Posted By: Edinburgh
Heat - 17/07/2022 10:11
One of the many-opinioned speakers on t'radio yesterday was having a good bluster about "nanny-state" with regard to our promised heatwave. According to him Britions flock to the continent and beyond expressly in order to suffer lap up such temperatures as we are promised so why bother putting fear into folk...
That's all very well but there are plenty that don't and would rather endure our uncertain climate, temperate as it is, myself for one. I can't forget France in summer 2019 when the temperature read 43C, then 45C - I ended up, in spite of copious water intake, in the local hospital with what felt like heart issues, with which I'm familiar. Fortunately it turned out to be heat/gastric-related but it was a worry initially for those around me.
If a government (however dodgy) fails to trumpet such a warning then they will then presumably be accused of negligence. If we are given a few days' warning my Leeds family can make sure their newly-installed velux windows can be covered over while the freshly-dried plaster is painted, and those that struggle when the outside temperature rises beyond that of the human body can plan accordingly.
The UK has a history of being poorly-prepared when it comes to extreme weather conditions, even the London Underground has taken up the idea of carriages with A/C relatively recently. Still few and far between are the snow blowers or local machinery to deal with heavy falls - will this promise of more severe conditions becoming a regular feature change government policy?
Over to you...
That's all very well but there are plenty that don't and would rather endure our uncertain climate, temperate as it is, myself for one. I can't forget France in summer 2019 when the temperature read 43C, then 45C - I ended up, in spite of copious water intake, in the local hospital with what felt like heart issues, with which I'm familiar. Fortunately it turned out to be heat/gastric-related but it was a worry initially for those around me.
If a government (however dodgy) fails to trumpet such a warning then they will then presumably be accused of negligence. If we are given a few days' warning my Leeds family can make sure their newly-installed velux windows can be covered over while the freshly-dried plaster is painted, and those that struggle when the outside temperature rises beyond that of the human body can plan accordingly.
The UK has a history of being poorly-prepared when it comes to extreme weather conditions, even the London Underground has taken up the idea of carriages with A/C relatively recently. Still few and far between are the snow blowers or local machinery to deal with heavy falls - will this promise of more severe conditions becoming a regular feature change government policy?
Over to you...