Met office RED WARNING for extreme heat. Part 2:Tuesday

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Part 1 was getting a bit giant and in the miraculous event that I manage to sleep in a little tomorrow, it seems a good idea to start the new thread a little early. Part 1:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/weather/4590238-met-office-red-warning-for-extreme-heat

Met office warnings www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings

We didn't quite get to record UK temperatures, though lots of site records were achieved and Wales beat its previous record temperature by more than 2c. Tomorrow we look very likely to beat the UK record and to surpass 40c.

Tonight, obviously, do everything you can to cool your homes down, it won't be easy with lows of 24c in some places. One more day and it will feel much better for many.

Morning all. Ugh I'm SO TIRED of feeling unwell due to hot weather! I've always struggled with something like heat exhaustion the instant things warm up. (I started another thread on this where people have suggested this might be due to low blood pressure, so I'm going to talk to the GP about it.)

But honestly, at this moment in time, the idea of prolonged 40 degree weather being the norm in future is a bit bleak, for many reasons...

Im received it cooler today but I cant shake this feeling of how horrible its been and it was only 2 days

I have that feeling as well today. I felt really ill yesterday evening - DH and DDs were getting concerned. It felt last night like the whole house had been turned into an oven - even the internal door handles were warm and the bed felt like an electric blanket had been left on low.

Hopefully, yes, but as is the nature of showers and storms, some parts will see them, some won't

Correct, and that’s in part why certainly the aviation forecasts chuck some sort of probability into the text….for example the forecaster may be as as certain as he/she can be that some part of the area they are forecasting will get hit by showers. Some element of the probability that may then be added is to cater for the chance that the airport itself (in this case) gets missed, but maybe at some point it”ll chuck it down with rain in Hayes or Uxbridge..

Im releived it cooler today but I cant shake this feeling of how horrible its been and it was only 2 days

I feel exactly the same, and i know I'm very fortunate compared to others. But I feel exhausted. It's almost like waking up from a long very bad dream.

That's it! exhaustion, and an 'unreal' feeling.

People with heat exhaustion - massive sympathies its horrible. Just in case - use rehydration salts if you have them. Or soft drink (with sugar in) and crisps. Lots of cold drinks, ice cream, paracetamol and rest. Hope you feel better soon.

Just done 4x12 hour shifts in social care with a mask of course! Feel really quite sick today with a headache that won't go away. Drank 4 pints of water during my shift yesterday, but clearly wasn't enough.

Im releived it cooler today but I cant shake this feeling of how horrible its been and it was only 2 days

If it lasted longer, you would probably start to aclimatise.

omg. Respect. It's probably heat exhaustion. Can you rest today? Take paracetamol, rehydration salts if you have them, if not fruit juice and crisps...

Hope you feel better soon.

It is a lovely 21 here in South Wales, but overcast and humid.

Every window in the house is open right now for the breeze. I’m still a bit warm though, like a bit sticky. Thankfully it’s a more manageable 22 degrees with some cloud cover here in West Yorkshire. Hope everyone else has managed to get some relief.
and hopefully my poor DD wont have to sleep in just her knickers in her own little greenhouse tonight.

We took the loft hatch off yesterday. The insulation is about 2 foot thick!!

Ours is exactly the same! A new-build. If you can keep all heat out of the main house it's supposed to work brilliantly at keeping the house cool. But last night DH threw the windows wide open just as the humidity hit and dear god it was suffocating! I actually fell asleep on the lounge floor at 7pm!! That never happens!

This morning was like a miracle had happened. Fresh air rushed in and we could all breathe again!

Flat temperature still reading just under 30.

I feel your pain.

I cannot wait for autumn and I don't normally like autumn!

I’m the exact same. It’s incredible how much better I felt this morning when it was 22 and breezy and rainy vs the past two days where I felt utterly, utterly wretched. I’m pregnant and haven’t thrown up for weeks but the heatwave kicked off the vomiting again. Hydrating was hard.

Re. acclimatising to it, I’m 41 and have never acclimatised to regular British summers! What was the heatwave summer of a few years ago, 2018? Weeks and weeks of dry hot sunshine and I just lost all those weeks to illness, and it was nothing like yesterday. About to move to a another house with south-facing bedroom and sitting room and dreading it, my Rightmove searches for eco houses, and Googles for weather we can afford air con tied to solar panels, were off the charts the past few days. A LOT of Pinterest searches for cool, stone-walled French farmhouses (instead of, you know, doing anything constructive about climate…)

I wonder how our countryside and farming land would acclimatise to temperatures of around 40c. I guess our railways, power grid, water distribution etc would just get used to it and some now magically not collapse?

Still too hot here, unreliable garden thermometer says 27 and house is stubbornly clinging onto heat. Local mini supermarket has no air con, fridges and freezers broken and have therefore no fresh food for sale and I guess had to throw a lot out. I think this problem has happened elsewhere too, another thing to think about if heat was more prolonged.

The trains are a nightmare today. As I foresaw, DS cannot get to Leeds from the South. A level crossing melted (!) near Sandy and there was also a substation explosion which cut all power. East Coast line cancelled and Peterborough trains impossible to book or cancelled. Mayhem on West Coast line too.

Fortunately, DS is now sorted but it's carnage out there.

Farming is already dead (in Suffolk anyway), it has maybe another 60 years at most. Wet winters, periods of drought. Shortage of fertiliser and soil utterly worn out from decades of intensive farming. It’s increasingly easy to get planning permission to develop agricultural land. Around here it’s mostly grain which isn’t water intensive and doesn’t require irrigation like onions, for example, but not flood tolerant either (we’re on clay, which doesn’t drain well).

I wonder if there’ll be a return to or campaign for something like Dig For Victory and active encouragement of personal food growing, winter rainwater collection, etc. As much as we need an energy transition and grants for people to install solar and incentives to change from boilers to heat pumps we also need grants and subsidies for rainwater butts for all houses, community irrigation and planting in parks, ways for people in flats to access etc.

Saw a very good guy from one of train companies explaining train rails have a 45 degree span of tolerance. So in England we have rails that can cope with -10 to +35. In Greece they'll be +10 to +55.

For our train network to function in >35 degrees regularly, entire tracks will need to be replaced, costing £££

Am jealous.

Still hot in central London (I live right on the outskirts, on a hill, so always a few degrees cooler at home than here). No one was in the office yesterday, so it was still like an oven when I got in - it's heating up more now. We have air con in one meeting room, so I persuaded the powers that be to allow those of us in to use it for respite - we're all feeling slightly unwell as the rest of the office is boiling and airless.

Bring on the cooler weather here!!

Still hot in Essex too, I was looking forward to a storm but it seems to be bypassing us!

Still 28 degrees here. The thunderstorm we were promised this afternoon seems to be passing us.

Though it does look cloudy outside so maybe I will get lucky

For those suffering (oe those trying to hydrate children?) apparently milk is good for those trying to rehydrate .
Milk is a decent source of sodium and potassium, the two major electrolytes in your body. These electrically charged minerals are important for maintaining hydration
Skimmed milk is fine as is chocolate milk .

Have a google .