Off Topic Weather Thread

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Becs said:
It's not just the actual temperature.

The heat comes suddenly and lasts for a relatively short time, so it's a shock to the system. It's not like a summer season abroad where the temperature gradually warms up over time so you get acclimatised to it. I had a jumper on a couple of weeks ago because I was cold!

The UK is surrounded by cool water so we have a low dew point. When the heat hits, the dew point spikes. That means the humidity rises rapidly and and the air feels sticky and thick. The sticky air makes it harder for your body to keep itself cool. Other places tend to have a dry heat so it's easier to move around in it.

All our buildings are designed to keep heat in as the weather here is predominately cool and damp. Hardly anyone has air conditioning, so homes get way too hot, public transport is too hot, schools/hospitals/shops etc., are too hot and so on. There's just nowhere to go to cool down and escape from the heat.

Some appliances can't cope. Fridges and freezers break down in homes and supermarkets due to the increased work of keeping things cold.

So yes the heat hits much harder than it does in Australia and other hot places.
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Hark at Wincy Willis lol
 
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Becs said:
It's not just the actual temperature.

The heat comes suddenly and lasts for a relatively short time, so it's a shock to the system. It's not like a summer season abroad where the temperature gradually warms up over time so you get acclimatised to it. I had a jumper on a couple of weeks ago because I was cold!

The UK is surrounded by cool water so we have a low dew point. When the heat hits, the dew point spikes. That means the humidity rises rapidly and and the air feels sticky and thick. The sticky air makes it harder for your body to keep itself cool. Other places tend to have a dry heat so it's easier to move around in it.

All our buildings are designed to keep heat in as the weather here is predominately cool and damp. Hardly anyone has air conditioning, so homes get way too hot, public transport is too hot, schools/hospitals/shops etc., are too hot and so on. There's just nowhere to go to cool down and escape from the heat.

Some appliances can't cope. Fridges and freezers break down in homes and supermarkets due to the increased work of keeping things cold.

So yes the heat hits much harder than it does in Australia and other hot places.
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You're right, Becs. It's the humidity and the dramatic temperature changes that's the problem here that other countries don't have. If you think just over a month and a half ago it was freezing, temperatures in single figures and on the 12th of May we had snow and hailstones, 6 weeks or so later we're in a heat wave. As hot as it is now you'd not rule it out of being 10 or more degrees colder in a couple of weeks. That fluctuation takes it out of you because your body doesn't get a chance to adapt.
 
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C Montgomery Burns said:
You're right, Becs. It's the humidity and the dramatic temperature changes that's the problem here that other countries don't have. If you think just over a month and a half ago it was freezing, temperatures in single figures and on the 12th of May we had snow and hailstones, 6 weeks or so later we're in a heat wave. As hot as it is now you'd not rule it out of being 10 or more degrees colder in a couple of weeks. That fluctuation takes it out of you because your body doesn't get a chance to adapt.
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Hey up, here's John Kettley.
 
Leaving shields and one of the charvers is spark out on the ground on the road outside the metro station. Loads of police and road closed off. For anyone in and around.the area.

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Lucky19672 said:
Leaving shields and one of the charvers is spark out on the ground on the road outside the metro station. Loads of police and road closed off. For anyone in and around.the area.

Love shields me
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Somebody the other day explained to me the origin of the nickname "sanddancer" very interesting!
 
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