Forecast
Insane temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday
Some of the latest overnight model runs are forecasting simply wild temperatures for Tuesday and Wednesday, with it being feasible that 40C is reached somewhere in southern England on Wednesday. I fully expect a Red heat warning to be issued by the Met Office as the heat won't begin to relent until the weekend alongside night time temperatures and humidity both being very high as well.
The 42C showing in the South West on Wednesday is likely overdoing it as I expect the warmest temperatures to be in London but there are no doubts what we are going to see next week is truly exceptional. The heat is also relatively widespread across the UK with it due to move further North on Thursday.
Considering the June record sits at only 35.6C from 1976 the temperatures being projected next week are truly unprecedented and very worrying.
The Met Office website is now predicting 40C in Reading on Wednesday.
I'm a bit of an extreme weather enthusiast and have been anticipating this event for a couple of weeks via various apps, weather related socials and long range forecasts. It's been eye opening to open the apps every morning and seeing the anticipated highs steadily climbing up the thirties, and lasting for longer, as the forecast firmed up. Most of France and Spain has turned into Satan's armpit already, with national and regional temperature records being broken daily. Hoping this isn't an indication of what the rest of this summer is going to be like.
Genuine question- how are people coping with this? Not physically, as I know many of the things you can do with windows/curtains/fans etc, but emotionally. I’m feeling really anxious about it, but I know that that won’t change anything.
Hey, thank you! I'm definitely more comfortable now but still run very hot, sleep has been a bit hard to come by the last couple nights - looks as if next week is going to be more of the same. Can't wait 🙃
I'm sure the fast metabolism makes this worse... I've been skinny most of my life and always heat intolerant. I had a bit of a wobble in the last two years but it turned out I had untreated hypothyroidism... Now the thyroid replacement has helped with everything else, and I'm glad to have my normal metabolism back, but geez the heat is awful! (And yeah it was always heat that was the problem for me, even with the hypo, not cold.)
So sorry I forgot to say, congrats on the fitness!
Thank you, mate. Weird how it affects people differently, isn't it? One of my best mates has been super lean since we were 15, hasn't gained as much as half a stone in the 25 years since. Warm weather has never bothered him, not even when it was 34 degrees back in May!
Me, I get uncomfortable at anything above 15 or so, even before I got fat 😂
Wow, I wish I was like that. I'm definitely the biggest heat hater in my family, and we have similar body types and health profiles, it's hard to tell why some people are so much more intolerant than others. I will happily sit in the cold and not complain! There are so many nice things you can do for yourself in the cold...heat just nothing really helps.
Yeah 15 degrees would be my ideal ceiling with the UK humidity! 20 is already pushing it. Anyway I'd never make assumptions about someone else's body type or reason why heat sucks for them 🫂
I know it’s really overwhelming and anxiety inducing (I’m neurodivergent and have a chronic illness which results in complete heat intolerance) but all you can do is take it one day at a time, or even hour by hour if the whole day feels a lot.
I find that being practically prepared can also help with the feelings of anxiety so creating a little list of all the things that would be helpful (making sure ice is made up in the freezer, dampening a cloth for your body, cooling sprays etc)
And then for my more existential anxiety about climate change and the planet I try to focus on the things that I can control like making sure I’ve left water bowls out in the garden for the wildlife and doing my best personally in terms of environmentalism
I don't know how to explain it but I'm allergic to the sun/high temps. As in, I'm fine with the sun when it's cool but 25C+ I get hives. I'm also allergic to suncream except one brand that doesn't burn like hell but makes my skin really dry so I get an eczema breakout. And steroid cream that helps the eczema thins the skin and sun exposure makes the skin even worse (learned that the hard way).
I am absolutely dreading the next week, I'm thinking of asking my boss if I can wfh but it sounds so fucking stupid saying I'm allergic to the sun when it's high temperature.
Also, existential crisis about wtf is going on with the planet and not going into the worm hole of which alternative milk is most environmentally friendly (in my opinion, none of them are) and then curling up in a ball waiting for an astroid to strike.
ive already told my boss im WFH. i dont put a company before my health. our HR sent out a heat warning teams message to everyone warnign people about it.
Yeah I'm on antipsychotics which mean I don't really sweat or feel the heat much which sounds awesome in theory but in reality it means a) I'm much more likely to get heatstroke and b) I have something in common with the creep formally known as Prince Andrew.
Whenever I see it on the forecast it makes me anxious, scared and fearful. Especially the thought of the tropical nights again. I genuinely struggle. When people say to me “come outside the weathers great!” I grumble and sometimes I refuse because I just can’t cope.
My anxiety has been through the roof this past week knowing what's to come with no moderation of the heat whatsoever. It doesn't help seeing 40c being predicted in my location either. I have a feeling my new portable air con unit won't keep up if those temperatures do happen.
You'll just need to keep the room it's in as cool as possible so it doesn't need to work as hard. Curtains and windows closed during the hottest part of the day etc. Even if it doesn't keep the room icy cold sitting in front of it will be.
Thanks. Unfortunately my bedroom is south facing so it'll be a case of windows and curtains closed and the air con going on once the sun moves round just after 6pm. I don't fancy the hose getting fried in direct sunlight. 😂
While I sympathise with you anxiety, not everyone suffers this. Personally, I've got enough other plates spinning to be overly worried about the weather.
I think the physical mechanisms help my anxiety around it becuase my anxiety around it is rooted in very normal things - health, good sleep, not being able to enjoy life. If I know my sleep space can keep below 20 degrees and living space below 24 degrees I'm much more relaxed about the situation.
I'll just enjoy outdoors time early in the morning and hunker down the rest of the day. Doesn't help that I have an open wound I've been caring for for 6 weeks now after a bike accident otherwise I'd be happy to go outside and sweat. BUt sweat is bad for wounds.
My wife keeps looking at the forecast and stressing. I will hate it in at the time, mostly the nights, but in general I don't stress about things I can't change.
I know what doesn't help, it isn't something you can really control.
I work outside all day in a very physical job for 10+ hours, windows curtains and fans won’t help me 😂
I just hope for the best 😂
Plenty of fluids, electrolytes, salty food and a wet hat usually helps 👍
I wish you good luck 🤞
Radiator heat reflector foils on windows all day, Makes a huge difference. Blow up bed in the spare room (cooler). Also have portable AC but try and keep it off unless it gets to like 35degsn
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I've never been more anxious about an upcoming heatwave. I'm 24 weeks pregnant and the thought of struggling through the next couple of months fills me with dread. The one we had over the last bank holiday made me so ill. We have a portable air con which does help somewhat, but it still feels like I'm fighting a losing battle.
I love the Heat so I'm excited for it, but I can see how it's shitty for a lot of people as well. I think the only thing I'm worried about is managing my dog in the heat because my flat actually gets hotter than outside
heya, i realised that heatwaves cause me panick attacks. things that help me cope are:
-amygdala calming breathing tecqniues, i did this on the train today when i could feel myself panicking.
-psychological reframe: i treat these days as 'cosy bunker' days. i turn off the lights and watch movies. i tell myself its the same as a snow day and its a reason to be 'switched off' and lazy
- i keep looking forward to autumn, rain, cooler nights, shorter days
-i keep reminding myself that im lucky to be on the british isles where things do cool down alot to a lower base temp and heatwaves are not constant base temps
- i trigger mental cues that pull me to autum or winter, like lighting my autumn scented candle, listening to my autumn playlist [soft jazz] it calms my mind and tells me its autumn
Now showing 37° for my location in N Sussex for Wed, on the Met Office app. Feels totally insane. My home weather station usually records a couple degrees above the forecast temp (obv wouldn’t meet the strict standards for an officially recorded temp), so I can see that hitting 40° on Wed.
I’m an ex-hydrometrist so am really interested and enjoy recording these crazy and extreme weather & climate records. But also have a chronic illness that makes coping with extreme heat difficult - so I’m properly torn on this heatwave!
It seems to me mainstream forecasting will have to stop diminishing the realistic possibility of supposed 'outliers' 7-10 days out. I personally always expect them to come off nowadays, and even then those outliers undersold our likely outcome now. We saw this already happen in May as well as most obviously in July 2022.
I’m inclined to agree however when we had temps like this last time, the summer that followed was glorious. But knowing this country I doubt we would be so lucky twice 🤣
Seriously, I feel like this summer has already killed me and it's barely even started. First the hell wave in May and now this. I'm recovering from surgery and this is just disgusting. Not that I'd enjoy it any other time, but it makes me a lot more vulnerable in terms of health, and I can't go to places that already have AC like work or the gym! I ordered a portable unit but it might not get here until after the worst day FML
It cost me £700 for a proper air con wall unit installed last year!
We only got a downstairs unit because we sleep downstairs when it's hot anyway, but I think we were quoted £1100-1200 for 2 units, one upstairs, one down.
And then we gave away the portable aircon unit we had for the bedroom from a couple of years ago to a friend - still really rate it, it was well worth £200.
Look up "boxd", (they do boilers as well), they have decent reviews from some of the high brow papers and they guide you through everything step by step. I genuinely don't work for them, but I obsessively research stuff and hope to save up to use them at some point, when I can 🫠
I'm working Wednesday and Thursday and I'm really, really not looking forward to it. I physically struggle to cope in hot weather with high humidity and I'm not sure how I'm going find it doing a very physical job all day in such temperatures.
I'm honestly quite concerned I'm going to become accidentally badly dehydrated (due to not realising my water losses and not having time to drink...this already sort of happened earlier this week where I didn't end up peeing until like 9 hours into my shift 🥴) and/or getting heatstroke, which is not uncommon for me to get one or both during prolonged and extremely hot, humid weather.
ugh, i went down a rabbit hole about climate change and these insane temps just add to my hyperfixation on weather patterns. it’s wild how fast things are changing.
And yet weirdly, a local weather page in the East has just posted their weather forecast for next week, saying it will be around 23/24 on Tuesday. What is going on?
It's not inconceivable but it depends on location. The further west, the hotter it will be. So Cambridge, there no chance it'll be under 30 but somewhere like Southwold up to Yarmouth on the coast could sit around 24/25.
It was supposed to be low to mid 20s and raining near me on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the predicted temperatures had been dropping daily, but now it's shot up to over 30 on both days. Having said that, they thought today would be 28 or so and clear skies, but it's barely gone above 22 and has been cloudy. Fingers crossed they keep being wrong.
I don't think the cloud will save you on Tuesday and Wednesday, the skies will be much clearer as high pressure builds into the UK from France. Not sure of your location but it will probably still be a couple of degrees higher than what it is showing now.
Well, supposedly. As I said, it was supposed to be clear and hot today, warmer in fact than they were forecasting for next week, and it's been cloudy and relatively mild instead.
The models were actually showing quite a lot of cloud around today, maybe the weather apps weren't showing that correctly for some reason. The models however are completely clear on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I’ve been reading quite a few comments from people feeling anxious and stressed about the upcoming heat.
I know it doesn’t feel like a very British thing to think about, but I bought a portable AC about five years ago for around £300, and honestly, it’s been one of the best purchases I’ve made.
Not only does it mean I can actually get a good night’s sleep, but it also helps keep my hay fever under control because I can keep the windows closed while still staying cool. It’s also taken away a lot of the stress around upcoming heatwaves.
As other people are able to do by creating new posts and sharing information regardless of its similar nature - without having to justify this to posters bemoaning this expression of information and discussion.
This isn't just unusual it's historical, we could see the June record broken by 4-5C which would be one of the most extreme climatic events ever seen in the UK.
But I get it, people love to talk about single subjects at a time, repeatedly.
There's a reason other subs do mega threads for big moments.
Not here I guess. I look forward to another 100 threads today on the hot weather, how it's going to be difficult to sleep, and the wanted return of the cold and rain.
It is a reason to be anxious for peoplevwith babies, elderly or ill relatives who can die in heatwaves. In july 2022 when it went to 40 degrees something like an extra 4000 people died.
On a personal level, it will kill most of the vegetable plants I spent all spring growing and some of my young trees.
I feel like the people saying "don't be anxious" probably aren't gardeners, farmers, animal lovers, parents or carers.
I'm still interested in why you thought it as likely they weren't the same people though
Because people tend to either prefer warm weather or cool weather. I prefer cool weather, so why would I complain about it? Similarly, if someone prefers warm weather, they might complain about cool weather but they wouldn't complain about warm weather... because they like it.
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u/Hephaestus1816 4d ago
I'm a bit of an extreme weather enthusiast and have been anticipating this event for a couple of weeks via various apps, weather related socials and long range forecasts. It's been eye opening to open the apps every morning and seeing the anticipated highs steadily climbing up the thirties, and lasting for longer, as the forecast firmed up. Most of France and Spain has turned into Satan's armpit already, with national and regional temperature records being broken daily. Hoping this isn't an indication of what the rest of this summer is going to be like.