By gad Curuthers, the heat the dust the flies....

[vickster]

Raining here

 

[Fab Foodie]

Is it just me, or is it hot in here? Knees

Last night's 8pm skinny dip x

No knees....

 

[Fab Foodie]

Rained here for a short period in the small hours, now blue skies, hot and humid again....

 

[C R]

It rained quite a bit last night, and it did cool down at the end, but warming up quickly now.

 

[AndreaJ]

Lightning from last night’s storm, power went off a couple of times and house shook after one very loud bit of thunder, even woke the dogs up!

 

[cyberknight]

looks like we had a drop in the night, went out early for a ride and although its "only" 17 C its still very humid

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Rare burst of lovely weather here in The Lakes.

We have canned walks/rides as it is too humid and are majoring on dossing around fueled by Brandy Sours & Almond Magnums.

Long may it continue although the pragmatist in me thinks it won't.

 

[matticus]

Short but spectacular storm here yesterday. Garden barely wet, but Sustrans tunnel into the estate flooded on the way home #SNAFU

 

[Fab Foodie]

Just had a 10min downpour, no thunderings, @Hill Wimp was out walking the dog :-)

 

[Andy in Germany]

The temp and humidity reminds my of my 3 month tour on Gib, although even on calm days the morning and evening land/sea breezes gave so relief that we're not enjoying here.

Gibraltar is only 6.7 km² (2.6 sq mi), so are we talking an insanely convoluted route or were you just riding incredibly slowly?

 

[Drago]

Now the weather has cooled off I can put my trousers back on.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Is this what being in Australia is like?

 

[Drago]

Is this what being in Australia is like?

Yep, but with less racism and better beer.

 

[matticus]

Gibraltar is only 6.7 km2 (2.6 sq mi), so are we talking an insanely convoluted route or were you just riding incredibly slowly?

You had to be there, man. 🙁

 

[a.twiddler]

Sometimes ridiculous cycling products have their moment. I bought one of these having seen it ridiculed on this forum during the last really hot spell thinking it might be useful next time I dissolved into a blob of sweat climbing a hill in the heat. I didn't find it so good with a drop handlebar bike, but have used it while doing D-I-Y stuff in the garage and it actually does work.

I actually charged it up with the intention of using it on the recumbent while on a ride out with the lad this evening but I er forgot. On part of the route this evening we came across a lot of tiny flies and it might just have stopped 15 minutes of coughing and spluttering after I inhaled some of them. It was certainly very humid and sticky this evening, and would have been a good test.
I remember 1976 with its hosepipe bans, water tankers, advice to wash your car in a stream (how would that go down nowadays?). Trips to Mid Wales to see long drowned ruins and walls exposed in the near-empty reservoirs there. The relentless heat with no rain for weeks. I don't think there is a real comparison with that year and what is happening now. Long hot spells were rare then, but short lived extremes of weather are increasingly common now.