Heatwave, not here!

A couple of showers here this morning, but warm and sunny again, so I’ll be wearing one of my sack-of-potatoes hot-weather dresses - long, cool and covered-up.

30+ yesterday in Cambridgeshire, currently it’s 14 and raining. What a turnaround!

East coast No not what I call a heatwave ONE lovely warm day late 20 s then back down the scale and raining today
Ohh I wish…..

Best temperature here 21°c on Thursday. Today 14°, mostly overcast and breezy. Southern Northumberland is beautiful but seems to have its own microclimate.

pinkprincess

I live in Newcastle and it is rather miserable weather today 18C
Never really reached above 22 yesterday.
Mind the Hoppings open tonight always bad weather when they are here.

Find your wellies pink princess I can remember plodging around the Hoppings on the Town Moor six inches deep with clart. Two little girls desperate to go on anything, me to just get up to Gosforth and home.

I am in the south east and today started out ok but by midday it was grey and overcast and its rained on and off all day.
Yesterday I was at the seaside it was hot and I had a swim, on the sea, everyone was having fun, but today couldn’t be different.
One decent day doesn’t make a summer. Hope it’s not too long a wait till our next good day.

Thankyou Yammy

I have similar childhood memories.
When I was at school we always had holiday that week, my grandmother always insisted on taking us to the hoppings.She would take a big bag of food as she said the food on the Moor was poisonous, and we would sit beside one of the caravans to eat it, no matter what the weather was like.
I have never been on there since my own grandchildren were very young.I have heard you need a bank loan newt take your family.

You should all be so lucky. It's been 41C (103F) here today. Far too hot and the poor dogs are suffering. With a bit of luck the weather will break tomorrow.

Chris Fawkes, BBC Weather forecaster:
"Well, the heatwave's well and truly behind us today"

It was one hot day ......

We went to a local family festival today. I started out with a summer dress and sandals at 11am, at 2 o’clock set off on a 30 minute walk home to change into jeans, jumper and warm jacket and trudge back with a big bag of warm clothes for four shivering grandsons.

We drove home tonight in pouring rain; it was dusk rather than dark and in the west the sky was orange through the rain.
Most unusual and interesting!

Cooler here in London now - such a relief!

I'm always amazed by all the open doors and windows about - people 'letting the breeze through' when it's hot outside.

Isn't it just obvious that the time to open those windows is very early or late, then close and shade them for the hot part of the day? If you want a breeze, run a fan. It was 32C outside and a comfortable 21C indoors.