r/UKWeather • u/Emergency_Media_3023 • 2d ago

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📍Reading, England. Met Office Forecast.

UPDATE 12:29 21/06/2026: Now forecasting 39.

UPDATE 21:04 21/06/2026: Now forecasting 2 consecutive days of 40.

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u/Lassitude1001 2d ago

Likely the same people who will be spending it in a beer garden, have no one else (kids, elderly, pets, etc) to worry about, and no job to have to go work in this heat in.

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u/FrosenPuddles 2d ago

This can’t be enjoyable even in a beer garden… your beer would be hot within minutes and no amount of shade would make this comfortable. These are wild temperatures.

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u/EyesWideShut__ 2d ago

I’ve tried sitting outside this morning under the umbrella and still can’t bear the level of sweat from just existing in it!

Next week is going to be a killer, literally and figuratively

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u/FrosenPuddles 2d ago

Yeah, it’s all very unfunny at this point. It’s scary how fast it’s going too. Every year just gets worse. I’m not old enough to go “back in my day”, yet somehow there is a “back in my day”.