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NannyP



Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 07 12:00 pm    Post subject: Too hot to garden Reply with quote
    

In the sun it's 48.7C this afternoon...far too hot to be outdoors. Will have to wait until after 8pm to do any more planting

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45672
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 07 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Blinking nora, couldn't be doing with that

Northern_Lad



Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: Somewhere
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 07 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Blinking nora, couldn't be doing with that


No, blinking NannyP, I don't think 48C is though possible where Nora lives.

What is it in the shade? Thermometers over here would have happily hit 60 two weeks ago, but only been 27/28 in the shade.

NannyP



Joined: 26 Aug 2005
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Location: Vienne, France
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 07 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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.


Just Jane



Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 140
Location: France
PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 07 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 07 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 07 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Keeps raining here.

marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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Location: West Sussex
PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 07 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We had a lot of rain yesterday and more expected, but today is goooood .

dougal



Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent
PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 07 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: Vienne, France
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Great Torrington.

NannyP



Joined: 26 Aug 2005
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Location: Vienne, France
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Whereabouts?

sean
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 07 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The posh end of course. Near the Commons on the road out to Bideford.

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