The Great British Weather

stratford

Fuck this heat.

Yea. Can someone turn it down a bit? Too hotttttttttt

At least it was reasonably cool for the commute in. But the ride home is exhausting at the moment.

i loved that feeling, leaving an airconditioned office stepping out into the sultry heat
like stepping off an aircraft somewhere tropical, just cycle home slowly along some backstreets via a pub and you're golden

School sports day.

Oof.

As is traditional, at the first hint of heat the office air-con has broken down. Happens every year without fail, the partners all have their own offices with windows and get themselves portable air-con units so don't give a fuck.

When there is a suggestion that we should get working air-con the response is that it costs money.

bbc weather says the heatwave will break tomorrow in " spectacular fashion "

*gets raincoat

heat and humidity building nicely for some electrical storms ?

Won't somebody think of the gardens ?

> the response is that it costs money

topical :(

Someone* has broken down 10 feet from my open ground floor window.
This someone is a white van and the recovery lorry has had his shitty motor idling for the past half hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88fbHOmvRk

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That rain's nice innit?

Curtain rails over in Farringdon just now.

Yea, even when I got caught in it. So nice to not be floored by 30deg heat

thunder and lightning nearby in stratford
hope we don't get it as bad as cornwall

And in Stoke Newington.

Looks like the worst might slide up to the west. Two sites to check:
http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess= (click the 'anim on' button)

I rode back from Hammersmith to Herne Hill last night, surrounded by lightning but no thunder and no rain.

It was odd but cool.

Heat lightnin' is what we call it in these parts.

Filmed about 10 minutes of it around 2:30 am this morning. Walked round the dark house watching the lightning flashes light up various windows. It was pretty cool Although the worst of it didn't pass right overhead the rain and flashes were pretty impressive.

Sounds like good footage for the next video. :)

Great rain last night up at the Flask. Completely dry on the ride home.

Ha. Yeah maybe. It's quite odd because the screen is completely black between flashes and when watching back you don't know which window is going to pop up. Or what will be at it...

Some rain happening in East London