It's too hot :(

The_Arbiter said:
I appear to have a coating of sand all over the car this morning. Anyone else?
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I was out and about today between 5am-10am and I thought it was going be a nice cool day with grey skies and a bit of drizzle. How wrong I was. It's midday now and I'm sweating my rocks off with burning sun evaporating the moisture off the rainfall. No sand here in Cheshire.
 
One of the funniest things to me is the way in which these temperatures are portrayed in the media compared to back in the 80s. Theres a youtube channel that I watch, it has hundreds of full episodes of tv shows from the 70s and 80s, so I like kicking back, watching them and enjoying the nostalgia...anyway, on the channel there are also loads and loads of "episodes" of the BBC/ITV news including the weather reports. Was watching a bunch from 1985 the other day and when the weather came on, the temperatures were 28/29 degrees, but on the weather map, the 28/29 was just shown with the same yellow "sun" temperature indicator as the other "sun" temperatures. No swathe of alarming red coloured in area, no "Amber Heat" alert warning, no big RED temperature numbers. Just gave me a chuckle at the very different way that the same temperature was reported back then.
 
Tombstone said:
One of the funniest things to me is the way in which these temperatures are portrayed in the media compared to back in the 80s. Theres a youtube channel that I watch, it has hundreds of full episodes of tv shows from the 70s and 80s, so I like kicking back, watching them and enjoying the nostalgia...anyway, on the channel there are also loads and loads of "episodes" of the BBC/ITV news including the weather reports. Was watching a bunch from 1985 the other day and when the weather came on, the temperatures were 28/29 degrees, but on the weather map, the 28/29 was just shown with the same yellow "sun" temperature indicator as the other "sun" temperatures. No swathe of alarming red coloured in area, no "Amber Heat" alert warning, no big RED temperature numbers. Just gave me a chuckle at the very different way that the same temperature was reported back then.
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What’s the channel please, sounds good
 
wingman said:
Slightly red coloured dust/sand over our cars today, as others have said.
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Same in South Wales, only washed and waxed the car 3 days ago, had to give it another quick wash :mad:

27.7c at 80% humidity, absolutely ridiculous, 5 mins washing the car and I'm sweating like I've done a 10 mile run.
 
gingergundog said:
You would think they would be a bit more flexible when the weather is like this and allow you to wear something a bit more comfortable.
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Friend's son goes to an academy. They aren't allowed to take off their blazers! Only allowed during the summer term (Easter - summer hols). Yet the teachers are wearing short sleeve tops!

This is bloody stupid. Surely the academy can make an exception to this week or whenever the heat lasts for. Students will be fainting and suffering from heat stroke etc.
 
Tombstone said:
One of the funniest things to me is the way in which these temperatures are portrayed in the media compared to back in the 80s. Theres a youtube channel that I watch, it has hundreds of full episodes of tv shows from the 70s and 80s, so I like kicking back, watching them and enjoying the nostalgia...anyway, on the channel there are also loads and loads of "episodes" of the BBC/ITV news including the weather reports. Was watching a bunch from 1985 the other day and when the weather came on, the temperatures were 28/29 degrees, but on the weather map, the 28/29 was just shown with the same yellow "sun" temperature indicator as the other "sun" temperatures. No swathe of alarming red coloured in area, no "Amber Heat" alert warning, no big RED temperature numbers. Just gave me a chuckle at the very different way that the same temperature was reported back then.
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Thats a popular climate change denier theory, although the actual reason may be a lot less sinister according to this thread from a met office meteorologist

 
jpaul said:
Is there a regional tracker on mosquito levels (like pollen say) - don't seem to have any in Cambs but don't live near too much water,
but maybe that's a myth as some Med areas/06 aren't near fresh water but have them , but you get used to turning on electric diffuser before bed

Do we get these soon https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...r-mosquitoes-carry-zika-dengue-disease-france - is Paris vs London climate so different.
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I'm not hundred percent its mosquitoes we get, certainly look like them and have a high pitch buzz, one room the other night had 15 of them but it was a room with white walls so much easily spotted, we are 12 miles from the sea and not near any rivers so don't know, we did get around 6 years ago a summer with lots of them also, none of us been bit yet but that is the fear you get is what are they carrying.
 
cheesefest said:
Friend's son goes to an academy. They aren't allowed to take off their blazers! Only allowed during the summer term (Easter - summer hols). Yet the teachers are wearing short sleeve tops!

This is bloody stupid. Surely the academy can make an exception to this week or whenever the heat lasts for. Students will be fainting and suffering from heat stroke etc.
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Yeah that's bloody madness, surely you bend the rules in spring summer you can bend them again for this heatwave.
 
It's pretty unpleasant today, very muggy and hot.at work the heat is like red wine you get to a certain level and feel great and then obove your own personal line (mine is quite low) it just goes down hill
Imho of course
The BBC guy was saying a heatwave in London has higher temps than say here,25c vs 28c over 3 days probably should have known but didn't
 
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