I was about to say the same thing Bussy! 24C at 11am sounds heavenly for here on a midsummer day. All relative though obviously. Meanwhile here in southeast Queensland, we're still looking at a slight chance of light sleet or snow on the ranges this Fri night.
P.S. Les, I can't remember if I mentioned it but there was a lot of footage of people there trying to cope with the heatwave on the news here the other night. It's even "looked" very warm on London webcams the past few days.
> From: rbusc
...@bigpond.net.au
> To: austpacwx@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [austpacwx] Re: Media heat wave UK ?.
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:18:17 +1000
> HAHAHAHA. Sorry Les. 24C. That's awesome for a hot day. Even with humidity I
> can't get my head around that it would be too bad.
> High 30's here and humid is a bit tough. I hate the heat at the best of
> times but at 47 on the 7/2 was the worst I've felt. I do strongly remember
> the Ash Wednesday period (1983) when it was 38 still at midnight and I had
> to start at 2am. Hard work to get up then for a 20 year old that had just
> recently come from mum and dad's air cond lounge room. Where our whole
> family ( 9 of us) slept while hot.. Plus the air was thick with smoke.
> Someone has probably mentioned this sort of stuff but I had a run of 19 days
> this year from memory above 38 degrees. Bussy was a real sook. Trust me.
> P.S. We had a Lino floor back then which was cool to lay on :-)
> Bussy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <les.cros...@blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: <austpacwx@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:59 PM
> Subject: [austpacwx] Re: Media heat wave UK ?.
> >> Wow nice Les. Any photogenic parts to those storms eg. shelf cloud? Or
> >> did they form pretty much overhead?
> > Storms were fairly high base pulse and embedded in an St / Sc / Ac layer.
> > The only discerning features were either black or very black skies in the
> > embedded storms. No evidence of rotation and no rfd or shelf. Attempted
> > videoing but as soon as i stopped... flang!
> > There was a lot of IC lightning and overall was 10-15 a minute, a radio on
> > longwave was continuously crackling. At times the rain in spain was
> > falling mainly on... Wallsend (that's the Wallsend at 55N 0130W).
> > More instability is progged for tomorrow when the CF comes through but
> > today is just hot & humid, currently 24C at 1100 local.
> > A sixpack of Carlsberg is getting nicely chilled in the fridge :)
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