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The Heatwave

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Charro said:
It’s 23 degrees here and absolutely scorching.

It’s just right to sit in the garden and have a drink.

I can’t comprehend it being 15 degrees hotter than it is now.

Yes, I have been abroad before the dopes start.
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Lovely breeze today as well, its not stuffy at all.
 
Charro said:
It’s 23 degrees here and absolutely scorching.

It’s just right to sit in the garden and have a drink.

I can’t comprehend it being 15 degrees hotter than it is now.

Yes, I have been abroad before the dopes start.
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Mate I've sat in a sauna for 5 minutes and I was absolutely fine. No reason I can't sit in an ambulance for 8 hours in a car park or do some road laying in the midday sun.
 
Charro said:
It’s 23 degrees here and absolutely scorching.

It’s just right to sit in the garden and have a drink.

I can’t comprehend it being 15 degrees hotter than it is now.

Yes, I have been abroad before the dopes start.
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Thats what I cant really grasp neither. 26 degrees here, but 36 on Monday.
 

Jebus_lives said:
It's not. It's people cherry picking bits from the media putting them side by side and saying "the media are trying to scare us".

Absolutely no reason to indulge it.
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again...one last time...it's the media who are doing this, the memes are merely a reaction to it.

Examples (of countless many). Note "weather forecast" or "weather warning", not "colour-coded temperature map":




And here:

Government issues unprecedented weather warning as 40C forecast for first time ever

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They're even now going for the black-charcoal burnt-out look lol



This type of lead image is all over the news. It didn't used to be back when we had heatwaves.

Hence. The. Memes.



Regardless of the bigger picture, it will likely get very hot these next days, so there's a fair argument that more alarmist reporting is justified to spread the word that people need to protect themselves. That's fair too.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
Aye people are always shocked if they haven’t been before. Horrible little blood suckers. Can ruin a camping trip.
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I was camping in the Lakes last weekend.

Due to the clouds of mini flying vampires, It was impossible to sit outside in the evening, unless fully covered.

They‘re 100% in the Lakes now.

I also ran in a forest race, over by Trawsfynd in mid June and everyone got bitten by the blighters there too.
 

dholliday said:
again...one last time...it's the media who are doing this, the memes are merely a reaction to it.

Examples (of countless many). Note "weather forecast" or "weather warning", not "colour-coded temperature map":




And here:

Government issues unprecedented weather warning as 40C forecast for first time ever

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They're even now going for the black-charcoal burnt-out look lol



This type of lead image is all over the news. It didn't used to be back when we had heatwaves.

Hence. The. Memes.



Regardless of the bigger picture, it will likely get very hot these next days, so there's a fair argument that more alarmist reporting is justified to spread the word that people need to protect themselves. That's fair too.
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It's ridiculous. The Met Office, UKHSA, health organisations, Government have a statutory duty (CCA2004) to Warn, Inform and advise the public.

They feed a lot of the information to the media. The weather map does not fully convey the risk, detail or seriousness to at risk/vulnerable people.

The media are responsible for headlines, but they will be taking advice from those other organisations to inform their reporting. Which is why they are using the Met Office graphic.

Putting pictures of a sun on a a map doesn't really fit the criteria of warning and informing other than telling people it will be sunny - no matter how misty eyed some people might view it.

The Met Office Introduced the Red/Amber alerts linked to risk factors in 2021 which is why the media are likely using those graphics rather than the previous "calming" (but useless) maps which the memes keep pushing.

If those organisations don't "warn, inform and advise" and take precautions and people die as a result then what do you think the likely outcome would be?

But yes...memes are great. Hence the memes.
 
dholliday said:
Yes, looks grand.

Why aren't the media using these then?


Because fear sells. We're in the Peak Fear Era. Pandemic, Ukraine, Energy Crisis, Climate Crisis, Heatwave, Inflation.

Click here for moar!
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Not sure if you have ever seen a weather report in any other country, but it is quite normal around the world to show hot places as dark red, warm as orange, tepid as green and cold as blue.

Maybe, instead of being some big conspiracy to make people scared of the sun or whatever the hell it is you think "they" are doing, it is just UK weather presenters using global standards?
 
The Telegraph have used heat map graphics for donkeys years for their weather reports. I assume (cos I have never given it a moments thought before), its cos a graphic with green, or red, or blue conveys the type of temp way better than 38 degrees and a sun symbol.

If they used old money, then their readership would get that 90 degrees or 104 degrees is sommet to be wary of.
 

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