Sarbear please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image @sarbear_80 · Jul 16 If you think Monday and Tuesday is going to be bad just imagine how people coped in the summer of 76! They suffered 12 weeks of heat with roads melting! It’s two days fgs just stay hydrated and stay out of the sun where possible #CommonSense
Feeling quite good about life having made it into my air conditioned office. Actually slightly regret not bringing a jumper or jacket in. Now to arrange a 6pm meeting so I can't go home until after the worst of it...
There are no laws/regulations in this country which specify when it’s too hot to work in certain environments, it’s left up to employers with their ‘duty of care’ to employees. Gonna get tested today.
Told my staff they can work from home if they wish. Those that drive in really should come to work. Their cars will be air conditioned as are our offices. Unfortunately, Covid has brought out the worst in the (sadly and generally, bone-idle and entitled) English. Now used to “working” from home - which gives questionable results - particularly from millennials. The UK may grind to a halt due to its workforce’s reluctance to work. I dealt with an industrial laundrette very recently. It has roughy 100 employees. Only the director was English. He complained that obtaining staff was difficult for the unskilled work and that on the very rare occasion he had an English interviewee, they inevitably didn’t want to work more than 16 hours as it impacted on their ability to claim benefits. My staff include two Cypriots, a Lithuanian, a Kosovan, a Pakistani, two Indian, a Portuguese a German and five English. Take a wild guess which of the staff have had Covid three times or more, which have had warnings when it transpired they had done nothing but Google how to win at various pc games throughout an entire working week. Guess which ones have had to re-sit exams on at least one occasion for want of putting in the study effort. I can’t comment on Scotland, Wales and NI, but from my experiences, I think England is in trouble and our workforce/youngsters need a wake up call.
The three months June - August was almost unbroken sunshine in the southeast. 1975 was also a very good summer. QPR were also hot in that period. BTW the Minister of Drought was inspired, it pissed down shortly after his appointment...
It’s ****ing hot. All this ‘what about ‘76’ is off the mark, it was a long hot summer but temperatures were nowhere near this. Wife is sitting in the car waiting for son to finish work as it would be madness for him to walk home, car temp 42C. Aircon on max…. Drove back from the French alps in summer of 2003 when they had over 40C, air was like very hot soup. We had small kids and attempts to have a picnic abandoned, straight back into car. Same feeling today.
Okay we got it from a car boot sale...but it is one of the Natural history weather station things...but ours read 111 at 2 o'clock. 43 degrees
In '76, temperatures got to around 35c, so not much difference. Plus, the hot dry weather went on for weeks and weeks. We really do seem conditioned to over react to these things. Yes, it's hot. Cooler by Wednesday.
Was at my Sister-in-laws wedding in Lagos, Portugal in 2004 during a heatwave. Had the full kilt regalia on and it was 51°C - it was like rivers of sweat running down my back and my legs. Jumped into one of the Portuguese ushers car to travel to the reception and had my kilt lifted up over the aircon blowers to cool my nether regions! Some very strange looks. A few years before I trekked to Everest Base Camp - it was -35° on a couple of the nights, ****in baltic!
What's happened to you lot Used to be mad dogs and Englishmen Now they don't want you leaving the house cause it's a bit hot for a couple of days
Bloody lovely today, yes a bit humid but sat in the garden sipping pink gin and tonic listening to Pipers at the gates of dawn ! Bliss
33 degrees recorded at The Phoenix Park in Dublin which is the highest temperature recorded in Ireland since 1887.........
so the train services dont like snow leaves heat not really a service how do train companies cope in other countries
