Heat wave

[Furcurequs]

The humidity is high enough that I'm being steamed or stewed or something. I think we've been having about 50% humidity at near 90 degree temperatures during the days lately. I'm drinking lots of iced tea, though.

I finally did get some clouds and rain yesterday which made a huge difference. Without the sun beating down on my tin roof, it's much much cooler inside. ...and so far so good today!

I have only one surviving habanero plant. It's a bit over 2 years old now, I believe, and has spent most all of its time indoors under artificial light. It's never budded or bloomed much less had habeneros, though. It apparently needs much more light than it's been getting for that.

I'm thinking about trying to start some new plants, but if I do, they'll be too late to get outside for a crop of peppers this year. So, unless I actually get on with my plans to experiment with growing them indoors under intense LED lighting, I may just wait and start them during the winter so that I can get them outside early next spring.

[ME]

Dunno if it's an option, just thinking: - paint the roof with titanium-white, or maybe put your whole house under a tent?

Fortunately, so far, it seems we (in Holland) have a reasonable good year.
Around the house we really had to replace our rows of small buxes trees because of both extreme drought of last year and box tree moth. I think the moth won over the Sun. Because even though the trees were all yellow and dried out, some larvae still wiggled in it when I pulled out those stumps last spring .

We had some regular periods of rain. We already had our green beans, the tomato trees are almost reaching two meters(!) while bearing ever growing green soon to become juicy tomato. The clematis is finally getting some green leafs again. The Rhodondendron only needed a tiny bit of help. I thought it was dying, but on close inspection it seemed to be used as a farm by an ant colony. A few weeks of lice removal and the tree is vividly alive again. Poor ants. But they'll survive.

So I'm happy when watching bees and other stuff fly from flower to flower in our little garden.

But nationally the level of groundwater is still not sufficiently replenished. And that could become a huge problem in the future.
Our dykes, for example, still hold but they rely on a certain amount of water content for keep doing their job.

Greetings from a land 'under the sea'.

[ME]

New record high temperature in the Netherlands.
38.6 °C (101.5 °F) 23 August 1944
40.7 °C (105.3 °F) 25 July 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_w ... r_recorded


More in Europe:
Belgium 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) Beitem, West Flanders 25 July 2019
France 46.0 °C (114.8 °F) Vérargues, Hérault 28 June 2019
Germany 42.6 °C (108.7 °F) Lingen, Lower Saxony 25 July 2019
Luxembourg 39.0 °C (102.2 °F) Findel, Sandweiler 25 July 2019

[agor95]

It's been warm 38.7 C in the Archipelago off Europes west coast.

Regards

[Art]

I've had pretty much full on sun for the past 6 days despite the prior forecast. Today, though, I'm finally getting the clouds and rain and it's so much cooler inside!

This time of year on the sunny days my little window air conditioner just can't keep up. I live in a board a batten cabin with a tin roof with no attic space as buffer. So, it's the radiant heat from the very hot roof that's the problem. The air inside may not be particularly hot but it feels like I'm being cooked by the infrared rays of a heat lamp.

I'm thinking about putting some sort of water sprinkler system on my roof so that I can cool it down a few times a day. It would probably make a major difference in how hard my air conditioner has to work.

I think that's the solution you should think of going with . Turn that cabin into an old style "cooler" .

Get a dozen burlap bags stitched together toss them onto the tin roof , get yourself a high pressure sprayer and spray it wet from your garden when you get really hot and uncomfortable weather .

Oh and don't forget to open all windows and doors and hang some damp burlap there too .

That should give you cool enough temperatures to even cool your beer ! :)

[John Collins]

Temperatures yesterday reached 38.1°C in southern England, setting a new record for the highest July temperature recorded in the UK.

The new record was set in Cambridge at 15:37 on Thursday, beating the previous record of 36.7°C set in Heathrow in 2015 and coming close to the all-time UK temperature record of 38.5°C, recorded in Faversham in August 2003.

JC

[daanopperman]

A while back I was laughed at and mace out to be a liar , but a couple of deg. more and someone will verify my words. you Will smell the chips in the potato fields .

We get a state that is called Berg winds the wind blow from inland and raised temperature is the result , it reaches up to 46 deg but the ground on the surface is much hotter .

The last couple of years was very dry and I lost quite a lot of fruit trees , those that survived barely gave any fruit , and of a poor quality . With the drought we are asked not to exceed 50 liters of water per person per day , so even accumulated spent water , I have not enough to water all the trees , sad but true .

Last October I was fortunate by the grace of the Lord to have a borehole sunk , the first hole collapsed , so the Drill oparator asked me where he should drill a new hole . I was quite pissed of for him to asked me , so not to make a new mess as he has already did with the first hole I showed him a place out of harms way in case it was a dud to . I went on a long week end trip the day they started the new hole , and my daughter phoned me the next day to give me the good news .
I have pumped with a submersible pump from a depth of 28 meters from the Saturday 12 o'clock till the Sunday 14 00 , for a total of 120000 liters .Testing the water showed chlorides , ecoli , and unresolved particles . Just glad it is not Sodium chloride , for that kills plants . The ecoli is killed by UV light , and the particles is left for it settled at the bottom of the reservoir . Anything English to me is a sin , so I only have coffee , and what a cup this water maketh .

After just about one year of watering the lawn I see no degradation of the grass so the trees is due for water this summer .

Daan .