Scorching 40°C temperatures ‘will soon become the new normal for the UK’

Scorching 40°C temperatures ‘will soon become the new normal for the UK’



by Wagamaga

29 comments

  1. Britain is on course to experience regular ‘super heatwaves’ that will have a devastating impact on the country, a senior meteorologist has warned.

    Jim Dale said that the UK and the rest of the world is in danger of ‘boiling over’ as extreme heat becomes commonplace due to climate change.

    Mr Dale spoke as the country bakes in a third heatwave that is predicted to bring 30C-plus (86F+) temperatures this weekend.

    The blazing weather is expected to last longer and extend further north and west than the hot spells we’ve already seen this year.

    Mr Dale has spent the last 40 years warning about the impact of global warming and now believes the planet is close to a tipping point

  3. Must adapt now by setting up infrastructure etc to cope with the new normal. Unfortunately it looks like trying to do something about global warming just won’t do

  4. I think we can all see this coming – the worst thing is that summers are getting hotter earlier than ever, so we’re not just enduring a few days of exceptional heat, but rather a lot of hot days with a few additional super-heated days somewhere. It feels like in the next month we’re gonna have another heatwave that stretches into the high 30s.

  5. There will be tens of thousands of extra deaths a year, even if we have a big airconditioner push.

  6. 10 years ago, people lived in their car because they couldn’t afford a home.

    Today, people live in their car, one of the few spaces where many of us have air con, to escape the heat.

  7. We’re in the find out stage of ‘fuck around and find out’ for climate change. We need to adapt infrastructure and public spaces and buildings to cope with it

  8. It’ll never not be infuriating how little humans care for their environment.

    Hell even the facilities management at my workplace still won’t put in decent cooling because “Oh it’s only a few days a year it gets hot”, yeah bro I’m sure that excuse will pan out when a few million of hardware blows up because of overheating.

  9. Everyone buy sunglasses, shorts and fans. It will rain for 5 years straight.

  10. Never mind, professional grifting scumbag Nigel will soon be saying that we’ve done away with woke weather and woke climate change and boiling our tits off is British weather at its best

  11. I wonder if the puffa jacket & balaclava kids will keep up that style as they get older… gonna be some rough summers ahead for them…

  12. I genuinely can’t handle it. I have POTS and I’ve been having crazy heart palpitations and dizziness. On Friday my heart rate wouldn’t go below 100bpm all day.

  13. One of the most helpful things you can do for the environment on an individual level is to reduce/stop eating meat.

  14. How many of you here commenting your shit actually do anything like donate to UK climate charities like Woodland Trust or Greenpeace?

    Edit getting downvoted for suggesting mfs donate to charity lol 🤣

  15. Just like being on holiday, hot and no one speaks English

  16. We’re gonna neee to invest in air conditioning indoors then. It’s a fuckin nightmare trying to sleep

  17. I’ve been saying this for years, until the US take Climate seriously we are fucked and the only thing that is going to make them take it seriously is a Climate Event Disaster that claims thousands of lives.

    I did say China however I was wrong as u/nate390 said, they are leading the world in transiting to green Energy.

  18. ‘It’s jUsT sUmmER’ – 80% of Facebook

    When I was 5 or so I was told about the hole in the Ozone layer and global warming and I think we that moment I decided not to bring kids into this world.

    We fixed the hole but are allowing people to spew nonsense about the latter and stymie attempts to reduce the warming.

    Trees and renewable energy should be our top focus

  19. They need environmentally friendly A/C. It’s getting bad, let’s work towards a sensible solution.

  20. Let’s wait until we actually get a 40C day before making headlines like this. As it stands 2022 has still been the one and only time temperatures went up to 40C. I don’t doubt it’ll happen again, but let’s just wait ya know?

  21. New normal where have I heard that before Hmme oh yeah that’s coming back now the wef we ain’t going back and you’ll own nothing be happy.

  22. Am I the only one that would love the UK to get some better weather?

  23. The vulnerable, as per usual, are getting pummelled in every way

  24. Someone posted a comment about how the UK has never had a 40C day ever.

    [Link](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/interesting/2022/2022_03_july_heatwave_v1.pdf) to the Met Office report from 2022. Page 8. Highest recorded temperature was 40.3C. Two other places recorded temperatures over 40.

    That person deleted their comment before I could reply, so if they’re reading this – you’re wrong and an utter clown.

  25. Bye bye insects. Bye bye flowers. Bye bye plants. Bye bye crops.

    Well done everyone. We absolutely fucked it. We known for decades and known how to fix it, but just could not be fucking bothered.

    Well done us.

  27. Oh for fuck sake, I escaped Southern Europe partially due to the heat and definitely am not going back firstly for the scorching heat, and it is reaching me all the way up here, plus with houses built abysmally to fight it.
    I guess next step is moving to Scotland, maybe that’ll buy me a few more years

  28. Excellent, we will no longer need to go abroad for great summer holidays

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