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NannyP

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

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 07 12:00 pm Post subject: Too hot to garden
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: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 07 12:02 pm Post subject:
Blinking nora, couldn't be doing with that

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 07 12:06 pm Post subject:

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
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 07 8:54 pm Post subject:
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

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
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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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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.

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