Britain on course for hottest day on record

[Denim]

17 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s now 40C where I am.

36 here in Phetchabun.  Getting the blankets prepared. Miss my old hot water bottle now.

[Atlantis]

18 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s now 40C where I am.

Are your feathers on fire yet?

 

If only you had aircon in the UK…vehicles not included.

[Atlantis]

One benefit of oppressive humidity (eg Thailand’s): a lower risk of the landscape catching on fire when the temperature hits 40 degrees?

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62184978

 

‘Major Incident Declared in London…’

[coolcarer]

Lots of videos coming out now of fires in London and Kent

 

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, coolcarer said:

Lots of videos coming out now of fires in London and Kent

The deniers are out claiming it's just another day, nothing to see here.

[lanng khao]

I've been out on a building site working in that today, the closed the site at 2pm...rawn hia hia...

[ozimoron]

Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the U.K.’s national weather forecaster said such highs are now a fact of life in a country ill-prepared for such extremes.

 

The typically temperate nation was just the latest to be walloped by unusually hot, dry weather that has triggered wildfires from Portugal to the Balkans and led to hundreds of heat-related deaths. Images of flames racing toward a French beach and Britons sweltering — even at the seaside — have driven home concerns about climate change.

 

https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-france-fires-london-england-b9bc07c1685b76ddf377b65f19fb811b

[blazes]

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the U.K.’s national weather forecaster said such highs are now a fact of life in a country ill-prepared for such extremes.

 

The typically temperate nation was just the latest to be walloped by unusually hot, dry weather that has triggered wildfires from Portugal to the Balkans and led to hundreds of heat-related deaths. Images of flames racing toward a French beach and Britons sweltering — even at the seaside — have driven home concerns about climate change.

 

https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-france-fires-london-england-b9bc07c1685b76ddf377b65f19fb811b

The inevitable finger-wagging conclusion to any news item about bad weather. 

[Bkk Brian]

19 minutes ago, blazes said:

The inevitable finger-wagging conclusion to any news item about bad weather. 

Sometimes the truth needs to be spelt out to climate deniers

[ozimoron]

7 hours ago, blazes said:

The inevitable finger-wagging conclusion to any news item about bad weather. 

Bad weather? Record heat waves all across Europe, North America, floods in Australia is just "bad weather" now? Ok, got it.

 

De Nile isn't just a river in Egypt.

Edited July 20, 2022 by ozimoron