[Neil]

It's shitting it down now though.

[GME]

I live in Abbeymead and we had the most horrendous winds and rain worst i have seen for a very long time, i understand it was very localized as my garden needed the water

[Prorsum Semper]

All these posts about bad weather makes me feel guilty about being on the beach sipping my mojito in 40 degrees!

[OldDirtyGlasses]

All these posts about bad weather makes me feel guilty about being on the beach sipping my mojito in 40 degrees!

Forest fires soon...

[Grey beard]

I live in Abbeymead and we had the most horrendous winds and rain worst i have seen for  a very long time, i understand it was very localized as my garden needed the water

Live right by Upton lane moter way bridge and it was hot and sunny untill about 6 O'Clock when the wind started,Dead wright about the wind ,worst I've seen for years .   weird but no rain?

[OldDirtyGlasses]

Live right by Upton lane moter way bridge and it was hot and sunny untill about 6 O'Clock when the wind started,Dead wright about the wind ,worst I've seen for years .   weird but no rain?

Microbursts, massive downdrafts of wind hit the ground and spread out, hence the severe thunderstorm warnings

[Grey beard]

A question for Alex ?I've just looked at to days video 13th Aug and can see the goal line and touch line but not the penalty area? In your blog on the 26th of July you said that line's were in grained in to the carpet?
Can't see any more line's anywhere else ?so how do we get a penalty ,if we don't have a area?( do we have to mark it out the  the old way ,or do the contractor's insert pre done strip's later?
Just asking as I'm losing my sight or going ga ga or both.  

[graymim]

Watched them laying out the white lines apres rain shower or should that read deluge. They are about 2ft across. I believe they are then stitched and stuck to the underlay with superglue that could hold a jumbo jet in the air.
I’ll pass on the centre circle as I didn’t see any bendy ones.
But it’s very, very clever and quite a slow process. I was hoping to take my pitching wedge tomorrow to practise but Alex gave me a funny look. I suppose that’s out then.
Watched a small puddle form by the touch line near to the dug out when it was really torrential, but this drained away in minutes when the storm lightened.

[Daveangel]

I can answer that for you GB, as I asked the guys laying it exactly the same question. The goal lines and the halfway line comes woven into the carpet. All the other lines are added after. A machine cuts a line width strip of the carpet out around the penalty area, 6yd box and centre circle. The white 3G lines are then placed in and glued down. 
This ensures that they are perfectly round/square etc.

Clever stuff!

[Gladfans]

Maybe I can answer that. The touch line and the goal line come already stitched into the turf. They then use clever technology to cut the green turf and replace it with white to create the 6 and 18 yd box etc. Welding the joints with a specialist glue.

They were telling me some surfaces have a football pitch - 5 a side- hockey all done in different colours but in the same way.