Whats the weather like near you?

[Darrin Turnbull]

dry but no sun yet...

 

 

omg.

[Woodworks]

omg.

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Welcome to west Devon

[Darrin Turnbull]

Welcome to west Devon

 

 

Do you normally get a long summer

[nepia]

The Met Office are showing '10% chance of rain' here so obviously it's been peeing down for the last half hour.

60% chance at 4pm today so I'm starting on the Ark after me bagel.

 

They should have never introduced that 'supercomputer' thingy; forecasts have gone down the pan since.

[Woodworks]

Do you normally get a long summer

 

Nope.

 

Recent years the winter is wet with the odd cool spell. Spring is great then sunshine and showers for the summer. Not sure we had a whole week without rain this summer. Autumn started dry but cloudy and deteriorated into what we have now. Climate change has not been kind to the south west.

 

On the upside we don't seem to get extremes either. Not had flash flooding here in years, no cold winters, no hot summers peaking at around 25C which is more than enough form me. Grew up in the 70s and we went from severe drought to savage blizzards so maybe things aren't so bad but would be nice to see the sun again.

Edited December 20, 2015 by Woodworks

[nepia]

would be nice to see the sun again.

 

I don't know whether it's true but my daughter quoted the other day that the South-East saw 35 hours of sun for the whole of November.

 

Beau, do you remember the summer of '76? I was doing my O-levels in a gym with a floor to ceiling south-west facing glass wall.

[Woodworks]

 

Beau, do you remember the summer of '76? I was doing my O-levels in a gym with a floor to ceiling south-west facing glass wall.

 

Yes remember it well as our spring ran dry. Hand pumping water from the well and having to boil it. Never had the spring run dry since. The winter of 78 was equally epic.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Dry but no sun yet...

 

Nah, chucking it down...

 

I don't know whether it's true but my daughter quoted the other day that the South-East saw 35 hours of sun for the whole of November.

 

Beau, do you remember the summer of '76? I was doing my O-levels in a gym with a floor to ceiling south-west facing glass wall.

 

November 2015 was the dullest month in 86 years - see previous post.

 

'76 was the best, loved it, the Aztec in me.

[nepia]

'76 was the best, loved it, the Aztec in me.

 

As a 16-year old I obviously didn't give a hoot about the problems caused except when I couldn't write my exam answers because I couldn't grip the pen.

It was cricket 7 days a week that summer; the pitches were hard and fast, the outfiield correspondingly so.

Running about all day in 27°C pouring sweat didn't faze us; we just made the most of it.

 

Of course I'm now a Grumpy Old Man and breaking sweat in 23° results in instant moaning about the heat. I hate the heat!

[mendiplogs]

Nah, chucking it down...

 

 

 

November 2015 was the dullest month in 86 years - see previous post.

 

'76 was the best, loved it, the Aztec in me.

 

Hi JOHN it been dry here for 4 hrs and more 😘😘😘😘thanks but more rain 💦💦💦💦💦🍺💦💦💦this week we need frost and very soon thanks all John