What's the weather like where you are?

[antonia]

Well said Dit I'm just waiting on a begin time to start making an ark.

[Vivienne]

Come over here. It's going to be 98 degrees and nice and muggy.

[Deleted]

Not ton mention the heat advisory today and the excessive heat advisory for tomorrow! Enough already! I'd give my right t*t for a grey, rainy day where it's only 70 degrees.

[adrianmay]

I don't need a right tit at the moment but your welcome here. 79 high with a low of 59. Marine layer is still in. There was a 200 acre brush fire burning up to the north. Pardon the mess and smell.

[eshalda]

We are going to Lake Garda and Lake Como, Crumbs. We will not be driving, but using ferries and public transport, plus hoof power. The Italians have a driving code only they understand, and as for using a zebra crossing- well you wait for a car with German plates and then you know they are fairly certain to stop.
The weather outlook for when we go is warm and sunny.

[crumbs]

Very sensible Eshalda. I have been to Lake Maggiore and it was beautiful.
The driving is, erm, exciting but Mr Crumbs is a very good driver and not easily alarmed. Getting the papers from Italy asking for fines alarmed him though!
Have a wonderful time.

[liverbird]

I believe that there is an ark berthed on the Mersey..... My toes are beginning to web. I don't mind a bit of rain, but this is ridiculous. I wish we could have some thunder to scrub the air clean

[dit]

It's stopped!! It's stopped!!

It's going to do it all over again tomorrow, but for now - it's stopped!!

[amie8]

I'm so lucky to live in the driest part of the country. It's only about eighteen inches deep here

[pie]

In a word: COLD!

[FizzyLogician]

It's cooled off here so it's 80's, and less humid as well. Looking forward to a nice weekend. Anyone is welcome to visit. :>)

[trustme]

If anyone would like to send a bit of rain my way, I'd be thrilled! It was 100 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) today and so humid you could have cut the air with a knife. To top it off, the air-conditioning unit at the office wasn't working at all, so most of today was spent trying to move as little as possible as sweat ran down my face (I opt for the classy look for work, ha ha!) There's a chance of thunderstorms tomorrow, but I'm not holding my breath

[jmsquared]

To the drowning masses: I feel your pain. The last 2 summers here have been among the wettest ever recorded. Floods, cyclones and MOULD....lots of MOULD! Still finding stuff covered in it!
Lovely weather now though!!

[crumbs]

Woke up to torrential rain although it's eased off a bit at the moment. I think our water board still has a hosepipe ban (hysterical laughter) - at this rate we will need aquatic plants as ours are being drowned.
I feel for those poor blighters who's homes have been flooded - this weather is a nightmare for them.

Seems like the US and us are stuck in a long running weather system (at least that's what I heard on the radio the other day) with the States getting unrelenting heat and the UK getting unrelenting rain. I can't remember if they blamed the jet stream, the gulf stream or both!

[amie8]

Yep. The jetstream has moved south this summer. Hope it doesn't develop a taste for it.

I've just noticed a bit of - for the want of a better word - oozage on my bedroom ceiling. Maybe it'll join up with the existing damp patch under the window and the whole side of the house will fall out.

Goodie! Something I can get paranoid about while I lie in bed.

[beatinik]

Sunny, hot, humid. I'm turning on the air conditioner as soon as I finish cleaning the house.

[dit]

The weather is, inevitably, top of the news broadcasts here at the moment. Sky News has just given an explanation - apparently the Jet Stream has decided it doesn't want to leave America just yet (which explains the extended heat there) so it's not in the right place here for the time of year (which explains all the rain). So we can blame the Jet Stream for all our sorrows.

The worrying part is that, at our end of the weather broadcast, it was suggested the situation could continue for another two weeks. I so hope that the forecasters have got that bit wrong!

[eshalda]

I'll be on holiday then. We have seen brief glimpses of the sun this morning, interspersed with threatening clouds. It has given us enough time to assemble the new patio table, which in all probability we won't use until next summer.

[Deleted]

Here's hoping the Jet Stream will move so the UK will get some sun! And perhaps it will get us out of these heat-related doldrums; it was 94 degrees at 11 PM tonight! Ugh.....

[Vivienne]

Well at 8:16 am it is already 90. We're supposed to get to 96 and then next week in the mid 80's. Crikey the desert is cooler than we are. Albuquerque is supposed to get to 88, with soup.

[Deleted]

Looks like there might be a little rain/thunderstorms approaching. I know it won't cool things off but at least it might give the earth a bit of a drink.

[adrianmay]

I know this doesn’t look like much but this is RAIN! I’ve just been outside standing in it at 11:46pm. I even made my husband go out in his PJs to stand in it. Orange County only receives 13 inches of rain per year and, like the rest of the US, we are frightfully behind our average. This is a lovely surprise.

[amie8]

My garden looks like a stretch of Amazonian rainforest.

I'm thinking of offering it to the Top Gear team for this year's big adventure. There's no equivalent of Death Road, of course, but they could try backing out of my driveway during the school run for similar levels of danger.

[antonia]

We keep cutting the grass only to discover 2 days later we have it back twice as long.That of course is if we get a space in the rain big enough to get the mower out.

[meimichan]

....yeah, so we're having a severe drought. Mild drought isn't unusual for this area. I've NEVER seen moderate or severe before.

Please antonia, send all your rain in my direction. WE NEED IT. A few of us are planning to dance in it when it finally does rain.

[crumbs]

Wishing you lots of rain soon Meimichan. At the beginning of spring, many water companies announced severe water shortages. We are now floating. We really do need to swap weathers don't we?

[amie8]

Wasn't today St Swithin's Day? Dry all day here.

How's the next forty days and forty nights looking where you are?

[FizzyLogician]

It's been in the 90's here for days and not supposed to change until ?Wed.

[Deleted]

As former member of the Eagles, Glenn Frey, sang, "The heat is on." I'm glad I'm heading for Europe. It will be a very nice respite from all this heat and humidity.

[beatinik]

Always sunny, but not so hot today, because there is a fresh breeze, the weather is quite nice so far.