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Even if you have PV, using aircon is still using a lot of power that could be used for something else.
I’ve had to design an ad for a client suggesting people book now for their Christmas Party.
To be fair most Christmas Parties will have to be booked up by about next week.
Using solar off the neighbour’s roof!
Even if you have PV, using aircon is still using a lot of power that could be used for something else.
If his neighbour is giving it away they probably lack the ability to store or sell it
I’ve had to design an ad for a client suggesting people book now for their Christmas Party.
I’ve had one booked since March.
Those fires look absolutely terrible. 🙁
seems to have maxed out at 39 here
Strong breeze in my bit of Leeds (Yeadon) and it was hotter yesterday than it is today,temperature dropped from a high of 34 to 32 in the last hour
Even if you have PV, using aircon is still using a lot of power that could be used for something else.
Yes, but I plan to install solar on the house and workshop roof pretty much just to run Aircon all summer! So will export when it's just warm and use a good chunk of it when it's hot. If it runs all day at a low level it can switch off at night as the house won't have heated up much.
Obvs adding all that HW is a whole load of CO2 but it will still export a load of kWh to the grid over it's lifetime.
Neighbours had some sort of fire in their back garden the past two nights. They aren't very popular on the local FB chat for some reason LOL.
Morning cycle commute bit toasty. Decided to ride to the beach at lunch time, and do a little handstand practice in the park. Foolishly wasn't even the nearest beach, about a 50 minute ride. Felt like it might have been a mistake. Commute home at 4pm felt even hotter, so took direct route. Won't be spending much time outside now for the rest of they day!
are they same sensors as MetOffice?
Weather Underground is any personal weather station that uploads to their site. They do try and hide the less reliable ones - which can get difficult with local variations.
And the badge awarding thing for reliability appears to have fallen over (lost mine at the weekend, but so did the other local sites).
Met office uses proper "verified" weather stations. Generally at airfields or specified locations. A personal weather station in Cumbernauld managed to get verified a few years back, but was completely off-line last time I checked.
This need for verification is also why the records being reported in the press are subject to checking etc.
Can't have some bloke with a Garmin on a picnic table claiming a "hottest ever".
Driving home from work today started at 38°c when I got home and parked in the shade between mine and nextdoor to open the gate the temp has gone to 40°c getting very breezy now.
Going to have a light tea tonight and hit the pool again.
New record of 40.3C in Lincolnshire
The UK's record temperature has been broken again after the mercury reached 40.3C in Coningsby in Lincolnshire, according to the Met Office.
The provisional figure, as of 16:00 today, surpasses the earlier peak of 40.2C recorded at Heathrow.
Temperatures are still at that same high this afternoon at the London airport, as well as in St James's Park in the capital.
Kew Gardens was 40.1C as of 16:00, with Northolt at 40C and Cambridge
Car was parked in undercover in a multi storey car park today, showed 36° when I started her up.
Had to go to the supermarket
Hit 40 while I was driving
But said 39.5 when I got in
i used to ride my bike in Houston summers.
I can't imagine doing that - not from the heat so much as the drivers. I served my sentence in Houston and ran every day. But I did get up at silly o'clock to do it.
still export a load of kWh to the grid over it’s lifetime.
Are you doing that from the goodness of your heart? AAUI you dont get paid for that any more?
i lived in the heights (if that means anything to you) so could essentially ride along the bayous to a big park (i forget it’s name) only streets o used were pretty quiet.
“served my sentence”. like it. we’d meet expats who thought it was great!
That Garmin says 42.2 now, it's been in the shade all afternoon, but not isolated from the breeze.
i lived in the heights
Yes - had mates there. I was in The Woodlands. The expats who enjoyed it seemed to be the sort who enjoyed playing the caricature Englishman - racing green sports car etc.
For a heating connection - we had mahoosive ceiling fans, as I'm sure you did too, and they really reduced our AC usage. Never seen them in the UK though!
I took refuge in our living room this afternoon, TdF on the telly and it’s a very comfortable 26degs thanks to shutters on the windows and 18 inch thick stone walls. It’s like a fan oven outside.
Never known heat like this in the UK. Making life quite unbearable. Would a summer of this stop folk driving their monstrous SUVs around?
However the idiots I’ve seen lately idling their cars to keep their AC running deserve a key down the side of their vehicles
Or petrol bomb through a window so that they're proper hot!
However the idiots I’ve seen lately idling their cars to keep their AC running deserve a key down the side of their vehicles
One today had his window open so he could smoke in there too 🙄
problem is, those who can afford big SUVs can probably also afford full Aircon, so probably not bothered!!Would a summer of this stop folk driving their monstrous SUVs around?
It's just started raining in big lumps. No cooler, just going to make everything sticker later.
You see that now outside the posh school near ours - a 1k line of mostly SUV's parked up, idling away presumably with A/C on full blast. We do we allow this shit and at what point is it okay to take action?
Walked out of the office and hit by the heat. Car said it was 39.5 degrees, only dropped to 37 by the time I got home. Not looking forward to 20 degrees overnight if the forecast is correct, but hopefully dropping away tomorrow evening. Asthma kicked off again big style. I could not deal with this regularly that's for certain.
We have a max 1 minute idling rule here.
Think it's a 200-250 quid fine.
I'm sat in a street cafe in Winchester, sweating like a fishmongers window, trying to persuade myself that I do want to eat at some point and I do want to sweat more by the walk up the road to my accommodation...
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR
Full MemberWhat’s the betting that it’s just a slightly warmer than normal summers day, or rains?
They can barely predict what the weather will be tomorrow, never mind days in advance
This has aged well
sweating like a fishmongers window
Genius! Chapeau sir😂
Been hiding in the AC workshop office all day doing some online training. We got pulled of sites by 11am by the boss.
Mrs text earlier to say she had to bring all the chickens in doors as we have already lost 2. One of the last older ones is still in the front room, but the younger ones are more than happy pottering about outside. Reckon we were up to 40 here in N.Cambs
Would a summer of this stop folk driving their monstrous SUVs around?
You can get convertible Range Rovers now so no worries.
Imagine being in India/****stan/etc. where this is just the new normal but plus 5 deg C and between to and three months and with very limited resources to mitigate :/
"You can get convertible Range Rovers now so no worries" lol indeed.
A mate just bought a "Defender", to me it looks utterly ludirous and not much smaller than an actual tranny van. They drive it a few miles down a highly densily populated area to work and back and that's about it. When they look back, what will our children's children think of us.
fricking nanny state sending out teams to fight the fires.
Making life quite unbearable
This is a good one
Urban fires breaking out very scary. Peak idiots BBQ time coming up!
Salad is this weather sounded like a good idea but perhaps the whizzed up chilli in the dressing wasn't. I'm surprised I had anything left to sweat.
The whole of south Lpool felt like it was a massive BBQ yesterday withh a fine, almost mistlike smoke slowly drifting south. All feels very "last days of Rome" to me.
You can get convertible Range Rovers now so no worries
Very good!
Urban fires breaking out very scary.
Next door but one's shed burned down at 3am yesterday. Firefighters said they reckon the evening sun went through Jam `Jar on a shelf and set it smouldering with the magnifying effect.