Severe red heat warning.....

[bobk]

Location location location…

I’ve already seen 36 degrees here in the last few weeks.

So did we , 3 weeks ago .

 

[topground]

Kids break up for the summer holidays around here next Thursday so look forward to it p*ssing down for the next six weeks.

 

[roscoe erf]

As for shorts.... Adults wear trousers.

The cool ones don’t

 

[Lakes Nash]

The thing i find hilarious is that most of the comments are from areas outside the main heat warning area. It is quite a difference having 29c in Scotland and 40c somewhere in the area to be affected. A lot of difference in those 11 degrees

You enjoy it, us up north will just take big coat off!!!

 

[Chae1]

Why do you think Mediterranean countries do siesta time
Edit I bet most of the labourers were Hispanic and not treated overly well

We're on holiday in Mallorca for a week at present and mid to high thirtys every day.

True saying only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun!

 

[sodbuster]

So is everyone going to carry on with work just as normal?

 

[steveR]

Any one for Llanelwedd? Been there in heatwaves and in washout conditions and although it won’t be raining the 32-34 degree forcast for Monday aint filling me with a lot of excitement!!!

I melted once in that bloody bowl.... Never again when the sun is shining!

 

[Renaultman]

So is everyone going to carry on with work just as normal?

Unless corn is to dry to cut, I don't think it will get to hot for the combine to run

 

[michael N123]

Make hay

 

[Tomo23]

We're TB testing Monday.

 

[michael N123]

My weathers changed again said 32 for Tuesday yesterday now it’s gone down with chance of rain

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Any one for Llanelwedd? Been there in heatwaves and in washout conditions and although it won’t be raining the 32-34 degree forcast for Monday aint filling me with a lot of excitement!!!

I know!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Ive had to buy shorts for work, global warming is getting expensive here!

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can't you just cut the legs off a pair of work trousers you have worn through at the knees?

 

[Oldmacdonald]

 

[neilo]

String vest

Don’t you start repeating my fashion tips.

 

[Northernlights]

Suit yourselves. But we had a red weather warning in December for storm Arwen. I was the same as all of you I thought it was ballcocks.

It did do a lot of damage. Flattened acres of trees. Power out for days

I would advise anyone that thinks they might be at risk to take measures to minimise any possible damage.

I definitely won't ignore a red warning ever again.

I think the air having originated over Sahara desert is going to be very dry with very low dewpoints so rain from thunderstorms seems to be unlikely. However there may be dry thunderstorms as the heat is pushed away making fires in dead vegetation more likely. With such dry heat daytimes should be tolerable but nights will be the worst without aircon. Melting tar and buckling rail lines seem likely too as these sorts of temperatures would never have factored in to their construction. Remember all the 1980s onwards farm roofs that collapsed with the snows of December 2010 up here was caused by not overengineering the supports to allow for heavy winter snows as would have been done earlier in the 20th century. Its going to be an interesting few days to watch.

 

[jondear]

Surly all the extra concrete and house building is going to add to any heat weather event!

 

[melted welly]

There’s so many crisis’ now though, mainly turning out to be marginally abnormal but vastly overblown by sensationalist media, so that if/when a real one comes along it’s not surprising people ignore it.

 

[Bongodog]

I remember being at school in 1976, the deputy head did allow us to take our ties off, otherwise zero concessions. No one told us to wear a hat put on sun screen or anyhting else, we just carried on.

 

[DrWazzock]

I remember being at school in 1976, the deputy head did allow us to take our ties off, otherwise zero concessions. No one told us to wear a hat put on sun screen or anyhting else, we just carried on.

I remember we saved bath water to water the garden, but as we only had a bath once a week there wasn’t much of it. I remember we all sat out on the causeway (backyard) to see the drought break and the first rain arrive. The beast were eating barley straw by then. The grass was burnt off and whenever the beast ran across the field you couldn’t see them for dust.