These sort of temperatures kill people (and get very little publicity in comparison to other deaths),especially the young and elderly who struggle to regulate body temperatures and/or suffer with health issues.
Off to play cricket today. Only 27 degrees forecast. Can't wait to stand around in a field with no shade in long trousers all day. I'm just off to question my life choices.
Update on laddo's match. They've had another friendly this morning. It was 21° at kick off and 23° by full time and after an hour the lads were flagging. Although I was still meeting resistance from some quarters, common sense has prevailed and Monday's match is OFF.
Thank goodness for that! BBC is now predicting 38 degrees (100.4 Fahrenheit - always find it easier to understand higher temps in F) in Barnsley at that time. Absolutely mental that some people are still arguing against you for an 80 minute match for kids (or anyone) during that temperature. If the coach would have kept it scheduled I’d have been removing my kid from their coaching permanently.
No. Buildings are designed differently in hotter climates. Here we do everything we can to keep the heat in not out. Ask any person from a hot country what 30 degrees in England is compared to 30 degrees abroad and they'll tell you how unbearable it is here despite technically being the same temperature
Disagree. Here we insulate our homes. That works to keep the hot air inside during the winter and the hot air out during the summer. In Sydney where it is regularly 35+ for months at a time many houses have tin roofs and no insulation. It is unbearable inside. And in winter, despite it not getting too cold, the houses are freezing and damp as there's no central heating. In Greece many houses don't have a roof as there's a tax on them, so you'll see hundreds/thousands of new builds that look unfinished. And they bake. No idea where you've got this from but our building regs are some of the best in the world. What we don't tend to have is air con, that's the only difference.
I've seen many people who have moved to the UK say it. They say heat here is nothing like heat in other places
Yeah, they always spend thousands of pounds and then send their kids out for a run for an hour and half, with a short, strictly timed, break halfway through, at the hottest point of the day. On holiday, people tend to relax, maybe swim in the hotel pool or the sea. If they go sightseeing they tend to stroll around, not run full tilt whilst sliding tackling people. I also don’t tend to lug around 18,000 books and clean and dust almost 100 6ft bookshelves for 8 hours a day, in work attire, whilst on holiday.
It’s generally the humidity that does it. Loads of people I know say a 25 degree heat here is far worse than their 30+ degree dry heat.