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latest from the met office,very high uv index and temps for tuesday and especially wednesday,make sure you cover up well and if possible stay out of the midday sun.this coming forecast could break british records this week,also watch out for thunderstorms thursday onwards never mind factor 50, go for total sun block
KW,

The met-office are going with these regional predicted maximum temps :


Predicted max. temperatures:
South-east England 37 °C
South-west England 36 °C
Midlands 36 °C
North-west England 35 °C
North-east England 33 °C
East Anglia 37 °C
Wales 34 °C
Scotland 31 °C
Northern Ireland 30 °C

Also, a 30% probability on Wednesday of breaking the all-time UK temperature record max temp.
where's me calypo

You're not kidding Peter

I'm sweating like a priest in a brothel here. You cannot go outside at the moment it is so hot. The tarmac is melting and going all over the place, little black bubbles bursting all over your shoes. There is no air, no breeze and the heat is oppressive here.

I got up to the lottie at 9am and it was swealtering in the greenhouse that had been left open all night. The chillis are loving it though. Isn't it the hotter the climate the hotter the chilli?

Gloves may be required then for handling my chillis. I've given up watering anything outside, I can't keep up. Hauling watering cans around in this heat is not my idea of fun. The stuff will be ok hopefully, due rain in the next few days.

Yes, your chillies will be burning in the pan before you've turned the cooker on!
I don't do any gardening at the moment. Just watering.

Say hot! My garden is 8 foot lower than my garden. I have hand rails. I went out a few minutes ago, to pick some carrotts, and burned my hand on the rail. Pick later!

I've been going to the plot at 6am - 10am when I can work in some shade and then hiding in the house for the rest of the day. I'm about to venture out to water the greenhouses and then have to go to the lottie to pick some lettuce for dinner. It's 80F on my patio right now and that's in the shade. In the sun the thermometer hit 120F both yesterday and today and in the shaded greenhouse it's off the scale. It's supposed to get hotter tomorrow so they say...

I have no shade on the lottie at all. It's right in the middle of the site so get the full force of everything!!!! Watering is not an option cos it gets evaporated out of the soil as quick as I put it in, even when watering at the base of the plants

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. I hate the hot weather as it affects my bones etc which gives me increased pain. Thank God for medication so I can get up and down to school at the mo. Will do a quick reccie on the lottie first thing in the morning, maybe.

Hope it's cooler on Thursday cos I'm off to Tatton Park with my old mum. You never know, I could be on telly.

....and here we sit in our huge new open plan offices - with tiny-weeny windows and no Air Coniditioning.
We reckon it hit around 37c inside yesterday (Tues) - so we're realy looking forward to todays top temp.




KGAdmin

I won`t complain it could rain for the rest of the year,remember spring?I am going to do what I never do and sit in the garden and enjoy it(not looking at the apple tree which needs pruning or at the veggie patch where the clay/concrete needs preparing for further sewings...).I`ll leave the watering until tonight when a G&T with lots of ice makes it less of a chore.

11.30 Wednesday nd the temperature in our sun-trap has gone past 34.5 C.
I got up at 3.30 and opened all the windows to take advantage of the cool air outside. I even stuck a fan in an open window to send in more cool air. It's all shut now and low twenties inside. I just tried glueing some acrylic sheet, had to give up as the glue was dry before I could put the pieces together.It's part of getting our second freezer mended, without that we can't store the fruit already picked.
Allan

Cool breeze here off the coast!(near Whitby)
Anybody know what the temp is going to be tomorrow?

Dx

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun - and apparently - PIGS! I caught one of mine in the wallow sun bathing! The underneath was mud and the top a gentle shade of pink. I got the hose and hosed her down which she loved. The other one came out and put her face into the hose and then turned round for me to hose all of her!I'm glad I'm off school for the summer because I've kept an eye on this sunbathing lark since.

Apparantley we are in for thunderstorms tommorow in the east midlands.

West Midlands thunder but very little rain re.2100,oh,and power cut.Still hot and stickey, luckly due to some tomato droop after the last post no more watering today....but tommorow?

It's 1.40 am here and still 80 degrees.

It's certainly too hot to sleep. Think i'll go and read my book now and have a brew

.....and still no rain.I was hoping to hear a downpour through the open windows last night but no joy.