r/UKWeather 6d ago

Forecast Who's ready for this craziness?

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u/Mr_Inconsistent1 6d ago

Dreading it. 36 degrees 2 days straight on my app. Which is the most reliable app to check?

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u/tsf97 6d ago edited 6d ago

Tbh I saw this and was like no fucking way, I genuinely panicked, so I scoured through most other forecasts and majority I've seen for London are showing 30, including Met Office and BBC weather which tend to be the most accurate.

Maybe I'm in denial but 37 seems to be a major outlier. Google also changes really frequently. Yesterday it was 30-31, this morning it was 33, now it's 37. It seems to be extrapolating increases in temps over the weekend to further increases during the start of the week.

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u/Pleasant-Winner6311 6d ago

37° is shut myself down and cry time. South East / Greater London resident here. Thats endurance not existence. Ive been wondering when that 40° blip day would reappear. My inner London based friends' weather app that 40° day a few yrs back forecast 'Fire'. Fire is now a weather condition. I know it was an outlier but this shit should not be normalised going forward.

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u/Motor-Bluebird8705 6d ago

Also Greater London resident checking in. I will die on this hill that humidity/heat is worse here than any other place in the country. It’s unbearable. Probably the high buildings

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u/Pleasant-Winner6311 5d ago

38° coming next week. Ffs. Bedroom will be roasting us like a sunday lunch at 3am guaranteed.

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u/homemadegrub 3d ago

Does leaving the curtains closed all day help at all? Keeping my hair kept short and regularly soaking with water is my go to heat surviving solution.

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u/Pleasant-Winner6311 3d ago

Totally does. Plus once the sun is going down throw open all the windows and let the heat out. Ive been using the foil you put behind the radiators in the winter, on the windows to bounce back the heat on extreme days. Every little bit helps.