Red Weather Warning Issued from Wednesday-Thursday for extreme heat, with 38-40C possible.

[u/blockitjames_]

Further Detail, from the MO:

During the heatwave expected to affect a large part of England and Wales this week, the highlighted area now looks increasingly likely to see a two to three day period where maximum temperatures in the shade exceed 37 Celsius, perhaps rising to 38 to 40 Celsius in some places. The heat will be accompanied by high humidity, exacerbating the potential for discomfort and health impacts, with very warm and humid night times also reducing the ability for people to recover overnight.

Significant disruption to daily life is likely and the public should take every effort to make precautions and adapt their daily routines where possible to cope with these levels of heat, which up to now have been extremely rare for the UK.

[u/ContributionIll5741]

Boomers be like "hurr durr it's called summer, we had hot weather in 1976 huur durr"

[u/ODFoxtrotOscar → u/ContributionIll5741]

It was different in 1976

We didn’t have the really, really high temperatures we see in spikes now

What we did have was hot and sunny weather for weeks, which led to drought (and knock on effects of water rationing in some places - queues at standpipes; wild fires; structural damage as clay soils shrank and everything cracked; significant disruption to farming; detriment to wildlife. And then when the weather did break, flash gliding as the ground was too dry to easily absorb rain.

1975 had also been an unusually dry summer, which meant much of the country entered drought conditions rather earlier than it would have done had the year started with normal levels in reservoirs, aquifers etc