UK weather – live updates: UK set to be hotter than 98.8% of planet – as thunder warning issued for parts of country
UK weather – live updates: UK set to be hotter than 98.8% of planet – as thunder warning issued for parts of country
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40 degrees has just been provisionally recorded (at Heathrow) for the first time ever in the UK
well yea most of the ocean air can be cool so that’s a lot of landmass
Loving this weather lets hope it continues
> Oh, I don’t know why the Brits are complaining. Some countries are hot all the time!
We are all accustomed to cold weather and live in houses designed to trap heat, I’m sorry that we can’t handle being that hottest place on the planet at the start of a work week!
Watch the thunder get used as proof there can’t be global warming if it’s raining…
my wife and i are moving house at the end of this week.. i’ve done 3 trips of moving stuff and i am absolutely shattered
Absolutely love thunderstorms ⚡⚡⚡😎😎😎
> UK to be hotter than 98.8% of the planet today
oh piss off, what complete hyperbole.
what they mean to say is out of 195 countries, only 6 countries will be hotter.
>We have reported that the UK is forecast to be hotter than 98.8% of the planet today.Ben Noll, a meteorologist from the US, says that only California, the Sahara Desert, France, Belgium, the Middle East, India and Western China will be warmer than the UK.
The absurdity of this statement….
The headline – although probably accurate – seems misleading.
In typical summer peak temperatures, where would we rank in terms of temperature relative to the rest of the world?
When you take into account that half the world is in winter and then places on a more northern latitude would likely be colder anyway; how much have we moved up by?
Moving from a “normal peak” of say 85% to 98.8% isn’t the same as moving from 70% or 60%.
Not disputing that 98.8% is unprecedented for the UK but I think the scale of movement should be clearer.
The average temperature for July is supposed to be 21C and we have seen nearly double that. Those high temperatures become more insane when you look at it from that perspective.
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