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Just Jane

Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 140
Location: France

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 07 3:00 pm Post subject:
30C in the shade here too - and I just had 12 steres of firewood delivered for the winter!!!

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 07 3:43 pm Post subject:
It's lovely here - 18degC according to the BBC weather site (though I'm sure my garden is warmer than that!) and with a nice fresh breeze off the sea.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 07 3:49 pm Post subject:
Keeps raining here.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 07 3:51 pm Post subject:
We had a lot of rain yesterday and more expected, but today is goooood .

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 07 6:14 pm Post subject:

NannyP wrote:

In the sun it's 48.7C this afternoon...

The thermometer is digital, and as my husband pointed out, it was in a very specific place. Up against the front wall of our south facing house.
The normal mercury thermometer in the shade at the back on the wall was showing 30C.

Accepted that it was very *hot*, but thermometers "in the sun" don't tell you much. A shiny probe would give a very different reading to a matt black one!

The usual temperature quoted by meteorologists and weather forecasters is the *air* temperature - which is measured in the shade, (for official purposes inside a standardised, white painted, louvre-sided box called a "Stevenson screen"). It even needs to be mounted a standard height above the ground... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen

There must have been about 5cm of rain here last night, (most of it falling in two half hour deluges), but its been really lovely today.
(And no, I don't have a standardised rain guage...

)

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:02 am Post subject:
I only use it as a guide...it interests me to see how hot it is when I feel it is hot etc. I also use it in the incubator when I'm hatching eggs...it's worked well so far. It's now 15C and Midsummers Day

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:03 am Post subject:

sean wrote:

Keeps raining here.

Whereabouts in North Devon are you Sean.
We moved here from Great Torrington last July.

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:05 am Post subject:

Just Jane wrote:

30C in the shade here too - and I just had 12 steres of firewood delivered for the winter!!!

You must be all wood burning.......we have oil central heating and a fire...so will only have 3 steres (I think)

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:05 am Post subject:
Great Torrington.

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:10 am Post subject:
Whereabouts?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:14 am Post subject:
The posh end of course. Near the Commons on the road out to Bideford.

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:18 am Post subject:
Ah good....for a moment I wondered whether I was talking to another Sean We lived at the bottom of Mill Street, on the South side.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:20 am Post subject:
Handier for the pub than we are then.

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:21 am Post subject:
Oh yes, not much a walk for us, and a little walk up 150 yds, on the way home, was just enough exercise

Just Jane

Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 140
Location: France

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 07 12:42 pm Post subject:

NannyP wrote:

Just Jane wrote:

30C in the shade here too - and I just had 12 steres of firewood delivered for the winter!!!

You must be all wood burning.......we have oil central heating and a fire...so will only have 3 steres (I think)

Pretty much so - only put the underfloor (electric) on if it gets really cold. Am hoping the wood will more than do the winter - used 10 last year but then it was mild

Wednesday/Thursday we had a couple of massive storms with at times torrential rain (water couldn't get down the downpipe quick enogh & we have the 100mm guttering here) & temperature dropped about 10 degrees - luckily no flooding

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