Next Tuesday weather

TotallyTangerine said:
Yes, we’ve been talking about it too…and dreading it! Our house is extremely hot upstairs in summer and the bedrooms are “like a fu…ing pizza oven!” (my husband’s words.) it’s even worse since we bought Henry, our British Shorthair, because we can’t even open the windows to create a through draft.🙄. Just going to keep sighing and moaning about how hot it is all day, I guess and drinking lots of water…
My younger son works at Peel Park and is also dreading Tuesday as the office is always really hot…
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If its 36 outside, then the thing to do is keep the windows closed, otherwise you're just drawing in hot air.
 
When we lived in France 2005/2010. in The Charente, next to The Dordogne, 40C was not uncommon.
I wonder how it will be in the future?
MrsDP has just been on the phone to out friends in The Dordogne. It's currently 33C there.
Too bloody hot or me.
 
Have already got Covid in preparation for a few days off. Even the kids don't want to bother me. Can't wait.
 
Davepick said:
When we lived in France 2005/2010. in The Charente, next to The Dordogne, 40C was not uncommon.
I wonder how it will be in the future?
MrsDP has just been on the phone to out friends in The Dordogne. It's currently 33C there.
Too bloody hot or me.
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Lovely though. I love the Dordogne.
 
1976 yes I remember in August ex football ref Denis Howell MP was appointed Minister For Drought. A short time after getting the job there was flooding in many parts of the nation.In the harsh winter of 1977/78 he was appointed Minister For Snow.☃
 
Shandypants said:
I normally defend the BBC to the hilt but the news last night was totally OTT. It was the lead item and lasted 15 minutes, how do the poor in Brazil shanty towns cope, millions of Africans, the poor of South America. It was total cringe!
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Yes, it's quite unsavoury really. Nobody in England will really suffer unless they make stupid choices...which some will, of course.
The phrase "Get a Grip" comes very much to mind.
 
It’s a few very hot days. Then we’ll be wondering where summer has gone.
I’ll be going about things as business as usual. Obviously there’s flexibility to wear lighter clothing and there’s the need to have regular drinks. But other than that it’s all a storm in a teacup.
As usual, the media whip up a frenzy by catastrophising about our impending risk to life and the longer term global warming where we’re all doomed anyway.
On the radio yesterday the news bulletin included a warning of ‘risk to life’ even for ‘fit and healthy people’. Give me a break. Utter nonsense.
It does give me a different perspective on all those bloated unhealthy brits making their annual pilgrimage to some all-inclusive resort in Greece or Spain or Egypt or Dubai or Turkey or wherever. They’re far from fit and healthy when they board the aircraft. How brave then that they are prepared to spend not just one or two nights, but rather one or two or three weeks, in searing temperatures whilst eating and drinking themselves to the edge of existence. How any of these folk live to tell the tale is beyond me.
Don’t go out! It’s a hot day! You may very well die! And to prove it we’ll have news stories of some poor youngster drowning in a lake. 🤷‍♂️
What with the covid stay at home, now the heat stay at home, and with the working at home, we may as well just start at home permanently and never cross the door other than to put the takeaway packaging into the recycling bin.
 
'Summer of '76'
Now where was I?
I think I'd just started work at Luton Airport.
Those were the days.
Having to watch all the scantily clad young ladies returning from their hols.
Horrible thought. 😉 😄
I think that was the year my mate and I stopped 4 'Page 3 girls. Of course you have to look in their cases etc.
My mate pulled this imitation carrot out of the young ladies' bag and, in his dry Scottish voice said, 'I won't ask what you use this for.'😄
One I stopped was going on about how long her boy friend had waited outside the Channels.
O said, 'How long have you been away?' 'Four days' she said.
I said I'm sure he won't mind waiting a little longer then.' With a little wink.

Forgot to say, 'Unfortunately Linda Lusardi wasn't one of them. 🤨 😋
 
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Malced said:
It’s a few very hot days. Then we’ll be wondering where summer has gone.
I’ll be going about things as business as usual. Obviously there’s flexibility to wear lighter clothing and there’s the need to have regular drinks. But other than that it’s all a storm in a teacup.
As usual, the media whip up a frenzy by catastrophising about our impending risk to life and the longer term global warming where we’re all doomed anyway.
On the radio yesterday the news bulletin included a warning of ‘risk to life’ even for ‘fit and healthy people’. Give me a break. Utter nonsense.
It does give me a different perspective on all those bloated unhealthy brits making their annual pilgrimage to some all-inclusive resort in Greece or Spain or Egypt or Dubai or Turkey or wherever. They’re far from fit and healthy when they board the aircraft. How brave then that they are prepared to spend not just one or two nights, but rather one or two or three weeks, in searing temperatures whilst eating and drinking themselves to the edge of existence. How any of these folk live to tell the tale is beyond me.
Don’t go out! It’s a hot day! You may very well die! And to prove it we’ll have news stories of some poor youngster drowning in a lake. 🤷‍♂️
What with the covid stay at home, now the heat stay at home, and with the working at home, we may as well just start at home permanently and never cross the door other than to put the takeaway packaging into the recycling bin.
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😂

Got that off our chest have we?

I don’t think you’re cut out for hot weather. Go to bed with a hot water bottle full of ice cubes and try to cool off.
 
Davepick said:
'Summer of '76'
Now where was I?
I think I'd just started work at Luton Airport.
Those were the days.
Having to watch all the scantily clad young ladies returning from their hols.
Horrible thought. 😉 😄
I think that was the year my mate and I stopped 4 'Page 3 girls. Of course you have to look in their cases etc.
My mate pulled this imitation carrot out of the young ladies' bag and, in his dry Scottish voice said, 'I won't ask what you use this for.'😄
One I stopped was going on about how long her boy friend had waited outside the Channels.
O said, 'How long have you been away?' 'Four days' she said.
I said I'm sure he won't mind waiting a little longer then.' With a little wink.

Forgot to say, 'Unfortunately Lindas Lusardi wasn't one of them. 🤨 😋
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Lucky you. I spent the summer of 1976 picking tomatoes in greenhouses at the bottom of Longhouse Lane in Hardhorn.
 
So all this fuss and we haven’t even reached record temperatures. That doesn’t fit the media narrative. Damn. Oh well - at least they’ve got tomorrow to save face.
Yet on the radio 4 news we heard their meteorological guest say how they’d predicted 40 degrees this decade but didn’t think it would have happened so soon. They were talking as if it had indeed happened. It hasn’t.
What else did they tell us on the same news bulletin? Was it all the lost lives? No - but Luton airport runway has been closed and some heat damage is being mended. Wow. Their correspondent said they aim to fix it ‘as soon as possible’. Really. How insightful. Anyway - yes Luton airport - such a catastrophe. I’m surprised there’s any flights scheduled after all the prior cancellations due to lack of staff etc., but apparently a few hours delay is headline stuff.
I heard an expert say such temperatures will be the new normal by the end of the century. But another expert said it would be the new normal by 2050. They can’t even agree amongst themselves. Two or three days of hot weather and back to normal by Wednesday. I hope we all make it through. Stay safe everyone. Remember there’s a risk to life even for the fit and healthy and for those frequenting beer gardens.
 
Malced said:
So all this fuss and we haven’t even reached record temperatures. That doesn’t fit the media narrative. Damn. Oh well - at least they’ve got tomorrow to save face.
Yet on the radio 4 news we heard their meteorological guest say how they’d predicted 40 degrees this decade but didn’t think it would have happened so soon. They were talking as if it had indeed happened. It hasn’t.
What else did they tell us on the same news bulletin? Was it all the lost lives? No - but Luton airport runway has been closed and some heat damage is being mended. Wow. Their correspondent said they aim to fix it ‘as soon as possible’. Really. How insightful. Anyway - yes Luton airport - such a catastrophe. I’m surprised there’s any flights scheduled after all the prior cancellations due to lack of staff etc., but apparently a few hours delay is headline stuff.
I heard an expert say such temperatures will be the new normal by the end of the century. But another expert said it would be the new normal by 2050. They can’t even agree amongst themselves. Two or three days of hot weather and back to normal by Wednesday. I hope we all make it through. Stay safe everyone. Remember there’s a risk to life even for the fit and healthy and for those frequenting beer gardens.
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Wales has, by 1.9 C
 
1976 I remember getting dirty looks using a hosepipe washing my dads car, I did tell them the truth that I'd syphoned the bath water. 😀
 
Tangerinemoss said:
Wales has, by 1.9 C
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Wow. Northern Ireland hasn’t nor has England. Nor has Scotland.
On sky news they dramatically announced that Northern Ireland had its ‘hottest day of the year’. Well we are in July. News flash - every year Northern Ireland has a hottest day of the year. 🤣🤣😎
 
I see '76 mentioned a few times but no one has commented on the summer of '55, now that was hot in Blackpool several days in the 90's F, and I can remember the front page headline in one of the daily papers saying, "Will it reach 100 deg today."
 
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