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[IntentionalPun]

What Americans don't understand about the UK heat is that our climate is very humid, this isn't a dry 32c like most of the states, this is close to like swamplands in Florida. It's hot but also sticky.

There is currently 28% humidity in London and 73% in Miami with minimal temperature differences. Most of SoCal averages 60%+ humidity in the summer too.

Not saying it can't get humid there but I thought the bigger issue was the buildings are generally designed to keep heat in and aren't as often air conditioned?

 

[Idleyes]

Elect me as your next Prime Minister and I'll cover the entire city in shaded solar canopies. Every heat-soaked sidewalk and building wall becomes a power source instead of a medieval punishment device. Every walk downtown becomes a peaceful stroll in the shade instead of survival mechanics. Then we sell the excess electricity to neighboring countries in exchange for big booty bitches to maintain the system.

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[kruis]

Pffff .... a 3 day heat wave is nothing compared to the good old days.

 

[IDKFA]

Not saying it can't get humid there but I thought the bigger issue was the buildings are generally designed to keep heat in and aren't as often air conditioned?

Correct. Because we get more cold days than blazing sun, our homes are designed to keep the heat in.

Another reason we suffer is because it rarely gets 30c or more here. Average in the summer is mid 20s celsius, so a day of 30c or more makes national news.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

In Spain this week has been very warm too, like in late June or early July. Our year has been very wet so we should have no water problems if our politicians weren't a bunch of corrupt bottom of the barrel subhuman scum. So, in August there will be shortages and they will call it climate change.

 

[Peggies]

"If you see me, then weep"

Drought reveals ‘hunger stones’ in German river historically used to forecast famine

Past societies left us a warning about the outcomes of extreme weather

www.independent.co.uk

I learned about this at Uni. Never thought we'd actually see one of those.

 

[Wildebeest]

"If you see me, then weep"

"The problem is that people now are soft compared to back then." People back then, "If you get weather like this, weep."

 

[ahtlas7]

+13 over average today.

 

[DAHGAMING]

I work the water industry. The reason you're getting this is because the South East of England is incredibly water stressed. The population is growing too fast in that area for SEW and TW to keep up with demand.

We can blame the the water companies for not having enough reservoirs, burst mains etc etc, but population growth in the South East is the biggest issue and massive concern for all providers in the area.

Also, regarding the UK being a wet climate, the South East actually receives less rainfall than many people assume. Some parts get less annual rainfall than regions around Rome. It's a dry region of England.

Fucking foreigners coming over here nicking all our water, cheeky cunts, last year it was the 5g bandwith now this.

 

[ahtlas7]

Americans don't spend more than 5 minutes away from air conditioning. About the time it takes them to waddle from their monster truck to the walmart.

Stop describing Texas

 

[near]

My Water bill is nearly £1000 pa

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Americans don't spend more than 5 minutes away from air conditioning. About the time it takes them to waddle from their monster truck to the walmart.

Me when the AC comes on:

 

[Dr.Morris79]

It's crazy to think in the 80's there was a water tap in every set of council car garages, free to use, easy water balloon fill points

Oh, and the roads melted, because it was just, if not even more, hot

35 more years of this shit and we'll be back to this bollocks

Cant wait

 

[poppabk]

All Europeans you mean, and Americans, and Australians.

We need......

We need bisexual lighting? Not sure how that is gonna help.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

We need bisexual lighting? Not sure how that is gonna help.

It's the amazing healing properties it bestows, I've heard!

A fan favourite in most media now it seems too

It must be good! I'll take it in everything, please!

 

[analog_future]

It's crazy to think in the 80's there was a water tap in every set of council car garages, free to use, easy water balloon fill points

Oh, and the roads melted, because it was just, if not even more, hot

35 more years of this shit and we'll be back to this bollocks

Cant wait

It was, by every scientific measurement in existence, not just as hot 40 years ago.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

It was, by every scientific measurement in existence, not just as hot 40 years ago.

It was to me, dammit. I was there.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

It was, by every scientific measurement in existence, not just as hot 40 years ago.

Damn, I was a couple of years off eh?

It was hot in the 80's too

 

[nush]

Fake news, there's still the same amount of water coming out my taps.

 

[analog_future]

Damn, I was a couple of years off eh?

It was hot in the 80's too

Yes, I'm sure 1990 had one very hot day but we're talking average temperatures.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Yes, I'm sure 1990 had one very hot day but we're talking average temperatures.

Oh put your willy away for fucks sake. It was hot.

 

[analog_future]

Oh put your willy away for fucks sake. It was hot.

Sure! Just not as hot as today.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Sure! Just not as hot as today.

 

[Tams]

Do I drink the water my poop travels in?

Do you live in India?

 

[Thebonehead]

Didn't realise John linnerman was in the fuzz

 

[falconhoof]

lmao what is that yelp clip from? Definitely a video game but I can't remember which one. So familiar arggghhh

I always presumed it was one of the Skeletor sounds.

 

[jufonuk]

They sent my sister water bottles to help and now she has about 36.

Sorry southern water is her area not Thames water

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I just received this email from South East Water

"Water supplies are struggling in your area

We know some of you have been without water at times across the very hot weekend and we are incredibly sorry for this.For those in supply, we now need your help. Please use water for essential purposes only: drinking, washing and cooking."

This is after a 3 day heat wave after a very wet winter.
My Water bill is nearly £1000 pa

The UK must have one of the wettest climate in the western world?
What are these companies doing?

Something similar to the fucking asshats in California. They drained millions of gallons of water for Delta Smelt, they drained reservoirs meant for fighting fires.
Our politicians are not so different. They just like fucking us, while using a different approach. The UK corruption might be on its own level, though.

 

[CGNoire]

Here in Texas it has been 75% humidity and near 90° and we consider that relativly normal around this time of year.

You UK breathren are freaking soft.

 

[nush]

Here in Texas it has been 75% humidity and near 90° and we consider that relativly normal around this time of year.

You UK breathren are freaking soft.

To be fair it hits different when you are not used to it and there's no AC as standard. I lived in China for a long time and the first couple of years it was tough and then I mostly acclimatised. There British heatwaves don't physically affect me much now after living in 35c+ and 90% humidity for many years.

 

[Bojji]

Here in Texas it has been 75% humidity and near 90° and we consider that relativly normal around this time of year.

You UK breathren are freaking soft.

But for Texas it was always normal, in UK (and Europe in general) big heatwaves are a new phenomenon (started happening after 2000), most of the infrastructure in northern Europe is build to keep heat inside.

We should see climate closer to Canada, not Africa. AC usage in the next decade will skyrocket.

Something similar to the fucking asshats in California. They drained millions of gallons of water for Delta Smelt, they drained reservoirs meant for fighting fires.
Our politicians are not so different. They just like fucking us, while using a different approach. The UK corruption might be on its own level, though.

I also don't get why places like California don't demand homes to be build with concrete, bricks etc. With so many wildfires, you will have to completely rebuild your wooden houses after every fire?

 

[Trilobit]

We know some of you have been without water at times across the very hot weekend and we are incredibly sorry for this.For those in supply, we now need your help. Please use water for essential purposes only: drinking, washing and cooking."

So it's still okay to fill your bathtub to wash your face?

 

[midnightAI]

88F/31C hahahahahahahah that's a mild spring day for us....

....just don't hit us with any fog or more than 0.00001" of ice/snow, lest we all die

Put it this way, night before last I looked at the thermostat in my downstairs hallway which is a lot cooler than the bedrooms at 1am and it was 28 degrees at night with high humidity and no air con and no breeze to come through the windows, it's just not easy to sleep in that, our homes are designed to hold in heat (brick houses, double glazing, loft insulation etc)

 

[kruis]

But for Texas it was always normal, in UK (and Europe in general) big heatwaves are a new phenomenon (started happening after 2000), most of the infrastructure in northern Europe is build to keep heat inside.

That's simply not true. We've had heatwaves regularly in W-Europe all through the 20th century. The Summers of 75 and 76 were particularly legendary but there were many more. 1922 had a famously warm May month that's still in the record books.

And let's not forget that all of these records are all recent because we only started measuring temperatures in the 19th century. There have been big temperature swings in just the past 2000 years (warm Roman period and middle ages, "little ice age" after 1600). The more you zoom out, the bigger the temperature shifts become.

We're just looking at these things with a human perspective and the belief that climate should be fixed and any changed is an anomaly. If we had lived 12,000 years earlier we'd have been in an absolute panic when the ice caps above Europe started melting. Remember that the last ice age lasted ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS. When the climate became hotter and the ice melted the sea level rose by more than 100 meters (!). Just imagine the scale of the destruction for humans living through those changes when their lands got flooded and every new generation saw the water levels rise at an incredible pace. That was an actual climate apocalypse. And now we think this current warm period is how the climate was always meant to be.

 

[Bojji]

That's simply not true. We've had heatwaves regularly in W-Europe all through the 20th century. The Summers of 75 and 76 were particularly legendary but there were many more. 1922 had a famously warm May month that's still in the record books.

And let's not forget that all of these records are all recent because we only started measuring temperatures in the 19th century. There have been big temperature swings in just the past 2000 years (warm Roman period and middle ages, "little ice age" after 1600). The more you zoom out, the bigger the temperature shifts become.

We're just looking at these things with a human perspective and the belief that climate should be fixed and any changed is an anomaly. If we had lived 12,000 years earlier we'd have been in an absolute panic when the ice caps above Europe started melting. Remember that the last ice age lasted ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS. When the climate became hotter and the ice melted the sea level rose by more than 100 meters (!). Just imagine the scale of the destruction for humans living through those changes when their lands got flooded and every new generation saw the water levels rise at an incredible pace. That was an actual climate apocalypse. And now we think this current warm period is how the climate was always meant to be.

Technically, I think we are still in ice age?

Anyway, there is a difference between current hot months vs. those in the past:

Heat spikes were much more sparse.