SCC have cancelled their National Regatta in London this weekend due to the weather. A tough decision given the potential costs involved in hiring a large national conference centre as well as access negotiating access to a significant chunk of a large docklands area.
Shame as they had around 450 cadets in attendance from across the UK.
I thought this was mostly meant to clear though for today, and be okay for Sat/Sun?
A shame they’ve had to cancel, but if there is a risk, then it’s likely the right call.
Pure speculation but… there was a weather warning for today for Travel until midday… and some units (esp S&NI) would’ve already have left DURING the weather warning - which is suboptimal.
Weather for tomorrow (race day) looks OK in the morning; the afternoon has wet. The bigger issue tomorrow is windage - 9-16mph starts moving towards moderate water remits. And there will undoubtedly be specific localised issues funnelling/channelling issues around the docklands which will impact on the races.
It’s also a combined regatta - so paddlesport AND rowing - i can talk confidently about only one of these; not sure about the remits for the “paddling quickly without looking where you’re going” nonsense.
Either way - a difficult - but good shout.
Bloody windscreen wipers are stuck on intermittent. Now I really wish it was raining as I look like a tool driving around with wipers on on the sun!
Wait, what?
How bad is it this weekend? I’ve got two days in a canoe in Wales…
Ah you’ll be fine; they’re meant to get wet.
On the outside!
Father in law bought an automatic timed watering system for the garden last week. He installed it on Wednesday and shouldn’t have had to use it since!
He has though - because he’s worried that if he switches it off, he’ll forget to switch it back on.
I just had to point out to him that when it was a manual system, he’d quickly realise that the plants didn’t need watering if he went outside and it was raining.
His response? Throw more tech at the problem!!!
He’s now bought a bluetooth moisture meter AND a replacement bluetooth automatic watering system - which are both linked together AND linked to his phone.
New problem? Because it’s bluetooth technology, it only works up to 10m away. He was planning on controlling everything from the sofa in the house - instead he’ll be stood out in the rain trying to programme everything on his phone.
Also, it’s entirely reliant on batteries - which he’s resolved by buying some minisolar panels…
All this for the sake of a some runner beans and cabbages!
So Sussex has certainly had some rain now. Looking at the data we’ve had as much rain in the last few days as we’ve had all year. And it’s due to keep raining on and off all week.
Chucking it down now here.
The joy of WFH and a rare day with no online meetings was I was able to get my run in before it started.
We could do with some of that rain up here to dampen down the moor fire that’s still ongoing. 
So the Met Office has formally announce that Summer 2025 was the hottest on record. We had a mean summer temperature of 16.10C. This is the top 5:
2025: 16.10°C
2018: 15.76°C
2006: 15.75°C
2003: 15.74°C
2022: 15.71°C
A pretty big jump! But unsurprising given how warm it has been.
It didn’t reach the individual highs of recent years, but for unrelenting consistency, it has been horrid.
Yeah, 100% this. Lots of people commenting how a few recent years have been hotter. But none have been consistently hot, and also dry. A 0.4C jump in the whole summer’s average feels huge.
And the inevitable aftermath of the storm that just didn’t seem to move:
We’ve finally had some proper rain. The end of summer really has come in hard! Looking at the graph, I reckon where I am has twice as much rain in the last week as we’ve had all year previous.
It’s too blooming cold!
I’m sat here, indoors, with my alpaca wool jumper on and a coffee in my hand and I can still feel the tingling of my toes as the Raynaud’s starts.
Looking forwards to a proper Irish stew with dumplings and a crusty cob later though.
I’m enjoying the colder weather compared to the 30C days!
Although, I somehow forgot my jumper this morning, so was a bit cold at work first thing this morning.
