Phew What a Scorcher

Well, yesterday was the hottest day on record.


OK, not quite as hot as elsewhere but we are 500 feet above sea level, and in the 'frozen north'.  The weather station screen-grab  yesterday shows almost no wind and a feels-like temperature of 34.2 C.

Inside the main body of the tower though it was a comfortable 24 C.

The red bits on the rain radar on the right are thunder storms but we have largely avoided them.

Our main excitement was the fire alarm activation ay 0103 last night.  Turned out to be a back-up battery failure in the roof room but it took until 0200 to diagnose that and silence the system. 

The dog was mildly perturbed by the noise, which I can still hear in my ears 8 hours later!   Still, proves the system works.