The Weather

[Footballwipe]

56 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Oh I've already seen that one today, with it's general 'and it was completely fine' vibe. In fairness, the majority of the replies are people telling them not to be an idiot

Didn't some parts of the country have communal stand pipes in 1976?

 

I'm not being dramatic to say there'd be riots, selfishness and absolute chaos when they eventually have to do it somewhere in the UK in the future.

[Foxdiamond]

4 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

Didn't some parts of the country have communal stand pipes in 1976?

 

I'm not being dramatic to say there'd be riots, selfishness and absolute chaos when they eventually have to do it somewhere in the UK in the future.

Yes there were stand pipes. Fortunately ok where I was so didn't have to go through that. I remember the heat and lack of rain though not sure the humidity was as bad or extreme as we get now. Mind I'm 50 years older so probably more aware of the discomfort. 

[leicsmac]

18 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

Didn't some parts of the country have communal stand pipes in 1976?

 

I'm not being dramatic to say there'd be riots, selfishness and absolute chaos when they eventually have to do it somewhere in the UK in the future.

If there is going to be one, water will be the next great resource war. 

 

And likely the last great one, too.

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

If there is going to be one, water will be the next great resource war. 

 

And likely the last great one, too.

Isn't it amazing that there's a very good chance that you've drank water that has been peed out by a blue whale.

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Isn't it amazing that there's a very good chance that you've drank water that has been peed out by a blue whale.

... which in turn, countless billions of years ago, was hydrogen and oxygen atoms shat out by cyanobacteria.

 

Isn't life wonderful. 

[Samilktray]

19 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Isn't it amazing that there's a very good chance that you've drank water that has been peed out by a blue whale.

 

15 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

... which in turn, countless billions of years ago, was hydrogen and oxygen atoms shat out by cyanobacteria.

 

Isn't life wonderful. 

Thanks chaps that’ll be me avoiding water and drinking beer going forward 

[FoxAsh]

Isn't tap water just recycled sewage ?

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, FoxAsh said:

Isn't tap water just recycled sewage ?

On a long enough timeline, quite probably.

[Sampson]

9 hours ago, Trumpet said:

Screwfix sell an 18 inch floor standing fan. It’s amazing and if you can direct it at you in the night it makes sleeping in this heat bearable.

I bought a good £80 tower fan from John Lewis a few years back. Absolutely life saver sleeping with it in the heatwaves. Britain isn't a cold country these days, definitely need to start investing in stuff like this.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Samilktray said:

 

Thanks chaps that’ll be me avoiding water and drinking beer going forward 

No change then?

[Super_horns]

Keep cool and hydrated everyone .

Wimbledon starts next week so bound to rain then !

[SkidsFox]

Some nice stormy wet weather this morning, 4 to 5am, on the south coast near Hastings. Now mainly cloudy but feeling very warm in any sunshine.

[bovril]

Never thought I'd be jealous of people living in Glasgow. 

[Foxdiamond]

52 minutes ago, bovril said:

Never thought I'd be jealous of people living in Glasgow. 

Every time we have a heatwave I look at Stornoway at about 18c and say to my wife I wish we had a place up there.

[CornwallFox]

17 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Isn't it amazing that there's a very good chance that you've drank water that has been peed out by a blue whale.

When you breathe out, you emit more particles in one breathe, than there are breathes of air in our atmosphere. So as these particles mix you are definitely breathing in previously exhaled particles in every single breathe you take. 

[EastAnglianFox]

Grim and it’s only the start of it.

 

Friday at Midnight has a feel like temp of nearly 30 ffs. 
 

We have 3 simpleton cats so can’t even have the upstairs windows open 

[leicsmac]

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-europe-worse.html

 

Grim indeed. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/as-extreme-heat-hits-london-fossil-fuel-interests-and-global-far-right-politicians-gather-for-a-glastonbury-of-climate-science-deniers/

 

I mean like they even care, but perhaps an unfortunate day for this gaggle of climate change denying loons to be getting together

[CornwallFox]

[Dr Marco]

I wanna go to heaven for the weather,

hell for the company

 

 

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, CornwallFox said:

I ‘liked’ this but I don’t 

[Wymsey]

2 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Blame who, what or 'nothing, the climate can just be like this'?..

[LCFCJohn]

Absolutely sick of hearing about 1976 from boomers 

 

Many seem to think it’s a badge of honour that means they can scoff at what we are seeing now. It was clearly a fluke at the time where it didn’t even reach temperatures as high as we see now as well as now being more and more regular and earlier/for longer.

[Rubbersoul]

6 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Absolutely sick of hearing about 1976 from boomers 

 

Many seem to think it’s a badge of honour that means they can scoff at what we are seeing now. It was clearly a fluke at the time where it didn’t even reach temperatures as high as we see now as well as now being more and more regular and earlier/for longer.

None of this woke heat back in my day lad

[Foxdiamond]

8 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Absolutely sick of hearing about 1976 from boomers 

 

Many seem to think it’s a badge of honour that means they can scoff at what we are seeing now. It was clearly a fluke at the time where it didn’t even reach temperatures as high as we see now as well as now being more and more regular and earlier/for longer.

Why anyone would scoff as they are 50 years older and probably suffering more than they did back in 1976 is very strange. I know I coped better then rather than now