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Paisley weather today is hot, calm, clammy and covered by thick, flat overcast.

Barcelona weather, according to my daughter, not so much.

 

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There wasn't the breeze this morning that there was yesterday but then, there wasn't the heat either so still a comfortable day. Rained in the morning and didn't in the afternoon. Not much more to be said for such a day.

I got a new intravenous antibiotic. Here endeth the news.

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The trees, the trees, thems mooove. That's how they describe a breeze in Paisley, and indeed, a breeze it was that made a good fist of trying to move some air through the ward. My daughter visited with tales of wind, rain and coldness up on the farm, so she was surprised when her car thermometer said 20⁰C once at the hospital. The duffel coat would have looked out of place - if we hadn't been in Paisley. 

I have my own tree now. You hang bags of I.V. drugs it, 2 currently to combat my latest infection. Slow process.

So, when do we start placing bets on @Blitzen's snaw blawr roaring into action? I mean year, not month, obviously. 

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Paisley certainly hasn't had a heatwave summer so far. There were two days in the high 20s but the rest of June and July has loitered in the low, mid and upper 20s and often mid to high teens. Plus clear sky has been at a premium so most days have been decidedly humid, which along with little wind for a lot of the time has left days and nights feeling stuffy. Or muggy. You choose. At least there's been little rain that has tried to make summer stand out, but then spring had little rain also. I think most folk here will be disappointed up to this point. Anyone for August? Or autumn?

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2 hours ago, mardatha said:

Husband nearly ended up like you puffy but managed to stay at home albeit with plumbing installed and district nurses coming daily. He has kidney disease.

Weather - been great. Hot and sunny. Too hot for me, I'm so close to the fan  I think my nose is shorter than it was.

I have a respiratory consultant here and a couple of specialist nurses and a whole load of fancy equipment, all of whom I plan to entice home with me on a promise of filthy lucre and fine wine. I hadn't thought of spending enough for a plumber though. That would be an either-or situation I think.

It got hotter following my last report, mid 20s, and calmer, and thereby more stuffy. Not at all nice when you're stuck inside.

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6 hours ago, Blitzen said:

Well...Nice to return to such a 'descriptive' post!

Hello folks!   I see the old die- hards are still around.   Comforting to say the least!  (the very least)    The site has changed a bit during my absence so it may take me a while to get what's left of my head around it!   Here goes...

I'm sorry but I had no idea we were going to be joined by such distinguished company. Well relatively.

Temperature in low 20⁰C range, bright sky despite cloud cover greater than 50%, calm and stuffy. Not comfortable.

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Hello kilties, I'm back with apologies for my absence, which was caused by feeling particularly ill and made worse by the ongoing stuffy heat here in Paisley. Difficult when one can't get a breath, isn't able to eat or drink properly, has squiffy feeling guts and a blazing headache. Four solid days of wanting to give up the ghost. And then, as usually happens when the doctors run out of ideas, someone said, "give him an enema." You may laugh but this isn't a Benny Hill enema, oh no, this is a full strength, hospital edition, Sam Peckinpah enema. No laughing matter. They don't show you the vehicle of delivery, I suspect it's a two-man submarine, however once it starts entering your system you can feel it gurgling all the way through your innards, rumbling and grumbling on its way, until after about ten minutes it stops, fizzes a bit, rumbles and grumbles some more, then there's a loud slushy sound like flicking the compression valves on a big diesel engine when trying to start it, and then dear reader it reverses. Couldn't hear what sound that makes because of my own demented cries for deliverance, but the effect was epic. The doctors enjoyed it hugely, less so one of the nurses who is still getting therapy. And a good hosing down. For my part, I haven't moved since, nor will I for a while following such a biblical movement, so I lay out here, eyes still on stalks, staring at the ceiling and lapsing in and out of troubled slumber. Good news is i feel much better, I think, I'm breathing easier, and my weight has gone down from 94kg to 86kg. Once in a lifetime experience not to be repeated.

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Didn't sleep last night so spent the entire morning making g up for what I'd missed. Therefore no idea what the weather was like this morning. Bright overcast this afternoon and evening let plenty of heat through, it's still high teens now, with little breeze but enough rain to cause flooding on the surrounding roads, apparently. 

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Is that drizzle here to mark the day,

Or veil of moor mist toned in grey,

Neither make me overjoyed,

Nurse! Get another opioid....

(actually, my painkiller is actually an opiate, coming as it does from a natural source, but that didn't fit. Try not to let this ruin ma pome for yous)

Also have  slight breeze, overcast and temperature in the mid to upper teens.

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I've been back in the High Dependency Unit for a couple of days so have changed my direction of view back from westerly to easterly, which today had one marked difference - rain.

Proper rain contained in three or four proper showers that each lasted at least half an hour. Between them they've completely changed the atmosphere from humid to fresh. I like this a lot.

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10 hours ago, Snowandrocks said:

Hopefully get some rain soon but it's not looking promising. 

As one fish said to the other.

(could there possibly be a better drought photo?)

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I have no idea what the weather's been like for the last two days as I've mainly been sleeping through a high fever. I also have no idea, dear Kilties, what is causing the fever but you can rest assured that none of my bodily fluids and none if my personal orifices have gone untested in the medical staff's search for answers. They call it a wide sweep. I call it a pain in the bahoochie.

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21:00 Paisley (end of run)

BBC 19⁰C, MetO 21⁰C and TWC 21⁰C.

Bright overcast, light breeze from the west, no sign yet of rain. A very comfortable evening.

So no temperature records broken here at the Royal Alexandra Hospital although it did get pretty hot on both Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Much to do about nuffin, as someone once said.

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18:00

BBC 22⁰C, MetO 22⁰C and TWC 23⁰C.

Breeze (westerly) has slightly increased again and is now producing useful cooling across the ward, I'm told. I'm certainly feeling the benefit in my room.

Still entirely overcast but maybe thinner in places and no precipitation as yet.

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15:30

BBC says it's 27⁰C, MetO 28⁰C, TWC 29⁰C

Light breeze blowing through my window is still managing to keep everything comfortable. I say comfortable, but then I'm pretty much undressed, lying on a bed and doing absolutely nothing. Light overcast has extended to cover all of the visible sky and no still sign of rain.

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12:00 Noon

BBC says it's 26⁰C, MetO 25⁰C, TWC 26⁰C

Very light breeze blowing through my window and just managing to keep everything comfortable. Light overcast covering half the visible sky and no sign of rain as yet.

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Nowcast (09:00) from my three weather apps are as follows:-

BBC 20⁰C, MetO 21⁰C and The Weather Channel 20⁰C. None of them feel right. My window has been open all night and the blind has been down. I would say the temperature in my little side room is currently in the liw to mid teens.

Forecasts for maximum temperature today are:-

BBC 27⁰C at 14:00, MetO 28⁰C at 15:00 and TWC 27⁰C at 13:00. Not much in it.

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21:00

BBC has 23⁰C MetO 24⁰C and TWC 23⁰C.

More of a spread for overnight though with the BBC having a lowest temperature of 15⁰C from 03:00 to 06:00, Met O showing 20⁰C from 04:00 to 06:00, and The Weather Channel going for 20⁰C from 00:00 to 06:00 and then 19⁰C as the nightly low at 07:00. Could be a bit stuffy for Puffy. Hope not. Certainly didn't feel record breaking hot today.

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18:00

MetO says 26⁰C BBC 26⁰C and TWC 28⁰C

Sky remains clear and the breeze that was blowing has reverted to generally westerly. Slightly sticky but not yet oppressive.

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15:00

MetO says 26⁰C BBC 27⁰C and TWC 28⁰C

Sky remains clear and the breeze that was blowing my blind into to room is now dragging it outwards, so direction has swung from generally westerly to generally easterly I would guess.

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I've now got 23⁰C on the MetO and 24⁰C on BBC and The Weather Channel. The sky is mainly clear and a breeze is blowing cool air through my bedroom window, which is making for a pleasant enough environment in here. Only fly in the ointment is my oxygen mask that makes everything feel a bit stuffy. On balance I'm feeling pretty comfortable so far in sunny Paisley.

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Okay, so we're off on the heatwave highstakes horserace. I'll be following the temperature on three apps, BBC  Weather, Met Office, and The Weather Channel, so far all in agreement at 18⁰C. Unlike most of the last week the sky is mainly clear and for the first time it actually looks like it might actually be a roaster.  No breeze yet.

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Low to mid 20s for temperature today along with solidly overcast sky and little to no breeze for most of the day made for a stuffy feel to proceedings, which only freshened up late afternoon as the breeze increased usefully and the temperature started to fall a shade. Still betting on not much more for tomorrow's heat event but we'll see.

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Temperature rose from liw teens this morning to mid/high teens this afternoon, all under a completely overcast sky with a gentle breeze and no precipitation. Opening my window by an inch provided a very comfortable and habitable ambience in Puffy World.

Still jealous of @snowidea and her grand tour of Orkney. What great photos.

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Low teens temperature this morning with heavy overcast, stiff breeze and no precipitation turned into high teens temperature this afternoon with largely clear sky, light breeze and no precipitation. Nice and easy to maintain a low heat environment in my side room just by manipulating the open window and blind positions.

I'm never absolutely convinced by models and charts, even four days out, and have a feeling that actual events will be disappointing to those expecting to be cooking by Tuesday, certainly in the west of the Central Belt.

Hand down a heat induced clay soil crack @Northernlights? Pah! Tis nothing. I dropped the back wheel of my tractor down a crack in 1976. Best part of a foot down it went. With a trailer piled high with hay bales on the back. Farm manager was very impressed. Not. That was an actual hot summer.