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Hey Hey!! I've been sunbathing today!!
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It been 30 to 31 C all day!!!!
Been sunbathing and working on my tan!!!!!!!
Been sunbathing and working on my tan!!!!!!!
Imnotdutch
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gtrcivic said:
You know where the cancer clinic is?
FatRat
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Scorchio! Is Britain the new Mediterranean? (from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3063985.stm)
It's been hot - and on Tuesday the mercury is expected to hit the warmest temperature of the year. Is this mini heatwave a taste of summers to come in the UK?
Britons own more convertibles than other Europeans and the pavements are filling with alfresco cafe tables. Vineyards are cropping up across southern England, sales of barbeque equipment have soared, and butterflies native to southern Europe flutter as far north as Yorkshire.
While the climate in the UK is not (yet?) Mediterranean, there is a trend for warmer, wetter weather. Spring arrives earlier and autumn later, and summer seems to be getting steadily hotter.
Forecasters predict this will be the warmest summer since 1995, which was the best for 50 years bar the heat wave of 1976. Last month the UK basked in one of the hottest Junes on record, and July looks set to be record breaker.
Since the weekend, parts of the UK have topped the temperatures in Bermuda and the Balearics. Shepshed in Lincolnshire reached 30.5C on Sunday, and London's top temperature of 29.3C was one degree hotter than Bali. On Monday, the hottest day of the year so far, the mercury hit 31C - warmer even than Miami's 29C.
Winemakers are among those thankful for the changing climate - England now has 330 vineyards, which says as much about our weather as our changing taste in beverages.
Mike Roberts, of Ridgeview vineyard in East Sussex, says this year's vintage is set to be a corker. "It's partly due to increased professionalism in the UK wine industry, but in my 10 years as a winemaker I've noticed more tropical weather.
"We now have a semi-Continental climate, it's no longer maritime, and that's good for wine. Here on the South Downs, it's drier than a lot of the wine-growing areas in Australia."
It's been hot - and on Tuesday the mercury is expected to hit the warmest temperature of the year. Is this mini heatwave a taste of summers to come in the UK?
Britons own more convertibles than other Europeans and the pavements are filling with alfresco cafe tables. Vineyards are cropping up across southern England, sales of barbeque equipment have soared, and butterflies native to southern Europe flutter as far north as Yorkshire.
While the climate in the UK is not (yet?) Mediterranean, there is a trend for warmer, wetter weather. Spring arrives earlier and autumn later, and summer seems to be getting steadily hotter.
Forecasters predict this will be the warmest summer since 1995, which was the best for 50 years bar the heat wave of 1976. Last month the UK basked in one of the hottest Junes on record, and July looks set to be record breaker.
Since the weekend, parts of the UK have topped the temperatures in Bermuda and the Balearics. Shepshed in Lincolnshire reached 30.5C on Sunday, and London's top temperature of 29.3C was one degree hotter than Bali. On Monday, the hottest day of the year so far, the mercury hit 31C - warmer even than Miami's 29C.
Winemakers are among those thankful for the changing climate - England now has 330 vineyards, which says as much about our weather as our changing taste in beverages.
Mike Roberts, of Ridgeview vineyard in East Sussex, says this year's vintage is set to be a corker. "It's partly due to increased professionalism in the UK wine industry, but in my 10 years as a winemaker I've noticed more tropical weather.
"We now have a semi-Continental climate, it's no longer maritime, and that's good for wine. Here on the South Downs, it's drier than a lot of the wine-growing areas in Australia."
