To think it's not hot at all

[Jkoakham]

I'm here in a blanket in the south west in a 3 story Edwardian and it's cloudy.

I've felt other heatwaves but this one doesn't even register tbh

Tonight, according to my weather app, where I live in Essex, it will stay around 30

Maybe that's just it - it's a south east thing and people not being able to cope with a few degrees more.

Oh love. You were doing so well.

I’m from Queensland. Lived there most of my life. I know hot, I know humid.

The south east at the moment is unusually hot and quite humid. 33 degrees is objectively hot in most parts of the world, even those that are built for them. England is not built for them, and the impact is magnified in cities.

Living where you do, you may not have much knowledge or experience of the heat island effect of large urban centres, and in particular the impact of heatwaves in intensifying the effect. Worth a google.

Yep, cloudy in my part of Gloucestershire and 24. Very pleasant. Long may it continue.

32 degrees in my whole house. Struggling with a 6 week old baby and dog terribly. Just can’t get the temperature down. Am in Essex.

Jassy - rather patronising.

We've been getting emails from Hive telling us how hot our house is, it's been over 25' for June & July. It's bloody hot!

It’s been 34 in the shade in my garden for the last few days. Mid twenties is normal for summer, yes. Months of being much warmer than that with no rain is unusual and therefore in the news. People talking about it only being the south; have you considered the huge fires up in West Yorkshire and near Manchester as a result of everywhere being tinder dry?

It’s over 40 on the London Underground. Try being crammed on there in rush hour, dressed for the office. It might show you that your 3 storey Edwardian does not represent the whole country.

It's boiling where I am, 28 degrees. I don't believe anyone could be cold or using a blanket.
In fact generally, unless I have personally experienced a thing, I disbelieve in its existence. Obviously, everyone else also does this /s

I've just put a cardi on.

Jassy I'm fully aware of city heat, I live in a city and the local paper is going crazy over the supposed heat. It just hasn't happened and sounds all like a media whip up to pretend a few degrees is Armageddon

It's not too hot for you where you are. It is too hot for some people where they are. I'm not entirely sure what's so difficult to understand about that tbh.

It just hasn't happened and sounds all like a media whip up to pretend a few degrees is Armageddon

Yeah I mean who cares about a few wildfires in the north huh? Just a media frenzy

Yeah I mean who cares about a few wildfires in the north huh? Just a media frenzy

Oh please

OP, it's not 'supposed' heat. It's happening. It might not be in your particular micro climate part of the country but most places are sodding sweltering.

You're not hot, fabulous. The dozens of other posters already on this thread beg to differ. Most with actual facts and figures.

Glad you're feeling cool, genuinely, I am jealous. Until half an hour ago I was sweltering in an air conditioned machine because one of the windows is broken so the air con can't keep up. I've had to stop work for today because the hydraulic jacks are literally sinking in the tarmac. It's hot here.

33 in East Anglia right now, even my usually cool office at home is 28. It is hot. Loving it but it's starting to get muggy now, could do with a good storm!

It's very cloudy and dull here in Gloucestershire but the office is currently 29.8c. My brain isn't functioning - I've made so many mistakes this morning. Good job it's our business . The lack of sleep at night is what's making me irritable, I don't mind it in the day as much as I do at night.

Stunning cheer blue sky
27 degrees

Gets hotter throughout the day but still beautiful. Proper summer.

Yet another reason I would never want to live up north. I have never felt so cold as I did during the 6 hours I spent on newcastle twenty years ago. Shudder at the memory

Oh please

Ah so goady fuckery.

You could at least try to be interesting with it

32 here... has been for days (Berkshire). It’s horrible (especially when heavily pregnant as well)! Haven’t been able to sleep well for ages. Although I’m a cold weather person so for some they might be loving it.
If it’s so cool with you mind if I come over?

South East. Hot as heck. I like the heat, but the kids are starting to struggle. My 2 are pale and ginger, so prone to sun-sensitivity. It's 28 in the shade here (glorious) but well over 30 in the sun (a touch too hot) . my car read 39 degreeswhen I got into it earlier.

And while the temperature outside may drop to the lower 20s overnight, it's hotter indoors.

Still, I'm loving not having to take a jumper or jacket anywhere.

It’s hot.

I completely agree that the media is London-centric, but I don't think it's fair to say "90% of the country" doesn't live there when just over one third of the UK population lives in the south east, and I should imagine a fair few people from outside the south east are forced to commute into the south east/London area for work.

I live and work in central London, and the Central Line was so hot last night that I actually reeled a bit when they opened the doors at Holborn to let people on. The heat coming from inside the carriage was exactly like opening a pre-heated oven, and for a split second I really didn't want to get on.

At least 32 degrees here. My mum is in hospital and her ward is like an inferno. This level of heat is dangerous to the elderly and this is why the news is focusing on it. In addition farmers are struggling with water shortages and fires.

It's great you are not suffering but surely you can show some empathy for those that are. I certainly have been horrified at the fires on the moors this year and floods in previous years in different parts of the country. What is with all this divide and conquer attitude?

32c inside my house, with blinds closed otherwise it would be nearer 40c