UK: New record as temperature hits 39.1C - with 41C expected this afternoon

[dualmeister]

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

If you open an upstairs and a downstairs window, don't you get the hot air rushing out the upstairs one and the cold air creeping up the stairs?

Unfortunately not. Bedroom window is ridiculously small, needs changing and the staircase is a closed in one so poor airflow. I'm gonna get aircon and be done with it hey

 

[Temujin]

 

[Ragnarök]

Global warming , fear mongering

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1549300065721778177

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

How idiotic .... to say that extreme weather warnings is like covid and the government controlling the populace. It did hit those temps, people did die, roads warped, rail lines buckled, fires everywhere but hey, let's break out our tinfoil and pretend it's another form of control, grrrr @ government. Christ people are thick

 

[Grant]

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Headline should be:
Don't put ice lollies up your backstreet, boy.

 

[yebocan]

Global warming , fear mongering

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1549300065721778177

it is simple, either we as humanity get our act together ,... or mother nature will do it for us... bottom line, she does not need us, as much as we think we are masters of all we survey...

 

[yebocan]

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would be funny if old colonies are called on to take environmental refugees.... as the Northern Hemisphere becomes the new Hades...

 

[Polymathic]

Temperatures without humidity are useless.

40c can be deadly or a walk in the park depending on the humidity.

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I went to South India in the summer, 42C 100% humidity, the air feels so thick and heavy you almost feel like you can swim through it.

The only time I felt like I was going to pass out was on a bus passing past a horrific smelling river.

 

[noxibox]

Science doesn't agree.

Feeling the Heat? Here’s When Science Says that Fans Can Help — And When They Don’t

Fans can provide much needed relief from life-threatening heat-related conditions. But EPA and health department advice on when fans can be helpful, and when they can’t, needs revising says the latest study

time.com

There is a range of opinion and results regarding the temperature and relative humidity at which it can become a problem.

I'm not sure about their convection oven analogy though. Isn't the point of convection in an oven to spread the heat evenly within or force heat into the interior of an insulated enclosure? Instead from what I can find the problem with using a fan in very dry hot conditions may be that the fan accelerates sweat evaporation without enhancing cooling. Overall though what this study and others have found is that fans are beneficial until you're facing temperatures of close to 50 degrees and relative humidity below 10%.

 

[dualmeister]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1549447908600299528

 

[Dave]

would be funny if old colonies are called on to take environmental refugees.... as the Northern Hemisphere becomes the new Hades...

Except for the fact that the entire planet is heating up, so the old colonies in the southern hemisphere will also be heating up by a similar amount in their summers, making them even hotter.

 

[SlinkyMike]

Global warming , fear mongering

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1549300065721778177

Right on cue, a couple of well programmed automatons.

Please take your fscking derangement elsewhere numpties. No one else is willing to ignore what they see in favour of your alternate facts.

 

[yebocan]

Except for the fact that the entire planet is heating up, so the old colonies in the southern hemisphere will also be heating up by a similar amount in their summers, making them even hotter.

would say the south is better equipped ..., but yeah in the whole...pretty ****ed no matter where you are.

 

[yebocan]

meanwhile in Australia....

Australia's environment is 'poor and deteriorating' says damning new report | CNN

As Europe sweltered in the summer heat, Australians took stock of a new report that revealed just how much the country's environment has deteriorated in the last five years.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Kieppie]

Ignore the source, but the headline was funny

UK heatwave helping Proteas to ‘feel at home’ in England

Proteas captain Keshav Maharaj believes the current heat wave the United Kingdom is experiencing is making his team feel ‘at home’.

www.iol.co.za

 

[ToxicBunny]

Except for the fact that the entire planet is heating up, so the old colonies in the southern hemisphere will also be heating up by a similar amount in their summers, making them even hotter.

We have aircon though...

 

[Gordon_R]

Except for the fact that the entire planet is heating up, so the old colonies in the southern hemisphere will also be heating up by a similar amount in their summers, making them even hotter.

The least affected places will be on the coast adjacent to cold ocean currents, due to the large thermal inertia of the sea. The largest effects will be continental climates in far northern latitudes, such as Siberia.

The Western Cape says hello...

 

[Cosmik Debris]

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While wearing this nogal:

 

[Craig_]

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I've also never had aircon at my house, I still haven't died over the usual summer heatwaves. Wussies.