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My local kebab shop burnt down this morning/afternoon. It's actually smoldering still 
It's too hot :(
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California is on the same latitude as Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and North Africa. Stoke-on-Trent is not, and we don't have a nice Pacific breeze here either..
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As well as the major fire in Wennington, there are also a number of other blazes today elsewhere in the capital:
• Thirty fire engines are dealing with a grass fire on Pea Lane in Upminster
• Twelve fire engines are tackling a fire involving garden fencing and trees on Uxbridge Road in Pinner
• Ten fire engines are attending a restaurant fire on Green Lanes in Southgate
• Eight fire engines are tackling a grass fire on Oaks Road in Croydon
• Eight fire engines are dealing with a grass fire on Ballards Road in Dagenham
• Eight fire engines are attending a fire on The Broadway in Wembley
• Six fire engines are tackling a grass fire on Sunningfields Crescent in Hendon
• Four fire engines are dealing with a grass fire on Chapel View in Croydon
• Four fire engines attending a fire on Sidcup Road in Eltham.
Mr Khan tweeted: "London Fire Brigade has just declared a major incident in response to a huge surge in fires across the capital today. This is critical: London Fire Brigade is under immense pressure.
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So much for all the people who laughed at the weather warning and it being just ‘another summers day’. Imagine tackling those blazes in this heat with all that equipment on. Heroes.
My local kebab shop burnt down this morning/afternoon. It's actually smoldering still
If you're quick the donner will still be warm.
No chance of food poisoning. Win win.
People love looking at isolated events. And comparing them to other isolated events.
It's how common heat waves are becoming. More telling is how warm winters are now.
I'm only 36 and when i was younger, only 25 years ago, winters were cold. Regularly.
The ice used to be 20cm thick some winters. Unbreakable ice. That doesn't happen now.
All have to do is look up some averaged models. Compare decade by decade.
The world is on the brink.
It's how common heat waves are becoming. More telling is how warm winters are now.
I'm only 36 and when i was younger, only 25 years ago, winters were cold. Regularly.
The ice used to be 20cm thick some winters. Unbreakable ice. That doesn't happen now.
All have to do is look up some averaged models. Compare decade by decade.
The world is on the brink.
1970s folk though were much tougher and just got on with it, today most people struggle with heatwaves, especially freakishly hot in the 40s, my dad worked in a freezer unit at a turkey factory with gloves on during the 70s and doesn't even remember the heatwave of 76 lol, love to be in a freezer now, it would be heaven to need gloves on.
Now this I agree with , warm winters suck. Thats why I go to Canada every winter, last visit to Banff it was -37 C in December. Now thats a proper Christmas feel !
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And the fact that pretty much all the climate scientists are saying that if we don't sort it out very soon it will be catastrophic. The world is a ecosystem and when that collapses its going to be catastrophic. It will be like a house of cards. The world will go on turning but life as we know it will get very hard and lets be honest, until the rich and powerful are suffering, nothing will truly be done.
on the brink of... climate change
climate is long term weather pattern
so we are on the brink of weather change. Not asteroid
shifting to more California and Mediterran building style and habits should deal with it
I'm happy with dry cold crisp winters. I've had my kayak out in 0c on rivers with ice still on them. And it's been warm, fresh and bright.
It's the cold but dull, damp gloom that I hate. And it's becoming more and more like that.
Yeah this weather reminded me of having flu, seems claustrophobic having to have curtains shut all day and stay inside dwelling on it, wouldn't be good with actual flu, covid or a cold in this heat as I always get hot fevers.
The heatwave of 76, had average temps 7 degrees lower than heatwaves we have today. 7 degrees makes a massive difference. Excess deaths went up by 30% during the 76 heatwave, 56% during the 2003 heatwave. Hoe many people are going to die if 40C heatwaves become the norm in the UK?
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Sorry, I don't know. Maybe someone will work it out? It's this one and it says 3.5kW.
(Okay, a website tells me if I run it 24 hours a day, at full blast it would be £22... but it's on a thermostat, so I guess maybe half the day it's not doing so much?)
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I'm finding on my social media, that it's the same folk laughing at it who were into all the anti-vax nonsense. Everything has to be a conspiracy for them.
Thats one of the beauties of places like the Rocky Mountains, its a different sort of cold. Even -37 there feels much the same as -5 here.