Schnee

I'm loving the warmer colour temperature of the daylight at the moment. Feels different, like being abroad. I assume it's due to the Saharan dust?

Is the humidity still set to shoot up from Wednesday? Anyway, i'm now in the real world with energy as my 3 year fixed deal expired on the 31st Aug. So far on the new tariff it's costing about £4.40/day on a/c use when I get home, despite the solar helping. Next Summer will be fun.... Small price to pay though for an important night's sleep since driving is part of my job. Can't be exhausted and risk the safety of everyone.

It certainly made my day job alot easier. It's the complete reverse of what I prefer for work in winter. Granted in Winter I can cope well in freezing or damp conditions over heat as it's easier to warm up than it is to cool down.

It'll be quite nice today and tomorrow as the humidity is at sensible levels. From Weds, it'll be notably different as the humidity is in the 70's and higher.

Several forecasting places are showing the humidity for Weds-Fri above 75%. Certainly interesting, hope it doesn't pass without a light show at the end of it!

Wonder if we'll get some awesome electrical storms after this spell? I remember that September a good few years ago where Leeds got treated to a spectacular night time electrical storm.

I've mixed feelings over summer. The stressed engineer in me loved the cool sunless months that made several parts of my job way easier but, the lazy wekeend cold blooded Yorkshireman in me thought it was overly poor. In a way it is in every way, a reverse of the unseadonal winters we get almost every year!

What's the storm risk looking like for us northern regions as this spell continues into the week? Don't want a flooded bedroom again, it's not fun!

What is it gonna be like on the 18th? Got a Leeds match to cover and I don't want to neglect my wellbeing again!! It's so easy to do when running around like a fly fixing things..... I'm off work for a break after and i'll just flop in my one room with a/c...

I really wish I had a body which had a slower metabolism or something so I could enjoy the elusive summer weather and not feel like some oddity! I've tried so many times to get myself to adjust but I end up a hot sweaty mess with a stonking headache. Ironically in California 11 years back, I had zero issues with the high 30's/low 40's they had there that August. Yesterday I was working at a football match. It wasn't hot but it was somewhat humid and stuffy. I put the a/c on when I got home and promptly collapsed till about 5am with the radio still going. Am I unfit? Unwell? Who knows. I don't feel unfit and in Winter I don't feel the cold one bit. I'm in my early 40's. Anyway, enjoy the rest of the season, hope there's something for everyone to enjoy!

I wonder if we'll get a settled September?

Yeah. That's one reason why we kinda do need a summer and learn to cope more with summer weather. I so need to do the latter and find a happy medium. I enjoyed and took advantage of the cooler weather most of July with a huge project in Sunderland. The hotel closest to the venue had a/c but paid parking. The hotel out of the centre has free parking and no a/c. A worthy compromise which thankfully paid off and the project wasn't a draining mental chore as another in Leeds 2 years before was in the summer heat. It hits at night, especially if I use ibuprofen and paracetamol to dull sun induced headaches..... i'm my own worst enemy sometimes! Work H&S over uniforms needs adapting I think too.

It's heavenly for working in...am enjoying that so much, I cannot hide that fact. Though we do need summer for many reasons.

Yeah, i'd just do the bedroom. It makes alot of difference being able to get a good sleep in hot conditions. Perhaps the living room too if heat conditions become regular every year. You won't be able to sleep with it on all night, if it's a portable. I used earplugs during that spell last year where I left it on at 24C for a solid 4 days (cost £5/day on 17p/KWh, with solar helping in daylight). It's the cooling version of the past where one room was heated in the depths of winter. Fitted units need to be done properly, there's technical stuff invovled and future questions as to the heating side. Fitted units are usually air based heat pumps and considerations to replace a conventional wet heat system with an air based system need to be looked at too.

Pretty angry looking storm over London area. Meanwhile up here it's hazy sun and quite comfortable temperatures.

Stock up on cheaper a/c units! All too many forget that Summer is an annual thing and sell them off cheap when they're not needed....

I was in Bishop Auckland today. Surprising how humid it felt given the temperature, totally different back in Leeds.

It's been a blessing so far for me. Working on a massive project in Sunderland for most of the month, the cooler temps have been most welcome for working in and picking a hotel away from the centere with free parking but compromising on not having a/c. If it had been overly hot, i'd eventually loose my calm and let the pressure win, eventually making mistakes and ruining the huge job i'm up there doing. Also a warmer, benign winter would be welcome. My 3 year fixed term ends at the end of next month. I'll very much miss the 17p/KWh for electric and 3p/KWH for gas....

Yeah, I had my allocated storm last night so it'll be rain... it looks like rain on the radar.

Skies to my west and south west are dark. Can't hear any distant thunder here yet.

Must admit the current weather is making the day job so much easier.... it's cool and sunny which is lovely for getting stuff done outside in a relaxing, less stress way. However, the awesome June has lead to a bumper crop of fruit from the rasperry bush. The fruit trees are doing well so far too.

It really is lovely up there. Hopefully you'll see some action appear.

Curious what happens here in the eastern side of Leeds, about 25 miles west of York.

I notice the house being cooler in Autumn after the summer. By Spring, I notice the same indoor temperatures as being too warm!

That'll certainly upset day trippers at the coast.... the arcades will suddenly get a rush of customers!