“Two-hour delays as M5 closes due to risk of falling electricity cables”
This is in Somerset, where it seems the weekly, or even bi-weekly, closure of the M5 has achieved the status of a traditional event over the last two or three years. Even when there’s no accident it has to happen 😀
“French energy giant to give schools millions in euros for cooling systems”
EDF, in this case. But I wonder if it’s as generous a gift as it seems, given that the recipients may well be buying more power to run the cooling systems? And there was a headline the other day that EDF had to take some of its nuclear generation plant offline because the water they were extracting for cooling was too warm.
“Caution urged as London pavements hit 57C”.
At that point you surely have to see if you can fry an egg or two?
Adding to the issues that I’m dealing with at present in terms of how the medication I’m taking is messing up my body, today was the hottest UK June day on record, measured less than twenty miles from my home (36.7°C). On top of that it has been very humid. I have achieved almost nothing, not helped by a significant lack of sleep last night.
Fortunately tomorrow is supposed to be about 10°C cooler. We’ll see.
If this sort of thing keeps happening then I might have to discuss moving somewhere cooler. Greece, perhaps?
Coverage in the media, etc. etc. You’d think they could actually get someone to proof-read their listings then, wouldn’t you?
This is what the Met Office promised us for tonight.
I was sooo looking forward to it; a decent size thunderstorm and rain to water the garden too.
But no. I saw a couple of lightning strikes, one of which was really quite impressive in all fairness, and there’s been a minimal amount of rain. The latter is quite frustrating given that I didn’t water anything outside in the veggie plot this evening on the basis that if they’re forecasting rain for seven or eight hours you’d like to think that a worthwhile amount would fall.
They came at me mob-handed when I went to water the polytunnel this evening. All told I killed fourteen of them. I perhaps shouldn’t have slapped the one that landed in the middle of the front of my shorts quite so hard though 😀
Anyhow, that brings the current score to 48-3 in my favour. I reckon I stand more chance than Scotland of getting through to the next stage…
Two large earthquakes in Venezuela within minutes of each other last night. Amazing to see however that despite running from a building that was collapsing literally right next to them, some people still managed to switch on their phone cameras and record themselves running away.
Bizarre.
For people who want to sit with their children. You’d think not charging for allowing parents to sit with their children would as a minimum be considered desirable and ideally just be the decent human thing to do.
Perhaps there’ll be additional charges for not having to sit next to someone else’s children shortly? 😀
Interesting one, this. No idea why, but the mid-afternoon reading was quite high compared with other recent ones. And for once, I didn’t feel dreadful. I think that tells a story all of its own.
