🥵 UK Red Weather warning

[paulstevenewing]

I love the UK in these situations.
Its hard not to be synical when the news is full of words like predicted, potentially and could.
I understand the heat isn’t good for some people and as a country we are not geared up for it, our average temperature is 14⁰ C!

All the news does is encourage mass hysteria, panic buying and raise concern in those that are normally calm and sensible people.

I think the headlines should read “It’s gonna be hot. Be sensible, stay safe and enjoy it while it lasts”
Thats all I’ll be doing.

[star100x]

@paulstevenewing Sounds like a good plan - after all there’s a possibility of rain again on Tuesday - all this fuss for 2ish days!!

[paulstevenewing]

Exactly @star100x
We will be getting our jumpers out by the end of the week!

[star100x]

Just saw this - made me smile!

[Chiquinho]

There is a trick you can use.

before going to bed take a shower dont dry your body and wrap it in a sheet.
Thats the so called “cooling evaporation”
Helps also to keep the beer barrels cool.

[Chiquinho]

Perfect said Paul!

Same here.
We call all those media “Lügenpresse” -> “Lying press”.
The daily horror forecasts and reports,

No natural gas -> 1000 of people will freeze to death in Winter.

Without the next vacc 1000 of people will die by COVID in Autumn.

And now 1000 of dead people caused by this “extreme summer heat”.

All so stupid and ridiculous.

But the worst is , many believe in those useless and weird messages.
Seems they have lost their brains to think over many things with rationality.

35C can come next week : beer storage is full!

[professor]

So there are indeed certain “news” outlets you mention they have seen Elvis flipping burgers, Jesus in a slice of toast, and severe weather for what is a normal weather event.

But this one isn’t that. A prediction of warmer weather than has not been for years and some chance of hotter than ever before.

BTW I’ve not bought anything for this. All I’ve actually done is dug out all the water bottles, filled them, put in fridge. My freezer also needed a defrosting so did before heat arrived.

No panic, no buying, just prepared.

40C is not normal summer heat for these parts of UK.

England also now has even worse NHS backlog than when last hot weather of 2019. So those idiots / unprepared who do get ill may not get the speedy response they would normally expect.

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Forecast

Imagine if there was no forecast at all and there was a planned Marathon…

[star100x]

@Chiquinho That’s a great trick - sounds like one to use on my wine bottles!

[Chiquinho]

Do that, it works perfectly.
Simple physics,

[Chiquinho]

This is the forecast for Paul’s place

What about a song?

Seems in 1966 there was some “summer” as well!

I found a version from “good old Joe” (RIP)

I didn’t know this.

[ktkundy]

No heat wave here just yet but it had been going through a streak of no rain and hot weather. Finally had rain the other day which then lead to flood warnings and now its supposed to have thunder on and off for most of the day. I hope everyone is staying safe in all the crazy weather happening throughout the world right now.

[professor]

I lived in a hot climate for years and a short sharp hot shock is worse than a generally hot climate as the human body adapts to heat. The blood chemistry and blood flow is altered over a 10 day period. So someone who previous week had say 20C then experienced 40C would suffer more than someone who came from 30C.

I moved to a hot country 2 months before others and when they arrived after me, I was perfectly fine in temps that the others needed to stop and cool.

The adaption is not psychological , it is not “get used to it, stop whinging”, it is physiological chemical alterations, e.g. sweat has lower salt ratio.

So for UK the lethality is not just the temperature but the rapid raising of temperature.

The south of UK has been in rain deficit, so ground is dry so daytime temps can raise faster.

It’s 74.6F in my house now and 89F outside. My perfect temperature is 60F

[paulstevenewing]

Thats the age old problem with the weather here isn’t it @professor.
We are up to our knees in snow one week, and basking in sunshine the next.
If it stayed like this until mid October we would be fine, well, you know what I mean.

[paulstevenewing]

Currently 31.5⁰c indoors (nearly 89⁰f)
Outside? To hot, much too hot.

[ndalby]

Been averaging around 29-30C in the office today, plenty of water…but also coffee

[paulstevenewing]

Thats hot @ndalby
Its great in our office.
We are in the middle of the calibration lab, 20/21⁰c all year round.

[paulstevenewing]

Put the heating controller outside in the shade for 30mins.

BBC says

[Chiquinho]

These are definitely not the 40C which were forecasted.

Here in München it will be warm today, but I love it.

[Chiquinho]

Coffee is perfect.
I use to drink tea in the morning, but now its coffee.
prepared old styled what else.
I remember we had a “coffee thread” here in the past.

[ktkundy]

wow crazy to know that but that does make sense. I always forget that the US is quirky using F for temp instead of C. I hope your body adapts quickly then so that you arent struggling in the heat. Do the same changes go about when you have a temperature change towards the cold?