but its still under 30 degrees!
Of course the media are hyping things up, anything to avoid doing real reporting stuff, will it set a new record, will it top 40c? Well it might but there again it might not. the forecast for Brizzle is 37c tomorrow, we'll see.
So what have i been up to in the latter half of the week? Well Thursday i took myself for a ride northwards before looping back down the Severn to follow the Avon back into Brizz, not the hilliest or longest ride, indeed it only just broached 100km!
Friday was a bit warmer but only low 20's which suited me fine for a trip to the Swedish store for lunch, it got warmer later just as forecast.
On to Saturday, well i broke out my new, super technical jersey (i got it for £35 instead of £135 in a promotion and got free postage as i'm in the mfrs rider club), it has the same tech as the pro's use, aero baffles, multi material and a close fit thar you can see pimples through - did i mention i've seen thicker loo paper? Anyhoo, i set off east hoping to garner some tail wind on the return, up onto the Cotswolds, through Chippenham and eventually stopping for 'lunch', a toasted sandwich, at Royal Wootton Bassett. It was certainly quite warm, @ 25c but once i got moving again the breeze got things back to comfortable.
Heading west you climb pretty much all the way to the Cotswold Scarp, @ 25 miles, not continually but the downs don't contribute more than about a mile! Whilst it wasn't a head wind it never really got behind me either, i was quite glad to drop off the precipice to cool off a bit. I stopped the Garmin at four hours thirty, 117km, @ little shy of 900m of climbing and an average speed of 25.9kph. Did the super jersey work? well i wasn't as salt rimed as i expected and i felt pretty comfortable without unzipping so yeah, a good investment.
Which brings us to today. Its supposed to be @ 30c atm, maybe it is but there's a bit of a breeze so it doesn't seem stifling, just looked and they've already adjusted tomorrow down to 36c, not that i was planning on going very far! I've been busy most of the day, laundry, a bit of gardening then we cropped most of the peas, 1lb 8oz once they were shelled, we beat Birds Eye to the freezer by about 30 mins*. Since then i've been out to supermarket for some salad stuff - we've been eating al fresco most of the week, various salads mostly teamed with our own new potato's and spring onions. There will be home grown lettuce and cucumber being added to the mix this week, todays edition will have a few peas with the quiche and salad stuff.
I've put up another Gaby chapter, Artistic Licence is #28 of Fame, a new experience for our Gabs as the excitement builds towards the 'ski' trip!
Looking at the weather maps for tomorrow, the highest temperatures will be across the UK Midlands with isolated pockets like where i was yesterday also potentially going higher than 35c. I certainly won't be doing much, chasing up Foxy's wheel, waiting for a parcel and no doubt more food shopping. Why so much food shopping? well its an excuse to go out, but more importantly storage for especially chilled and frozen stuff is quite tight - it doesn't hurt that with the warmer weather the shops offer a bit of temperature respite!
I'll be back again midweek but for now,
Tak,
Madeline Anafrid
* they used to claim an hour from field to freezer
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Heat Exhaustion
You might want to avoid any outdoor strenuous exercise when the heat is above 33C.
Twenty years ago a local pro football player (Vikings) died in camp due to playing in the heat. About a month ago another local football star died from heat exhaustion.
It is real risk.
It sounds like you already are aware of this but I wanted to make sure. I've seen stories in the news suggesting that less than one percent of homes in your country have air conditioning. About ninety percent have it in the US. My concern is you might not be as aware of high heat concerns as we have necessarily had to be.
As a soccer coach I dealt with heat. Our national rules demanded reduced time and water breaks when heat got over 27C.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
I'd rather deal with 38C than 38F any day
And I know 38F isn't really all that cold, but I'm just not a cold-weather person at all! I've been waiting all year for temperatures like this, and it'll be over and I'll have to start closing the doors and windows + dragging the !#@!$%!! snow shovel out of the shed way too soon for my liking. But I don't go taking long hikes in the desert at this time of year either. About the most energetic I get is a quick run through the sprinklers a few times a day ("Wheeeee!") to cool off.
Feels like I said all this last year + possibly the year before. If so I apologize for repeating myself...
~hugs, Veronica
Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
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37 Deg. C.
That's "normal" human body temperature and = 98.6 deg. F. Whenever air temperatures are outside the 0 to 100 degree range Fahrenheit, conditions are definitely unpleasant. AAMOF, 10 deg. F. is damned cold, given freezing is at 32 deg. F.
FWIW, -40 is the same in both C. and F., with mercury thermometers no longer useful.
G/R
It's All About Humidity
And a bit of acclimatisation too. I have lived in Hong Kong and Singapore where summer (or wet season) humidities are commonly 95 per cent and daytime temperatures are around 34C/35C. It's survivable but uncomfortable. I have also lived in the Gulf countries where daytime temps get to 45C, which is bloody hot but humidity is maybe 25 per cent so it's OK as long as you don't do anything strenuous. Lounging by the pool is enough.
Here in Queensland our summer temps normally get to around 30C to 33C but usually humidity is 50 to 60 per cent which is quite comfortable when you are acclimatised to it. I'd far rather have those than temps below zero (C). Today (midwinter) it was 24C with last night's minimum at 10C. I had to put a blanket on the bed!
Agree that humidity is a very important factor
You could also add wind (or lack of it).
As for Singapore they have a tendency to overcompensate with their airconditioning. My hotel room went into "energy save mode" whenever I left. The first thing I did when coming back was to raise the temperature. The first day of the meeting we were evenly spaced around the big table. The second day no one sat at one corner. It was just too cold!
Yep!
I know about that . Hong Kong was worse. The locals reckoned that air-conditioning was no good unless it was turned to "arctic" so I used to wear a sweater in the office and strip it off when I went outside and started sweating within seconds.
I noticed that when I was in
I noticed that when I was in Florida in the 1990s. I saw the same in the other parts of the USA too.
36 c outside and 90% humidity. 18 c inside.
too big a contrast.
Got up to about 28 c here in county Limerick today and about 66% humidity.
Fortunate I have a portable ac unit and a dehumidifier and a temp/ humidity monitor to know when to turn the ac on.
people in Ireland are not good with ac as they tend to run the ac and leave the windows open too
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Well
It got to @36c yesterday hereabouts which wasn’t so bad, it was the 28/29c overnight that was the killer!
Today is only expected to go to @ 33c here, there’s a bit of a breeze but it’s already @29c at nine in the morning!
Tomorrow we’ll have coats on, it’s dropping 10c overnight! lol
The overuse of a/c is a huge factor re global warming using power and resources because you can. It might be nice on a really hot day but folks use them poorly.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Ugh!
I'm back from my trip to the Arctic Circle and Ugh!
Luckily, I got off the Ferry at Harwich without too much hassle and even the M25 was playing ball with little traffic. 35C by the time I reached home just after 09:30. One week ago I was in full winter motorcycle gear with temps as low as 4C and a wind from the North.
Like the plants in my garden, I'm wilting in this heat. It is like an oven outside.
Stay safe in this heat.
Samantha
It was 39c - 100.4 F here in
It was 39c - 100.4 F here in Hertford today. It is still 38c at 18.20.
I don't know if it global warming causing this. I remember as a child a hot summer's day was 22c (72f). If it got to 24c or 25c it got reported as a heatwave. Hopefully now after today we settle into a spell of 25 -30c days. I never thought I would welcome 30c, but after today I would.
UK cumulative emissions are about 3% of the world total toward net greenhouse gas emissions
We are hammered on tax to achieve "Net zero" by 2050.
The U.K. is the world's fifth-largest producer of CO2 emissions, producing 78,161 metric tons in 2020.2In 2020, fossil fuels accounted for 75% of the total energy supply and in 2021 it was the second-largest producer of petroleum and other liquids in Europe. The British Empire was primarily built on coal; however, coal production decreased by nearly 91% between 2010 and 2020 and the amount of power generation from renewable resources at 46% was greater than from fossil fuels at 38% for the first time in 2020.
The countries that produce the most carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are the United States (416,738 MT), China (235,527 MT), Russia (115,335 MT), Germany (92,636 MT), and the United Kingdom (78,161 MT).
Leeanna