webfact Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 UK temperatures set to test all-time record as heatwave continues Children play next to a fountain in Battersea Park, London, Britain, July 26, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson LONDON (Reuters) - Britons sweltered in a prolonged heatwave on Thursday, with temperatures hitting a year high and set to test national records on Friday, the Meteorological Office said. The temperature reached 34.9 degrees Celsius at Heathrow Airport, officially making it the hottest day of the year so far, the Met Office said. It forecast a 20-30 percent chance of Britain seeing an all-time highest temperature this week and a 70 percent chance of a record high for July. The all-time British record is 38.5C set in August 2003 near Faversham in Kent, southeast England, while the highest July temperature was 36.7C in 2015 at Heathrow airport. "There is greater potential for both the July and the other (all-time) record to go tomorrow," said a Met Office spokesman noting that the highest temperatures are expected in the southeast - in Kent, Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. "It’s going to depend on the development of thunderstorms ... If the thunderstorms develop early that’s going to prevent some of the heat from the sun getting to the ground which will curb the rise of temperatures," he said. Britain's heatwave has turned green grass brown, triggered an impending hose pipe ban in the northwest of England, and prompted a warning from the government for people to keep out of the sun. Farmers have also warned of possible food shortages later this year. On Thursday the EuroTunnel Le Shuttle operation warned passengers heading for the Continent at its Folkestone terminal to expect four-hour delays to booked times, blaming restricted shuttle capacity. It said the extreme heat was affecting the air conditioning on board its trains. The Met Office said that while Britain is expected to see some rain on Saturday and Sunday, the very hot spell will continue next week with temperatures rising to over 30C. Separately on Thursday a committee of lawmakers said premature deaths from heatwaves in Britain could more than treble to around 7,000 a year by mid-century if the government does not take action. (Reporting by James Davey; editing by Stephen Addison) -- © Copyright Reuters 2018-07-27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Real Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 43 minutes ago, webfact said: The temperature reached 34.9 degrees Celsius at Heathrow Airport Great News! I just wish they can keep me updated about the next upcoming rain in Britain too. Better they concentrate on Brexit. The real "Hot Potato" in the overheating brain of Mrs. Mayday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pegman Posted July 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2018 No worries, the Brit tabs are still calling global heating a hoax and Brexit is a cure all. 555 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post arithai12 Posted July 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2018 2 hours ago, webfact said: Britons sweltered in a prolonged heatwave The temperature reached 34.9 degrees Celsius at Heathrow Airport It said the extreme heat was affecting the air conditioning on board its trains. Perfectly normal temperatures in many european countries.... now I see why Britons do not like to be part of Europe. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonmarleesco Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 8 hours ago, webfact said: The all-time British record is 38.5C set in August 2003 near Faversham in Kent, southeast England, while the highest July temperature was 36.7C in 2015 at Heathrow airport. Not necessarily. Those are only records set since the keeping of records began. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DipStick Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, Jonmarleesco said: Not necessarily. Those are only records set since the keeping of records began. As are all records ! ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolboy Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Jonmarleesco said: Not necessarily. Those are only records set since the keeping of records began. That goes for every phenomenon or activity that has preceded the keeping of records. So what's your point? Edited July 27, 2018 by bristolboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivor bigun Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 No worries, the Brit tabs are still calling global heating a hoax and Brexit is a cure all. 555Used to be this hot in the 70s not global warmingjust the world doing what it has always done .and we were not in theEU then,happy days 555Sent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champers Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Most homes in the UK don't have aircon ..... yet. Time to regulate for units to be installed in all new builds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post from the home of CC Posted July 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2018 those records are a grain of sand on the beach of time. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew65 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 6 hours ago, arithai12 said: Perfectly normal temperatures in many european countries.... now I see why Britons do not like to be part of Europe. A Dubliner friend lived for some years in London. He insists that Irish weather is unquestionably worse than British weather. Also, for about half of the year, north-western European countries get s**t weather, just like the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPI Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Jonmarleesco said: Not necessarily. Those are only records set since the keeping of records began. Didn't Stonehenge work as a weather bureau agency during the bronze age, they would have scratched the temp. in "rune"? Couldn't you think of nothing brighter to say??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolboy Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 1 hour ago, ivor bigun said: Used to be this hot in the 70s not global warmingjust the world doing what it has always done .and we were not in theEU then,happy days 555 Sent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app False. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_United_Kingdom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivor bigun Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 False.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_United_KingdomYeh yea. It was still as hot and we still were not in the E.U Sent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bristolboy Posted July 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2018 1 hour ago, ivor bigun said: Yeh yea. It was still as hot and we still were not in the E.U Sent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Maybe you were on a different planet. Maybe you still are. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, champers said: Most homes in the UK don't have aircon ..... yet. Time to regulate for units to be installed in all new builds? Why should it be regulated? If you want air conditioning pay for it to be installed. If you don't want it then use a fan, or keep the windows open. It really is the cube root of b*gg*r all business of the government, in any shape or form, as to whether or not you choose to have air conditioning in your home. Edited July 27, 2018 by JAG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickBradford Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 The global warming zealots have been relentless in trying to link any and all natural events - heatwaves, cold snaps, floods, and droughts, hurricanes, starving polar bears and collapsing bee colonies - to dangerous man-made influences. They love to use their preferred weasel phrase: "What we are seeing today is consistent with man-made global warming." It's also consistent with the opposite, but they don't mention that. So tiresome have they been at crying "wolf!", that nobody is listening any more. The activists are whistling, but the dog's out of range. And that would be a problem if global warming actually proved to be a threat to human well-being in the decades to come. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingjock Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Sick of hearing about the Brits, to hot to cold, get a life guys this the planet earth, not happy move to another country, If you can afford it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Isn't this a dream come true for ol' Blighty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Andrew Dwyer Posted July 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2018 15 minutes ago, Jingjock said: Sick of hearing about the Brits, to hot to cold, get a life guys this the planet earth, not happy move to another country, If you can afford it. But but but !! the British weather is in the top 3 things to moan about ! If they stopped moaning about the weather that would only leave Brexit and Football !! ( and yes i am a Brit ) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickBradford Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, canuckamuck said: Isn't this a dream come true for ol' Blighty? The country's infrastructure fails almost completely when the temperature falls outside a range of 0C to 24C. Sometimes, even a mild shower will do it, causing the "wrong type of leaves" to fall on the rail tracks, causing serial unpunctuality of the trains. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/8166103/Wrong-sort-of-leaves-hit-train-punctuality.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickstart Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 5 hours ago, ivor bigun said: Used to be this hot in the 70s not global warmingjust the world doing what it has always done .and we were not in theEU then,happy days 555 Sent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app You must be thinking of the hot summer of 1976, and the UK was in the EU then, before 1976 it was just normal summers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivor bigun Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 You must be thinking of the hot summer of 1976, and the UK was in the EU then, before 1976 it was just normal summers.We were in the Common Market,,no one said it would become the EU. We were lied to.Yes the hot summer of 76 snd this is the hot summer of 2018. NextSent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champers Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 7 minutes ago, ivor bigun said: We were in the Common Market,,no one said it would become the EU. We were lied to. Yes the hot summer of 76 snd this is the hot summer of 2018. Next Sent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Based on your findings, 2160. I will have experienced an extreme heat event of a personal nature before then, I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolboy Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 (edited) 16 minutes ago, ivor bigun said: We were in the Common Market,,no one said it would become the EU. We were lied to. Yes the hot summer of 76 snd this is the hot summer of 2018. Next Sent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app And now you're lying to us about it being just as hot in the 70's as it is now. Because you believe you were lied to once, now it entitles you to do the same? Edited July 27, 2018 by bristolboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew65 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 33 minutes ago, kickstart said: You must be thinking of the hot summer of 1976, and the UK was in the EU then, before 1976 it was just normal summers. No, the UK was in the EEC then, different thing. The EU was to do with the Maastricht Treaty, not until 1992. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivor bigun Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 And now you're lying to us about it being just as hot in the 70's as it is now. Because you believe you were lied to once, now it entitles you to do the same?Keep trying but it was maybe not quite as hot but it was up there with what it is now.by the way in the middle ages it was so hot they grew grapes in England. Must have been global warming from all the horse and carts.Sent from my SM-A720F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew65 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 At 38.5C the record highest temperature in the UK is higher than the highest ever in Hong Kong, who woulda thunk it!???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3NUMBAS Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 spain this weekend is set for a busting all time record 48degs ..thats dangerous https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/spain-and-portugal-temperatures-could-exceed-48c-this-week-breaking-alltime-europe-record-a3901001.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadilo Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 I’ve seen no predictions anywhere near the record. The prediction is around 31 on Friday. Usual hysteria. Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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