NannyP
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Too hot to gardenIn the sun it's 48.7C this afternoon...far too hot to be outdoors. Will have to wait until after 8pm to do any more planting
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tahir
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Blinking nora, couldn't be doing with that
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Northern_Lad
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tahir wrote: | Blinking nora, couldn't be doing with that |
No, blinking NannyP, I don't think 48C is though possible where Nora lives.
What is it in the shade? Thermometers over here would have happily hit 60 two weeks ago, but only been 27/28 in the shade.
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NannyP
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The thermometer is digital, and as my husband pointed out, it was in a very specific place. Up against the front wall of our south facing house.
The normal mercury thermometer in the shade at the back on the wall was showing 30C.
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Just Jane
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30C in the shade here too - and I just had 12 steres of firewood delivered for the winter!!!
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marigold
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It's lovely here - 18degC according to the BBC weather site (though I'm sure my garden is warmer than that!) and with a nice fresh breeze off the sea.
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sean
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Keeps raining here.
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marigold
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We had a lot of rain yesterday and more expected, but today is goooood .
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dougal
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NannyP wrote: | In the sun it's 48.7C this afternoon...
The thermometer is digital, and as my husband pointed out, it was in a very specific place. Up against the front wall of our south facing house.
The normal mercury thermometer in the shade at the back on the wall was showing 30C. |
Accepted that it was very *hot*, but thermometers "in the sun" don't tell you much. A shiny probe would give a very different reading to a matt black one!
The usual temperature quoted by meteorologists and weather forecasters is the *air* temperature - which is measured in the shade, (for official purposes inside a standardised, white painted, louvre-sided box called a "Stevenson screen"). It even needs to be mounted a standard height above the ground... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen
There must have been about 5cm of rain here last night, (most of it falling in two half hour deluges), but its been really lovely today.
(And no, I don't have a standardised rain guage... )
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NannyP
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I only use it as a guide...it interests me to see how hot it is when I feel it is hot etc. I also use it in the incubator when I'm hatching eggs...it's worked well so far.
It's now 15C and Midsummers Day
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NannyP
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sean wrote: | Keeps raining here. |
Whereabouts in North Devon are you Sean.
We moved here from Great Torrington last July.
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NannyP
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Just Jane wrote: | 30C in the shade here too - and I just had 12 steres of firewood delivered for the winter!!! |
You must be all wood burning.......we have oil central heating and a fire...so will only have 3 steres (I think)
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sean
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Great Torrington.
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NannyP
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Whereabouts?
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sean
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The posh end of course. Near the Commons on the road out to Bideford.
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NannyP
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Ah good....for a moment I wondered whether I was talking to another Sean
We lived at the bottom of Mill Street, on the South side.
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sean
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Handier for the pub than we are then.
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NannyP
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Oh yes, not much a walk for us, and a little walk up 150 yds, on the way home, was just enough exercise
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Just Jane
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NannyP wrote: | Just Jane wrote: | 30C in the shade here too - and I just had 12 steres of firewood delivered for the winter!!! |
You must be all wood burning.......we have oil central heating and a fire...so will only have 3 steres (I think) |
Pretty much so - only put the underfloor (electric) on if it gets really cold. Am hoping the wood will more than do the winter - used 10 last year but then it was mild
Wednesday/Thursday we had a couple of massive storms with at times torrential rain (water couldn't get down the downpipe quick enogh & we have the 100mm guttering here) & temperature dropped about 10 degrees - luckily no flooding
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