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First ever Extreme Weather warning isued in UK as temperatures seen reaching 33C
- FerretFred 5y agoYeah, from my loft-based office in normally traditionally windy and wet Yorkshire, I can report that the outside temperature is currently 26c and the office is a balmy 32c. Yesterday it peaked at 37c. The good news is that the roofers had left some new lead flashing to "soften" for a couple of days and it literally sagged into the shape they wanted. By the weekend it should be back to "normal for Yorkshire" and I'll be really rather pleased...
- zimpenfish 5y agoAccording to the Netatmo outdoor unit, we're just about to breach 30C in London; we did hit 37.1C on Sunday evening. It is thoroughly unpleasant.
- junon 5y agoTypo in title: isued -> issued
- Mindwipe 5y agoIt is worth noting that the UK briefly has temperatures around 33 most years, but the Extreme Weather heat warning system was only introduced last year. It's incredibly uncomfortable given the humidity though.
- manyxcxi 5y agoWe had something similar in the Pacific Northwest of the US last month. It’s not uncommon for us to see a few days per summer in the 97-102 (36-39C) range but it will always be in the 50-60 (10-15C)range at night. It’s rarer that we see 2 straight days. We had over a week, the humidity was high, and it wasn’t cooling off at night. I think our county had 40+ deaths they attributed to the heat. It’s absolutely miserable.
- Proven 5y agoFirst ever warning - yes, of course, there will be more and more of them as they're running out of crises (now that SARS is kind of waning) so they need something new to scare the sheeple. But is it really "extreme"? It's not. On Wikipedia 1981–2010 normals [1] show 37.9C in July. tldr: just more climatist nonsense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate
- llimos 5y agoFirst ever since the concept was created (..checks notes..) 1 month ago?