I was flying over the Solent this morning, great conditions. 
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They are now also showing 21°C.
And a large non-ADSB plane just took off, flying South. A Hercules, probably.
It passed over me on my way back! 
A non-tropical 11C and windy here in central Scotland.
Bumping a nice 22.5 - 23’0 c here …
Now 24’0c
A tropical 17c with 13mph winds here in Rotherham…
Lovely place Roddlesworth.
I feel your pain with this wind, put the goggles on and got the avata2 out. I felt like id drunk a bottle of grouse😁
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Patience, Padawan. Looks like warm weather and flyable wind next Monday-Friday, and here in Cardiff a bit of a window Sunday evening. Been a long time coming…
Because I am very old, I can remember the drought of 1976, and the dry winter/spring that preceded it. Our water was turned off for up to 17 hours a day, grass turned brown, you couldn’t use a hosepipe or wash your car, the hills were all on fire. Temperatures did not go below 30deg even at night for several weeks. When it finally rained everybody was out dancing in the streets like idiots. The current generation don’t know what’s coming…
The current generation are better travelled and 30 to them is warm ish
But they will be surprised at the cumulative effects of a prolonged dry spell on a country not equipped to cope with it because we rely on our mostly reliable high rainfall; water shortages & rationing (17hours out of 24 in some places), hosepipe bans, high mortality among animals, birds, and fishes, constant smell of burning, ash & dust in the atmosphere, stinking stagnant polluted rivers, serious allergy responses, broken-down diesel trains (because the coolant can’t cope), standpipes in the streets (1 for each 20 houses, hopelessly inadequate in areas with lots of flats), roads unusable because they’ve melted, swarms of aggressive insects, empty reservoirs, railways closed because of heat-buckled rails, which means overcrowded buses you can’t get on, and a lot more you probably haven’t thought of. You can’t go to the seaside because the hot sand will burn your feet (and anything else it comes into contact with), dust everywhere, countryside stinking of dead animals.
And when it finally rains, there’s floods because the dried-out ground can’t absorb the water, and everthing is muddy-caked for weeks because the earthworms that aerate the soil are all dead. Crops are ruined, of course there are plenty of idiots who’ll panic buy and make it worse.
There was a lot of talk at the time of a national water grid, but nothing came of it. Don’t listen to an old fool, but don’t say I didn’t warn you all.
Like I said, I know what’s coming; they don’t. I really hope I’m wrong!
That summer (76) I spent a fair bit of time camping by the beach in Glenbrittle (Skye), one day came down off the hills to find a whole school of small sharks dead on beach and in shallow water, ended up the following day roping them together and towing them out to sea with a dinghy as the stink had got unbearable.
Was looking at the weather forecast last week and seeing fair weather and high pressure over the UK, built my hopes up of flying this week. Sadly and unusually the high pressure has brought some fairly hefty winds with it, so no flying although the sun has been shining. I was hoping to do a hyper lapse video for the challenge, but I’m not sending the drone anywhere near high enough with the wind. Tried the drone a few days ago and when it lifted off I flew up about 10m and got the wind warning on the controller. 
I went inland to Roddlesworth a few days ago thinking it would be less breezey, thought the hills would provide a little shelter, nope, they just channeled it down the valley, didn’t risk any higher than 50 meters with my brand spanking new drone.
Yesterday out at Fairhaven similar to today (20 knots), so again only risked 50 meters max height.
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Such a lovely day today… just BLOODY WINDY!!! The next few days look better according to the Dronedast app. Doesn’t help living on the coast. Was over Hayling at my mothers yesterday flying out over the creek at the back of her house and got a lot of wind warnings from my drone, but it did handle OK, just some low flying over the water and it was OK for me. Any higher than 30m then it would shout at me lol
Maxed at only 19.6℃ today.
Summer is over 
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Well, yesterday was better than the forecast, and the forecast wasn’t bad… Sunny, clear, and 18mph winds for the evening, with the sun going down at 19.54, so I took the Mini 2 over to Splott Park, which I haven’t flown before. As the sun went down, the breeze dropped away to nothing, flat calm, and I got some nice sunset video, plus practiced a bit with camera setting. Views over the Bristol Channel were stunning.
Had a beer on the way home and all in all had a great evening, and the weather looks to be set fair for the next week, so I’ll get out again. Saturday is a good high tide at sunset, so the coast somewhere, probably Barry Island at the Nell’s point end of the beach, which is clear of Cardiff (Wales) International Airport’s FRZ. I’ll have a panini at Marco’s; likes a panini, I does!
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photos or it didn’t happen 
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