Brace yourself for the heatwave!!
19 May 2009, 08:48 PM
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Brace yourself for the heatwave!!
BBC NEWS | Health | 'Prepare for a heatwave' UK told
Prediction based on... probably nothing scientific, other than "well the last 2 were crap, so this year it's bound to be a good'un!"
I'm sure every year there are articles like "hottest summer due" or "harshest winter" - but if we do get a heatwave I won't be complaining
Time to get the aircon re-gassed!!
Prediction based on... probably nothing scientific, other than "well the last 2 were crap, so this year it's bound to be a good'un!"
I'm sure every year there are articles like "hottest summer due" or "harshest winter" - but if we do get a heatwave I won't be complaining
Time to get the aircon re-gassed!!
19 May 2009, 09:09 PM
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I won't complain if it is, since I can't go abroad this year anyway, for the first time in 20 years.
I hope it's VERY hot in France too, then all my grass will wither up
I hope it's VERY hot in France too, then all my grass will wither up
19 May 2009, 10:05 PM
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I hope so, I love hot weather, I complain about the cold sooooooo much but never about the hot.
I am an Arab in the body of a pale white boy from Surrey I swear. The desert would be perfect for me (with an ocean next to it)
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19 May 2009, 10:22 PM
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Go check the Met office website for their press releases. They put out one in the spring saying what the summer ahead will be like then one in the Autumn telling you what it was like. Strangely, they are usually completely different! Same for the winter ones ....
" ... It says homeowners can stay cool by painting their houses white and planting shrubs for shade ... "
Well that's me out with the paintbrush and in the garden centre tomorrow then ... NOT!!!!
Dave
" ... It says homeowners can stay cool by painting their houses white and planting shrubs for shade ... "
Well that's me out with the paintbrush and in the garden centre tomorrow then ... NOT!!!!
Dave
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19 May 2009, 10:47 PM
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Downside was a load of some kind of purple algae / seaweed appeared in the ocean 
thanks **** for villas and private pools 
19 May 2009, 10:50 PM
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im just back from 2 weeks in menorca, hot as ****, begining of the season as well, average temps for may are only supposed to be 21 ish, wasnt that on the coldest day Downside was a load of some kind of purple algae / seaweed appeared in the ocean thanks **** for villas and private pools
Downside was a load of some kind of purple algae / seaweed appeared in the ocean thanks **** for villas and private pools The last few years i have been in May and or September even october and it has been 30 and its cheaper then
Never had a bad holiday there
I have a villa for two weeks this year, was only one week last year
19 May 2009, 11:31 PM
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Headline: "'Prepare for a heatwave' UK told"
Contents: "The Met Office says it is too early to tell whether it will be a very hot summer this year"
See Also (for last winter): "Another cold snap is heading for the UK, as forecasters warn of the chilliest winter for 13 years."
Total utter bollocks fairytale rubbish
Do we (the taxpayer) still pay for these charlatans who are the Met Office??
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Contents: "The Met Office says it is too early to tell whether it will be a very hot summer this year"
See Also (for last winter): "Another cold snap is heading for the UK, as forecasters warn of the chilliest winter for 13 years."
Total utter bollocks fairytale rubbish
Do we (the taxpayer) still pay for these charlatans who are the Met Office??
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Wasn't whitewashing your house also the government's advice during the cold war to protect you against the thermal blasts of a Nuclear attack?
I beginning to think they just say this whatever.
Ns "Whitewashing also keeps swine flu at bay!" 04
29 July 2009, 04:33 PM
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Well that didn't last long did it? 10 weeks later and BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Met Office cools summer forecast
I'm more accurate than they are....
I'm more accurate than they are....
29 July 2009, 04:38 PM
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Those people have the best jobs in the world. They never have to be right as they can also blame on a 'new weather front'.
I don't care if we get a hot summer or not, but I don't like being fed bull****. Then again, why do I keep coming back here?
I don't care if we get a hot summer or not, but I don't like being fed bull****. Then again, why do I keep coming back here?
29 July 2009, 04:40 PM
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Well that didn't last long did it? 10 weeks later and BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Met Office fools summer forecast
I'm more accurate than they are....
I'm more accurate than they are....
bbc is a tool of the government/civil service who needed us spend at home this summer
Im not complianing -its been an awesome July out on the board
29 July 2009, 04:51 PM
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Let's not beat about the bush. This summer's been f*cking abysmal. Just like the last 3. My eldest son will be 4 in September: he's never experienced an actual "summer" here yet. Such an event seems about as believable to him as Santa Claus!
We've managed one barbecue so far and that was the day of the Monaco GP, way back on 24 May!
We even missed out on the South-East's brief heatwave.
It's been p!ssing it down all afternoon whilst I've been sat here.
Back to the Med again for our hols next year then.
We've managed one barbecue so far and that was the day of the Monaco GP, way back on 24 May!
We even missed out on the South-East's brief heatwave.It's been p!ssing it down all afternoon whilst I've been sat here.
Back to the Med again for our hols next year then.
29 July 2009, 04:55 PM
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Just come back from the harsh winter in Australia 23 degrees and sunny in Perth. 18 degrees and sunny in Melbourne. Only 2 days rain out of 20, sunny and blue skies the rest of the time.
Then you get back to this hellhole and have to remember it's summer
Never mind, emigrating as soon as I sort a few things out here.
As for the Met Office they should all be sacked and the money saved and spent on better things. The French forecast our weather far more accurately than the Met Office ever do. They are pathetic!!
23 degrees and sunny in Perth. 18 degrees and sunny in Melbourne. Only 2 days rain out of 20, sunny and blue skies the rest of the time. Then you get back to this hellhole and have to remember it's summer
Never mind, emigrating as soon as I sort a few things out here.
As for the Met Office they should all be sacked and the money saved and spent on better things. The French forecast our weather far more accurately than the Met Office ever do. They are pathetic!!
30 July 2009, 12:13 AM
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The BBC weatherman was quoting on behalf of the Met Office saying "We didn't predict a scorcher, just that it wouldn't be as bad as the last two years." I don't think so. Liars.
30 July 2009, 08:22 AM
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Maybe if the Met Office has a few less spokespeople and PR people and climate change experts, and a few more, er, people who know something about the weather - we could look forward to some half decent forecasts.
I think that it is time we started building the "B Ark"
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I think that it is time we started building the "B Ark"
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Ive just returned from a week in Newquay....well 6 days as we came home a day early.
We had 3 red hot days, and 3 days of solid rain (not just showers but proper heavy none stop rain)....
The sunny days (two of) were spent on Fistral beach (body boarding, swimming, lazing in the sun), and one around the pool at the Hendra site.
The raining days were spent at the indoor Oasis pool, cinema, arcades and tenpin bowling.
340 miles there.......6 hours, 340miles home 7 hours......and 120 miles pottering around.
Although we all had a good time and we did the things we wanted to do, It was a downer with the rain, and I will never do a main shutdown holiday in this country again.
I too listened to the met office with their heatwave predictions....they fcuked up, and often do, if we all fcuked up in our jobs as often as they do, we would be unemployed.
Later Yoza.
We had 3 red hot days, and 3 days of solid rain (not just showers but proper heavy none stop rain)....
The sunny days (two of) were spent on Fistral beach (body boarding, swimming, lazing in the sun), and one around the pool at the Hendra site.
The raining days were spent at the indoor Oasis pool, cinema, arcades and tenpin bowling.
340 miles there.......6 hours, 340miles home 7 hours......and 120 miles pottering around.
Although we all had a good time and we did the things we wanted to do, It was a downer with the rain, and I will never do a main shutdown holiday in this country again.
I too listened to the met office with their heatwave predictions....they fcuked up, and often do, if we all fcuked up in our jobs as often as they do, we would be unemployed.
Later Yoza.
