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LeedsLad123
11 July 2022 17:06:54
Exceeded 30C at the Leeds university station, which feels about right. Only 36% humidity though - I’ll never understand people complaining that heatwaves in the UK are humid when they’re usually dry.
Whitkirk, Leeds - 85m ASL.
Ally Pally Snowman
11 July 2022 17:24:46

Looks like Northolt was top today 32.0c


 

Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
Crepuscular Ray
11 July 2022 17:35:30
28 C in the Yorkshire Dales today and mostly cloudy 🥵
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
Ally Pally Snowman
11 July 2022 17:39:23

31c here felt very hot at times . Dont want to think what 41c would be like.


 

Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
Dave B
11 July 2022 17:45:14


 


Well, firstly they’re not on permanent contracts for gritting. They have other jobs to do too. In the winter they will do both.


 
Secondly, when tarmac starts to melt it can become slippery. Sand will add friction and stabilise the road surface. Whether this is enough in a prolonged period of heat remains to be seen. If the road surface becomes unsafe, the only option is to close the road. Also Inspectors are going round checking the bridge joints too. They have expansion joints to allow for movement, but if this is excessive, the joint will buckle and the bridge will have to be closed. 


Originally Posted by: chelseagirl 


Road surface temperatures can exceed 60C at this time of year during prolonged very warm/ hot spells. This is due to the intense insolation, elevated air temperatures and high sub surface values. I’ve had a look through today’s readings and top of the list is the A287 Odiham site in Hampshire with 60.4C at just before 1500 BST. 59C was exceeded at 4 other locations between 1400 and 1500. 

idj20
11 July 2022 17:49:42


 


For what purpose? 


Originally Posted by: picturesareme 



Probably help to deflect heat by increasing the albedo of the road surface.

Folkestone Harbour. 
Gusty
11 July 2022 17:53:27




Probably help to deflect heat by increasing the albedo of the road surface.


Originally Posted by: idj20 


to help stop the road bitumen from melting and also create better traction. 

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Retron
11 July 2022 17:55:50


to help stop the road bitumen from melting and also create better traction. 


Originally Posted by: Gusty 


Could have done with some of that down here - I noticed, for want of a better word, that the steering felt quite vague at times on the way home today, not the usual instant reaction when turning but more a split-second delay. And that's with Michelin tyres which are only a couple of months old, too, so no tread worries!


It was quite disconcerting.


 

Leysdown, north Kent
Heavy Weather 2013
11 July 2022 17:59:06
Fires breaking out already:

https://twitter.com/met4castuk/status/1546537635048472576?s=21&t=gFPoJSMXB6F__GYque9xZw 

Suspect more of this to come
Mark
Beckton, E London
Less than 500m from the end of London City Airport runway.
CreweCold
11 July 2022 17:59:23

Exceeded 30C at the Leeds university station, which feels about right. Only 36% humidity though - I’ll never understand people complaining that heatwaves in the UK are humid when they’re usually dry.

Originally Posted by: LeedsLad123 


Once it reaches a certain temperature hot is hot. Regardless of humidity, people will struggle.


Saying it's humid is just a line trotted out by many when they just mean to say it's too hot for comfort.


Crewe, Cheshire
55 metres above sea level
Gusty
11 July 2022 18:02:41

The potential impacts when you start to think about the bigger picture are catastrophic. I appreciate that us as weather nerds love to push these extremes from a statistical point of view but the prospects of a 40c heatwave lasting even a couple of days are scary.


Emergency planning for the highways infrastructure has begun today. There is a reason why 6 days notice has been given. From a national infrastructure perspective this is not a business as usual heat event.


 

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TimS
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11 July 2022 18:08:16


 


Once it reaches a certain temperature hot is hot. Regardless of humidity, people will struggle.


Saying it's humid is just a line trotted out by many when they just mean to say it's too hot for comfort.


Originally Posted by: CreweCold 


True, I’ve heard people talking about how muggy it is today. Its not muggy!

Brockley, South East London 30m asl
Bertwhistle
11 July 2022 18:13:40


 


Once it reaches a certain temperature hot is hot. Regardless of humidity, people will struggle.


Saying it's humid is just a line trotted out by many when they just mean to say it's too hot for comfort.


Originally Posted by: CreweCold 


Yes, people will struggle. Good hydration and protection from direct sun will help enormously in low RH high T. But much lower temperatures with high RH as you will know can be unbearable and hydration and covering don't help. 


Have been in 43C in sub-Saharan Africa which I didn't like one bit, but 29C in mist on a Costa Rican hillside was far more agonising, to the extend that I did not enjoy our sighting of a toucan and many exciting insects.

Bertie, Itchen Valley.
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Gusty
11 July 2022 18:15:11

I witnessed first hand 39c heat in France on 25th July 2019 standing under a shady tree. It was a bizarre experience. 

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Bertwhistle
11 July 2022 18:23:09

Thought about school closures- and thought again.


Send the children home and the parent/s will have to be home (primary age). 


What will they all do stuck at home on a silly heat day?


You guessed it- charge for the coast.


Even if their own car can cope, many will fail in 35C+ heat. All main roads S will be blocked (believe me, that happens on the first 20 in May on the M3). Ambulances etc will struggle to get through and non AC cars (you might be surprised to know how many of these are still around; equally non-maintained AC units) will get very hot. There will be seriously ill children and older folk possibly, with tens of thousands descending on coastal towns and it could be worse.


So- water pistols welcomed, a few hoses if I can rig them up and a few hundred bottles of free (th the children) water if we can get them before the supermarkets run dry. We have shady woods and well ventilated indoor areas. Also means we know where our vulnerable are.


I just hope the LA doesn't make a silly blanket decision. Doesn't happen in gale or snow, thankfully.

Bertie, Itchen Valley.
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Caz
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11 July 2022 19:22:47


Thought about school closures- and thought again.


Send the children home and the parent/s will have to be home (primary age). 


What will they all do stuck at home on a silly heat day?


You guessed it- charge for the coast.


Even if their own car can cope, many will fail in 35C+ heat. All main roads S will be blocked (believe me, that happens on the first 20 in May on the M3). Ambulances etc will struggle to get through and non AC cars (you might be surprised to know how many of these are still around; equally non-maintained AC units) will get very hot. There will be seriously ill children and older folk possibly, with tens of thousands descending on coastal towns and it could be worse.


So- water pistols welcomed, a few hoses if I can rig them up and a few hundred bottles of free (th the children) water if we can get them before the supermarkets run dry. We have shady woods and well ventilated indoor areas. Also means we know where our vulnerable are.


I just hope the LA doesn't make a silly blanket decision. Doesn't happen in gale or snow, thankfully.


Originally Posted by: Bertwhistle 

  Very well considered!  Top marks!  

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bledur
11 July 2022 19:25:59


Thought about school closures- and thought again.


Send the children home and the parent/s will have to be home (primary age). 


What will they all do stuck at home on a silly heat day?


You guessed it- charge for the coast.


Even if their own car can cope, many will fail in 35C+ heat. All main roads S will be blocked (believe me, that happens on the first 20 in May on the M3). Ambulances etc will struggle to get through and non AC cars (you might be surprised to know how many of these are still around; equally non-maintained AC units) will get very hot. There will be seriously ill children and older folk possibly, with tens of thousands descending on coastal towns and it could be worse.


So- water pistols welcomed, a few hoses if I can rig them up and a few hundred bottles of free (th the children) water if we can get them before the supermarkets run dry. We have shady woods and well ventilated indoor areas. Also means we know where our vulnerable are.


I just hope the LA doesn't make a silly blanket decision. Doesn't happen in gale or snow, thankfully.


Originally Posted by: Bertwhistle 


 Dont remember any schools closing in 76 and neither were there any health warnings yet there was a long run of days over 32c

The Beast from the East
11 July 2022 19:32:39


The potential impacts when you start to think about the bigger picture are catastrophic. I appreciate that us as weather nerds love to push these extremes from a statistical point of view but the prospects of a 40c heatwave lasting even a couple of days are scary.


Emergency planning for the highways infrastructure has begun today. There is a reason why 6 days notice has been given. From a national infrastructure perspective this is not a business as usual heat event.


 


Originally Posted by: Gusty 


Just as well we have a fully functioning Government and Boris's got an extended holiday at Chequers until September, at our expense


 

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Rob K
11 July 2022 19:37:22
42.9C the max today in Spain. Can probably add at least 4C to that by Wed or Thur.
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
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Bow Echo
11 July 2022 19:39:53


 


 Dont remember any schools closing in 76 and neither were there any health warnings yet there was a long run of days over 32c


Originally Posted by: bledur 


I was working in a 50 lever signalbox in 1976, with glass panes on all 4 walls. You can imagine how hot it got in there. Levers were almost too hot to touch, and the metal cables for the signals sagged so much in the heat it was impossible to give clear indications to drivers. I had to resort to cautioning every train individually before I could give permission to pass the signals. Exhausting after 12 hours of that. Then do it all again for the next 15 days...


 

Steve D. FRMetS
Burton Latimer, Kettering, Northants


scillydave
11 July 2022 19:44:39


  Very well considered!  Top marks!  


Originally Posted by: Caz 


I'll second that 😊


A potentially very difficult couple of days coming up. Some of the schools I've worked in are very poorly designed from a heat perspective - think acres of south facing glass and little/ no way of opening them. 


 

Currently living at roughly 65m asl North of Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Formerly of, Birdlip, highest village in the Cotswolds and snow heaven in winter; Hawkinge in Kent - roof of the South downs and Isles of Scilly, paradise in the UK.
TimS
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11 July 2022 19:45:39


 


 Dont remember any schools closing in 76 and neither were there any health warnings yet there was a long run of days over 32c


Originally Posted by: bledur 


There are lots of things we did back in 1976 that I wouldn’t necessarily recommend these days. Like driving around without seatbelts or allowing lead in petrol.

Brockley, South East London 30m asl
Heavy Weather 2013
11 July 2022 19:47:06
It’s so annoying that the reporting network gets messed about like this:

https://twitter.com/petagna/status/1546473809443803136?s=21&t=gFPoJSMXB6F__GYque9xZw 

Hopefully said festival is finished by the weekend
Mark
Beckton, E London
Less than 500m from the end of London City Airport runway.
scillydave
11 July 2022 19:51:06


 


 Dont remember any schools closing in 76 and neither were there any health warnings yet there was a long run of days over 32c


Originally Posted by: bledur 


I think the old adage that just because something didn't happen it doesn't mean that it shouldn't have happened springs to mind.


Excess deaths from the 1976 heatwave were around 20% above normal. 


Should also add that 32c is very different to 40c 

Currently living at roughly 65m asl North of Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Formerly of, Birdlip, highest village in the Cotswolds and snow heaven in winter; Hawkinge in Kent - roof of the South downs and Isles of Scilly, paradise in the UK.
Ally Pally Snowman
11 July 2022 19:56:45

It’s so annoying that the reporting network gets messed about like this:

https://twitter.com/petagna/status/1546473809443803136?s=21&t=gFPoJSMXB6F__GYque9xZw

Hopefully said festival is finished by the weekend

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 


That's ridiculous,  our weather station network is completely inadequate. 

Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.

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