Just how HOT is it in your part of the UK or continental Europe ?

[steve2470]

I read that UK is just totally miserable right now.

I have a friend in NW Germany who is too hot.

DFW ? How bad is it where you are ?

Anyone else want to chime in ?

If you do not have AC and live in UK and Europe, my deepest sympathies!
We cannot survive in Florida without it (well you can but....).

[T_i_B]

1. We have just had a short burst of showers!

It has freshened things up a bit.

I'm sure it will be back to being sweatier than a very sweaty thing before too long.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

2. The last 2 weeks of June

And most of July has been too hot here in Lancs. Even worse has been the lack of rain. We bought a portable ac unit which has saved us.

However, today has been normal, rainy, windy and cooler. High today just barely over 60. Last year, I never had to water my plants. This year, I’ve struggled to keep them alive.

[Chris Studio]

3. Ireland

Ireland has had insane heat (for Ireland) and no rain to speak from June until last night.

Rivers are extremely low, and the grass in most places is the color of straw.

Water restrictions will be in place - the so called hosepipe ban - until at least August.

This is novel for Ireland, and the Irish are largely enjoying it... but no one I've spoken too wants this to be the new normal.

Today it's grey and damp... typical Irish summer weather... and it's supposed to remain that way more or less for the next few days.

My kids both went to our back porch and stuck their arm out into the rain last night... they hadn't felt rain in so long it was exciting.

[zanana1]

4. I can't imagine Ireland not being green.

It kind of breaks my heart. I hope you get all the rain you need in the near future. (Also, lower temps).

[Chris Studio]

5. Thanks!!

It's definitely a shocker!

On the plus side, what I think climate change means for Ireland is a more tropical climate, in that it will shift to having a wet season and a dry season... not the extremes of somewhere like SE Asia, but more extreme than it has been historically.

[Chris Studio]

6. Plus there's this

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628905864/in-ireland-drought-and-a-drone-revealed-the-outline-of-an-ancient-henge?t=1532780288723

[Brother Buzz]

11. He shouted at another photographer, who was flying his own drone nearby, "What the f*** is that?"

In Ireland, Drought And A Drone Revealed The Outline Of An Ancient Henge



A drone flight and a lingering dry spell have exposed a previously unknown monument in Ireland's Boyne Valley, forgotten for thousands of years and long covered by crops — which, struggling to cope with a lengthy drought, finally revealed the ancient footprint.

Photographer and author Anthony Murphy discovered the site. He was flying a drone near Newgrange, a famous prehistoric stone monument in County Meath, on Tuesday, taking pictures of the known archaeological attractions. Then he saw something strange — a perfect circle, etched in the color of the crops, in an otherwise unremarkable field.

Murphy runs the website Mythical Ireland (also the name of his latest book), which focuses on the megalithic monuments of the Boyne Valley. He knew the local sites well — every passage tomb, every banked enclosure, every archaeological dig. And he'd been flying drones here for months.

He'd never seen this.

He shouted at another photographer, who was flying his own drone nearby, "What the f*** is that?"

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https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628905864/in-ireland-drought-and-a-drone-revealed-the-outline-of-an-ancient-henge?t=1532780288723

[Chris Studio]

13. I'd probably shout that too!

And it's not just that one, they've discovered several more as well...

Every cloud - or lack thereof - has a silver lining I guess.

[Brother Buzz]

16. I understand they've mapped hundreds, if not thousands of potential archaeology

sites with modern technology (Lidar being the big one). And by using some slick software that combines and overlays different spectrum images, they are producing fuzzy pictures of 'something' that 'may' be there. It's hard to beat a clean in-your-face aerial photograph. Can you say Serendipity?

Bummer, there simply aren't the resources to pursue all of them.

[Chris Studio]

20. It is a bummer

Ireland is so littered with this stuff. It's pretty hard to explain.

There's a few places near where my family goes in holiday every year they are pre-Christian... Bronze age, or megalithic.... There's just so much of it... So even what's there and known is kinda... Everywhere... I always think you could dig down 10 feet just about anywhere and find something amazing.

Actually, from where I live I can see the Wicklow Mountains and on top of one of those, visible from attic window, is a megalithic tomb.

Sure, in Dublin there's a pub that's 820 years old.

Things are just....old...here.

[Brother Buzz]

22. It's also a bummer when the amateurs dig into things and muck things up

I lived in an old rectory in Somerset, just outside of Bristol. Behind it were the ruins of a Neolithic long barrow. I learned, after I discovered and studies the ruins in detail, that two enthusiastic Reverends from neighboring parishes, fancying themselves as 'men of science', tore into it at the end of the eighteenth century; that they had a grand time tossing all the midden and rubble aside, searching for the treasure. At the end of the day, everything was lost to science. And that, my friend, is a Bummer.

[Chris Studio]

23. Wow!

That's brutal.

You wonder how much we've lost in exactly that fashion. A lot I'd bet.

[smirkymonkey]

7. That is unusual. What have the temps been ranging over July?

I was there in June years ago and it was mostly in the 60's F, which is perfect for me (15 -20 C). We had some sun, but foggy damp mornings and a few rainy days as well. I loved how green everything was! I went on a Rick Steves tour so we started in Dublin and did a circle around the island ending up back in Dublin. It was beautiful!

[T_i_B]

8. Consistently high temperatures

Constantly hot and muggy for over a month now.

It's been really nice to have had a few short showers in the last 48 hours!

[Chris Studio]

15. July

68 - 78 without rain on most days. But it's also gone up as high as 85-90 on multiple days, which was something like a 40 year old record... in fact most people are comparing this to a really extreme year we had her in 1976... I didn't live here then so, I can't vouch, but that's what's in the media.


https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2018/0630/974393-weather-heatwave-ireland/

http://www.dailyedge.ie/heatwave-ireland-not-coping-4092234-Jun2018/

[smirkymonkey]

18. 68-78 w/ out rain is quite nice, but the higher temps are very unusual.

Not many people over there have air-conditioning either, do they? I always thought that if I had a lot of money I would spend my summers in northern Europe because I hate the extreme heat, but now it seems like there are very few places on the planet where you can out run it anymore!

[Chris Studio]

19. There's basically no a/c

And no need for it really... Though that may sadly change.

Still, I don't think it'd ever even been 95 here... So... Fingers x'd.

And northern Europe is wonderful.

[T_i_B]

9. With all the grass turning to straw.....

.....there has also been a marked upturn in fires in places like Saddleworth Moor as a lot of the plantlife has become like tinder. There was one such fire on a hill overlooking the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield the other week!

[Chris Studio]

14. Yep

There have been a lot of wildfires here as well!

Hopefully this rain we're getting here today will end that for now.

[elleng]

10. DFW's on his annual visit to Cape Cod, I think,

so not likely to get info from him!

[steve2470]

17. oh yes that's right, thanks! nt

[ailsagirl]

12. I guess I'm lucky to be in California, where the heat is fierce but the humidity low

And, of course, fires everywhere

[lpbk2713]

21. A week of 100 plus temps coming up for Seville, Spain.

I've been there in the summer time and it does get hot.
No rain in the forecast to cool it off.

Link: https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Seville+Spain+SPXX0074:1:SP

[johnsolaris]

24. Dallas

Hi,

The High Temps in Dallas have been over 100 F for over a week now. Several records have been set with the high reaching 107F a couple of times. It is hot & I am not looking forward to the Electric bill when it shows up. I am sure it too will be a record high, but I am happy to have A/C here in Texas in this hot summer.

[DFW]

25. Where I am at this moment?

Low 80s during the day, high 60s at night. But I am not in Europe at the moment. I am on Cod, Massachusetts. Back home, it is 35° C (mid 90s), and the people are suffering. We don't have air conditioning there.

[steve2470]

26. I'm glad you're somewhere relatively cool, my friend!

Hopefully by the time you get back home, it will be cooler.

All the best to you, MrsDFW and your family!

[DFW]

28. I'll be in the States for another month

It's paradise here on the outer Cape, but I have no illusions what it will be like in Dallas!

[flor-de-jasmim]

27. High 80s in Copenhagen

This has been sweltering for us - normal temps are mid 60s to mid 70s, with an occasional day in the high 70s.