Will the heatwave from southern Europe come here?

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@youbadbadkitten ant idea?? Worried here and you are the weather oracle.

I'd settle for dry. We should have harvested 40 acres of hay by now. We got about 20 bales in before the rain started. An entire acre has rotted away in the field with the constant rain and a further 30 acres is sitting there going to seed and getting flattened by the wind and rain. It has rained almost every day since the end of June.

I don't know what we will feed our livestock and horses with over winter if this carries on. Those growing veg can't get onto the fields to bring it in and the constant rain means that combines can't harvest wheat,oats and barley.

If this weather carries on,food prices will rocket and there will be shortages.

I hated last years heatwave - The stifling heat was unbearable and made me feel ill , however July has been nothing but rain and cold , temperatures struggling out of the teens , it doesn’t look set to change sadly .. we had torrential rain and storms at the weekend and most of my beautiful plants have been battered to death 😣 We are going away (U.K.) next week and it looks like a week of walk to wall rain and cold.
mist looking like the six weeks hols will be rain rain rain.. why can’t we just have s reasonable summer .. it seems it’s one extreme or the other . I’d be freaking out if we were forecast to get Europes heatwave but it’s unlikely we Would anyway

I would like it a bit warmer, about 23-25c would be ideal with some rain each night

Looks even cooler next week. Not good for farmers and harvests.

Are all the rain lovers on mumsnet happy with this?

I hope not! I’m enjoying the 21/22 degrees at the moment.

But we aren't getting those temperatures here in Yorkshire. It is more like 17 degrees and rain. I would love 21/22 degrees.

I've got the fire on here in the North East this evening. We've had rain most days for ages and the maximum today was 16. The farmers are desperately trying to harvest. At least a few dry days would be nice.

We've had a big storm here today and regular torrential downpours. It's been cold too. Some sunshine has peaked through with some patches of blue but it's shite.
Reading the news tonight about the hot weather is extremely scary. It feels like disaster star movie at the beginning.

Sun please let the hot weather reach us it’ll be like in the 30’s that would be cool .

The 30s is far too hot. The 30s would come with significant health warnings so why wish for temperatures that high?

I think we’ve had our heatwave. 3 weeks of hot ish weather in June and that’s summer done. Set to rain for the foreseeable.
Even last years heatwave didn’t really hit us. We had 3 days of 37-39 degrees and it was over. Not that I’m complaining I wouldn’t have wanted that temperature for longer but it would be nice to have an actual summer rather than wall to wall rain

I don't think the air conditioner I bought last year will see the light of day this year

And extreme rain. In 2015 loads of crops were ruined near me as it had been so wet the farmers were unable to get into the fields as they were so waterlogged.

There was also a land slip on the railway line.

Nor my lovely big black-lined sun parasol I've bought but I have no complaints.

We're getting much more pleasant temperatures here in the SE - forecast to be mid-20s max today, low 20s into the weekend and no rain, at least until Saturday, which I imagine everyone would be happy with especially farmers. It's worrying that rain is blighting the harvest

and you are not on your knees thanking God ( or fate, or whatever) for the fact that we have escaped the devastation in central Europe??

This time........

Gymmum82

That's not how I remember last summer, it was hot most of July and august in the south east, to the point I was miserable and would watch autumn theme videos on you tube. We didn't sleep without a fan for months! Recollections vary which I like as I struggled last year a lot so don't have fond memories but your recollection is different yet we may live a mile apart!
I bought new summer clothes this year and lots of cotton but I'm about to buy another pair of linen trousers today as I actually need more trousers in this weather and not shorts!

A lot of countries have temps in the 30s, without "significant" health warnings!

nd you are not on your knees thanking God ( or fate, or whatever) for the fact that we have escaped the devastation in central Europe??

I am well aware of that, hence my earlier post of wanting the temperatures to be shared around more evenly. The weather we are currently having is also not kind to farmers.

@Threenow other countries are more set up for higher temperatures but we are not. Our buildings and lifestyles don't allow for excessive heat. Nor does my fair skin.

I wonder where @ohyoubadbadkitten is, I hope she’s ok, I’ve not seen any threads from her about the European heatwave yet, she’s so knowledgeable I hope she comes back soon

She said she was busy with real life stuff and might not be around for a bit.

From the Guardian a minute ago. And we have known this was coming for AT LEAST 50 years. Political inaction and a failure to properly inform people is the secondary but devastating crime. This could have been averted if action had been taken a long, long time ago. Now most people are aware and running round like headless chickens - what can we do, what can we do? I'm afraid the answer for all of us sitting here this morning is 'almost nothing that will actually have an affect'.

There is no doubt the heatwaves currently gripping southern Europe, the US, Japan and other parts of the world are “hotter and longer because of human-induced climate change”, climate scientist Frederike Otto said on Tuesday morning.

Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, is an author on the International Panel on Climate Change and co-lead of World Weather Attribution (WWA), a international team of scientists who study the impact of climate change on extreme weather events.

She told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4:

The science has really moved on when it comes to attributing individual weather events. And we know that every heatwave that is happening today is hotter and longer because of human induced climate change.

So we know, without having done an attribution study, that also this heatwave is hotter than it would have been without climate change. How much hotter? We need to run the numbers for that. But we know that climate change is a huge factor here.

As long as factories, power stations, ships, cars and planes continue to spew their exhaust gases into the atmosphere, things can only get hotter, Otto said.

This is not a surprise that we see heat waves like this across the northern hemisphere in the summer now. It’s what we have expected to see with the current levels of greenhouse gas emissions.

And we know very well that as long as we keep burning fossil fuels, these temperatures will keep increasing temperature records will keep on getting broken.

And, yeah, depending on when we stop burning fossil fuels, in the future, this might not even be a hot summer.

I think a lot of people on this thread would benefit from watching "Don't Look Up"

Not all countries are more set up for higher temperatures. We have the same issues where I live as you do in the UK, although air con is quite common now, especially in businesses. However, until fairly recent times we just struggled through - and our hottest ever day was in the 1970s, I doubt we had even heard of air con then! We go to work at the normal time, come home at the normal time, and people who work outdoors continue to work outdoors during the day. Believe it or not, people here also have fair skin, and what is so special about your buildings and lifestyle?

Threenow the op said some countries, she didn't list any or single anyone out. It wasn't a personal dig at any country other than the UK tbh. I think your reply is bit harsh and uncalled for tbh.
We aren't geared up for heat, we have carpets, our railways can't cope, and air con isn't as widely used here as it in other places. We are used to much milder weather and some people really can't cope with the heat

I realise she said "some countries:, but she is carrying on as though the UK is somehow special and unique - I was merely pointing out that other countries deal with exactly the same issues and just get on with it. We have carpets here too, and the railway tracks are affected by extreme heat, the tar on the road melts, our lawns are brown for much of the summer, we have water restrictions etc., and as I said air con is a relatively new thing here. Really, we get posts on MN every summer about how the UK isn't set up for extreme heat - isn't it about time they started to look at doing something about it? If people want air con then they have it installed, it's not some big deal. It just gets a little tiresome hearing the same old thing trotted out every year when the rest of us just make the best of the situation and carry on with business as usual.

Well, we have far more flooding, snow, and high winds here than we have 40 degree temperatures, so it shouldn't be a surprise when people here say that the country is not geared up for extreme heat.