It's too hot :(

squerble said:
Liverpool showing 24ºC for today and about 27ºC for tomorrow. After that though, the temperatures drop off quite quickly below 20ºC, and within a week should be daily highs of only around 16ºC :D finally, the start of the end of summer.
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Forecasts don't go far enough yet, but in Hampshire and Wiltshire at least, the norm is to have "indian summer" around mid September where things warm up a bit for a week or two before a gradual decline to autumal temps in the teens.
 
Scotland starting to put the fear-mongering around again - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qly7g9pepo

Even in the worst affected East coast, water levels are still at 60% of capacity whereas everywhere else is around 80% so not sure what the panic is.

One stat they keep throwing up is this:

"We've got about the same population as the county of Yorkshire in England, but they use 40% less water than we do as a population in Scotland," says Dr Wade.
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Can anyone with the knowledge of Yorkshire tell me if Yorkshire has any water intensive industry? I ask because that above stat fails to establish or take into account that there are over 150 operational distilleries on Scotland and that is important.
 
I guess we're all different but as someone who suffers slightly from SAD and Anxiety over the last few years, the thought of the oncoming darker evenings, shorter days and colder days fills me with dread. Like most people I don't need over 30 every day, but mid 20s is absolute heaven for me. Being able to have more of an outdoor life, eat outside at lunchtimes and the evening, bbqs, socialise, do gardening a lot, go for long walks at weekends in nice weather, go to the seaside etc .. I could have it all year round. I cannot for the life of me understand those who want mid teens and dreary days.
 
Mid to late teens are ideal for me as I overheat very quickly. I wouldn't want dreary days though, they're no good for my solar panels :)
 
Lol at Daily Star Headline.


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redeye said:
I guess we're all different but as someone who suffers slightly from SAD and Anxiety over the last few years, the thought of the oncoming darker evenings, shorter days and colder days fills me with dread. Like most people I don't need over 30 every day, but mid 20s is absolute heaven for me. Being able to have more of an outdoor life, eat outside at lunchtimes and the evening, bbqs, socialise, do gardening a lot, go for long walks at weekends in nice weather, go to the seaside etc .. I could have it all year round. I cannot for the life of me understand those who want mid teens and dreary days.
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Please go see a doc about S.A.D. syndrome there are treatments these days.
 
Richie said:
Scotland starting to put the fear-mongering around again - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qly7g9pepo

Even in the worst affected East coast, water levels are still at 60% of capacity whereas everywhere else is around 80% so not sure what the panic is.

One stat they keep throwing up is this:



Can anyone with the knowledge of Yorkshire tell me if Yorkshire has any water intensive industry? I ask because that above stat fails to establish or take into account that there are over 150 operational distilleries on Scotland and that is important.
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We drink 25 large mugs of Yorkshire tea per day...

Do the math.
 
Richie said:
Scotland starting to put the fear-mongering around again - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qly7g9pepo

Even in the worst affected East coast, water levels are still at 60% of capacity whereas everywhere else is around 80% so not sure what the panic is.

One stat they keep throwing up is this:



Can anyone with the knowledge of Yorkshire tell me if Yorkshire has any water intensive industry? I ask because that above stat fails to establish or take into account that there are over 150 operational distilleries on Scotland and that is important.
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Local river where I am is at record lows never seen it so dry, but bizarrely, nothing is scorched or gone brown like you would expect, indeed everything’s seems as green as it can be.

Not sure on distilleries, or if they’re even being counted in that stat (most will do their own extraction and treatment I think). Main difference is, nobody pays for direct water consumption (flat fee alongside your council tax) in Scotland so there’s no financial cost in being wasteful with it.
 
Jokester said:
Main difference is, nobody pays for direct water consumption (flat fee alongside your council tax) in Scotland so there’s no financial cost in being wasteful with it.
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Yeah. This year alone, I have seen 1 neighbour part fill and empty a reasonably sized pool. Its roughly about 2.5 x 1.5 m and filled by about 0.75m (for kids) making it circa 3000 litres of water. They then empty it at the end of the day and refill the next day. This has been done at least 7 times in a 2-3 week period that I have seen and I have probably missed other days.


Anyways, its lashing it down here just now and is meant to be rain for next 5-7 days.
 
Richie said:
Scotland starting to put the fear-mongering around again - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qly7g9pepo

Even in the worst affected East coast, water levels are still at 60% of capacity whereas everywhere else is around 80% so not sure what the panic is.

One stat they keep throwing up is this:



Can anyone with the knowledge of Yorkshire tell me if Yorkshire has any water intensive industry? I ask because that above stat fails to establish or take into account that there are over 150 operational distilleries on Scotland and that is important.
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The problem is 60% sounds alright but compared to averages for time of year its quite low and you have to act before its down much further or you risk getting critically low. We desperately need rain here as well. This is the driest I have seen it, even mature trees are suffering now.
 
200sols said:
The problem is 60% sounds alright but compared to averages for time of year its quite low and you have to act before its down much further or you risk getting critically low. We desperately need rain here as well. This is the driest I have seen it, even mature trees are suffering now.
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That is fair enough. I just hate the irrelevant comparisons bases purely on population numbers without considering other factors and then using said stat to beat people over the head with.

There has not been a nationwide hosepipe ban in Scotland since 1976 (and that was a bad bad drought) and I doubt there will be one for a VERY long time (I'll probably be dead by then!).
 
200sols said:
The problem is 60% sounds alright but compared to averages for time of year its quite low and you have to act before its down much further or you risk getting critically low. We desperately need rain here as well. This is the driest I have seen it, even mature trees are suffering now.
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Think we have a weeek of some rain starting tomorrow, had a brief shower in Southampton around 1000 this morning.

Yesterday, MIL asked us to pull up a "dead" red leaved shrub (Japanese Maple??), apparently new leaves were quickly turning brown and dying. Yet yesterday, this ~2 foot tall shrub had a cluster of leaves that looked a healthy ripe peach red/orange, I'm no gardener but I thought it was simply showing bad signs of stress from the hot dry summer without getting enough water. Most of her garden gets the strongest sun all day and was scorched brown, only the strip by the fence boundary getting shade looked green.
 
UTmaniac said:
Think we have a weeek of some rain starting tomorrow, had a brief shower in Southampton around 1000 this morning.

Yesterday, MIL asked us to pull up a "dead" red leaved shrub (Japanese Maple??), apparently new leaves were quickly turning brown and dying. Yet yesterday, this ~2 foot tall shrub had a cluster of leaves that looked a healthy ripe peach red/orange, I'm no gardener but I thought it was simply showing bad signs of stress from the hot dry summer without getting enough water. Most of her garden gets the strongest sun all day and was scorched brown, only the strip by the fence boundary getting shade looked green.
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In hot sun these leaves get scorched when the roots can't supply enough water to the leaves, they are not dead.. usually. Most of these established shrubs and trees will come back next year they are just showing stress from lack of water. Younger plants are most at risk.
 
200sols said:
Younger plants are most at risk.
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Aye, they haven't developed a good root structure yet. A big mistake people make for plants/grass/shrubs is to water little and often. This makes the plant realise the water is all near the surface and so develops roots in that area so, in drought, the roots have no water. If you water deep and less often then it encourages roots to go down for water as the top surface dries out. Then, when you do get dry weather, the plant has deeper roots accessing the water which has not dried out yet as its deeper in the ground
 
200sols said:
In hot sun these leaves get scorched when the roots can't supply enough water to the leaves, they are not dead.. usually. Most of these established shrubs and trees will come back next year they are just showing stress from lack of water. Younger plants are most at risk.
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There’s a weird fungus over many of our plants, it’s just been so dry, regardless of how much watering I’ve been doing. Hoping we don’t miss too much of the rain as we often do.
 
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