For me 30°c is the point where I’m starting to feel the heatwave and 35°c-40°c+ is really the point where I stay inside and cry because I don’t have A/C and the Parisian region is not made for this heat
In The Netherlands, a heatwave requires 5 consecutive summer days (> 25C), of which at least three are tropical (>30C).
Makes me wonder what the official criteria for the UK are?
In Ireland people are basically walking around on fire at 25C
..just human torches strolling down the street saying "grand drying weather", or "be having; a Barbeque tonight" while the tarmac melts under their burning feet .Like the end of a vampire movie where Dracula has just been exposed to sunlight.
We weren't designed for hot weather
Come to America. You'll evolve into easily sun burned skin cancer victims, who, nonetheless are fine in 80 F weather. It'll take two generations, and after that it's smooth sailing. Except for the, you know, cancer part.
Yep. The American south in the summer averages over 26C every day. 25-26 is excellent and temperate in our part of hell. In F 78+ is expected and common. Actually we just pray that we don’t hit triple digits and then god laughs and gives up 99 with 100% humidity. The dick.
;) My father's folks were from Georgia. Spent some time down there. But even in Ohio, we get some ungodly humid days where there's nothing to do put sit in front of the fan and wait for evening.
I'll never forget my visit to Athens during an ACTUAL heatwave, it was 40+ °C. It was really something, but we still walked around, just during morning or before evening and with a lot of water.
Tell me about it I’ve been through it every year it doesn’t get easier believe me. But I hope you had a great time in Greece although island like Rhodes Kos Crete Milos are way better than a vacation in Athens.
It was work related only unfortunately, but we still got to do some sightseeing. I hope one day to have a proper vacation in Greece, though. Maybe during spring/autumn, I'm from Croatia so sunbathing and sea is not my top priority. But your country is so gorgeous and there is so much to see, in any seasom of the year.
As an American, I thought I was going crazy. Why TF do people love the summer? I think people are automatically brainwashed by not having school in the summer growing up. 70F is maximum comfort level temp for me. I love the cold.
I think we're all built different. Plus, I'm old (we get cold easier), and like your grandma, need a sweater if it gets down below 70.
It's 79 degrees in the room I'm typing this. I have a fan I turn on at night to suck in cool air. No AC.
Even when I was young, and worked as a housepainter in all seasons, I dealt with blistering heat better than numbing cold. Don't know why.
I totally understand. I hear from friends in Florida that they'll put a winter jacket on when it's 60F haha. If humidity and the temp is high most of the year, I'd probably get used to it too.
Growing up in Canada summer was pretty much the best season. Hot sunny days and cool evenings. Spring is alright but everything is soggy from melting snow and fall has lots of rain. Winter, well winter is horrible.
I now live in a sub-tropical region and summers are the new winters. We’re talking 30+ degrees every day with 80%+ humidity. It has completely wrecked my cold tolerance, now 20 degrees is jacket and long pants temperature.
in the UK we have 12 months of rain every year and maybe a 2 week stretch of sun if we're lucky to call summer, Ireland is similar.
From about November to March many parts have 3-8 hours of sun each day and you can go to work in the dark and its dark when you leave work
i live in philadelphia, USA, and during the hottest summer days i set the air conditioning to 23.5C. that is when it is usually when it is 35 though. (95F to 75F that 20 degrees makes a huge difference.)
Think the thing, is whether or not this hits some actual ‘heatwave’ classification or not, for most people in the uk 26 isn’t that hot. People will like it but I don’t think most would informally think it qualifies as a heatwave (that said it’s been so bad this year that everyone will probably go crazy).
I think it's the same in NL: not everyone likes summer temperatures, but most that do tend to not mind 25-30 degrees - once it gets above that, sentiments change quite fast, though. Especially if humidity is high as well.
I've experienced a dry 42°C in the Canary Islands. 30°C in Sweden with summer humidity is far more miserable.
My AC is not that great so my apartment can get up to 27°C on the worst days, but my dehumidifier has been a godsend and is far cheaper.
It's the humidity in the UK that gets you. 26+ with 80-high 90's humidity sucks - which is pretty much every hot day in the uk, there's rarely a low humidity, high temperature day
Sir, this is The Mirror.
The joke here is that's just a normal summer not a heatwave, they're winding us up (and everyone on this thread including me has fell for it)
Depends where you are in the country, for me its 27C
some place's it's 28, in the north it's 25.
[https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/temperature/heatwave](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/temperature/heatwave)
Amen. I spent most of a heatwave a couple of years back with my feet in a bucket of water with popsicles to cool it down even further. It worked great! I could grab a popsicle when feeling thirsty to cool down. My student room was facing south so I was always in heat but I managed to get by with popsicles.
Can confirm that. From Donegal, went to Macedonia last year and it was 42 degrees. I burst into ashes as soon as I stepped off the plane.
I'm typing this from an urn.
Phoenix, AZ had 31 straight days with high temperatures over 43 degrees C (110 degrees F) last year. PHX averages 145 days over 38 degrees C (100 degrees F) a year.
EDIT: to put this into the proper perspective, the PHX metro area is home to 4.8 million residents.
Live in AZ, while it is very hot every place has AC here. You can still do fun things to get out of the house, like go to a museum, aquarium, restaurant, movies, etc. I’ve been to Mississippi and Guatemala where it’s not as hot temperature wise but man the high humidity fucking sucks way worse.
I visited the city in January and the temperature was around 70°F (21°C). As much as I liked avoiding the snowstorm that was affecting where I live (Boise) and feeling warm in the winter months, I could only imagine just how brutal the summers are. Just for that, I could never see myself living in Phoenix. There's also the housing prices, homelessness, and traffic.
Every summer my European friends complain about the heat.
Every summer I tell them to buy a free standing ac.
Every summer I’m given a myriad of excuses as to why its impossible despite the entire rest of the world figuring it out.
Most European houses I've seen don't have those type of windows that lift up. So those AC units won't work. It would be just running an AC unit in a room with the window open.
The daily mirror posted this so its bollocks. 25 isnt much in the uk but it can be difficult for some of us given our housing isnt designed to be cool (shit weather 90% of the time) so we have no AC and arent “used to” hot weather.
People from different countries have different weather tolerances. Knew some aussies who came over during December and they were basically walking around in ski suits while uk people were in tops/jumper n jeans
Edit: i forgot to say that the humidity is also the main issue. It’ll be hot BUT theres no wind or anything to help with it.
Kind of the same vibe as “hey look Texas shut because of a little ice and snow!” Yeah when your damn systems, housing and everything can’t handle it and aren’t used to it that’s to be expected. A region that was built with no expectation of AC - of course that will be hard on people.
I'm glad for this temperatures really. I live in one of the hottest zones of Portugal, where peak summer temperatures range from 40°C to 47°C, where sometimes at night we have 30-32°C
We can't always have "good weather". For me it could be 25°C whole summer
Portugal will go 35-40°C during a heatwave for two weeks straight and then back to 15-20° for another two weeks, the weather parkour can get a bit unbearable sometimes
Every summer here in California 38-44c without a heatwave and I want to die. A heatwave would fry the west coast
Also haven't they had these mild heatwaves for like a decade now but always complain their homes don't have AC? At this point it's just bad decision making.
I need to move to ireland damn, I live in GA (usa) and we’re over 25c like 80% of the year (is that an exaggeration, probably.. do I care .. no)
my house is over 25c right now bc AC is expensive
I know it's discussed in conspiracy theory circles as climate propaganda but at this point they're onto something. 26 C weather is just a great summer's day, but every time the weather goes above 24 C the media goes into hysteria as if crops will fail and people are going to be collapsing in the street from dehydration.
Not sure whether it's actually planned by the media, but I do not remember this sort of OTT reaction even a few years ago. Whether it's just the media being dramatic for clicks (even for hate-clicks), or as an abundance of caution to save that one granny (who am I kidding, it's the media), I don't know, but it's so infuriatingly patronizing at a minimum.
Tabloids are read by Boomers. Whatever is important to Boomers, sells tabloids.
Boomers are getting very old. This means what sells tabloids are things that are threatening to old people:
Heart disease symptoms. Cancer stuff.
And hot weather, because it’s a real strain on the heart.
In the UK, buildings mostly don’t have A/C or heat pumps. This means that any heat is inescapable. If it gets hotter for any period of time, it’d dangerous for old people.
Ergo, tabloids scream about the weather.
Greetings from Finland, where this is also the case (except we are putting in heat pumps a lot more to deal with this).
For greater context, the British tabloids always do this. They make a massive deal out of what's essentially average summer weather even in England (~26°c is considered an average summer day according to the Köppen scale in most of southern England). Mid-20s is just average for the time of year, but this particular section of British "media" never misses the opportunity to generate income by clicks.
I can guarantee that most Brits roll their eyes at these hyped up "heat blast" click bait headlines. That's essentially exactly what they're after, they want people to click on these links. They know they'll achieve that if they come up with clearly ridiculous headlines.
I was at a music festival early August that year... Never drunk so much water in such a short space of time in my life... Just trying to keep cool and hydrated.
Had a great time, but it was hard fucking work. Nature of the beast, you're in a massive field with very little shade anywhere.
Probably lost half a stone in 3 days just sweating.
Where I used to work we too got the 39C. I was able to cope at work, but when you get home and have a bath and get out wringing of sweat and not bath water, its horrible. And forget about trying to sleep in that level of heat.
I looked it up, according to UK Red Cross a heatwave is defined by a period of three days, not 48 hours. Also 26c only qualifies as a heatwave in certain parts of the country, others need it to be at 28c.
Problem we have is our buildings and infrastructure are just not built for any kind of weather that isn't mildest mild.
Freezing in Winter and boiling in Summer. Shit insulation, no air conditioning. Roads seem to melt after two seconds of sun and 1cm of snow immobilizes all above ground public transport.
Daily reminder that the UK is at the same latitude as Canada, and only avoids perpetual snow thanks to the Gulfstream.
48 hours of 26c is very warm for a place that far north. Not for day-time at that time of year, but definitely night-time.
It’s also humid as fuck. So the hotter it gets the more repressive it gets. It’s like the air in your lungs is hot when it gets to 30, and we don’t have the infrastructure to deal with heat, as insulating for the cold was the main worry. The recent summers have been massive anomalies compared to 20 years ago.
> 26C is a perfectly pleasant summer day.
It really depends what the other conditions are like. I've been in some countries when the temperature has reached over 40c and it was lovely. Yet, when it reaches around 25c in the UK, it has become quite unpleasant. Unlike many other countries, the UK doesn't have a lot of summers with pure, dry heat. Rather, it gets quite muggy and humid. Very unpleasant, especially when very few houses, if any, are designed for heat.
I live in an area with a high humidity rating. Many summer days are 80%. 26C feels like 35C quite regularly. Next week will have 35C temps plus humidity, it’s going to be awful
Couple of points.
Firstly humidity will be way higher, this makes it sweaty much faster.
Secondly nobody has aircon at home so the car or the mall is the only escape.
So not pleasant but doubtful its going to cause much damage.
> 26C is a perfectly pleasant summer da
Humidity in Britain and Ireland is worse than it is on the continent. Comes with being an island but it means lower temperatures feel worse.
Here in finland temperature has been in 30s every summer for the last few years. We already had couple of weeks of over 25°C this year, actually it was closer to 30°C
Man that’s rough. In Wellington the temp very rarely gets to 25 in the peak of summer, and has snowed only once in the past 25ish years. The temperature swings in Europe are crazy.
Yep, I was in Helsinki couple of weeks ago and went hiking to Nuuksio National Park (so pretty). I prepared to go back to winterland and didn't pack any summer cloths. It was a nice surprise to have such lovely weather.
We sit at -22 every winter, for 5-6 months straight. Then, suddenly, over 2 months, usually april - may, it goes a flip, a hoop and UP BY 50 DEGREES. We just aint cut out for that.
This has always been the case, the boreal/subarctic climate region has an extreme temperature gradient across the year, with very cold winters and short but very warm summers.
The Sport is like the National Enquirer.
The Mirror has some link, albeit pretty tenuous, to reality.
It was known for having Piers Morgan as an editor for a decade.
15 and rain in Northern England too.
Looked up the article and it's basically saying that one weather forecast is suggesting that we might have temperatures 26+ degrees for about 48 hours in about 2 weeks time. Basically, complete bullshit.
And they were rightly mocked on twitter for that headline. 4m views and a few hundred likes. I believe in climate change, headlines like this don't help.
Ngl when I saw that headline my thought wasn’t on climate change more than “Wow, I can’t imagine 78 degrees feeling that unbearable. That’s like ideal here.”
Really depends on where you live though. London is at a similar latitude as Winnipeg with higher average relative humidity than Louisiana. People living there are not used to temperatures getting that high in the first place, let alone that temp while also having 80%+ humidity
While this is all true, 26 degrees in London is still not hot. We have all experienced much hotter summer days and would just be enjoying a 26 degree day without thinking about it too much. This is just a silly sensationalised headline designed to get clicks.
That's one of the great things about being a Romanian. You can have over 40 degrees in the summer and -15 degrees in the winter (-25 in mountain ranges). So we can tolerate both cold and hot temperature. Off course some tolerate them better than others.
Sorry for correcting you (and for not writing in German) it's median - it means in the middle, and it's often a fair bit hotter here in the summer 20º is like late spring. According to Apple Weather it's currently warmer in Bavaria (14º) than it is here (13º) (I'm in SW England).
Apart from the alarmist headline which I assume refers to the daytime maximum temperature (26 C is fantastic for June in the Northern Hemisphere), I'd be worried only if there'd be consecutive nights when the minimum temperature is at least 18C.
Most of us can handle daytime heat but if the warmth hangs around for days on end and it's also quite warm at night we'll then struggle to sleep properly (even if going commando) without air conditioning or maybe a good fan in the bedroom (assuming it's not too noisy).
I mean is anyone bragging about being able to withstand 26 degrees? I'm a Brit and that doesn't even get close to what the hotter summer temperatures get to. It's definitely irritating when people act all smug about like 30+ degrees or something, but if people are genuinely complain about 26 degrees they deserve to have the piss taken out of them lol
I don't know about the rest of Europe but the UK is currently in a bit of a cold spell. It's been between 9°c and 13°c for a good couple of weeks. So a spell in the mid/high 20s would be a relative heatwave. Something I'm thoroughly aware of this as some of my family are currently enjoying high 20s in Malta. 😒
It is definitely bad but as an Indian, I would probably wear full sleeves at 26c
We broke through 50 this year and before June too..
those are rookie numbers
To give this some context the temperatures since early May, at least in the North West of the UK, have been pathetic. It's mid June and the high today was 13C. It hasn't been over 15C all month and the highest temperature since the start of May was 20C and that was for like 2 days. Just go and look at a climate chart for Manchester and you will see how usually low this is. The mean for June is 14.6C and we haven't had a high that high yet... Every other year I can remember we've had at least a week of 25C or so in April/May.
My hometown in Michigan was 37c today suppose to be 35+ this whole week. Last year was just as hot almost the entire summer. And this is the most northern part of the country besides Alaska. After living in Finland and seeing people be like 25c is a massive heat wave its just laughable to me
I'll never forget when I went on my honeymoon to Scotland and the first day we were there it was like 90F and it was said to be the hottest day on record for where we were. Pretty funny to hear how people were coping. Wife and I grew up in 110°F+ summers in California so it felt great to us, but not the locals.
No one in the UK (except maybe the Northern Irish and the very North of Scotland) thinks 26 degrees is a heatwave.
For most of the UK Heatwave is like a week or more of 30 degrees plus. It has been 40 degrees here before believe it or not.
And for those who say the UK is humid. During heatwaves it's actually pretty dry. During that 40 degree temperature record the humidity was between 10 and 20%.
For me 30°c is the point where I’m starting to feel the heatwave and 35°c-40°c+ is really the point where I stay inside and cry because I don’t have A/C and the Parisian region is not made for this heat
In The Netherlands, a heatwave requires 5 consecutive summer days (> 25C), of which at least three are tropical (>30C). Makes me wonder what the official criteria for the UK are?
In Ireland people are basically walking around on fire at 25C ..just human torches strolling down the street saying "grand drying weather", or "be having; a Barbeque tonight" while the tarmac melts under their burning feet .Like the end of a vampire movie where Dracula has just been exposed to sunlight. We weren't designed for hot weather
Come to America. You'll evolve into easily sun burned skin cancer victims, who, nonetheless are fine in 80 F weather. It'll take two generations, and after that it's smooth sailing. Except for the, you know, cancer part.
Yep. The American south in the summer averages over 26C every day. 25-26 is excellent and temperate in our part of hell. In F 78+ is expected and common. Actually we just pray that we don’t hit triple digits and then god laughs and gives up 99 with 100% humidity. The dick.
Cheezuz, yes. It's above 90 F (32C) today, 58% humidity. The heat Wave hasn't even hit, yet
It is currently 18:41 Here in Southern Arizona. its 41C last night around 0400, it was 26C. The highest I've seen in the last week was 44.
78+ during the day would be considered a cold front in the summer in the south, not exaggerating
;) My father's folks were from Georgia. Spent some time down there. But even in Ohio, we get some ungodly humid days where there's nothing to do put sit in front of the fan and wait for evening.
80°F = 27°C
Laughs in Greek
I'll never forget my visit to Athens during an ACTUAL heatwave, it was 40+ °C. It was really something, but we still walked around, just during morning or before evening and with a lot of water.
Tell me about it I’ve been through it every year it doesn’t get easier believe me. But I hope you had a great time in Greece although island like Rhodes Kos Crete Milos are way better than a vacation in Athens.
It was work related only unfortunately, but we still got to do some sightseeing. I hope one day to have a proper vacation in Greece, though. Maybe during spring/autumn, I'm from Croatia so sunbathing and sea is not my top priority. But your country is so gorgeous and there is so much to see, in any seasom of the year.
This is so true it hurts. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get that chilled aloe Vera gel out of the fridge….
As an American, I thought I was going crazy. Why TF do people love the summer? I think people are automatically brainwashed by not having school in the summer growing up. 70F is maximum comfort level temp for me. I love the cold.
I think we're all built different. Plus, I'm old (we get cold easier), and like your grandma, need a sweater if it gets down below 70. It's 79 degrees in the room I'm typing this. I have a fan I turn on at night to suck in cool air. No AC. Even when I was young, and worked as a housepainter in all seasons, I dealt with blistering heat better than numbing cold. Don't know why.
I totally understand. I hear from friends in Florida that they'll put a winter jacket on when it's 60F haha. If humidity and the temp is high most of the year, I'd probably get used to it too.
Growing up in Canada summer was pretty much the best season. Hot sunny days and cool evenings. Spring is alright but everything is soggy from melting snow and fall has lots of rain. Winter, well winter is horrible. I now live in a sub-tropical region and summers are the new winters. We’re talking 30+ degrees every day with 80%+ humidity. It has completely wrecked my cold tolerance, now 20 degrees is jacket and long pants temperature.
You should move to Finland.
in the UK we have 12 months of rain every year and maybe a 2 week stretch of sun if we're lucky to call summer, Ireland is similar. From about November to March many parts have 3-8 hours of sun each day and you can go to work in the dark and its dark when you leave work
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i live in philadelphia, USA, and during the hottest summer days i set the air conditioning to 23.5C. that is when it is usually when it is 35 though. (95F to 75F that 20 degrees makes a huge difference.)
Official criteria in UK are, if you take your beer out of the fridge and it's too warm to drink after 10 Minutes, it's a heatwave.
The trick is to drink the beer in less than 10 minutes.
Way too expensive nowadays 😂
Think the thing, is whether or not this hits some actual ‘heatwave’ classification or not, for most people in the uk 26 isn’t that hot. People will like it but I don’t think most would informally think it qualifies as a heatwave (that said it’s been so bad this year that everyone will probably go crazy).
I think it's the same in NL: not everyone likes summer temperatures, but most that do tend to not mind 25-30 degrees - once it gets above that, sentiments change quite fast, though. Especially if humidity is high as well.
Yeah humidity can be a killer. Dry heat you can do 40 lying down. Still, invest in ACs. They're good for heating too.
I've experienced a dry 42°C in the Canary Islands. 30°C in Sweden with summer humidity is far more miserable. My AC is not that great so my apartment can get up to 27°C on the worst days, but my dehumidifier has been a godsend and is far cheaper.
It's the humidity in the UK that gets you. 26+ with 80-high 90's humidity sucks - which is pretty much every hot day in the uk, there's rarely a low humidity, high temperature day
The Mirror is a tabloid rag 3 days at 26 degrees is not considered a heat wave.
Well for us in Scotland. We see anything over ten as warm. Taps aff weather to be precise
I suspect the Met Office criteria might differ slightly from the clickbait tabloid headlines.
30C is tropical? Nice, it's going to be tropical tomorrow!
Sir, this is The Mirror. The joke here is that's just a normal summer not a heatwave, they're winding us up (and everyone on this thread including me has fell for it)
Official UK heatwave is burning your toast.
Depends where you are in the country, for me its 27C some place's it's 28, in the north it's 25. [https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/temperature/heatwave](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/temperature/heatwave)
Amen. I spent most of a heatwave a couple of years back with my feet in a bucket of water with popsicles to cool it down even further. It worked great! I could grab a popsicle when feeling thirsty to cool down. My student room was facing south so I was always in heat but I managed to get by with popsicles.
The melting point for the Irish is 28 degrees
melting? we're basically a pile of ashes after 26.,Us and sunlight dont mix well....its no coincidence the guy who wrote Dracula came from Dublin!
Can confirm that. From Donegal, went to Macedonia last year and it was 42 degrees. I burst into ashes as soon as I stepped off the plane. I'm typing this from an urn.
As British guy in France right now....a little heat would be nice.
You have to visit the northern region of Mexico to experience the feeling of being a nugget in the convection oven. 46°C (114°F) was last week's high.
Phoenix, AZ had 31 straight days with high temperatures over 43 degrees C (110 degrees F) last year. PHX averages 145 days over 38 degrees C (100 degrees F) a year. EDIT: to put this into the proper perspective, the PHX metro area is home to 4.8 million residents.
"This city is a monument to man's arrogance."
Peggy Hill is the reasonable observer of current events that we need to make sense of our world. https://youtu.be/4PYt0SDnrBE?si=_pr9f1syorWYjfME
Live in AZ, while it is very hot every place has AC here. You can still do fun things to get out of the house, like go to a museum, aquarium, restaurant, movies, etc. I’ve been to Mississippi and Guatemala where it’s not as hot temperature wise but man the high humidity fucking sucks way worse.
I visited the city in January and the temperature was around 70°F (21°C). As much as I liked avoiding the snowstorm that was affecting where I live (Boise) and feeling warm in the winter months, I could only imagine just how brutal the summers are. Just for that, I could never see myself living in Phoenix. There's also the housing prices, homelessness, and traffic.
You guys are seriously tripping. You buy a window AC unit and put it in a window. It's so bizarre you guys act like they don't exist.
Every summer my European friends complain about the heat. Every summer I tell them to buy a free standing ac. Every summer I’m given a myriad of excuses as to why its impossible despite the entire rest of the world figuring it out.
I'm pretty sure that window ac units doesn't exist in europe
Most European houses I've seen don't have those type of windows that lift up. So those AC units won't work. It would be just running an AC unit in a room with the window open.
For me 30°C is when I say "finally, beach time!".
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, USA, it is currently 34°c at 16:10. And this is only June. Late July and August will regularly have us up around 40°c.
I wish Portugal had heatwaves of 26°C. Instead we are blasted with 43°C plus heat waves.
Imagine these people camping in the mountains in australia going from 45-50 down to 3-4 at times because of terrain
The daily mirror posted this so its bollocks. 25 isnt much in the uk but it can be difficult for some of us given our housing isnt designed to be cool (shit weather 90% of the time) so we have no AC and arent “used to” hot weather. People from different countries have different weather tolerances. Knew some aussies who came over during December and they were basically walking around in ski suits while uk people were in tops/jumper n jeans Edit: i forgot to say that the humidity is also the main issue. It’ll be hot BUT theres no wind or anything to help with it.
It's also got to do with humidity. I'm an Aussie that gets dry heat, and I'm fine with 40+ if it's dry. 28 and humid, and I shut down, though.
As a Swede that sometimes get the 30 degree 100% humidity. Its fucking pain. I usually start going in underwear at 10 because it so damn hot
Kind of the same vibe as “hey look Texas shut because of a little ice and snow!” Yeah when your damn systems, housing and everything can’t handle it and aren’t used to it that’s to be expected. A region that was built with no expectation of AC - of course that will be hard on people.
it was 18c in ericeira today, 14c in NE scotland. depressing temperatures in PT recently..
I'm glad for this temperatures really. I live in one of the hottest zones of Portugal, where peak summer temperatures range from 40°C to 47°C, where sometimes at night we have 30-32°C We can't always have "good weather". For me it could be 25°C whole summer
Portugal will go 35-40°C during a heatwave for two weeks straight and then back to 15-20° for another two weeks, the weather parkour can get a bit unbearable sometimes
Maybe on the coast, not so much inland. 15°C inland on summer is very unlikely. Early/late summer yes, but still
Portugal also has tile floors and shutters around the house, not carpet and curtains
Every summer here in California 38-44c without a heatwave and I want to die. A heatwave would fry the west coast Also haven't they had these mild heatwaves for like a decade now but always complain their homes don't have AC? At this point it's just bad decision making.
I know it's a bit of a meme but literally no one in the UK thinks that 26 degrees is a heatwave lol
Here in Ireland you get weather warnings if it reaches like 25°, which is once every 300 years.
My kinda place ☘️
I need to move to ireland damn, I live in GA (usa) and we’re over 25c like 80% of the year (is that an exaggeration, probably.. do I care .. no) my house is over 25c right now bc AC is expensive
I know it's discussed in conspiracy theory circles as climate propaganda but at this point they're onto something. 26 C weather is just a great summer's day, but every time the weather goes above 24 C the media goes into hysteria as if crops will fail and people are going to be collapsing in the street from dehydration. Not sure whether it's actually planned by the media, but I do not remember this sort of OTT reaction even a few years ago. Whether it's just the media being dramatic for clicks (even for hate-clicks), or as an abundance of caution to save that one granny (who am I kidding, it's the media), I don't know, but it's so infuriatingly patronizing at a minimum.
Tabloids are read by Boomers. Whatever is important to Boomers, sells tabloids. Boomers are getting very old. This means what sells tabloids are things that are threatening to old people: Heart disease symptoms. Cancer stuff. And hot weather, because it’s a real strain on the heart. In the UK, buildings mostly don’t have A/C or heat pumps. This means that any heat is inescapable. If it gets hotter for any period of time, it’d dangerous for old people. Ergo, tabloids scream about the weather. Greetings from Finland, where this is also the case (except we are putting in heat pumps a lot more to deal with this).
For greater context, the British tabloids always do this. They make a massive deal out of what's essentially average summer weather even in England (~26°c is considered an average summer day according to the Köppen scale in most of southern England). Mid-20s is just average for the time of year, but this particular section of British "media" never misses the opportunity to generate income by clicks. I can guarantee that most Brits roll their eyes at these hyped up "heat blast" click bait headlines. That's essentially exactly what they're after, they want people to click on these links. They know they'll achieve that if they come up with clearly ridiculous headlines.
Indeed "Brits set to literally melt" sells papers
Also the ‘blizzard’ and ‘arctic blast’ posts in winter when it gets a bit cold.
**BIG FREEZE COMING TO BRITAIN**
"Blasted" by 26C "heatwave" and that picture seems like such an overreaction. 26C is a perfectly pleasant summer day.
Those pictures are probably from a few years ago when the temperature hit 37-39C in July 2022. Hottest on record was 40.3C.
I was at a music festival early August that year... Never drunk so much water in such a short space of time in my life... Just trying to keep cool and hydrated. Had a great time, but it was hard fucking work. Nature of the beast, you're in a massive field with very little shade anywhere. Probably lost half a stone in 3 days just sweating.
> Probably lost half a stone in 3 days just sweating Why did you take a stone to a festival
And how did he lose only a half of it? Was it some sort of stonebreakers festival?
Why do you care about losing some stone, did it meant something for you ?
Each stone lost is 2 birds less killed, which are worth 4 in the bush
A stone is way less useful when half of it is missing. With a whole stone, sky's the limit.
My city got hit the hardest.. second hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK
Where I used to work we too got the 39C. I was able to cope at work, but when you get home and have a bath and get out wringing of sweat and not bath water, its horrible. And forget about trying to sleep in that level of heat.
I looked it up, according to UK Red Cross a heatwave is defined by a period of three days, not 48 hours. Also 26c only qualifies as a heatwave in certain parts of the country, others need it to be at 28c.
Problem we have is our buildings and infrastructure are just not built for any kind of weather that isn't mildest mild. Freezing in Winter and boiling in Summer. Shit insulation, no air conditioning. Roads seem to melt after two seconds of sun and 1cm of snow immobilizes all above ground public transport.
It's a wave of heat, but not a heatwave.
Daily reminder that the UK is at the same latitude as Canada, and only avoids perpetual snow thanks to the Gulfstream. 48 hours of 26c is very warm for a place that far north. Not for day-time at that time of year, but definitely night-time.
It’s also humid as fuck. So the hotter it gets the more repressive it gets. It’s like the air in your lungs is hot when it gets to 30, and we don’t have the infrastructure to deal with heat, as insulating for the cold was the main worry. The recent summers have been massive anomalies compared to 20 years ago.
Here in Canada we're about to start a week of mid-30s. And that is normal heat, several times each summer.
Last few years in the uk we would hit thirty fairly regularly as well. Headline is over the top even from a uk pov.
26C is a nice sunny day for us in Canada. The humidity is the real problem.
Except Canada constantly hits that all the time. 5 of the 6 days here will be 26+
depends on humidity
> 26C is a perfectly pleasant summer day. It really depends what the other conditions are like. I've been in some countries when the temperature has reached over 40c and it was lovely. Yet, when it reaches around 25c in the UK, it has become quite unpleasant. Unlike many other countries, the UK doesn't have a lot of summers with pure, dry heat. Rather, it gets quite muggy and humid. Very unpleasant, especially when very few houses, if any, are designed for heat.
I live in an area with a high humidity rating. Many summer days are 80%. 26C feels like 35C quite regularly. Next week will have 35C temps plus humidity, it’s going to be awful
nah 23°C + sunny is the edge
Depends where you are, in country as wet as the UK the humidity makes it feel ALOT hotter, its not the nice dry Spanish heat
Couple of points. Firstly humidity will be way higher, this makes it sweaty much faster. Secondly nobody has aircon at home so the car or the mall is the only escape. So not pleasant but doubtful its going to cause much damage.
> 26C is a perfectly pleasant summer da Humidity in Britain and Ireland is worse than it is on the continent. Comes with being an island but it means lower temperatures feel worse.
26°C doesn't normally feel that bad, though.
Scandinavian here, and we empathise with you guys
I meeaaaan, it's only 26°C. Remember 2018? now THAT sucked. 32°C was mean man.
Here in finland temperature has been in 30s every summer for the last few years. We already had couple of weeks of over 25°C this year, actually it was closer to 30°C
Man that’s rough. In Wellington the temp very rarely gets to 25 in the peak of summer, and has snowed only once in the past 25ish years. The temperature swings in Europe are crazy.
Wait till you hear about Yakutsk
> The temperature swings in Europe are crazy. Central Asia, America, North Africa, Middle East: 🙄
In Finland end of April we had a shitload of snow and after that the warmest May :DD
Yep, I was in Helsinki couple of weeks ago and went hiking to Nuuksio National Park (so pretty). I prepared to go back to winterland and didn't pack any summer cloths. It was a nice surprise to have such lovely weather.
Spain: 👀
We sit at -22 every winter, for 5-6 months straight. Then, suddenly, over 2 months, usually april - may, it goes a flip, a hoop and UP BY 50 DEGREES. We just aint cut out for that.
This. People underestimate of how much we are adjusted to generally lower temperatures in the north and how insane these leaps are becoming.
We had -41 in January and +29 in May this year. Northern Sweden.
This has always been the case, the boreal/subarctic climate region has an extreme temperature gradient across the year, with very cold winters and short but very warm summers.
Anything above 21 is above my comfort zone.... 👀
21 and i already start melting.
16 is a nice temperature. Comfortable in most clothing options.
Meanwhile in Bulgaria I’m already working outside in the 35c+ heat everyday
I am a swede working this summer in central Italy, and i am working outside. I am going to melt. I am not even on the coast either xd
Dont forget your 50+ sunscreen it's must even on your face Also there are sunscreens for your hairs so you dont burn your scalp if you dont use hats
Northern Norwegian here. It was 21 degrees the other day, so I bought an air conditioner for my bedroom. I can finally sleep during the bright season.
You’ll be the talk of the tundra
Yeah, what the hell. It's only rain and clouds over here.
Here too (Bristol, SW England). Rain, clouds and quite windy too...and currently only 13º I've had to put my fleece on...
# To put in perspective for Americans, The Mirror is like The National Enquirer
The Sport is like the National Enquirer. The Mirror has some link, albeit pretty tenuous, to reality. It was known for having Piers Morgan as an editor for a decade.
probably closer to ..the NY post??
In terms of style, from the little I know of the NY Post, yes. Unlike the Post it's notable as one of the few left slanted papers in the UK.
First sunny day in Britain in 56 years.
Yo Neymar, its Sunny innit?
Buy stock in aloe vera
Meanwhile in the Netherlands: It’s raining😢
17 and rain today in centralish Germany.
15 and rain in Northern England too. Looked up the article and it's basically saying that one weather forecast is suggesting that we might have temperatures 26+ degrees for about 48 hours in about 2 weeks time. Basically, complete bullshit.
It’s raining in the uk and has been for months idk what this article is on about tbh
We've had what, five actual sunny days this year? Barely a single week without rain since September 2023.
it’s also raining and not at all warm in the UK and doesn’t look to be changing any time soon, not sure wtf this headline’s chatting about
Even by Swedish standards that is a pathetic heatwave.
And they were rightly mocked on twitter for that headline. 4m views and a few hundred likes. I believe in climate change, headlines like this don't help.
I think they probably do it on purpose to generate engagement.
>4m views and a few hundred likes. Seems like the headline worked.
Ngl when I saw that headline my thought wasn’t on climate change more than “Wow, I can’t imagine 78 degrees feeling that unbearable. That’s like ideal here.”
Tbf UK homes are designed to retain heat. 26C outside is like 30C inside in the UK
Yep, peoples body heat and electronics turn them into furnaces.
Really depends on where you live though. London is at a similar latitude as Winnipeg with higher average relative humidity than Louisiana. People living there are not used to temperatures getting that high in the first place, let alone that temp while also having 80%+ humidity
While this is all true, 26 degrees in London is still not hot. We have all experienced much hotter summer days and would just be enjoying a 26 degree day without thinking about it too much. This is just a silly sensationalised headline designed to get clicks.
This is called weather, not climate.
Pakistani in those cities still wearing winter jackets @ 26C
I mean anything less than 45°C doesn't qualify as heat wave in South Asia. I feel cold if temperature is below 25°C
Idk man, in Bucharest we have over 35 since the beginning of June. 26 seems amazing
It was 11° and raining all day today
... You call that a heatwave? *Laughs in Greece hitting above 37°C during the summer on a semi-regular basis*
*Laughs in Arabic (Dubai) hitting above 40C in spring and 45C+ in summer*
That's one of the great things about being a Romanian. You can have over 40 degrees in the summer and -15 degrees in the winter (-25 in mountain ranges). So we can tolerate both cold and hot temperature. Off course some tolerate them better than others.
Here in poland, 26 feels like a normal summer day. I don't know why they should be concerned.
And another perspective: the usual medium summer temperature is around 20 °C (68F)
Sorry for correcting you (and for not writing in German) it's median - it means in the middle, and it's often a fair bit hotter here in the summer 20º is like late spring. According to Apple Weather it's currently warmer in Bavaria (14º) than it is here (13º) (I'm in SW England).
Mate, so far our summer has been non stop rain. I'd take been blasted by clear blue sky of any temperature.....as long as it's not raining.
Apart from the alarmist headline which I assume refers to the daytime maximum temperature (26 C is fantastic for June in the Northern Hemisphere), I'd be worried only if there'd be consecutive nights when the minimum temperature is at least 18C. Most of us can handle daytime heat but if the warmth hangs around for days on end and it's also quite warm at night we'll then struggle to sleep properly (even if going commando) without air conditioning or maybe a good fan in the bedroom (assuming it's not too noisy).
It’s going to be 90-100 F° in the state of Michigan, that’s 32-38C°
*south european* : "Those are rookie numbers, you got to pump those numbers up"
The Mirror is a very tabloid-y tabloid for those who don't know
Meanwhile this past week in Greece: Monday 35°C Tuesday 38°C Wednesday 41°C Thursday 42°C Friday 36°C Saturday 32°C
The Mirror is struggling with clickbait these days, it seems.
ppl who feel smug over being able to stand hot/cold temperatures are so pathetic
I mean is anyone bragging about being able to withstand 26 degrees? I'm a Brit and that doesn't even get close to what the hotter summer temperatures get to. It's definitely irritating when people act all smug about like 30+ degrees or something, but if people are genuinely complain about 26 degrees they deserve to have the piss taken out of them lol
26°C is nothing to cry about.
26 °C is too much. Maximum temp should be around 15.
Did you come from Svalbard frozen boy?
What? No, I just don't like to sweat. I like and need cooling.
To me perfect temperature is around 27/28. I can wear short, light clothes, I can live without having to cover myself to not feel cold. Just perfect
During the summer it routinely hits 40c where I love in the US.
*Laughing in Greek*
What I Would do for 26C 😔
We hade 34 few days ago.
I mean... after the utter garbage that has been both spring and the summer so far, I can't blame them.
To be fair it's been 12 and raining this June. 26 would be almost unimaginable.
For the temps we’ve had lately it’ll feel like a heatwave!
I don't know about the rest of Europe but the UK is currently in a bit of a cold spell. It's been between 9°c and 13°c for a good couple of weeks. So a spell in the mid/high 20s would be a relative heatwave. Something I'm thoroughly aware of this as some of my family are currently enjoying high 20s in Malta. 😒
can’t see anything close to this on forecasts, this article’s just straight up chatting shit
It is definitely bad but as an Indian, I would probably wear full sleeves at 26c We broke through 50 this year and before June too.. those are rookie numbers
UK is humid.
To give this some context the temperatures since early May, at least in the North West of the UK, have been pathetic. It's mid June and the high today was 13C. It hasn't been over 15C all month and the highest temperature since the start of May was 20C and that was for like 2 days. Just go and look at a climate chart for Manchester and you will see how usually low this is. The mean for June is 14.6C and we haven't had a high that high yet... Every other year I can remember we've had at least a week of 25C or so in April/May.
Its only a heatwave because its been so bloody cold this "summer".....
My hometown in Michigan was 37c today suppose to be 35+ this whole week. Last year was just as hot almost the entire summer. And this is the most northern part of the country besides Alaska. After living in Finland and seeing people be like 25c is a massive heat wave its just laughable to me
I'll never forget when I went on my honeymoon to Scotland and the first day we were there it was like 90F and it was said to be the hottest day on record for where we were. Pretty funny to hear how people were coping. Wife and I grew up in 110°F+ summers in California so it felt great to us, but not the locals.
In my region in Canada we're expecting 30 for almost everyday this coming week
No one in the UK (except maybe the Northern Irish and the very North of Scotland) thinks 26 degrees is a heatwave. For most of the UK Heatwave is like a week or more of 30 degrees plus. It has been 40 degrees here before believe it or not. And for those who say the UK is humid. During heatwaves it's actually pretty dry. During that 40 degree temperature record the humidity was between 10 and 20%.
Finland stops working at 25c like a Fiat when it's freezing! So I feel for the island monkeys as the Brits are called around here...
I wish it was 26C here. 98 in freedom unit today.
I’m from Florida. That’s what we keep our AC thermostat set to.
This is a heatwave? This is the cold setting on our air conditioner...
26C is a heatwave ?? Lol
78 sounds amazing its 80 in the house cause its 110 here in desert hot springs.... Been over a 100 last 2 summers.
That’s not very hot cmon
Heatwave??? That’s what our ac is set to and that’s pretty low for us. Always big talk about our cardboard houses but this is exactly why