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Hot in the UK and not the usual joke hot

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geomac
8 yrs ago

Britain experienced its warmest July day on record as roads melted, trains were delayed, and bottled water was handed out to truck drivers caught in huge tailback on the M20 due to the Calais strike.

Heathrow was the hotspot – both politically and physically – as the mercury clocked 36.7C, the highest in July since records began in the mid 1870s with the introduction of standardised thermometer exposure, and edging out Wisley, Surrey, which saw 36.5C in 2006.

Parts of the UK – which was on a Level 3 “heatwave action” health alert – had higher temperatures than in Barcelona, Ibiza and Athens as the Met Office weather map was a rainbow hue of purple (very very hot), red (very hot) and orange (just hot) .

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/01/heatwave-hits-heathrow-temperature-airport-flies-past-32c

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geomac
8 yrs ago

Any temp in the nineties is hot. Not the usual sniggers that we aussies seem to have when 80C was called a heat wave in the UK.

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Vivity8/7/2007
8 yrs ago

Feel very sorry for anyone in the big cities there they are a nightmare and unlike us just don't have A/c. Babies and the elderly will really be suffering.

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catsahoy
8 yrs ago

remember when i was young,   [many moons ago.lol]   in london,    at the first sign of sunshine,  we were in the car heading to SOUTH END,    or MARGATE,       dont know how we ever thought that was warm,  lol, 

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Abby
8 yrs ago

36.7 C would even be considered hot here on the Eastern coast ... without AC it would be unbearable. The tall buildings in the cities would not allow any breeze to flow through.

For a country that is not used to this type of heat it must be shear murder, do your best to keep cool guys anyway you can and keep up the fluids. keep an eye ont thwe kiddies and the elderly 

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Foxy
8 yrs ago

...so why in Wimbledon (tennis) do the Umpires and the Players have no shade?  Surely they can come up with something temporary?  Sun umberella's - shade tent type things?   Bizarre! 

There insist on white uniform to repell the heat.

It's global wanking again..........I worked and lived in London and never got temps like this.

Turn off your aussie heaters and save carbon in London

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Vivity8/7/2007
8 yrs ago

Lived & worked in London too Davey be pretty pongy on  the Tube after a day of those temps.

I had to walk home from Piccadilly to Victoria many times late at night because of smog and buses were not running.

We walked as group a though Green Park..........still we were young and fit in those days.

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catsahoy
8 yrs ago

those were the days my friend,   we thought theyd never end,   for we were young and bound to have our way,   lol,lol, 

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