your heat story today

It's a great day for doing a bit of welding in your proban fireproof overalls and gauntlets.

Just sent a picture to my daughter of me(on my own) in a kids paddling pool on whats app..she's distraught

it's the hottest day so far - bbc news.
really - first day it's not been coming down.
start of summer?

warning the idiots to avoid sun burning.

tomorrow will also be the hottest day so far.

already read,police break car windows for pets

I was on a scaffold building gable ends today. It was very hot but I not going to complain too much, because it'll be cold before we know it.

This is the first day of sun - with heat - in Stoke since Sunday, the 8th of May.
How do I know?
Because on that day it was warm and sunny and I was going to do some gardening, but was asked to come in to work - which I did.
That was the only day it had been sunny in the whole of 2016 in Stoke.

The bloody BBC weather people, on every bleedin' 15 minutes, spouting their nonsense today how we should all 'be careful' because of the sun makes me want to hunt them all down with a garotte!

Utter bloody balderdash, spoken by lame-brained weather monkeys who have no idea what it's like living in Stoke, where the chance of a ray of sun is about as rare as them not earning two grand a week for driving us all insane with their condescending gibberish.

Bugger the buggers off, paid for by licence payers money, and get some bloody live sport back on!

i wish the sun would go away, so i didn`t feel as though i had to go out and enjoy it.

i like autumn, and the winter. the mornings are very beautiful and the nights wonderfully chilly.

hey Tommy what's this about those immigrants in Stoke who have been begging to be sent back to Syria? ungrateful buggers what they trying to say

what else are warm slippers and heated rooms for?

soon it will bw winter and the snow will swirl, i`m looking forward to that!

although the green in midsummer is very beautiful, if it rains.

but if i was a painter i would be an autumn painter, if the colours were up to it

when young i spent summer in the country, bees would hum around your head, and at night apart from a few farmhouse lights the night would be pitch black, with hardly any other light
one day would follow the next.

The pilot on our local inter island flight has changed the call sign of his flight to TOOHOT.....!,

summer vacation was a time for colassal lazing, that`s what was great about it.

You're too soft on them Tommy, don't hold back.

I went for a tramp in the woods this morning....didn't find any but there were loads of slugs.

did the tramp run off?

I saw five dogs chasing a bitch.

Oxfordshire area tops with 34c , parts of North Western France 35c - 36c

a few hotspots up near Stoke for you  Tommy   -  the heat missed East Anglia  ,28c .

Diverse Members of the Londonistan Community will be Delighted

Can we have a thunderstorm please?

lovely evening here in county durham

The ice in my drinks is melting within minutes

9pm and currently 30c in Liverpool

i don't think i have seeen 30c so late in the evening outside of London

tommy got sun stroke

I bought the last cornetto at my local shop. The big lady behind me was not amused to hear there was no more ice cream. She gave me a terrible look and muttered baldy bstard, so I started singing, just one cornetto, all for me, delicious ice cream from the freezer that's now empty.

I've eaten 4 jubblys and have 3 strapped to my napper...

Gents, as you can see, I don't take too kindly to weather monkeys telling me to beware of the sun in bloody Stoke!

It's like a miraculous intervention when we get to see a ray!

BB, I missed that - but can quite understand their plea!

Very funny MC Roller!

Liverpool still 29c  - bleedy hell.

it's as if the heat has been pushed as far as it will go into that little corner - a bit like the red squirells   (if anyone knows about the red sq's  north of Formby,  Liverpool )

Stoke  managed  28c  amongst a load of nearby 30 - 32s

is Stoke perched on a mountain top ?

Mount doom must be roasting today. I hope poor Sauron has aircon.

hehe! More or less, Coach.
It's very high up in Hanley (main town) - and very hilly.

I recall one of the streets in Hanley (St John's Street, I think) is one of the highest in the UK.

Three stabbed tonight in Hyde Park when a waterfight in the Sepentine got out of control.

... that might explain things Tommy .     


Tommy, how would you describe the Stokie accent ?

More Liverpool than Manchester ? a bit of both ?  some  Wolverhampton in there anywhere ?

I like the Stokie accent and sayings

I need to put more after-sun on my back. I'm filming it so I can sell the videos to BITO for gambling funds.

I think the rule of thumb is you lose 2C for every 1000 ft.

It's just 'Stokie' to me, Coach!

Don't think there's any Liverpool in it - but definite smatterings of Manc plus Wolves/South Staffordshire.

Funnily enough, whenever I see anything about Doncaster on the telly, when they're interviewing local folk, I think their accent is the nearest to Stoke I've come across.

The accent has mellowed a lot though in the last few years.
When the coal mines and the potteries were in full swing in the 70s it was almost impossible to understand  a word anyone said!

Anock and Eli

Coach, if you're interested  there's a cracking documentary about the Potteries language and how it evolved - May Un Mar Language - that was made by a former forumite: Foolsgold.
It's very, very good.

Here's a link to the first part of the 4, if you have an inkling to discover a little treasure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06nbSiv1ZN0

Brilliant Tommy - i will watch that  - love those clips.

Been listening to a few Stokies and maybe the younger ones have some  Liverpoolish /Crewe/Chester influence - just something i picked up on , def some Manchester too. 

Stafford accent i couldn't make out -is that the posh one ?  possibly a bit of Wolves  - Wolves to me seems a  bit different despite still being Staffs . 

Great accents all the same - deffo my favourites Stoke and then Black country   (along with northern Ireland)  - as long as they are decipherable

watching the film now Tommy .

The old boys = noticable midlands  ,a bit of black country .

Bloke in black shirt (poet) - deffo shades of that Northwest Wirrally  dialect .

Must be a generational cross over.

def Manchester  in the beer drinkers and even some Derby i heard .

'duck'  i believe is all over the midlands is it not ?  i used to hear Peterborough folk say it a lot

...and slight Yorkshire Tommy as you mentioned .

Not sure how that came about

the miners from the north east


no bugger can understand them 

Ronald (7.11)sounds like he is from Suffolk

summary  of Stoke accent .

About 10 different accents 

Hehehe!
I've just watched it again for the first time since it was made 8 years ago.

Really enjoyed it yet again.

Funnily enough, Pete Conway - who is now back to his original name of Pete Williams, Robbie Williams dad - holding up that Stokie pronunciation of the 'Jo Jo Tell' (The George Hotel) is where a recently made friend of mine works!

Also, Pete dropped a bundle of cash in the place I work at a couple of weeks ago, when he was getting his keys out. He didn't realise until he got home half an hour later and 'phoned up to ask if it had been handed in.
It had.
He came to collect it the next day and I was chatting to him about it.
He said he was amazed at how someone had handed so much cash in and I told him people regularly hand in all sorts of cash and expensive stuff that's been dropped or forgotten about.

"That's Stokies for you" I said.
"Yes indeed!" he agreed.

Good stuff Tommy .   So by my reckoning - in another 100 years we will all be speaking some form of Scouse .

Although Scouse is itself heavily infuenced by the Welsh (English) accent   

Who knows, Coach?

I thought it telling that more than once it was mentioned in the film that the Stoke language is the nearest thing to Anglo Saxon you could get.

Perhaps now we're out of that bleedin' Europe nonsense we can all start talking 'proper Stokie Anglo Saxon' in the future to regain our roots!

Yes Tommy - there was a film about the Black country accent with a similar Anglo saxon tag -  so must be somewhere around that area  - use of very early words .

  I listened to some old boy out Bury st Edmunds way  back in the 1980s -he was like from the  1800s , he spoke some style of English i had never heard before (and haven't heard since ) and had lived in the same village all his days .

i needed a  translator

hahaha!

we can all start talking 'proper Stokie Anglo Saxon' in the future to regain our roots!

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yeah ,it's all this Mutli cultural 'now don't you knnnnow bruv ? Safe !!  i'm off to chill in the yard '  type of stuff   

Yep -  we may get back to straight forward English sooner than we realise

had planned on an early night  Tommy - but a )  too hot to sleep -it feeels like all the radiators are all  on   

B)  noisy bleedy seagulls nest on the roof next door .

C) still some betting going on


so sitting in the garden with a beer

Cracking stuff Coach!

Enjoy it whilst it lasts - it'll probably be teeming down again later.

Well, in Stoke it will - and that's a 1:01!

Liverpool now down to 25 c - quite a dip   

Brighton now in the lead on 26 c 


Brighton actually holds the all time record  night max record - no way it will beat itself tonight  though

Tommy - this part of England generally gets  warm summer days but pretty cool nights  (the coldest nights in England for most of the year ) certainly too cool to contemplate sitting in the garden  after 7 pm .

So a nice change tonight   - and the seagulls have stopped sqwarking for now

Stoke on Trent  20.3 # 11.7

Manchester      20.6 # 12.6
Ipswich         23.2 # 12.3


colder nights than Manchester ,but  warmer ,drier and sunnier days

July *

Coach, this part of England just doesn't get any good weather at any time!

Okay, I might be exaggerating, but just as an example:

I went to Hanley on Friday afternoon.
I live approximately 1 mile away from it.
It didn't rain all morning (which was a surprise) but was cool and grey-cloudy throughout.

After doing what I had to do in the town for approx 2 hours, I couldn't take any more and headed for the Coachmakers Arms - a pub in Hanley.

They have two wooden-slatted bench seats attached to the front wall of the pub which were hanging down at 5:30pm (when I got there) and as I ordered my drink, I asked if it was okay to raise the bench seats.

The publican said "Well, they still may be soaked from earlier but I'll have a look"
I asked what rain there'd been and he said it had been throwing it down all afternoon until approx half an hour before.

I'd been 'the other side' of the town - but no more than a few hundred yards away from the pub - and hadn't seen a drop of rain for 2 hours.

That's Stoke for you!

Coachmakers Arms

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sounds a good name for a pub   

all weather is good weather Tommy - i love to see the rain ,and the heavier the better - hopefully some thundertorms 

but that dreary old grey ,nonsense non weather   - you can keep that in Stoke 

get sick of that all winter 

A very good name for a pub, Coach, and the users of it call it 'The Coach'!

We don't want any more grey, nonsense, non-weather - punctuated with shedloads of rain!

It's about time Stoke had a holiday, stopped getting everyone else's rotten weather, and had some sun - if only for a bleedin' week!

Please!

There's a bit of sun around here today!

Evening Joel 

update  2am

Liverpool 25c
Brighton 25c


must be the warmest ever for the north west at this time of the day /night .

You've got a bit of a weird temperature fixation going on, haven't you, Coach?

Better than having voices in your head telling you to murder people, I suppose.

You lucky man Joel!

We've had about 12 hours of rays in the whole of 2016 until today - and I'm not exaggerating!

new arrival

Carlisle  25c 

You've got a bit of a weird temperature fixation going on, haven't you, Coach?
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Yes Patra - i am not normal by a long way - but i'm quite a happy bunny 

hahaha!

Tommy has his Stoke weather /lack of sun thing going on so we make a perfect couple  .

time for sleep ,but excited to see who wins this overnight heat battle ,and then the unlikely chance of a new 2016 high tomorrow in south east /east anglia . ???

my money is on Cambridge to weigh in at 33c 

overnight i'm going for London  at 22 - always nicks it at the last knockings

I'll bet a pound to a pinch of snuff it'll be hammering down in Stoke tomorrow - and the hedges still won't get cut.

I'm disappearing under the foliage because of the bleedin' Stoke weather!

Stoke forecast -  Wed 20 Jul

Wed 20 Jul
26 °C
15 °C
part sunny


Not record breaking Tommy but still looks a decent day  - get that hedge trimmer out ready     and a deckchair .

I've got my WD40 out to lubricate the shears as we speak, Coach!

PLEASE let it be dry tomorrow!

hehehe!

Tommy - how is that garden looking ?

yep - you're doing a grand job - don't forget to prune those roses over there

ovenight temps for the weatharfreaks - following on from 2am

3am

Liverpool,Bournemouth  25c

4am

Liverpool ,Carlisle 24c

5am
Carlisle 23 c

6am
London 24 c  - i bleedy knew it    


7am  24c - London


and 8am back up to 25 c  in Norfolk


11am no where above 28c so far  (Lincolnshire this time)

ERROR ****

the 5 am should read 24c and Oxfordshire

was wearing a wool jumper and a jacket today.
not affected by heat.
people on bus were sweating and cursing the heat.

i must have been well hydrated?

weird temps today - started hot in East Anglia  31c

then  the heat came up from no where to hit the south east .

went from 24 to 31 in no time at all in West London .

Jersey was the surprise yesterday - usually they get very cool summers akin to the north of Eng - yet managed a 35 c  - today there back down to 19

hottest day of the year? GTF. it'll peak then go down. Stop saying... it's the hottest day of the year. Tomorrow the date will get larger until a new month starts and then it'll get larger again?

Where are the weather forecaster serial killers?

Here's the weather forecast for the rest of the year... hot, hotter, rain, hot, cold,rain,  colder, freezing,rain, baltic.rain. mild.