Col wrote:
.......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've never watered my lawn and sometimes is be white, it always comes
back in the autumn. Presumably the root stock of grass goes into some
kind of hibernation mode.

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.

Looks like this heatwave is going to cool down slowly after tomorrow, so
by the Sunday the temps are down to a 'cool' 27c.


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.


I was thinking today, to see if I could fry an egg on top of my mates
car, but he wasn't up for the experiment.


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
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.