The coming temperature record…

Have a range of large trees which provide partial shade for most of the day. In sunny weather we spend most of the day outside in the garden, so indoor temperatures are not really an issue.

Indeed; 26 degrees is only one blanket (and sheet) weather.

I've worked underground, something like 35'C and 100%. I was an electronics technician looking after equipment on a geophysics job in an adit on a dam construction site.

Sadly, the humidity was too much for the electronics. So the local workmen constructed a wall with a doorway and a massive dehumidifier and air conditioner.

Suddenly, our work became of great interest and we had lots of visitors.

LOL

There was in interesting item on the TV news last night, by a well-known weather man. Whether he gets carpeted for letting the cat out of the bag remains to be seen.

He was describing the current so-called ‘heat dome’ over Europe and the UK. The animated graphic showed air rising up round the curve of the dome, reaching the top, and then descending from there.

His crime was to say that as the air descends, it increases in pressure causing a rise in temperature, known as adiabatic heating.

This does of course mean that some at least of the current temperature levels are due to localised increasing atmospheric pressure rather than ‘man-made climate change’, a fact that climate change believers doubtless won’t want to know.

In an aside, isn’t it interesting that the new temperature records in London and Cardiff were set in arboreta and gardens located in urban heat islands.

One wonders what the average UK temperature is and how it compares to previous records.

Depemds on how s*it your arteries and thyroids are.

I am pleasantly comfortable with a winter duvet at 29°C/ Provided humidity is low anyway

(I had similar: I was working in a basement with zero ventilation and no windows either shared with a hell of a lot of kit. I was using an

I pointed out to my boss that it said 'maxiumum ambient temperature

Average is around 9°C but it varies fr0om -5°C to around 35°C in a typical year in the south. Anything below zero or above 30 triggers the climate communists to start freaking out. Especially in London, with is in general 5°C hotter than the countryside

My mistake - it was 33C in the room I was referring to. 26C was in another room.

If it was only for a couple of days of the year i'd take your point. It feels like a lot more than that and if I slept in the attic room I'd certainly look into a single split unit AC. Plus the added bonus of efficient heat generation when needed.

It is on;y a couple of days a year/ Al Beeb just wants you to think its ClimateChange

If that is where the properly build and calibrated weather station is err... stationed, then that is where the reading will come from.

I pine for the days of "The Air Ministry Roof" which is where everything happened WIWAL.>

How true; we rediscover this surprising feature of the British 'summer' every year! I am an agnostic on global warming, but it certainly hasn't happened here yet!

Do you remember the ballyhoo a few years ago about some temperature record being broken in some German city? Much was made of it at the time.

Then it sorta leaked out that the site used was highly urbanised, and the thermometer used was out of calibration and due to be replaced. Other stations a few km away recorded temperatures 2 to 3 degrees colder. But the scare story was out there…

If one takes off the contribution to the current high temperatures from the adiabatic heating caused by circulating air in the heat dome, would they then still be record temperatures?

Someone will do the calculations, but not in time to counter the scare stories.

TWTD.

Do you remember the record being set by guys with portable hairdryers?

I wonder what happened to the weather station located at the end of an airport runway, right where aircraft ran up their multi-megawatt engines before takeoff.

Down in the South West there’s one place that consistently forecasts and records the highest temperatures in the region. No, it isn’t a city such as Exeter, it’s a weather station at a place called ’Yeovil’.

Five gets ten that this is actually based as Yeovilton Naval Air Station, rather similar to that at Charlwood, which is right up against the perimeter fence around Gatwick airport.

Not that there’s any perception management going on, of course.

I live in West Sussex with a south facing rear. In this weather I get up at 6AM after listening to the farming program on R4 then open all the windows to get as much cool air through for a couple of hours.

From about 9AM onwards I shut all the south facing windows and draw the curtains. Only north facing windows are left open.

The best investment I have made is a Lidl £20 'sail' with ropes and springs that is triangular, like a large pennant? flag. The shorter edge is just under 5 metres which is pulled up to three eye hooks screwed into the bricks about a foot down from the upper window cills. I got three stainless steel cleats and three stainless steel pulleys from a previous marine junk sale on Worthing promenade and some longer UV resistant cord. This means I can pull of the shorter side into place without using a ladder. In winter the three cords will just hang down the wall and wrap around the cleats.

The other corner of the triangular sail is lashed to an old WSCC paper recycling container full of bricks.

Makes a world of difference to inside temperatures. Without it the upstairs hit 29C before I pulled it into place.

The remote temp sensor in my loft showed 49C on Tuesday. The highest I ever saw in 2022 and 2024 was 46C.

Chalet bungalows were typically built in the 60's and 70's (when bricks were expensive :-) ), during the era when insulation was non-existent and badly installed even if it was used.

You might find that there is hardly any insulation behind those sloping ceilings. Retro-fitting is only realistic when the property is re-roofed, but fitting solar PV panels would have the side effect of shading the roof and you could use the free leccy to run an air to air aircon/heatpump.

I have checked, (I was thinking of spray foam until this group advised me of the dangers) and the void is full of fibre glass insulation.

Virtually all official weather recording sites are on airfields, varying from Heathrow down to one-Cessna-a-day sizes. Pilots need accurate up-to-date atmosphere condition readings, and not many other people do.

The 'highest temperature ever recorded' a year or two ago, wasn't actually recorded, but interpolated from surrounding readings. That's how the game is played now. Actually, it always was. Reading Hansen's famous paper of the late Nineties reveals the 'adjustments' made to results that didn't seem to be 'right'.

An Internet meme points out that the climate disaster seems to have been downgraded a bit now that governments want gigantic power-hungry data centres. Has anyone seen research on how these thousands of heat generators are going to affect the climate, at least locally? London certainly does already, a band of rain moving across London tends to fade out as it crosses the middle bit.

As for the gold standard:

I spent 2 years in Fiji, working and living in Suva the capitol. Suva is on the eastern side of the main island and while the maximum temp rarely exceeds 35C the humidity is almost never below

You could almost watch the mould growing on the walls.

My Brannan mercury wet'n'dry thermometer has a distinct grey smudge between 26C and 31C on the dry bulb which is the range where it spent most of the time during my stay.

My 1986 Ebac homedry dehumidifier also did the round trip and still works fine. The plate shows the latter 'R' followed by '12' in a box. I guess that is the refridgerent.