It’s hotter than reported

[Bubblebathbefore8]

Why are the reports of high temperatures being played down?

Gosport is coastal - will be cooler than inland from there, it was 38c not far from there earlier

See, Mumsnetters don't even need thermometers! They can feel when the termperature changes even a tiny bit.

Those tally with the forecast.

It hit 44.0 outside at 2pm today for me, inside a nice and cool 29.7 degrees downstairs, upstairs 33.4. Too much. South Coast.

I have just done that around the outside of my house. The front wall is 56 degrees. The front door is 67 degrees.

The actual ambient temperature is 34.

It was eight million degrees in our conservatory. My lolly melted.

It was forecast to be 35 where I live today and I popped out in the car about 2pm and it said 35.

I understand that it's been about 39 on Jersey today - completely crazy temperature.

It's 38C at Jersey airport now ( around 1645 UK time) but of course Jersey is on the western edge of all the really hot stuff France is getting so that sort of temp for them isn't surprising..for example it's 40C at Nantes airport ATM

It’s a bit hot. A local building has an outside thermostat and it said 44c. More ice cream please

Don’t the apps give you the temperature in the shade?

I won’t keep banging on about it but… if it’s 40c in the sun, surely it’s 40c if you are walking down an unshaded street? I think pike want to prepare for the 40c rather than the reported (for example) 33c. Isn’t that the point of a weather forecast? To prepare us?

im wearing linen dress and flip flops, my hair is almost as good as Monica’s Barbados hair and my face is sweating

They would have higher temperatures for people wearing dark clothes and lower ones for people wearing light clothes. Similarly, higher temperatures for people walking alongside buildings or on a tarmac road than for somebody walking across a grassy field.

Daft!

No it’s not. The “40C in the sun” is actually the temperature of a piece of metal or plastic that is left out in the sun. That is very different to both the air temperature and your skin temperature.

Yes it feels hotter if you are in direct sunlight as your skin absorbs radiation and heats up, in addition to absorbing heat from the air.

But none of this is quantifiable so all we are left with is air temperature measured in the shade as the only reproducible and consistent measure of ambient temperature.

Humidity matters as well.
This is why, when the weather forecast warms it's going to be hot, and the government is issuing severe weather warnings, the people saying "it's only 33 degrees" are stupid. But no matter how much they emphasize that it is indeed going to be dangerously hot some people still won't manage to take that on board.

Maybe it would be easier if they had a hot weather version of "wind chill" (when it's cold and they say it will be -5 but with a wind-chill factor of -10)

(I don't mean you btw. More the "I'm going to carry on as normal you are all snowflakes" types.

But surely all you need to know is that it’s dangerously hot?

There's no rational reason for you to behave any differently at 30 C or 40 C. In either cases you'd want to reduce the amount of 'walking down a sunny street' that you do.

Plus the difference in temperature isn't as great as 30 to 40 C implies because that's on a scale based on the behaviour of water, not absolute temperature. If you wanted to plan, you'd be making decisions based on solar intensity and humidity.

Not in the long summer of 1976

But where's the fun in facts and science?!

And?

This

“Being played down”.

it’s all a conspiracy obviously.

We had a huge thunderstorm where I am last night. It has thankfully cleared the air. It has been too hot the last few days and is cooling down from today thank goodness. 17C. Still too hot but better than 27C.

Yeah, let's leap straight to "it's a conspiracy..." rather than find out how things actually work. Quite depressing thread really.

Should have been with me at the gig I went to last night. indoors, I was in the upstairs section. It was ridiculously hot. Band were rocking tho

Next thing will be 'Its witchcraft' and x or y is in league with Beelzebub.