Freakishly Warm - add your toasty tales

[andygates]

According to the Met it's 3.2 degrees over the average for April.  T-shirt weather in the evenings, here - another roasty toasty record to add to the collection of records.  Kew are worried that the mild winter (the Year Without A Winter down here) has failed to kill off leaf-miner larvae and the glut of 'em is now seriously threatening English oaks.  And I was just buzzed - while buying chips at 22:30 in my t-shirt - by a privet hawk moth, a high-summer species.  Big juicy one too. 

Am I the only one getting a wrongness feeling?  It's not feeling so much balmy as much as under the Sunbane.  Gonna be a granny-killer for sure; I'll plumb in the rainwater-catcher for the water butt tomorrow, methinks.

Comments

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Folk are already wandering around in T-shirts here. It's just wrong.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Gods I was drunk last night.

I don't remember posting that.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Yay for drunk.

[simoneck.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Quite often in the last few years we've had 4-6 weeks of excellent weather (very sunny, if not this hot) around this time and then the summer has gone on to be mainly overcast.
I agree that it's been too hot over the winter though. I like the change in seasons, but it's hardly been cold at all so far this year.

[alacerus.livejournal.com]

I've seen one of them too, I think. Also having my teatime ciggie, I sit on the swiped picnic bench out back, almost lost my nuggin to a low flying pipistrel bat that uses my cig corner as a u-turn. Felt his little wings beating as he went past, damn there fast!

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

It still rains where you live?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Only at night, and only a little. My lemon tree ought to do well...