I know its traditionally a quiet week or two, but it occurred to me that between the US and UK freak weather a lot of you are probably having to bale out your basements? How is everyone?
I'm good, looking forward to the F1 this weekend. Weather is a bit of a downer but tbh if it was sunny I'd be sitting on the terrace drunk 90% of the time and I have a lot to be getting on with. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
How are you?
Doing great. After a nasty flooding of the basement exactly a year ago, we spent a fortune on restoring the it and installed an automatic blocking mechanism in the pipes. Today was supposed to have a lot of rain, but it passed away.
All good as I type this sitting here in the dry basement and all computers are running :)
Have good ya'll.
nice and dry in my shoffice (shed-office) thanks.
A bit down in the dumps but then I'm normally am when it's raining (I think i suffer from that SAD syndrome).
But I have a couple of projects to keep my occupied and my first web service hopefully being released for beta soon - haven't a clue what I'm doing but somethings happened that I should be able to use so I can judge if there's a big enough market for it :)
I'm back in Canada after 5 weeks in Scotland & Spain visiting family with my daughter... Spain was smashing mid-twenties weather. Scotland... same old grey skies and absence of Summer. It's a bit like supporting the national football team, eternal hope we get a good run but never do!
30+ here in Canada. I love the hot weather but everyone's complaining it's too hot. It looks like there's some harsh weather heading for England & other parts of Scotland. The seasonal weather has changed a lot over the past 30 years.
Quote from: Chunkford on July 06, 2012, 12:46:48 PM
nice and dry in my shoffice (shed-office) thanks.
Can beat a shoffice, I'm in mine now too!
We are on the top of a small hill, down in all directions from us, so no problems. Solar panels aren't doing so well though. Had a bit of a nosy round the back of the Met office site (I mean the stats, not hacking BTW). All this talk of really dry weather in the UK over the last 3 years is tosh anyway:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/actualmonthly/
Have a play if you are interested. I read it as UK rain is going up year on year, English is on a bit of a dip, but nothing out of the statistical norm.
Send the rain here! We're so dry we're under a fire alert. (So no fireworks for 4th of July.) We're desperately dry...and hot. We got a break in the heat the last couple of days because it was only 101 F (38C). The previous weeks have been around 110 F and 43C.
There was one day that Hill City, Kansas (not far from here was the hottest place on the planet at 116F (47C).
Honestly, if it rained, we'd all be out in the streets dancing. No idea how we're going to have a crop this fall...
First week of the month is a busy report writing weekfor myself.
It's also lovely and sunny in the Scottish Highlands. :)
@BoL - Hey, I didn't realize you were in Canada. Where? I'm in a small town in Manitoba about six hours from Winnipeg.
I'm about 3 hours NW of Toronto http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=southampton+ontario&hl=en&sll=49.891235,-97.15369
No permanent residency just now, but will probably be here for the next couple of years & maybe move back to Scotland. I Haven't managed to venture outside of Southern Ontario yet... but I'd love to head up North to see some northern lights.
Dry here near Chicago and very hot.
The weather is great in Northern California. The kids are home and it tougher to get work done.
well so far then I'm clearly the wettest - taking about two hours to fill a 200l waterbutt off the garage roof yesterday!
But since we're at the top of a mendip and have no basement the worst that we have is a danger of trenchfoot in the chicken runs. Feel sorry for the peopel who've been flooded for the second time in as many week though :(
Every river within 50miles is on flood alert this morning with severe flooding expected. Rain didn't sound heavy last night but apparently is was very heavy on the moors.
It's stopped raining here, very nice day.
Must be good for business, just had the best week of the year.
Moving premises again, so crazy busy hence the poor performance documented in the exercise thread!
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Quote from: hungrygoose on July 07, 2012, 07:34:40 AM
Every river within 50miles is on flood alert this morning with severe flooding expected. Rain didn't sound heavy last night but apparently is was very heavy on the moors.
Hopefully I wont have a repeat of the last time it flooded round my part of the woods. Bear in mind there is no river near the town!!
ooops, photos are a bit big, sorry about that...
Quote from: littleman on July 07, 2012, 12:25:11 AM
The weather is great in Northern California. The kids are home and it tougher to get work done.
Ha! It's nice in Yosemite for now... until the we hit August and the rivers get too low to draw out of and the taps start shutting off... it is that dry. Almost happened in 2007 but for a freak summer rainstorm. If we don't get a freak storm this August....
And then those problems will be moving downriver and coming your way. Another 12 months like the last 12 months (one of the ten driest winters on record) and we'll be on serious water rationing all over California.
SO very dry and hot here, I'm in North LA County near Magic Mountain, and it's BLISTERING.
Ergo, we're hoping to get to Yosemite this summer, if we go I'll let you know, maybe we can have a drink.
Love the shoffice, I work out of my dining room table, I'd die for a shoffice, one far far away where I couldn't be disturbed by kids. I was trying to close a deal the other day (first time in years I haven't taken a new client in over 5 years) and all of a sudden my 2 year old daughter starts yelling and banging on the door screaming that she has to go potty. Gotta love it.
I guess Japan had enough last year with the quakes and tsunamis. It has been nothing but average here. It's hot, muggy and miserable, as usual, but nothing like what the rest of you seem to be experiencing.