It's too hot :(

TheOracle said:
I'm at the point where I'm almost about to start ringing local companies to install aircon.

Trying to sleep in a newish 3 storey house isn't fun
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Summer will be over by the time they have availability to install it. I live in a newish 3-storey house too, and these hot days aren't totally unbearable as long as you are sensible about limiting solar gain and use fans etc
 
TheOracle said:
I'm at the point where I'm almost about to start ringing local companies to install aircon.

Trying to sleep in a newish 3 storey house isn't fun
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At the very least you’d have it ready for next year. We finished our remaining rooms last year just after the hottest spell, but it’s been well worth it this year, even back in May/June. It’s blissful sleeping in a controlled 21C vs the 29-36C that it used to get up to.
 
Approx 24C inside at the moment.

As much as possible I follow the pattern of open the windows overnight and then close them when the weather starts heating up, so today probably from 9AM - 9PM I will have the windows closed and the curtains/blinds drawn to stop the heat getting in as much as I can.

If I am lucky, opening them after 9PM cools the bedroom down a little before I go to sleep, but it can take 3-4 hours. If it's too warm outside or no breeze then it's a dead end and I put on the AC unit instead.
 
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Random question that someone on here will definitely be able to answer.

Why do the Met office and BBC forecasts vary so much? Met Office has a high of 30 over the next few days, BBC is saying we'll hit 33. Met office is saying we may get a little very light rain on Monday afternoon, BBC is saying it's pretty much going to be showers all day from 1400 onwards.

I assume the actual data is coming from the same place in the Met Office.
 
Met office weather forecasts particularly temperature and rain have been very poor recently, they are often 5+c out on the high temperature. I don't know what they have changed but it never used to be so poor.
 
Just done some weeding around the house, brutal out there already. Inside now with the fan on, which is where I shall stay.
Forecast rain for most of next week...
 
tom_e said:
Random question that someone on here will definitely be able to answer.

Why do the Met office and BBC forecasts vary so much? Met Office has a high of 30 over the next few days, BBC is saying we'll hit 33. Met office is saying we may get a little very light rain on Monday afternoon, BBC is saying it's pretty much going to be showers all day from 1400 onwards.

I assume the actual data is coming from the same place in the Met Office.
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BBC stopped using Met Office for forecasts a while ago (in last few years without googling it). They've been using weather provided by Meteo Group since and quite frankly, it's a load of testicles.

Met Office for around Southampton tends to be reasonable several days ahead, but relatively poor on the day. Right now it thinks it's 20C here, but the local Wunderground station literally up the road is reading 28C (which feels far closer to the truth after popping out briefly a while ago).
 
UTmaniac said:
BBC stopped using Met Office for forecasts a while ago (in last few years without googling it). They've been using weather provided by Meteo Group since and quite frankly, it's a load of testicles.

Met Office for around Southampton tends to be reasonable several days ahead, but relatively poor on the day. Right now it thinks it's 20C here, but the local Wunderground station literally up the road is reading 28C (which feels far closer to the truth after popping out briefly a while ago).
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That explains that then, I hadn't even considered they'd be using a different data source.
 
The problem for us is that the structure of the house (200 year stone farmhouse) is now thermally saturated and doesn’t get the chance to cool. Living room was 27°C at 07:00 when outside was 21°C, so you just get to replace hot air with cooler air for a couple of hours in the morning before everything starts heating up again.
 
Uther said:
Looks like a drought will be declared tomorrow. Cue weeks of torrential rain and floods. :p
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UK weather live: Search under way for person in Thames; wildfire erupts near college; four days of thunderstorms to come this week

Hot weather latest as wildfires erupt in Essex and north London due to "tinderbox conditions" on Sunday; two people are reported dead in water-related incidents in Doncaster and Skegness; thunderstorm warnings are in place until Wednesday.
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We have rain predicted all week next week :cry:
 
Will be interesting to see how wet next week actually is - Monday and Tuesday might be quite wet, but the rest of it just looks mildly damp / a bit cloudy from the forecast I saw... Might be the right sort of rain to give flash floods on Monday and then we'll be back in drought again the week after if the weather stays dry :p

A couple of days of rain won't really do much for the reservoirs either
 
GreatAuk said:
Will be interesting to see how wet next week actually is - Monday and Tuesday might be quite wet, but the rest of it just looks mildly damp / a bit cloudy from the forecast I saw... Might be the right sort of rain to give flash floods on Monday and then we'll be back in drought again the week after if the weather stays dry :p

A couple of days of rain won't really do much for the reservoirs either
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This is the key thing - you'll have people in the news complaining about the hosepipe bans saying "but it rained last week, why can't I fill my 7 hot tubs and wash my car every day", without realising that a couple days of rainy weather can't make up for several months of below average rainfall. We need consistent rainy weather from now until late autumn to be back in a good position but normally September is quite warm and dry still.
 
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