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I am off next week, just as well with temperatures in the U.K up in the 90's.Fahrenheit. Today some staff fell sick in the office as we hit 102.F and we have to grin and bare it. And why, because there is no legal limit on the temperatures in England, what's the story around the world?
The Avon Lady
07-01-06, 02:23 PM
Air conditioners.
Welcome to the 21st century! :yep:
Air conditioners.
Welcome to the 21st century! :yep:
No good, with all the heat from computer's and all the office equipment they render air conditioners useless.
SUBMAN1
07-01-06, 02:27 PM
I am off next week, just as well with temperatures in the U.K up in the 90's.Fahrenheit. Today some staff fell sick in the office as we hit 102.F and we have to grin and bare it. And why, because there is no legal limit on the temperatures in England, what's the story around the world?
I'm sure that doesn't apply to feeling sick. Go home!
I'm sure that doesn't apply to feeling sick. Go home!
Tell the boss that one; he will think you’re a slacker. Welcome to the world of the British boss.
Drink lots and lots of water and it should keep the heat from becoming a health problem. Heat usually causes problems when people underestimate the about a fluids they are loosing to sweat and evaporation. A person can loos several liters in a few hours. Gotta keep hydrated.
TteFAboB
07-01-06, 04:04 PM
Forget about the water, drink a glass of liquid-Nitrogen and you're set. :up:
scandium
07-01-06, 04:06 PM
The heat is playing havoc with my overclocked PC. What was a nice stable overclock this winter has become, since June, so flaky and unstable that I'm almost back to running stock again. :cry:
Kapitan
07-01-06, 04:49 PM
You think that is bad whislt im awaiting to be pushed out into college up in liverpool (merchant navy) i have a small but realy stinky job !
Yes thats right i come round and collect the rubbish bins or trash to the americans, just immagine that heat coupled with rotting food maggots and the smell, and you office workers keep complaining that your lives are hard! il trade any day well maybe not £9.85 per hour job and knock i dont think any office job could compete :D
Heh, I dread to think what the temperatures are like in our restaurant, there's no air conditioning, the carvery unit chucks out at least 30-40oC, and we have to wear long-sleeved shirts and waistcoats :damn:
Apparently we're meant to be getting a £10K air-con unit fitted in the restaurant, but I'm betting it won't arrive until winter, when it's nice to have a warm restaurant when it's chucking it down with rain outside and blowing a force 5-6 off the North Sea ;)
Onkel Neal
07-01-06, 06:47 PM
Hot in the UK? Lol, you don't know what hot is. :lol:
scandium
07-01-06, 07:05 PM
Hot in the UK? Lol, you don't know what hot is. :lol:
I bet the folks in Bosnia do though, where temperatures have reached 60C this week (140F) - the hottest in a century.
This I read in an article discussing a freak hail storm in Germany:
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1151616422717B265
More and more I am reminded of that move "The Day after Tomorrow"; its a good thing that there is no such thing as Global Warming, or if there is, that it is at least merely an entirely natural occurence and not at all man-made. After all, as those new ExonMobil commercials point out:
"Carbon Dioxide, it is essential to life. We breathe it out, plants breathe it in... they call it pollution, we call it life." :rotfl:
http://streams.cei.org/
Kurushio
07-01-06, 08:00 PM
I am off next week, just as well with temperatures in the U.K up in the 90's.Fahrenheit. Today some staff fell sick in the office as we hit 102.F and we have to grin and bare it. And why, because there is no legal limit on the temperatures in England, what's the story around the world?
Don't you blimming dare complain about the heat! :stare: Or I'll point you to the post where you said you only recycle because the council forces you too.
p.s. Enjoy the global warming. :sunny::yep::p
Onkel Neal
07-01-06, 08:45 PM
Hot in the UK? Lol, you don't know what hot is. :lol:
I bet the folks in Bosnia do though, where temperatures have reached 60C this week (140F) - the hottest in a century.
More and more I am reminded of that move "The Day after Tomorrow"; its a good thing that there is no such thing as Global Warming, or if there is, that it is at least merely an entirely natural occurence and not at all man-made. After all, as those new ExonMobil commercials point out:
"Carbon Dioxide, it is essential to life. We breathe it out, plants breathe it in... they call it pollution, we call it life." :rotfl:
It's 60C degrees in Bosnia? Lol, yeah, if that's true, it beats the highest temp in history of Europe by a whopping 10C ;)
Spots baked by the sun had reached temperatures of 60 degrees in Bosnia this week, according to the Sarajevo weather office, which said the previous seven days had been the hottest for a century
"some spots"... must be under a giant looking glass
Kurushio
07-01-06, 08:49 PM
Hot in the UK? Lol, you don't know what hot is. :lol:
I bet the folks in Bosnia do though, where temperatures have reached 60C this week (140F) - the hottest in a century.
More and more I am reminded of that move "The Day after Tomorrow"; its a good thing that there is no such thing as Global Warming, or if there is, that it is at least merely an entirely natural occurence and not at all man-made. After all, as those new ExonMobil commercials point out:
"Carbon Dioxide, it is essential to life. We breathe it out, plants breathe it in... they call it pollution, we call it life." :rotfl:
It's 60C degrees in Bosnia? Lol, yeah, if that's true, it beats the highest temp in history of Europe by a whopping 10C ;)
Spots baked by the sun had reached temperatures of 60 degrees in Bosnia this week, according to the Sarajevo weather office, which said the previous seven days had been the hottest for a century
"some spots"... must be under a giant looking glass
I think someone got confused with Fahrenheit. :roll: Just did a check and it's pretty much normal for this time of year.
scandium
07-01-06, 09:37 PM
I think someone got confused with Fahrenheit. :roll: Just did a check and it's pretty much normal for this time of year.
The article only mentioned the Celsius scale, so I'd assumed the "60 degrees" was also in Celsius since 60F would not be worth mentioning. It's not like newspapers have never printed a mistake before though, if this is what it is *shrug*
Kurushio
07-01-06, 09:58 PM
I think someone got confused with Fahrenheit. :roll: Just did a check and it's pretty much normal for this time of year.
The article only mentioned the Celsius scale, so I'd assumed the "60 degrees" was also in Celsius since 60F would not be worth mentioning. It's not like newspapers have never printed a mistake before though, if this is what it is *shrug*
Yes...obviously I was referring to the article...not you Scandium (sorry, should've been more specific). Some of these journalists can't count to 5. :lol:
The Avon Lady
07-02-06, 04:04 AM
Family advice: lots of cool liquids, enough to go to the bathroom a dozen times a day if necessary.
But the real trick is to take salt pills (or a teaspoon of salt) at breakfast time, before going to work. Salt helps the body retain liquids, preventing dehydration, which may still occur even when driniking a lot.
kiwi_2005
07-02-06, 05:25 AM
Winter here at the moment, another two months of it and spring (1st Sept) will be on its way then it time for I & the neighbours to strip naked run down to the creek and take a dive into the still cold wintery waters to break the winter omen. Ahh yeah ok anyways i love winter i hate the summer. Nothing better than relaxing next to the warm fire with a cold beer and talking to my pc :D
Heh, I dread to think what the temperatures are like in our restaurant, there's no air conditioning, the carvery unit chucks out at least 30-40oC, and we have to wear long-sleeved shirts and waistcoats :damn:
33°C in the south east on Tuesday, the radio is saying it will be 45°C on Friday, I hope they got that wrong.:down:
The trouble we have here, is are heat is full of moister which makes it even worst for you unlike arid heat, I remember some couple of years ago on a real scorcher of a day, I was walking behind a business man who was speaking to a Arab man. He said something long the lines this heat wave reminds you of home, and the reply from the Arab man was, this heat is very bad for you. :stare:
scandium
07-02-06, 06:55 AM
45C in the UK?? :o Is that normal?
Kurushio
07-02-06, 10:30 AM
It's never reached over 40 in the UK...so if it gets to 45...
...I hope you're flipping happy STEED...all your fault for not "wanting" to recycle...council...huh.
..hope they dump another ten bins on your lawn! :rock:
It's never reached over 40 in the UK...so if it gets to 45...
...I hope you're flipping happy STEED
DID YOU READ THIS?
the radio is saying it will be 45°C on Friday, I hope they got that wrong.:down:
That came from the radio, that bit of info. After some checking by me it is clear the radio station that gave out that forecast is very wrong, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it. :yep: :p
...all your fault for not "wanting" to recycle...council...huh.
..hope they dump another ten bins on your lawn! :rock:
Fat chance, in my local paper I see my council are withdrawing all these bins, because people are sick to the back teeth with them. Victory to us over the council.:smug::p :smug:
VipertheSniper
07-02-06, 05:40 PM
Family advice: lots of cool liquids, enough to go to the bathroom a dozen times a day if necessary.
But the real trick is to take salt pills (or a teaspoon of salt) at breakfast time, before going to work. Salt helps the body retain liquids, preventing dehydration, which may still occur even when driniking a lot.
Actually, drinking cool stuff won't cool you down any, unless you drink loads (like 2 litres) at once, and then only marginal, the body has to get it up to body temperature, so drinking cool stuff will actually heat you up, as paradox as it sounds.
Drinking hot stuff on the other hand, will cool down the body. I guess I have to look up some reference for that, because I'm pretty sure I haven't explained it properly.
Can't find anything in English, damn... and atm I'm too tired, to bother, will try to find something tomorrow.
Winston
07-03-06, 07:18 AM
Alright, I live in Wales 24 miles east of Cardiff and the time is 13:15. The temperature here is 31°C or 84°F. This comes directly from my room thermometer. It’s quite hot for this time of year but not overly so.
Alright, I live in Wales 24 miles east of Cardiff and the time is 13:15. The temperature here is 31°C or 84°F.
In Wales:stare:
South England and the midlands are sweating and the north is soaked in rain, no wonder they got all the water. :p
Winston
07-04-06, 01:52 PM
In Wales:stare:
Yep, I got a though-draft in the room as well so there’s a bit of a breeze too keep me cool. I’m about 100 foot above sea level and live right on the border with England to the east (the river Wye). A little place called Chepstow actually, next to the Seven bridge. If I were to guess the border is about 400 yards East of my place. Temperature today got to 30°C, so not so bad.
I hate this weather, give me cold, crisp, dry daus any time. I can wrap up and keep warm, cooling down is more difficult (must be my Scottish background).
Drove down from Northumberland today after a long weekend away: No AirCon + Big Windows (Honda Prelude IV) + Motorway = misery :oops:
We may get thunder storms in the South East tomorrow, is that a flying pig I see. :p
Got a storm this morning, bout 4ish but I slept through it...hardly any rain and I should imagine within a few hours it'll be back to god alone knows what degrees celsius and normal service shall resume:damn:
Storms don't seem to clear the air much these days, at least, not 'round here. :down:
Yesterday the temperature was 25°F and that was 5AM in the morning.:o The thunderstorms are predicted this afternoon, hey another flying pig I see. ;)
Skybird
07-05-06, 04:50 AM
On my balcony, sun-side and reflections, I had 40°C yesterday, while the prediction for the area was 34. Today they predicted even higher temperatures, so I assume this will be the first day ever in this flat that I face temperatures of above 40°C on the other side of the window. at night it still was 29°C this night. That are temps I am not made for. No sleep, no strength, room darkened, and bad mood. Bad way to live.
scandium
07-05-06, 04:57 AM
On my balcony, sun-side and reflections, I had 40°C yesterday, while the prediction for the area was 34. Today they predicted even higher temperatures, so I assume this will be the first day ever in this flat that I face temperatures of above 40°C on the other side of the window. at night it still was 29°C this night. That are temps I am not made for. No sleep, no strength, room darkened, and bad mood. Bad way to live.
We have something in common there. My body tends to shutdown on me whenever the heat goes above 30C (usually this is also accompanied by headaches and general malaise). Fortunately it is not often though that it gets up to, or past, 30C here. I think a hot climate like in the Southern US would kill me (which should be good news for those in the Southern states who have no wish to see me emmigrate there ;)).
Nicked the temperature probe out of the kitchen this morning and stuck it on a table in the middle of the restaurant.
28 degrees celsius.
That was with an empty restaurant though, you've surely got to knock a degree or two on when its full up, plus the carvery unit was just warming up, that's gotta add a couple of degrees.
...and we're wearing long sleeved shirts and waistcoats....:damn:
Skybird
07-05-06, 06:00 AM
A salad, only oil, no sausage, a steak medium, salt, black pepper and butter with herbs, pommes frites, a glass of red vine, German or Italian, and a chocolade pudding afterwards, please. Send it per Express. Thank you.
Kurushio
07-05-06, 06:02 AM
I'm the opposite...I'm a heat person. I thrive above 30 degrees...the other day I did hard labour under the sun for twelve hours...from morning to late evening...all of it pretty much near 30 degrees. Probably everyone thought I was mental...:lol:
I pretty much shut down in the cold....like a diesel engine refusing to start. :doh:
Nicked the temperature probe out of the kitchen this morning and stuck it on a table in the middle of the restaurant.
28 degrees celsius.
That was with an empty restaurant though, you've surely got to knock a degree or two on when its full up, plus the carvery unit was just warming up, that's gotta add a couple of degrees.
...and we're wearing long sleeved shirts and waistcoats....:damn:
At least you can make a B-Line strait in to one of your big fridges or better still freezer. :rolleyes:
Valid point, the walk-in fridge is very nice, rarely have time to use it though :cry:
Valid point, the walk-in fridge is very nice, rarely have time to use it though :cry:
I am sure you will come up with a good excuse. ;)
Hey it's raining, hang on..........
BOOHOO, it's only light rain, where's the thunderstorms??? :-?
I hope they are using factor 30. :)
Hot horse gets sun help
http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/uk/ne/palog.gif (http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/pa/SIG=113i5evue/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa.press.net%2F) Wednesday July 5, 10:41 AM
An albino police horse is coping with the current sunny spell with the help of 30 bottles of sun cream every day.
Humberside Police horse Blue - nicknamed Sunny - has a rare genetic condition which means that he has no melanin and therefore little or no pigmentation. The High Street chemist Boots are providing Sunny with the sun cream after mounted officers put out an internet appeal for help to get the horse through the heatwave.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/05072006/344/hot-horse-gets-sun-help.html
Hey it's raining, hang on..........
BOOHOO, it's only light rain, where's the thunderstorms??? :-?
Thunder and rain here in Bath, we've had to change this afternoon's crazy golf competition to killer pool + drinking :dead:
Iku-turso
07-05-06, 12:46 PM
Personally i prefer too hot weather,it is too cold weather that sucks.:yep:
BTW, it is really nice and hot weather now up here and i got only two working days left and then starts my vacation....and rain.
That's it, time to do the rain dance. :lol:
Etienne
07-06-06, 01:50 PM
You think that is bad whislt im awaiting to be pushed out into college up in liverpool (merchant navy) i have a small but realy stinky job !
Yes thats right i come round and collect the rubbish bins or trash to the americans, just immagine that heat coupled with rotting food maggots and the smell, and you office workers keep complaining that your lives are hard! il trade any day well maybe not £9.85 per hour job and knock i dont think any office job could compete :D
Give it a few months and you'll be looking back at that job with fond memory.
Cause, you know, nothing ever stinks in the merchant navy. And it's never too hot at sea... And being a cadet obviously pays better than that... :hmm:
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
STAND BY ENGLAND OVER 100°F IS ON THE CARDS TOMORROW.:sunny:
London underground got up to 120°F :o yesterday, come on this is a joke and the buses were even hotter up to 140°F:o :o and these record will be broken tomorrow.:o :o :o
today 18 july is going to be roasty-toasty, possibly up to 34c and, according to the weather n00bs, humidity is going to be up this week too.
Compared to living in Bahrain the UK temperatures are tame, but having said that over there it's hot all the time so you get used to it. Here, on the other hand, we have no chance to become accustomed to the 'heat wave' such as it is. No sooner than we break out the t-shirts and all those tasty young laydeeez with their skimpy summer clothing magically appear everywhere, then the hot weather is gone and all of the 'blooming flowers' go and hide away again:down:
Right now the office airconditioning is giving me goosebumps and making me shiver :(
Kapitan
07-18-06, 05:48 AM
Great loads of lovely maggots n rotten food to look forward too.
One thing that's gets over looked here is how many very young children and old age pensioners will die in this heat. Remember the last one a couple of years ago they put the figure of O.A.P'S deaths over three hundred, it's about time the government stopped talking about it and do something for a change.
The problem we have is yo-yo temperatures which change to fast in the U.K and all that moister in the heat knocks the heck out of you, it’s time for employer’s to wake up to that fact as well sitting in an office over 100°F is no joke at all.
Todays office temperature hit 119°F :down: :down: :down: people were bitter to each other and we had a right ding dong of an argument. :nope: No It was nothing to do with me, heat waves bring out the monster in people it's not safe out there. And tomorrow will be even hotter Ole :damn: better check my life insurance. ;)
scandium
07-18-06, 11:28 AM
Two words: Global Warming.
PS: There is an upshot: Global Warming (or more accurately and PC "Climate Change") paradoxically creates deep freeze effect as well :)
Big Freeze to Sweep over China
China, already enduring its coldest winter in 20 years, is preparing for a cold snap that will see temperatures drop by as much as 16 degrees Centigrade (29 degrees Fahrenheit).
Northern China, where temperatures are already as low as minus 15-20 degrees Celsius, will feel the strongest effects of the cold front, which is sweeping in from Mongolia and western Siberia, the China Daily reported.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/02/060102044332.yp07id4u.html
Family advice: lots of cool liquids, enough to go to the bathroom a dozen times a day if necessary.
But the real trick is to take salt pills (or a teaspoon of salt) at breakfast time, before going to work. Salt helps the body retain liquids, preventing dehydration, which may still occur even when driniking a lot.
We were taught that salt pills do more harm than good and there's enough sodium in tap water to provide all the salt necessary to replace that which is lost through sweating.
Todays office temperature hit 127°F and the boss has gone home with heat exhaustion, as for the rest of us we were told last week by the boss if we tyred that one on we could be sacked.
:x :damn:
One rule for them and another for us.:nope:
We have hit the peak 130°F:sunny: 30 minutes ago, we are now down to 127°F all I can say is this, I am glad the temperatures are going down tomorrow. :yep:
Great news, anyway no complaints here our offices have good air conditioners. My problem is at night in my apartment. :nope:
Great news, anyway no complaints here our offices have good air conditioners. My problem is at night in my apartment. :nope:
We also have air conditioners, I think the problem is we got an all glass building that's soaks up the heat. I have got a mobile air conditioner at home but in this heat dose not cool the room down, apart from me when I sit very near it. When the temperature goes down in to the 80's then my air conditioner starts to do it's job. PHEW:cool:
Britain's roads are melting and the trains are running at half speed because the fear of buckling rails.:o This country can not cope in very hot and cold weather and what is the Government doing? Fiddle while the U.K goes down the tubes, what a country I live in.:nope:
Kapitan
07-19-06, 12:33 PM
I can vouch for the roads here, our cart managed to dig a hole 7 inch deep in the pavement because the tarmac was so soft.
trains are running ok the normal delays.
I just heard on my local news on TV, London bus drivers wore shorts to keep cool, their managers have told them do that again and you will be sacked. Who the hell are these Dumbo's to say that.:nope:
WTF? My boss is a Brit and he is one of the coolest bosses I've ever had. Wears shorts and sandals to work these days. Pretty easy going though he works hard.
Kapitan
07-19-06, 01:39 PM
To keep cool use guys hand on the side of the lorry lovely breeze even the management turns blind eyes :D
I was at the beach all day. :up:
Kapitan
07-19-06, 02:07 PM
Thats right fish just keep rubbing it in !!!
Ok guys time for a piggy pile fish is at the bottom !!!
Winston
07-19-06, 02:32 PM
Ok, hit 34C today. Driving back from Cardiff I had one arm out the window. (No aircon in my car) Now one of my arms is nice and red.:lol: Hottest I can remember for along time.
Onkel Neal
07-19-06, 10:55 PM
I stand corrected, it certainly is warming up over there :o
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13932257/
I stand corrected, it certainly is warming up over there :o
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13932257/
You can say that again:up:
It's cooler here in Bath today, although the ant infestation in the corner of my office is starting to irritate me :stare:
Todays high here in the office was 101°F that will be up abit tomorrow and the boss will not be back until the week after next, he still claims heat exhaustion. Us lot in the office are hoping we may now get some proper air conditioning installed, we hope. ;)
I hope you are still showing the world our British resilience to the climate ,by wearing a shirt and tie, and for the real brit a vest as well:up:
Kapitan
07-20-06, 10:48 AM
I do thankyou steed for re inforcing my belief's in why i will never work in an office :up:
I hope you are still showing the world our British resilience to the climate ,by wearing a shirt and tie, and for the real brit a vest as well:up:
STEED STANDS UP AND IN A DEEP UPPER CLASS ACCENT..........
"Of course old chap, must not let the side down old boy." "Port and cigar's?"
:D :D :D
I do thankyou steed for re inforcing my belief's in why i will never work in an office :up:
You lucky, lucky, lucky :|\\
Global warming , global warming.... Hey! i know, lets just buy a 10 litre V8 SUV! Yeah, and lets ship millions of those to Russia too, so that they can pollute the Earth even more than yanks. :hmm: :huh:
gdogghenrikson
07-20-06, 12:58 PM
I Wish I had work...I have been home all week and I dont go back till monday
Steed I find that a Gin and Tonic is good in this current climate plus a very large Cuban cigar.The smoke keeps the biters away and the tonic stops the malaria if you do get bitten!Now where is my elephant gun and huge baggy shorts and pith helmet?
http://queen-of-outer-space.com/jhjcombo.jpg
I say old chap that sounds rather rude, pistols at dawn. Excuses me where are my manners must thinking of something else, must dash old chap big card game on.:D
Steed aunty Tony says you must wear a hat in this hot weather:
http://www.dargate.com/225_auction/225_pics/1001.jpg
I always do old chap. http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9555/untitled5cv5.png
Back on the topic watch out UK the heat wave will be back up to 33°c next week. :damn:
No end to the Heatwave in Europe.
Europe sizzles in new wave of summer heat
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By Adam Plowright [URL="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/24072006/323/photo/child-swins-pond-rijksmuseum.html"] (http://uk.mf.news.yahoo.com/mailto?url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/24072006/323/europe-sizzles-new-wave-summer-heat.html&title=Europe sizzles in new wave of summer heat&locale=uk&prop=news&h2=27699413)PARIS (AFP) - Europe has sizzled amid a fresh onslaught of oven-hot temperatures as governments and charity groups mobilised to prevent further deaths from a heatwave that has already killed about 40 people across the continent.
In France, the health ministry appealed for help from medical students and retired doctors to cope with a possible surge in casualties, and there were warnings that the unseasonably high temperatures could damage crop harvests in some countries.
Temperatures rose back above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday from southern Spain to Poland after weekend storms and lower temperatures had brought a brief respite.
On Monday, the French state-run weather centre Meteo-France maintained its orange heatwave alert, the second-highest warning level, for about half of the country.
It forecast that temperatures could reach as high as 38 degrees Celsius this week before falling from Thursday onwards.
Separately, French public health organisation InVS gave an updated deathtoll showing that "about 30" people had been killed by the heat so far. The figure included the death on Sunday of a 90-year-old woman who was found with hyperthermia in her apartment on the outskirts of Paris.
In total, the heatwave has cost the lives of about 40 people in Europe.
Deaths in France have raised the spectre of a devastating bout of baking temperatures in 2003 that killed 15,000 people in the country and more than twice as many across Europe.
The French government took to the airwaves over the weekend, issuing warnings on radio and television and identifying people living in isolated circumstances as being particularly vulnerable to heat.
Health Minister Xavier Bertrand, appealing for help from medical students and retired doctors, said emergency health services were overstretched and needed their help with front-line services.
In the Netherlands, a Dutch organisation for senior citizens, Het Nationaal Fonds Ouderenhulp, launched a telephone helpline on Saturday advising the elderly how to beat the heat.
In radio commercials senior citizens were advised to call a number that gives tips such as "drink at least two litres of water a day" or "if you feel hot, moisten your face, neck, wrists and legs regularly".
The elderly are particularly vulnerable to the heat though not its sole victims. High temperatures over the last week have also claimed the lives of a builder in Spain, a lorry driver in Austria and a 15-month-old baby in France.
A 32-year-old Italian woman was struck dead by lighting in weekend storms which followed three scorching days which saw the mercury hit 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the peninsula.
Electricity consumption has also mirrored the rising temperatures, striking a new record in Spain last week and leading French power group EDF to invoke an action plan allowing it to temporarily flout environmental norms that govern the temperature of discharged water from its nuclear plants.
Germany sweltered in temperatures of more than 30 degrees Celsius on Monday and forecasters said the heat would stay high until Friday when showers and storms were expected.
There had been little breathing space for residents in the southern region of Bavaria over the weekend. Sweltering heat gave way to heavy storms and a tornado on Saturday which injured seven people in the city of Karlsruhe.
Six Spanish regions had also been on high alert over the weekend, with temperatures at their most oppressive in the south, and the Spanish government has put into place measures to help an estimated four million people most at risk.
On Monday, parts of Britain remained in the grip of a heatwave, though temperatures have declined since they peaked on July 19, the hottest day on record for July.
There were also signs on Monday that the persistent high temperatures would harm farmers' harvests.
In the Netherlands, Dutch agricultural organisation warned that farmers would be forced to bring in their crops early to save what they can, resulting in a potato harvest between 20 percent and 30 percent lower than usual and grain crops 25 percent lower.
In Poland, Polish Agriculture Minister Andrzej Lepper warned that a drought caused by baking summer temperatures would cut Poland's cereal harvest by 20 percent.
(http://uk.news.yahoo.com/24072006/323/europe-sizzles-new-wave-summer-heat.html#)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/24072006/323/europe-sizzles-new-wave-summer-heat.html
Still, could be worse, could be living in Leeds (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/leeds_heatwave/)
I was at the beach all day. :cool:
Still, could be worse, could be living in Leeds (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/leeds_heatwave/)
What's wrong with Leeds? :confused:
:sunny: IT'S ANOTHER HOT WEEK FOLKS:sunny:
At 188 degrees celsius I doubt much of anything would be living in Leeds.
At 188 degrees celsius I doubt much of anything would be living in Leeds.
Is that Leeds as in the U.K. :-?
bigboywooly
07-25-06, 12:04 PM
Still, could be worse, could be living in Leeds (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/leeds_heatwave/)
Now now I know its hot but dont trash the Leeds eh:yep:
:rotfl:
I am :-? What's wrong with Leeds:confused:
I am :-? What's wrong with Leeds:confused:
http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/21/bbc_grab.jpg
Now look at the minimum temperature for Friday on the local weather part for Leeds ;)
GOOD
:o :o :o :o :o :o
GRIEF
roasty-toasty :lol:
shame it's not Coventry, maybe in that heat it would burn to the ground so they could build it again. Propperly this time. lol
Is no one going to stand up and defend Coventry?
I would like to demolish the Midlands just for the heck of it and build great big conditioners to cool down southern England. ;) :p :D
Steed I have to agree with you completely.Demolish the North and give it to all the poles who have decided to come over here.I bet it is nice and cool in all the old coalmines though.
Poles? They're country must be empty by now, only in my village I see dozens of Polish cars. :)
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3171/bestshoteverxx8.jpg
Taken on my Nokia cameraphone at around midnight. Pity it stayed on the horizon and didn't actually come over and clear the air :cry:
Yer, lots of atmospheric booming and flashing somewhere near the horizon at about midnight but no earth-shattering storm directly overhead :(
Our cats, the little buggers, didn't like it all the same :nope:
Attention British weather forecasters, yesterday all of you said thunderstorms in the south east of England and heavy rain. You lot could not forecast the weather if you tried, hang on they did and failed. It's bone dry here no rain at all my grass caught fire which I had to put out due to these high temperatures. weather forecasters are a joke they should all be locked up for their lies. :x
WOW, I got rain I think:roll: just very light rain and a bit of thunder big deal. Time to do the rain dance, now where did I put my................;)
Kapitan
07-27-06, 03:51 PM
Been real hot today sliced finger open on one of the bags (some git put a tin lid in the bag and i didnt see it) the rubbish stinks maggits are rife and there a leak in my boot.
Been real hot today sliced finger open on one of the bags (some git put a tin lid in the bag and i didnt see it) the rubbish stinks maggits are rife and there a leak in my boot.
Sounds like you had a nice day Kap. (NOT) :/\\x:
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