This thread aged well.
Been in Hourtin, not bad with sea breezes but burnt my knees cycling in the forests, bug fest, Bordeaux kin hot, then N Aquitaine, hot but comfortable, now Loire Valley, hot enough to make you walk slowly, 33 forecast tomorrow.
Me/family been in Mallorca on/off over the last month and it is most hot. Spotter planes flying around all the time looking for wildfires, got to watch a firefighting plane fill up in the bay. Air quality poor as the southerly hot wind brings desert dust with it
<p style="text-align: left;">Went for a 60km ride to meet an old friend in a Biergarten on Saturday.</p>
I nearly f**f*ffg*f died in the way there. Totally miscalculated how far it was, but most importantly how hot. 38°C.
The first three Weißbier disappeared within minutes.
Turned out the village had a festival in so I stayed for X more drinks.
Stupidly made the decision (not that I was really in the right state of mind to decide) to ride 40km "home" at 2am. Arrived back at the van just after 4am, the last 40 mins or so spent trying to outrun the thunder clouds.
It's been silly hot around upper Bavaria since I've been back. Three or four days or intense heat and then massive downpours.
Have always had an eye on moving to Italy, but am seriously reconsidering where to go. With such extreme temperatures making life almost unbearable I'm starting to look elsewhere. But then again, I don't much fancy the long dark months of Northern Europe so places life Sweden, Norway or the UK are off the cards.
Not had any rain for 5 weeks in Brighton.
Traditionally, the SE of the country is technically a desert; parts of Spain get more rainfall than that part of England. Also, the SW has rivers that would dry out in the summer, mostly the chalk ones, that get their names from that, the Winterbournes. The River Kennet* that runs through Marlborough starts as the Winterbourne.
The problem is, though, that increasing amounts of abstraction via boreholes has reduced the levels of those rivers so they’re increasingly dry right through the year. Why is there increasing abstraction from boreholes? Because towns like Swindon and Chippenham are getting bigger and bigger, and reservoirs have been closed and filled in, and no bigger replacements built in decades.
*It changes name where it meets the Swallowhead spring just across the road from Silbury Hill, and I’ve walked the length from Silbury Hill to just below West Kennet Long Barrow in the winter because it’s been completely dry.
This thread aged well.
It did seem to curse things a bit, sorry. With any luck we'll have a decent Indian Summer in September.
Trust me, you don't want an Indian Summer the way things are going there.
The main reservoir for the London bassin is the chalk aquifer, Countzero. Manage that well and you don't need surface reservoirs. My knowledge is 35 years out of date but I doubt the strategy of (artificially) refilling aquifers when water is available and drawing them down in dry periods has changed. You may be interested in reading this:
Reading thorough it appears the situation is better than when I last took an interest.
Traditionally, the SE of the country is technically a desert; parts of Spain get more rainfall than that part of England.
There are no parts of the UK classified as desert, and parts of northern Spain are quite wet.
One of the RAF bases in Hampshire has had 150% of the average July rainfall already this month. Mentioned on the BBC weather, so must be true, although I might be miss remembering it as it was a few days ago
Have always had an eye on moving to Italy, but am seriously reconsidering where to go. With such extreme temperatures making life almost unbearable I’m starting to look elsewhere. But then again, I don’t much fancy the long dark months of Northern Europe so places life Sweden, Norway or the UK are off the cards
Well it depends on your job and money but if you have flexibility you could have two houses in two cheap areas, one in north of Europe one in South.
Having a pretty hefty Summer here in western USA. It got to 41 today at altitude in Fruita.
I can't imagine what Death Valley is doing as California are getting it.
I was in Bordeaux, Cognac , Loire last summer and it was ferocious.
