To not understand the constant panic

[Panicnomore]

I'm finding it so incredulous to see the level of panic and hysteria on here about a 2 day heatwave.
Posters seem to be hyping each other up. Can humans no longer cope with anything outside of their comfort zone?

I am more concerned about the lack of rain than the high temps. There’s no sign of any rain where I am and only the chance of the odd shower in other places on Wednesday. Everything thing here is brown 😬, farmers are struggling to feed their animals and crops are dying or harvest has come mega early. But all people seem to be concerned about is the 2 days of crazy hot weather.

Rain is forecast for Wednesday.

I am in London and it has been uncomfortably hot for over a week now with only a brief respite of a few cooler late evenings. I cannot wait for Wednesday when it hopefully rains and then goes back to normal.

Which is what has led to them having the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.

Wasn't the significant thinning/ hole in the ozone layer the main cause of this?

Yes it was, but why let the truth get in the way of a good story. I'm in NZ and I believe we are second in the skin cancer rates for the same reason.

This ^it's completely different lazing next to the pool in your bikini. Not having to go to work. It's also not a humid heat abroad.

Not panicking about the 2 days but worried sick about the effect of climate change. How much faster it is happening

It pissed it down early July here in the SW so i'm happy with the sun at last!

Not where I am.

I don't have to go to work so I guess that helps! No idea where you get the idea it's not humid abroad though. As if abroad is one place with one weather system 😆 but have you never been to a European resort and it's so humid that staff have to come and dry seats and tables before you can sit down? It's pretty common and not something I've ever experienced in the UK.

You understand that while you can sit at home in front of a fan tapping on a computer, some people need to do hard manual work outside or in say a kitchen?

Temperature is Temperature in the shape. of course you can create shade atop mountains,and buildings!

You can check they haven't collapsed, or ate suffering from heat exhaustion

Just in my family, the issues are

• medication that needs to be kept at room temperature
• an illness that can be seriously exacerbated by heat (life threatening at worst)
• main roads that get gridlocked by people trying to get to the beach

Do people not live to old age in other countries?

Yes they do, and either family structures mean that the checking is automatic (extended families under one roof) and/or there are similar exhortations to keep an eye on the more vulnerable

Also remember in hot countries buildings are better designed for the heat.

And lifestyles are built around it -eg. The siesta

Yanbu.
People have to dramatise every little thing and turn things into a competition about how vulnerable they are and how they have prepped but most of all how they are intending to help others because they are so caring interfering----🤗🙄

The weather can't do right for doing wrong in this country.

The locals certainly tend on average to live to a very ripe old age in the hot parts of France but checking on their well being,, or rather a lack of it, was an issue that led to the high number of fatalities during in the long duration French heatwave in 2003.

Summer holiday season at the hottest point of that, so elements of families had maybe scattered to the beaches, social services running light (again due holidays) and as a result some old people tucked away on their own at home in an annex/granny flat didn't get looked in on as often as they normally would.

Southern France is in the middle of a Canicule (heatwave), have been for a while, and the MSM general awareness advertising does push things like checking on older neighbours. In some urban area the Municipal Police or Pompiers (fire brigade) come around and check on those known to be vulnerable.

I have a 6 week old baby and an elderly dog so I am worried yes. Our house holds onto the heat despite all efforts.

"Also remember in hot countries buildings are better designed for the heat"

You forgot millions of people in third world countries who live in nothing much more than tin sheds.

@Bearsan I didn't forget that. People were talking about old people. The life expectancy in third world countries is dramatically different and presumably buildings that are unsuitable for hot weather is a large factor

It's also not a humid heat abroad.

I am truly astounded at the ignorance of some people. Do you seriously believe that the UK is the most humid place in the world?

I agree...It is unbelievably astounding

Do you genuinely believe that nowhere else in the world struggles with humid heat except the UK?

Try going to Singapore in the height of summer, or parts of Florida, or anywhere with rainforests...

@Somethingneedstochange do you really think the uk is a humid place 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Humidity here is fairly average isn't it, my gauges say about 50%, not particularly high.