It's too hot :(

scrivz69 · 12 May 2025 at 15:55

Some light rain here this morning but the sun got our around 8 and it is lovely now with a nice breeze so not to humid.

Uther · 12 May 2025 at 16:58

Spending the week in Ireland, on the west coast, the weather has been just glorious.

squerble · 12 May 2025 at 17:27

Tiny bit of rain and some faint thunder over here in Liverpool

Thekwango · 12 May 2025 at 17:37

been a lovely week here for the most part. chilly enough breeze on occasion, especially when out of the sun but managed to eat my weight in red meat from the multiple bbqs we've had, so can't complain

bit of rain this morning which helped the garden out but lovely again now. tomorrow is to be scorchio by the looks of things.

bingham67 · 12 May 2025 at 18:36

25 g's here baby :cool:

Alice In Wonderland · 13 May 2025 at 08:30

uscool said:
Cold and harsh winter ? Pretty sure they are becoming milder I think the records back that can't remember when the last time we had good fall of snow

It was cold and harsh for me coz I was one of those who had to choose between heating or eating.

And I chose to eat coz it was too expensive to keep my heating on so I was permanently frozen inside and out.

tonys · 13 May 2025 at 08:42

Alice In Wonderland said:
It was cold and harsh for me coz I was one of those who had to choose between heating or eating.

And I chose to eat coz it was too expensive to keep my heating on so I was permanently frozen inside and out.

I can sympathise with you, we run all electric with a heat pump. The house is not well insulated with draughts (I'm working on that) so it is quite expensive to run the heating during the really cold days. Luckily we had the RHI payments which helped but we had to choose a temperature we were happy with. The payments stop in August so it will be a shock to the finances to run it this winter.
Also have had the heat pump breakdown on us during winter, not pleasant.

Alice In Wonderland · 13 May 2025 at 08:54

tonys said:
I can sympathise with you, we run all electric with a heat pump. The house is not well insulated with draughts (I'm working on that) so it is quite expensive to run the heating during the really cold days. Luckily we had the RHI payments which helped but we had to choose a temperature we were happy with. The payments stop in August so it will be a shock to the finances to run it this winter.
Also have had the heat pump breakdown on us during winter, not pleasant.

I used to get a tiny bit of help from the government but they stopped that

I'm only in a 1 bedroom flat but like yours it's not well insulated so I can really understand where you're coming from.

UTmaniac · 13 May 2025 at 17:06

It's been approx 22-26C in Hampshire today, but there's been a band of heavy rain travelling from north of Hastings to Cardigan this afternoon, apparently Winchester got hammered not long ago!

Live Rain Radar Nowcast Map | Zoom Earth

Real-time rain radar map with nowcasting. Shows precipitation detected by radar and instant forecast.

zoom.earth

Kelt · 13 May 2025 at 17:28

Went out to an appointment on the bike this afternoon, came back looking like a half ripe tomato.

Infidelus · 13 May 2025 at 18:16

UTmaniac said:
It's been approx 22-26C in Hampshire today, but there's been a band of heavy rain travelling from north of Hastings to Cardigan this afternoon, apparently Winchester got hammered not long ago!

Live Rain Radar Nowcast Map | Zoom Earth

Real-time rain radar map with nowcasting. Shows precipitation detected by radar and instant forecast.

zoom.earth

It's certainly been hot today in Hampshire. No rain for us though, and according to that map it's all rolling past way to the north.

tbyeah · 13 May 2025 at 20:25

Bike is getting serviced at the moment and having to get the tube into work is murder in this heat - and it's only May!

Alice In Wonderland · 14 May 2025 at 10:38

Grey and cold again today so back to wearing my winter hat temporarily

BUDFORCE · 14 May 2025 at 11:20

It's beautiful here (east Anglia) if anything there is more of a cool breeze then last two days so not too hot, I'm out in my garden office again.

Puzzled · 14 May 2025 at 11:23

Lovely weather but working in a south facing office is getting a bit toasty, anyone tried that solar film you stick on the inside of the window? Does it make any real difference?

fobose · 14 May 2025 at 16:13

Puzzled said:
Lovely weather but working in a south facing office is getting a bit toasty, anyone tried that solar film you stick on the inside of the window? Does it make any real difference?

I find it massively helpful. Without it, I can feel a lot of heat standing in front of the glass with the sun on them. With it, I can't feel any heat unless I touch my hand on the glass and then it feels warm.

baritonejohann · 14 May 2025 at 16:15

lovely cycle to work weather. stopping is a bit sweaty though

Rroff · 14 May 2025 at 16:16

Puzzled said:
Lovely weather but working in a south facing office is getting a bit toasty, anyone tried that solar film you stick on the inside of the window? Does it make any real difference?

I dunno about the solar film but I've got a blackout blind that claims thermal (and noise) reduction and it does work massively, the only problem is it tends to increase the amount of heat retained once the room does eventually warm up unless you've got a decent through draft (or keep adjusting it - which you can't do with a stick on film).

UTmaniac · 14 May 2025 at 16:38

baritonejohann said:
lovely cycle to work weather. stopping is a bit sweaty though

Always a tricky balance cycling in this weather, more effort gets you somewhere quicker, but the internal burnup when you stop having all that air wafting past you taking away the heat is a killer.

Even though I've got an ebike sat here these days, which means I can let the motor do a lot of work sub 16mph, the last couple of hot days have drained me just sitting around at home and so far made it impossible to find energy and motivation to head out.

Thank goodness the temperature drops a few Celcius in Hampshire from tomorrow until at least the start of the next Bank Holiday, it will still be a nice approx 20C... But that drop makes such a difference for me, approx 25C today and yesterday have been too much.

Puzzled · 15 May 2025 at 01:06

fobose said:
I find it massively helpful. Without it, I can feel a lot of heat standing in front of the glass with the sun on them. With it, I can't feel any heat unless I touch my hand on the glass and then it feels warm.

Thanks, have you had any concerns with the heat build up in the window? Seems to be mentioned in some reviews that it makes the glass very hot.

Rroff said:
I dunno about the solar film but I've got a blackout blind that claims thermal (and noise) reduction and it does work massively, the only problem is it tends to increase the amount of heat retained once the room does eventually warm up unless you've got a decent through draft (or keep adjusting it - which you can't do with a stick on film).

We have blinds but its a bit depressing having them closed when the weather is nice, miss the natural light.