AIBU to be fed up with the heatwave panic?

[Iwanttobeafraser]

I'm fully aware that ots of people are goign to tell me I am BU but my god, I am so tired of the trauma over this heatwave.

The endless facebook posts (and MN) about if someone dares to take a dog out in the heat - my local page had pictures of three dogs, looking pretty relaxed, albeit with their tongues hanging out, and a story about how she cornered the woman who had gone into the shop (to buy fags! [gasp]. If that's even true.) and then the woman was rude to her and basically 500 posts agreeing how awful those poor dogs must be finding things.

The people who can't leave the house because it's too hot.

The trauma about whether the kids should be allowed out because it's too hot for them.

Blah blah blah.

It's hot. Yes, it means you have to adjust a few things. Yes, you might not lke it. But it's not the end of the bloody world. I don't like the cold. But it doesn't cause me to be completely unable to do anything, go anywhere, or let my children do anything.

Now dropped to 18 degrees, and a high of 20 degrees forecast for tomorrow.

I'm f#cking roasting

good for you. its still 27 here, and we're forecast 28 again tomorrow

I've never been as hot in my life

You weren’t around in July 2022 then when we had about three weeks with temperatures near 40 degrees?

Get a load of this Cheeky feckers.

https://x.com/bmay/status/2059271060105662517?s=20

It's the same old bore fest every time it's hot. People moaning when it's too hot. They moan when it's too cold . Moaning when it rains
It's life . If all you have to moan about is the weather then you haven't got any problems

You know most people can be concerned about more than one thing at a time, right?

However if the heat makes you ill then it makes other things more difficult.

I wonder how many employers are sympathetic to hear their staff can't rock up as they can't leave the house because it's hot. Few more heat waves and they will be on disciplinaries

I can’t imagine any of them are but people miss work for many reasons. Do you know of workplaces where nobody turns up in hot weather?

My employer fitted aircon - a definite incentive to go in when it’s hot

This is an interesting point. For every person who irritates me with their paranoia and OTT response, there probably is another one who goes the other way and is so blasé. The ones who do leave babies in cars, walk dogs at noon or sit in the garden with no sunscreen then get sun stroke and badly burnt.

Perhaps, more than anything, that shows another side to how little the average, perfectly healthy, person in the UK understands about hot weather. There are plenty of people at both extremes.

I'm in Paris at the moment. Total heatwave. How hot is it in the UK.?

It was 34 degrees today where I live.

Omg it's so hot in Paris, I'm burning inside the hotel

I have just spent a horrible 2 hours trying to get my sons sats up. His oxygen levels were 79 on full oxygen and Bipap ventilator. He is just exhausted from working hard to breathe due to the heavy moisture laden hot and humid air.
I dont share this to garner sympathy but to hopefully give an insight into how easily people with bad lungs can become a statistic of increased deaths in adverse weather conditions.
And these weather events are becoming the new normal it seems and are not freak events any more . the temperatures are becoming ever more extreme which while nice to enjoy if you are a sun worshipper are a threat to all of us if they continue to rise .
Anyway he is stable again and the weather is cooling diwn today thank the Lord . I am really hoping that we are not set for a long summer of this. I wish all sun lovers a nice one of course but not an extreme one.

see my post above..Sometimes the weather is the cause of our worries.

You are right. Sadly, over the last few days the emergency services have used up massive resources round here recovering dead people from bodies of water that they have entered despite plenty of notices warning people that it was dangerous to swim.

I think media make it worse. During that long heatwave of 1976, media and news didn’t keep banging on. People went to work and to school.

Now, we have a few hot days, or snowing days, and it’s like Armageddon is coming to pass. 🙄

Were you around in '76?
I was. Only just, though.

Thing is society has very much changed since those days.
For example, women did work but only when the child was about 4 or 5.

I say this not to derail the thread, but as a change that has come about that I can think of off the top of my head.

You're not comparing like with like.

At least it's a change from people posting about boats and immigrants every two minutes in local FB groups.

I was around in 1976. I was 17, and had a blast.
I have very happy memories of summer 1976.

I agree. That heatwave lasted for ten weeks, we thought it was never going to rain again. I washed my hair in the downpour when it finally came.

I just don't think the UK is heat-proof, so temperatures like this are bound to hit headlines. Our houses are built for the cold, not the warm weather for example, making it hard to stay cool. Very few public places have air-conditioning, which is commonplace abroad. It is more uncomfortable in the UK in hot weather.

My biggest concern, and something I spoke to my 15yo son about yesterday before he went out with friends, is the number of teenagers drowning in lakes and rivers. Four or five in the past few days. I don't think it's 'panic' to talk to them about unintended consequences of fun. More people drown in inland bodies of water now than at the coast - many of them teenagers. I live in an area that has loads of brick pits that are now lakes. A boy drowned in one of them last Spring. I've talked a lot to my son about cold water shock and not knowing what's beneath the surface. It's common sense for every parent to do so.

32 is a regular summers day in Australia . it’s a bit funny to hear people in such a panic about it. Drink lots of water and wear a hat.

I was born in 71 . Mum worked from when I was 3 months old. I do remember a summer in paddling pool in 76 before I started school