Met office RED WARNING for extreme heat.

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General discussion is www.mumsnet.com/talk/weather/4583720-we-need-to-talk-about-the-weather-and-the-potential-for-extreme-heat but I wanted this to be seen by as many people as possible.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2022-07-18

maybe. I hate hot weather, it makes me feel ill. That’s why I don’t go on holiday to hot places.

I was meant to be doing a 5k race in London on Tuesday evening, which has been postponed. It is absolutely the right decision, not just because of the welfare of the runners but also the volunteers. Also tubes and trains will be roasting if running at all. I am very relieved.

Well, maybe that’s the case then. I absolutely remember my iPhone saying it was 42. As it happens - and with remarkably apt timing - this afternoon I’ve been looking at a research thermometer at an atmospheric observatory which gives the air temperature as 23, my iPhone is saying 25, so that would show that there is a difference in official and reported data.

However, either way it was extremely hot a few years back and, give or take a degree or two, it’s not going to be significantly different for next week. And either way I stand my my earlier point that people need to stop with the hysterics and drama.

Planned water fights? Really?

Water is a precious resource.

I despair at how worked up people (usually younger who weren't around in the 10 week heat wave of 1976) get over 2 days of hot weather.

I was around then, and the temperature never got much above 36. And not everywhere had to get water from standpipes either, I don't know anyone who did in my area (Croydon). Going to work on the train and tube was bloody hideous though.

I vividly remember the storm that ended the drought though - massive raindrops and fantastic lightning. We drove up to a beauty spot that was on high ground, and stood and watched the lightning across the whole of London. Pretty stupid of us, now I think about it, but spectacular!

Me too.

July will be remembered for the hottest day on record ever recorded in the UK. A maximum temperature of 38.7 °C was recorded at Cambridge University Botanic Garden on 25 July. This figure exceeded the previous record of 38.5 °C recorded in Faversham, Kent, in August 2003.

From the Met Office website about 2019 weather. Daffodill knows better though.

I despair at how worked up people (usually younger who weren't around in the 10 week heat wave of 1976) get over 2 days of hot weather

l was 12 then and it was fun. I’m 58 now and dreading it. And the temperatures never got this high.

LakieLady Apologies for doing this but I think you mean 26 degrees, not 36.

It was such a long hot summer though. I remember the ladybird plague, the standpipe, the brick in the cistern and nearly all the plants in my parent's garden dying.

Who needs to stop hysterics and drama? The Met Office, the UKHSA? the RAC? can see nothing here that hasn't been raised as a potential and significantly likely issue by them.

@knittingaddict you might want to see my post a couple of posts above. Or you could just ignore the wider point and snide away. Either or.

I'm plenty old enough to remember it

Most of it was under 30, and the problem was the lack of rainfall and consequent water shortages (no, not everywhere had standpipes, but there was an increasing number, plus public info campaigns about bathing less frequently and sharing bath water, not flushing if it was only a wee, and reusing grey water)

Right now, its quite different, higher temperatures, but does anywhere have a hosepipe ban yet?

The extreme temperature is dangerous in totally different ways to the long hot-but-less-hot 1076

I like hot weather but only if I'm doing nothing and have a pool to get into! Eg on holiday!
I'm actually worried about being at work on Monday and Tuesday. During the high temperatures last weekend and earlier this week my asthma was really bad. It's normally really we'll controlled but my chest was constantly tight and I was really struggling to regulate my breathing.
Throw into the mix that I'll have 30 little people to deal with and try to keep cool I think I'll be glad when Wednesday comes around.

Yeah, we didn’t get standpipes in 76 either.

Daffodil- you really can't complain about snide posts when you are busy calling posters and national agencies hysterical and dramatic.

Reading those saying 'But it's just summer!' and saying that people in hot countries cope, I worked in SE Asia for a few years where the heat lasted from May to November and people didn't cope. Almost everyone was miserable, not sleeping, tired all the time and generally grumpy. On the roads at traffic lights, you'd see someone on a scooter stopped under a street light for the tiny sliver of shade it gave, while others clustered in the shade of the few trees. Not that many had air conditioning then, either. By the time November arrived and the heat started to ease off at last, everyone collapsed in a heap of exhaustion because they could finally get some proper sleep.

That was 30 years ago, when I was young and fit, and I'm dreading this coming week.

I have a selfie of me I took on a London bus in July 2019 at 4.30 in the afternoon. My face is bright red and soaking wet. It may not have officially hit 40 degrees but I'm pretty sure it was hotter than that on that bus. It was like Dante's inferno!

I remember that day.

It was in the run-up to DS's wedding. I went to the hairdressers for 3 hours (it was freezing). Our houseguests from the USA went to the cinema.

It was properly hot.

The thing which scares me though is that this is just the beginning, we’re just at the beginning of the impact of climate change being seen, and even if a miracle happens and we can as a planet reverse it, it will take years for the impact to go back the other way and for things to cool down. In all likelihood we’re in a feedback loop where change will accelerate and temps will get hotter each year. What will we do when it’s 40 degrees for a month at a time? Or when it starts to reach 45 degrees? What are we meant to do? It’s terrifying.

DD's primary school have emailed to say they are not closing but would like children to come in with wide brimmed hats, sun cream and water. That's it.

There is a water squirt activity planned for the children, presumably each year group having a slot each, this is taking place on the school field (which is large and as far as I know not in the shade, although there might be some around the edges). So a bunch of primary aged children running around in a field in 40 degree heat, squirting water. What could possibly go wrong? It doesn't sound quite right to me but I will be slated as the summer Grinch if I dare mention anything.

thanks oybbk have finally got round to ordering a battery pack for my phone!

I don’t think national agencies are being dramatic at all, they’re being scientific and doing their jobs.

It’s posters on here who are high on their own hysteria. As I say, Covid seems to have inflicted a national-level PTSD where the reaction to everything is catastrophising.

You daughters class has air con and you arnt sure about sending her in.
God MN is bizarre sometimes.

Omg it so has. It’s like covid has triggered something and boy oh boy don’t the media just know it. Dream come true for them.

Cpebatch I agree