Another heatwave on the way, is everyone ready for number five?

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Another heatwave coming.
Are we all ready for heatwave number 5.

Sorry, more to come in September?? Ffs

Been about 27 here in Central Scotland which counts as a very high temp.
My sister in London is reporting " scary" heat levels.

I think we can all agree that the climate is changing. What are people doing to change the way we live? What CAN we do?

38.1 here in London🥵

That’s really high- poor thing. It’s 35°C here, and I’m outside London. Hopefully it’ll cool down soon.

They've been saying ‘extreme heat’ or ‘intense heat’ this week.

We have now wildfires 10 miles from us and we’re in an inner city area in West Mids - it’s made the news.

Oh no, Mrs Murphy, how awful 😟
BBQ or fag end or deliberate no doubt.

No! A golf course - just so dry!

Been 32 here in South Yorkshire. I have spent most of today in a room with curtains closed and a fan on. And I like summer, but not as hot as this. 25 degrees is my optimum temperature.

Too many wildfires round here. I feel sorry for the firefighters. They aren't getting any respite.

I also can't begin to imagine how hot it is in all that firefighting kit. Poor souls.

It's 37 here today. Horrific.

Seems to be fires all over the West Mids today and the train derailment may well be heat related.

No! A golf course - just so dry!

I should have looked for the news item! You just don't think of golf courses spontaneously combusting, do you?!!!

Seems to be fires all over the West Mids today and the train derailment may well be heat related

Just watched the footage of both. What a terrible day.

Especially as they are exempt from hose pipe bans!

Major incident declared in Norwich, due to fires. A huge local heath on fire, my DD and SIL live less than a mile away. Smoke can be seen for miles, from anywhere in the city. Advice for those who live nearby is to keep checking local news. They are checking but not many updates. I have made up the spare room in my little cottage on the north Norfolk coast and said they can come here, Lots of main roads currently closed out of Norwich.

Oh wow poor Norwich and surrounds.

There are a few different fires being reported today in West Midlands area.

4 houses have burned down in Stoke and more in Stourbridge, from fast moving grass fires.

You see it on the news in Spain and Canada but this is hitting very close to home now :(

Just read someone in a neighbouring town decided to have a bonfire in their garden yesterday, it set light to neighbouring gardens. Luckily it didn't spread to the houses and the fire brigade were very quick.

But what posseses people to even think a bonfire is a good idea when it's like this!

Absolutely. It’s why it was so shocking to me - I live in a city yet we’re now experiencing wild fires as any patch of dry land is susceptible to combusting.

How anyone can say they’re enjoying this summer and it isn’t hot enough either are living very north or just here for the wind up. People’s homes have been destroyed and are in hospital.

On a more pathetic note, DS and I slept downstairs with the patio door open and two fans. It was still around 30 degrees at 11pm. Currently 19 according to BBC.

The dry weather and all the fires is worrying.

However, there definitely is a north south divide. London and the south east are experiencing extremes of temperature that are way higher than other parts of the country.

Having said that, we had 32 degrees in Yorkshire yesterday, which I can enjoy on holiday where there is a pool and aircon, but not here.

I can't get over the stupidity of people having bonfires. Are they living under a rock?

I had an unbelievable conversation this morning as I put the bins out! Someone I know was driving past and slowed down to say hello. He is the manager of a local care home and was heading in to work. He cheerily told me that he was going in early to "set up the barbecue". I laughed - this was clearly a joke!

Sadly not. They do this every year for the residents, and this year will be no different, apparently. When I suggested to him that this might not be entirely safe (we're in the hottest area of the UK) he reassured me that the BBQ would be on a stone patio in the middle of the garden. I said, "Sparks?" but he told me that I was being over-cautious.

I officially give up.

@Headinthecloudsfeetontheground do you know if it's actually a gas or electric BBQ though? They don't have the same risks as a charcoal one.

If they are professionally catering for many, I suspect it'll be a gas one. Plus the height does keep the radiant heat off the ground - it's disposable ones that are the most problematic.

Charcoal 😡

I’m really down today, another 33 degree day, trains and tubes are hideous and no air con in the office. I was so hopeful today would see it under 30 and looking ahead the cool down for London and the SE had been pushed back again. No relief forecast until end of next week now with temps here still at 27. I have looked at the fires and those poor people loosing their homes. We really need this weather to break and once it does we need government to start planning for future summers and looking at our infrastructure. One of the main hospital sites for my trust is at capacity for electrical load so the staff and patients are really suffering

Edinburgh (where I live) isn't very north - plenty of places in the south and central belt of Scotland here have been in the teens for weeks, with a few days in the mid twenties. That's not to say I'm minimising the temperatures that parts of the rest of the UK have been having, I'm not - it sounds absolutely miserable and you have my utmost sympathies - but it's not just places in the very north that have been cooler.

27? What day was that? I must have blinked missed it I’m also in central belt I would say our “ Summer” much same as every year I mean some nice ish days couple sunny days but also days where it could be winter!