This awful heat

[Silver Tabby]

Cats are a different story! 🤣.

Oh Yes!  Mine bought me this T-SHirt for my birthday - to make sure I know my place.

[GrannyMac]

Love it! 

[Michael Rolls]

me too     

[Raven]

Here Puss Wuss. 

[Silver Tabby]

[CHF]

Love the t-shirt. 

[Silver Tabby]

My Cat has a great sense of humour!

[Mups]

They have just said on our local news tonight,  that the heatwave will return again  next week!!!!    

Nooooooooooooooo   . . . . .   

[Alex]

Hope not.....

[Mups]

Hope not.....

So do I, Alex.    I don't how I'd cope with another bashing like that.
I believe he said starting next Monday again.    

[muddy]

We are not very resilient .
Schools don't close in the tropics such as Singapore where  they use ceiling fans not air conditioners and they have the best results in the world .
One wonders too how trains run in India where it is so hot .

[Mups]

We are not very resilient .
Schools don't close in the tropics such as Singapore where  they use ceiling fans not air conditioners and they have the best results in the world .
One wonders too how trains run in India where it is so hot .

Not sure its a case of us not being resilient, Muddy,  its more a case of us not being a naturally hot country like they are,  so we are not naturally geared up for it.

It's like how would Singapore suddenly cope with heavy snow and thick ice.  They would no doubt struggle,  same as anywhere does with extremes they are not used to.

[klondike]

I should have kept the joke i saw.

Two pictures of weathermen side by side

Left captioned 1976

Temp shown 35

Saying... it will be a beautiful day tomorrow

Right captioned 2026

Temp shown 35

Bright red chart

Saying... we're all going to die

[muddy]

Not sure its a case of us not being resilient, Muddy,  its more a case of us not being a naturally hot country like they are,  so we are not naturally geared up for it.

It's like how would Singapore suddenly cope with heavy snow and thick ice.  They would no doubt struggle,  same as anywhere does with extremes they are not used to.

We are not good with snow and ice either .
Everytime we have snow in winter schools seem to close yet as a child I don't recall my school closing for anything .

[klondike]

Back in those days fewer people had cars. As a consequence most lived within walking distance of their work and schools or used public transport. Only main routes were salted then as now but nobody found that a great problem. These days teachers can have problems getting to school and there is no point opening if a sizeable proportion of the staff won't be there on time.

There is some possible benefit in that there is less time for the children to be indoctrinated with woke lefty nonsense by the woke lefty teachers. Unfortunstely that continues while learning to read and write suffers. That doesn't matter these days as they will still be able to go to university and get their advanced indoctrination.

The recent hot weather was a problem for most here for a  couple of linked reasons. High humidity combined with being old so less able to cope with that.

I've seen suggestions that we will be having more quite hot weather for a couple of months at least. The technical term used by metereologists for this is summer ☀️