To think people don’t seem to understand how hot it is predicted to be next week?

[Toohot22]

On threads expressing concern re the heat, people keep saying ‘what do you think they do in hotter countries’?

According to my BBC weather app, next Monday and Tuesdays predictions are:

35 in Lahore, Pakistan
32/33 degrees in Miami, Florida
33 and 32 degrees in Kingston, Jamaica
29 degrees in Mali (which is the worlds hottest country, apparently!)
30 in the Maldives
38 and 35 in Spain.

The current predictions for me are 36 and 37 degrees.

AIBU to think some posters don’t realise we are talking about temperatures hotter than some of the hottest countries in the world!?

I can’t help but feel this has been blown out of all proportion. Another example of the media fuelling mass hysteria. It will be hot for a few
days, but as long as everybody employs some common sense, what is the problem? Stay out of the sun in the hottest hours, stay hydrated, wear a hat, wear sunscreen & don’t do anything extremely physical. I’m sure we will cope!!

Turkey for the hottest temp on earth in 1913 is my guess. (I will never forget the oven temperature holiday there)

I was wrong about Turkey, I looked it up there.
Those highest recorded temperatures are oven temperatures for actually cooking things!

Going from 32 on Sunday to 38 on Monday is going to be a shock.
We won't all cope.
Lots will. Lucky them.
Some won't survive.
This anount of heat, this fast, does things to human body that "common sense" can't deal with.

And we regularly have 10 degree changes in temperature in the space of around 15 minutes where I am from. So going up by 7 over night isn’t going to end the world as we know it.

It might be the hottest day on record. The response has been calm and proportional. No-one’s saying we’re all going to boil to death, but some vulnerable people will sadly die. As they do in particularly cold winters.

Go to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil during summer and you'll easily get 40 degrees at night!

Yes, and it’s shit.

No, you’re wrong. The red warning doesn’t mean ‘there’s a risk to life if you’re a bloody halfwit’. It means there’s a risk to life full stop.

And anyone who absolutely has to go to work @gimmepeaceandsky you are welcome to come and volunteer at the care home I will be working at on Monday !!
No AC ,elderly people who need to be washed,fed and given fluids +++ Oh and it’s a12 hour shift!!

38 by me.

Even though people think we can manage a few days actually we can’t. There are babies children and the elderly who can quickly get heatstroke within hours or less of hot sunlight. I came out of hospital this on Monday and when travelling back home was quite unwell with the heat. We are not used to it and an elderly guy in town just dropped dead on the hottest day. It’s something I would take seriously as the chance of being out in the sunlight can make people so I’ll. I am very pale with red hair and my sons the same we can only manage a few minutes outside. I am more than happy to stop inside till it cools down roll on the autumn and winter time.

Like in 2003, when thousands of Europeans died prematurely because of it.

Well you go ahead and shit yourself over 2 days of hot weather then love. I'll just crack on and be a bit sweaty🙄

Instead of hysteria just see what happens on the day. It will probably just thunder and piss it down!

A few people on here would be bitterly disappointed lol

Come to Scotland. That’ll cool you down 😉

I'm dreading next week, I struggled last week when it was hot, I'm disabled, have severe mobility issues & my ME/CFS leaves me shattered normally without the heat.

Could you explain how if the Australians cope so well with the heat + sun they have the highest rate of skin cancer in the world?

I will be hanging out in the freezer aisle of the supermarket.

We ARE a ‘hot country’!

A brief, two-day "heawave" does not make you a hot country.

I'm Australian
whinge when you have heatwaves of 40°

Yes, a suburb near by where I live reached 49° this summer...

Could you explain how if the Australians cope so well with the heat + sun they have the highest rate of skin cancer in the world?

That is not about 'coping" with the heat. That is an accumulation of sun damage - which can occur on cloudy days, in cooler weather, while driving, in an airconditioned office by a window, as well as from not using sunblock when on the beach, or wearing hats, etc etc.

When I moved to Philly it was a rare heatwave and 104. I had to sleep in the bathtub in cold water and even then I had to swap the water every hour as it warmed up so fast. Without air con those temps are horrible

Living in Australia is very different, the pace is slower, the houses/buildings have a/c, the materials used to build are heat resistant, designed to keep you cooler. Living in a hot country your blood is thinner, as you become acclimatised, again keeping you cooler. So no we are not used to it, built for it, and it's very dangerous, do not trivialise the situation, keep hydrated, keep windows and curtains closed, and check on each other, esp babies and elderly.