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    Quote Originally Posted by spudfan View Post
    Summer is here so I was heading outside to enjoy it.
    "Don't forget the sun cream." said the Mrs "You might need it." Well I didn't need it
    How things Change Spud. Lots of new records= You may need the sun screen again mate

    Heatwave: Fires blaze after UK passes 40C for first time - BBC News

    Noting Ireland seems just about perfect to me at about 25 ish.

    "Farmers have warned the UK is not equipped to deal with water shortages caused by the changing climate, with Minette Batters, the president of the National Farmers' Union, saying the unprecedented temperatures were "really highlighting issues with water security"."

    Could the UK and Ireland become like us the Lands of Fire, Floods and Droughts?

    1976 is apparently the chatter.

    "People on social media have been comparing the high temperatures in much of the UK with the heatwave of 1976, suggesting that the severity of the current hot weather is being exaggerated.So, what does the evidence show?


    How hot was the summer of 1976?


    The peak that year was 35.9C. That has been beaten by the current temperatures, with 40.3C recorded so far.


    The heatwave of 1976 started in June and lasted for two months. There was a lack of rainfall and a significant drought, with the government enforcing water rationing.


    The heatwave was rare for that decade. The average maximum temperature in July in the 1970s was 18.7C. In the 2010s, it was more than 20C."


    UK heatwave: How do temperatures compare with 1976? - BBC News


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    We have not had the high temperatures that the U.K. has experienced. I have just checked on line and the forecast given for the next week gives a brief high temperature of 11 degrees centigade. Most is forecast in single figures.
    Today while out on the hills I had a hailstone shower so no heatwave here yet. One unusual thing I did notice was this little oddity. While down by a lake I noticed a massive amount of from spawn. It would have easily been over 20 square foot in area. Though this was close to the lake it was away from the lake on a slight slope down to the lake.
    The old lore over here is that if you see frog spawn in pools of water you can expect a dry warm spell of weather thus the frogs anticipate this and place the frog spawn in pools. With today's sighting of the mass of frog spawn on the ground outside of the lake and above the flood level of the lake, which drains out underground at the other end, I can only surmise that the frogs do not anticipate a warm, dry spell any time soon. Nature usually has the inside track on these things.
    In soft ground I came across some fox tracks some hours old and some very fresh badger tracks. I came across prints of two different badgers. One set being slightly larger than the other. I always keep track of what the locals are up to when I am out in the hills.
    It will be interesting to see if the frogs have called this one right and there will be no warm dry spell before the tadpoles emerge. I'll check in on the frog spawn and let you know how right or wrong the frogs were.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spudfan View Post
    We have not had the high temperatures that the U.K. has experienced. I have just checked on line and the forecast given for the next week gives a brief high temperature of 11 degrees centigade. Most is forecast in single figures.
    Today while out on the hills I had a hailstone shower so no heatwave here yet. One unusual thing I did notice was this little oddity. While down by a lake I noticed a massive amount of from spawn. It would have easily been over 20 square foot in area. Though this was close to the lake it was away from the lake on a slight slope down to the lake.
    The old lore over here is that if you see frog spawn in pools of water you can expect a dry warm spell of weather thus the frogs anticipate this and place the frog spawn in pools. With today's sighting of the mass of frog spawn on the ground outside of the lake and above the flood level of the lake, which drains out underground at the other end, I can only surmise that the frogs do not anticipate a warm, dry spell any time soon. Nature usually has the inside track on these things............
    Plants and animals can get it wrong. I believe some plants were flowering early there according to the BBC due to the warm weather, but there are no pollinating animals around, so they won't set fruit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spudfan View Post
    Summer is here so I was heading outside to enjoy it.
    "Don't forget the sun cream." said the Mrs "You might need it." Well I didn't need it


    Well with all that clobber on Spud, Sun cream may have been a bit of a waste.

    During the Summer of '76 there folk inc SWAMBO, were carting water out to the New Forest for the Ponies so thank goodness some people thought of them & she had just arrived back in the UK after many years away.

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