UK to bake in 33C amid extreme heat warning

[Unabomber]

9 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

I'm sure I heard it right on a weather forecast earlier.  Expect thousands of fatalities on Monday.  The scaremongering reaches out past covid I see.

Wtf are you on about? 

[Legend_in_blue]

3 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Wtf are you on about? 

https://content.jwplatform.com/previews/CJm2q346

[Fazzer 7]

48 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Summer is different these days... 

 

Did it ever hit 40c when the forecast visual on the left was around...?! 

It hasn’t yet! 

[Fazzer 7]

38 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

 

The one on the left was from before we had fancy display techniques which show the temp variation with coloured background (hotter = redder and colder = bluer 

next you’ll be showing us magnetic sunshine symbols and asking why we can’t go back to that ! 
 

The heat will be unprecedented in this country - the only saving grace will be that humidity will be low so a dry heat. 

It likely will. But it’s for 2 days. And according to the Met Office just now on bbc news. It’s likely to be a one in 15 year event. If it hits 40 that is. 

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, Fazzer 7 said:

It likely will. But it’s for 2 days. And according to the Met Office just now on bbc news. It’s likely to be a one in 15 year event. If it hits 40 that is. 

When was last time UK regularly had 39?

[Fazzer 7]

27 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Bet he's not

 

It was kind of tongue in cheek. But come on the msm are literally in meltdown over it. Forgive the pun 

[st albans fox]

20 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

I'm sure I heard it right on a weather forecast earlier.  Expect thousands of fatalities on Monday.  The scaremongering reaches out past covid I see.

it’s a documented fact that in heatwaves there are excess deaths 

I doubt that saying hundreds will die as a consequence of the temps sun thru Tues is likely to be wrong. She said ‘hundreds, if not thousands’ - to me that says that it’s possible a thousand could die, not that thousands will die. 

 

[st albans fox]

9 minutes ago, Fazzer 7 said:

It hasn’t yet! 

It might not reach 40

 

3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

When was last time UK regularly had 39?

It never has in the past few hundred years 

 

to say that it will become a one in fifteen year event over the next few decades is imo, conservative.  it’s not scaremongering….

[StanSP]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

It might not reach 40

 

It never has in the past few hundred years 

 

to say that it will become a one in fifteen year event over the next few decades is imo, conservative.  it’s not scaremongering….

Precisely. So showing the weather forecast as very red visually is nothing out of the ordinary, or shouldn't be seen as. 

[st albans fox]

Just now, StanSP said:

Precisely. So showing the weather forecast as very red visually is nothing out of the ordinary, or shouldn't be seen as. 

Correct. - it’s called progress to use technology to help illustrate things …….bloody var …..

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Look what the MSM have done, they've got us right where they want us simple as !!!!

[nnfox]

24 minutes ago, Fazzer 7 said:

It likely will. But it’s for 2 days. And according to the Met Office just now on bbc news. It’s likely to be a one in 15 year event. If it hits 40 that is. 

I'd say 9 times out of 10 the weather forecast leans towards the more extreme end and the weather is rarely as bad as they say it will be.  Not saying that 40 won't happen but at the same time wouldn't be at all surprised if the top temperature on Monday/Tuesday is more like 35-36.  Still hot as hell, but not quite the end of the world.

[moore_94]

Tempted by some long days in the office on Monday and Tuesday, air con on full blast all day, with my desk being right underneath it

 

Our foyer is not going to be fun at all though, whole thing is basically just a big greenhouse, it has been bad enough the past week (like stepping off a plane) but I expect Monday / Tuesday will be horrendous

 

[kenny]

18 minutes ago, nnfox said:

I'd say 9 times out of 10 the weather forecast leans towards the more extreme end and the weather is rarely as bad as they say it will be.  Not saying that 40 won't happen but at the same time wouldn't be at all surprised if the top temperature on Monday/Tuesday is more like 35-36.  Still hot as hell, but not quite the end of the world.

It's probably worth reminding that the best weather forecasting comes from the met office. Most people get their information from the BBC or Google that get their information from Europe. I think the BBC use the Netherlands for their weather.

 

For next week the forecast is as follows

 

We are the best at weather in the world, the met is usually bang on.

[Foxdiamond]

Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies

[Jattdogg]

10 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies

Whooooaaa now easy, easy mr handsy

[leicsmac]

Aha, good to see the discussion mentioned in the WGMG thread has made it here.

 

Just for the record:

 

- This heatwave is part of an overall increasing temperature trend

- Events like this will become longer and more frequent in the future along with other extreme weather

- This was predicted thirty years ago and the vast majority of the scientific community has been saying it ever since

 

Yes, this is "just summer". But it's the preview of the new "just summer", which might not be as pleasant as the old one.

[marbles]

So I’m taking it that 40 is not normal for you guys.  What is a normal summer high?

 

This may seem silly, but I am curious - are there still a lot of people without air conditioner units?

Certain parts of the US, it is common to have houses without.  But that’s because they dont have stretches of high temps.

Here in Texas, it stays over 39 from the end of June till the beginning of September.  We’ve had a couple days over 42, which make me glad for the pool.

It’s even worse in places like Arizona and Nevada.

Edited 16 July 2022 by marbles

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

43 minutes ago, marbles said:

So I’m taking it that 40 is not normal for you guys.  What is a normal summer high?

 

This may seem silly, but I am curious - are there still a lot of people without air conditioner units?

Certain parts of the US, it is common to have houses without.  But that’s because they dont have stretches of high temps.

Here in Texas, it stays over 39 from the end of June till the beginning of September.  We’ve had a couple days over 42, which make me glad for the pool.

It’s even worse in places like Arizona and Nevada.

 

40 is unheard of here. Kent has the UK's record temperature of 38.7°c recorded in 2019 - usually we get a few days of about 30 tops but average summer temperature is 22-25 I'd say

 

Hardly anyone (I know, at least) has air conditioning, and whenever we do get a heatwave shops usually sell out of fans and portable aircon units

 

People accusing the media of scaremongering should be mindful - I was in France 2003 when they had that outrageous heatwave, a few days at 42-43°c without air conditioning was extremely uncomfortable even for me as a healthy teenager. Nearly 15,000 people died in France as a direct result of the heat

[when_you're_smiling]

4 hours ago, marbles said:

So I’m taking it that 40 is not normal for you guys.  What is a normal summer high?

 

This may seem silly, but I am curious - are there still a lot of people without air conditioner units?

Certain parts of the US, it is common to have houses without.  But that’s because they dont have stretches of high temps.

Here in Texas, it stays over 39 from the end of June till the beginning of September.  We’ve had a couple days over 42, which make me glad for the pool.

It’s even worse in places like Arizona and Nevada.

I don’t know a single person who has air con at home. My work doesn’t have it either. Monday and Tuesday is not going to be fun.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Royal Mail have said we can start earlier on Monday to avoid the heat.

 

By 30 mins. I kid you not   it'll be exactly zero degrees cooler.

[Strokes]

I’m on holiday in Greece for 2 weeks, it will be mild here by comparison. Just the 31-33c for us 😎
Enjoy your heatwave lads and ladettes. 

[Strokes]

3 hours ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said:

 Nearly 15,000 people died in France as a direct result of the heat

Typical of the French, surrendering to the heat. 

[Raj]

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/people-fretting-over-heatwave-snowflakes-24507198

 

 

Whinging snowflakes.

Cry when it snows.

Cry when it's hot.

 

[Innovindil]

Ain't even worried.