Hosepipe Bans

[d000hg]

A few miles from me (actually the village I lived in) a friend posted this the other day - they think the baling inadvertently led to a fire somehow.
View from their house...

[DealorNoDeal]

We've got a stubble field next to us. They harvested the wheat over a week ago, and left the straw down for a few days which was as crispy as hell. I was relieved when they finally baled it, although it never crossed my mind that this could have ignited it.

[malvolio]

We've got a stubble field next to us. They harvested the wheat over a week ago, and left the straw down for a few days which was as crispy as hell. I was relieved when they finally baled it, although it never crossed my mind that this could have ignited it.

If you've ever stood on a sled behind a baler stacking the bales you will be well aware of how much heat is generated by the machinery in front of you!

[tazdevil]

b)get people reporting a fire and have a fire engine turn up

Yes our local stately home organised a beacon for the platinum jubilee which we all went to. As we we're swigging our drinks and enjoying the spectacle of the burning beacon and spying others on the horizon the fire brigade turned up to deal with the out of control fire some concerned member of the public had reported. Gave us a laugh especially as all necessary permissions had been applied for and received

[SueEllen]

Very inconvenient, I have a lot of garden rubbish to burn but I don't want to a)be the idiot who has to call the fire brigade when their garden fire gets out of hand b)get people reporting a fire and have a fire engine turn up
Although it's going to rain all weekend so I'll do it after that has dried a bit.

Rain!

You get rain -

[ladymuck]

Rain!

You get rain -

We might get some Monday/Tuesday

For now, I'm getting all my laundry done

[d000hg]

We've got a stubble field next to us. They harvested the wheat over a week ago, and left the straw down for a few days which was as crispy as hell. I was relieved when they finally baled it, although it never crossed my mind that this could have ignited it.

They were reckoning it could just be a bit of metal or glass but when things get really dry, a single spark is all it takes. I'm not sure the UK is that dry even now, but it might be.

Yes our local stately home organised a beacon for the platinum jubilee which we all went to. As we we're swigging our drinks and enjoying the spectacle of the burning beacon and spying others on the horizon the fire brigade turned up to deal with the out of control fire some concerned member of the public had reported. Gave us a laugh especially as all necessary permissions had been applied for and received

Yeah I have established you can call the boys in red and tell them "I'm having a fire in my field" - round here we do get kids setting fires in the countryside and it's never easy to tell if smoke is from that, or a farmer just burning stuff.

[BlasterBates]

Rain!

You get rain -

Most of the UK gets rain next week, all week. So enjoy the last of the heat wave

[SueEllen]

Most of the UK gets rain next week, all week. So enjoy the last of the heat wave

Looking at London the highest percentage guess currently is a 34% chance of rain. So not necessarily -

[d000hg]

Most of the UK gets rain next week, all week. So enjoy the last of the heat wave

We were forecast solid rain for 3 days but the newer forecast now has "maybe a bit" on Monday. In fact next week's forecast of sun & clouds, 20C sounds about perfect... but a day or two of rain would be nice!