........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.

Col wrote:
.......I'm going to water the lawn.

I wish I could. We've had a hosepipe ban since April. My lawn is the
colour of a digestive biscuit (18 mm of rain in the last 7 weeks) and
precious little I can do about it!

Stephen
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

Stephen Burt wrote:
Col wrote:
.......I'm going to water the lawn.

I wish I could. We've had a hosepipe ban since April. My lawn is the
colour of a digestive biscuit (18 mm of rain in the last 7 weeks) and
precious little I can do about it!

Stephen
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

My grass has been like that during many summers, but it has never been
watered and always seems to re-appear as green as before during the
Autumn.

"Stephen Burt" wrote in message
oups.com...
:
: Col wrote:
: .......I'm going to water the lawn.
:
: I wish I could. We've had a hosepipe ban since April. My lawn is the
: colour of a digestive biscuit (18 mm of rain in the last 7 weeks) and
: precious little I can do about it!

only since april - pah beginner

Apparantly (according to the nice chap that bollocked me at christmas) there
has been a hosepipe ban around here (chatham) for pretty much all eternity

Si

In message , Col
writes
.......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.

Nah.
I never water the grass. It can fend for itself. Always comes back
green.
More than happy that it stopped growing and I haven't had to mow it for
a few weeks. Still mostly green, but starting to fade in this heat.

We've had 18mm of rain since end of May.
31.4C max today.


--
steve

Weather at Scotton, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
http://www.knaresboroughweather.co.uk

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
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.

"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!

wrote in message
ps.com...


My grass has been like that during many summers, but it has never been
watered and always seems to re-appear as green as before during the
Autumn.

I trhink grass is like that. Unlike other plants when they look dead they
*are* dead but given a good dose of rain grass will soon recover.
Presumably they are ultimrely derived from the grasses of the plains
of Africa where they endure many months of drought before the rains
finally come.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.

Quoting from message
posted on 18 Jul 2006 by Joe Egginton
I would like to add:



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.

It would probably have cooked quickly; Child on the phone last night
said that the steering-wheel of her Ka "melted, the ridges round the
rim have all gone out of shape and it wasn't facing the sun during the
afternoon". She's based at Prestonhall museum, by stockton on Tees.

I'm just about to put wrapped coolbag freezer packs into the bed.

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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