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  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,804
    LargeAddick said:
    Redvaliant said:
    Grey and raining in Cranbrook.
    About twenty miles from you, near Battle, and it’s been grey all morning, some light rain. Clearing now and heating up. Absolutely bucketed it down about 5am for an hour. 
    That thunder woke me up....4.30ish, and I hadn't gone to bed till 2am....feeling it today.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,519
    At least if you wake up at stupid o'clock there's football on
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,511
    edited June 23
    IdleHans said:
    At least if you wake up at stupid o'clock there's football on
    Unless there’s a two hour break due to bad weather.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 9,095
    Finally got some 'sun splitting the stones' weather..............and with that comes a boil water notice ffs 🙄
  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 2,187
    edited June 23
    My outside weather station has hit 36 degrees today.
    Inside house is 23 degrees, no aircon just closed windows and shutters/curtains and all ceiling fans on.
    Game changer this year is a large brolley over the French Doors. Kept the heat down substantially ,  which tended to rise even with the curtains shut I guess just like a greenhouse effect . 

    Edit: worst bit is the thrips from all the wheat planted round here this year. They get everywhere and are as itchy as anything
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,287
    edited June 23


    Our South facing conservatory this afternoon (was here when we moved in and needs knocking down). That's even with blinds closed and patio umbrellas outside to shade it. Anything left in there just melts. We close the doors that connect it to the house and open the outside doors. That at least stops it from turning the rest of the house into an oven. 

    Glad I went into the air conned office today tho 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 22,208
    My daughter’s school is closing for the next 2 days. My wife’s not closing hers but parents have the option to take kids home at lunchtime 
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,372
    It's been an (almost) comfortable 30 degrees here the last couple of days, sunny and no rain, altogether could defiently do with some for the garden 😎
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 10,305
    edited June 23
    This heatwave is mental.
    It was 35 degrees at 10pm yesterday.
    41 degrees now at 6pm
    The pool water is 32 degrees. We're bloody fortunate, unlike most, to have a pool.
    The greenhouse with doors and windows open to the maximum has literally gone off the scale of a maximum of 60 degrees.

    Edit as I just went into the garden. It's 6pm. My thermometer (in the shade) reads 44 degrees. The water is 33.5!

    Maybe people will actually consider voting Green and stop worrying about immigration, like it's the sole thing to worry about, and like it isn't also a consequence of climate change anyway.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,938
    edited June 23
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  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,015
    This is far from normal heat and it's something we're going to have to get used to, unless we take drastic action. Climate Change really starting to bite now and the costs are going to be enormous.

    When it rains it's heavier because a warmer atmosphere can hold more water, this causes flooding. Weather events like this used to be very rare, that's why 1976 stands out in people's memories. Red alerts in UK, France, Spain and Italy. These will happen more often. 

    Train companies are running reduced timetables, schools are closing and hospitals struggling to cope. 


  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 2,187
    edited June 23
    Along with ceiling fans, I think external shutters would also help. They had them  in Italy for Italia 90 on the flat we stayed in and probably still have them. Perhaps not attractive as such, but kept the sun completely out of the place, and then with windows that opened inwards you could sleep with shutters down and windows open. Super secure as well. All operated from inside.
    Might look to see if someone in UK supplies these when windows need replacing.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,878
    Oh dear, another thread being hijacked by climate change. Think there is already one for that.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 12,068
    My mum is currently in the Meadowview Rehab Ward at Queen Mary's in Sidcup. Visited her this afternoon and she had been moved to a side room as the storm damaged the roof above her bed and they had water pouring through at 4.30am! Roofers who were called to fix it said their company had been absolutely inundated with requests for repairs to flat roofs. The rain really was biblical last night.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,697
    I hate this hot weather. I've got through 2 pairs of pants, and that's only since Saturday.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,609
    Keeping the dogs home from school and sports day tomorrow and Thursday has been cancelled.
    Asking if I should attend without the dogs, was told….

    It’s probably best for everyone you stay home too……..


    Which is approximately 54 years to the month when the headteacher at Eaglesfield said the same thing! 😂

    This time St George’s want me back, as long as I bring the dogs. 😉

  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,015
    LargeAddick said:
    Oh dear, another thread being hijacked by climate change. Think there is already one for that.
    We have the second heatwave of the year, it's pretty clear that Clinate Change is to blame. You can't ignore the fact that records are being broken. 
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,888
    Daily mail readers may want to step away now to stop this important thread from being closed :)
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,287
    fenlandaddick said:
    Along with ceiling fans, I think external shutters would also help. They had them  in Italy for Italia 90 on the flat we stayed in and probably still have them. Perhaps not attractive as such, but kept the sun completely out of the place, and then with windows that opened inwards you could sleep with shutters down and windows open. Super secure as well. All operated from inside.
    Might look to see if someone in UK supplies these when windows need replacing.
    Yeah external window coverigs work a lot better than internal. Great idea and not too difficult to retrofit so exactly the sort of adaptation we will need to go hard at. 

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  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,287
    Covered End said:
    jimmymelrose said:
    This heatwave is mental.
    It was 35 degrees at 10pm yesterday.
    41 degrees now at 6pm
    The pool water is 32 degrees.
    The greenhouse with doors and windows open to the maximum has literally gone off the scale of a maximum of 60 degrees.

    Maybe people will actually consider voting Green and stop worrying about immigration, like it's the sole thing to worry about, and like it isn't also a consequence of climate change anyway.
    The Green Party has been hijacked in the UK.
    Ridiculous and untrue.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,287
    The annoying thing about this heatwave is that it happens to fall right around the longest days of the year. If it was in late August when the days are shorter that little bit of extra time before the sun comes up and after it sets would make a real difference to airing the house out and getting temperature down before the day and before bed. 
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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,538
    Yeah who would ha e expected warm temperatures around midsummer? Would be better to ha e a heatwave in the winter around 22 December
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 11,180
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  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 2,187
    Another good idea is those electric awnings that attach to your house. Not my cup of tea but they help to cover the largest window being the patio door.
    If that doesn't help just get down your local and sink some beer. They could do with the business 😀
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    FishCostaFortune Posts: 11,180
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,938
    I've deleted all my comments if you want to delete your reference as well.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,015
    FishCostaFortune said:
    Covered End said:
    FishCostaFortune said:
    You see threads descend into chaos and got closed time and time again - yet still people can’t stop themselves from steering them into a fruitless political debate. 

    Yeah sorry, but I think The Green Party is very relevant to the climate change debate in the UK.
    Is this a ‘climate debate’ thread, or a thread about the weather and more specifically the heat wave?

    What happened to the last thread that AFKA started as a light hearted nod to his struggles in the heat? What do you think will happen to this thread if it starts descending into conversation about politics and climate change?

    There was a whole separate section on this forum which was dedicated to trying to encourage more robust debate. But even that had to close because people couldn’t do that without being civil and adult.

    Do I personally think climate change needs to be talked about and people need to start facing to the realities of it. I do.

    Do I think the charltonlife forum is the place to be able to do that in a productive and meaningful way. I don’t.
    The heatwaves we, and much of Europe are experiencing are linked to climate change, the two go hand in hand. How can a thread with the title 'Heat wave - weather watch' not include one of the primary causes? In the last 24 hours some places have experienced damaging floods as well as extremely high temperatures for June. It's affecting people's lives with transport and other infrastructure unable to cope. It seems that when an inconvenient truth (to quote Al Gore) is discussed, there are always calls to shut the thread down. It doesn't have to be that way. 

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