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Not looking forward to extreme heat

Homebird

It is just about reaching as hot as I can bear, towards the upper 20s. If we get extreme heat for a few days I get through it by thinking that it will be over soon. At the moment next week is predicted to be around 30 all week and often the prediction gets higher as it gets closer.

I like to be outside at least some of each day, but I am not sure there will be much that is bearable. 

I am hoping they have got it wrong and it reduces sooner than Monday week.

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  • I keep hearing 1976 mentioned in relation to heat, so I did some research as all I remember was grass going brown and staying that way for a long time and hosepipe bans. We lived on the South Coast then. I looked up to see what I could find and apparently we only had temperatures in the 20s. I found an interesting article by Matt from the BBC about it and see that other areas had temperatures above 30. The other thing I remember is that there must have been rain in Cornwall because when we stayed with family there, the grass was green. 

  • in reply to Homebird

    I remember 1976 as a child.  It wasn't just the heat.  The dry cloudless weather just went on and on and on, and we had a shortage of water with standpipes being erected in the street, ready for mains water to be shut off.   Just as the situation was really becoming critical, a cloud appeared in the sky, then another cloud, then it started raining and we had a record breaking wet autumn.

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  • in reply to Homebird

    I remember 1976 as a child.  It wasn't just the heat.  The dry cloudless weather just went on and on and on, and we had a shortage of water with standpipes being erected in the street, ready for mains water to be shut off.   Just as the situation was really becoming critical, a cloud appeared in the sky, then another cloud, then it started raining and we had a record breaking wet autumn.

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  • in reply to Robert124

    It's been 35 here, not much breeze and unbearable.

    Looking at the weather maps I'm seriously thinking that next time they say theres a heat wave coming I'm heading north, Orkney or Shetland, they rarely have temperatures of 20.C let alone 30. I will be a good excuse to visit some archaeological sites I want to see like Skara Brae and The Rings of Brodgar

  • in reply to Robert124

    I was in London in 1976 in some flats.

    It was 15 consecutive days over 30 I read in the hottest spell, plus there was 2-3 months of warmer than average temps and no rain.

    You had to get water from somewhere. I think there may have been water tanker lorry, at some points, not just a standpipe. You could only carry a gallon or two at a time. So you washed in a bowl iirc.

    A few years later there was another water issue, but not related to the heat, so we had to use standpipes again.

    I think it was 1976 when they copped down the large elms in the park opposite due to Dutch elm disease.

    It is unpleasant today. It feels the hottest with high humidity.

    It was 31 in my bedroom all last night  with 70% humidity, so I napped in a chair for a few hours downstairs with the backdoor and windows open. It is not secure but I have no choice. I am not sleeping much.

    It will be hotter tonight. The heat is in the walls now and the temp is going up indoors each day.

    Tomorrow is another red warning. Saturday will be close to 30 again.

    Highest I have seen is 39 in the car, but it was heat coming off the building at work. I think it has been 33-35.