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Hi All,
Time for a moan, in the UK it's reasonably warm. So things start to go wrong, the M5 motorway which is breaking up is resurfaced, but the temperature for the Tar to set is too high so it doesn't. Rail transport my favoured mode of commuting (I'm not a great driver!) gets odd due to it being too hot(?) for some of the trains, rails buckle. Wild fires in the North. Lack of CO2 for Beer, Famine, Pestilence ... just to make you all worried. 
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Equally, we enter a state of emergency every time a snowflake gets sighted within the M25. The very existence of weather always seems to come as a surprise to the UK.
That said, I can't remember it being this hot and dry since '76 but at least that didn't come with a beer drought ... now, that's scary!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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What is exactly warm?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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It's 28C\82F, and over winter we had at least an inch of snow. It's no wonder the country constantly grinds to a halt! No country could function under such extreme conditions!
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28C? At top of the day?! We have it at night too. Just now it is about 32C and I do not even turn on AC...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Odd really, the UK got to 37 C a few years back,, I dont know what all the fuss about 28 is, it is quite common.
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Compared to Israel autumn think 26'c +/- 10'c 
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About 30C here, according to my IR temp gauge.
My Sous Vide says the kitchen is at about 23C, which feels right.
I'm not complaining! It's nice to be a shirtsleeves instead of a wetsuit... 
OH: to anyone thinking of driving a caravan to Wales for the weekend: it's snowing. Hard. Very, very Hard. And raining sharks. With frickin lasers on their heads.
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You can tell when it's an unusually hot day in Wales because the rain is warmer than usual!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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My brother lives on the border in Herefordshire and his garden temperature gauge showed 40C in the shade two days ago. He probably took his jacket off.
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will we see UK folk in shorts? gonna get even brighter than the snow.
normal folk: get your sunglasses ready (or even better a welding helmet if you have one).
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No, just rolled up trouser legs.
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That'll be to go with the string vest beachwear?
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As long as it's not Sean's mankini... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I guess you spotted me down at Aberystwyth.
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OriginalGriff wrote: OH: to anyone thinking of driving a caravan to Wales for the weekend: it's snowing. Hard. Very, very Hard. And raining sharks. With frickin lasers on their heads.
You can't keep them out that easily, they and the rest of us know what a beautiful part of this island Wales is, even laser wielding sharks can't keep us foreigners out. 
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Rail transport? I think I vaguely remember something like that.
Southern Rail / GTR don't need a heatwave to get "odd".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And with England playing tonight, the inescapable phrase tomorrow will be "cancelled due to a shortage of train crew".
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Tomorrow, I'd be surprised if they had enough staff working to make the announcement that all trains are cancelled due to lack of staff. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes. There's the voice of experience!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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It is time to quote Bill Bryson: The road to Little Dribbling:
Measured by decent music, old stony buildings, varieties of boiled sweets and reasons for not going to work because of the weather, Britain is number one by a very large margin.
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Easy one to end the week - I don't have time to do a difficult one :=(
Generate teenager ? (8)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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If that was 7 letters, it would be ANAGRAM ...
BTW: It's only Thursday! 
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Yours for the credits.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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He wouldn't have done that, would he? Plurals? Oh dear ... I hope not ...
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