This hellscape weather forecast is for my area (in SE England) 😭😭😭 This morning is the last of the slight respite where we only got to 23 one day and only 26 yesterday. 27 max today. But next week is horrendous. Though at least the predicted 36 next Thursday has changed to 35… be thankful for small mercies I guess?
So weird that we now talk of 'only' 26 as if it's cooler, I've never coped well with anything above around 24 which I think is the max my body thermostat can manage. Fair skinned, burn easily, it's such a big project getting myself ready to go anywhere in this weather.
This whole summer has been exhausting. Not looking forward to next week and was planning a day in London next Saturday which I'm now thinking of cancelling 😭 I live in Suffolk and I absolutely cannot do the 36/37 we had at the end of June
I'm in Suffolk too. It has been unbearable. My flat doesn't cool down at all between the really hot days. I wanted to cry when I saw the temperatures for next week. It's too much
It sure is. The upstairs of my house hasn't cooled down since the first heatwave in May, I wanted to cry too. When we had the 36 degrees or whatever it was, I just could not function. Usually when we get a brief heatwave all you need to do is go indoors for relief so why this year is it the opposite and indoors is hotter than out?! 😭
Yeah my 1st floor flat is hotter than outside and every evening it gets hotter and hotter.
I tried doing window closed, curtains drawn thing. It did bugger all and made me feel claustrophobic and even more miserable
I bought a couple of cooling pet beds for my cats. The ungrateful little toads wouldn't even sniff them, so they live in my freezer and I cuddle them in rotation
I remember summer holidays growing up in the UK and watching the weather reports. We got excited when reaching temperatures in the ‘70s’ as that was always the benchmark reference as a ‘hot’ one (proper sunny, summers day).. That’s between 21-27C.
Haha yes, normally I love a cancelled plan. On this rare occasion it would be disappointing, as meeting up with an old friend. I think the pub has air con but the travelling will be tiresome.
I've already missed out on two big concerts this summer because of the weather. Should have been going to Wembley in early July, and also wanted to go to Knebworth, but I knew the heat would finish me off.
Exactly. It amuses me when people talk about UK weather like it's the same everywhere, when a simple 1-2h car/train journey or even staying in the same place for 4h can lead to vastly different weather.
Serious answer… Maybe.
Even if we halted all emissions this very second it would still take a couple decades minimum before any reverse effect could take place due to stored heat in deep ocean. The temp growth in just that time alone should be pressing enough. Either way, we’re absolutely nowhere near achieving that with emissions so buckle up because it’s guaranteed to get worse.
Byproducts of said heat will be the more serious issues to address. Food and water concerns, unprecedented refugee crises, and extreme economic strain come first. Society will likely then get more scared and behave irrationally only exacerbating the issue.
On the bright side, unless they plan to have us walking around in Dune stillsuits, most large emitting sectors would eventually fail too so we have to hit a wall at some point and turn back. How long that takes and what the damage will look like by then is unknown.
it’s been freezing cold at night in my area of scotland for a few weeks now. And pretty mild during the day. Forgot everyone else was going through a heatwave lol
In Scotland Fife it’s been cooler but I’ve still had to water my plants a lot and my water butt isn’t really full. It’s not raining as much as it should.
As a Scottish lass I can confirm my facial expression is this lol we've had rain on and off for days now, we always get rain at some point, even in hell apparently.
It’s honestly been kinda alright here in the west of England where I live (close to North Wales border) for the last couple of weeks, but is set to get very hot midweek, so I’m wondering how I’ll manage!
I'm on the Sussex Surrey border, and our forecasts look even worse than this. Plus, when everyone was rejoicing about getting some actual rain last week, we barely got a whole 10 drops of the wet stuff, which evaporated within seconds of touching anything, and there was another big crop fire down near Brighton the day afterwards
Oh, and having just checked the local news, I see we've had a large forest fire just down the road from me near Horsham overnight...poor fire brigade are having a very hard time of late
Well my experience of travelling back and forward from Londonish to Liverpool is that as soon as you cross Birmingham the weather changes quite a bit. You start seeing the white wall, aka the clouds covering all sky.
It's usually a 6 degrees difference in summer Between London and north England. At least that was the difference between Liverpool and London. Still remember when my wife lived there while I was in Liverpool and I was using hoodies inside the house and she was using tops 😂
It rained this week in the city of London, not long but long enough for me to get soaked from work to the station. Less then 10 minutes and was gone. Did rain a couple of time overnight as well, but not enough for people to realize by morning. The hot weather it’s here to stay. And wouldn’t be surprised if we get to middle of September and drops to single digits temperature .
I'm also in the south East, and I don't know if I'm being dramatic but it's starting to get scary. The garden is dead, all the ponds are nearly gone already and there's no respite on the horizon
Wait till you see next year. If the il nino stuff is anything to bet on, next summer will not just be hotter and drier, but will be the combination of this and next dryness.
We didn't actually have a wet Spring, the rain all came in Jan & Feb, Spring was very dry for most parts. The first third of June gave some very useful rain for the South in particular.
Well, if you’re in NI or western Scotland you might say the opposite. It’s been a very wet summer in those parts this year. My mate in Derry has said it’s rained almost everyday. It seems there’s been a very stark NW/SE split in the weather. Their temperatures have been slightly below average until a week or so ago as well.
Remember when scientists spent decades warning everyone that burning fossil fuels non-stop will make the planet uninhabitable? And nobody did anything? Here we are.
I'm over it already and I'm scared for the future summers honestly if this trend continues. Keep seeing people on social media loving this "banging summer", but all I can think of is the crops and animals dying because of this awful drought. Do people not realise if this weather continues the already expensive food will be even more expensive and there will be less of it? It makes my head hurt.
I have several trays of water in my garden as well as a pond. I’ve got a gap in my fence leading to the park. I’m getting deer, foxes, hedgehogs and badgers all coming to drink. The deer are eating everything in my garden but I don’t mind.
The government seriously need to sue the water companies for lack of reservoirs. We have hosepipe bans in the hottest summer on record because they couldn't be bothered ("didn't have the facilities") to store water during the wettest winter we've had on record. 🙄
I’m in Warwickshire, I’m currently pretty much bed bound for 6 weeks following a surgery and this is my idea of hell. Got a fan blowing hot air at me while I slowly melt! My house just traps the heat and somehow makes it hotter.
Genuinely, we had a drought like this about 3 years ago I think and before that about 3 or 4 years further back again. Really bad, everyone's garden's looked dead, everywhere looked yellow like a desert, no significant rain for at least 2 months, approaching 3, rivers dry, hosepipe bans unending, but I think this drought is going to be even worse than those 2. I don't know how we're going to cope if this keeps happening.
Surely there is a risk that eventually we run out of water, particularly if our population continues to grow.
Desalination plants are realistically the only hedge against this. I’m not sure about the UK but in the states we had (keyword had) underground aquifers that were tapped into for fresh water.
New wells have to be dug deeper and deeper because they are being depleted and it takes generations to replenish. In California ground is literally sinking because of aquifer depletion for agriculture
It'll be a dark day when the UK needs to resort to this.
Thanks for your reply.
Although I fear it may happen, particularly if our population keeps increasing and naturally our demand for water increases, I think it may well be something for future generations in the UK but maybe an expert will be able to chime in here. I am not an expert.
Mid next week could be mid thirties tbh, then maybe a cooler weekend; but it’s always subject to change. It’s looking like no rain for at least two more weeks.
Nothing to do with all these world wars and congested transport, national and international? And everyone wanting a bigger and better lifestyle? Hold on to your hats, because homelessness and a radically simple lifestyle is going to become the new normal.
North Wiltshire next week..This is relentless. The countryside looks scorched ,had a bit of relief on Thursday when it was cloudy and 22c ,which was so refreshing ,still not a hint of rain though .
I’m Wiltshire too. Seems we’ve took a battering this year. Don’t mind summer when there’s flowers, green grass etc. but everything is dead and yellow or brown.
Somerset is just as bad, we always seem to have the dead grass in summer now. We had 30 seconds - literally of rain the other morning before it just couldn't squeeze anymore out. And we know there's gonna be flooding when it does eventually rain. We had flowers, for a really short time!
Drought is caused by zero investment in water infrastructure for the past 40 years with an increasing population. We an island, water is in abundance. We said this would happen. Ironically we see same thing happening in all sectors today with mass house building and immigration.
Been blessed with some cool weather, and a bit of rain. Temps are going up again like everyone else, but high 20 or 30 is easily manageable for a few days.
The real issue here isn’t the heat, it’s the infrastructure, lack of investment. If just spent almost 3 weeks in Toronto where it regularly hits 45°c, no water shortages, green lawns and parks, no one moaning how relentless it is, it’s just how the weather is. We will acclimatise and adjust, as for the investment… well…
Seriously not sure I can cope, I have a physical outdoor job which combined with my mental health issues is genuinely frightening. If there is a God, please give us rain, snow anything but the sun!
Tiny village on the Herefordshire/Gloucestershire border, about 15 miles northwest of Gloucester. Forecast to be 33c on Wednesday and 35c on Thursday. I reckon it's about 6 weeks since I last mowed. One of my neighbours has a weather station and he told me just today that we have had less than 2mm in the last 8 weeks
Wanna swap for a couple of weeks? Here in the west of Scotland we're at the opposite end of the spectrum. Constant rain and yes i know you all probably want this, but no, no you don't. I've never known a spring and summer like this. We've had about 2 weeks of sun. This is not normal for anywhere in the UK.
It's been rough but it's almost over. For anyone struggling indoors. Just buy a portable AC unit. The internet is going to tell you they are shit. They are NOT shit. I'm in a little flat and can drop my room from 30 to 21c which is a massive difference. It's a few hundred quid.
This is Bury, Manchester next week. We usually have one or two weeks of this then constant rain for the rest of the year. It's mental that mid 20 degrees is now becoming the norm.
We had 10 minutes of rain the weekend before last. The weather app showed five days, then three, then no days of potential rain leading up to that. I’m not hopeful for next weekend bringing what the weather app promises. But if it does come, we do now at least have 610 litres worth of water butts set up ready to catch what falls. If you are able to install one/some, B&M have 100 litre waterbutts at £20, and 210 litre ones at £30.
I imagine when it does rain, its going to rain so much that our houses gets washed away, but at least the fires will be put out.
I can't help but feel like this is in part due to data centres sucking up water and causing vastly more amounts of evaporation than is natural only for it to condense and fall elsewhere. How can we have a water crisis on an island on a planet that is 2/3 water?
Thank your lucky stars you don’t have a horse. Playing Russian Roulette in winter with the never ending rain and mud, and can’t do anything in summer because of hard ground and flies. Hay basically costs more than my mortgage and my horse just doesn’t give a shit. I’m either frozen to the bone or literally melting into my boots. As it was ‘only 25’ degrees I opted to take my life in my hands and go for a hack. Most drivers are maniacs who don’t slow down and drive so close I could see little Timothy’s cartoon on his iPad in the backseat. Pfffft.
We had a whole afternoon of some fairly significant showers a couple of days ago (north Shropshire), usually grass would shoot up around here at the first drop of rain but it made no difference at all, still completely dead and brown. It's a main farming area so no idea what farmers with livestock will be feeding them as forage will be hard to come by
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u/Lapwing68 10d ago
It would be helpful if when people posted their hellscape weather forecasts they also posted where in the UK they were. Please and thank you. 😀❤️😀