U.K. Issues First-Ever Extreme Heat Warning 🔥🔥🔥 [I Hate Hot Weather]

@annamk "Heat waves, the new dietary aide everyone is raving about!"

@annamk Nice one 😁

@BalmyNites I’m probably not blocked, but I can’t remember his name. Lol

@Ambroseguy80 I blocked him 😁

The name was MartinlI think

@BalmyNites ahhhh yes. I see it in my notifications now

@ArishMell Thank you, someone who gets it! 🤗

@SweetMae And I remember the long heatwaves of 1975 and 1976!

@MartinII I was sight seeing in Luxembourg the hottest day of that summer.

@Houdini


NOT SO MUCH FUN 😔

@Houdini Dangerously hot babe

Ignore them, they’re total idiots

They simply cannot comprehend that we live in a temperate climate, we do not have extremes of temps so this is deadly

Plus, as you say, no air con

Just block the fools, they’re a waste of oxygen tbh

@BalmyNites Hopefully it helps 🤗 Not sure whether it has to be hot. Maybe body temperature actually works better? 🤔
I think chilled water works too and it gives relief when you drink it, but you body will probably try to warm it up as a side effect. 🤔

@Classified I think I’ve actually heard of that too 🤗

@BalmyNites Okie. Glad to be of service 😄

@BalmyNites that’s awful hun. Be careful. Take cool baths or showers 🚿

@Ambroseguy80 Thank you, I have been 🤗

@BalmyNites good 😊

@Turtlepower It’s evening here now (9.30pm) & my thermostat reads 84.2 in the house 😞

@BalmyNites mhm I feel your pain! Stay cool!

@Turtlepower Thanks 🤗

@SW-User there’s Sophie. ;)

@JimboSaturn It's very unusual in homes.

I daresay a few may have it; but generally our spells of very hot weather are not intense enough or long enough to justify the capital and running-costs of air-conditioning in an ordinary house.

We just open the windows (of which probably most now are doube-glazed) and let the breeze blow through, and that's usually enough.

A different matter for large commercial premises, espcially those built either with acres of glass or with very few openings to the fresh air and sunlight.

@ArishMell It used to be that way in the part of Canada I grew up, nobody had AC , but now they do.

@JimboSaturn It will be interesting to see how things develop in the UK if hotter and longer spells become the norm. I think the cost alone of installing air-conditioning throughout houses not built for it, will deter many householders; but it may be feasible in the more expensive housing developments among the many yet to be built.

Conversely, it will be equally interesting to see how the ending of fitting new gas-heating boilers in new homes built in the UK from 2025 onwards, part of a drive to go all-electric generally, will work....

@BalmyNites yes its what we need

@mrh1972 We won’t get a storm, just rain at weekend

@BalmyNites yeah

@AngelKrish That’s heat stroke

@Houdini Thank you, it is very lovely 🤗

Yes I love it down that way was going to move to brixham a couple of years ago @BalmyNites

@Houdini Ahh yes, near Torquay, not far from me, it’s lovely there as well - the English Riviera 😊

@JustNik Thanks babe, I so agree - I think it’s a moral duty to check on elderly people

@PhoenixPhail It does, but hot relatively.

No-one is suggesting Saharan or even Arizonan temperatures, but levels unusually high for the country, sufficiently so to cause real problems for people and systems attuned to normally <30ºC; with only very occasional, short, regional maxima above that.

I have noticed some Americans living in the sub-tropical States are puzzled why homes in Britain, and probably a good many other temperate-climate countries of similar and higher latitudes, do not have air-conditioning.

Normally it has never been necessary, because simply opening a few windows for a through-flow of air is sufficient; but if temperatures exceeding 30 or perhaps 35ºC, and for more than just a few days at a time, become common, as predicted, some householders and new-home builders might start fitting it.

Air-conditioning is common in commercial buildings here, but these are premises built with little or no natural ventilation; either glass-fronted office-block "green-houses" or factories, supermarkets, warehouses, etc. that do not even allow much natural light in either! Both, in my view, serious omissions initiated in 1960s architectural fads.

@ArishMell Thank you for your detailed info.
It's very helpful. 🤝

@TheGoodGuy Thank you 💜

@TimingQuasars We have no air-conditioning, we are totally unprepared

@MartinII Oh well, the point being - it’s feckin HOT! 🥵

@MartinII Why "gross dereliction"?

As far as I recall the Met. Office never previously issued heat warnings, just forecasts of hot weather, because heat-waves were normally spasmodic and short-lived; and temperatures over 30ºC were quite rare, short-term, fairly local occurrences.

So if the decision to add those is a new response to such events possibly becoming more frequent and more severe, it should be praised; not criticised for something that was not past policy. It would be negligent only if it does not issue such warnings in future.

At least the weather's cooled down a bit now. We've had some rain, thankfully, the sky is heavily overcast, and I think sun and showers is the pattern for the next few days.

@ArishMell Thanks Mell, I think this is a troll who stalks me

@Spumoni Thank you, can’t wait for this to be over

@Justenjoyit Thanks babe, Friday cannot come quick enough