Weather WTF

[The Brain]

15°C in Stockholm, with heavy rain. What's with the summer talk?

[crazy canuck]

Currently 29 in my backyard and nothing but Blue sky.

[mongers]

It's been hot for the last 2-3 days here in Southern England, temperatures over 90F :gasp:

Set to remain so for the next few days, I can imagine how bad is must be in continental Europe.   

[Liep]

It's been hot for the last 2-3 days here in Southern England, temperatures over 90F :gasp:

Set to remain so for the next few days, I can imagine how bad is must be in continental Europe.   

It's lovely.

[Duque de Bragança]

It's been hot for the last 2-3 days here in Southern England, temperatures over 90F :gasp:

Set to remain so for the next few days, I can imagine how bad is must be in continental Europe.   

It's lovely.

No.

[PDH]

It's only early August, so Summer hasn't hit here yet.  Foggy mornings and sunny afternoons.  Later in the month that should change and September and October will get warmer.

[KRonn]

It's been warm and low humidity the last few days. Then through Wednesday we'll have hotter and more humid weather, but then it'll cool off some for about the next week after that.

[Sheilbh]

BBC has just upgraded forecast to London to 34 on Friday.

And staying around there until Wednesday when, hopefully, a storm will break it.

I like hot weather, but London is not built for this

[Duque de Bragança]

BBC has just upgraded forecast to London to 34 on Friday.

And staying around there until Wednesday when, hopefully, a storm will break it.

I like hot weather, but London is not built for this

Most big cities aren't, with the possible exception of Southern European cities.

[Sheilbh]

Most big cities aren't, with the possible exception of Southern European cities.

Yeah. Most Southern European cities have buildings that are quite cool in the summer, have the big blinds etc. London does not

We're not great at insulation either because our climate should be more temperate

[Duque de Bragança]

I thought English climate was really temperate; omnipresent rain is quite the leveler. 
No real summer, no real winter etc., though Geordistan for instance might have a winter.

[Sheilbh]

I thought English climate was really temperate; omnipresent rain is quite the leveler. 

London's drier than Rome or Barcelona - we only get half the amount of rain Sidney does

London's often grey but it's not very wet, probably because of temperateness. We don't often have big storms.

No real summer, no real winter etc., though Geordistan for instance might have a winter.

I don't know about Newcastle, but when I moved from the Highlands the existence of seasons was very noticeable. In the South of England there is a very clear spring and autumn and summer, but then there's just 4 months of it being generally crap but not particularly wintry. Whereas in the Highlands you could get all the weather types in one day (the only snow days I ever got was when we had blizzards in April and no-one was prepared). But you basically had winter, and then 6 weeks of nice-ish weather. Unfortunately the nice weather also coincided with the midgie season so...

[Syt]

Vienna has started to add mist showers to some hot parts of town, and is creating incentives for adding green to roofs and facades. They're also checking which areas are specifically affected by excessive heat and add measures there, like additional trees. Plus a few spot projects, like adding sun sails to some shadeless concrete areas, or putting a swimming pool on a busy intersection:







Due to Corona, only max. 6 people are allowed in the water at the same time. Yes, there is a life guard.

[Duque de Bragança]

I thought English climate was really temperate; omnipresent rain is quite the leveler. 

London's drier than Rome or Barcelona - we only get half the amount of rain Sidney does

London's often grey but it's not very wet, probably because of temperateness. We don't often have big storms.

No real summer, no real winter etc., though Geordistan for instance might have a winter.

I don't know about Newcastle, but when I moved from the Highlands the existence of seasons was very noticeable. In the South of England there is a very clear spring and autumn and summer, but then there's just 4 months of it being generally crap but not particularly wintry. Whereas in the Highlands you could get all the weather types in one day (the only snow days I ever got was when we had blizzards in April and no-one was prepared). But you basically had winter, and then 6 weeks of nice-ish weather. Unfortunately the nice weather also coincided with the midgie season so...

English Riviera does not count.
As for having 4 seasons in a single day, that's the Azores for me, oceanic climate so close to English weather. 

[Sheilbh]

I don't mean the English riviera - I moved to Oxfordshire so about the most inland bit of the country, plus London and the West Country.

As I say it was genuinely a big difference - I remember being amazed at the first autumn seeing all the trees change colour because, where I was in Scotland, it was mainly Forestry Commission land so mostly conifers. But we had a few broad-leaf trees that would start to turn, until there was one windy day at which point there were no more leaves