Hot day!

[Migmac]

It was hot yesterday. I was up in slim_boy_fats stomping ground. The pick up was recording 31 degrees. Air con was on full blast, lovely! Back up next week, bet it’s raining !

 

[dobbslc]

31° pah!
I saw 39 in the van coming home last night at 6.30pm!
I went through a rain storm and it dropped 10° in a mile!!!

 

[rtbcomp]

There are expansions joints but they are further apart.
Rails are stretched to limit that expansion in hot countries but if we stretched them they could fail in the very cold weather.
I saw a chart once showing how much they elongated for every degree hotter. It was incredible.

That's pretty much what the said on the BBC News. They were having trouble with the overhead wires, they are normally tensioned by pulleys, but the expansion was beyond the set limits, so they just got slack.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

In a few months some will be complaining how cold it is.

 

[TechnicAl]

That's pretty much what the said on the BBC News. They were having trouble with the overhead wires, they are normally tensioned by pulleys, but the expansion was beyond the set limits, so they just got slack.

Right...........the "new" longer rails are also helping keep Scunthorpe Steel open (lost track of the name) they can make rails that are twice as long as anyone else....so less joints....and as the "welds" are a bit primitive (still using thermit reaction) they are stronger without the welds.

 

[Bullet2012]

Was a bit warm here but
managed to cool off

 

[Keith 66]

We took our boat down to the Ray off Southend, spent most of the day on a sandbank in the estuary with a barby & swimming, quite warm. Then sailed home with the sea breeze behind us. Got to the mooring & packed the boat up just in time for the bar to open. Sat with friends on the balcony as the storm came up from the south. It was really weird most of it missed us to the east but the wind suddenly got up to gale force & it was like a blast from a hot furnace with a bit of rain. So we had another pint!

 

[Migmac]

31° pah!
I saw 39 in the van coming home last night at 6.30pm!
I went through a rain storm and it dropped 10° in a mile!!!

Still the middle of winter in and around Inverness

 

[Hood]

Will never swim in Thames estuary again now I know what goes into it

Oh I don't know, might put you on a high, read recently about the water sample from Westminster had a high content of the white stuff.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

 

[Paul.]

I think this feller may have overdone it a tad!

 

[Beeezer]

Yep Thursday spent the day shot blasting in the full gear.
Sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish mongers!

 

[mechman]

Yep Thursday spent the day shot blasting in the full gear.
Sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish mongers!

Gosh.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

It was hot yesterday. I was up in slim_boy_fats stomping ground. The pick up was recording 31 degrees. Air con was on full blast, lovely! Back up next week, bet it’s raining !

If you're within striking distance give me a shout - beer, tea & coffee are always available

 

[LewisT]

hit 29 in my area of scotland the other day, wife in work was amendment it hit 48.5 cause her thermometer said that( yeah in direct sunlight ),glad its cooling off now

 

[ronan]

Sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish mongers!

 

[Migmac]

If you're within striking distance give me a shout - beer, tea & coffee are always available

Probably wasn’t to far from you, we skirted by Inverness on the A9, going to Macleods of Tain. 20 min turn around and back down the road. In the works pickup, can’t stray to far off route. Will give you a shout when I know when I’m heading back up. Should be this coming week

 

[Rig Pig]

No fridge today working from home found another way to cool off

me too, I picked this up for £50 in December, it's lovely I the heat!