Heat Wave - Weather Watch

ME14addick said:

The temperatures expected are unprecedented and a risk to life for many old and vulnerable people.

It is important that everyone takes sensible precautions to look after themselves, so that our health services are not put under further pressure.

The comments I've seen on social media show that there are many who don't understand the problems these unprecedented temperatures will cause,  and they do need to be given advice on how to cope.

Stig said:

Why is it that when anything like this happens, it's always the ones going on about people getting hysterical that manage to sound the most hysterical?

colthe3rd said:

Strange how the gammony types are calling all the scientific advice nonsense. Would have thought they'd be best staying out of the heat.

lonman said:

clb74 said:

lonman said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

lonman said:

Must say I agree with the Tory MP who's now copping flack for saying people are being snowflakes for complaining about the weather. I don't ever remember the over the top news coverage, schools closing and the general bitching and moaning when we've had hot weather before. It's going to be hot for a few days, everyone should keep a sense of perspective and get over it. Lord help me if it was raining everyone would be saying what a shitty summer it is. Now it's hot, loads are moaning about that too.  

Are you for real?

Absolutely. I'll tell you what. You stay under your bed with the curtains shut and your ipad so you can post on this forum. I'll message you when it's all over.

You make it all sound so easy Ionman.
Me.
I'm not going in for the 2 days wont be getting paid as self employed.
For me I'm not worried about the money.
There will be not doubt thousands of self employed people up and down the country though who are worried about losing 2 days money and cant afford to lose that money.
I should imagine a few of these will top up going to work and end up in a bad way.
Over the next few days we will hear how many more thousands of 999 calls we have had over the 2 days.
Not all of these calls will be the persons fault.

Not my intention. My opinion is that it's 2 hot days and yes I'm sure people will be affected and that's not great. However, there are things happening everyday that affect peoples lives both positively and negatively. That's life I'm afraid. I'm not being flippant about it, just seeing things as they are.

All the horror headlines, dire warnings and panic actually changes nothing. If anything probably makes people panic more.

BR7_addick said:

lonman said:

Must say I agree with the Tory MP who's now copping flack for saying people are being snowflakes for complaining about the weather. I don't ever remember the over the top news coverage, schools closing and the general bitching and moaning when we've had hot weather before. It's going to be hot for a few days, everyone should keep a sense of perspective and get over it. Lord help me if it was raining everyone would be saying what a shitty summer it is. Now it's hot, loads are moaning about that too.  

Down with..

*checks notes to see what the Churchill blitz spirit brigade are moaning about this week whilst simultaneously calling everyone else a snowflake*

..Warnings about weather from weather warnings people!

What do we want?!  Less warnings!! When do we want it?! Now!!  

#DefundTheWeatherman

Sage said:

What’s also tiring is seeing people compare our weather to other countries, or continents for that matter. We are the UK, getting weather in the 40’s is not normal and it is not okay. The heat we feel here is also so different to heat abroad. The UK is not designed for extreme heat like we are going to get, the houses, the transport, even the built up cities the way they are. London especially is an overcrowded and largely concrete jungle. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Sure there will be an element of scaremongering from the media and news outlets, there always is and Covid was the same to a degree, but I actually think it’s about time when in comes to the weather because I know people can have their own opinions, but I’d like someone to come to me with hard facts to say climate change and global warming isn’t here and happening right now. Because it is.

It might not bother everyone, you might not care. But I do. I’m still young, I don’t want my future children suffering in a world that’s already tough enough because the people of now didn’t care enough about what’s around them.

This might only be a couple of days extreme heat for now, but it could happen again this summer, it could happen again next summer. It almost certainly will happen again in the next few years.

The old rhetoric of the natural cycle of climate change etc is boring, lazy, weak, and largely not true. However, it’s been repeated so often you have many who repeat it because they believe it, whilst disregarding the evidence that’s staring them in the face.

The other things to consider are the NHS are on their knees, already over worked and playing catch up all the time, emergency services completely overrun, but the next couple of days will be so much worse. The 999 calls will skyrocket, the response times will drag on for hours longer, working conditions will be far worse in a hot and sticky environment as it is already.

People will unfortunately die because of this heat. And sure, good and bad things happen every day to all people, but no one in the UK should die because of extreme heat that we have never experienced before. And that, that is all our own doing.

So please can we stop comparing our weather and history and trends to that of places thousands of miles away when a little island like us is not supposed to experience this.