Sept. 4: The U.K. Major catastrophe :(

[Fielder 3,680]

 

 

 

 

 

[Flyfox 115]

poor fellows! 😅😜

[martin-w 3,238]

27 in UK I recall. 22 will be max where I am in British Isles.

 

[Christopher Low 5,354]

24 or 25 here where I am in England. The vegetation is already spontaneously igniting. There are fires everywhere. The sky is a dull red colour with all of the smoke in the atmosphere. It feels like Armageddon. God help us all!!

[Ron Attwood 3,465]

Aaaaah! Run for your lives! Who is this pratt?

[BrianT 54]

2 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

Aaaaah! Run for your lives! Who is this pratt?

 Clear blue skies and obviously a lovely day where he is and yet he's got a waterproof hooded jacket on zipped up to the neck!. Be carefull folks they live amoung us. 👀 

[dmwalker 607]

25 minutes ago, BrianT said:

Be carefull folks they live amoung us.

He's more amongst us in Canada. He is in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

[BillW 210]

On Britannia!

[dave2013 1,130]

It's hot in the summertime!!!!  Run for the hills!!!

There have been many heatwaves in the UK and everywhere else in the world for as long as humans have been around, and indeed long before that.

Unfortunately, we don't have accurate temperature measurements before the 1900s, so it is impossible to know if there were worse heatwaves in the past than those we've seen recently.  There were some pretty bad heatwaves in the UK in the 1970s and early 1900s.  There are also anecdotal records from people who wrote about unusually hot periods in Europe hundreds of years ago, but we cannot know the actual temperature at that time.

Temperature readings are also affected by the location of the measuring instrument.  Airports and urban areas are about the worst place to get a true temperature reading, and many of the highest temp readings come from airports and cities.

Guys like this and many media outlets just parrot so-called "news" from other sources and then sensationalize and hype it to get more views.

Instilling fear into people for profit is an age old way for some unscrupulous people to get money and power.

Dave

[dave2013 1,130]

2 hours ago, BrianT said:

Clear blue skies and obviously a lovely day where he is and yet he's got a waterproof hooded jacket on zipped up to the neck!

Reminds me of the Weather Channel grandstanding clowns who got caught on video during a hurricane pretending like the winds were so strong they had trouble standing, and then a group of people walked by them with no trouble at all.

It's all a big farce, man.

Dave

 

Edited September 4, 2023 by dave2013

[dmwalker 607]

I remember kinder, gentler times when British weather forecasts were more like this:

The names iin the shipping forecast are maritime areas around the UK as shown on this map:

Edited September 4, 2023 by dmwalker

[W2DR 1,860]

If this guy had long blonde hair and big chesticles he could go to to work for CNN.

[Christopher Low 5,354]

34 minutes ago, dave2013 said:

......Instilling fear into people for profit is an age old way for some unscrupulous people to get money and power......

Enter stage left > Religion.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,961]

Good grief! 🤣 28°C in my back garden as I type this. A week ago it never got above 16.2°C. I’m sure I’ll survive. 😁

Compare that to the 38.7°C we had in July 2022. We’re now in meteorological autumn of course so it’s unusual to have such high temps. Imported air from France and Spain so they’re to blame of course. 🤣

[jon b 2,050]

Well this is just typical, I have had most of July and August off as leave and have just sat around waiting for gaps in the rain to ride my motorbike.

Now there is gorgeous riding weather this week I get tasked with flying to the states. 
 

It was frustrating flying out over Wales with clear skies as far as you could see looking down on the prime motorcycling countryside below.