Abnormally high UK temperatures continue

It's fine for me, I had a great weekend in the garden, but I'm not expecting to die of old age in the next 20 years so I need to think about the future.
Me either - I'm in my 30s.

I too am thinking about the future and our increasing need for cheap energy, which is why we need to put an end to the climate fraud and drill for the cheap and plentiful oil, gas and shale gas that is waiting right beneath our feet.
 
Me either - I'm in my 30s.

I too am thinking about the future and our increasing need for cheap energy, which is why we need to put an end to the climate fraud and drill for the cheap and plentiful oil, gas and shale gas that is waiting right beneath our feet.
You're funny. The reason we don't and won't do that is it's too expensive. Oil and gas can be extracted cheaper from other places.
 
Me either - I'm in my 30s.

I too am thinking about the future and our increasing need for cheap energy, which is why we need to put an end to the climate fraud and drill for the cheap and plentiful oil, gas and shale gas that is waiting right beneath our feet.
You've been gas-lit too.
 
Id ask why the climate change deniers are always so badly informed but it's a requirement. If they actually knew about the world they'd have to change their minds, and they don't like that.
 
TLDR: 2026 is going to be a record setting year in the UK continuing the record setting May temperatures. But it's only going to get hotter.

With the heatwave just starting it's worth thinking about how unusual it is. 2026 has already been an abnormally hot year and this June looks like it is going to smash the old records.

May was absurdly hot, the previous May heat record (32.8 - 1922) that had stood for over a hundred years was broken by 2.3 degrees (35.1). On that day 23 stations all broke the previous record. 150 odd stations set new Individual records during the month.


The current June temperature record is 35.6 degrees (1976). With a heatwave possibly hitting 40 degrees this week that record isn't going to stand long. Temperature records should not be being broken by 4-5 degrees. That is not a good sign.


So why is it so hot? There's a load of hot air wafting over us from the Sahara. As the baseline global temperature rises there are more and more excursions of hot air coming up from the equator. Normally the global air currents keep the hot air spinning around the equator but as the Arctic temperature rises they're weakening and getting less predictable. Its the same mechanism that sometimes dumps Saharan sand on us occasionally. That is happening more and more often now.

Or in short: we need to get used to this as the new normal and be prepared for it to get worse. Next year we'll also be getting the full effects of El Ninio so even though we'll smash through even more temperature records all summer, some of them won't last long.
Yep and not one mention of El Niño ---- nice work :rolleyes:
 
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