This awful heat

[Mups]

I am just watching on the news, and it says there were thousands  of lightning strikes today,  one of which set a house on fire!

Hundreds of schools have closed,  trains are struggling, they have advised to check your train before you  travel.    In some places the train lines are warping.
They also mentioned about the tarmac on roads could start melting.
Also,  6 fire engines attended a blaze on an industrial estate in Kettering today.

I felt so angry today when I saw some horses stuck in a small fenced off bit of field,  with no shelter whatsoever,  not so much as a tree to stand under,  very little grass,  they just had to stand there and cook with the blazing sun on their backs for hours.

We have a rare RED ALERT  for this area  for tomorrow,  with the possibility of it reaching towards 40°.
Pretty scary that . . 

[GrannyMac]

Really awful about the poor horses!  So hard to keep cool, I'm going to sit outside shortly, before the sun comes up properly.  Also got an exercise class in the pool later, that will be heaven!

[Flying Bomb]

Many of us are only beginning to realise how serious this can become
in future years. There's that idiot Trump who claims Global warming isn't happening.
I'm getting concerned, although at my age (93) I shall not be around
to see how humanity copes with it in the future

[Ashy]

If the climate is changing, and I doubt if it is, the best thing we can do is adapt to it. We can't stop it and we would be fools to try.

[klondike]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_Oscillation

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=when+was+el+nino+first+observed&newwindow=1

AI Overview                
The most recent El Niño phase officially began in June 2026 after the Equatorial Pacific Ocean transitioned away from La Niña.

On a broader scale, the El Niño climate phenomenon was first recorded in the 16th century. Historically, South American fishermen named the weather event "El Niño" (Spanish for "the boy" or the Christ Child) centuries ago because the anomalous ocean warming typically peaks around Christmastime.

[Alex]

I felt so angry today when I saw some horses stuck in a small fenced off bit of field,  with no shelter whatsoever,  not so much as a tree to stand under,  very little grass,  they just had to stand there and cook with the blazing sun on their backs for hours.

I hope those horses had water !

[CHF]

I am just watching on the news, and it says there were thousands  of lightning strikes today,  one of which set a house on fire!

Hundreds of schools have closed,  trains are struggling, they have advised to check your train before you  travel.    In some places the train lines are warping.
They also mentioned about the tarmac on roads could start melting.
Also,  6 fire engines attended a blaze on an industrial estate in Kettering today.

I felt so angry today when I saw some horses stuck in a small fenced off bit of field,  with no shelter whatsoever,  not so much as a tree to stand under,  very little grass,  they just had to stand there and cook with the blazing sun on their backs for hours.

We have a rare RED ALERT  for this area  for tomorrow,  with the possibility of it reaching towards 40°.
Pretty scary that . . 

RSPCA about the horses, Mups? That's cruelty. How would the owners like it? 

[Mups]

There were  3 others I saw about a month ago,   they looked like gypsy ponies,  and one was laying down looking a bit peculiar on the grass, and looked dead.
I couldn't stop because I was driving across over bridge and the field was below me. 
I happened to be on my way to the Vets,  but it worried me so a nurse at the vets rang the RSPCA for me.

Nobody let me know the outcome,  but I did notice the ponies had gone a few days later.

The ones I saw yesterday were on a farm,   not dumped by gypos.   It still looked very wrong though,  they didn't even have one of those cool coats on that some wear.
Again, I couldn't tell about water as its not always easy to find a stopping place when driving, and it might not have been a good idea to trespass.



Today at 03:58:43 PM

On today's news it said that thousands of schools have closed now,  not hundreds like before!