Weather Warning For Snowflakes
By Paul Homewood
The Met Office has been justifiably blasted for its latest heatwave advice:
The Met Office has been lampooned after it issued nanny state advice warning Brits to stay indoors for days on end as a Mediterranean heatwave melts the country.
There was an official amber advisory put out on Monday morning telling people not to leave the house for hours every day until Friday.
But millions of Brits defied the warning and flocked to beaches and parks across the country before blasting the weather service for trying to spoil summer and promote a ‘soft Britain’.
Many social media users tagged the Met Office on Twitter and asked how they were meant to get to work and pay the bills if they’re stuck inside all day.
Many Brits were baffled by the Met Office’s warning, with Nick Lyskov rightly pointing out: ‘You don’t go on holiday and sit inside do you?!’
Tommy Roberts wrote: ‘State of this country. Instead of telling people to enjoy an excellent British summer, we are told to stay indoors?! We pay thousands to go on holiday where they have this climate as standard and now we have it, your telling people to stay indoors?’
Others claimed it was unrealistic to ask working men and women to stay inside during normal working hours.
John Barrett said: ‘Brilliant advice from Met Office saying stay indoors and out of the sun until Friday. OK I’ll just call my boss and tell him I won’t be in this week.’
Health services are expecting a surge in sun stroke patients as advice to draw curtains and close windows is hurriedly issued to the public, alongside an official amber weather warning.
The amber, or level three, warning is issued when temperatures are predicted to hit 86F (30C) degrees during the day, and 59F (15C) degrees at night, for at least two consecutive days.
The nation is one step away from level four – which would result in the declaration of a national emergency.
Britain is now bracing for the highest temperatures for more than a decade to come this week, as well as the driest summer for 225 years, but many homes and offices – as well as Tube lines – are unprepared for the heat spike.
Official Met Office advice is to stay indoors with closed and covered windows – avoiding the stunning sunshine which can be so rare in Britain.
The sunshine avoidance advice is now being debated in many homes across the country as sun lovers fling open the windows to enjoy the light – and cool down their home.
Despite the advice, thousands have flocked to beaches or set themselves up on scorched grass to top up their tan today, not missing the chance to catch some rays on home soil.
Britain is now on a Level Three warning from the Met Office – one step below Level Four – at which point is is expected fit and healthy people will begin to experience health issues.
Tourism chiefs are also furious, as the Evening Standard reports:
Tourism chiefs blasted the "nannying" warning, branding the advice "nonsense" as they urged families to go outside and enjoy the weather.
Malcolm Bell, Visit Cornwall boss, told the Daily Mail: "It’s nanny state with the biggest capital N you could possibly print."
And Steve Jordan, of the Eastbourne Hospitality Association in East Sussex, said: "We’ve had long hot summers in the past and I don’t remember warnings telling us not to go out in the sunshine.”
While it is appropriate to warn the public to be prepared, it is really quite ludicrous to declare an Amber Warning, which is only one step away from a National Emergency. This really is taking what is just a weather event to ridiculous lengths.
As many have commented, millions of people pay to go on holiday to places that are much hotter.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
They should get out more. Might encounter reality though (official warning).
But you have to keep up the ‘Terror Factor’ some how;
if only to hid the fact we’ve been conned over – climate, energy, brexit, transport, pensions….infact almost every thing the theaving little twerps in politics have touched.
Does this directive include turning off all air-conditioning, do no indoor cooking or using other electrical appliances… to conserve energy and save the planet?
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One of the BBC weather men was saying yesterday that if the outside temperature was higher that the inside temperature, then you should close the windows to prevent the warmer air getting in.
I am not sure whether that is good advice, since I don’t think it takes the greenhouse effect into account, and I think it is standard practice with greenhouses to open windows when it is sunny to avoid excessive heat.
It also would prevent the circulation of fresh air which I would have thought would be preferable.
In any case, how often is it warmer outside that inside?
Currently in my house is 24.5c while it is 19.1c, although it is cloudy.
quaesoveritas
It’s common practice in hot countries to close doors, windows and especially blinds in hot weather, on the south facing side of a house, in the northern hemisphere. Do it before the sun overcomes the cool of the morning, then it keeps the building internals slightly cooler until the cool of the evening.
The blinds/curtains are especially important as it stops direct sunlight heating up the cooler air in the room. And if you open the windows, all you’re doing is letting the midday warmer air into a cooler room. There is, of course the question of air movement within the building, which is why ceiling fans are de rigour in the absence of aircon in warmer climes.
House construction is also important. In modern well insulated building the problem of heat retention in masonry isn’t a problem. If the building is brick built, especially if it doesn’t have a wall cavity, then it will soak up daytime heat and remain warm during the night. So if we want to avoid that, shade the south facing walls of a building. External roller blinds or garden sails are effective.
Nothing more than simple, practical measures. Yet the MET office thinks it appropriate to terrify everyone with ridiculous warnings.
We should all be having 20 minutes in the sun every day without sun screen, assuming one doesn’t burn easily, if so, less. Vitamin D is essential to the well being of our hearts. Dr. Malcolm Kendrick goes into the subject in great detail. https://drmalcolmkendrick.org
“Hear! Hear!” to the Vitamin D.
Get a store into your body now, and you will be less affected by colds and flu in the winter. Take a modest supplement. if your diet is poor.
Agreed. The windows on the afternoon side are open, on the mornng side closed and shuttered. We’ll switch round some time between 3 and 5.
Temperature here (Burgundy) at the moment is 28 in the shade, 32 in the sun. If yesterday is a guide it will max out at about 33 / 39 — or in the suntrap in front of the garage 44! Even the cat doesn’t go there.
You’re right about construction. This house is 150 years old, always cool in the summer, always warm in the winter — relatively speaking, that is! How you treat hot weather is a matter of common sense. We shouldn’t need nanny to tell us about wearing a hat in full sun or a woolly scarf in a biting February wind. If we do we have indeed turned into snowflakes — and won’t last the day in these temperatures!
“External roller blinds or garden sails are effective”
I remembered I had one of those “Emergency” foil blankets, and thought it might be worth trying. I found a couple of plastic coated metal poles in the greenhouse, and used them as top and bottom supports, securing the foil with Duct Tape. Hung over the (East facing) front porch during the morning, and then the (West facing) back door after lunch made a remarkable difference! Especially as the back door leads to the utility room where a chest freezer lives…
Works well if the shutters are closed as well.
I checked my temperature records for July and although they are not 100% reliable, the outside temperature was usually lower than the inside. The only time the outside temp. was significantly higher was probably the influence of the sun on the sensor.
Consequently I think it is unlikely to be necessary to close the windows in order to keep warm air out. IMHO the benefit of air circulation would outweigh the effect of any warm air. I do agree however, that it is a good idea to close curtains/shudders in order to minimise heat from the sun, if you don’t mind sitting in the gloom!
BBC4’s flagship garbage news programme, the anti-trump, anti-brexit, pro-smug Beyond 100 Days wheeled out the jobsworth Director of the Tyndall Centre to explain the record heatwave – guess what she blamed it on? Yep 100% on climate change and to discount any possibility that 1976 could have provided any competition they compared global ‘heat’ maps of then and now with of course far more red on the 2018 map!!! You can’t trust a word of it!
Saw the maps in today’s Mail and immediately smelt a rat. I am sure there is fiddling of some going on to produce the current map.
Hilarious. 95F (35C) and 80+% humidity from June to October where I’m at. Not sure how the 70,000 of us survive. . .
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Where we live, folks that must work outside (say, roofers) will begin at 6 am, then go home at Noon. Folks playing in the parks have other ideas.
We live at 2,200 feet elevation. After sunset, air temperature cools rapidly. We open the house windows when the inside-outside temps equalize. By morning the inside temperature may be 68°F (20°C). At about 9 am we close the windows. When the inside temperature gets to 77°F. (25° C), the air conditioner comes on. Most days that is between 2 pm to 4 pm.
This is a sage_brush/steppe environment. Local humidity these days is about 18%.
It was 116°F (46.6 C) in Phoenix AZ today. Yes, there was an excessive heat warning but people still went about their day just as they always do, People still go hiking, people still work outside, but they adjust their schedule and level of exertion. They don’t cower indoors like some sissified pussy—apparently that’s the Met’s forte.
We were in Tucson one June. Temp was 117°F.
Can’t say we enjoyed that. But it was interesting.
We did visit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Nice.
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Surely this is such a threat that the population must be in decline from all these weather threats… 😆
Hasn’t the Met Office heard of ice creams?
ti took a while, now, I’ve become acclimatized and the weather is just grand, the only thing is the gaff, but never mind, we get on with it.
We note that, people pay thousands of pounds to enjoy just these sort of temperatures overseas, although true to say, not everybody gets on with the heat particularly people of fairer complexion + kids perhaps? need to definitely avoid the midday sun, I tan pretty well but I don’t go near it, out in more southern climes, early and afternoon is my motto.
It’s the humidity which does me, I’ve been to Malaysia – KL Singapore and HK (what was I thinking of?)! It’s not the hot sunlight – Egypt is just dandy, my experience – I just drink water in sips and regularly, try to avoid ‘hard’ booze until the sun’s disappearing into the gloamin’, unless you can really take it but hell, you do what you feel is right for you, a few cold tubes does no harm.
All said and done; it’s your life and that’s the lesson here – caution, maybe: but do as you feel fit and sod the wet office.
Mad dogs and Englishmen…
“In Bengal, to move at all,
Is hardly, if ever, done.
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
11.30pm. I have just cycled back rom the pub Tuesday political and environmental discussion. Northern England.
It was colder than Greenland in the dip!
For the time of year could be a lot warmer, bring it on!
Wow. 90 degree weather is a threat. I’m here in Southern California. I would rather have a season called Summer to enjoy instead of it pissing down rain and grey skies all year long. Find a nice shade tree to sit under and drink a cold beverage of choice. Run around in the lawn sprinklers. Do Summer activities!. It’s been warm here but my vegetable garden is loving it.
Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall at least that’s what I was taught many years ago. There is reason for Summer. I guess some idiots believe that fruits and vegetables magically appear on the super market racks.
When I was a kid 70’s,80’s we used to call this Summer!!!
How old fashioned of you. We don’t use the term “summer” these days. It confuses the global warming crowd.
The Met Office is not fit for purpose. It should be heavily pruned, as with all things that have outgrown their original purpose.
I thought we were supposed to enjoy a “barbecue summer”. Did the Met Office predict this barbecue summer?
“…should be heavily pruned…”
When it would grow back, ranker than ever. Why on earth do we need “a public forecaster” anyway? There are plenty of private forecasters. Or we can just look at the satellite pictures.
Uproot it, put it on the bonfire, consign it to history!
MetOffice Knotweed.
As with all such warnings, the majority already know and the stupid nether listen nor take any notice.
Right now we’re in Portugal. No thanks to Ryanair who cancelled our flight with 3 hrs notice.
But we’re here for a reason.
Guaranteed hot, dry sunny weather.
We don’t need the H&S twits from the Met Orifice to tell us it’s bad for us.
The sensitive green blob says….
Why is the Met office giving “health advice”? Maybe weather forecasts from the Dept of Health would be as accurate as those of the Met Office.
I always love the little comments from the forecasters at at any time, like, ” it will feel warm in the sunshine”, or “don’t forget to take an umbrella”, and if cold weather is on the cards, “don’t forget to wrap up warm”.
This is an excellent window onto liberalism. They are the elites. Unless they tell we, the unwashed masses, about impending doom and what to do about it, we simply won’t know.
For 24 years, I owned an 1868 home in Morgantown which I restored. It had a really southern design with 12′ ceilings downstairs, 8′ windows and outside doors from almost every room. I learned to close the windows in the late mornings and then open them in the late afternoon. Cool air drew up from the basement. I had no AC, but did have a pedestal fan in the upstairs hallway above the curving staircase.
Recently, we had temperatures and humidity in the ’90’s here. I had flower beds to clear out and did so, beginning in the morning and working until noon. It was not pleasant, but the work got done and I am still here to talk about it.
ICYMI on BBC thread:
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1022065015774474242?p=v
Tamsin chastises the BBC for failing to mention that climate change is allegedly responsible for our hot weather in a a now deleted tweet.
I must be lucky to be alive as I was working out in the garden and orchard yesterday. I had an urgent job to fence round a plum tree to prevent deer attack but hey it was in the shade of an oak for long enough to do the work. With a flask of cool drink, shirt off to scare the neighbours and benefit from the breeze, I was fine other than finding driving wooden posts into the soil was impossible. Job done I looked around to find another shady area to work in. And once it got 6pm, it was time to cut some firewood for the winter as the woodpile – handily placed for maximum sun – was now in the shade.
Paul. I’ve seen media trying to link the fires in Greece to the ‘unusual heat’ Europe is experiencing. Any idea if the weather in Greece has been anything out of the ordinary?
“…media trying to link…”
They have an infinite repertoire of nonsensical, unscientific links to assert. In any other context, it would be called “taking the piss.”
This is the season when hundreds of old Parisians die from the heat, as their younger counterparts flee to the countryside. Currently, 89 to 93 degrees, high humidity.
Todays Met Office weather forecast is downright propaganda. The forecaster did not even once mention Low Pressure coming towards UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQeNQJ7tDa0
There are occluded fronts and a cold front sweeping the country, the pressure has dropped and the Jet Stream is on a more usual path bringing another low pressure system to follow, instead of pulling high pressure up with continental heat.
All he mentions is heat as a cause of thunderstorms. Now I am totally in agreement with you that they are getting desperate to keep their money from the biggest lie ever told.
Prepare for a very bad winter to come, the redistribution of melt from polar regions as snow and rain is one of the first signs of the downtrend towards a little ice Age.
yadda, yadda, yadda……………
Mikhail Semenov, a mathematical modeller at Rothamsted Research, warned things could get even worse in the years to come.
Mr Semenov, who specialises in climate change research, claimed it was still difficult to pinpoint the extreme weather to climate change, but that the evidence was getting stronger and stronger every year.
He said: “It’s very difficult denying that climate change exists but it’s extremely difficult to attribute any single weather event like this dry hot spell in the UK to climate change particularly.
It’s getting ‘Biblical’
Chicken Little, dey all is clucking away.
Have the Met Office forgotten the most important factor in England’s summer weather ?
This week the schools break up and India arrives for a full series of (men’s ) cricket test matches.
Historical research shows that these events trigger 6 weeks of cold wet greyness, ending in the second week of Sept when the schools return and the touring party departs.