Britain - The Official Thread

[UKMikey]

When suffering from inflation, the accepted nostrum is to increase interest rates. To reduce borrowing and maintain spending, taxes must be raised.

Too bad she seems to be proposing neither of those measures preferring to emphasize supply-side trickle-down voodoo economics over infrastructure and welfare.

 

[TheCracker]

When suffering from inflation, the accepted nostrum is to increase interest rates. To reduce borrowing and maintain spending, taxes must be raised.

Yeah, but you are never going to get a Tory mentioning raising taxes when they are trying to get elected. Especially as those 200,000 members of the public who actually get the chance to elect the next PM are so staunchly 'tory' they actually paid to join the party.

 

[Moglet]

We bought a portible AC unit last summer which is effective, but with energy prices as high as they are, its just not feasable to run it that all the time.

This is what I'm doing, costs be damned. My asthma goes nuts when it gets hot and dry outside so I'm sitting in my office with the A/C on full like a weird little hermit.

 

[TheCracker]

This is what I'm doing, costs be damned. My asthma goes nuts when it gets hot and dry outside so I'm sitting in my office with the A/C on full like a weird little hermit.

A weird little hermit that doesn't fancy ending up a statistic 👍

Our previous pre-lockdown office was a new building with great A/C. Following the post-lockdown/furlough cull, the company moved to a much smaller office which has no A/C. i was in briefly last week when it was only 26 degrees outside and the room was unbareable. I hate to think what's its going to be this week for those who unlike myself, choose to be office based rather than work from home.

 

[PeterJB]

Working from home with mum with both of us in the living room with the fan running and all the windows and curtains closed (except for the back door which it on the north side of the house), fairly cozy for the time being. Went out on my bike to get a few groceries at 10 this morning, by which it was already 28C. I can coast most of the way home and was outside cumulatively for less than 10 minutes but was still exhausted and slightly light-headed when I get home.

Dad lives half a mile away and has aircon so if it gets really bad tonight may have to go over there.

 

[Sprite]

I noticed quite a few people sat in their cars on the street yesterday lunch.

Windows up and AC full blast.

 

[UKMikey]

I wanted to get an AC unit for my mum but she has large windows and can't open them at night for security reasons. She's getting by with a floorstanding fan but has a water based cooler ready for when we hit 40°C tomorrow.

 

[Touring Mars]

I lived in London in 2006 when it hit 38 deg C. I actually had the flu and lived in a shared house with a nightmare of a flatmate at the time, but as luck would have it, my mate went home to Germany for surgery that summer and asked me to flat-sit for him; he had a floorstanding air cooler and it was an absolute godsend.

My Mum won't open her windows because he is phobic of moths, wasps and other bugs. That said, once it gets this hot, you should keep your windows closed anyway as it is cooler inside than outside.

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The UK looks set to smash it's all-time highest temperature tomorrow... it is currently forecast to possibly hit 42 deg C/107.6 F...

UK hottest days per year in F, 2022 is estimated (based on current BBC/Met Office forecast of 42 deg C/107.6 F)​

There's a very clear trend - with temperatures peaking approx. every 18 years or so. But, the national temperature record has been broken three times since 1976 - 1990, 2003 and 2016. If temperatures hit 39 deg C or beyond, that will be a new record.

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Wales has just provisionally set a new all-time temperature record - not verified, but 35.3 deg C has been reported today.

 

[Liquid]

Wales has just provisionally set a new all-time temperature record - not verified, but 35.3 deg C has been reported today.

The previous record was 35.2°, recorded at Hawarden Bridge where I'm from. The new record of 35.3° has been set near Aberystwyth.

 

[Moglet]

A weird little hermit that doesn't fancy ending up a statistic 👍

Our previous pre-lockdown office was a new building with great A/C. Following the post-lockdown/furlough cull, the company moved to a much smaller office which has no A/C. i was in briefly last week when it was only 26 degrees outside and the room was unbareable. I hate to think what's its going to be this week for those who unlike myself, choose to be office based rather than work from home.

I can't imagine being in an office without A/C, I'm lucky enough to work in a brand new building with a really advanced air flow system and it's never the wrong temperature even with hundreds of PCs working as build machines. The car park is underneath the building too so my car stays cool all day.

Unfortunately at home I'm an idiot and the outlet hose for my A/C slipped without me realising so for the last 2 hours I've been pumping the hot air back into the room. I wondered why the temperature was suddenly increasing again

 

[Dotini]

It's not going terribly well for France. Wildfires are forcing folks to abandon their homes. Nuclear plants are restricting output due to the rivers getting too warm. Coal plants are also affected. France is now importing electricity at a time when they are normally exporting it.

 

[Touring Mars]

The previous record was 35.2°, recorded at Hawarden Bridge where I'm from. The new record of 35.3° has been set near Aberystwyth.

And yet, I'm seeing people - not even random internet trolls, but people that I know who should know better - are taking to Twitter to rail against what they perceive to be 'climate hysteria'. Several people I know seem quite upset at "the media" for stirring up "fear" about what "used to be called Summer, now it's a 'climate emergency'"... some are also angry about the use of the word "extreme"...

OK, I get it... news coverage is a bit OTT, but the highest temperatures ever recorded in the country - and likely by some distance, for two consecutive days - is, by definition, an 'extreme'. And no, it is not 'just Summer'. Unsurprisingly, these are largely the same people who I've seen on social media making surprising (and very disappointing) comments on coronavirus, vaccinations etc.. as well.

 

[Hun200kmh]

Poor litle us down here in Portugal suffered a bit during last week (and a firefighting pilot lost his life sadly). I had never experienced something like 45ºC, and I tell you it is not good. Thankfully temperatures now returned to normality (Lisboa, 26ºC at this moment).

 

[Famine]

Poor litle us down here in Portugal suffered a bit during last week (and a firefighting pilot lost his life sadly). I had never experienced something like 45ºC, and I tell you it is not good. Thankfully temperatures now returned to normality (Lisboa, 26ºC at this moment).

Sheffield Wednesday were in Portugal doing a warm-weather training camp during that week.

They've returned home this week, and it's projected to be 41 degrees in Sheffield. Should probably have saved the carbons and not bothered going.

And yet, I'm seeing people - not even random internet trolls, but people that I know who should know better - are taking to Twitter to rail against what they perceive to be 'climate hysteria'. Several people I know seem quite upset at "the media" for stirring up "fear" about what "used to be called Summer, now it's a 'climate emergency'"... some are also angry about the use of the word "extreme"...

OK, I get it... news coverage is a bit OTT, but the highest temperatures ever recorded in the country - and likely by some distance, for two consecutive days - is, by definition, an 'extreme'. And no, it is not 'just Summer'. Unsurprisingly, these are largely the same people who I've seen on social media making surprising (and very disappointing) comments on coronavirus, vaccinations etc.. as well.

It's largely based on a bollocks image showing an "old" style temperature map (doctored, of course) and a "new" style heat gradient map (also doctored, of course) as if one represents how friendly media used to be towards summer and the other represents how fearmongering media is now about summer.

Of course weather reports use both styles, and the fact that 40+ is a dark burgundy is down to the fact it's a temperature the designers had only ever expected to be in Africa and other equatorial regions, not ****ing Penge.

 

[UKMikey]

It's hard for Tory voters to make a case for rejecting the Green New Deal when temperatures outside are approaching 40° so I guess this is why they're trying to play it down as "it's called summer".

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My Mum won't open her windows because he is phobic of moths, wasps and other bugs. That said, once it gets this hot, you should keep your windows closed anyway as it is cooler inside than outside.

What I meant was that the AC had a hose that you need to stick out of your window. I normally wake up at sunrise and open the windows for a couple of hours to let in the cold air in.

 

[PeterJB]

In non-heatwave-related news...

The next PM debate has been cancelled as Sunak and Truss have pulled out as they fear these debates that have been going on for a few days have harmed the party's image...

European bison have been reintroduced to the wild in Kent for the first time since WW2 (to be fair, never knew we ever had bison in the UK)

A Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner has had her driving license revoked after getting caught speeding five times in three months, despite listing combating speeding as one of her priorities...

 

[UKMikey]

European bison have been reintroduced to the wild in Kent for the first time since WW2 (to be fair, never knew we ever had bison in the UK)

Isn't that what they call a washing-up bowl in the West Midlands?

 

[Tired Tyres]

When suffering from inflation, the accepted nostrum is to increase interest rates. To reduce borrowing and maintain spending, taxes must be raised.

She's a conservative. They are institutional anti tax on anyone who's a potential conservative voter.

 

[Liquid]

No surprise that the debate has been pulled from the telly. It will only further highlight how twisted these humanoids are.

 

[Touring Mars]

The next PM debate has been cancelled as Sunak and Truss have pulled out as they fear these debates that have been going on for a few days have harmed the party's image...

It's utterly laughable that they think this is what is causing damaged to the party's image...

 

[Moglet]

Cambridge is doing all it can to hold on to that record, apparently

We don't have an official weather station in my home town out in the Fens but the local amateur one is giving some rather striking readings:

 

[Famine]

The next PM debate has been cancelled as Sunak and Truss have pulled out as they fear these debates that have been going on for a few days have harmed the party's image...

Or, as not seen through a blue lens, that they've each given enough ammunition on the others for the opposition and papers to use against whichever one of them wins.

 

[Liquid]

The previous record was 35.2°, recorded at Hawarden Bridge where I'm from. The new record of 35.3° has been set near Aberystwyth.

Hawarden Airport, just down the road from Hawarden Bridge, has just confirmed 37.1° to reclaim Wales' hottest temperature.

 

[Touring Mars]

Hawarden Airport, just down the road from Hawarden Bridge, has just confirmed 37.1° to reclaim Wales' hottest temperature.

1.9 deg C hotter than the previous record already.

Meanwhile, a friend/colleague has posted some 'heatmaps' on Twitter showing maximum temperatures of 35 deg C today and 34 deg C tomorrow... irritating beyond belief...

Oh, and BTW, this guy sits on major funding panels for UK science and has various editor roles at prominent scientific journals... anti-vaxxer and a climate change skeptic too by the looks of it.

 

[Liquid]

1.9 deg C hotter than the previous record already.

My thought likewise. That is an extreme jump and an extreme worry.

Edit: It is estimated to be even hotter tomorrow.

 

[Sprite]

Weather app is giving me this for my home village…

The house thermostat is giving me 27°

 

[Famine]

The house thermostat is giving me 27°

My office - with a north-facing external wall, two other external walls, an external flat roof, and above our garage (with a north-facing metal door) - with the PC and one console on, is at 30.

 

[Touring Mars]

Its currently 30 deg C in Glasgow, only the second time I've seen that.

My flat is currently 26 deg C but the Sun is now directly hitting the front of my flat, so it is likely to get warmer...

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Jaw. Dropping.

 

[Liquid]

Didn't he also make a mention of "the deep state"? Unhinged lunacy.

 

[Touring Mars]

Results from the third ballot in the Conservative leadership race:

Rishi Sunak - 115 (+14)
Penny Mordaunt - 82 (-1)
Liz Truss - 71 (+7)
Kemi Badenoch - 58 (+9)
Tom Tugendhat - 31 (-1)
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Out after Round 3
Tom Tugendhat

Out after Round 2
Suella Braverman

Out after Round 1
Nadhim Zahawi
Jeremy Hunt

A terrible result for Liz Truss (yay!) - Suella Braverman urged her supporters (27 votes in Round 2) to back Truss, and yet Sunak picked up twice as many new votes as the imbecile Truss. Mordaunt actually dropped a vote, though she will likely benefit from the backing of Tom Tugendhat's supporters more than the others. Badenoch is (still) wasting her time and is surely next for the chop, even though she gained more new votes than anyone except Sunak.