alanwhitewick wrote:

Not so sure about the overhype.
Max here in Wincanton Somerset today has reached 34.3C at about
1530.(very uncomfortable)
Alan
www.wincantonweather.org.uk



33.4C in Fleet, Hampshire. Very oppressive, thoroughly looking forward to a
cool, wet autumn.


--
Brian Wakem
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Brian Wakem wrote:
33.4C in Fleet, Hampshire. Very oppressive, thoroughly looking forward to a
cool, wet autumn.


And 33.6 in Aldershot. The highest "official" max I've seen is Wouldn't
say it's oppressive though - very low humidity and a pleasant breeze -
but a warm breeze, so none of the usual unpleasant chilliness you feel
in a British summer breeze. Most pleasant summer conditions I can
imagine.

As for the H&S excuse, it sounds like nonsense to me -- the weather
does what it does with no help from the forecasters, so nobody is going
to blame the Met Office if they get too hot!

Tomorrow, the Met Office goes for a max of 35C, which looks likely to
me with a southerly wind and 850mb temps a degree up on today. If you
look at their forecast maps, the earlier 37s and 38s have been removed.

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Brian Wakem wrote:
33.4C in Fleet, Hampshire. Very oppressive, thoroughly looking forward to a
cool, wet autumn.


And 33.6 in Aldershot. The highest "official" max I've seen is Wouldn't
say it's oppressive though - very low humidity and a pleasant breeze -
but a warm breeze, so none of the usual unpleasant chilliness you feel
in a British summer breeze. Most pleasant summer conditions I can
imagine.

33.0C here today, but with a 7C dewpoint.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Brian Wakem wrote:

33.4C in Fleet, Hampshire. Very oppressive, thoroughly looking forward to a
cool, wet autumn.


And 33.6 in Aldershot. Wouldn't say it's oppressive though - very low
humidity and a pleasant breeze - but a warm breeze, so none of the
usual unpleasant chilliness you feel in a British summer breeze. Most
pleasant summer conditions I can imagine. Highest "official" max I've
seen is 32.7 at Wisley.

As for the H&S excuse, it sounds like nonsense to me -- the weather
does what it does with no help from the forecasters, so nobody is going
to blame the Met Office if they get too hot!

Tomorrow, the Met Office goes for a max of 35C, which looks likely to
me with a southerly wind and 850mb temps a degree up on today. If you
look at their forecast maps, the earlier 37s and 38s have been removed.

(Apologies if post is duplicated)

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Brian Wakem wrote:

33.4C in Fleet, Hampshire. Very oppressive, thoroughly looking forward
to a cool, wet autumn.


And 33.6 in Aldershot. Wouldn't say it's oppressive though - very low
humidity and a pleasant breeze - but a warm breeze,


Pleasant breeze outside maybe. I'm stuck indoors where it is 34.1C and the
fan is blowing hot air at me.


--
Brian Wakem
Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png

Brian Wakem wrote:


Pleasant breeze outside maybe. I'm stuck indoors where it is 34.1C and
the fan is blowing hot air at me.



It's a relatively chilly 25 in my lounge at the moment. Unfortunately, my
computer is upstairs where it's 30.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

If yer quick look at:

http://meteocentre.com/lightning/map...time=0&lang=en

If yer not quick, try click 1,2 or 3 hours ago and click Go

The storms down over spain (mostly orange, red and purples) indicating
high amounts of lightning strikes - forms a pointer arrow shape (north
in the Bay of Biscay)

I think they know which way to come... this way my babies.... this way
!!!!!!

Actually, i took a snapshot - look for the north-ward pointing arrow
shape within the crosses

http://tinyurl.com/ej3o9