Arguably a mistake.

Depends entirely on the risk appetite of councils. Not sure too many will want multiple examples of children passing out due to heat, not on their watch.

it’s not a council decision it’s a heads of the school to make a decision it depends on a lot of things like local conditions of each classrooms ie sunlight, ventilation, Ac etc

The school I lock up for have already closed at lunch time this week Mon Tuesday 

Surely it’ll be taken out of the school’s hands though if we go to a level 4, that’s my point.

That tenperature wasn’t anywhere on the synop list but I imagine only a selection of the official stations are on there. The highest I’ve seen for Spain today is 45.2C but again somewhere may have gone higher. 

it will be in my house that’s for sure. As a father with 2 still in secondary I will be keeping mine at home regardless. They need to be in shorts, with access to plenty of cold water, the school they attend will not change their policy on not allowing them water bottles in the class and will no doubt insist on them wearing their blazers, so I’ll be keeping them home. it’s games week anyway

Have we had the story yet about the school that won't allow the boys to wear shorts in hot weather, so they turn up wearing skirts?

https://premium.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/pupil-punished-for-wearing-shorts-during-heatwave-270168/

40c showing on the GFS.

Quite simply the Metoffice needs to update the warning to red today. This is serious.

People on the comment section of things like the BBC are not taking this seriously at all. Mocking the warnings etc, talking about tanning in the garden. Anyone who goes out to tan in 40c will quickly find themselves scurrying back inside!

Darren how are things on the island. The news mentioned yesterday you’ve not had water!!

I knew it had to be there. All we need now are the stories about pigs getting sunburn and the polar bears at London zoo being given ice lollies to cool down.

If people are mocking the warnings then it's probably because there are so many of them being bandied around these days, like yellow warnings for wind for what is really just a rather windy day, that when something potentially very dangerous turns up, they aren't taken seriously.

Thousands died in 2003 because of the heat. This looks to be a notch worse. The message really needs drilling home IMO.

were people mocking the warnings? I’ve read a couple of 70 somethings with the usual ‘not in my day’ tripe, but nothing from any serious commentator suggesting there was nothing to see here?

anyway, thankfully the extreme heat looks to be relatively short lived

It is dangerous. I’m bemused by how flippant some people are about it. I can only assume they have air conditioned houses and don’t have to go to work…unlike me.

I can assure you that the extent of heat mitigation in my place of work will be a Calippo and a bottle of water.

Still no water, although the fire brigade have run a hosepipe to the island to help things fill up faster now the second leak has been fixed... it caused utter chaos as they closed the dual carriageway bridge. That meant ten thousand or so people coming home via this...

Not my photo, but it took an hour to drive from a certain school in Sittingbourne to the bridge. An hour to drive 4 miles, and that was before the queues really kicked in!

I filled up six 2-litre bottles at work yesterday, so at least I could flush the toilet this morning!

The school has reminded staff from the island (a good quarter or so come from there) that they can use school showers if needs be.

All I can say is thank goodness this all happened when it was "only" in the high 20s. If this happened next Monday/Tuesday instead there would have been all hell to pay.

EDIT: And the water's now back on. My goodness, I've never been so relieved to hear a toilet cistern filling!

Just seen TV Breakfast forecast which showed 36C for London. Although Matt Taylor did say it was a potentially record breaking heatwave.

9-10 Aug 2003 was 36, 38 so it woudl be a close call

Good ol' Weatheronline (my optimistic forecast of choice) showing 41C for London on Monday.

AS for today, it looks beautiful: fresh morning, clear sky, strong sunshine, a cool breeze. I am going flat out airing and chilling the house in the next 3 days. We have a window of opportunity with coolish nights to get the indoor temperature down close to 20C and then shut up shop and hunker down from Sunday onwards.

After the heatwave can we have 2 months of today's weather?

Obviously a lot of the talk and excitement is around the national record but can anyone tell me what are the chances of local records being broken further north? I think we would be looking for over 34C around Manchester. I'm not a chart reader so can only go off the forecasts and right now both BBC and Met Office are going for a max of 33C on Tuesday

I did that yesterday evening when the light 19c easterly kicked in. By the time we went to bed to hallway was down to 21.9c and the house between 22-22.5c. By this morning its 24c all over the house once again.

The internal fabric and ambient temperature is rising.

Its just a shame we can't retain this internal heat all through the winter months...we would save a fortune.