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  1. Wildswimmer Pete
    Hatchmere Lake, Delamere Forest
    Hatchmere Lake, Delamere Forest, Cheshire
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    Hatchmere Lake, Delamere Forest
  3. Wildswimmer Pete
    Feels distinctly autumnal today which is of course par for the course. True to form the hot weather finished promptly just as the schools broke up. Probably Atlantic dross all month until the start of September when high pressure will re-assert itself just as the autumn term begins. Been the same for most of my 68 years with the exception of 1976 when the autumnal weather did actually wait for the arrival of September.
  4. Wildswimmer Pete
    Summer 1976 finished with a bang - literally. The hot weather broke just after Late August Holiday.
  5. Wildswimmer Pete
    Would that article be by Nathan Rao?
  6. Wildswimmer Pete
    It's not UV but a specific wavelength of blue light (if I remember correctly its 450nm). I've got a pukka SAD lamp but will have to bring it out as soon as the nights really begin to draw in.
  7. Wildswimmer Pete
    ......................and SAD
  8. Wildswimmer Pete
    There is a school of thought that we are entering a Grand Minimum, which I agree with. However it might take a few more years before the cooling trend can be confirmed.
  9. Wildswimmer Pete
    I did during summer '76. We were so short of water they were going to have tankers full of treated sewage to use for wild firefighting and irrigation. As soon as a Minister for Drought was appointed, the weather broke. Here the heat broke just after the late August bank holiday with some spectacular thunderstorms. Before someone starts quoting stats this is from memory and of course subjective.
  10. Wildswimmer Pete
    Anyone on two wheels, pedal or motorised, should take it very easy. After weeks of drought this rain will turn the roads into greasy skid pans.
  11. Wildswimmer Pete
    Had to bring in the (dried) washing as it's started RAINING!
  12. Wildswimmer Pete
    I'm dreading the return of winter as do anyone who suffers from SAD, also the huge heating bills.
  13. Wildswimmer Pete
    I'm concerned over the possible outcome of ex-TS Chris stirring up the atmosphere. The past few years' summers have started well but as soon as we had an ex-hurricane or ex-TS arrive on the scene in July or August the result was the ushering in of an early autumn. Bear in mind my location - the south-east fared well but not here in the NW.
  14. Wildswimmer Pete
    Winter 62/63 was the most severe in living memory, however summer '62 was appalling: LP dominated, cloudy, wet and chilly. The best word to describe summer '63 was mediocre with a wet end to August. However autumn '63 was quite spectacular: Warm and sunny, much better than the preceding summer.
  15. Wildswimmer Pete
    I'm 68, asthmatic and with heart failure - I'm lovin't it. It's the lousy British winter that's potentially lethal for me.
  16. Wildswimmer Pete
    Hopefully this summer is a re-run of 1976 ?
  17. Wildswimmer Pete
    I experienced the summer of 1976, that was a real summer. Three months of sun and heat. Prior to then, 1959 was another scorcher. Today, another day unspoiled by bloody cloud thank heavens.
  18. Wildswimmer Pete
    Not really. Hawarden (nr. Chester) often features in highest temps. in the UK as it did yesterday.
  19. Wildswimmer Pete
    I'm off to Swindon then Swansea with a mate on a lorry delivery then back home. Looking at temp. figures it'll be similar to here, 26C max. Glad I'm just the passenger and don't have to drive.
  20. Wildswimmer Pete
    We deserve a decent summer after a.) previous poor to middling summers and b.) that awful, five-month-long winter we've recently endured. This summer does have the scent of 1976.
  21. Wildswimmer Pete
    I now prefer being warm especially as I'm getting on a bit. Couldn't do any winter swimming this year due to stay in hospital but I hope to do so next winter.
  22. Wildswimmer Pete
    Keeping warm in winter is very expensive. During the extreme cold during last February it was costing me nearly £5 a day for gas and electricity (smart meters so have an energy monitor). I live in a ground-floor flat so no roof to lose heat, have cavity insulation and double glazing. In contrast today's bill is so far 97p although that'll go up by about 20p when I run a hot bath later. That sum includes the standing charges, about 74p.
  23. Wildswimmer Pete
    However acclimatisation to heat lasts just a few weeks after exposure when heat tolerance reverts to normal. Acclimatisation to cold is very diifferent. Acclimatisation to extreme cold involves physiolgical adaptation through long training and you keep it for life. Check my avatar
  24. Wildswimmer Pete
    Could see my breath when bringing in the washing. Cold and not good for the Summer Solstice. We have more than enough cold for most of the year so I resent autumnal weather in late June.
  25. Wildswimmer Pete
    Possible 30C next week. Bring it on Immeasurably better than the cold, windy, wet crap that is the British norm.
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