The paper’s keep harping on about how it’s the hottest summer for decades, at least over here in the UK.
What I want to know is, why is cloudless, sunny July 14th this year hotter than cloudless sunny 14th July last year?
The biggest impact is likely due to the direction of the prevailing winds…the ‘air flow’ is probably not from the Atlantic, but points east/south east.
So global warming and all that malarky has nothing to do with it? What about humidity?
How hot is it brainfizz & exactly where in the UK?
The hottest place in the UK today was Cardiff, Wales at 32 degrees C ( 90 F ) most of the rest of southern Britain was very near this temperature.
Global Warming isn’t something your body can detect. We’re talking wide scale variations in Global temps being affected by 1 to 1.5 degrees F. And there is debate about whether that is happening or not, and what the cause really is.
Most areas have a cyclical pattern over the years that averages out to a certain temp. For example, 90f or 32 C is high, but normal. Sure, maybe the avg over the past 200 yrs is 78f, but that implies many temps above 78, and many temps below 78, which average out to 78. It does not mean you should expect it to be 78.
Humidity can be caused by poor air flow, or airflow that pulls in moisture from a body of water. Depending on the exact postion of the high pressure systems near you, one could be pulling in moisture and could be working with another to pull in warmer air from typically warmer regions…
…along the NE part of the USA, warm muggy hot weather is from high pressure systems locked in over the Bermuda area. Hung up over the Gulf Stream, the flow is all warm moist air, and temps rise 8-15 degrees and humidity becomes brutal.
If a “hot” day is 90F, seems like you’d welcome a little global warming to warm up the cooler days. After all, you have a long way to go on the hot side before it becomes uncomfortably hot.
I measured 35 (on two devices, one of them digital) here near Southampton.
My favorite UK headline (from 20+ years ago, and said to be genuine, though one never quite knows):
“78 again tomorrow - no relief in sight”
Today in Palm Springs, California it was 118F, but it “felt” like 154F (the temperature at which titanium golf clubs may boil).
Where I live it was a cool 106F (40C) by comparison.
154 is certainly hot, but I think you’d have a gripe if a golf club of almost any standard material boiled. (The boiling point of titanium is almost 6000 degrees F.)
Are these clubs filled with some sort of liquid?
We’ve got temps in the 100-105 F range here in the rockies. It usually doesn’t get that hot until mid august.
The thing that concerns us most out here is the continuing drought coupled with very hot summers. We have a problem with brush fires in this kind of weather.