It was an idling ice-cream van in Motherwell (in 2018)
Originally Posted by: doctormog
Thanks for correcting me there. I just couldn't remember whether that happened in 2018 or 2019, but I knew that this happened in one of those two years.
Of course, the summer of 2018 was a really good summer overall, but didn't actually break any records (at least that I know of) in terms of the temperature. That was one of those decent summers as well which was completely unexpected because of the fact that it came so soon after the Beast from the East event which happened in February/March of that same year.
In complete contrast to that, the summer of 2019 was actually a very poor summer here overall. That was a very wet summer with very little in the way of hot weather, although it still managed to provide us with that one huge heat spike which gave us which up until now, is still our hottest day on record as it currently stands (that might of course, no longer be the case from Tuesday onwards if the latest forecasts are correct).
Those are both completely different summers but one thing which they both have in common is that they both had at least one hot spell within them. This means that it can actually be very easy to get confused between those two years and because it was in the 2019 that the current record was actually set (and not 2018), that is the one which I am automatically going to be thinking of, despite the fact that the previous summer of 2018 was by far, the better summer overall.
This year, we really have a bit of both here because it has been a really good summer overall (the second of two back to decent summers (last summer was really good well, but without any big temperature extremes) which hasn't actually happened here since the summers of 2013 and 2014) and it is also a summer which could possibly be about to give us hottest day on record once again. Given that this has been a much better summer overall than the summer of 2019, that is bound to also magnify the overall effects of this upcoming spike as a result, compared to what we saw in 2019, those making those prospects even more scary.
Edited by user
15 July 2022 14:18:16
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.