UK weather

daveforty said:

are beer threads as argumentative as oil threads?

re. weather; there have been some big hillfires around my part of the world, one of them (Llangynidr mountain) has been burning for days and the smoke covers a very wide area. For followers of Paul Henshaw, (on YouTube) one of the areas he rides - up to the Llyn Brianne dam also has a large wildfire burning.

Fires on the hills aren't _that_ unusual, but the current sizes of / number of fires is unprecedented.

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Yes, or at least as subjective. I can say that I've had some beers that had to have tasted worse than cheap oil anyway.

Come to my neck of the woods, hot summers, bush fires, floods in our wet season, even now in our winter months our days are around 25c and nights down to 12c and we drink cold beers all year and we can ride all year round, except when its pissing down rain lol, but I have had my share of riding in heavy rain to get home or going somewhere.
But our state of Queensland we have burn offs during the winter months to stop the build up of under growth in summer and we have less survived bush fires than other states, but we still got to prepare if you live in the bush, be ready for anything.
In the suburbs more house fires caused by Liftium batteries going up in smoke people recharging their scooters.

Here in Devon we’ve had no rain for many weeks, days where it has been 30°+ and for us temperate climate people it has been rather too much. A few weeks ago we decided we needed to get away in the motorhome for a break, my wife has been extremely ill for the past 18 months and this was our first chance to get out of the house. We went to France and Belgium, with a quick look into the Netherlands before deciding to go down to the Ardennes forest region. Where we had experienced hot for the previous 10 days or so, we now encountered the mouth of hell! It was approaching 40° and no air con apart from when we were driving. So we turned around and motored off to Brittany, it was ‘only’ 28° there, but still uncomfortable. After a quick return to Belgium so I could get Molly the Labrador’s EU pet passport brought up to date we then made our way back home.
To heat, and dry, and more heat. We aren’t used to it, and don’t understand it.
Last Thursday I needed to get out on my Hayabusa, full leathers etc. to attend a bike meet 45 miles away, and it was 30° when I left home. By the time I finally returned it had dropped to 26° but inside my leathers I felt like a boil in the bag chicken. I was wringing wet and close to collapse. Dehydrated despite plenty of cold drinks.
As my wife, although still poorly as it’s life limiting and not curable, has said she is able to travel, thankfully. I have planned another getaway in 2 weeks time for a 2 month trip to Norway again. I know we will be guaranteed cooler temperatures, guaranteed wetness, and if what generally happens to us in our later holidays we will encounter snow, as it did in Sweden 2024