Scorchio!

[brickyParticipant @bricky]

In Grantham Lincolnshire it is 37 at the moment,yesterday it reached 100F today it's on track to pass that.

Frank

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Posted by Samsaranda on 19/07/2022 09:32:29:

I spent 12 months in what used to be Trucial Oman but is now United Arab Emirates, stationed at a place called Sharjah, was there in 67, one day in August we recorded a temperature of 128 F which converts to 53.3 C. Looking back now I can’t believe that I worked outside all day in those temperatures servicing aircraft, we only wore a pair of shorts and desert boots, probably accounts for the skin cancer that I suffered. Temperature here on the Sussex Coast yesterday was 35 C outside and in the house we registered 28C, house faces due south so in the sun all day, my solar panels also face due south so generating about 26 kWh a day and with 12 kWh battery storage in this heatwave we are actually self sufficient on electricity not having to draw any from the Grid whilst the sun shines, wish the sun shone all year round like this and my energy bills would be zero, wouldn’t be able to stand the heat for that long though. Dave W

A couple of pics taken on April 25 or 26 1942, overnight stop en route Muharraq island to Karachi, Dad labelled them Sharjah so I suppose they were arriving or departing. If you look carefully there is another aircraft against the mountains. Pics taken from Beaufort L9894. Possibly their own shadow?

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 19/07/2022 12:07:49

[Colin HeseltineParticipant @colinheseltine48622]

Drove to Donington Park yesterday afternoon around 14:45 for early evening trackday. It was extremely warm. But once on track it was scorching. Four 20 minute sessions at 80-120mph and I was leaking like a sieve. Oil up to 120 degrees and tyres way to hot to touch. Great fun and sunk few bottles of beer once back home.

Colin

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by Ady1 on 19/07/2022 09:42:46:

I still think 1976 was hotter, and it just seemed to go on forever

………

Well it wasn't. Max temp was 35.9C, 1976. Hottest so far this time is 39.1 and it's getting hotter 2022. Yes the 1976 heatwave went on for longer, but it was exceptional, heatwaves are becoming much more frequent, and hotter. Of course this is nothing to do with global warming, so lets just burn loads more coal to generate electricity to run the air conditioning. I'm sure there is a flaw in this argument somewhere, but I'll not wait for a climate change denier to point it out.

[Bryan Cedar 1Participant @bryancedar1]

Posted by duncan webster on 19/07/2022 12:13:55:

Posted by Ady1 on 19/07/2022 09:42:46:

I still think 1976 was hotter, and it just seemed to go on forever

………

Well it wasn't. Max temp was 35.9C, 1976. Hottest so far this time is 39.1 and it's getting hotter 2022. Yes the 1976 heatwave went on for longer, but it was exceptional, heatwaves are becoming much more frequent, and hotter. Of course this is nothing to do with global warming, so lets just burn loads more coal to generate electricity to run the air conditioning. I'm sure there is a flaw in this argument somewhere, but I'll not wait for a climate change denier to point it out.

I agree, nothing to do with climate change, just Africa's hot air going north to warm us up! Climate change is being blamed for just about everything that happens on earth right now.

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

60 million deaths per year. I wonder whether burning or burying is more polluting? That little altercation in Ukraine with Tanks managing 2 miles per gallon let alone all the ordnance? Indian subcontinent now overtaking the population of China and we're near 8 billion souls with western countries worried about their slow population growth. Any saving or contributions I make must be like trying to bale the Atlantic with a teaspoon.

[IanTParticipant @iant]

Well it's 39C here at them moment, so staying inside. I was getting a bit warm at the Click and Collect earlier – but it is a dry heat, so not so uncomfortable.

I lived in Hong Kong for 3+ years and the humidity there was often over 80% – you walked outside and was instantly soaked in sweet. I don't remember how warm it was back then but I do much prefer this dry heat to any humid one.

Also lived in Italy for a while, so I've been reviving my 'continental' habits – I was out in the garden this morning by 7 watering and weeding and it was quite pleasant. I will do some more outside this evening when it cools.

Not so bothered about bursts of heat, much more concerned about long periods of drought. Hoping for a thunderstorm tonight and some rainfall….

Regards,

IanT

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Posted by IanT on 19/07/2022 14:15:37:

Not so bothered about bursts of heat, much more concerned about long periods of drought. Hoping for a thunderstorm tonight and some rainfall….

IanT

That's the way it's looking up here too, a burst of heat followed by a deluge around the end of the week

Already had a couple of 2 minute rainfall attempts today

Anyway, we shall see

[AdrianRParticipant @adrianr18614]

I am in a bungalow have a loose floorboard in the airing cupboard so I can drop rat poison down under the floor.

Today it has a new use, 4 small equipment fans mounted on corrugated cardboard and I now have a nice cool draft.

Not sure how long it will last but every little helps.

I think if we are to get this sort of weather more often I will make slatted shutters for the windows. Hanging old bed sheets from the gutters over the windows works but is not a great look.

[JAParticipant @ja]

I am happy to believe that 1976 was cooler but it just went on for so long. People, or the media, forget that 1975 was also a very hot summer.

Four hours ago the Met. Office promised us a thunderstorm at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Now they have reneged on that. Still, it will be much cooler,

I am just thankful I don't live in southern Europe.

JA

"What did you do in the Great Heat Wave of 2022, grandad?"

Edited By JA on 19/07/2022 15:04:18

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Posted by JA on 19/07/2022 15:01:33:

I am just thankful I don't live in southern Europe.

Not too bad here, near Perpignan, at the moment. The top temperature was 39 C last week but of course we are prepared for it with ceiling fans and air conditioning. I've been getting up at 6h30 in the morning to do gardening before it gets too hot.

As you will have seen on the news the Atlantic coast is another matter. Over 47,000 acres of forest burned so far and 16,000 people evacuated.

Russell

[old martParticipant @oldmart]

Today was not quite as hot in W-S-M, despite last weeks forcast making it the hottest day. It is now 29.6C outside and 28C indoors. I decided to cut the grass, but for the first time in 15 years the Bosch mower would not work, the switch seemed to be the culprit, after testing, but I'm not 100% sure. A new switch is on order at £11.99, and if that is not the problem, I will get another mower. The same size of Bosch is about £84, plenty big enough to cut the grass in about 45 minutes. There were a few spots of rain, but it didn't come to anything.

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

Just in from the coast of North Norfolk 2 industrial thermometers are reading 41*c in the shade, way to hot for me ! Noel.

Edited By noel shelley on 19/07/2022 16:25:51

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Mike , thanks for posting your Dad’s photos of Sharjah, not many people have heard of it let alone been there, the mountains that are in the photos will be the high mountain range that divides Sharjah State from Oman. The mountains play a significant part in the climate of the area, the prevailing winds blow in from the Indian Ocean and consequently all their moisture falls as rain on the Omani side of the mountains, the Sharjah side is dry as a bone, in the twelve months that I spent in Sharjah it rained on one day only, fairly typical. Muharraq Island (Bahrain) although only 200 miles from Sharjah has a very different climate, in the winter months the Air Force there went into standard blue uniforms whereas at Sharjah we stayed in Kakhi uniforms all year round because it was much hotter. Out of the two stations I much preferred Sharjah to Muharraq but when I arrived in Sharjah there were only two hundred of us there and it was just a desert airfield, we used to get wild camels wandering along the runway and they had to be chased off sometimes when aircraft wanted to land. It was certainly an experience living on a desert airfield for twelve months. Dave W

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

At 1600hrs my digital thermometer outside registered 38.9c

I see that heathrow achieved 40.2c today. Sad to see the fires at Wenningham consuming houses as you watch.

[Anonymous]

Posted by duncan webster on 18/07/2022 23:51:39:

It takes a special kind of thinking to deny climate change.

… and an even more special kind to deny that the underlying cause is over-population, fail to address that and sentence everyone to a Spartan existence instead.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Posted by Bryan Cedar 1 on 19/07/2022 13:10:06:

I agree, nothing to do with climate change, just Africa's hot air going north to warm us up! Climate change is being blamed for just about everything that happens on earth right now.

Well the climate is changing and it's got warmer over the last 50,000 years, I used to have a mile of Ice on top of my house (which would be nice today)

The big issue is how much is man made climate change and nobody can answer that honestly

But I don't mind us reducing pollution and going 100% green

But even when we are 100% green across the entire planet… it's still going to keep getting hotter

It's a bit of a King Canute industry

[Anonymous]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 19/07/2022 17:40:08:

At 1600hrs my digital thermometer outside registered 38.9c

I see that heathrow achieved 40.2c today.

But still, the humidity makes all the difference. I used to visit LA years ago (70's & 80's) and 100F wasn't uncommon in the Summer – but the humidity was so low it was quite comfortable.

As the saying goes around here "in ain't the heat, it's the humidity".

(Besides which, a high Humidex value sounds so much more impressive )

[Peter G. ShawParticipant @peterg-shaw75338]

I don't know about climate change as certain people are saying but it's obvious that something has happened. Where are the heavy winter snows that we used to have? And read about in the past. I haven't seen one for I think about 25 years. And certainly, I've seen nothing like the 1962/63 winter since then. There have been some wintry scenes since then but in general they have been short lived.

Is it too much population? Don't know, and can't really see it given that there are many large unpopulated areas. One thing I absolutely cannot understand is the attitude of our lords and masters in forcing us to adopt Net Zero when there are places like China pumping out far more muck that we do. Some people say that the UK contribution to Global Warming is 1%: that leaves 99% from the rest of the world. Doesn't seem right that we should wear a hair shirt whilst other countries blithely go on their way. And no, I don't want to set an example – it's got to be everyone, or no-one!

Incidently, my workshop is my garage. I can open front & back doors and thus get a draught blowing through. Unfortunately, because it is a garage, and a flat roofed one at that, there is no insulation and so in conditions like this although I can get the afore mentioned draught at floor level, I can still feel the heat beating down from the roof. Not pleasant.

Peter G. Shaw

[SandgrounderParticipant @sandgrounder]

Posted by Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 19/07/2022 18:44:17:

But still, the humidity makes all the difference. I used to visit LA years ago (70's & 80's) and 100F wasn't uncommon in the Summer – but the humidity was so low it was quite comfortable.

I found it the same in Death Valley CA at 110F, just nice but that is the big danger I suppose, you still loose fluids but don't realise it as the sweat evaporates immediately and doesn't run down your face and make all your clothes wet.

It was a pleasant 23C in my cellar workshop today as opposed to 33C in the garden.

John

[Pete.Participant @pete-2]

What is it about British people complaining about the weather?

12 months of the year complaining about the rain, then we get half an inch of snow and people behave like it's a 6 foot snow storm, then we get a couple of weeks of nice weather and……the complaining starts again, stick a couple of beers in the fridge and enjoy it.

As for the global warming, we were taught at school global warming would melt the ice, which would then cool the Gulf stream down making western Europe a bit cooler with other parts of the world getting warmer, has the theory changed since then?

[Andy StopfordParticipant @andystopford50521]

Comparison of now with 1976:

#Heatwave1976 compared to #Heatwave2022 pic.twitter.com/erQfpdB8nc

— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) July 18, 2022

Its not just Britain, its the world.

And if everyone says "its someone-else's fault , so why should we do anything", then nothing will get done.

Its not too difficult to see an explanation for the Fermi Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature_of_intelligent_life_to_destroy_itself

The question may be which method gets us there first.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, it was definitely hotter in my porch today, however this morning I reconfigured an old aluminium lamp shade that's been hiding in my attic forever. I made a sun screen, loosely based on the Stevenson's Screen, to shade an industrial temperature gauge with an integral probe and stood it on a steel camera lens hood I made years ago, this was then placed on an record player platen which fitted nicely on the top of an old chimney pot which was on a couple of breeze blocks and a plastic pipe flange just below the bottom section of the lamp shade to help stop any whimsical draugths at the bottom of the probe.

OK, it isn't very scientific I guess, but it seemed to work just fine. The highest temperature I photographed for this and my thermometer was at 14:35 and I think the industrial gauge was closer to the real temperature as that was comparable to a GALLENKAMP GRIFRFIN mercury thermometer that I have.

I didn't take any readings outside the porch, but it was noticeably slightly higher, just like yesterday.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 19/07/2022 22:02:07

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

That definitely looks like what a Stevenson's screen would have been.

RIP John.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

As our globe rotates it gives the Coreallis effect and by them the Jet stream, at the moment the jet stream is at low amplitude and has moved North.

This brings the equator weather within reach of our shores. There seems to be more heating of the oceans at the equator, hence more violent storms aka. hurricanes. So more rainfall in different places than before. Now rainfall is so intense that landslides happen regularly, is that from de-forestation.

What is the cause of that I ask? Is it El,Nino? To me there seems more Volcanic activity than before!

In the old days the equator had the roaring forties so loved by sailing ships to make record voyages carrying goods.

My sailing down there did not find such winds.

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