How's everyone doing?

[Gurtie]

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?

[hungrygoose]

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?

[Rumbas]

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.

[Chunkford]

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

[BoL]

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.

[thesaintv12]

nice and dry in my shoffice (shed-office) thanks.

Can beat a shoffice, I'm in mine now too!

[Rupert]

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.

[grnidone]

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...

[I, Brian]

First week of the month is a busy report writing weekfor myself.

It's also lovely and sunny in the Scottish Highlands.

[buckworks]

@BoL - Hey, I didn't realize you were in Canada. Where? I'm in a small town in Manitoba about six hours from Winnipeg.

[BoL]

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.

[Brad]

Dry here near Chicago and very hot.

[littleman]

The weather is great in Northern California.  The kids are home and it tougher to get work done.

[Gurtie]

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

[hungrygoose]

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.