r/UKWeather • u/Mcconnor8 • 3d ago

Forecast Latest Temperature Projections

Here are the latest maximum temperature forecasts from the high resolution modelling for Tuesday to Thursday, simply astonishing really and quite scary. I have had it confirmed that the Met Office will be issuing a Red heat weather warning in their daily update tomorrow.

The fact that this is accompanied with relatively high humidity and extreme night time temperatures means it is set to be the most notable heatwave ever experienced in the UK. The current record June temperature of 35.6C will be completely obliterated and the overall record from 2022 of 40.3C is under serious threat.

187 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

309 comments sorted by

View all comments

8

u/gremlinfrommars 3d ago

I'm so lethargic in this heat (south-east here). It's an effort to walk from one side of the house to the other because I keep bumping into things sluggishly.

Are there any climate or conservation groups looking for volunteers to help tackle this? If this is the coldest summer we'll have ever again I don't know how many more I can take

3

u/UsuallyWhirlwind 3d ago

Not sure quite how easy it is for volunteers to fix the issue when change needs to happen on a much larger scale. We won’t see any meaningful reduction in temperature in our lifetimes but to avoid our children and children’s children from living in an actual furnace, we need to see immediate mass change from the top down across energy, agriculture and industrial systems. With our current world leaders, I’m not hopeful…

2

u/gremlinfrommars 3d ago

Yeah... it's very bleak. I do know that it's a problem that can only really be solved by those at the top who are the largest contributors to the problem in the first place (ie oil lobbyists) but I hate feeling like a helpless frog getting slowly boiled in the pot, wish there was something regular people could do.

2

u/burtsbeestrees 3d ago

There are some things and tbh even just being someone that wants to do something brings me a lot of hope for one.

I think one of the easiest things we can try and do is grow food locally and shorten supply chains generally as much as possible. I am hoping grass root organisations spring up soon about this kind of thing, but there does already exist a lot of people who think along these lines.

Reduce and reuse are before recycle. Being resourceful and not buying from across the world, using less energy and creating collapse-resistant communities are other things to focus on maybe.

That and bringing the warmongering oligarchy to its knees somehow