How's the weather?

[Royal Oak]

Manchester bus drivers complaining at not allowed to wear shorts is now a Manchester Evening News headline.

[BillF]

1 hour ago, rdavenport said:

Manchester bus drivers complaining at not allowed to wear shorts is now a Manchester Evening News headline.

I should think not!

[Royal Oak]

[BillF]

This morning's Stagecoach driver was suitably shorted, so perhaps the battle has been fought and won.

 

[Brad]

Saturday through next Friday are going to be dreadful in the Northeast US: in the 90s. 

[sidewinder]

On 27/06/2018 at 5:20 PM, rdavenport said:

Was just about to post that Sidewinder.

Sounds fairly grim, described on Manchester Evening News website as the "biggest fire in living memory"

Biggest fire since ‘The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’.

Incredible weather we are having down here - just too bad that work coincides with it..

[Royal Oak]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

This morning's Stagecoach driver was suitably shorted, so perhaps the battle has been fought and won.

 

A victory for common sense!

We've been allowed to wear shorts at work this week too, first time in my 31 years of work.

Still boiling in Manchester btw

Edited June 28, 2018 by rdavenport

[BillF]

Now Winter Hill's burning as well, so we're ringed by fire! 

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[BillF]

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Biggest fire since ‘The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’.

 

Apropos of nothing in particular: Arthur Brown went to the same school as me, as did The Magnificent Goldberg.

I knew Arthur Brown at school, but didn't know Goldberg.

Just thought you'd like to know. 

[sidewinder]

Arthur Brown and Ed Dipple..(but not MG)

Pretty amazing !

incidentally - that AB ‘Fire’ performance when broadcast on Top Of The Pops (1967/68?) scared the beejeesus out of me, back in the day 

Edited June 28, 2018 by sidewinder

[BillF]

9 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Arthur Brown and Ed Dipple..(but not MG)

Pretty amazing !

incidentally - that AB ‘Fire’ performance when broadcast on Top Of The Pops (1967/68?) scared the beejeesus out of me, back in the day 

Ed Dipple was a few years later - university, not school (along with Brian Priestley).

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[Royal Oak]

Still shmokin' hot here in Manchester. Still allowed to wear shorts at work, England still in the World Cup. We have entered a parallel universe 

[erwbol]

8 minutes ago, rdavenport said:

Still shmokin' hot here in Manchester. Still allowed to wear shorts at work, England still in the World Cup. We have entered a parallel universe 

One where the Belgians become world champions before the Dutch.

[JohnS]

Even the usually cooling sea breeze here is hot.

[sidewinder]

3 hours ago, JohnS said:

Even the usually cooling sea breeze here is hot.

Almost unbearable here !

[erwbol]

No rain here for ages and none on the horizon. In the forest some tree's leaves are turning yellow and falling to the ground. Not good.

[soulpope]

3 minutes ago, erwbol said:

No rain here for ages and none on the horizon. In the forest some tree's leaves are turning yellow and falling to the ground. Not good.

Same situation all over Vienna since last week .... looks more like late September .....

[Royal Oak]

My red Acer palmatum has been dropping odd leaves for a couple of weeks now, which has never happened before. Fortunately, a fairly mature specimen, so I think he'll make it. 

Edited July 8, 2018 by rdavenport

[Scott Dolan]

Pretty much the same story here in most of the U.S. 

Hotter than hell, no rain. I chose a bad year to rehabilitate my yard. 

I read in the Washington Post that so far this is the hottest summer the northern hemisphere has ever recorded. And some place in Pakistan recently recorded the highest temperature in history. 

[Dmitry]

An even 100F in Sevilla right now. Cerveza time.

Edited July 8, 2018 by Dmitry

[paul secor]

We've been enjoying pleasant weather - sunny, low 80's - for the last couple of day, but the heat is supposed to rev up again next week.

[Scott Dolan]

Where abouts, Paul? 

We had a REALLY pleasant four day stretch a couple of weeks ago. Two of them never got out of the low 70’s. 

[paul secor]

Hudson Valley, NY

Edited July 8, 2018 by paul secor

[Brad]

4 hours ago, Dmitry said:

An even 100F in Sevilla right now. Cerveza time.

When I lived in Madrid in the late 60s, they used to call the middle of July to the middle of August, “de virgen a virgen.” It was the hottest time of the year. You could only go out in the morning. The afternoons were insufferable. 

[Scott Dolan]

Brad, that same period in Southwest Florida was quite similar. People would simply disappear. Then when the extreme stuff broke you’d see your neighbors again, and they’d all say the same thing: “It was just too damn hot to go outside!”

Those were the days when you’d have to come inside from simply checking the mail, and change your clothes...