavia has made the weather hotter and drier than usual across much of northern Europe. The resultant drought creates the perfect conditions for what archaeologists call “crop marks.”

 

Stone walls or foundations buried beneath a modern landscape tend to absorb more heat than the soil around them. The heat that those buried stones radiate can bake the soil above to a lighter color, so the outlines of ancient buildings and fences show up on the parched surface of modern lawns and fields. The shapes of centuries-old garden beds and paths have emerged from the lawns of several old estates in the UK. At Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire, the shapes included some details no one had seen before that may be the ruins of even older gardens, dating back to the reign of Elizabeth I.

 

And the outline of an entire 18th-century mansion, demolished in 1938, has revealed itself in Nottinghamshire, where archaeologists were already excavating the former cellars. The ghostly outline of the house has been visible during previous droughts, but staff working at the site since 1970 say they’ve never seen it in such detail.

 

[hardtailstar]

Climate change brings the UK’s hidden past to the surface

 

 

 

 

Looks like someone beating a drum.

[Rob_D]

Climate change brings the UK’s hidden past to the surface

Shame someone put a road through the middle of it.

[Arthur]

Looks like someone beating a drum.

I thought it looked like a peach. [emoji527] [emoji3]

[mikeprice]

Right - threat of hosepipe ban is off

 

so

I'll just off to wash the car with the power washer and then I'll get the sprinker going for the rest of the day

 

actually I'm not going to do either - but I bet some people will

[mikeprice]

OK folks - this is getting serious

 

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/drought-sparks-fear-of-a-christmas-sprout-shortage-as-farmers-struggle-to-keep-crops-alive_uk_5b62c923e4b0b15abaa000fa?utm_hp_ref=uk-homepage

 

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Andrew_C]

A week on the canals following the hottest something or another. Did it rain on Sunday? Oh yes; and who had to drive the boat?

[6Foot2]

Link: Hidden WW2 Éire sign revealed after gorse fire [bBC News]

 

 

A World War Two-era landmark that had disappeared from sight has been rediscovered along the Irish coast after a wildfire scorched the ground.

 

The aerial sign was spotted at Bray Head, County Wicklow, by the Garda (Irish police) Air Support Unit as they flew over the area after the blaze.

 

The letters spell the word Éire, which means Ireland in the Irish language.

 

Over 80 Éire signs were dotted around the coast in WW2 to warn bombers they were flying over a neutral country...

[6Foot2]

Robot fan for the office:

 

 

[mikeprice]

MUCH cooler today

 

if it carries on like this I may have to think about wearing long trousers

[Andrew_C]

RAIN!! Not very much to be sure, but it is raining.

[6Foot2]

Currently building for a storm (doesn't mean that we will get it, but a storm IS overdue)

[6Foot2]

OK, we need that guy from Travis...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznCntFX83c

 

[stevejp]

Isn't it always the way? No rain to speak of for weeks, and then 10 minutes before cricket nets are supposed to start....

[Dos_Box]

Well, it certainly rained here today!

 

 

...and it soaked straight into the ground! An hour later and it was like it hadn't happended.

[HTCPCP]

Heavy rain in central London and feel that it might well be set in for the day!

[mikeprice]

Light rain here yesterday - lasted for about 10 mins!

 

temperature was far cooler - I actually broke out some long trousers - so the sun came out again soon after

[mikeprice]

Just looked at Met Office weather for tomorrow

 

HAIL

 

What - where did that come from???

(before someone else says it - yes I know - it comes from the sky/clouds)