Sun-starved Britons flocked to beaches and parks today causing miles-long tailbacks on the hottest day of the year so far as temperatures hit 88F (31C), making parts of the U.K. warmer than the Caribbean. MailOnline has more.
The warmest parts of England today were Yorkshire, the Midlands and Bristol – and conditions could be even hotter tomorrow with the Met Office warning of 91F (33C) highs as the summer heatwave continues.
The balmy weather, driven by a blast of warm air coming in from the Azores in the North Atlantic, has prompted health officials to issue warnings about the dangers of extreme heat – especially to the elderly and vulnerable.
The sunshine is due to last until so-called ‘Freedom Day’ on Monday, the day when the last of the Covid-19 restrictions are due to be lifted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, when thunderstorms could arrive.
Thousands of people have flocked to beaches across the country, with London and the South East seeing clear skies and highs of 84F (29C) today – with the mercury climbing to between 88F (30C) and 90F (32C) tomorrow.
And, for a change, the heat is being shared across the country – with the North Midlands and South Yorkshire hottest today, followed by the South East tomorrow.
Monday is expected to see the highest temperatures shift to the West Country. But we are still a long way off record temperatures – with the all-time UK record of 101.7F (38.7C) being set in Cambridge on July 25, 2019.
Tom Morgan, meteorologist at the Met Office, said: “We have got quite an extended hot spell of weather to come through the next several days lasting much of this week, nighttime temperatures will be in the high teens Celsius and daytime temperatures will be in the high twenties or low thirties.
“It’s going to mean that people are really going to feel the effects of the heat as we go through this week.”
Worth reading in full – not least for the gallery of photographs showing people relaxing and enjoying themselves in the sunshine.
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Oh no it’s slightly warmer than usual.
Cover up, stay at home, save lives.
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Er….it is summer…..it gets warmer in summer. Usually. That’s what we want, you know, not having to wear a coat, or take an umbrella with you.
It’s not a “heatwave”. Get a grip! The summer of 1976 was a heatwave, something like 70 days in a row of temperatures over 30 degrees.
A couple of nice days is no excuse for a fricking panic! Unless you are the nanny government, obvs.
Que the inane comments from the one show and similar brain dead programmes, such as: “it’s the hottest day since the last hottest day”.
What better than Covid suppressing heat for treedom day
The freedom we should be focusing on is the destruction of the Big Lie
Until that happens we are in grave trouble
Trouble that could lead to the grave?
It can’t be freedom day yet, the three weeks aren’t up and we still need to save the NHS…
On the subject of so called Freedom Day, Neil Oliver once again nails it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9CyM4HKjBY
Thank you just sent this to various friends and members of my family, no doubt I will get the usual silence. Still I’m not giving up even though they think I’m a pain! And yes they’ve all been double jabbed “because they want to go in holiday”. That’s working out well isn’t it.
good thing we’re not getting any of that then.
Yes – if we are not careful, there will be another outbreak of Greta!
No Toby, it’s not ‘freedom’ day already, but a clear indication that the public has taken matters into their own hands. If it’s hot we go to the beach – whether Johnson and Drakeford like it or not. We also have barbecues and invite whomsoever we choose.
At least the weather (aka warm British summer of a few days) takes the heat out the Covid warnings and gives the snivelling MSM and hapless, hopeless NHS an opportunity to pluck something else out of their Book of Warnings, Forthcoming Apocalypses and Other Terrifying Manifestations.
My freedom day began 15 months ago.
Since then, I’ve not worn a mask, been ‘vaxxed’ (with the experimental gene therapy), or kept any kind of social distancing. We’ve had friends round as we wanted, and just got on with life.
Any business that insisted on masking lost my custom, permanently.
I was in Southend today and the percentage of outdoor masked was about 0.1%, of the thousands there could probably count on one hand the amount of masked. Even looking in the arcades there seemed to be more unmasked than masked. So hopefully this will be the sight we’ll begin to see elsewhere soon.
Lovely summer weather.
Everybody on the beach is happy.
Eff off, Fascists, National Hell Service, Witless, Unbalanced, Pantsdown, Wankok, Bozo, Rabid Jabbid, Michie witchie,Wrinkly Little Welsh Stalin Dungford, and the whole miserable pack of them.
Amen to that!
Amen!
“Coming in from the Azores”..
Be nice if we actually had the option of going to the Azores. I suppose the highest temperature will be at Heathrow again…
Oh, and Bournemouth’s in Hampshire. Told you I was a (real) counties extremist!
I’m sure it’s entirely coincidental that they put their new digital thermometers (ie ones that can pick up instantaneous changes) at the end of a runway. Of course the msm never mentions that the “omg we’re all going to die” temperatures were only recorded for a few seconds.
Bournemouth is in Dorset (since 1974)…
It’s a unitary local authority now. The Local Government Act that took effect in 1888 creating administrative “counties” didn’t abolish geographical counties (which predate government) and was not intended to. But I digress. Or do I? After all, this is another example of misinformation routinely unthinkingly parroted by the msm…
See Russell Grant’s book, “The Real Counties Of Britain”.
Pointless, self defeating exercise imo trying to go by these local government areas as they keep changing. People don’t bother with them much in Northern Ireland. Always the 6 counties regardless of any local government.
There was a corker on tv today about “Cumbria’s” greatest export, the Cumberland sausage – whatever Cumberland is!
The convenience of statist bureaucrats always overrides everything else, even at the expense of destroying social identity. Just ask the proud people of Westmorland – if you can find it.
There’s nothing like a good pedant and that was……..! (and before I receive any thumbs down that was meant to be a joke okay a very poor one but nonetheless)
Bournemouth is indeed in Dorset, and is bloody lucky that we allowed it in – young upstart that it is!
It doesn’t really deserve the privilege.
Oh, and all of “Bournemouth’s” best beaches are in fact, in Poole.
From a Dorset boy, born and bred, strong in the arm and good in bed – I prefer that version…
I suppose you’re going off the police force or something (and be careful if you use the same logic with “Devonwall” police!). Definitely a unitary authority from a local government perspective. (Poole actually is in Dorset geographically).
You’re not to blame though, successive governments have trashed local identity, one suspects deliberately, (most people are confused about the issue these days), they are infested with the sort of thinking that gave us the Soviet sounding “Central” region in Scotland. That’s long gone as well…
I was taught about the Azores high and the Continental high (summer/winter) in the 70s. What’s the difference?
Got news for you Tobes, it ain’t gonna be Freedom Day til we tear down this globalist system of government or we all get raptured up into the sky.
We’re not going back to normal. Many of us have known that for a while.
Oh shit its Summer again and for once we’re getting a kinda normal July / August.
FFS just let us enjoy it without the mindless moronic Shiny people on Brekky telly telling us…
Oh FFS I give up..
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Hasn’t it been shown that even a small breeze takes the covid virus away as soon as released into the air. Also what about the heat and sunshine? They destroy many viruses. Not to mention the increased vit D making every one healthier.
This would have been encouraged if the govt cared about us and our health instead of authoritarian rule and big contracts to friends
Very odd times.
On the one hand you have the feeling that about 90% of the public want to keep maks and so on, yet when it actually comes down to it, like Webley and Wimbledon and the beach, people don’t want to know.
I believe that about 2 weeks after the 19th, mask wearing in settings like supermarkets will drop dramatically.
It won’t take two weeks – the masks will be off in the shops tomorrow for most people. Within a few days mask-wearing will become as socially awkward as not wearing one is now.
I very much hope so.
However, latest mask compliance in Tesco yesterday was 99%. 🙁
And why not? Top up your sun starved, vitamin D deprived bodies because you are going to need it this winter.
What when calls for further restrictions are made, and go completely unchallenged?
ATL:
Is Toby an American, or just very old?
It should, of course, be 31C (88F).
Fahrenheit is a ridiculous scale to use from choice – water freezing at 0 C and boiling at 100 C makes far more sense that freezing at 32 F and boiling at 212 F.
IMHO obviously.
Ducks and leaves…..