to think we lose our minds in the UK with any kind of weather event!

[MargoLivebetter]

I appreciate we are a small island just off the Atlantic that generally enjoys a very benign climate with limited extremes. But I do think we collectively lose our noodles if there is any kind of extreme predicted. I don't think it is helped by the media who seem to like to hype everything up and be as alarmist as they possibly can be.

I often think to myself if a hostile country wanted to invade us all they'd have to do is wait for there to be half an inch of snow in the ground (in England) and just walk on in. Or they could maybe pick a really hot day and again there'd be no one manning the posts because of extreme danger to life!

I have every sympathy for the elderly, health compromised and very hairy dogs in hot weather, but most healthy people should really be able to cope. It is hardly like we are all toiling in the fields for nine hours with scythes and mattocks.

I work in a hospital. It’s absolutely boiling, and while I’m not toiling in a field as you put it, our long shifts are incredibly unpleasant in weather like this. A lot of our patients are also very vulnerable, and the heat is genuinely life threatening for them, so I see first hand how dangerous the hot weather can be.

If you’re young and fit and you can work from home in the garden with a cool drink or whatever then it probably doesn’t seem so bad. Unfortunately that’s not the case for everyone!

I don’t like the heat over 24, it makes me feel funny, I get all weak

@PaperAirplanesFlying agree it is definitely weather for the ill / health compromised to take extra care. I'm guessing most of our hospitals have not been built to retain heat in the winter or keep the heat out in summer and need to be added to the list of buildings that need to be made more temperature resilient. I think you are probably doing the modern day equivalent of toiling with scythes and mattocks.

Red warnings are rare and serious - they’ve been issued in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France too, so I don’t agree this is some kind of UK hysteria.

elderly people are vulnerable but so are children, and also people living in more cramped living conditions with less access to green space.

if anything I think there’s a complacency about this kind of extreme with weather in the Uk - with newspapers accompanying headlines about record breaking temperatures with pictures of people frolicking in the sea.

I think a lot of people in the UK just like having something to flap about.

The biggest irony is the number of posts suggesting the response to climate change is air conditioning.

How nice of you to blatantly ignore the advice set out to protect the public and the NHS.

@ImImmortalNowBabyDoll - how so?

"Red Warning: Dangerous weather is expected and, if you haven’t already done so, you should take action now to keep yourself and others safe from the impact of the severe weather. It is very likely that there will be a risk to life, with substantial disruption to travel, energy supplies and possibly widespread damage to property and infrastructure. You should avoid travelling, where possible, and follow the advice of the emergency services and local authorities."

@ImImmortalNowBabyDoll the crucial part of your post is that "dangerous weather is expected". The red warning has not yet commenced, even here in the South East. It comes into place tomorrow. I have not blatantly ignored anything at all.

Well maybe when it's in London and he South. Front page news if it's a bit warm or it gets a snowflake.

Same! I desperately wanted one. However I tried my friends a few year's later & it was crap!

Yeah I agree, we totally overreact as a country in general.
i love it though - I think it’s uniquely British to fret about every weather report, I join in with gay abandon.

In my experience it only seems to be various Mumsnetters losing their minds.

I don't really see it on other chat forums or hear it in real life.

But the threads have been plentiful and extreme every time warnings are issued.

Normally I'd just crack on with life but god my flat is so stuffy, sitting in front of my hot laptop with the curtains closed, windows open and no breeze feels like torture. Logged out early because I just can't concentrate, brain feels like mush.

First time in my life I will be grateful to go onto our freezing cold office tomorrow!

This is so true. Last year I went to Thailand and Las Vegas, both had similar temperatures to here. But everywhere was air conditioned, so it was bearable. Here in the UK, our weather sweetspot is damp, cold and drizzly!

We are good at anticyclonic gloom..

I could feel the pavement through the soles of my shoes when I went to get DS after school and, as people have said, the red alert hasn't started yet. We are forecast 38 tomorrow and 38 on Thursday. School is closed.

I'm getting a little bit sick of 'hot countries manage". Yes, they do, but (for example) the kids in Spain all finished for summer last week for this exact reason. Even Disneyland Paris is closing all outdoor attractions. It is too hot to squash a load of people into a room with a fan. I don't think we should underestimate the humidity.

Do you think A&E staff are looking forward to tonight?
Hot evening, long pub hours, England game. Sure it will be just a regular Tuesday/Wednesday morning.

Yeah ive heard this or I would of definitely bought one now i have adult money and free will 🤣🤣

No, who is losing perspective? The government have issues a health warning, people are acting accordingly.

The only loss of perspective appears to come from those who think the simple act of a health warning means the nation is losing their minds.

Probably not, but my local A&E got air con installed in 2022 which is more than my workplace or my child's school has.