[News] Hysteria about hot weather on UK news programmes

[Thunder Bolt]

…and not even if you have a ‘condition’ …..I’ll be pacing myself this week

Just keep drinking water to keep hydrated.


The record temperature ever recorded in the UK was 25/7/2019 at Cambridge University.
Edit to add it was 38.7C

Part of the problem here isn't so much the heat but the humidity. I can cope with higher temperatures in France, because it isn't so humid. Humidity is very draining. It's 70% here today which isn't too bad, but only 50% where we holiday.
It's 80% in Hastings right now.

 

[beorhthelm]

Don't know which media you are listening to, but no actual climate scientist would mix up 'climate' and 'weather'. They can safely leave that to people on the internet and radio phone-ins.

i wrote moments after seeing it on BBC.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Where I live

 

[stewart_weir]

Is it just me or is this all fecking laughable?

No its not laughable because Brits seem to on the whole have zero common sense about many things including the heat. It's going kill quite a few vulnerable and elderly people at least. It will also produce an army of Lobster fleshed pot bellied sun burn victims who yearly baste themselves without any care and a large % of those will unfortunately go on to get skin cancer. For those who pay attention UV radiation has increased over the last 30yrs because of ozone depletion as has the avg temperatures. FYI a heat wave is an extended period of extreme temperature and/or humidity especially in the evenings.

 

[BN41Albion]

This time last week I was sat in 30+ heat on Mission Beach in San Diego talking to my mates girlfriend. Everyone enjoying the warm sun, playing in the surf & sand etc, not bothered at all about the heat....it was glorious.
We had just seen the news about a possible heatwave hitting over here, & I said to her that within days the media would be jumping on it - & things would start grinding to a halt because the UK just cant cope with heat.

First thing I saw on the news headlines this morning?......."Train lines catch fire in 30 degree UK MELTDOWN"

FFS....

We received an 'Extreme heat warning' email at work today warning of extreme temps on Sunday Monday and potential disruption. Checked the forecast... 30degrees. Absolutely pathetic, isn't it.

 

[BN41Albion]

No its not laughable because Brits seem to on the whole have zero common sense about many things including the heat. It's going kill quite a few vulnerable and elderly people at least. It will also produce an army of Lobster fleshed pot bellied sun burn victims who yearly baste themselves without any care and a large % of those will unfortunately go on to get skin cancer. For those who pay attention UV radiation has increased over the last 30yrs because of ozone depletion as has the avg temperatures. FYI a heat wave is an extended period of extreme temperature and/or humidity especially in the evenings.

Having lived and worked in 5 countries and travelled a lot, in my experience there are roughly the same amount of people with no common sense where ever you go one way or another

 

[banjo]

I’m in Greece atm and just told the waiter about the heat at home. This was his reaction.

 

[Weststander]

Just keep drinking water to keep hydrated.


The record temperature ever recorded in the UK was 25/7/2019 at Cambridge University.
Edit to add it was 38.7C

Part of the problem here isn't so much the heat but the humidity. I can cope with higher temperatures in France, because it isn't so humid. Humidity is very draining. It's 70% here today which isn't too bad, but only 50% where we holiday.
It's 80% in Hastings right now.

My sun/heat loving neighbours spent some weeks in Île-de-France this summer, visiting family. Never normally moaners, but they couldn’t wait to get home, it’s the sheer temperatures being faced in Iberia and most of France this summer and recent summers. Away from more temperate NW France, 35c to 40c.

Agreed, being maritime, the UK is normally humid.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It was 'quite warm', opening the bowling on Saturday.

 

[Icy Gull]

No its not laughable because Brits seem to on the whole have zero common sense about many things including the heat. It's going kill quite a few vulnerable and elderly people at least. It will also produce an army of Lobster fleshed pot bellied sun burn victims who yearly baste themselves without any care and a large % of those will unfortunately go on to get skin cancer. For those who pay attention UV radiation has increased over the last 30yrs because of ozone depletion as has the avg temperatures. FYI a heat wave is an extended period of extreme temperature and/or humidity especially in the evenings.

As if the morons are going to pay attention anyway!

I always thought looking after/out for vulnerable family members or friends and especially your kids was just what you did 365 days a year, not just during extreme weather!

Everyone with half a brain knows the risks of too much sun, banging on and on and on and on about it from the media will make little difference to those who aren't aware of the dangers or who are too thick to care...imo

 

[LamieRobertson]

As if the morons are going to pay attention anyway!

I always thought looking after/out for vulnerable family members or friends and especially your kids was just what you did 365 days a year, not just during extreme weather!

Everyone with half a brain knows the risks of too much sun, banging on and on and on and on about it from the media will make little difference to those who aren't aware of the dangers or who are too thick to care...imo

Here you go….from todays BBC News website ..a quote under a photo

“A woman takes cover from a brief spell of rain at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where temperatures hit 23C“

Wow…..HIT 23c …who’d have thought it in the middle of Summer

 

[dangull]

I'm looking forward to the end of the heatwave and violent thunder storms. Cant see forecasts predicting that anytime soon.
Not great fun if you work outside like me.

 

[Seaview Seagull]

I adored that '76 summer - all of it, although I shouldn't have laughed so hysterically at the sight of my gran's blue rinse, becoming a red, black and blue rinse, when we were set upon by a vast swarm of ladybirds, on Hove lawns.
It took me the best part of an hour to get them all out of her barnet.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Not so good for us as my wife was heavily pregnant (daughter born late July) and could barely walk across the room in the heat. Also my father passed away - nothing to do with weather.

 

[sydney]

Not just you, Icy.

Anyone remember 76? Now that was hot. And dry. A young Beefy Botham dazzling in his whites. Plagues of ladybirds. And the old bat I worked with had, only months before, been bleating 'we're going into another Ice Age'.

i think that was the same year we had huge storms and people were kayaking around home field park in Worthing and then another huge storm that blew all the pine trees over , i'm a firm believer that 8 billion humans are going to have an effect on the planet but the contemporary media and their hysteria/historyonics re just about everything is shameful , one thing that the covid crisis underlined was that they really aren't concerned about whipping up hysteria in the community as long as people tune in.

 

[portlock seagull]

As if the morons are going to pay attention anyway!

I always thought looking after/out for vulnerable family members or friends and especially your kids was just what you did 365 days a year, not just during extreme weather!

Everyone with half a brain knows the risks of too much sun, banging on and on and on and on about it from the media will make little difference to those who aren't aware of the dangers or who are too thick to care...imo

Good thread and exactly this - the young will get burnt because they have always done so before learning a hard lesson. Just as we’ve all done. By then damage is done regardless of later life protection. Which I’m very conscious of and basically stick Chernobyl factor on March to October.

When I saw a dermo for an angry mole removal, he put me right on my lovely arm freckles and called it what it was - irreversible damage, with twice the average chance of developing into cancer. Which I have my parents to thank as a typically fair skinned kid of the 70s when people knew no better and let us turn pink before applying calamine lotion after the horse had well bolted!

 

[portlock seagull]

I'm looking forward to the end of the heatwave and violent thunder storms. Cant see forecasts predicting that anytime soon.
Not great fun if you work outside like me.

Always wondered, does your employee pay for sun cream protection if work outside similar to VDU employees get a free eye test each year? Bloody well should do if they don’t IMO!

 

[dangull]

Always wondered, does your employee pay for sun cream protection if work outside similar to VDU employees get a free eye test each year? Bloody well should do if they don’t IMO!

No, I'm afraid not

 

[portlock seagull]

No, I'm afraid not

Personally I feel they have a duty of care to nowadays. Perhaps begin a campaign? It’s a bit like not providing hi vis vests and other safety gear. And it’s not exactly cheap if you’re having to slip slap slop daily.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Personally I feel they have a duty of care to nowadays. Perhaps begin a campaign? It’s a bit like not providing hi vis vests and other safety gear. And it’s not exactly cheap if you’re having to slip slap slop daily.

I’m going to have a word with my boss about this

 

[LamieRobertson]

Good thread and exactly this - the young will get burnt because they have always done so before learning a hard lesson. Just as we’ve all done. By then damage is done regardless of later life protection. Which I’m very conscious of and basically stick Chernobyl factor on March to October.

When I saw a dermo for an angry mole removal, he put me right on my lovely arm freckles and called it what it was - irreversible damage, with twice the average chance of developing into cancer. Which I have my parents to thank as a typically fair skinned kid of the 70s when people knew no better and let us turn pink before applying calamine lotion after the horse had well bolted!

Likewise….although perhaps a few years earlier…holiday was always down to Devon or Cornwall…days on say Woolacombe beach, building sand castles and getting burnt….result, the receptionist at the local hospital addresses me by name before I’ve said anything, as I rock up for another appointment with Dermatology