The Oracle wrote:
"Col" wrote in message
...
.......I'm going to water the lawn. Probably for the first time since
1995.
Up here any hot, dry weather usually leaves it looking a little
crisp in a few places at worst but not this time. It's been getting
noticeably browner over the last few days and being frazzled
tomorrow in temps practically unprecedended for this region might
make it looking very sorry for itself. I was hoping to hold out for
Thursday's thunderstorms to do the job for me but this breakdown
appears to have been drastically downgraded and now the NW tonight
forecast merely talks about 'light tundery showers' overnight
tomorrow.

Local forecast is going for 33/34 quite widely, perhaps even 35C
(are they serious?) in the Chester area. Now this is as hot as it
can possibly get up here in NW England. I think we've had a 34, don't
think we've ever been to 35C.

Today was 30.7C. Only the second time I've ever recorded 30C or
above and given the forecasts for tomorrow breaking my all time max
of 31.3C looks inevitiable, probably by some margin.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.




Here in Beverley the water meter reigns supreme so the grass shall
stay brown!

I spent the afternoon in one of Hull's parks, on the bowling green there,
chatting and having a bit of a laugh with colleagues in the bowls club, and
I noticed how bad the park itself looked. Dead brown with oases of dusty
green. For some reason the sprinkler was going on the other bowling green,
thats what happens when the council are apparently in charge I guess...
--
Rob Overfield
Hull
http://talkingtoomuchagain.blogspot.com