I read this five times and I still don’t get it:
Even I, the most heat-averse person in existence, wouldn’t refer to +26°C (79F) as “blasted by a heatwave.” I call this temperature “a blessed relief.”
How do you even post this headline with a serious face?
The snowflakery is off the charts in the UK in more ways than one.
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That’s pretty much how everyone in FL and TX feels about “heat waves” in NYC.
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Well, for one thing, your source is the Daily Mirror, a tabloid well known for hyperbole and hardly a bastion of accurate journalism. For another, these things are all relative: this “heatwave” is forecast for parts of Scotland where “the criteria for a heatwave is a period of three consecutive days where the maximum temperature meets or exceeds the heatwave temperature threshold for that particular area. The threshold for Scotland is 25C, according to the Met Office.” It’s also worth remembering that air conditioning is not the norm in UK homes. Having said that, I totally agree that 80 F is in fact rather pleasant (if hotter than the norm for Scotland!). Where I live, we’re facing a full week of temps above 100 F, with forecasted highs of maybe 110 F on Thurs/Sat – ugh.
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Suddenly, the sport of going out and walking in the UK countryside just for funsies… makes sense. I mean, if 80F is a heatwave…
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We were over 90 almost every day for the last 2 months, and it was a *mild* summer because we didn’t have any of those weeklong 100+ episodes!
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your source is the Daily Mirror…
It is also part of a wave of climate change catastrophism that is currently plaguing British society andwhich seems very much to be created on purpose to instil fear and anxiety in the population, especially the younger and the older segment of it. It offers both the government and the elites the perfect excuse for abolishing democratic rights and ask for so-called “emergency powers”.
A tabloid could catastrophize in any direction but it chose this one precisely for reasons reader Avi mentions. They aren’t catastrophizing that grass is green and water is wet. It’s a very mild temperature that they go for without any expectation that the public would laugh at them and disregard the article.
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I challenge you to a duel about being the most heat-adverse person in the universe. 🙂
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