Met Office Says Wear Warm Clothes When It’s Cold!
By Paul Homewood
With some cold weather heading our way this week, I thought it a good idea to pass some advice from the Met Office:
It’s not just illnesses you need to protect yourself from in winter. Winter weather can bring many risks to you and your family.
There’s the usual winter coughs, colds and flu, and this year we will also need to be aware of coronavirus, but then there are also risks to your health associated with flooding and storms.
Why is winter weather a risk to our health?
Cold temperatures have an impact on our health, but there are other risks in winter including physical injuries from slips, trips and falls.
As we get older it becomes harder for our bodies to detect how cold we are, and it takes longer to warm up which can be bad for our health. For older people in particular, the longer the exposure to the cold, the more risk of heart attacks, strokes, pneumonia, depression, worsening arthritis and increased accidents at home (associated with loss of strength and dexterity in the hands).
It is important to keep warm in winter both inside and outdoors. Keeping warm can help to prevent colds, flu and more serious health problems.
Eating regularly helps keep you warm so try to have at least one hot meal a day along with regular hot drinks.
Keep your house warm and your bedroom window closed especially on cold winter nights, as breathing cold air can be bad for your health as it increases the risk of chest infections.
If you are heading outside for a walk or maybe some gardening, wear several layers of light clothes. Remember that several thin layers of clothing will keep you warmer than one thick layer as the layers trap warm air.
Heating your house and wearing warm clothes! Who would have known that?
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
This is what happens when thousands of people are underemployed in taxpayer funded rest homes; people start thinking up ideas to make it look as if they’re DOING SOMETHING…like pointing out the bl**ding obvious.
Underemployed and undereducated with no prospects for HAVING to make their mark on society … ie not a footballer or popsinger
Nanny knows best! LOL!
Weather warnings are bound to follow
Bloody cheek. Nanny State and all that. Pompous asses.
Och, for crying out loud, don’t they listen to the nanny broadcasting media?
NMO = Nanny Met Office
Advice to MET:-
If you make a career of really pissing people off, wasting their money on ridiculous fact-free schemes and continually exaggerating or barefaced lying; you’ll feel much safer wearing a stab-vest and a crash helmet!
Enjoy!
Government schools used to teach this stuff. So the government weather service has to cover for the government schools.
Hmmm . . . I think I see a pattern.
Slightly OT but look out for this Australian renewables protest being reported on the BBC tomorrow:
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/reckless-renewables-protest-in-canberra-australia-on-tuesday/
The only way to stop the prosperity-decadence-collapse cycle is for the prosperous to speak up. Perhaps the prosperous will show up in Canberra. Perhaps the protest will show the prosperous that they CAN speak up without risk.
This event is HUGE in it’s possibilities. Seriously, it could save the West. It’s the only thing that can save the West.
“Keep your house warm and your bedroom window closed especially on cold winter nights, as breathing cold air can be bad for your health as it increases the risk of chest infections.“
I keep seeing adverts telling me to turn my thermostat down and during Covid they were advising people to keep their windows open to prevent infection:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62e805c8d3bf7f75b89e18a6/20220801_Easy-Read-Ventilation-to-reduce-the_spread.pdf
Its all BS.
Any chance they could tell me how to keep my house warm with an ASHP when it’s really cold that doesn’t involve the wood burner?
Well I’d have never guessed that it’s advisable to keep my house warm, and myself in warm clothes in Winter, without this patronising advice from the Met Office.
They clearly have far too many staff with not enough to do if they can waste their time on concocting this nonsense.
Here’s a revolutionary suggestion to the Met Office – why don’t you just stick to your actual job of forecasting the weather and shut up about the so-called climate crisis and how we should all be living?
But there is no fame, and especially no fortune in forecasting the weather….not they are any good at that anymore.
Funny that about keeping your bedroom window shut at night. I have allways found fresh air a great aid to sleep while in a sealed room it quickly becomes to my mind uncomfatable.
I know some of you are not far from me in kent, does anyone know of the Benenden hospital built many years ago in the contryside by the post office sanatorium society in order to treat TB patients who benfitted from the fresh country air. how things change.
Yep Benenden used to be part of the Post Office (before computer systems existed!)
WRT to open windows, the Royal Sea Bathing hospital in Margate used to shove its TB patients outside to sleep all year round to make them better. apparently it worked so what does that tell us?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Sea_Bathing_Hospital
Quite! the world has gone mad.
They advise how to eat, but not yet how to poop or pee.
That’s why I’m 45 stone & feel bloated !!
George, I once saw an NHS advice pamphlet on how to poop correctly, sitting straight with back upright, apparently. As for pee, I don’t know but bet your ‘bottom’ dollar some useless eater has already done a pee pamphlet.
Sorry to bring things down to this level, I am not taking the piss.
They will advise sitting down to pee chaps as it is more inclusive. As for having a dump, your knees are supposed to be above your bum to provide a straight route out.
Tim, you may not be taking the piss but how about this article;
https://www.verywellhealth.com/healthiest-way-to-wipe-your-butt-4154369
I quote “Wiping from front to back is especially important for people with a vagina.”
Is it just me????
i did see something over the last week (cant remember where) which actually did say that poor (poop?) posture could be a problem where it puts a 90degree bend in the back passage. As to Gezza’s comment, given the move to unisex loos, it may become compulsory for men (should that be people who naturally stand up to pee – to include the transgenders) to sit, given that our (as a man) tendency toward inaccuracy usually means we leave damp areas which become a problem for those who have to sit. An finally re Rays comment, does this refer only to their own vagina.?
Incredulous incredibility, never ceases to amaze me how stupid organisations have become.
O’Sullivan’s Law.
Thanks for that.
A good starting point for the Met Office would be accurate weather forecasts.
“Keep your house warm and your bedroom window closed especially on cold winter nights, as breathing cold air can be bad for your health as it increases the risk of chest infections.”
Thereby leading to condensation of exhaled water vapour on cold surfaces such as window reveals and encouraging the growth of black mould, the spores of which are known to cause chest infections.
I despair of the ability of modern “Scientists” to see the whole picture. We’re doomed!
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Hasn’t anyone noticed that the Met office cannot predict weather. The only time they get it sort of right is when a ten year old could look at the isobars and work it out for himself!
Met Office Says Wear Warm Clothes When It’s Cold!
Meanwhile, back at the obvious!
Nanny State…
Those of us born and brought up in the countryside know very well what winter is capable of. 1947 saw some villages in Northumberland cut off for two weeks and 1963 was not much better though some technological advances made things a little easier.
But even today if you live at the top of a quarter-mile straight bank a mid-afternoon storm means you’re not getting home by car (or bus) any time soon unless your local authority is quick off the mark and you live on a bus route!
And mollycoddled reporters don’t believe just how bad it can be. And nor do many others. In 1979 I lived 600 feet up in the Pentlands and my area manager (a Londoner) was at zero feet on the banks of the Forth. He eventually reached our RV almost two hours late! Last time I saw him two years later he still hadn’t fully recovered!
“What do you mean, two feet of snow?” “Come and see for yourself, Kev!” To his credit, he did.
I’m having a slight problem re breathing. I know it should be in and out but where does one start? I’ve been fortunate to get to 75 without knowing but perhaps the MET Office could provide advice so luck doesn’t have to play a part.
It is well known that this government, as with its predecessors, have created a boondoggle of empire building in the myriad arms-length-entities such as Agencies for its civil service legion of ‘leaders’, trained in the philosophy of ‘Common Purpose’. With such empires and fiefdoms they engage their workers in all manner of works that are not core to their business. So telling the public what to do is one of the more recent ascendencies. Hence the fascination with new ways to demonstrate their virility in the media. Naming winter breezes is another manifestation!
Now beat this for the weakest link:
News – Combined action on climate change and modern slavery presents new opportunities, research finds – University of Nottingham
But I thought klymut change meant the World was now at boiling point.
So what’s the problem with cold weather ?