Oh no, look at it, remind me never to trust AccuWeather again: it said mainly clear or overcast, zero chance of precipitation after nine o’clock, sunny spells, I even put on sun screen (look, it’s still saying it, and it’s actually raining out there, insane!) or I would never have come on the bike. I haven’t even got an umbrella, thanks to them, plus the wind must be around 26mph, can you believe this, what happened to summer? It was 12 degrees at 6.30am this morning, though the wind made that feel more like 11, that’s colder than it was in spring, I went out without tights in March, that’s only happened four times in the last nine years.
We’ve had to put the heating on, I know they can’t be 100% accurate, but this is way off, oh look they’ve changed it, now it’s saying light rain for 25 minutes, I wouldn’t call that light, more like the European monsoon with the return of the westerlies, what’s it doing up north, look it’s only eight degrees in Carrbridge – Aldershot’s 19, lucky!
Same with the long-range, in May they were talking about a heatwave, maybe 30 degrees, you know that’s still well under the highest ever recorded – 38.5C, June 1976 – Piers Corbyn said tremendous, flaming June, so we booked Cornwall and it was the second wettest June ever, well in some places, since 1910, 111.9mm in Essex, and now they’re showing average temperatures, that’s around 21 to 23 degrees, until September, have you seen next week’s?
The Met Office says the jet stream’s moving down again so typical we’ve got a barbecue planned for Saturday, because on Monday there’s a new weather front coming in, could be 26 degrees by two o’clock, that’s well above the normal range. No, too late to cancel, I’ve just said turn up at 3.45, that way, if the forecast’s right, there’s only a .9% chance of light rain until it turns thundery at 7.15, 20 degrees, tops, but we’re lucky really, you should see what it says about Perthshire.
