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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #225 on: July 19, 2022, 02:10:07 PM »
Thunderstorms rumbling through now

A good thunderstorm is just what we need!  :)


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #226 on: July 19, 2022, 05:22:26 PM »
Been 28 and now…..wind and rain!


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #227 on: July 19, 2022, 06:10:39 PM »
Storm on the way here and MUCH needed. Hopefully should drop 14 degrees in the next two hours!


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #228 on: July 19, 2022, 06:27:45 PM »
Storm on the way here and MUCH needed. Hopefully should drop 14 degrees in the next two hours!

Same here. Yellow warning between 8 and midnight for thunderstorms with potential for lightning strikes sparking wildfires.  I’m ready for cooler temperatures.
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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #229 on: July 19, 2022, 11:40:10 PM »
Sky news is showing lots of helicopter shots of raging brushfires. You guys stay safe!

I don't know the humidity where you are (it's probably high), but if it's a dry heat you're getting, a tray of water in front of a fan blowing across it will drop the temp a few degrees. Curtains closed on all sides if you can, but at least on the "sun" side. We used to put aluminum foil on the west & south windows in Texas. Neighbors hated us, but it helped.   8)   

Once the inside of the house heats up, opening the windows on the shady side of the building a bit might help. Opening the place wide open once the sun goes down if you get a breeze, to get cooler air in will help. Doing as little physically as possible, staying very well hydrated (not beer, not tea!), and in the shade where there is air moving is your best bet for comfort. (There's a reason people in a lot of tropical countries who go out in the sun use umbrellas/parasols!"

Remember, this, too, shall pass.

It's around 97F here, with high humidity and will be again tomorrow. Thankfully we have refrigerated air that it keeping it a lovely 74F. I very well remember the days when we did not and don't envy you folks at all.
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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #230 on: July 22, 2022, 02:40:42 PM »
16 C. Feeling chilly!  ;D


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #231 on: July 22, 2022, 03:11:56 PM »
Bit of a shock when I arrived at Manchester Airport this morning to pouring rain and 14 Celsius… it was 35 C in Orlando when I left yesterday.

This is the coldest temperature I’ve been in since April 2nd!


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #232 on: July 22, 2022, 03:30:27 PM »
48 hours earlier and you were have melted on the tarmac!  Funny how fast it can change here!


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #233 on: July 22, 2022, 04:30:05 PM »
48 hours earlier and you were have melted on the tarmac!  Funny how fast it can change here!

I agree, and very unusual to have a temperature swing in the region of 20C within 24 hours. We’d experience similar swings when we lived in Louisiana and Texas from time to time but not here.
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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #234 on: August 14, 2022, 06:22:31 PM »
Thunder and lightning. Torrential rain. Happiness!


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #235 on: August 14, 2022, 06:23:54 PM »
We had 19.81 mm of rain in just 45 minutes! Great thunderstorms!  Been pretty cool today.  Very misty before the storms.  Heavy rain forecast for the next 2 days.
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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #236 on: August 14, 2022, 07:12:16 PM »
We had 19.81 mm of rain in just 45 minutes! Great thunderstorms!  Been pretty cool today.  Very misty before the storms.  Heavy rain forecast for the next 2 days.

Send some this way!

It's much cooler (upper 70Fs) today, but hasn't rained at the garden in a long, long time. Have had to find the base of the pumpkin plants (you'd think it'd be easy, but with all those vines and leaves, not so much) and plant a bamboo stake next to them so I'm only watering the actual plant. Which I was hoping I wasn't going to have to do again today so soon after last watering, but no rain, so when the sun goes down a bit more I'm off to play water-girl.


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #237 on: September 01, 2022, 08:38:23 AM »
Incredibly clear blue skies yesterday and this morning, very clear last night.  5C overnight, but some areas close by were at -1C overnight. 
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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #238 on: September 02, 2022, 02:08:25 AM »
Sounds lovely.

We had 70Fs today, for the first time in a long time, with lower humidity. Sooo Nice!

Am glad I'm not in LA.  The low overnight at a friend's house was 90F at just after midnight, and the whole place is like an oven. And waiting to catch fire again....  Much nicer to be in my green and somewhat soggy garden today. (Finally had a gullywasher!  And, of course, now all the pumpkin plants have mildew!)


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Re: How's the weather?
« Reply #239 on: November 04, 2022, 10:58:03 AM »
Frosty and cold this morning. Now bright skies and only 8C. Beautiful skies as I drove into the office this morning.
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