From Angus in Scotland:
Another beautiful, but chill, start to the day here in Scotland. It might get to 20C this afternoon. By contrast London is expecting their fifth heat wave of the year and a high of 35C . Last night a huge cruise liner drifted by the end of the garden. It’s the closest inshore we’ve ever seen one. A little later another ship, almost as big, joins it going in the same direction. We stand at the garden wall with a glass of Margaux and watch them drift towards the wind farms and the horizon. If you’d told me ten years ago that cruising round Scotland would go mainstream I would have laughed aloud and thought you quite mad. Until three or four years ago the only folks cruising these waters were hardy bird watchers looking for puffins on the offshore rock stacks. Nowadays the tell tale signs of climate change are slowly but surely mounting up.
20C is 68°F, 35C is 95°F
August 15, 2026
The problem with high temps is unrelenting day after day. Drains your soul etc.
Here in NZ mixed bag. I need a fine Monday because I’m shifting homes. Weather forecast is rather cold zero degrees start, but should be OK late morning.
Good luck!
Yes, good luck!
Climate Change is Real, both cold and hot. Since 2020 our part of Florida is far from the same, colder winter, hotter summer…..
It’s scary!
For me, I don’t mind day time heat if it isn’t crazy humid, and if the nights drop below 70. This heat around the globe is getting intense…
Yes, scary stuff!
Around here we don’t see too much extremes in heat.
I’m happy for you.
Sounds wonderful. I have always wanted to visit Scotland and Ireland.
They aren’t crowded and overbuilt. 🙂
I’d love to be there and share a glass!
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…oh, but this is all a hoax!
I’m guessing fewer and fewer people are believing that now.
I cannot handle ? the heat and humidity we get her in Montreal every summer.
It’s a horrible, and dangerous, combination.
I have a blog friend who lives in Ireland. I would enjoy seeing Scotland and Ireland.
🙂