40C, now for wed. 🔥

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Having recorded the weather since May 2009 I’ve gone through plenty of hot spells. Only one day has caused me to take out of the ordinary steps. July 2022 when it hit 38.4°C. I opened the large lounge windows and kept the curtains closed until the sun had moved. That kept the inside cooler.

It was too hot to sit in the shade. I just stayed inside and drank water.

All these warnings with just a few hot days is becoming tiresome. The nanny state!

I have to visit my dentist tomorrow then the hospital in the afternoon. It won’t be pleasant but I’ll survive just as I have done for 75 years.

From the Met Office video above, seems the temps could exceed 2022... but be more humid.

I dont find the warnings tiresome, if they help people, like the elderly and vulnerable, they are worthwhile.

Edited Monday at 02:44 PM2 days by martin-w

14 minutes ago, martin-w said:

From the Met Office video above, seems the temps could exceed 2022... but be more humid.

I’ve seen nothing in TV forecasts to suggest 40°C will be reached. That 2022 temperature did have low humidity. 22% with 18% the previous day according to my stats.

16 minutes ago, martin-w said:

I dont find the warnings tiresome, if they help people, like the elderly and vulnerable, they are worthwhile.

Maybe people think 75 is elderly. I don’t and take sensible precautions.

22 hours ago, charliearon said:

I remember my time at NATTC, Millington, Tenn. I got there the first week in June and was there for 9 months of
training. From June till October every day was 90 degrees and 90% humidity! You even felt damp and sticky after
showering.

Millington humidity is an entirely different animal. Hatchie Bottom, all of that area is hot and humid easily 6 months of the year.

I just read a story about Torino, Italy having an electrical blackout due to all the air conditioners running full blast. I'd be surprised if more than 40-50% of Italians actually have an air conditioner, so just that extra air conditioning load caused the system to be overloaded.

Something you really have to think about if millions of people in the UK start running air conditioners is: can the grid handle the extra load? Air conditioners use a lot of power. In fact, its the largest electrical load in the vast majority of houses. We notice that when we start having to run ours in May, and we keep the house at 24C so only need to run it a few hours a day in May, our energy usage increases 30-40%, and in the Summer it doubles because we have to keep it running all day and some of the night.

Our grid in the U.S. was designed and built to handle large loads because spoiled Americans have been using air conditioning for 70 years, yet we still have occasional problems in places like southern California or Texas when it gets very hot and millions of aircon units start running full blast. I wonder if the electrical grid in Europe can handle this extra load?

Dave

It's actually been relatively cool here in the central/southern U.S. compared to what it could be this time of year.

I don't have my air conditioner running all day. I have it set at a comfortable (for me) 80F. That's the temperature I keep it all year. I hear it go on and off as the day progresses.

Noel

37 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I’ve seen nothing in TV forecasts to suggest 40°C will be reached. That 2022 temperature did have low humidity. 22% with 18% the previous day according to my stats.

Maybe people think 75 is elderly. I don’t and take sensible precautions.

I have 10 years on you (and others have more, I am sure) and I don't consider myself ancient, just a little "slightly used").

I’ve just come in from mowing the lawns and whilst I’m not unduly hot I am perspiring a little.

You can’t look at temperature alone as a guide to comfort. I felt particularly uncomfortable one day in August 2020. The maximum was 32.3°C but the lowest humidity was 52% giving a dew point of 23.2°C.

Any dew point temperature above 20°C in England will be very uncomfortable. Currently it’s 17.4°C. Higher tomorrow which I’m not looking forward to.

Just bought a portable aircon unit for my parents lounge this morning in anticipation , my dad is nearly 92 with numerous health issues and last time it was this hot earlier in the year he got really breathless.

Anyway, my point is almost everywhere in the uk is out of stock of the bigger portable AC units.

We've just had a cloud burst here and it's like the Malaysian jungle right now...

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