AIBU to be fed up with the heatwave hysteria?

[Freshtona]

I'm getting a bit sick of the heat hysteria.

Yes it's going to be very hot for the next few days. So stay hydrated and out of the sun. Be sensible, take precautions. It's not difficult.

Millions of people around the world endure hot temperatures and yes it's uncomfortable for these few days but the crap British weather will be back soon, fear not.

People are acting quite over the top about it imo.

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Red warning here mate

that’s proper serious

Yes but it’s a red warning because they’ve said it is, if they said a red warning was 28 degrees would you still be worried, because “they” told you to be?

My big concern is - when is it safe to cook a roast ? I’m talking oven on, veg boiling. Maybe even extend the oven time for an upside down cake and custard ?
Is this all off the cards tomorrow ?

God I pan fried a chicken breast this evening and I was a right sweaty mess, oh good god what is to come of my Sunday roast?! 😂😂

I’ll tell my doctors who have warned me every year to avoid heat as much as possible due to my many incidents of serious heat exhaustion that it’s all hysteria… are cold weather warnings acceptable? As some of us don’t have problems in the cold but still appreciate others may have medical conditions exacerbated by freezing temperatures.

"Lost sight of what a real heatwave is"

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I blame vanity temperatures.

Try just having a sheet on top. And sleep naked. A fan on standby. Hopefully it works for me!

Well I think I trust "them" - i.e. the Met Office - more than a handful of eye rolling Mumsnetters.

This is it - I believe we should stand firm and keep the roast going - no matter what the temperature - Britain was built on tea and roasts

What’s a ‘real’ heatwave?!

To be honest I’m sick of all the competitive unbotheredness about it. It’s really boring. Some people do struggle in the heat for various reasons. Personally I hate it. I don’t sleep well, I can’t concentrate, I hate feeling sweaty, it just generally makes me irritable and fed up. I’m allowed to have a moan about it just like anyone is allowed to complain about things that they don’t enjoy.

There are health warnings, schools and workplaces are closing so for some it obviously is a serious issue. The topic has been done to death so no point repeating the valid points about this countries infrastructure not being set up for this kind of heat.

Well I think the Prime Minister of France talking about it is pretty much a strong emphasis on not swimming in open water. Plus you can't have it both ways - do you want the warning to be the first item on the news or not? Because if it is it will inevitably mention the heatwave because that is why people do it!!

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Oh a real heat wave is when steam comes out of your ears - like in the cartoons -
all this burning your bottom on a scorching car seat, and leaving your ring off as it will get stuck on swollen fingers - all this is just the warm up.

Tell me, op. In your day to day life, who have you come in to physical contact with this week who was ‚‘hysterical‘ about 40 degree heat? How many people? Actual physical contact?

Aye, A do 😅

This.
We aren’t built for it, there’s no air con! I bloody hate the heat, give me the cold any day- I don’t moan about it!

By ‘they’ I assume you mean the Met Office. The second most trusted organisation that predicts weather conditions? They don’t issue ‘red’ warnings for a laugh. 28 degrees isn’t a ‘risk to life’.

😆When Snoopy goes INTO his kennel then you know that we are all seriously fucked!

She’s being a dick clearly

Exactly 👏

We ate out tonight and I was frightened to order fish as I know how hot it gets in kitchens.

Exactly! Anyone North of the border needs to declare themselves on heatwave threads. The South is fixking hot.

Tin hate brigade has arrived. Still at least it reflects the sunlight back !